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Orange County Teacher Suspended After Video Surfaces Showing Inappropriate Acts With A Student

Orlando, Fla. - Discovery Middle School teacher Gretchen Gonzalez has been suspended after a video surfaced showing the 34 year old teacher holding...

Alcohlic Drinks Accidentally Served To 4 year old Kids At Frenchy's South Beach Restaurant In Clearwater

Clearwater, Fla. - Frenchy's South Beach Restaurant in Clearwater has accidentally served two kids alcoholic drinks after their mothers reportedly...

Technology

Electronics: What Breaks, What Doesn't And What Holds Its Value; List Of Best And Worst In the age of consumerism, and a disposable lifestyle, do you ever wonder if the electronic gizmo your about to buy will work after a few years? Or...	Verizon Publicly Backs Windows Smartphones Saying Third Ecosystem Is Needed Verizon CFO Fran Shammo has come out saying the carrier will throw its support behind Windows smartphones with the release of the first LTE Windows...
RIM Unveils Blackberry 10 And Shows It Off In Orlando With 2 Separate Conferences Orlando, Fla. - Canadian smartphone maker RIM has unveiled its Blackberry 10 this week in Orlando in two separate conferences, Blackberry World and...	New iPhone 5 Is 4G/LTE And To Be Made Of LiquidMetal; Arrives In October The new iPHone 5 will be made of an alloy called LiquidMetal, is 4G/LTE, will have an improved camera and will arrive in October. Here's the...

Aviation

Venus To Make Rare Pass Between Sun And Earth June 5, 2012 The planet Venus will make a rare pass between the Earth and the Sun and will be visible worldwide on June 5, 2012. The event happens only twice...	Russian Weather Satellite Elektro-L Captures Highest Resolution Image Of Earth The Russian weather satellite Elektro-L, or Электро-Л in Russian, has captured the highest resolution picture of earth ever taken so far from an...
Orlando Man Plead Guilty To Pointing Laser Beam At Departing Airplanes 23 Times At Orlando International Orlando, Fla. - 49 year old Glenn Stephen Hansen has pleaded guilty to pointing a laser beam at airplanes departing Orlando International Airport,...	Airplane Crash In Nepal's Himalayas Kills 15, Injures 6; Was Trying To Land At Jomsom Airport An airplane has crashed while trying to land at Jomsom Airport, high up in the Himalaya Mountains in Nepal. 15 have died and six other have suffered...

Business

New Housing Construction Up In April; Signs That Housing Market Is Stabilizing The housing market is showing some signs of life after collapsing six years ago, but remains hobbled by a glut of unsold homes. In April, new...	Warren Buffet Says he Wont Invest In Apple or Google Calling Them Too Risky To Predict Long Term Warren Buffet was recently quoted as saying during Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting that he has no intentions of buying either Apple of Google...
JPMorgan Chase CEO, Jamie Dimon Announced His Bank Lost $2 Billion In The Last 6 Weeks New York City - JPMorgan Chase CEO, Jamie Dimon made a hurried teleconference call yesterday and announced the that the nation's largest bank had...	Unemployment Drops To 8.1%, Economy Adds 115,000 Jobs In April; Productivity Down Washington, D.C. - The US Labor Department reported today that the unemployment rate has fallen again as the economy continues to recover and grow,...

Entertainment

Queen Elizebeth II Criticized Over Guest List Of Tyrants For Lunch Celebrating Diamond Jubilee London, U.K. - Human Rights groups have criticized the guest list for a lunch Queen Elizebeth II is hosting at Windsor Castle, as she celebrates her...	Ashton Kutcher Signs Deal To Renew TV Comedy Two And A Half Men With Warner Brothers Los Angeles, CA - Actor Ashton Kutcher has signed a new deal with Warner Brothers TV to renew his contract for the popular Two and a Half Men...
Queen Of Disco, Donna Summers, Dies At Age 63 In Florida Donna Summer has died at age 63. Considered the 'Queen of Disco', Summers had been sick for a while battling cancer. Summers was best known for her...	2 Men File Federal Lawsuit Against John Travolta Claiming Sexual Battery Los Angeles, CA - Two male massage therapists have filed a federal lawsuit against actor John Travolta claiming that with one of them, he groped the...

