Four Loko might be banned, but it’s still showing up in sketchy situations: Police in California’s Huntington Beach found the bodies of two teenagers—a boy and a girl, aged 15 and 16—surrounded by drug refuse, beer bottles, and one can of the infamous alcoholic energy drink, the AP…
Continue reading …Motorists are much more likely to die in a crash in a rural area than in an urban one, USA Today reports. That generalization is reflected in the latest federal data on traffic fatalities, which show that the lowest fatality rates occur in Washington, DC, and Massachusetts, while the highest…
Continue reading …Massive anti-government protests in Egypt today left three people dead, and demonstrators vowed to camp out overnight and continue demonstrations tomorrow, reports AP . Riot police in Cairo used tear gas, water cannons, and batons throughout the day to try to disperse protesters, who marched in what activists called a “ day…
Continue reading …Warren Buffett is one of the United States’ greatest rags-to-riches stories. Once a whiz kid from Omaha, Buffett is now one of the world’s wealthiest men. Here are some of the investments that got him there, from 24/7 WallSt . Coca-Cola: Buffett bought his first shares of Coke in 1988. By…
Continue reading …Conrad Murray entered a plea of “not guilty” today against charges of being responsible for Michael Jackson’s death, the LA Times reports. Murray, who, when asked, started to say “Your honor, I am an innocent man—” before being cut off by the judge’s request for a plea, later invoked his…
Continue reading …Kiss your Farmville Coins goodbye. Facebook is telling game developers that in 5 months they’ll be required to use Facebook Credits as their only means of charging users for their games, TechCrunch reports. Developers could theoretically still create in-game currencies like the aforementioned Farm Coins, but users would have to…
Continue reading …An Abraham Lincoln researcher has confessed to changing the date on a Lincoln document, effectively altering history for his own gain, AOL News reports. Thomas Lowry changed the date from April 14, 1864, to 1865—the date of Lincoln’s assassination—so that it would seem he’d discovered one of Lincoln’s…
Continue reading …Ahmed Ghailani—the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried by a civilian court—was sentenced to life in prison today without parole, the AP reports. Ghailani, 36, had been acquitted of more than 200 counts of murder stemming from the attack on US embassies in Africa in 1998, but the…
Continue reading …Joan Rivers’ new reality show on WE, Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best? , follows the 77-year-old comedian as she moves in with her daughter in Los Angeles. It’s as artificial as the botox Rivers extols: The show is “upsetting,” writes a pained Linda Stasi in the New York Post . From…
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