Internet phone and video service Skype went down in a global service outage Wednesday, underscoring a weakness of the free online communication tool. Skype, partly owned by Web retailer eBay Inc , said some users were having problems signing on. Users... (Continue reading)
WASHINGTON — After a filibuster and threats of obstruction by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), the Senate unanimously passed a bill on Wednesday that would provide health care for first responders to the 9/11 terrorist attack. Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck... (Continue reading)
Image via Wikipedia Dawn Holland, the Betty Ford Center employee who filed a criminal complaint against Lindsay Lohan after an alleged physical confrontation, has been fired for speaking publicly about the incident. A statement on the Betty Ford website reads: “In the... (Continue reading)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a Proclamation of a State of Emergency in six counties Tuesday evening due to weather. The proclamation covers Kern, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo and Tulare counties. The proclamation makes the counties eligible... (Continue reading)
We hella love Oakland! Not only is beautiful Oakland, California the epicenter of the modern marijuana movement it’s estimated that our three medi-weed dispensaries sold between $35 and $38 MILLION worth of weed this year! Uh, yeah…let’s say that again…around... (Continue reading)
Ali Larter and her husband Hayes MacArthur welcomed a baby boy early Monday morning in Los Angeles, her rep confirms to Us Weekly. They are both doing really well. They named him, Theodore Hayes MacArthur and say, ”He’s our perfect... (Continue reading)
Image via Wikipedia Attorney General Eric Holder has an urgent message for Americans: While he is confident that the United States will continue to thwart attacks, “the terrorists only have to be successful once.” “The threat has changed from simply worrying about... (Continue reading)
Massachusetts: Teachers banned to be friends with students in Facebook Teachers of Weymouth, Massachusetts, banned to make friends with their students in the popular social networking site Facebook . From now on, teachers working in urban schools, forbidden to add students as... (Continue reading)
A new Gallup poll, released Dec. 17, reveals that 40 percent of Americans still believe that humans were created by God within the last 10,000 years. This number is slightly down from a previous high of 47 percent in 1993... (Continue reading)
In what could grow into something much bigger in future cases, potential jurors in Missoula County District Court staged a revolt Thursday, taking the law into their own hands and making it clear they would not convict anybody for having... (Continue reading)