Rolling Stone

Glen Campbell, the indelible voice behind 21 Top 40 hits including “Rhinestone Cowboy,” “Wichita Lineman” and “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” died Tuesday. He was 81. A rep for Universal Music Group, Campbell’s record label, confirmed the singer’s death to Rolling Stone. During a career that spanned six decades, Campbell sold over 45 million records. In 1968, one of his biggest years, he outsold the Beatles.

From his signature “Rhinestone Cowboy” to an unconventional Foo Fighters cover

Continue reading “Glen Campbell, ‘Rhinestone Cowboy’ Singer Who Fused Country and Pop, Dead at 81”

New York Post – by Melkorka Licea

Cocky “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli drew a weird parallel between jail and 9/11 Saturday, saying living through the terrorist attacks would prepare him for a stint in the slammer.

“A few months of jail doesn’t scare me. I saw 9/11,” Shkreli, 34, strangely bragged to a Boston Herald reporter while live-streaming on YouTube.

Shkreli was 18 years old at the time of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.  Continue reading “‘Pharma Bro’ says witnessing 9/11 prepared him for jail”

NBC News

A big rig transporting a giant concrete wall has gotten stuck on Park Avenue, forcing police to close a street as they figure out how to move the massive truck.

It’s not clear how the truck got stuck at the intersection; witness Christian Koulichkov said it appears the load was too heavy to make the hill and the truck got wedged in.

He said the NYPD was trying to move the truck with its own tow truck but it appears they may need a crane.    Continue reading “Big Rig Carrying Concrete Wall Gets Stuck on Park Avenue”

Broadway World

BroadwayWorld has just learned that playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director Sam Shepard has passed away. Shepard, who had been ill with ALS for some time, died peacefully on July 27 at his home in Kentucky, surrounded by his children and sisters. He was 73 years old.

Survivors include his children, Jesse, Hannah and Walker Shepard, and his sisters, Sandy and Roxanne Rogers.   Continue reading “Playwright, Director and Actor Sam Shepard Passes Away at 73”

Huffington Post – by Ryan J. Reilly

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump received applause on Friday when he endorsed police brutality while delivering a speech to law enforcement officers on Long Island, New York.

The president suggested that officers should hit suspects’ heads on the doors of their police cars.

“When you see these towns and when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see them thrown in, rough, and I said, ‘Please don’t be too nice,’” Trump said.
Continue reading “Donald Trump Declares War on the People’s Bill of Rights, Sanctions Red Terror Police State”

Start ASL

The Truth Behind the Sign

I read something incredibly amusing today about the “I Love You” sign language sign.

I read the “article” on a page called Signs of Satan. I am honestly thinking that whoever wrote this did it just for the attention. If that’s the case, I really hate giving them the satisfaction, but I just want to make sure that everyone knows that it is not true.  Continue reading “I LOVE YOU Sign Language Sign”

AOL

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is aiming to lower nicotine in cigarettes to non-addictive levels.

The agency on Friday announced a regulatory roadmap and shifts as part of a larger attempt to tackle tobacco-related disease and death, saying it “plans to begin a public dialogue about lowering nicotine levels in combustible cigarettes to non-addictive levels through achievable product standards.”   Continue reading “FDA announces plan to lower nicotine in cigarettes toward non-addictive levels”

New York Post – by Caroll Alvarado and Danika Fears

The son of a Manhattan couple who jumped to their deaths together Friday said in a school speech last year that his parents once gave him advice on how to cope if he lost “everyone I love.

“I am going to share with you some advice given to me by my own parents when I was younger,” Joseph Scarpelli told his classmates at the ritzy Loyola High School on the Upper East Side, in a speech given at a morning assembly in March 2016.   Continue reading “Couple who jumped to death advised son on coping with loss”

Business Insider – by Rachel Gillett

Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, credited with building the foundations of Japanese medicine and helping make Japan the world leader in longevity, often practiced what he preached.

The physician, chairman emeritus of St. Luke’s International University, and honorary president of St. Luke’s International Hospital recommended several basic guidelines for living a long, healthy life in an interview with Japan Times journalist Judit Kawaguchi. Among them: Don’t retire. And if you must, retire much later than age 65.  Continue reading “A Japanese doctor who studied longevity — and lived to 105 — said if you must retire, do it well after age 65”

AOL

A California family is demanding answers after a man sustained life-threatening injuries after being pinned to the ground by police during his arrest on a 101-degree summer day.

