Michael Clarke Duncan, the tall and massively built actor with the shaved head and deep voice who received an Academy Award nomination for his moving portrayal of a gentle death row inmate in the 1999 prison drama “The Green Mile,” died Monday. He was 54. The Chicago native rose to fame playing a hulking inmate […]
Around 1 in 8 babies in the United States is born premature, increasing the risk for long hospital stays and health problems down the road. But knowing which first-time moms are more likely to go into labor preterm is not easy. “The largest risk factor for preterm birth is a history of preterm birth, which […]
Lost your groove? Remember a time when you couldn’t keep your hands off your partner? When with one look, one touch, you’d spend all day glowing in what felt like an all-consuming passion? You used to have endless energy and time for romance and lovemaking, but now that you’ve been together a while, things have changed. […]
Religion watchdogs are warning of an amply-funded charter school in Texas, where the superintendant has claimed that God “has given [her] the jurisdiction to operate with dominion,” the San Antonio Current reports. Cheryl Washington, founder of the taxpayer funded Shekinah Learning Institute, is being accused by Americans United for violating the separation of church and state by secretly […]
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Stone tools and human DNA from ancient caves in Oregon offer new evidence of how some of the first Americans spread through the continent: Quite apart from the better-known Clovis culture, a separate group occupied the West. Archaeologists said Thursday that using multiple techniques, they have dated broken obsidian spear points […]
The Green Mile actor Michael Clarke Duncanis recovering in a Los Angeles hospital after going into cardiac arrest. Had it not been for his girlfriend Omarosa Stallworth and fast action, the actor might have not made it through the morning. According to reports, Duncan was discovered by Omarosa in a state of cardiac arrest a little before two this […]
Thousands of people celebrate the start of the San Fermin Festival 2012 raising their red scarfs after the opening ceremony ‘Chupinazo,’ which starts, as every year, at midday in the Plaza Consistorial outside the City Hall in Pamplona, Navarra, Spain, on July 6. The fiesta of Sanfermines runs from 06 to 14 July. The festival […]
It turns out the Farmer’s Daughter restaurant in Sacramento, California, was not your typical dining establishment. Service was perfectly normal until it came time for dessert, when some patrons know to ask for the house “baked goods.” According to the Sacramento Bee, at an early morning raid this week, searchers discovered 80 pounds of marijuana in a […]
As of May, 5.4 million people were experiencing long-term unemployment*. If you were to ask any one of them to describe the job market, they probably wouldn’t have many positive things to say. Yet a new CareerBuilder Talent Crunch survey found that 38 percent of employers currently have open positions for which they can’t find qualified candidates. Why […]
Talk about being broke! …LANGHORNE, Pa. — Forget magazine drives and candy sales. A cash-strapped high school near Philadelphia hopes to raise money by auctioning itself on eBay. The starting bid of just under $600,000 for The Learning Center in Langhorne, Pa., is designed to offset steep budget cuts. A tongue-in-cheek listing describes the alternative […]
Jan Sullivan, 73, of St. Augustine, Florida, is moving into a mobile home after beingfired from her job as a greeter at Walmart over an altercation with a customer on Black Friday last year, the Tampa Bay Times reports. Sullivan was fired from the employer she called her “home” and “family” for 22 years, three days after she […]
Many music legends are known for crazy partying and wild living, along with their compelling way with a melody. What they have not always been known for — especially those from earlier generations — is successfully navigating their financial lives. Here are a few musicians who have filled our lives with song while sometimes dealing […]