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ABOUT KJ THE KID REPORTER
KJ the Kid Reporter aka Rapper/Singer Kay Jeezy STARTED WRITING AT 6-YEARS-OLD. He is a 10-year-old 6th grader born on Nov 11th 2000 in Baltimore Maryland, USA. KJ will be 11 on 11/11/11 and is very active in school and the community. He also sings and raps.
He strictly blogs his own site and has been interviewed by Canadian media outlets like CityTV, Toronto, CTV, Toronto Sun, Good News Toronto, The Kingston Whig Standard, Kingston This Week newspapers, 680News Radio Toronto and hailed by Z103FM and Flow 93.5FM Toronto for his community advocacy for Autism and mentally disabled people. He has also been featured on BCK (Black Celebrity Kids) and Celebrity Dog watcher blogs.
He was the first and only media Dr Timothy Shriver , Chairman of the Special Olympics spoke to after the Obama Jay Leno joke. Shriver called him a "HERO at 8-years-old" KJ was also hailed in a letter from the United States Consulate General in Toronto, Mr John Nay for his hard work educating Canadians and Americans alike about disabilities.
Resume Credits
2003: Heinz Ketchup Commercial USA (TV).
2006: Radio Nigeria West African Idol (Audio).
2008: Interviewed Rappers FloRida, Classified, Waka Flocka, Drake, Corey Miller, K'naan, Rockers Simple Plan, British singer Estelle, R&B singer JSTAVO, Grammy award songwriter Nate Walka (Blame it on the alcohol-Jamie Foxx) and lots more.
2011: Major music video debut and starred and rapped in a major music video by Canada's #3 rapper Shaun Boothe's Child soldiers.
2008: Winner Chalkfarm Park Summer Dance Contest.
2010: My Mom's a Snitch Crimestoppers song and video.
Kayode Joshua Taiwo dances, acts, sings and talks a lot! Very computer and internet savvy and excellent with popular culture questions. KJ owns the Kay Jeezy Grassroots Foundation mobilizing other kids in bringing peace to their streets of Toronto.
Five Virginia teenagers were charged with robbery and assault after they beat up two Halloween trick-or-treaters and stole their candy, Police said on Saturday.The group allegedly surrounded two other teenagers, ages 15 and 17, as they were going door-to-door in a neighborhood in Dale City, Virginia, said Jonathan Perok, a spokesman for the Prince William County Police Department.One of the teens said he had a handgun and demanded the trick-or-treaters turn over their Halloween loot.
The pair refused and the group assaulted them, police said, adding the assault resulted in minor injuries."Robberies are not unusual, but these are kids," Perok said.Of the five arrested, four were juveniles aged between 16 and 17, and were not identified. Andre Diggs, 19, was also arrested and is being held without bond.Prince William County is located roughly 35 miles southwest of Washington, D.C.
Authorities say a 5-year-old looking for her mother in Ohio backed a car out of the driveway, then called police dispatchers for help.Mansfield police say Ameleah Kegley backed the car out Monday evening after returning from school to an empty house.
According to the Mansfield News Journal newspaper, her mother had gone to the hospital with an emergency and her father never got the message.Worried that her mother wasn't home, Ameleah decided to look for her. She backed her mother's car down the sloped driveway, and it came to a stop on grass across the street.The girl dialed police dispatchers, explained the situation and asked for quick help getting the car back home because she said her mom would be upset with her.
Mark Garfield Moore, 27, is charged with the 2010 murders of Jahmeel Spence, 27, Courthney Facey, 18, Mike James, 23, and Carl Cole, 45 and the heist of Arax Jewelry.
TORONTO - Beverley Francis and Cyndie Facey hugged as they said good-bye Wednesday.
They were strangers an hour earlier, but they and two other families are now linked by murder allegedly committed by one man in 2010.
Francis lost her son Jahmeel Spence, 27, in a case of mistaken identity while Facey’s son Courtheny, 18, was slain in an apparent unprovoked murder.
Also with them trying to come to grips with the carnage were family members of two other murdered men, Mike James, 23, and Carl Cole, 45.
Three of them didn’t know accused killer Mark Garfield Moore, 27, while Cole apparently argued with the suspect.
When they were called to get an update about an arrest, each family believed it stood alone. The magnitude of the tragedy unfolded for them — now tied by bullets from three handguns that are still missing — when they met at police headquarters.
