Female French Swimmer Laure Manaudou has had a hard go of it of late. Just on top of the swimming World two years ago and in love with Italian Swimmer Male Luca Martin, Laure Manaudou saw her life change rapidly.
After breaking up with Luca Martin, tossing the ring he gave her into the pool, nude [...]
Posted in Gone but Not Forgotten on Aug 15th, 2008
Services are scheduled for noon Saturday in the 10,000-seat House of Hope, 752 E. 114th St., Chicago, said Danica Smith, Mac’s publicist. Donations in Mac’s honor may be sent to the Bernie Mac Foundation for Sarcoidosis, 40 E. 9th St., Suite 601, Chicago, IL 60605, Smith said.
Note: This is just a memorial service and not [...]
For nearly a decade, Andrew Young was John Edwards’ loyal foot soldier as Edwards rocketed from millionaire trial lawyer to U.S. senator to two-time White House hopeful.
When Edwards needed someone to scout locations for a Senate campaign office, he sent Young. When TV trucks converged on Edwards’ house in 2003 and damaged the neighbors’ lawns, [...]
Posted in Law and Order, Politics on Aug 15th, 2008
A judge ruled Friday that there’s enough evidence for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to stand trial on two felony assault charges stemming from a confrontation with two investigators.
The investigators testified that an angry Kilpatrick shoved one of them into the other and made racial remarks while they were trying to deliver a subpoena in the mayor’s [...]
Posted in news on Aug 15th, 2008
Donnette Sanz, 33, a traffic agent for the city police department, was pronounced dead Thursday, shortly after her baby’s birth by an emergency Caesarean section. The 3-pound, 6-ounce boy was in critical condition.
Sanz was walking across a Bronx street around lunchtime Thursday when she was struck by a van that pushed her in front of [...]
Posted in Law and Order on Aug 15th, 2008
A Louisiana teenager who hung nooses off the back of his truck to intimidate a group of black civil rights demonstrators has been sentenced to four months in prison.
Federal prosecutors say 19-year-old Jeremiah Munsen displayed the nooses when he drove past people who had attended a massive civil rights march in Jena on Sept. 20.
Munsen [...]
Posted in Celebrity News, Sports News on Aug 15th, 2008
Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade has been sued for $25 million by two businessmen who said they contributed money to the development of a restaurant chain bearing his name, but he failed to do his part by promoting the venues.
The two partners - West Palm Beach restaurant developer Mark Rodberg and Fort Lauderdale-based British [...]
Posted in Celebrity News on Aug 15th, 2008
Ritz, co-author of Wexler’s 1993 memoir, “Rhythm and the Blues,” said he died at his Sarasota, Fla., home at about 3:45 a.m. Friday. He had been ill for a couple of years with congenital heart disease.
Wexler earned his reputation as a music industry giant while a partner at Atlantic Records with another legendary music figure, [...]
Posted in Celebrity News, Gone but Not Forgotten on Aug 15th, 2008
With a vote of 37 to 1, the California Senate passed a bill Wednesday that makes it mandatory for patients seeking cosmetic surgery procedures to first undergo a physical exam.
The measure, known as AB 2968, was crafted in response to the death of Kanye West’s mother Donda West. The former educator/author died last year [...]
Posted in Olympics, Sports News on Aug 15th, 2008
Michael Phelps collected the sixth gold medal and stuffed it in his warmup jacket. No time to even savor
that one as he rushed off to swim again.
It was just No. 6, after all, equaling his haul from Athens in 2004.
The most important ones are still to come.
Phelps made it 6-for-6 at the Beijing Games with [...]
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