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September
8
The last missing person was rescued a day after a ferry carrying more than 900 people capsized in Philippine waters, officials said Tuesday. The woman was pulled from the water about 8 p.m. Monday ( 8 a.m. ET), according to the Philippine Coast Guard. The rescue meant everybody was accounted for, authorities said. Nine people were killed and 958 rescued after the SuperFerry 9 capsized Sunday, officials said. The ferry had left the city of General Santos bound for ...
August
19
Make room on the catwalk: "Project Runway" is back. The design competition returns for a sixth season on a new network (Lifetime), in a new city (Los Angeles), with 16 new contestants, all looking to dazzle their way to fashion greatness. "Project Runway" premieres Thursday, about eight months later than its original date. The delay was because of a legal battle between Lifetime and the Weinstein Co. (which owns the show), and NBC Universal, parent company to Bravo (which aired ...
August
12
Frank DiPascali, the former financial chief for disgraced billionaire financier Bernie Madoff, told a federal court judge on Tuesday that he and others knew as far back as the early 1990s that no sales were taking place in Madoff's investment scam. He made the comments while pleading guilty to criminal charges as part of a government cooperation agreement for his role in Madoff's $65 billion Ponzi scheme.
"I knew and other people knew no sales were taking place," said ...
July
11
Mike Loverde was 29 when his family intervened in his addiction to prescription painkillers. He remembers his parents driving him from Chicago, Illinois, to a rehab center in rural Indiana. He was crying because he wanted to get high. Eight years later, Loverde is a counselor and director of program services at the Intervention Services Inc. branch outside Chicago. When someone seems to have lost control of life, or has become a danger to himself or herself, family members ...
July
10
When Glynis McCants looks at Michael Jackson's life, she sees the number five. Jackson's talent was discovered when he was 5 years old, he came to fame as a member of the Jackson 5 and he planned a series of 50 concert dates in London, England, as part of a comeback tour before he died on June 25 at the age of 50. For McCants, a noted numerologist and author, those facts are very telling: "Five is the number for ...
June
25
The Russian supreme court on Thursday overturned a not guilty verdict and ordered a retrial for three suspects in the killing of a journalist, a defense attorney said. The ruling overturns the February acquittal of three men in the October 2006 killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya. After a nearly year-long trial, jurors decided there was not enough evidence against brothers Ibragim and Djabrail Makhmudovs and former interior officer Sergei Khadjikurbanov, who were accused as accomplices. That case was seen as ...
June
4
The 5-year-old girl found the note tucked inside a plastic bag and left in a basket used as a flower pot. "Hi Honey I Been watching you," it said. "I am the same person that kidnapped an Rape an kill Aproil tinsely here is a present foR yo you are my next vitem." A used condom was stuffed in the bag alongside the note. It was March 2004 -- nearly 16 years after 8-year-old April Tinsley was abducted from a ...
May
28
Bestselling author and Today show and Oprah regular Michele Weiner Davis, is no stranger to private marital matters. Weiner Davis, a clinical social worker, has been working closely with couples those on the brink of divorce or otherwise in crisis for more than 20 years. She's collected some of her wisdom in her new book, The Sex-Starved Wife: What to Do When He's Lost Desire , another intimate "brown paper bag" title, as she jokingly calls it ...
May
8
For many people, the manner in which they present themselves on Facebook has come to mirror how they see themselves in real life. Photos broadcast the fun they're having, status updates say what's on their mind and a change in relationship status announces their availability, commitment or something in between.
Of these mini-declarations, relationship status is the only one that directly involves another person. That puts two people in the social-networking mirror, and that, to borrow a Facebook phrase, ...
May
7
When one traveler packed a kinky nurses' uniform in her luggage, she had no reason to suspect a photo of it would end up on the Internet. But there it is, in full color, on a new Web site called isthisyourluggage. The Web site was started by Londoner Luna Laboo who admits her hobby of buying and photographing lost luggage is turning into an obsession. "I'd gone along to buy one just out of curiosity and then I ...
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