New York Yankees honor on Nick Swisher RBI single
July 17, 2010 at 5:40 am | Posted in U.S.News | Leave a commentTags: Joe Girardi, NEW YORK, New York Yankees, Yankees
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Joe Girardi’s eyes were damp, and several of his Yankees stared into space as they stood clapping. Most everyone at the Stadium was on their feet, cheering, for about three minutes following a video tribute to George Steinbrenner, part of the emotional ceremony Friday night celebrating the famous owner before the Yanks’ first game since The Boss’ death on Tuesday.
Steinbrenner and The Voice – P.A. announcer Bob Sheppard, who died on Sunday – were both feted during a 20-minute tribute in which closer Mariano Rivera laid two long-stem roses on home plate to honor each Yankee icon and shortstop Derek Jeter called both men “shining stars in the Yankee universe.”
After honoring The Boss, the Yankees then honored Steinbrenner’s prime directive – to win – by rallying to beat the Rays, 5-4, in front of 47,524. Nick Swisher hit a game-winning RBI single in the ninth inning off Lance Cormier, knocking in Curtis Granderson from second base and bringing most everyone in the ballpark to their feet. “The agenda today was winning,” Swisher said. “On a day like this when we celebrate his life, we’ve gotta take him out with a ‘W.’… It was Mr. Steinbrenner’s day.”
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Ayla Brown, Scott Brown’s daughter, is a former American Idol contestant
January 20, 2010 at 10:46 am | Posted in U.S.News | Leave a commentTags: American Idol, Ayla, Ayla Brown, Brown, Scott, Scott Brown, scott brown daughter
Ayla Brown, the daughter of Republican Scott Brown, competed on the fifth season of “American Idol.” She made it to the Top 24 stage of the contest.
Scott Brown defeated Democrat Martha Coakley to win Tuesday’s U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts.
In her “American Idol” contestant profile, Ayla Brown listed her heroes as “people who serve in the armed forces — like my dad.”
Once Coakley conceded, Ayla Brown — also an avid basketball player — gave updates on her father’s victory via social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter.
She posted a live feed that included video clips of her performing at the victory party. You can access those clips by clicking on the link that accompanies this page.
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Coakley Concedes : Massachusetts Senate Race Results
January 20, 2010 at 10:35 am | Posted in U.S.News | Leave a commentTags: Coakley, Coakley Concedes, Concedes, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Senate Race, Senate Race
Scott Brown has won the Massachusetts Senate seat once held by Senator Ted Kennedy. With 99 percent of the precincts reporting, Brown has beaten his Democratic challenger Martha Coakley 52-47 percent.
This changes the dynamics in the U.S. Senate; the Democrats have lost their filibuster-proof majority. The loss in Massachusetts puts President Barack Obama’s health care proposal and other initiatives in jeopardy.
Independent voters were the deciding factor. “Tonight the independent voice of Massachusetts has spoken,” Brown told his supporters at a victory rally. This is the first time a Republican has held a Senate seat in the Bay State since 1972.
Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal calls the victory a stark illustration of Democratic support collapsing from independent voters. “But Massachusetts is now the third Obama-won state in the past three months where independents have swung decisively Republican,” the Journal said.
Coroner’s preliminary finding: Jackson overdosed on propofol
August 25, 2009 at 12:34 am | Posted in Entertainment News, U.S.News, World news | Leave a commentTags: Conrad Murray, Hector Vila, Jackson, Michael Jackson, MJ, Murray, Zeev Kain
(CNN) — The Los Angeles coroner has concluded preliminarily that singer Michael Jackson died of an overdose of propofol, a powerful sedative he was given to help him sleep, according to court documents released Monday.
Los Angeles’ coroner Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran reached that preliminary conclusion after reviewing toxicology results carried out on Jackson’s blood, according to a search warrant and affidavit unsealed in Houston, Texas.
The affidavit outlines probable cause for search warrants of the offices of doctors who are believed to have treated Jackson.
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(News)The 12 most annoying types of Facebookers
August 23, 2009 at 8:56 am | Posted in Technology News, U.S.News, World news | Leave a commentTags: CNN, Facebook, Facebookers, News
(CNN) — Facebook, for better or worse, is like being at a big party with all your friends, family, acquaintances and co-workers.
Facebook can be a great tool, and an occasional annoyance. What kind of Facebooker are you?
There are lots of fun, interesting people you’re happy to talk to when they stroll up. Then there are the other people, the ones who make you cringe when you see them coming. This article is about those people.
Sure, Facebook can be a great tool for keeping up with folks who are important to you. Take the status update, the 160-character message that users post in response to the question, “What’s on your mind?” An artful, witty or newsy status update is a pleasure — a real-time, tiny window into a friend’s life.
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Mexico to raise tariffs on U.S. exports
March 17, 2009 at 7:21 am | Posted in U.S.News | Leave a commentTags: McCain, Mexico, NAFTA, News, U.S.
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) — Mexico has announced plans to raise tariffs on almost 90 U.S. exports, Mexican and U.S. officials confirmed Monday.
