St. Louis Public Radio

When Dennis Edwards was tapped to fill the flashy suit of a well-known lead singer in one of the hottest male soul groups in music history, he hesitated. The Temptations needed him to replace David Ruffin, who had established himself as the undisputed voice of romance with lush ballads that included what would become the group’s signature song: “My Girl.”

“I went home and it wasn’t but about 10 minutes,” Ruffin said, during a 2011 interview with Fox2 News. “I said I would love to try out.”   Continue reading “Obituary: Dennis Edwards, legendary ‘6th’ Temptation”

Valley News Live

Los Angeles police say the students hurt in the middle school shooting suffered their injuries after a single gunshot was fired from inside a 12-year-old girl’s backpack in a middle school classroom.

Police spokesman Josh Rubenstein said Friday that investigators believe the bullet struck a 15-year-old girl in the wrist and then hit another classmate in the head.   Continue reading “Gun in LA school shooting went off in backpack”

ABC 7 News

MASPETH, Queens (WABC) — The New York City school system – with a budget of $24 billion a year, is sending letters to former students, telling them they are owed money from their school lunch account.

When the letter from the Department of Education came, Roseann did not know what to think.

“For 15 cents, it seems so frivolous,” she says.   Continue reading “Students get checks for 15-cent refunds from NYC school system”

Island Packet – by Wayne Parry, AP

MANTOLOKING, N.J. – New Jersey lawmakers are reaching back to the Roman empire in their latest effort to guarantee public access to the shoreline and end some shore towns’ long history of trying to keep outsiders off their beaches.

State lawmakers have introduced a new beach access bill that writes the Public Trust Doctrine into law and directs the state Department of Environmental Protection to apply it to coastal land use and funding decisions.
Continue reading “New Jersey lawmakers recalling Roman empire in beach fight”

AOL

Emergency responders have been working tirelessly after one Indiana block observed dozens of overdoses in just a 24-hour timeframe, according to the Indy Channel.

The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department and Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services have responded to at least 27 reported overdoses in the area surrounding the 500 block of East Market Street since Wednesday morning.    Continue reading “Single Indiana block sees 27 overdoses in 24 hours”

NBC News

An Amtrak train carrying Republican members of Congress and their spouses to a party retreat in West Virginia was involved in a collision, Wednesday, according to members who were on the train.

Most people are unhurt, according to House members and senators who are communicating from the train. NBC News reported that a person who was standing at the time of the incident, which took place near Charlottesville, Virginia, was taken off the train to be treated.   Continue reading “Train carrying congressional Republicans to GOP retreat hits garbage truck in Virginia”

AOL

It looks like flu. It feels like flu. It even puts patients into the hospital like flu can.

There’s another virus out there that could be adding to the seasonal misery, but it’s not being identified.

The virus is called adenovirus, and it can cause very severe flu-like symptoms. It’s so risky that the U.S. military vaccinates recruits against two major strains.   Continue reading “Virus looks like flu, acts like flu, but it’s not influenza”

Here is Part 1: NYPD detective used fake names, addresses in crime reports to avoid doing any work

New York Daily News

In January 2013, the city’s then-top detective Phil Pulaski was sitting in his 13th-floor office at Police Headquarters when investigators slid a case file across his desk.

The file was about a Queens detective accused of improperly closing at least 22 serious felonies in 2011 and 2012 as the Daily News reported — by repeatedly making up phony witness names and fake addresses in official reports that his supervisors just rubber-stamped.   Continue reading “How NYPD brass buried deceitful detective’s misconduct case for years (Part 2)”

Ninja Journalist – by JJ Foster

The world is our tapestry, and it is full of beautiful structures and buildings that are just stunning to look at. Then there are some architects that just didn’t notice the gaping holes in their seemingly flawless ideas. Here are some of the most unbelievable construction fails in recent memory.

There are only two possible explanations for our first construction fail on the list. Either, this architect is an extreme nature conservationist or he’s simply got it wrong.   Continue reading “Some Of The Most Epic Construction Fails Of All Time”

Washington Post – by Paul Schwartzman

The emailed response from the Guggenheim’s chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: The museum could not accommodate a request to borrow a painting by Vincent van Gogh for President and Melania Trump’s private living quarters.

Instead, wrote the curator, Nancy Spector, another piece was available, one that was nothing like “Landscape With Snow,” the 1888 van Gogh rendering of a man in a black hat walking along a path in Arles, France, with his dog.   Continue reading “The White House asked to borrow a van Gogh. The Guggenheim offered a gold toilet instead.”

AOL

Border Patrol agents have been suspected of tainting water jugs hidden for migrants trying to cross over from Mexico into the United States, human rights groups claimed Wednesday.

The organizations, in a new report, alleged agents contaminated water and supplies in a bid to scare people from crossing the border illegally.   Continue reading “Human rights groups accuse border agents of damaging containers of water left for migrants”

Science Alert – by Michelle Starr

When it comes to sneezes, it seems there’s a golden rule: better out than in. This has been somewhat painfully demonstrated by a man in the UK, whose attempt to hold in a sneeze resulted in a trip to hospital with a ruptured pharynx.

A sneeze is the body’s method of clearing an irritation out of the air passages, and they can often happen without warning.   Continue reading “A Man Tore a Hole in His Throat Trying to Hold Back a Sneeze”

KFVS 12 News

HANOVER PARK, IL (WGN/CNN) – An 11-year-old girl who is suffering from leukemia can now use medicinal marijuana at her elementary school.

A federal judge gave the ruling Friday after the girl’s parents sued their daughter’s school district.

Ashley Surin was diagnosed with leukemia in December of 2008.   Continue reading “11-year-old girl allowed to use medical marijuana at school”

Randy’s ashes and Death Certificate were delivered to me on Saturday afternoon. Until I can take him home to Texas, he is in the East window of our Living Room.  Unfortunately his Death Certificate still is not correct. It will have to be re-done for the 6th time. My poor Sweetheart… He had such a hard, difficult, painful life…Now, even after Death, everything is difficult…complicated…    Continue reading “For My Trencher Family”

AOL

The Mexican immigrant acquitted of murder in the 2015 shooting of Kathryn Steinle on a San Francisco pier was sentenced to time served Friday for weapons possession, but he did not walk out of court a free man.

Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, 45, was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals even though he already served more than two years behind bars while awaiting trial for the Steinle killing.   Continue reading “Immigrant acquitted of Steinle murder gets time served on lesser gun charge, taken into federal custody”

East Bay Times – by Joseph Geha

A former high school teacher in Fremont who pleaded no contest to charges of having unlawful sex with an underage student may not face any jail time for her crimes, a prosecutor said last week.

Corine Audiat, also known as Audiat-Gee, agreed to a deal with the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office last month in which she pleaded no contest to two felony charges in exchange for the dismissal of five other charges, according to court records.   Continue reading “Fremont: Former high school teacher who had sex with student may avoid jail”

Weather Channel

Piles of snow from Winter Storm Frankie and a bitter arctic blast settled over much of North America have proven to be a miserable and deadly combination.

The bitter cold that has reached temperatures as low as negative 36 degrees Fahrenheit in International Falls, Minnesota, this week has been responsible for a slew of unusual reports, including the death of a dog left to freeze to death on a front porch, as well as sharks succumbing to the elements. It’s so cold, in fact, that the annual Lobster Dip at Old Orchard Beach in Maine was rescheduled for the first time in 30 years, the Associated Press reports.   Continue reading “Snow, Bitter Cold That Has Settled Over U.S. Kills Several People, Animals”