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Lakeland PD Officer Jerry Monroe Arrested On Violent Road Rage Charges

Lakeland, Fla. - Police officer Jerry Monroe of the Lakeland, Florida police department has been arrested on battery charges after he is accused of a...

$590 Million Powerball Winner In Florida Still Unknown

Zephyrhills, Fla. - The winner of the $590.5 Million Powerball ticket, the highest ever, has still not come forward. The ticket was purchased a...

Technology

Acer's Small Screen Windows 8 Tablet Leaked; uses Full Windows 8 OS Amazon accidentally leaked images of Acer's new Small Screen Windows 8 tablet on its website after what is being reported as "confusion" over product...	How Far We've Come With Cell Phones In 40 years 40 years ago the first cell phone call was made by Martin Cooper of Motorola, and he called his chief rival, Joel Engel of Bell Labs, who was also...
Apple's iMessenger And FaceTime Go Down Forcing Users To Feel Useless Apple's popular iMessage and FaceTime services were interrupted for a several hours on Tuesday which affected numerous users in the U.S., forcing...	Apple Releases iOS 6.1.3 To Fix Bugs And Newly Discovered Security Flaws Apple has released iOS 6.1.3 Tuesday (Today) to fix several bugs and a newly discovered security flaw. The updated iOS is available immediately for...

Aviation

US Airways Plane Lands At Newark Liberty International Airport With No Landing Gear A US Airways plane landed at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey Saturday morning without its landing gear. The plane operated by...	Turkish Airlines Completes Order For 70 Boeing 737 Airplanes Turkish Airlines has completed their order for 70 new Boeing 737's, 40- 737-8, 10-737 Max 9's and 20 NG 737-800 airplanes plus option for 25 more 737...
US Navy Launches Unmanned Drone Aircraft From Aircraft Carrier For First Time The US Navy has launched an X-47B pilot-less drone combat aircraft from the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier off the coast of Virginia in the...	Passengers Force Orlando Flight To Make Emergency Landing Several passengers on board a Southwest Airlines flight from Orlando to Providence, RI forced the plane to make an emergency landing in Charleston,...

Business

YouTube Announces It Will Start Charging To Watch Content San Francisco, CA - YouTube has announced that it will begin charging a subscription fee to watch some content on the popular streaming video website...	New Unemployment Claims Down 324,000, Lowest In 5 years Washington, D.C. - New jobless claims have continued to fall, now at 324,000, which is the lowest since January 2008, just before the start of the...
U.S. Corporations Earn A Record $1.9 Trillion In Overseas Earnings And Offshore Accounts U.S. companies have earned a record $1.9 trillion in profits in overseas operations and offshore accounts according to reports. Multinational...	As Economy Recovers, The Rich Get Richer And The Poor Get Poorer As the nation's economy continues to recover from the last recession, the disparity between the rich and the poor has grown according to the Pew...

Entertainment

Movie Review \| The Great Gatsby: "Old Sport, New Vision" Movie Review: Director Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby puts a trailblazing spin on a classic novel. Though this movie may not be appreciated by...	'Family Guy' Episode Depicting Deaths At Boston Marathon Pulled By Fox Fox has removed a recent episode of "Family Guy' that depicts people being killed at the Boston Marathon from its website and on Hulu.com In the...
Mud: Rolling on the River Movie Review: Mud is a story that would make Mark Twain proud. Mud has a classic feel, showcasing how life and love blend, the same way the...	China Pulls 'Django' From Movie Threaters On Opening Day China has unexpectedly banned the movie 'Django' on Thursday, opening day, after the movie was heavily promoted inside China. Though no official...

Art

Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel Turns 500 As Vatican Warns it May Limit Visitors To Protect It

The famous Sistine Chapel's fresco painted by Michelangelo turned 500 years old on Wednesday along with a statement by the Vatican saying it may...

2 Arrested In Miami Beach Hotel In Famous Stolen Matisse Painting Worth $3 Million

Miami, Fla. - Police and FBI agents have arrested two men trying to sell a stolen Matisee painting worth $3 million. The 1925 painting, “Odalisque...