Mexico’s state-run news agency says tariffs are in retaliation for cancellation of a U.S. trucking project.
The new trade measures are in retaliation for the cancellation earlier this year of a U.S. commercial trucking project and will target U.S. industrial and agricultural products delivered to Mexico, Mexico’s state-run news agency said.
Mexico’s Economic Secretary Gerardo Ruiz Mateos called the cancellation of the program a breach of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the agency said.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the trucking project was killed in the 2009 omnibus appropriations bill, but President Barack Obama has asked his administration to create a new program.
“Congress has opposed the project in the past because of concerns about the process that led to the program’s establishment and its operation,” Gibbs said.
The project allowed a small number of Mexican trucks to enter the United States beyond the normal commercial zones, and allowed some U.S. trucks the same privilege in Mexico.
Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, warned that the Mexican action would harm American businesses.
“Unfortunately, this is a predictable reaction by the Mexican government to a policy that now puts the United States in clear violation of the North American Free Trade Agreement and was inappropriately inserted into the omnibus appropriations bill,” McCain said after learning of the Mexican government’s plans.
McCain said Washington “must take steps to prevent escalation of further protectionist measures — actions that only serve to harm American business during these tough economic times when these businesses need a worldwide marketplace to prosper.”
“This is another reason why the president should have vetoed the omnibus spending bill,” McCain added.
Mexico’s intentions to raise tariffs on U.S. goods “is an absurd overreaction to the shutdown of the unsafe cross-border trucking pilot program,” Teamsters President Jim Hoffa said.
“The right response from Mexico would be to make sure its drivers and trucks are safe enough to use our highways without endangering our drivers,” Hoffa said in a statement issued by the union. “The border must stay closed until Mexico holds up its end of the bargain.”
Obama, Biden appoint advisers
November 16, 2008 at 2:05 pm | Posted in U.S.News | Leave a commentTags: Barack Obama, hot news, Joseph Biden, Michelle Obama, News, Obama, U.S.News, Valerie Jarrett
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A longtime friend of Barack and Michelle Obama’s has been appointed as a senior adviser to the incoming president.
Valerie Jarrett was a senior adviser to President-elect Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
Jarrett is co-chairwoman of Obama’s transition team and was senior adviser for his presidential campaign. She became the president and CEO of the Habitat Co. on January 31, 2007, and was also the company’s vice president. The Habitat Co. develops and manages residential apartments and condominiums.
Before joining the Habitat Co., Jarrett served eight years in government for the city of Chicago, Illinois. She was deputy corporation counsel for finance and development, deputy chief of staff for Mayor Richard M. Daley and finally commissioner of the Department of Planning and Development.
Jarrett met Barack Obama when she hired Michelle Obama for a job in the Chicago mayor’s office years ago and has been very close to the two ever since. 
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The transition team also made official Saturday the hiring of Ron Klain as chief of staff to the vice president.
Klain was also chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore, but he’s no stranger to Vice President-elect Joe Biden, having served as chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee when Biden was the committee chairman.
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Klain also served as general counsel of Gore’s 2000 Florida recount effort and was portrayed by actor Kevin Spacey in an HBO movie about the event.
This year, Klain helped with debate preparation for both Obama and Biden.
“Ron Klain has been a trusted adviser of mine for over 20 years,” a statement from Biden said Saturday morning. “He brings extraordinary judgment, a deep understanding of the important policy issues facing our nation, a wide range of experience in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, as well as a unique understanding of how the vice president’s office works.”
Schiliro has worked in Congress for more than 25 years, in positions including chief of staff to Rep. Henry Waxman, D-California, policy director for then-Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota and staff director for the Senate Democratic Leadership Committee.
William Shatner lashes out at ‘Star Trek’ co-star
October 23, 2008 at 3:35 pm | Posted in U.S.News, World news | 1 CommentTags: Brad Altman, News, Star Trek, William Shatner
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — William Shatner is setting his phaser to stun against his old “Star Trek” co-star George Takei.
William Shatner also said on his Web site that he felt he never knew George Takei when they worked together.
In a video posted on Shatner’s Web site Wednesday, he lashed out at Takei for not inviting him to his wedding last month. The 77-year-old Kirk said Takei, who played Enterprise helmsman Sulu, apparently harbors a grudge against him that kept him from being invited to Takei’s nuptials.
“The whole thing makes me feel badly,” Shatner said in the video. “Poor man. There is such a sickness there. It’s so patently obvious that there is a psychosis there. I don’t know what his original thing about me was. I have no idea.”
Takei and Brad Altman tied the knot September 14. “Star Trek” alums Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig — who played Uhura and Chekhov, respectively — were among the attendees at the multicultural ceremony at the Japanese American National Museum.
Takei and Altman had previously stated that Shatner was invited to their wedding, but he never RSVPed.
“It is unfortunate that Bill was unable to join us for our wedding as he indeed was invited to attend,” Takei responded. “It is our hope that at this point he joins us in voting no on Proposition 8, which seeks to eliminate the fundamental right for same-sex couples to marry in California.”
