Robert Wayne Birch, a.k.a. Bob Birch, a bass guitarist who played with Elton John and Billy Joel among many other huge artists, is dead after sustaining an apparent self-inflicted gun wound to the head.
Happy bday DJ Danger! That short sentence trended worldwide for 12 hours on Twitter Wednesday, but it left many people scratching their heads wondering just who the mystery character is. Oddly enough, it turns out that DJ Danger is an alter ego of boy band star Joe Jonas, who turned 23 on August 15.
Liberal groups that have been boycotting radio broadcaster Rush Limbaugh for months have apparently drawn blood: aside from winning withdrawals of more than 100 advertisers, second-quarter revenue from 10 stations owned by Cumulus Media (Nasdaq: CMLS) declined due to the boycott, CEO Jim Dickey said.
Betty Smithey has spent the last 49 years locked up in the Arizona State Prison Complex in Perryville, Ariz. The almost 50 year stint makes Smithey the nation's longest serving female inmate. But on Tuesday, the 69-year-old who was convicted the 1963 New Year's Day murder of Sandy Gerberick, woke up a free woman.
The world has been spellbound by the striking images of the never-before seen region of the Red Planet sent by NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover. But here's something that would stun you even more by allowing you to experience a virtual tour of Mars.
Who was the biggest buyer of U.S. commercial real estate in the past 12 months? It wasn't a big private equity firm or luxury developer. Rather, it was the estate of Lehman Brothers, which is still making deals nearly four years after its demise.
Thomas Beatie, better known as the "world's first pregnant man," is facing another legal setback in his planned divorce from his wife Nancy after an Arizona judge refused to recognize their union as a marriage due to same-sex marriage laws in the state.
Republican Party presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s selection of U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., as his running mate is an attempt to re-structure the 2012 campaign’s debate so that it conforms to the Tea Party’s agenda - but it's one that will not change the election’s outcome.
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Bidzina Ivanishvili, a Georgian billionaire who hopes to take Parliament in the upcoming elections, could breath fresh life into the burgeoning Georgian democracy. That is, if the ruling party will let him.
On Thursday, Shannon Eastin will officially become the first female NFL referee when she serves as the line judge for the Green Bay Packers-San Diego Chargers preseason game.
Jared Loughner pleaded guilty Tuesday in Tuscon, Ariz., to the January 2011 shooting rampage that killed six people and seriously wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 13 others.
A college dropout pleaded guilty on Tuesday to killing six people and wounding 13 others, including then-Representative Gabrielle Giffords, in a shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona last year.
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has been winnowing his picks for Vice President in private, with most handicappers suggesting nominees who’ve held public office. How about Margaret (Meg) Whitman, CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), one of his fondest supporters?
"That turban has tragically marked us as automatically suspect, perpetually foreign and potentially terrorists."
This week Eric Dane announced he's leaving Seattle Grace behind and choosing not to come back for "Grey's Anatomy's" ninth season.While it could be easy to assume because of Dane's exit Mark Sloan will die in the woods from a broken heart and a literal heart injury, pictures have emerged that show McSteamy at least makes it back to the hospital. So how can Shonda Rhimes and the rest of the "Grey's" writers write him off the show?
Adam Smith, a chief financial officer for a Tucson medical manufacturing company, recently posted a controversial YouTube video of himself going through a Chick-fil-A drive-thru and belittling a patient restaurant worker.
If we could just educate the next generation on how to eliminate poverty or war, we could then use that savings from our federal budget to fund more education for the following generations.
Ever since Jessica Simpson has given birth to her daughter, Maxwell Drew Johnson, in May, all of her pictures posted on her Twitter have been of her adorable daughter and new family, except for on Thursday when she tweeted a picture of what looks like an ingrown toe nail that was removed.
Katherine Jackson has been reinstated as the guardian of Michael Jackson's three children. The arrangement made on Thursday by Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff keeps their cousin TJ Jackson as temporary co-guardian.
If the Chinese bring a flag to plant when they land on the moon in 2013, they won't be the first: American astronauts on the Apollo missions have planted six flags already. And according to recent scientific observations, five of them are still standing upright.
Even though there have been more than 50 mass shootings since 1982, most Americans say those acts of violence are not connected to broader societal problems.
