Testimony is expected to begin today in the fraud trial of Bobby Thompson, the accused mastermind behind a $100 million multistate defrauding of Navy veterans under the guise of a reputed charity, the United States Navy Veterans Association based in Tampa. A jury has...
Nobel Prize committee officials released their choice(s) for winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday. James Rothman, 62, of Yale University, Randy Schekman, 64, of the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr. Thomas Sudhof, 57, of Stanford University, will...
Interested in what work the government actually does? While Congress and the President sling accusations and do their best to avoid any common ground, the real work of the federal government piles up, and the sight isn’t pretty. What exactly is piling up? Well, dead...
October is not normally a great time for movie studios. It’s the season where movies go to die but not for the recently released space adventure “Gravity,” starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. The film debuted to the tune of $55.55 million in North American...
That’s not a basketball score. The Denver Broncos rode into Dallas Sunday afternoon and shot down the Cowboys 51-48 in the second-highest scoring game since the AFL and NFL merged leagues. The game was a back and forth affair, with Denver quarterback Peyton Manning...
Teenage girls and young women are taking to social media to tout the latest body trend – the elusive and possibly dangerous thigh gap. What’s a thigh gap? Those obsessed with such things know that a thigh gap appears when a person (usually a young female) gets so...
As the partial government shutdown enters its first weekend, Congress is scheduled to meet Saturday to approve legislation that allows for back pay to the 800,000 government workers who have been adversely affected by the recent partisan activity. Unlike other partial...
On Saturday, the National Hurricane Center reported that Tropical Storm Karen’s winds have dropped to 40 mph and should decrease even more later in the day. With the threat of wind damage diminishing, residents of the northern Gulf Coast area are preparing themselves...
by Derek Dowell Down for Repairs. These three words are what many people are likely to see this weekend if they visit Healthcare.gov to enroll in Obamacare. The new website has been hit with a series of glitches that continue to frustrate millions of consumers...
