The state board that licenses funeral homes in Ohio has opened an investigation into a funeral director in Findlay, Ohio, who is accused of mishandling a corpse, being naked in public and wearing the jacket of a deceased man in front of his family. Though Gregory Routson, owner of Routson Funeral Chapel, is not facing […]
A Los Angeles, California, judge refused Monday to ban Dr. Conrad Murray, charged with involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson’s death, from practicing medicine in the state. The California medical board had asked the judge to add the prohibition to bail conditions for Murray, who was the pop star’s personal physician when he died. Michael Jackson’s […]
“Wait till I tell my mom Stevie Wonder stayed for my set!” Jay-Z announced as he kicked off Saturday’s final main-stage show at Bonnaroo. Wonder — and the 70,000 or so other people who watched the rapper’s hit-filled set — got an earful, as Jay-Z tore through a hit-filled set that included Big Pimpin’, 99 […]
Law enforcement agents in Brazil’s northeastern town of Pinheiros trekked and canoed for nearly two hours through rugged terrain to arrest a 54-year-old man accused of fathering eight children with his two eldest daughters, a top regional investigator said. Pinheiros Regional Police Chief Laura Amelia Barbosa told CNN that Jose Agostinho Bispo Pereira — who […]
When the boredom kicks in, Simon Cowell heads out. The deceptively acerbic “American Idol” judge and super-producer told Oprah Winfrey Thursday that he’d grown as much as he could with “Idol,” and he’d always wanted to leave before he would be asked to. “I’m leaving for the same reasons you left,” Cowell told the Chicago […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about posse’s lately. Why do athletes, rappers, rock stars and sometimes politicians and pundits feel the need to travel in such large groups?
Reports out of Washington, DC: PRESIDENT OBAMA in a shocking cheating scandal after being caught in a Washington, D.C. Hotel with a former campaign aide. A confidential investigation has learned that Obama first became close to gorgeous 35 year-old VERA BAKER in 2004 when she worked tirelessly to get him elected to the US Senate, raising […]
If the tables had been turned during their late-night dispute, Conan O’Brien says he knows what he would — and wouldn’t — have done to Jay Leno. “He went and took that show back and I think in a similar situation, if roles had been reversed, I know — I know me, I wouldn’t have […]
What’s a promise without commitment? Every year millions, if not billions, of people sit around and make New Year’s resolutions that are quickly forgotten with the turn of the year. Not Mac. You see the difference between successful people and those that want to be is not that they are prettier, smarter or have more […]
Ha, at least that’s what my boy Harold Melvin used to croon, along with his Blue Notes, in smoky dancehalls across Philly and later the nation. While I appreciate the effort musically – the song easily ranks as one of the most covered tunes over the last half-century – I have to disagree with the […]
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. It’s a powerful quote whether you attribute it to Sun Tzu, Machiavelli – the philosopher or the warrior-poet formerly known as Tupac before his death – or the Godfather himself Michael Corleone. And one that begins to mean more and more to me each day as I […]
