Articles Archive for December 2008
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“SpongeBob SquarePants” may be getting squeezed off of Time Warner Cable.
Media giant Viacom Inc. said its Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and 16 other channels will go dark for 13 million subscribers at 12:01 a.m. Thursday if a new carriage fee deal with Time Warner Cable is not... read more
Sports Betting »
The Cubs added a versatile player in Aaron Miles on Wednesday and traded another in Mark DeRosa.
DeRosa, who is coming off his best offensive season, was dealt to the Cleveland Indians for three Minor League pitchers, including right-hander Jeff Stevens, lefty John Gaub and righty Chris Arche... read more
WTF »
Dean Durrant, 33, and Alison Spooner, 27, of Fleet, Hampshire, have had another set of twin girls with different coloured skin.
Miya has her father’s black skin and Leah is white like her mother.
The couple’s first set of twins arrived in 2001, with blue-eyed, red-haired La... read more
Entertainment »
Season six’s pioneering Idol female rocker, Gina Glocksen, will be tying the knot on New Year’s Eve. According to a story in her hometown paper, the Beacon News, the “American Idol” theme will be prominent throughout the festivities. Gina will be taking the vows with her long... read more
Entertainment »
Four years after a stroke, Dick Clark is relishing the prospect of another New Year’s Eve celebration, determined to appear for his 36th year in Times Square. And he’s hardly surprised by the current state of the music industry he helped build — he predicted this, after all.
Cla... read more
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Charles Barkley was arrested on suspicion of drinking and driving early Wednesday.
An officer with a law enforcement task force that targets drunken driving saw the former NBA star run a stop sign around 1:30 a.m., said Gilbert police Lt. Eric Shuhandler.
Barkley declined to submit to ... read more
World Politics »
A Washington lobbyist sued The New York Times for $27 million Tuesday, charging the newspaper defamed her with “sensational allegations and insinuations” that she and Sen. John McCain were lovers.
Vicki Iseman’s suit, filed in a Virginia federal court, trashed The Times for ... read more
Entertainment »
Call it six degrees of Bernard Madoff.
Kevin Bacon and wife Kyra Sedgwick are among the many victims of the massive Ponzi scheme run by the disgraced New York money manager.
Bacon’s publicist, Allen Eichhorn, confirmed Tuesday that the couple had investments with Madoff. He would... read more
News »
Baffled consumers are griping about a mysterious glitch that appeared to cause thousands of Zune music players to simultaneously stop working late Tuesday and early Wednesday.
Internet message boards have been flooded with complaints about Zune’s 30GB models freezing, prompting Y2K-like... read more
NCAAF »
No one said the BCS was fair, and that’s certainly the case for No. 8 Texas Tech, which has just as much as an argument as Oklahoma or Texas to be in a major bowl but is instead relegated to the Jan. 2 Cotton Bowl because, well,... read more