The accused is alleged to be a gangster-style serial killer who went on a one-man crime wave, Toronto homicide Det.-Sgt. Hank Idsinga said.
Moore, known as Prezidenteeh and has videos on YouTube, faces 54 charges including four of first-degree murder.
He’s also accused in the Arax Jewellers heist where a clerk was wounded by a gunshot, and a string of shootings, including the attempt murder of a man believed involved in an attack of a younger brother, also in 2010.
Idsinga hasn’t ruled out the possibility the suspect is tied to other murders and Project Summit remains operational as further arrests for obstruction of justice and being accessories are pending.
“If you look at the build up of occurrences starting in June, it’s pretty traditional I think of a build up of violence where’s he’s alleged of doing drive-by shootings, he graduates to attempt murder, and then an armed robbery and then boom, four murders,” he said.
“I’d be naive to think he hasn’t possibly shot people before,” Idsinga said.
Spence was killed Sept. 10 off Greenbrae Circuit, Facey and James were slain together on Weston Rd. on Sept. 29, while Cole was murdered on Nov. 24, also on Greenbrae.
The shop clerk was wounded Aug. 9 when a shot was fired during the Eglinton Ave. jewellery store heist by two masked men.
Moore, a father of a child, is the brother of Andre Moore, a father of five known as Cheeks, who was murdered in 2008. Andre is believed to be the man who shot and wounded Toronto Det.-Const. Antonio Macias in 2001.
The suspect was notified of the charges as he sat in Don Jail awaiting the outcome of a preliminary hearing involving firearm offences in connection with shots fired in Club XS in the Entertainment District in March.
His mother Hyacinth was told as she sat in a courtroom at 361 University Ave. during the trial of the man charged with murdering Andre.
On the music web site Reverbnation, Moore described himself as “prezidenteeh aka prezi came from the ground up as a gangbanger started from nothing and made something out of it now he decided to bring back real raps to the streets hes hard, hes different and he is real.”
The brief autobiography is linked to a music video featuring both Moore and friend Kevin Williams, whose stage name is Mayhem Morearty and is also charged in the Arax heist.
The left side of Moore’s face was left disfigured by a bullet when he was shot multiple times by a gunman armed with an AK-47 rifle on Nov. 14, 2001, in the stairwell of 1765 Weston Rd., the building where he once lived.
A month later, Macias was shot by Andre Moore outside the building. Police said Andre didn’t have a key to his mother’s apartment and was waiting for her while she was visiting Mark in the hospital. It was then when Macias, part of a patrol to stem the violence that wounded Mark, approached Andre.
The seriously wounded Macias was taken to same hospital ward Mark was recovering from his wounds. Police didn’t know then of the link.
“I think the families of the victims described him best this morning,” Idsinga said. “If these allegations are proven in court, he’s an evil man.
“There’s no commonality in the victims. Jahmeel Spence, we believe, was a victim of mistaken identity,” he said. “Courthney Facey and Mike James, there was absolutely no rhyme or reason as to why they were killed.”
None of the three had criminal records or were involved in gangs.
“Carl Cole, there was a dispute between him, allegedly, and Mr. Moore,” Idsinga said.
“You can gain notoriety as a criminal on the streets of Toronto for killing people,” he said. “But if you kill people who aren’t involved in the game, you’re not going to get protected.”
It was shortly after Cole’s murder that evidence made investigators’ focused on the suspect. The forensics trail led to other shootings and by January, links were developing to the other slayings.
In April, police launched Summit with Idsinga and partner Det. Justin Vander Heyden leading the team.
Vander Heyden has known the suspect’s family for a decade and was part of the team that investigated Macias’ shooting in 2001 and in the raid on the family home the following year looking for a gun.
“Violent, careless, homicidal with impunity,” he said describing the accused. “He doesn’t seem to pick his victims for any particular reason.
“The case in point, three of the victims have no criminal records. He’s literally driven up and executed these people,” he alleged. “Mr. Cole, (he may) have a background with drugs. I’m not even convinced that’s the reason. Maybe, but the overkill nature smacks of murder with impunity.
God bless America. There were several ceremonies and dedications by several of the families and Presidents. I was only 6 months old and remember my baby fireman hat and flag that day. To all the first responders, we say thank you!!
