TV station lays off news anchor

By Calvin Palmer
Times must be hard when a TV station is forced to lay off one of its anchors.  KPRC (Channel 2) in Houston has done just that to Wendy Corona as the station tightens its budget.
Channel 2’s news director Skip Valet said Corona’s departure “was an economic decision.”  He said her position on the [...]

Lohan denies split with Ronson

By Calvin Palmer
Having remained quiet since her outburst against Sarah Palin during the presidential campaign, Lindsay Lohan, probably now gasping for the oxygen of publicity, is back in the public eye.
The publicity-seeking… er… what exactly is Lohan?  Silly tart?  Celebrity?  Annoying person?  I think I got it right the first time.  The publicity-seeking silly tart has [...]

Police search garbage dumps for baby’s body thrown out with hospital trash

By Calvin Palmer
Police are searching garbage dumps in New Jersey and Pennsylvania for the body of a baby boy apparently thrown out with the trash at Jersey City’s Christ Hospital.
Bashere Davon Moyd Jr. was delivered at the hospital on December 21 about a month premature.
Hospital spokeswoman Barbara Davy said the baby was stillborn and placed [...]

Cross-dressing millionaire doctor found hanged in prison cell

By Calvin Palmer
Richard Sharpe, the cross-dressing millionaire Harvard dermatologist who was given a life sentence for killing his estranged wife, has been found hanged in his cell.
He was found by his cellmate at MCI-Norfolk, Massachusetts, on Monday evening and pronounced dead at hospital, said Department of Correction spokeswoman Diane Wiffin.
Sharpe’s death is under investigation by [...]

Israel shells U.N. school in Gaza killing 30

By Calvin Palmer
Israeli artillery shells today hit a U.N. school in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza claiming 30 lives and injuring another 55 people.
John Ging, director of operations in Gaza for UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, told reporters at U.N. headquarters by videolink from Gaza that three artillery shells landed near [...]

Europe shivers as Russia halts gas supplies

By Calvin Palmer
Large parts of Europe woke up today on the coldest day of the year to find that Russian gas supplies had been cut off.
Bulgaria, where temperatures fell to minus 15C, was one of six countries affected and only has enough gas for a few days, according to the Economic Ministry.
The other countries are [...]

Jealous wife faces murder charge after setting husband’s penis on fire

By Calvin Palmer
An Australian who thought her husband was having an affair has been charged with murder after she allegedly set his genitals on fire.
Prosecutors yesterday told Adelaide magistrates court that Rajini Narayan, 44, confessed to neighbors that she had set her husband on fire on December 8, 2008, after she saw him hug another [...]