Shatner said he felt he never knew Takei when they worked together on the original TV series and later in the “Star Trek” films.
The “Boston Legal” co-star also attacked Takei’s decision to come out of the closet later in life, saying “Who cares? Be gay. Don’t be gay. That’s up to you, George.”
Grandfather arrested in drug-related abduction, dispatcher says
October 18, 2008 at 1:15 pm | Posted in U.S.News, World news | 1 CommentTags: Cole Puffinburger, News, News Update
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) – The man wanted for questioning in the drug-related abduction of his 6-year-old grandson in Las Vegas, Nevada, has been apprehended in California, a dispatcher for a San Bernardino County detention center said early Saturday.
A nationwide Amber Alert has been issued for Cole Puffinburger, 6, of Las Vegas, Nevada.
The dispatcher, who did not give her name, said Clemons F. Tinnemeyer, 51, was arrested late Friday night in Riverside, California. It was not clear on what grounds he was taken into custody.
An inmate information page from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Central Detention facility Web site said Tinnemeyer was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service and was not eligible for bail.
Las Vegas police had said earlier Friday they wanted to question him in the case of his grandson’s abduction.
Cole Puffinburger was snatched from his Las Vegas home Wednesday by three armed men who tied up the boy’s mother and her fiance.
Police Capt. Vincent Cannito told reporters that Tinnemeyer has been involved in “significant drug dealing” worth millions of dollars.
Tinnemeyer owns a sightseeing motor home service and works as a driver, police said.
He was last seen in Las Vegas on May 21. At the time, he was driving a white Dodge extended-cab pickup with Mississippi license plates KA6251.
He last contacted his family in August and was reported missing in September.
Authorities said Thursday that the case is related to “illegal narcotics activity” and that the family was targeted; Cannito said Friday that Cole was kidnapped by drug dealers attempting to recover lost money and property.
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“These are extremely dangerous people,” Cannito said. “This is as bad as it gets.”
At least two of the three suspects posed as police officers to enter Cole’s home about 7:25 a.m. Wednesday, police said. They tied up the boy’s mother and her fiancé and ransacked the house before kidnapping the boy when no money was found, they said.
In a story published Friday, The Las Vegas Review-Journal quoted unnamed sources as saying a member of the boy’s family owes a Mexican drug cartel between $8 million and $20 million, describing the relative as an alleged money launderer for the cartel and saying the person was in hiding.
A search for the boy spans much of the American Southwest, and a nationwide Amber Alert was in effect.
Cole is described as being 3 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 48 pounds, with blond hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a sweat shirt, dark jeans and silver-rimmed prescription glasses, authorities said.
The kidnappers were described as three Hispanic men who spoke with heavy accents.
National and local authorities have said that such drug-related abductions are occurring more frequently in communities near the Mexican border.
Anyone with more information is asked to call Las Vegas Metropolitan Police at 702-828-5678.
Tiburon resident: Angel Island fire ‘still ripping’
October 14, 2008 at 12:38 am | Posted in U.S.News | Leave a commentTags: Angel Island, News, U.S.News
SAN FRANCISCO, California (CNN) – A wildfire threatened to decimate historic Angel Island, the largest in the , and a Marin County fire official warned it could take up to four days contain the blaze.
At 9:15 p.m. Sunday the fire was burning only on the southeast side of the island.
The fire, which began about 9 p.m. Sunday, had consumed about 250 acres of vegetation near the top of Mount Livermore’s 788-foot peak, Battalion Chief Mike Giannini said Monday.
iReporter Bob Austrian, 45, of Tiburon, said he could see the blaze from his home about 4 or 5 miles from the island.
He noticed the blaze at 9:15 p.m. Sunday. It “started as a little red glow” on the southeast side of the island and worked its way over the top and around the side of Mount Livermore, he said early Monday morning. Watch the island burn »
“It’s still ripping right now,” Austrian said at 5 a.m., noting that the blaze posed “quite a spectacle” with the town of Belvedere in the foreground and the Bay Bridge that connects Oakland and San Francisco serving as a backdrop.
Fire crews and equipment were being ferried to the island to battle the blaze, Giannini said. About 200 firefighters were already involved in the effort or en route, he said.
None of the blaze is contained, and Giannini said he expects the firefighting effort to last for three to four more days.
Austrian, who has visited the island at least a dozen times, said he’s concerned that firefighters won’t be able to douse the blaze. The island is mostly vegetation with a few historic buildings, foot trails and access roads. iReport.com: See, share images of the blaze
Even with the necessary manpower and firefighting resources, he said, it will be difficult to reach the actual blaze.
“It’s just the saddest thing because there’s no way to stop it,” Austrian said.
Fire officials said earlier that all of the park workers and campers on the island were safe.
Angel Island — a hilly grass- and forest-covered island — is the largest in San Francisco Bay.
The island was used as a quarantine station for immigrants suspected of carrying diseases starting in the late 19th century.
It’s now a place for hiking, biking, camping and boating.
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