Barry Bonds gets 2 years probation in steroids probe
Home-run king Barry Bonds avoided a prison sentence on Friday over a single criminal conviction related to an investigation of steroids in sports, a punishment one prosecutor called a slap on the wrist. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston sentenced Bonds to two years probation, along with 30 days of home confinement, 250 hours of community [...]
Kobe Bryant’s cheating led to divorce filing: report
TMZ reported on Sunday morning that Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant cheated multiple times with multiple partners on his wife of more than a decade — events that led to Vanessa Bryant’s surprise divorce filing in an Orange County, Calif., court Friday. Of course, if this is true, Bryant — whose public approval rating [...]
Austin Filmmaker Launches Campaign to Capture stories of World War II National Guardsmen from the 30th Division
Austin filmmaker Lew Adams, launches kick-starter campaign to capture stories of World War II National Guardsmen from the storied 30th division and the Europeans they freed before they’re lost forever in his documentary, “Heroes of Old Hickory”. Working “pro-bono”, Lew Adam is racing against time to produce this documentary as the number of WWII veterans [...]
Retail sales rise for sixth straight month
Americans spent more on autos, furniture and clothing at the start of the crucial holiday shopping season, boosting retail sales for a sixth straight month. Retail sales rose 0.2 percent in November, the Commerce Department said Tuesday. That’s lower than October’s gain, which was revised higher to show a 0.6 percent increase. Still, more spending [...]
Some depressed people do worse on medications
According to a new look at past antidepressant trials, up to a fifth of patients on Cymbalta and similar medications may actually do worse than those given drug-free placebo pills. Researchers found that patients’ symptoms over the first couple months of antidepressant use separated them into “responders,” who got progressively better, and “non-responders,” who didn’t [...]
Police charge 3 in Florida A&M band with hazing
Three Florida A&M band members were charged Monday in the beating of a woman during hazing rituals that became so severe that her thigh was broken, police said. The beatings came about three weeks before drum major Robert Champion was killed during a band trip to Orlando. Police say hazing also was involved. Tallahassee police [...]
Kobe upset by Odom’s departure for Dallas
The Lakers traded forward Lamar Odom and a second-round draft pick to the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday night for a first-round pick and an $8.9 million trade exception, capping Los Angeles’ stunning 72-hour breakup with last season’s Sixth Man of the Year. The Lakers and Mavericks reached a swift deal after Odom learned Thursday that [...]
Rihanna’s “Talk That Talk” seesaws between romance, raunch
The advance word on Rihanna’s new album “Talk That Talk” was that it would be full of dirty talk — as in stark-raving smutty. That turns out to have been an overstatement: filth-ophilia really only accounts for about a third of the record. But, um, it’s a memorable third. “I want you to be my [...]
Backlash for Lowe’s as ads pulled from Muslim show
Lowe’s Home Improvement has found itself facing a backlash after the retail giant pulled ads from a reality show about American Muslims. The retail giant stopped advertising on TLC’s “All-American Muslim” after a conservative group known as the Florida Family Association complained, saying the program was “propaganda that riskily hides the Islamic agenda’s clear and [...]
Is iPad 3 worth waiting for?
Tablets are shaping up to be THE big-ticket gift item this year. Fifteen percent of respondents to a ChangeWave survey said they want one. Top on the tablet wish list is the iPad 2, with 65% of respondents voting for it over the next contender, the Amazon Kindle Fire. What’s more, analyst Gartner Inc. predicts [...]
