HONOLULU — Want to know where Santa is? Just ask Michelle Obama.
NEW YORK — Shoppers came back in force for the holidays, right to the very end. After two dreary years, Christmas 2010 will go down as the moment when Americans rediscovered how much they like to shop.
Miami — Lebron James thinks that the league would see an increase in the quality of its play if it contracted from its current 30 teams.
London — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange believes he could withstand solitary confinement in a U.S. prison if the American government manages to extradite him, but he fears he would likely be killed “Jack Ruby-style” if held with others inside the U.S.
Philadelphia — Fears of a serial killer stalking women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have prompted some residents to take matters into their own hands — and onto the internet, with frightful results for one man.
WASHINGTON — The massive new tax bill signed into law by President Barack Obama is filled with all kinds of holiday stocking stuffers for businesses: tax breaks for producing TV shows, grants for putting up windmills, rum subsidies for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
WASHINGTON– Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that the country is evolving on the issue of gay marriage and he thinks it’s inevitable there will be national consensus. He said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” the same thing is happening with the issue of marriage that happened with gays’ service in the military. Changes in […]
HONOLULU — Two players from Mississippi State’s basketball team fought in the stands Thursday night between games at the Diamond Head Classic Sophomore forward Renardo Sidney and junior forward Elgin Bailey got into the altercation about 10 minutes before the tipoff of the game between tournament host Hawaii and Utah at the Stan Sheriff Center. […]
Rolling Stone magazine gave it four stars. The New York Daily News called it “as gripping and dense as a prime Jay-Z rhyme.” Entertainment Weekly put it on their “Must List” for the holidays. And now you can win a copy of The Big Payback: The History of the Business of Hip-Hop on The Urban […]
New York — Investigators believe the dead woman found stuffed into a suitcase in East Harlem early Wednesday was likely slain the night before, police said. Detectives working to solve the murder of Betty Williams, 28, of the Bronx, are hunting for the man seen on surveillance video wheeling the suitcase along E. 114th St. around […]
New Jersey — Seven people were shot, three of them fatally, in an explosion of violence in Newark on Thursday evening. The bloodshed was part of a spate of shootings and violent carjackings — including the carjacking of a state official — in the city over the last month. The latest eruption began about 4:30 […]
WASHINGTON — President Obama is planning the first major reorganization of his administration, preparing to shuffle several positions in the West Wing as he tries to fortify his political team for the realities of divided government and his own re-election.
