Indiana is poised to become the first right-to-work state in more than a decade. The Republican-controlled House passed legislation on Wednesday banning from collecting mandatory fees from workers. It is yet another blow to organized labor in the heavily unionized Midwest, which is home to many of the country’s manufacturing jobs. Wisconsin last year stripped [...]
Lifetime’s “Drew Peterson: Untouchable” movie generated record viewership, the network said Monday, averaging about 5.8 million total viewers when it aired Jan. 21. According to a Press Release by Lifetime: In its world premiere Saturday night, the Lifetime Original Movie Drew Peterson: Untouchable, starring Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominee Rob Lowe and Kaley Cuoco, [...]
Shortly after it was discovered hitmaker Swizz Beatz is the brains behind popular file-sharing website Megaupload, the FBI have shut down the site and issued criminal charges. According to reports, the Federal Bureau of Investigation closed Megaupload Thursday (January 19) afternoon. One day after the Internet blacked out in protest of two overreaching anti-piracy [...]
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a United States federal holiday marking the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around the time of King’s birthday, January 15. The floating holiday is similar to holidays set under the Uniform Monday Holiday [...]
An Alabama judge on Thursday declared Natalee Holloway dead. Holloway was an Alabama teenager who disappeared more than six years ago during a graduation trip to the Caribbean island of Aruba. Her mysterious disappearance prompted an exhaustive investigation and intense media attention. With both of Holloway’s parents present in the courtroom, Probate Judge Alan King said [...]
In a strange twist of fate, the man accused of murdering American teen Natalee Holloway has pleaded guilty of murdering another young woman. In Lima, Peru on Wednesday, Joran Van der Sloot stood before a Peruvian court and admitted to killing Stephany Flores, 21, in a Lima hotel in May of 2010. Van der Sloot [...]
Hurt by a prolonged economic slump that is stretching into larger portions of the South and West, many states which posted big population gains in the 2010 census are now seeing their decade-long growth fizzle. New 2011 estimates released Wednesday by the Census Bureau are the first state numbers since the 2010 count, which [...]
The ex-girlfriend of the man who opened fire on a street in Hollywood on Friday said he wanted to “change the world for the better.” Alicia Alligood, 24, said that she and Tyler Brehm, 26, dated for four years before breaking up. In an interview with KTLA News, she described Brehm as “really stressed out [...]
Rod Blagojevich won’t be spending the holidays with his family for a long, long time. The former governor of Illinois was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison Wednesday on 18 counts of felony corruption. Blagojevich was first arrested in December 2008 for attempting to sell the Senate seat President Barack Obama left vacant when [...]
The Dec. 7, 1941, bombing of Pearl Harbor and those who lost their lives that day are being remembered Wednesday on the 70th anniversary of the Japanese attack that brought the U.S. into World War II. About 120 survivors will join Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, military leaders and civilians to observe a moment of silence [...]