The U.S. Airways airplane that made a splash-landing dubbed the "
Miracle on the Hudson" more than two years ago began a road trip on Saturday to Charlotte, North Carolina, its original, and final, destination.
The Airbus A320 airplane, which had sat in a New Jersey warehouse since it was salvaged from the icy Hudson River after the January 2009 water landing, was loaded onto a trailer earlier this week.
All 155 passengers and crew survived the incident that made pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger an American hero for his quick-thinking decision to land in the river when the airplane struck a flock of birds just after take-off from New York's LaGuardia airport and lost power in both engines.
The plane will make its way over several days to Charlotte, where it will become a permanent exhibit at the Carolinas Aviation Museum.
The museum was tracking the journey, originally announced to begin on Monday, through the streets of New Jersey and beyond, on Twitter at @CarolinAirMusem.
"Today (Saturday) we will stop in New Brunswick," a midday posting said.
Museum president Shawn Dorsch, who called the plane "a major international aviation icon," said it would take several months to reassemble the aircraft.
Sullenberger will be on hand for a special event at the museum on June 11, which sold out on Friday.
An airline passenger gave birth to a baby girl Friday while flying to Madrid from central Africa, helped by a midwife, paediatrician and doctor who were all aboard, Iberia said.The three-kilogram (6.6-pound) baby was born healthy after a quick delivery during an Iberia Airbus A319 flight from Malabo, capital of Equatorial Guinea, the Spanish airline said in a statement."The birth occurred during the flight at 3.30am Spanish time (0130 GMT), just over two hours after take-off," it said.
A midwife, paediatrician and doctor happened to be aboard and were able to help with the delivery of the girl, whose name was not known.The flight continued without a detour. The mother, who lives in Madrid but had gone to Malabo to attend a funeral, was taken to hospital with her baby on arrival in the Spanish capital."It is true she was very lucky," said an Iberia spokeswoman when asked about the presence of qualified medical personnel aboard.Iberia recommends pregnant women not fly but cannot ban someone, the spokeswoman said. There were special circumstances in this case because the mother had to attend a funeral, she said.Some airlines prohibit women who are more than seven months' pregnant from boarding a plane without a medical certificate.
The girl was the fifth baby to be born on an Iberia flight.Asked whether she would get any benefit from her high-flying origins, the spokeswoman said stories about airlines giving away free tickets in such cases were an urban myth.But the airline was considering a "small gift" for the mother and daughter, she added.
Undated handout photo of the Iberia Airbus A340-600. An airline passenger gave birth …
EAST HAVEN, Conn. - The East Haven Police Department is losing its one police dog to budget cuts.
Sgt. John Miller, the police union president, tells the New Haven Register that acting Chief Gaetano Nappi decided to retire the 5-year-old German shepherd named Paro after the town council cut the department's budget.
Paro has been working with Officer Dave Cari, who was informed by letter Thursday that the K-9 program was being eliminated and that he could choose to have Paro retire as his pet.
Nappi has declined to comment on the decision.
Miller says it would cost about $3,500 a year to keep Paro in service.
Cari has been on disability since Dec. 30, when he broke three ribs, but is preparing to return to active duty.
Pope Benedict XVI has shut down a famous community in Rome that organised dances by a former nightclub dancer nun and hosted VIPs like Madonna, earning the disfavour of the Vatican.
The closure of the monastery of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, which holds some of the Church's most prized relics, was reported by Italian dailies La Stampa and Il Foglio.
The reports said the community of Cistercian monks based at the church for more than five centuries was being transferred to other churches in Italy.
Contacted by AFP, the Vatican did not deny the reports.
The basilica had become a hub for the "Friends of Santa Croce", an aristocratic group, and had been criticised for some unorthodox practices including dances in which nuns pranced around the altar.
One of the nuns who performed at the church, a former disco dancer, can be seen in a YouTube video performing a modern dance with a crucifix.
The basilica's longtime abbot, Simone Fioraso, a flamboyant former Milan fashion designer, was already moved out of the basilica two years ago.
The ban was adopted in March by the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life following an inquiry but has not yet been made public, the reports said.
Pope Benedict, the leader of the world's 1.1 billion Catholics, is also the bishop of Rome, so the basilica is part of his diocese.
Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, built around a chapel dating to the fourth century, is one of Rome's oldest and most prestigious churches.
