The Indiana Pacers confirmed Friday that longtime front office employee and director of player personnel Mel Daniels is no longer with the team. “Mel was a great basketball player who helped make the Pacers a well-known franchise — and we wish him well,” Pacers president of basketball operations Larry Bird said through a statement released […]
An INDOT spokesperson tells Eyewitness News that most of the eastbound lanes of I-465 will reopen after a tanker explosion earlier this week. All but the far left lane of I-465 eastbound will reopen at midnight Sunday, officials say. Inspectors have spent the past several days inspecting an overpass at I-465 and I-69 where […]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients. The declaration, signed Friday night and announced Saturday, comes with the disease more prevalent than ever in the country and production delays […]
In the midst of the recession, New Yorkers are cutting back on everything from dining to luxury shopping. Café des Artistes, one of the Big Apple’s most storied restaurants, closed in August, in part because of poor business. Chanterelle followed this month. In July, J.C. Penney opened its first Manhattan location, citing local demand for […]
If, as the old joke goes, God wishes he could play golf like Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods may wish he could play golf like twelve-year-old Mark Benevento Jr. Wait … what? Who or what is a Mark Benevento Jr.? Mark is a young man who’s about to be famous for all the right (i.e. non-balloon-oriented) reasons. […]
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — LeBron James and teammates Darnell Jackson and Coby Karl have tested positive for Influenza A, and are being treated as if they have the H1N1 virus. H1N1, also known as swine flu, is a strain of Influenza A, and though the Cavaliers have not gotten back H1N1 test results on the […]
An internal congressional report questioning the ability of the Secret Service to continue fulfilling its duties was leaked to the Boston Globe. The report says the Secret Service is strained by a drastic increase in threats to President Obama, coupled with deep budget cuts. Some are speculating that the agency may need to relinquish all […]
BEREA, Ohio – The Cleveland Browns have been sacked by the flu. Coach Eric Mangini said 12 players, including Pro Bowl nose tackle Shaun Rogers and five other starters, are home with flulike symptoms and he plans to adjust his practice on Wednesday as the team prepares to face the Green Bay Packers this weekend. […]
The fight over the feet of Michael Jordan’s son is not over. Last Thursday, Marcus Jordan, the Hall of Fame guard’s younger son, told the media that he’d honor the University of Central Florida’s contract with adidas by wearing all the apparel with adidas logos on it. He would not, however, take the court in […]
FORT COLLINS, Colo. – The parents who set off a worldwide drama by reporting their 6-year-old son was inside a flying saucer-like helium balloon hurtling over Colorado concocted the stunt to market themselves for a television show, a sheriff said Sunday. Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden said at an extraordinarily candid news conference that the […]
According to http://www.eurweb.com A New York Post editor who spoke out against a controversial cartoon the paper ran comparing the author of the president’s stimulus package to a dead chimpanzee has been fired from her job, the Huffington Post blog reported. Sandra Guzman was removed from her post as associate editor last week for reasons […]