State Senator in TX trying to filibuster abortion bill and more headlines
It's 6:00 PDT, which means that Texas state senator Wendy Davis has to hold the floor of Senate there for another four hours for her filibuster to be successful. She's trying to stop the most restrictive limitations on a woman's right to abortion from becoming law in Texas. She can't lean and she can't take a bathroom break. I hope she makes it.
The man who was arrested and faces a murder charge in the stabbing death of a Lynwood woman on Hollywood Boulevard had already been arrested 46 times previously, including seven arrests for assault with a deadly weapon.
Someone tried to assassinate two LAPD detectives as they were trying to enter the police parking lot at the Wilshire Division station on Venice Boulevard just after 4:00 on Tuesday morning. The detectives suffered only minor injuries and were back assisting in the manhunt hours later. A suspect has been detained and the investigation is ongoing.
Meanwhile, two former LAPD officers who were convicted of perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice will not receive any jail time. The attorney for the man they were convicted of attempting to frame has criticized the sentence, calling it far too lenient.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Edward Snowden is in the transit area of Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow and at this point he will not be turned over to the U.S. for extradition. There is no extradition treaty between the U.S. and Russia.
Former South African president and Nobel Peace laureate Nelson Mandela remains in critical condition at a Pretoria hospital.
The U.S. Supreme Court invalidated part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in a decision released on Tuesday but still hasn't ruled on cases involving Prop 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act. Rulings on those two cases are expected tomorrow morning.
Today is the 4th anniversary of the death of Michael Jackson and hundreds of his fans gathered at his gravesite at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.
It's their insistence on trying to pump up the Nook e-reader that is killing the last nationwide retailer of books with physical storefronts. Barnes & Noble lost money in their 4th quarter, even though in-store revenues are climbing. Look for someone to buy up the stores when they finally go broke, close some and make a nice profit on the others.
Whoever planned out the parade route for celebrating the Miami Heat's latest NBA championship is probably in hot water, after the passengers in the top of the double-decker bus had to duck as the bus passed under a number of overpasses.
Did Marlon Humphreys, a cornerback who is one of the most highly recruited players in the class that will graduate next year really see a KKK rally while on a recruiting visit to Ole Miss with his older brother? He's backed off earlier tweets that said he did. There was a KKK march on campus in 2009 by 12 KKK members, surrounded by over 250 students protesting the march.
Marie Osmond is going to become a grandmother for the first time. Congratulations.
Miley Cyrus is blaming a tweet that appeared to threaten her father Billy Ray Cyrus to reveal something about himself or she'd do it for him on a technical glitch. Yeah, right.
The name Asian Tiger Mosquito sounds bad and judging from the fact they can transmit more than 20 different diseases, they are bad. They can now be found in 26 U.S. states, mostly in the East.
FBI agents at John F. Kennedy International Airport are saying "show me the money" after $1.2 million in cash apparently disappeared from the cargo hold of a Swiss Air Lines jet that landed there on Monday.
One of the great feuds in the WWF (now the WWE) was the one between Randy "Macho Man" Savage and George "The Animal" Steele. The object of the feud was Savage's wife and manager, Miss Elizabeth. Now, in a very well-written memoir, Steele tells all about the feud and his whole career. It's called "Animal" and it is definitely worth a read.
The Vermillion Cliffs National Monument was established in 2000, and its area reaches into both Arizona and Utah. There is one area there known as "The Wave" that involves a hike of six miles roundtrip for which only 20 permits are granted each day. Last year almost 50,000 people applied for the 7,300 permits that are granted annually. 10 via an on-line lottery and 10 more by a daily lottery conducted each morning at 9 a.m.
Reality show star and former Hugh Hefner girlfriend Holly Madison is now engaged to her "baby daddy." Now where is that autographed photo of her in her Hooters uniform?
A.J. Clemente is that guy who dropped the "F-bomb" within 30 seconds of starting his first and last attempt at anchoring the news on television. Now he's earning $2.23 an hour (plus tips) at a dive bar.
Did NY Yankees GM Brian Cashman say that star player A-Rod should "shut the f*** up?" Yes he did.