Police say a man wanted for failing to pay fines accidentally helped officers find him when he repeatedly "pocket dialed" emergency services hotline 911 while doing yard work.
Police say 29-year-old James Green was using a backpack leaf blower in Bangor Saturday when he kept calling 911 without realizing it.
Police Lt. Jeff Millard says officers were able to determine where the calls were coming from by triangulating the signal from Green's phone.
The Bangor Daily News says there were two active warrants for Green's arrest for failure to pay fines.
A jail-based brand that includes crispy potato chips, crunchy cookies and formal shirts seems an unlikely route back to life in the outside world for inmates in South Asia's largest prison.
Yet efforts by the Tihar Jail complex in New Delhi to transform the lives of its inmates and prepare them for a fresh start through vocational training in diverse fields has created the successful TJ'S brand of goods.
Herbal products and school desks are also among the many products being manufactured and sold, well enough that prison authorities have set up a website to boost sales still further.
Sanjivan Rai, who is serving a term in Tihar Jail for marijuana trafficking, said the skills he was acquiring would help him find employment outside to earn a living with dignity.
"We can start our own business once we get out of here. We can maybe start a small snack-making unit," he told Reuters Television inside a bakery at Tihar Jail, as he took a break from frying potato chips.
"Even if we decide to seek work somewhere, whatever we learn here will only help us."
Life outside jail is still tough for former inmates, since they have to counter the stigma of having been in prison, which is seen as a place for social outcasts and hardcore criminals. This makes re-integration into society virtually impossible.
The idea behind the TJ'S label was to break these taboos and channel the inmates' energy constructively, while building their self-esteem, said Ram Niwas Sharma, Deputy Inspector General of the Tihar Jail complex.
"You are going to buy goods made by prisoners ...He is going to get wages, so in turn you are going to help a family out there. A few thousand people are working in prisons so this way their families are benefited," he said.
"They are getting gainful employment, they are passing their time instead of idling around in the jail and they will be learning some kind of a skill and getting out of the jail with some worth(y) living conditions ...It is something which is good for the humanity."
"Made in Tihar" products had a turnover of 110 million rupees ($2.45 million) last year, and this year it is expected to rise to 150 million, Sharma said.
AMBITIOUS TARGET
Next year's target is an ambitious 230 million, reflecting growing acceptance of the jail brand.
At first, the bakery began to help fulfill the jail's massive food demand from its 11,500 inmates, who live in 10 prison blocks. But gradually operations were expanded to keep the inmates busy and channel their energies.
Mohammad Sajid, an inmate serving a life sentence, said that his newfound skills would help him once outside.
"The advantage of doing all this work here is that once we get outside, we can start earning through honest means and leave the path of crime," he added.
Officials say vocational training is just one of the roles being fulfilled by the jail as it strives to play the role of a correctional institution. Inmates are also taught meditation and yoga for their overall growth.
Prison authorities said the products were finding favor with buyers because of their good quality and competitive pricing, as profit is not their driving motive.
They are currently sold at prison outlets and shops situated in various Delhi courts, but officials plan to make them more widely available through tie-ups with retail stores.
"The people who make these products, they get some work and employment, which keeps them busy and benefits them," said Ruby Bagga, a customer at the Tihar shop.
"So instead of buying these products from somewhere else, why not buy them from here?"
Munich Re unit Ergo said on Tuesday sales agents photographed snorting white powder at a company-sponsored party were inhaling salt rather than drugs, just as the insurer struggles to shake a tarnished image.
The unit was responding to a report in German tabloid Bild, that published photographs showing sales agents snorting white powder from a table-top at an employee motivation party held in the holiday resort of Mallorca last September.
"The pictures published in Bild show a drinking game with salt, Tequila and lemon juice," the company said in a statement
Tequila shots, slices of lime and a salt shaker were visible on the photographs, items used in a drinking maneuver known as "tequila suicide," which requires drinkers to snort salt, drink tequila and to squeeze lime into their eyes.
"The snorting of salt up the nose is part of the game. The activities of the persons shown in the pictures published by Bild do not deal with cocaine consumption," it added.
It said it has been provided with affidavits of the persons shown in the pictures.
Ergo last week sought to distance itself from revelations of a company-sponsored sex orgy for top sales agents held at a spa in Hungary in 2007.