KTXL reports that James Nelson, 28, has been in a hospital burn unit for 29 days with second and third degree burns covering 45 percent of his body following his June arrest at a KFC restaurant in Citrus Heights, California.   Continue reading “Man held down by police on scorching hot pavement during arrest receives third-degree burns”

New York Times – by Arielle Dollinger

BAY SHORE, N.Y. — Jim Adams met his wife on a trip to Uganda a decade ago. Rosette Basiima Adams, 35, grew up in Kasese, a town, she said, where “everything we ate, we grew.”

“I went to see the gorillas in the Congo,” Mr. Adams, 42, recalled recently. But he left his tour group and ended up meeting Rosette, who was working at a hostel where he stayed.

Today, the couple are trying to grow a business cultivating crops on suburban lawns on Long Island. Their business, Lawn Island Farms, is the result of research and a desire to find a way to farm on the island.

Continue reading “For Farmers Without Land, a Long Island Lawn Will Do”

The Oregonian – by Lizzie Acker

Updated: 2:17 p.m.

A Springfield woman was arrested Wednesday evening and charged with two counts of reckless endangerment after multiple drivers reported a car towing three children — her 2-year-old daughter, 4-year-old son and 8-year-old nephew — in a small, plastic red wagon going around a busy roundabout multiple times during rush hour.

Police were not initially aware of the third child and a third charge is now pending.   Continue reading “Oregon woman arrested for towing kids in a wagon behind her car”

Patch – by Simone Wilson

EAST VILLAGE, NY — Joseph Rago, 34, a prodigious Wall Street Journal editorial writer who won a Pulitzer Prize for his smart takedowns of Obamacare circa 2011, was found dead Thursday night in his East Village apartment at 10 St. Mark’s Place, near Third Avenue, according to the NYPD.

Rago’s editor at the newspaper asked police to check on him after he didn’t come into work Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported.   Continue reading “Joseph Rago, Wall Street Journal Editorial Writer, Found Dead In Manhattan At Age 34”

Chicago Tribune

The city of Chicago is expected to pay $500,000 to settle a police brutality case involving a woman who suffered a miscarriage after being repeatedly shocked with a Taser by a patrol officer with a troubling history, city records show.

The amount appears on the agenda for an upcoming City Council Finance Committee meeting. The settlement requires approval from the entire council, which is scheduled to meet next week.
Continue reading “City expected to pay $500,000 to settle Taser lawsuit against Chicago cop”

AOL

Police received an unusual complaint Sunday morning, when a self-described drug dealer from Florida said that he wanted to file a police report after someone allegedly stole his cocaine.

David Blackmon, 32, claimed that a person entered his car and robbed him of $50 and about a quarter ounce of cocaine, Fox News reports.   Continue reading “Florida drug dealer calls 911 to report missing cocaine”

AOL

A woman was found guilty of murdering her husband in a Michigan murder case allegedly witnessed by a parrot.

Glenna Duram shot her husband five times in front of the couple’s pet, an African Grey parrot, back in 2015, before attempting to unsuccessfully commit suicide herself afterwards.   Continue reading “Woman found guilty of murdering husband in murder witnessed by parrot”

AOL

A former NYPD sergeant was convicted Tuesday of throwing semen on a female co-worker’s leg at the police department headquarters.

Michael Iscenko, 56, was found guilty by a Manhattan jury on one count of sex abuse in the third degree — a misdemeanor that could place the ex-police sergeant behind bars for up to three months.   Continue reading “Former NYPD sergeant guilty of tossing semen on female co-worker”

AOL

DELAWARE COUNTY, Ind. (WXIN) – PETA says it will rent a billboard near the site of a Delaware County crash to honor the nearly 20 cows that were killed there on July 11.

Several other cows were injured in the crash on an exit ramp of Interstate 69 at State Road 332. The driver told police that he was driving northbound at 60 mph when a car switched lanes right in front of him, forcing him onto the exit where his rig rolled onto its left side on a hill, according to The Star Press.   Continue reading “PETA plans to put up billboard to honor cows that were killed in semi crash”

AOL

Electric cars, an underground “hyperloop” and a manned mission to Mars are all A-OK for inventor and Tesla CEO Elon Musk. But there’s one technology he’s still holding out on: artificial intelligence.

That’s why he encouraged U.S. governors to get out in front of the industry and do some proactive regulating.

Musk met with state governors at the National Governors Association to talk about different kinds of emerging technology. In addition to A.I., Musk talked about solar energy, space travel and self-driving cars.   Continue reading “Elon Musk likes most technology, but he wants one sector regulated”