Scottie Pippen says the man he hit outside of Nobu in Malibu called him the "N-word" and spat on him before shoving him, at which point he was just "defending himself."
The man who was arrested and faces a murder charge in the stabbing death of a Lynwood woman on Hollywood Boulevard had already been arrested 46 times previously, including seven arrests for assault with a deadly weapon.
Someone tried to assassinate two LAPD detectives as they were trying to enter the police parking lot at the Wilshire Division station on Venice Boulevard just after 4:00 on Tuesday morning. The detectives suffered only minor injuries and were back assisting in the manhunt hours later. A suspect has been detained and the investigation is ongoing.
Meanwhile, two former LAPD officers who were convicted of perjury and conspiracy to obstruct justice will not receive any jail time. The attorney for the man they were convicted of attempting to frame has criticized the sentence, calling it far too lenient.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says that Edward Snowden is in the transit area of Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow and at this point he will not be turned over to the U.S. for extradition. There is no extradition treaty between the U.S. and Russia.
Former South African president and Nobel Peace laureate Nelson Mandela remains in critical condition at a Pretoria hospital.
The U.S. Supreme Court invalidated part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act in a decision released on Tuesday but still hasn't ruled on cases involving Prop 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act. Rulings on those two cases are expected tomorrow morning.
Today is the 4th anniversary of the death of Michael Jackson and hundreds of his fans gathered at his gravesite at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale.
It's their insistence on trying to pump up the Nook e-reader that is killing the last nationwide retailer of books with physical storefronts. Barnes & Noble lost money in their 4th quarter, even though in-store revenues are climbing. Look for someone to buy up the stores when they finally go broke, close some and make a nice profit on the others.
Whoever planned out the parade route for celebrating the Miami Heat's latest NBA championship is probably in hot water, after the passengers in the top of the double-decker bus had to duck as the bus passed under a number of overpasses.
Did Marlon Humphreys, a cornerback who is one of the most highly recruited players in the class that will graduate next year really see a KKK rally while on a recruiting visit to Ole Miss with his older brother? He's backed off earlier tweets that said he did. There was a KKK march on campus in 2009 by 12 KKK members, surrounded by over 250 students protesting the march.
Marie Osmond is going to become a grandmother for the first time. Congratulations.
Miley Cyrus is blaming a tweet that appeared to threaten her father Billy Ray Cyrus to reveal something about himself or she'd do it for him on a technical glitch. Yeah, right.
The name Asian Tiger Mosquito sounds bad and judging from the fact they can transmit more than 20 different diseases, they are bad. They can now be found in 26 U.S. states, mostly in the East.
FBI agents at John F. Kennedy International Airport are saying "show me the money" after $1.2 million in cash apparently disappeared from the cargo hold of a Swiss Air Lines jet that landed there on Monday.
One of the great feuds in the WWF (now the WWE) was the one between Randy "Macho Man" Savage and George "The Animal" Steele. The object of the feud was Savage's wife and manager, Miss Elizabeth. Now, in a very well-written memoir, Steele tells all about the feud and his whole career. It's called "Animal" and it is definitely worth a read.
The Vermillion Cliffs National Monument was established in 2000, and its area reaches into both Arizona and Utah. There is one area there known as "The Wave" that involves a hike of six miles roundtrip for which only 20 permits are granted each day. Last year almost 50,000 people applied for the 7,300 permits that are granted annually. 10 via an on-line lottery and 10 more by a daily lottery conducted each morning at 9 a.m.
Reality show star and former Hugh Hefner girlfriend Holly Madison is now engaged to her "baby daddy." Now where is that autographed photo of her in her Hooters uniform?
A.J. Clemente is that guy who dropped the "F-bomb" within 30 seconds of starting his first and last attempt at anchoring the news on television. Now he's earning $2.23 an hour (plus tips) at a dive bar.
Did NY Yankees GM Brian Cashman say that star player A-Rod should "shut the f*** up?" Yes he did.
Scottie Pippen says the man he hit outside of Nobu in Malibu called him the "N-word" and spat on him before shoving him, at which point he was just "defending himself."
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