Science

NASA Wants To Lasso An Asteroid And Drag It Close To The Moon To Study Washington, D.C. - A 20-ish year old scientist from Italy, Marco Tantardini, has managed to convince NASA to launch a mission to lasso an asteroid...	NASA Releases Updated Hi-Res Map Of Universe, Discovers Its Older Than Previously Thought NASA has released the most up-to-date map of the universe in cooperation with the ESA and Planck space mission, and has discovered that the universe...
Scientist Thinks They've Finally Discovered 'Dark Matter' Scientists at Geneva's CERN research center using the $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer that was delivered to the International Space Station,...	We're Not Going To Remind You About The Time Change We've decided that there is no longer a need to remind or announce to readers that last night the nation set it's clocks forward on hour known as...

Health

New Guidelines For HIV Testing Urges Everyone 15-65 To Be Tested The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has released its recommendations urging health care providers to test everyone 15-65 years old for HIV, the...	17 Now Infected With Meningitis In Florida From Contaminated Medicine The Florida Health Department has said today that there are now 17 cases of fungal meningitis in Florida, and that four new ones have been reported...
Officials Warn of New Deadly Disease Spreading; hCoV-EMC Doctors and the CDC are warning people of a new deadly virus that is spreading called the hCoV-EMC. It is believed to be a mutation of the...	New Electric Underwear Can Prevent Bed Sores By Shocking your Buttocks Canadian researches have found that a new pair of underwear deisnged to deliver shocks to your buttocks can prevent bed sores and other pressure...

Politics

Montana Senator Max Baucus Believed To Be Retiring Montana Democratic Senator Max Baucus is planning to retire according to party insiders. Baucus has served six terms as one of Montana's two...	Obama's Federal Budget Cuts And Tax Plan Angers Both Republicans And Democrats Washington, D.C. - President Obama has sent his version of a federal budget to congress setting off complaints from both sides of the aisle,...
Republican Party In Turmoil After Conservative Groups Threaten To Leave Several conservative republican groups have written letters threatening to leave the party if the GOP does not reaffirm its stance to win a...	Former Florida GOP Chairman Sentenced To 18 Months In Prison In Orlando Courtroom Orlando, Fla. - Circuit Judge Marc Lubet has sentenced Jim Greer to 18 months in state prison after being convicted of stealing $125,000 in party...

Travel

78,000+ Apply For One-Way Ticket To Mars,... For Real Mars One has received roughly 78,000 applications for a one way ticket to Mars from 120 countries so far. The Company/Group, based in the...	Airlines Are Cancelling Flights Ahead Of Winter Storm Approaching The Northeast As a strong winter storm approaches the northeast, airlines have already cancelled 370 flights by Friday afternoon in anticipation of the storm,...
More Bad News For Carnival Cruises; Ship Fails Health Sanitation Inspection; Offers Steep Discounts Miami, Fla. - The Centers for Disease Control has given the Carnival ship 'Fascination' an 84 for sanitation in a recent surprise inspection....	Massive Holiday Storm Causes Blizzards, Tornadoes, Flight Cancellations And Closed Highways The massive weather event moving its way across the U.S. has killed at least two, as blizzard conditions hit nine states, and a tornado outbreak...

Interesting or Odd

Peacock Sexually Abused By Chicago Man Chicago, IL - Police in Roselle, a suburb of Chicago, are charging 64-year-old David Beckmann with animal cruelty charges after they say he sexually...	World War II May Finally End between Japan And Russia As World War II ended for the U.S. and peace spread around the globe (mostly), it has continued to rage on between Russia and Japan, in spirit at...
78,000+ Apply For One-Way Ticket To Mars,... For Real Mars One has received roughly 78,000 applications for a one way ticket to Mars from 120 countries so far. The Company/Group, based in the...	Detroit Area Man Living With Corpse Arrested After Police Enter Trailer Detroit, MI - Police in Redford Township, Michigan have arrested 64-year-old Dennis McCauley after discovering that he had been living in a trailer...

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