Harold Dow, an award-winning CBS Correspondent, died unexpectedly Saturday morning in New Jersey. Dow won the George Foster Peabody Award for his report about runaways. He also covered the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Among his exclusive interviews were with kidnapping victim Patricia Hearst in December 1976 and with O.J [...]
A widescale egg recall of about 228 million eggs is being conducted by health authorities due to eggs that might have been affected by salmonella contamination. These eggs came from Wright County Egg in Galt, Iowa. The eggs distributed nationwide are sold under the following brands: Albertson, Boomsma’s, Dutch Farms, Farm Fresh, Hillandale, Kemps, Lucerne, Lund, Mountain Dairy, Ralph’s, [...]
Fears of salmonella contamination has pressured the Galt, Iowa-based Wright Country Eggs, one of the biggest egg companies in the U.S., to recall eggs packaged from May 16 to Aug. 13. The nationwide egg recall has affected eggs marketed under several brand names that were shipped to eight states. Since the companies in those states [...]
Soul singer Erykah Badu was convicted of disorderly conduct for walking nude on a street in Dallas, Texas in shooting a music video. She was sentenced to a six-month probation and ordered to pay a $500 fine which she did. Badu, 39, re-enacted the moment in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in [...]
Eight people died and 12 are seriously injured after an off-road truck lost control and crashed into the crowd during the California 200 race held in Soggy Dry Lake Bed in the Mojave Desert on Saturday night. San Bernandino County sheriff spokeswoman Cindy Bachman said that 7 ambulances and 10 emergency aircraft were dispatched to [...]
Four were killed and another four were wounded when a group of people leaving a restaurant in Buffalo, New York were shot Saturday dawn. They had just left the City Grill resto-bar at around 2:30 AM when they were fired upon. Police said that witnesses had told them an argument could have occurred inside the [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama has given his all-out support on the plan to have a mosque be erected near the World Trade Center — site of the 9/11 terrorist attacks where almost 3,00o people died when two planes hijacked by Muslim extremists crashed into the building that once stood there. During the annual White House [...]
The Food and Drug Administration after much deliberation and criticism from the anti-abortion groups approved a new pill called ella. It is an emergency contraceptive said to be more effective than another contraceptive pill, Plan B, as it prevents pregnancy after five days of unprotected sex. Studies cite that ella cuts down on risks of [...]
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