Science

Venus To Make Rare Pass Between Sun And Earth June 5, 2012 The planet Venus will make a rare pass between the Earth and the Sun and will be visible worldwide on June 5, 2012. The event happens only twice...	New Mayan Calendar Discovery Shows Beyond 2012; Hoax Or Will Earth Go On? Archeologist discovered a new Mayan structure in 2010 located in Guatemala, but only recently were able to excavate the area after funding from...
More Than 2,300 Birds Found Dead On Chile's Coast Chilean officials report that more than 2,300 birds have been found dead so far along its coastline. Officials say the bird were found with broken...	Scientists Discover How To Stop Brain Cells From Dying, Hopes It Leads To Alzheimer's Cure British research scientist have discovered how to "swtich off" the mechanism that causes brain cells to die and say they hope it leads to an eventual...

Health

FDA Considers Approval Of Drug That Can Prevent Aids Washington, D.C. - The Food and Drug Administration, FDA, will consider approving a drug that studies have shown can prevent aids, the viral...	Tuna Used In Sushi Being Recalled Across Nation Due To Salmonella The Moon Marine USA Corp. of Cupertino, Calif., also known as MMI, is recalling 58,828 pound of yellowfin tuna used by sushi restaurants across the...
Recalled Diamond Pet Food Sickens 14 People Due To Salmonella, No pets Affected So far 14 people in nine states have been sickened by contaminated dog food made by Diamond Pet Foods in its Gaston, S.C. plant. The pet food had...	Number of Kids Born To Unmarried Parents Jumps 83% Since 2002 the number of new borns being born to unmarried but co-habitating parents has jumped 83%, and woman are waiting longer to have kids, the...

Politics

Sheriff Paul Babeu Cancels Congressional Campaign; Once Tried To have Ex-Boyfriend Deported Tucson, AZ - Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu has announced that he is cancelling his campaign to run for the 4th congressional district of Arizona....	Obama Threatens To Veto Student Loan Bill; OMB Calls The Bill Politically Motivated Washington, D.C. - President Barack Obama has threatened to veto a bill by republicans that keeps the federal student loan rate lower, something that...
Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann Becomes Swiss Citizen Former presidential candidate and congresswoman Michelle Bachmann became a Swiss citizen March 19th according to government officials in Switzerland...	Presidential Campaign; Obama-$104 Million, Romney-$10.1 Million In Cash In The Bank; Sen. Rubio To Help As the republican primary race draws to a close with Mitt Romney becoming the presumptive nominee, the financial reports of the two campaigns for...

Travel

2 Florida Cities Rank Among the Rudest Cities In America; Who's The Most Vein City? According to a new survey poll by Travel + Leisure magazine, Orlando and Miami ranked in the top 10 for the rudest cities in the nation. 35...	Costa Cruises Implements New Safety Measures Hoping To Not Repeat Concordia Disaster Costa Cruises, owned by Carnival Crop of Miami Florida, rolled out a set of new rules hoping it will stop a repeat of its recent disaster in which...
Amtrak Conductors Using New iPhone App To Scan Tickets; No More Hole Punching Amtrak's 1,700 conductors will soon be able leave the hole punch and use an iPhone to scan passenger's tickets in real time, with the data...	Disney's Epcot Park Opens New Tutto Gusto Restaurant As Part Of Its Italian Pavilion Renovation Lake Buena Vita, Fla. - Disney World's Epcot has opened its new Tutto Gusto restaurant and a new wine cellar as part of the Italian Pavilion's...

Interesting or Odd

Newly Elected French PM's Name Is Also Slang In Arabic For Penis The new media is struggling with how to handle delivering the news in the middle east, at least when it comes to pronouncing the name of the newly...	Prince Charles Delivers Weather Forecast; Asks "Who The HELL Wrote This Script" On Camera Prince Charles gave viewers a surprise by delivering the weather forecast for Scotland today, and after a bit of a humorous bumbling asked who the...
Japanese Invent ICE BRA As Alternative To A/C or While Outside; Tries Method To Conserve Energy A Japanese manufacturer, Triumph, has developed an "Ice Bra" meant to help female residents cope with Japan's hot summers and still save electricity...	BMW Sued By San Francisco Man Who Claimed He Suffered Erection For 2 Years After Riding Motorcycle Henry Wolf is suing BMW North America and Corbin-Pacific, Inc. and is claiming he suffered a 2 year erection, called priapism (a long lasting...

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