S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y...night.....er headlines
There are long lines in my places as people wait to plunk down $2 with hopes of winning a $600 million (maybe more) jackpot in tonight's Powerball drawing. There is a finite possibility that no ticket will be sold with all of tonight's winning numbers, that could lead to a jackpot next Wednesday of more than $1 billion.
Law enforcement authorities in Orange County continue to search for a motive in the slaying of a 36 year old female Army veteran who was just weeks shy of graduating from Cal State Fullerton. The roommate of Maribel Ramos has been arrested in her murder.
People who qualify under President Obama's program of work permits for illegals who arrived in the U.S. as children will continue to be denied access to drivers licenses in Arizona, following the ruling of a federal judge. The judge ruled that Governor Jan Brewer's ruling will stand, but said it may well be overturned on constitutional grounds by another court.
The top budget analyst for the CA state legislature says that Governor Moonbeam's projection of revenues for his new spending plan are too conservative and that there will be as much as $3 billion more than Moonbeam has projected. That may spell trouble for his plans to cut spending on certain programs.
Sheriff's deputies responding to a burglary call found a large pot growing operation in Rancho Palos Verdes, with more than $1 million of marijuana plants on hand. One man has been detained in the incident.
A new poll shows Eric Garcetti with a seven point lead in the race to become the next Mayor of Los Angeles. He is also outspending her in the last days of the campaign by a nearly 5 to 1 margin.
New research shows that we may have been able to tell that President Obama is more liberal while Mitt Romney is more conservative by just checking their.....biceps. Interestingly enough, the researchers said this predictive method can't be used with women.
John and Laura Arnold are a Houston couple that you probably didn't know existed. They have $4 billion and they're planning to give almost all of it away, but in a different way than more big donors. They aren't "grateful-recipient" donors, they want to effect transformational change in society with their money and what they're doing may alter how others donate in the future.
Holler House is a bar in Milwaukee that is home to the two oldest certified bowling lanes in the U.S. (they turned 100 in 2008). For over four decades, Marcy Skowronski (owner/operator) and her friends have had fun drinking and tossing their bras into the ceiling where they would just hang. Then a fire inspector told her they had to come down, they were a hazard. But with a little publicity, the ban was overturned and the bras will be re-hung soon.
In Modesto (and many other places around the nation), high school and middle school graduations have more people who want to attend than there are tickets to be had. As a result, there is a brisk trade in people selling tickets to graduations, often on Craigslist. One person is offering $50 for a single ticket to the Breyer High graduation in the Modesto area, on Craigslist, but so far, no takers.
An online "beauty contest" involving students at an Oregon high school has parents outraged, but there is little to be done about it. "May Madness" involves 32 girls at the school, an anonymous Twitter account and a website where the boys from the school can vote girls through to the next round.
A graduate student at Northwestern has refused to perform a song that was assigned by his music professor because he believes that the poet responsible for the words, Walt Whitman was a racist. The professor says perform the piece or fail the course. Stay tuned.
And finally in the headlines, funerals for the truly eco-conscious. Sunset Hills Cemetary and Funeral Home in Eugene, OR, offers the nation's only bicycle-hearse to carry caskets to the burial site.
Law enforcement authorities in Orange County continue to search for a motive in the slaying of a 36 year old female Army veteran who was just weeks shy of graduating from Cal State Fullerton. The roommate of Maribel Ramos has been arrested in her murder.
People who qualify under President Obama's program of work permits for illegals who arrived in the U.S. as children will continue to be denied access to drivers licenses in Arizona, following the ruling of a federal judge. The judge ruled that Governor Jan Brewer's ruling will stand, but said it may well be overturned on constitutional grounds by another court.
The top budget analyst for the CA state legislature says that Governor Moonbeam's projection of revenues for his new spending plan are too conservative and that there will be as much as $3 billion more than Moonbeam has projected. That may spell trouble for his plans to cut spending on certain programs.
Sheriff's deputies responding to a burglary call found a large pot growing operation in Rancho Palos Verdes, with more than $1 million of marijuana plants on hand. One man has been detained in the incident.
A new poll shows Eric Garcetti with a seven point lead in the race to become the next Mayor of Los Angeles. He is also outspending her in the last days of the campaign by a nearly 5 to 1 margin.
New research shows that we may have been able to tell that President Obama is more liberal while Mitt Romney is more conservative by just checking their.....biceps. Interestingly enough, the researchers said this predictive method can't be used with women.
John and Laura Arnold are a Houston couple that you probably didn't know existed. They have $4 billion and they're planning to give almost all of it away, but in a different way than more big donors. They aren't "grateful-recipient" donors, they want to effect transformational change in society with their money and what they're doing may alter how others donate in the future.
Holler House is a bar in Milwaukee that is home to the two oldest certified bowling lanes in the U.S. (they turned 100 in 2008). For over four decades, Marcy Skowronski (owner/operator) and her friends have had fun drinking and tossing their bras into the ceiling where they would just hang. Then a fire inspector told her they had to come down, they were a hazard. But with a little publicity, the ban was overturned and the bras will be re-hung soon.
In Modesto (and many other places around the nation), high school and middle school graduations have more people who want to attend than there are tickets to be had. As a result, there is a brisk trade in people selling tickets to graduations, often on Craigslist. One person is offering $50 for a single ticket to the Breyer High graduation in the Modesto area, on Craigslist, but so far, no takers.
An online "beauty contest" involving students at an Oregon high school has parents outraged, but there is little to be done about it. "May Madness" involves 32 girls at the school, an anonymous Twitter account and a website where the boys from the school can vote girls through to the next round.
A graduate student at Northwestern has refused to perform a song that was assigned by his music professor because he believes that the poet responsible for the words, Walt Whitman was a racist. The professor says perform the piece or fail the course. Stay tuned.
And finally in the headlines, funerals for the truly eco-conscious. Sunset Hills Cemetary and Funeral Home in Eugene, OR, offers the nation's only bicycle-hearse to carry caskets to the burial site.
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