Torsten Oletzky, the head of Ergo, told magazine Der Spiegel that the Budapest sex party arranged for high-achieving salesmen was "completely unacceptable" and "incredibly embarrassing."
He said the company had indications that 20 prostitutes had been hired for the evening, which resulted in a total bill for the event of 83,000 euros ($116,700).
Victoria Day celebrates Queen Victoria's birthday (May 24th). Canada is still a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, of which the Queen is head.
Victoria Day is always on a Monday, and thus the holiday is part of a long weekend, which is commonly referred to as the Victoria Day Weekend, the May Long Weekend, the May Long, or the May Two-Four (a case of beer there is called a "two-four" and many of these are consumed over the holiday). The weekend is also called the May 24th weekend, although it does not necessarily fall on May 24th.
The Victoria Day Weekend always falls on the weekend before Memorial Day in the U.S.
The Victoria Day Weekend is the first popular weekend for spring / summer travel. Lots of people open up their cottages, plant gardens, or just get away. Expect crowds at resorts and hotels and busy highways. Fireworks displays are common, especially on Monday night.
Banks, schools, many stores and restaurants are closed on the Monday. Call ahead to find out about other attractions and tourist spots. Public transportation will run on a holiday schedule.Source
Russia's Vladimir Putin saves the day as a martial arts superhero in a comic strip spreading on the Russian Internet, where he teams up with bearskin-wearing sidekick Dmitry Medvedev.
The comic strip, apparently the first in a series about "Super Putin, Man Like Any Other" is available on www.superputin.ru and is set in Moscow "one year before the end of the world."
Russia will choose its next president in 2012 and observers have their eyes peeled for any indication of whether current President Medvedev or Prime Minister Putin will seek the six-year-term as head of the country.
Although one of the strip's creators said it was drawn by pro bono artists, some Internet users hinted darkly that it may be a part of a behind-the-scenes campaign or was even commissioned by the Kremlin.
With a plot line resembling the 1990s US action film "Speed", the strip shows a kimono-wearing Putin -- described as a man "with a Nordic character" -- save a busload of people from a bomb blast.
"I will go no slower than 80 km/h," Putin says, gritting his teeth.
As he speeds ahead, he receives help from "nano-human" Medvedev, who unzips a frightening bear costume and sends a crawling iPad to deactivate the explosive.
The strip pokes fun at Putin's judo hobby and Medvedev's penchant for technological gadgets.
The bus is then attacked by a crowd of zombies that scream "Let us elect governors!" and "Free Khodorkovsky!" with Putin facing them in the final act.
The strip's writer Sergei Kalenik said it took two weeks to create and was not a paid project.
"We wanted to stir Russia's depressing political scene and create some dialogue," he told AFP.
He said some media outlets had refused to publish the strip because it refers to Medvedev as a "gnome".
Putin, meanwhile, is a "man like any other, but suffers from it", torn apart by internal contradictions, Kalenik, a 25-year-old PR freelancer, explained.
Artists behind the strip have previously authored another series of ironic superhero comics about the dour speaker of the Russian lower parliament house, Boris Gryzlov.
Earlier this week Putin emerged as a commando-style protagonist of a computer game on Russia's main social networking site Vkontakte.
Some of Russia's sceptical Internet users have quickly branded the comic strip a public relations stunt setting Putin against dark zombie-like opposition forces.
"Elections are near, and we'll be looking at a whole lot of different comics," said one comment posted on the Moscow Echo radio station's website.
"I think this is a stupid stunt paid for by Surkov!" said another, referring to Kremlin adviser and ideologue Vladislav Surkov.
Brazilian police say a thief cut off and stole a woman's long hair while she waited at a bus stop.
Police say the hair was virgin, meaning it had not been chemically treated, and will probably be sold for the production of wigs.
Inspector Jose Carlos Bezerra da Silva said Friday to Globo TV's G1 website that the woman was waiting for a bus in the central city of Goiania when the man used a knife-like weapon to cut the hair, which reached past her waist. She said she thought the man was going to steal her purse so she turned her back to him.
Silva said he'd never seen a theft like it in 20 years.
He said the 24-year-old woman reported the case to police because she is evangelical and had to explain to her pastor why her hair wasn't long anymore.
The Donald has dumped himself from the Indianapolis 500.
