A thousand residents fled their homes in southern Missouri today as heavy rains falling on saturated ground threatened to break the levee protecting their town. Smaller evacuations also took place from Kentucky to Arkansas as rivers and lakes continued to rise. Forecasters called for severe storms that will drop more…
Continue reading …Community service is never glamorous, but for Lindsay Lohan, paying her debt to society is going to be especially gruesome: The actress will be serving her 120-hour sentence at the LA County Department of Coroner, reports People. “She won’t be handling any dead bodies, but she’ll certainly see them,” says…
Continue reading …Four bank robbers in Houston were so proud of their hard work that they boasted of their accomplishments on Facebook—leading police right to them, reports the Telegraph . “IM RICH B****” and “WIPE MY TEETH WITH HUNDEREDS” were two of the brilliant, all-cap Facebook messages posted two days after they…
Continue reading …Some New Yorkers are enjoying an illicit perk at their local library: porn. Not just porn but, in the words of the New York Post , the most “extreme, hard-core Internet smut this side of the old Times Square.” Turns out you can watch the aforementioned smut in the city’s public…
Continue reading …Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey, who resigned in 2004 after acknowledging he is a “gay American,” had his eye on a new job—but so far it’s not working out. McGreevey tried to join the priesthood, but the Episcopal Church rejected him, the New York Post reports. “It was…
Continue reading …As the budget debate continues, the House Progressive Caucus has released a plan of its own—and it’s all about taxes. Their proposal would end the Bush tax cuts, add new tax brackets for millionaires, and raise corporate taxes. It would also add a public option to health care and…
Continue reading …This weekend, Robert De Niro slapped Donald Trump’s “crazy” behavior with a piece of advice: “Don’t go out there and say things unless you can back them up.” Appearing on Fox & Friends today, Trump had some choice words about the actor, notes Mediaite : “He’s not the brightest bulb on…
Continue reading …America is facing an inflation crisis, and there’s nothing it can do—because the government won’t acknowledge the problem, writes Ken Kurson of Esquire , in a piece entitled “Let Them Eat iPads.” Why the title? Well, last month some poor soul confronted New York Fed Chairman William Dudley about soaring…
Continue reading …If you want to make sure you know about Christ’s second coming the moment it happens, better get on Twitter and Facebook. The Rev. Franklin Graham says social media could play “a big part” in Christ’s return, because the Bible says that “every eye” will see it, he told Christiane…
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