A Very Exclusive Pooch How much would you pay for the dog of your dreams? $100? $500? How about $600… thousand? It may sound insane in the membrane, but a rare dog breed called the Tibetan mastiff is collecting those kinds of kingly sums in China. What’s with the crazy prices? “The Today Show” profiled […]
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Mystery as Tokyo can’t find oldest citizens
Mystery as Tokyo loses track of its centenarians Japanese authorities admitted Tuesday they’d lost track of a 113-year-old woman listed as Tokyo’s oldest, days after police searched the home of the city’s official oldest man — only to find his long-dead, mummified body. Officials launched a search this week for Fusa Furuya, born in July […]
New twists in the Miranda rights process
You have the right to remain silent, but only if you tell the police that you’re remaining silent. You have a right to a lawyer — before, during and after questioning, even though the police don’t have to tell you exactly when the lawyer can be with you. If you can’t afford a lawyer, one […]
Trader Joe’s co-owner’s death, secretive life
Theo Albrecht, secretive co-owner of Trader Joe’s, dies at 88 Theo Albrecht, the secretive co-founder of Germany’s worldwide discount supermarket chain Aldi, a co-owner of Trader Joe’s in the United States and one of Europe’s richest men, has died at age 88. The retail machine that Albrecht built with his brother Karl has won over […]
Zsa Zsa Gabor hospitalized
Zsa Zsa Gabor’s publicist says the 93-year-old actress has been rushed to a hospital after falling out of bed and breaking several bones. John Blanchette says Gabor was watching television in her Bel Air home Saturday evening when she tumbled to the floor. Her husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, called an ambulance and Gabor was […]
President Paying Dead People
Here’s an idea, Uncle Sam: Stop writing checks to dead people. The government sent benefit checks to 20,000 departed Americans over three years, totaling more than $180 million — a remarkable number that provoked the Obama administration to create a government-wide “do not pay” list as part of its brainstorming for ways to save taxpayer […]
Attorney says Gary Coleman, wife divorced in 2008
Former child TV actor Gary Coleman and his wife were divorced in 2008, an attorney for the late “Diff’rent Strokes” star said Wednesday, the same day a tape of a 911 call was released that detailed her call for help. Randy Kester told The Associated Press that Coleman and Shannon Price divorced in August 2008 […]