Donald Trump said Thursday that he will not be driving the celebrity pace car in the May 29 race. He says "he may be announcing shortly his intention" to run for president and therefore it would be "inappropriate" to drive the pace car. He also said it would be impossible to fulfil the required practice sessions with his busy schedule.
Race organizers selected real estate mogul as the celebrity pace car driver a month ago. He then created a stir by questioning whether President Obama was born outside the United States, drawing criticism from race fans and others who said he is too divisive.
Jeff Belskus, Indianapolis Motor Speedway president and chief executive officer, says Trump's replacement will be announced later this month.
A blog post by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that mentions a "zombie apocalypse" as a lighthearted way to get Americans to read about preparing for hurricanes drove so much traffic that it crashed the website, the agency said on Thursday.
The Zombie Apocalypse campaign is a social media effort by the CDC's Public Health and Preparedness center to spread the word about the June 1 start of hurricane season.
The CDC is a U.S. federal government health agency based in Atlanta.
"There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for," the blog post begins. "Take a zombie apocalypse for example. ... You may laugh now, but when it happens you'll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you'll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency."
The blog appeared just days before May 21, when an evangelical broadcaster in California has predicted "Judgment Day" will mark the end of the world.
"If you prepare for the zombie apocalypse, you'll be prepared for all hazards," CDC spokesman Dave Daigle told Reuters on Thursday.
The word zombie comes from voodoo practice of spirit possession in which victims are stripped of consciousness.
Zombies became popular culture references after the success of George Romero's 1968 horror film "Night of the Living Dead" where flesh-eating zombies roam the eastern seaboard in the aftermath of radioactive contamination.
Daigle said that a typical CDC blog post might get between 1,000 and 3,000 hits. The most traffic on record had been a post that saw around 10,000 visits.
By the end of Wednesday, with servers down, the page had 60,000. By Thursday, it was a trending topic on Twitter.
The campaign was designed to reach a young, media-savvy demographic that the CDC had not been able to capture previously, Daigle said.
Increased traffic did not affect the main CDC website.
For the followers of Family Radio preacher Harold Camping, today is a big day, Judgment Day, but for the rest of us its just another spring Saturday.
People in Sioux City went grocery shopping, enjoyed the nice weather, and some even got married.
Not many people seemed concerned with the prediction that the world was coming to an end.
"I completely forgot about it until you said something to me," said Matt Max of Sioux City.
But Harold Camping and other believers certainly haven't forgotten.
Camping predicted today is Judgment Day. Millions of Christians will go to heaven while everyone else will suffer through misery for the next five months before the end of the world in October.
But people in Siouxland aren't buying the prediction.
"I cant believe this person is so confident that he feels he can predict this. I'm not going to worry about it at all."
"It's a beautiful day, I think we're going to wake up tomorrow and its going to be another good day."
Camping made this same prediction back in 1994, but apparently he was so sure about it this time he put 5,000 posters, fliers, and bus displays up all over the country about Judgment Day
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Word spread quickly about a Los Angeles gas station selling gasoline for about a quarter of the going price, but it wasn't a promotion. The owner says the too-good-to-be-true price was a computer glitch that cost him $21,000.
Long lines snaked from the pumps at the Valero station in Wilmington on Sunday. Police were even called to control traffic.
The Torrance Daily Breeze reports that within four hours, about 7,000 gallons (26,000 litres) of the gas were pumped at the discounted rate of $1.10 per gallon (about 30 cents per litre). That's a cut of more than $3 a gallon (80 cents per litre) from the real price.
Station owner Kenny Nguyen says the attendant on duty was busy staffing the convenience store and register.
He says a price change didn't take, so the system defaulted to the $1.10 price.
Nguyen hopes motorists who got the break come back and pay the real price
The 58-year-old Savage -- whose legal name was Randy Mario Poffo -- reportedly suffered a heart attack while driving his 2009 Jeep Wrangler in Tampa, Fla., and careened across lanes of oncoming traffic before colliding head-on with a tree. He died later at a local hospital.
Savage's wife Lynn, who was riding in the passenger seat, escaped with only minor injuries. Both passengers were wearing seatbelts and the police do not believe alcohol was a factor.
The World Wrestling Federation favorite from Ohio burst onto the scene in 1985 and quickly drew attention with his flamboyant outfits and "ooh yeah!" catchphrase. His marriage to Elizabeth Hulette, Ms. Elizabeth to fans, was one of the first high-profile wrestler/valet relationships. They divorced in 1992. Savage remarried last year.
