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Ann Curry Bade Tearful Farewell at “Today” Show

Ann Curry Bade Tearful Farewell at "Today" Show

In an emotional farewell, Ann Curry confirmed on Thursday she was leaving as co-host of NBC’s “Today” show after just a year in the high-profile job and following a recent slump in the ratings of the early morning program. Choking back tears for several minutes, Curry told viewers at the end of Thursday’s program she […]

Charlie Sheen Struggles with Alcoholism Again

Charlie Sheen Struggles with Alcoholism Again

Charlie Sheen has been drinking again a year after his alcohol and drug abuse were factors in his firing from “Two and a Half Men.” The actor, who has been through several stints in rehab, talked about using alcohol in a “Good Morning America” interview with Elizabeth Vargas to promote his new FX show, “Anger […]

Justin Bieber Fever Still Hot and Rising

Justin Bieber Fever Still Hot and Rising

Justin Bieber Fever has affected the world. The symptoms include uncontrollable swooning, screaming and spending hours on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter to track down the actor. It primarily affects preteen and teen girls, yet it is highly contagious and can infect mothers, too. In severe cases, sufferers camp out on sidewalks for days. […]

Saudi Arabia Women Will Compete In London Olympics

Saudi Arabia Women Will Compete In London Olympics

A breakthrough for Saudi Arabia women athletes is about to happen as they decided to compete in the Olympics for the first time ever in London this summer, the Islamic kingdom’s London embassy announced on Sunday. Human rights groups had alarmed the International Olympic Committee to prevent Saudi Arabia from competing in London, citing its […]

Texas Mom Sells Infant for $4,000

Texas Mom Sells Infant for $4,000

Megan Heichelbech thought she was responding to a legal adoption advertisement earlier this month, but found out it was an ad to urgently sell a baby the day she was scheduled to buy a plane ticket to bring 4-month-old Eden back to her home in Florida. Heichelbech responded to the original ad on June 13, […]

Penn State Football Coach Jerry Sandusky Faces Abuse Charges

Penn State Football Coach Jerry Sandusky Faces Abuse Charges

Woe continues on for Penn State Football coach Jerry Sandusky.  Only hours after he underwent the sex abuse trial, the coach’s adopted son, Matt Sandusky, revealed that he had been “a victim of Jerry Sandusky’s abuse” too and offered to testify against his adoptive father. It is not clear whether prosecutors were going to put […]

US Student Hikers Survive 9 Days in New Zealand Wilderness

US Student Hikers Survive 9 Days in New Zealand Wilderness

Two U.S. students stranded in the New Zealand wilderness by a snowstorm hiked back out to safety after surviving their nine-day ordeal by rationing their meager supplies of food and warming themselves in hot springs. Alec Brown and Erica Klintworth, both 21, returned to the city of Christchurch on Monday after meeting up with members […]

International Pastor Denies Beating Daughter

International Pastor Denies Beating Daughter

The founder and leader of a Georgia megachurch — who was arrested last week on charges of choking his teenage daughter, slamming her into the ground and hitting her with a shoe — told churchgoers on Sunday that he did not beat her. “The truth is, she was not choked, she was not punched,” Creflo […]

Japanese Discover Weird Creatures on Sea Dock One Year After Deadly Tsunami

Japanese Discover Weird Creatures on Sea Dock One Year After Deadly Tsunami

When the tsunami hit Japan last year, the waves ripped four dock floats the size of freight train boxcars from their pilings in the fishing port of Misawa and turned them over to the whims of wind and currents. One floated up on a nearby island. Two have not been seen again. But one made […]

Australian Olympic Swimmers Criticized for Posting Stupid Gun Facebook Photo

Australian Olympic Swimmers Criticized for Posting Stupid Gun Facebook Photo

What were they thinking?  Two athletes who are members of the Australian Olympic swim team are under hot controversies for posing with three high-powered guns and posting the photo on Facebook. Swimming Australia demanded Kenrick Monk take down the picture of him and Nick D’Arcy in a California gun shop.  In the picture, Monk held […]

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