Hump Day Headlines
The call for protective headgear for baseball pitchers has gained attention after Toronto Blue Jays pitcher J.A. Happ was hit in the head by a line-drive. He survived, but is still in the hospital. Players have died from both being hit by line-drives, and by being hit in the head with a pitch.
19.9%. That's the percentage of colleges studied in a new report that were judged to be a bad return on the investment involved. The study by the Brookings Center on Children and Families says that students pursing majors in low-paying fields (the arts was named as the prime example) or attending "lower-tier" schools may be wasting the money.
Speaking of studies, most of us think that the number of people killed by others using a gun in the U.S. has gone up dramatically. According to a Pew Research Center study, the exact opposite is true. Bureau of Justice statistics show that gun killings went down by 39% between 1993 and 2011.
In the least surprising story of the day, a jury found Jody Arias guilty of first-degree murder. Now the sentencing phase of the trial begins, with Arias possibly facing the death penalty.
One of the three brothers involved with holding those three Cleveland women hostage for more than ten years has been charged with multiple counts. The investigation continues.
Normally people wrongly convicted can't sue the prosecutors who put them behind bars in certain cases. But Thomas Goldstein, who spent 24 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit will be allowed to proceed with his lawsuit against L.A. County because the County's employees failed to disclose that the jailhouse informant who testified against him had received "favors" for doing the same in other cases.
The Salt Lake City area teen who punched a soccer referee in the face, leading to the referee's death will be tried as an adult.
Mario Williams has a $96 million, six year contract to play for the Buffalo Bills, but right now he's focused on $785,000. That's what he paid for a ten carat diamond engagement ring that his former fiancee refuses to return.
17 Air Force officers who normally sit on alert status, ready to launch nuclear missiles if necessary have been stripped of their authority to control and launch those missiles, due to violations of procedures.
IRS workers are protesting spending cuts that will force them to take at least five days of furlough without pay, due to the sequester.
A couple who were in the theater in Aurora on the night that James Holmes killed 12 and wounded 58 others is going to marry on the anniversary of the shooting. Eugene Han, who was wounded in the attack suggested to his fiancee Kirstin Davis that they do this to "make it a better day". Good for them.
A Chicago area teacher died when she choked on a hot dog at a Cubs game.
A Houston woman saw a giant snail in her backyard and decided to get a photo of it rather than picking it up. She may have saved her own life. The African giant snail can be deadly, carrying a parasitic disease.
Eight months after having nearly died from a heart attack, Jerry "The King" Lawler has been cleared to return to the ring to wrestle.
A lingerie maker in Japan has launched its new "Abenomics" bra, using the Prime Minister's new economic plan to create a bra that won't go on sale.
Self-described psychic Sylvia Browne is in hot water now that those three women were freed in Cleveland, as she had told the mother of one of them that her daughter was dead. I see a decline in Sylvia Browne's future popularlity in her future, and I'm not even remotely psychic.
The dinosaurs aren't the only thing extinct, now the release date in 2014 of "Jurassic Park 4" is also extinct. The film has been postponed indefinitely.
A Colorado man was at work and not feeling well, His supervisor was less than sympathetic about it, and told him to stay at his workstation. The man vented on Facebook and now he's unemployed. He was fired for posting his feelings about his employer on FB.
19.9%. That's the percentage of colleges studied in a new report that were judged to be a bad return on the investment involved. The study by the Brookings Center on Children and Families says that students pursing majors in low-paying fields (the arts was named as the prime example) or attending "lower-tier" schools may be wasting the money.
Speaking of studies, most of us think that the number of people killed by others using a gun in the U.S. has gone up dramatically. According to a Pew Research Center study, the exact opposite is true. Bureau of Justice statistics show that gun killings went down by 39% between 1993 and 2011.
In the least surprising story of the day, a jury found Jody Arias guilty of first-degree murder. Now the sentencing phase of the trial begins, with Arias possibly facing the death penalty.
One of the three brothers involved with holding those three Cleveland women hostage for more than ten years has been charged with multiple counts. The investigation continues.
Normally people wrongly convicted can't sue the prosecutors who put them behind bars in certain cases. But Thomas Goldstein, who spent 24 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit will be allowed to proceed with his lawsuit against L.A. County because the County's employees failed to disclose that the jailhouse informant who testified against him had received "favors" for doing the same in other cases.
The Salt Lake City area teen who punched a soccer referee in the face, leading to the referee's death will be tried as an adult.
Mario Williams has a $96 million, six year contract to play for the Buffalo Bills, but right now he's focused on $785,000. That's what he paid for a ten carat diamond engagement ring that his former fiancee refuses to return.
17 Air Force officers who normally sit on alert status, ready to launch nuclear missiles if necessary have been stripped of their authority to control and launch those missiles, due to violations of procedures.
IRS workers are protesting spending cuts that will force them to take at least five days of furlough without pay, due to the sequester.
A couple who were in the theater in Aurora on the night that James Holmes killed 12 and wounded 58 others is going to marry on the anniversary of the shooting. Eugene Han, who was wounded in the attack suggested to his fiancee Kirstin Davis that they do this to "make it a better day". Good for them.
A Chicago area teacher died when she choked on a hot dog at a Cubs game.
A Houston woman saw a giant snail in her backyard and decided to get a photo of it rather than picking it up. She may have saved her own life. The African giant snail can be deadly, carrying a parasitic disease.
Eight months after having nearly died from a heart attack, Jerry "The King" Lawler has been cleared to return to the ring to wrestle.
A lingerie maker in Japan has launched its new "Abenomics" bra, using the Prime Minister's new economic plan to create a bra that won't go on sale.
Self-described psychic Sylvia Browne is in hot water now that those three women were freed in Cleveland, as she had told the mother of one of them that her daughter was dead. I see a decline in Sylvia Browne's future popularlity in her future, and I'm not even remotely psychic.
The dinosaurs aren't the only thing extinct, now the release date in 2014 of "Jurassic Park 4" is also extinct. The film has been postponed indefinitely.
A Colorado man was at work and not feeling well, His supervisor was less than sympathetic about it, and told him to stay at his workstation. The man vented on Facebook and now he's unemployed. He was fired for posting his feelings about his employer on FB.
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