He won two WWF championships in his career. His match against Ricky Steamboat in 1987's Wrestlemania III is considered one of the best WWF bouts ever. Savage won the title late that year, setting the stage for memorable battles with Hulk Hogan, who would eventually dethrone him as champion.
The much-mocked hat worn by Princess Beatrice to Britain's royal wedding last month -- widely described as looking like a "toilet seat" -- is up for sale on eBay where bids have reached 18,400 pounds ($29,940).
The tea rose, silk hat was "the most talked about hat of the whole occasion" Harold Tilman, Chairman of the British Fashion Council, said on eBay.
The fuss over the hat worn to the royal wedding of her cousin Prince William to longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton seems to have taken Beatrice -- who is the daughter of William's uncle Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson -- by surprise too.
"I've been amazed by the amount of attention the hat has attracted," Beatrice said on the auction site. "I hope whoever wins the auction has as much fun with the hat as I have."
Money raised by the sale of the hat will be equally split between two charities: UNICEF and Children in Crisis.
The hat, by milliner Philip Treacy, was given a starting price of 5,000 pounds and 32 bidders have placed 60 bids in the last six days.
The eBay site has linked the auction to Facebook where members of the public have celebrated the hat design.
Treacy said he was "delighted, flattered and touched by HRH Princess' Beatrice's decision to donate the hat to charity."
Inspired by Facebook, a couple in central Israel have named their baby daughter "Like."
"It's short and sweet," Vardit Adler, Like's mother, told Reuters Tuesday. "It's very important to me and to my husband that the names we give our children are unique, creative and totally new," she said.
Six-day-old Like has two older sisters, 10-year-old Dvash, Hebrew for honey, and five-year-old Pie, "as in apple pie," Adler said.
"I'm not worried about other children teasing Like. Dvash and Pie don't seem to mind their special names and nobody teases them," Adler said.
Surprised by media attention her newborn daughter was getting in Israel, Adler noted that Like has already received hundreds of comments on her own Facebook page.
Don Gorske ate his 25,000th Big Mac during a ceremony at a Fond du Lac, Wis McDonald's. It's the 39th anniversary of him eating the first one in 1972. He says he truly enjoys eating them.
EW YORK (Reuters Life!) – Patagonia, the huge swath of land at the southern tip of South America, is known for its rugged mountains and glaciers but an innovative group of winemakers are hoping to add wine to the list.
Santiago Bernasconi, a 38-year-old winemaker at Bodega NQN in Neuquen, Argentina, and his colleagues are making wine on the edge of the earth.
"It makes you feel like you are the last boundary in the winemaking world," Bernasconi, said during a visit to the U.S. to introduce the wines from the newest area in Patagonia to host wineries.
"There are only like eight wineries in Patagonia and we all share our experience and work to improve the wines of the whole region."
NQN owns 1,100 hectares (2,718 acres) on a wind-swept plateau. Two hundred hectares are planted with Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Noir, Malbec, Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon. With cutting-edge irrigation and fertilization equipment NQN produces wines that are fruit driven and light in style from 11-year-old vines.
A couple of valleys to the east in Rio Negro, Augusto Ripoll, the 40-year-old owner of Patagonia Valley Bodegas, planted vines 12 years ago on 10 hectares (25 acres).
"I try not to be aggressive with the soil," he said of his organic vineyard. "It will last forever. Those plants that I planted have to last at least 100, 120 years. That's for my kids. How can I be destroying my soil by using some chemicals that will give me more of what I'm not looking for?"
AUSTIN, Tex (Reuters) – The U.S. government is suing Starbucks Coffee Company for firing a barista in El Paso because she is a dwarf.
When the employee asked for a stool or small stepladder to perform her job, Starbucks denied the request and fired her that same day, claiming that she could be a danger to customers and workers, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The commission, which filed the lawsuit on Monday, said that Starbucks violated federal law by denying a reasonable accommodation to the employee, who was hired in July 2009 and was fired after three days of training.
"Starbucks has become a virtual icon of modern American culture, appealing to an incredibly diverse customer base," Robert Canino, a commission lawyer in Dallas, said in a statement. "We'd hope that when considering hiring a person with a disability, Starbucks would choose to enhance its brand with the mark of equal opportunity and access."
Starbucks did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
