The 40-year-old rapper ‘ who ‘retired’ from music in 2003 to take up the position of CEO of Def Jam records before making a comeback ‘already has a ‘Marlon Brando retirement plan’ in mind for himself and wife Beyonce Knowles in the future. Explaining he wants to live on a private island, employ a ‘genius [...]
The soul and hip-hop singer Cee Lo Green has a penchant for beautiful music with a dark subtext. In 2006, as half of Gnarls Barkley, his angelic voice sounded a little unhinged on the huge hit “Crazy.” The song’s surreal video had Cee Lo and partner Danger Mouse appearing within blurry ink smudges like a [...]
A gunman killed eight people and wounded 14 in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, on Monday morning, officials said. The state news agency TASR, citing the interior minister and police corps president, said seven people were killed in the shooting; a spokeswoman for University Hospital of Bratislava said one of the wounded had died. After [...]
For more than a year, the spacecraft Kepler has been combing the vastness of space looking for Earth-like planets. On Thursday, NASA scientists will share news of what they are calling the “discovery of an intriguing planetary system.” Since its launch on March 6, 2009, the space observatory has recorded tiny blips from more than [...]
Elias Abuelazam, suspected of stabbing 18 victims in a three-state slashing spree, is set for a pretrial hearing in a Michigan courtroom Tuesday morning. Abuelazam is not expected to be at the proceeding. Abuelazam was arrested August 11 at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. He was trying to board a flight to Israel when he was [...]
Authorities say a former medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist apparently killed himself inside a Boston jail. Ed Geary, a spokesman for the Suffolk County sheriff’s office, says Philip Markoff’s body was found Sunday morning in the Nashua Street Jail. Geary called it an apparent suicide. Geary says no additional [...]
The dog really did eat the homework, or, in this case, the petition a South Carolina man was going to file to run for school board. The Beaufort Gazette reported Friday that Terry Thomas of Ladys Island had a petition with almost 200 signatures when he went out to check the mail. But when he [...]
Court is no laughing matter as far as one North Carolina judge is concerned. A Fayetteville man who was waiting for his case to be heard Friday drew the ire of Judge Toni King after starting to laugh in a Cumberland County courtroom. Authorities said King asked 47-year-old Johnny Montgomery why he was laughing, but [...]
The calendar says mid-August. But out in the fields, it looks like late July. A wet spring and cool summer have delayed ripening one to three weeks — and created nervous farmers, who see a shrinking window of time left to harvest. Urbanites can just grab a sweater when temperatures drop. But fruits and vegetables [...]
At Google’s headquarters Saturday, Bosco So from San Francisco and Anil Pattni from Orange County were collaborating on an online social game that would allow groups of kids with diabetes to compete with each other to stay current on their diet and medication. Before this weekend the two were complete strangers. A few feet away, [...]
Jay-Z plans to get fat (and I don’t mean “p-h-a-t” either).
Cee Lo’s YouTube hit you probably won’t hear on radio.
8 dead, 14 wounded in Slovakia shooting.
NASA to announce discovery of ‘intriguing planetary system’.
Slashing suspect’s pretrial hearing set for Tuesday.
‘Craigslist killing’ suspect dead, likely suicide.
