Category: Breaking News

This post was originally published on this siteThe world’s first glimpse of Jack Whittaker (search), winner of the richest undivided lottery jackpot in U.S. history, was of a boisterous, happy-go-lucky guy in a big cowboy hat who loved his family, work and God and promised to share his good fortune with the church and the […]

This post was originally published on this siteAbout 10,000 casino hotel workers from more than half the city’s 12 casinos went on strike Friday, even though negotiators had reached a tentative agreement with three of the casinos. Members of Local 54 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees union chanted and carried picket signs outside […]

This post was originally published on this siteSinger Ashlee Simpson’s (search) “extra help” may have been exposed when a “Saturday Night Live” audience heard her voice — singing the wrong song — while she held a microphone at her waist. Her record company blamed a computer glitch and she blamed her band for Sunday morning’s incident, which […]

This post was originally published on this siteIn a book to be published Monday, iconoclastic filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (search) reveals that he fathered a daughter outside of one of his five marriages, a secret he had kept for 45 years, his publisher said. Bergman, 86, who is widely considered one of cinema’s greatest directors, writes in the […]

This post was originally published on this siteJanet Leigh (search), the wholesome beauty whose shocking murder in the classic Alfred Hitchcock thriller “Psycho” was credited with making generations of film fans think twice about stepping into a motel room shower, has died. She was 77. The actress’ husband, Robert Brandt, and her daughters, actresses Kelly […]

This post was originally published on this siteA man who stomped another man to death in what prosecutors called an anti-Semitic attack outside a St. Louis diner was sentenced to life in prison, the maximum penalty. “This was a deliberate killing,” Circuit Judge David Mason told Kevin A. Johnson (search), 36, of St. Louis, before […]

This post was originally published on this site“Superman” actor Christopher Reeve (search), who turned personal tragedy into a public crusade and from his wheelchair became the nation’s most recognizable spokesman for spinal cord research, has died. He was 52. Reeve went into cardiac arrest Saturday while at his Pound Ridge home, then fell into a […]

This post was originally published on this siteIt was “42nd Street” with pasties, “All About Eve” with a G-string. Only those movies were cinema classics, while “Showgirls (search )” was so bad that adjectives such as awful, wretched and appalling somehow seemed too kind. But if a film festers in video stores long enough, its […]

This post was originally published on this siteThe din of guitars and drums echo from a sound check while stagehands mill around and a helicopter whips the tree tops. “I guarantee that’s Big & Rich,” says country singer Tim McGraw (search), turning to see his opening act buzzing the amphitheater in a helicopter. “Usually, it’s a […]

This post was originally published on this siteIt’s news that would make Jackie Gleason (search) shout out his trademark “And away we go!” A new “lost” episode of the classic 1950s TV comedy “The Honeymooners (search)” has been uncovered in the Peabody Awards archive at the University of Georgia. The episode, titled “Love Letter (search),” originally aired […]