An HIV scare shut down porn sets across the San Fernando Valley today after producers learned that a performer tested positive. Diane Duke, head of a porn industry trade group, asked for the moratorium and said the performer is being retested while “first- and second- generation partners” are contacted, the…
Continue reading …Northern California law officers are hunting a transient marijuana grower accused of gunning down a city councilman, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Mendocino County officials say that Fort Bragg councilman Jere Melo, working for a timber company, found suspect Aaron Bassler growing marijuana on company land. Bassler allegedly opened fire…
Continue reading …Someone other than the devil may be dancing tonight: Nancy Grace might have to play nice with judges for a change now that she’s signed on to Dancing With the Stars . She met with her partner in Atlanta this week for the first time, causing TMZ to speculate that “this…
Continue reading …Khamis Gadhafi, Moammar Gadhafi’s feared son who commanded an elite military unit known as the Khamis Brigade, has been reported killed in a NATO strike, reports Sky News . A man at the scene of a bombed-out Toyota Landcruiser says that the younger Gadhafi was in it when a NATO Apache…
Continue reading …Rush Limbaugh not only says the media oversold Hurricane Irene —he argues that Obama was “hoping” it would be a widespread “disaster” to justify the nation’s economic woes, the Huffington Post reports. “I’ll guarantee you Obama was hoping this was going to be a disaster as another excuse for his…
Continue reading …Word was that Tim Pawlenty pulled out of the Republican presidential contest because he finished a weak third in Iowa’s Ames Straw Poll two weeks ago. That’s true, Republican sources tell the Huffington Post , but Pawlenty’s campaign was also broke from spending heavily on Ames in hope of a better…
Continue reading …The failure of a Russian spaceship, which crashed back to Earth shortly after its launch last week, could lead to the International Space Station being unmanned for the first time since 2001. Russian engineers are trying to determine why the unmanned ship crashed, but they only have a short time…
Continue reading …It’s weird enough that Donald Noone, 65, was arrested for attempting to smuggle a rack of ribs out of a grocery store in his pants yesterday. What’s weirder is that the central Pennsylvania man had already been arrested for attempting the same stunt in May, the Sentinel reports. This time…
Continue reading …After Mijailo Mijailovic murdered Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh in 2003, he claimed voices in his head drove him to kill. But now he tells Sweden’s Expressen tabloid, “I didn’t hear voices. That was nothing but empty talk.” In actuality, he adds, “I felt a hatred for politicians. I blamed…
Continue reading …Convicted rapist and polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was sent to a Texas hospital last night after refusing to eat or drink enough in prison, the AP reports. Facing a life behind bars without parole until he is at least 100 years old, 55-year-old Jeffs “hasn’t been feeling well,” his lawyer…
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