CBS Corp. is buying CNET Networks for $1.8 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports. CNET Networks’ Web sites, which include CNET, Chow, Gamespot, MP3.com, TV.com, UrbanBaby and ZDNet, will be “combined with CBS’ news and sports sites as well as CBS Radio and CBS Television Stations’ digital media platforms,” the Journal […]
One bug coming right up: Mom delivers lunch through the fly-by window of a hoopoe nest in Israel. The hoopoe was chosen Thursday as Israel’s national bird in conjunction with the country’s 60th anniversary. Aim true and we shall feast for days! Amazon Indians who have never had any contact with the […]
Maybe you remember him as Capt. James T. Kirk on Star Trek or currently watch him as the outrageous lawyer Denny Crane on Boston Legal. But until you read his recently published memoir, Up Till Now, you’ve really just scratched the surface of William Shatner.It’s all in there, including the fights with Star Trek cast […]
THE mother of one of Bill Henson’s under-age models has charged to the besieged photographer’s defence.Kerryn, whose daughter, Lizzie, posed in non-naked photos for Henson as a 12-year-old said it was his "prurient" critics who were damaging the young models, not Henson.The teenagers she knew who had posed for him had grown into accomplished, well-adjusted […]
Last Updated: May 29. 2008 9:43PM UAE / May 29. 2008 5:43PM GMTMUMBAI // The cricket carnival that is the Indian Premier League (IPL) is set to serve up its penultimate dose of sport and entertainment as the semi-finals get underway today with four teams battling it out for the right to be crowned inaugural […]
By ANNETTE NEVINS / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning NewsFor student journalists and their teachers in the McKinney school district, it’s a clean sweep: All three high schools and a middle school are recipients of top state and national awards.Student newspapers, yearbooks and video and broadcasting programs at McKinney, McKinney North and […]
The LG Vu CU920 for AT&T is the closest thing to an iPhone competitor I’ve seen yet. More than any other phone, it captures the iPhone’s basic essence of fun via a tactile device on which you touch beautiful things to connect with others and be entertained. But its flaws exemplify what mainstream phone […]
Democratic Congressman Michael Arcuri says he’ll seek a second term in office. At a morning press conference in Utica, the 24th District incumbent announced his plans in front of a throng of supporters.Arcuri is being opposed by Cooperstown Republican Richard Hanna, who will run as an independent. Hanna, a construction contractor with no previous political […]
Democratic delegate duel…Stormy Nebraska…Florida fireWashington (AP) Democratic Party leaders are urging uncommitted delegates to make their presidential choice known when the primaries end next week. Barack Obama is within 44 delegates of clinching the nomination and leads Hillary CLinton by about 200 delegates. Some party members fear a longer battle […]
The following is the roster of 1,060 flags that will be placed on the Avenues of Flags on the lawn of the Plymouth County Courthouse on Memorial Day 2008. New flags will be dedicated during the Memorial Day ceremony at 10 a.m. Monday, May 26.Those honored with flags in their memory are:Albert Adden, Richard Adler, […]