COVINGTON, Louisiana — A risky procedure is failing to stop the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, and BP said Saturday it is considering scrapping it in favor of yet another method to contain the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
As I listened to White House and BP officials describe the frantic search for an answer to cap the massive oil leak one mile below the Gulf Coast, all I could think about was the movie, “Apollo 13.” In the film starring Tom Hanks, some of the nation’s best and brightest working at NASA feverishly […]
After seeing “The Color Purple” at the DPAC this week in Durham, I am convinced of one thing. I love Sophia. I mean, I was a HUGE Sophia fan when Oprah played the role in the movie. I knew all of her lines, facial expressions, body movements, everything. But the Sophia on the stage not […]
VIA: CNN.COM Web search engines make our lives easier: They connect us with what we’re searching for in a matter of seconds, and sometimes they bring us to places we didn’t even know we were looking for. But they can also teach us a lot about ourselves, as more than half of adult internet users […]
VIA: WRAL.COM A Wake Forest couple was arrested Thursday in connection with the death of their 17-month-old son, who authorities believe died of dehydration when left alone in a heated room. Shandu Slaughter, 28, and Kristin Wills, 21, both of 839 N. Franklin St., were charged with involuntary manslaughter. They were placed in the Wake […]
Michael Nuzzo says he and his siblings learned how to make pizza in their parents’ famed New Haven pizzeria, and his children should have the same opportunity in his restaurant. That’s not the view of the state Department of Labor, whose special investigator visited Nuzzo’s Grand Apizza Shoreline at 9 E. Main St. earlier this […]
VIA: WTVD.COM Krispy Kreme doughnut lovers have to wait a few more days before indulging again in downtown Raleigh. Renovations at the Peace Street shop are almost complete and it should reopen Tuesday. In celebration of the reopening, the first customer in line will receive one dozen free doughnuts a week for one year.
VIA: WTVD.COM Airline officials are trying to figure out how a sleeping passenger was left aboard a flight for four hours after it landed in Philadelphia. According to police and the Transportation Security Administration, the passenger didn’t wake up when her United Express flight from Dulles airport outside Washington landed shortly after midnight Tuesday. At […]
According to CBS affiliate WGCL, the two arrests were made after evidence found at the crime scene was processed by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. This evidence directly linked Tasmiyah and Jasmiyah to the murder of their mother Jarmecca Whitehead, the Atlanta station reports. The girls, who were 15 at the time of the murder, […]
Michelle Obama, along with Spike Lee and Magic Johnson were in Detroit for a Youth Mentor Event.
From HuffingtonPost.com: This week Congress will consider legislation to reauthorize extended unemployment benefits for the rest of the year. It’s going to be an epic fight: Republicans in the Senate will likely do everything they can to stand in the way of a bill projected to add $123 billion to the deficit, forcing Dem leadership […]
From Gawker.com: Meet Ardi Rizal, a two-year-old Sumatran baby who smokes some forty cigarettes a day. The government has offered to buy his parents a car if he stops, but they claim he gets too angry without smokes. Plus, he looks fine!