If you’re like most husbands, you’ve probably given your wife the wrong Mother’s Day gift, by which I mean anything implying she should do more around house.A vacuum cleaner, for example, would be a bad idea. My brother once gave his wife a series of DVDs on cooking. She did not react well. The oven […]
Back when Hulk Hogan was in his prime, the only things he’d destroy were a series of flimsy T-shirts and the national flags of his foreign rivals.But that’s not enough for Hulk Hogan’s kids. First Hogan’s son Nick wrote off his car - and any chances of his passenger having a normal life - in […]
By KELLEY SHANNON – 12 hours agoAUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Fire swept through the historic Texas Governor’s Mansion early Sunday, causing damage that state officials described as “bordering on catastrophic.”No one was inside the 150-year-old mansion at the time, said Robert Black, a spokesman for Gov. Rick Perry. The mansion had […]
Big Brown won the Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) from the outside post position. If he is to become racing’s 12th Triple Crown winner, he will have to win the June 7 Belmont Stakes (gr. I) from the inside post position.At the post draw for the Belmont, Big Brown, owned by IEAH […]
Top Chef correspondent Zach Feldman hits us with his best shot.Last night’s episode featured a smattering of guest judges, a fantastic vacation prize for the winner, and a shocking and sad elimination. The chefs are falling like flies, dearies, and the final five are all hanging on by a thread.At 5:45am, Tom Colicchio woke […]
LEXINGTON, Ky. (May 27, 2008) − Louise Everett Graham has been named acting dean of the University of Kentucky College of Law for the next academic year. Graham is currently the Wendell H. Ford Professor of Law and has taught in the college since 1978. She will begin her new leadership role […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s regional unadjusted jobless rates for April ranged from a low of 4.2 percent in Ann Arbor to a high of 9.8 percent in northeast lower Michigan.The state’s major labor market areas, their seasonally unadjusted jobless rates for April and the change since March:LANSING - Picking up roadside trash may soon […]
DOWN THE RABBIT HOLEAshlee Simpson, 23, and Pete Wentz, 28, tied the knot Saturday night at her parents’ Los Angeles-area home with an “Alice in Wonderland” theme. Joe Simpson, her father, performed the nondenominational ceremony, and her sister, Jessica, was the maid of honor. Sources say the couple is expecting a child, which both Simpson […]
Chef Christopher Cleary works at the Chalfonte Hotel by day, and trains to run his first race by night. His decision to battle against Breast Cancer this Mother’s Day was inspired by his mother, who died when he was nine.www.komen.orag, or check out how the Philadelphia race is going at http://rfcphl.convio.net/site/TR?fr_id=1020&pg=entry.There are many ways to […]
Chicago native and resident Steven Sidor, author of the stellar macabre thrillers “Skin River” and “Bone Factory,” has outdone himself with “The Mirror’s Edge,” a supernatural-nuanced, soul-chilling mystery.Powered by a sublime sense of foreboding and an ominous, phantasmagoric ambiance reminiscent of works by Aleister Crowley and H.P. Lovecraft, the story revolves around Jase Deering, a […]