51-year-old Scott Roeder was arrested as a “person of interest” after the murder of late-term abortion doctor George Tiller on May 31, 2009. The doctor was shot and killed in the foyer of his place of worship, the Reformation Lutheran Church. Up to a dozen people witnessed the shooting.
An excellent literal video version of Bonnie Tyler’s overblown pop classic. If you ever doubted that the original video was absurd this should clear up the issue.
Avril Grube of Dorset, England, was reunited with her son, Gavin Paros, 27 years after she says he was kidnapped. How were they brought back together? Social networking.
Another annoying kid whose English is better than yours. Kavya Shivashankar won the 2009 Scripps National Spelling Bee final when she spelled the word “laodicean” – which means lukewarm or indifferent in religion or politics.
Off-duty police officer Omar Edwards was shot and killed by a plain clothes cop. Edwards was pursuing a car thief with his gun drawn when he was spotted by three other plain clothes cops. One of the officers fired six times, hitting Edwards twice. It’s not clear whether a warning was issued.
“I want to represent my country, and to be one of the men like Neil Armstrong and Yuri Gagarin, who showed with all humility what it is to be a good human.” So says Fareed Lafta, who just might be Iraq’s first man in space.
A 17-year-old girl from Hoke County, North Carolina, is believed to have run away with the nine-month-old baby she was babysitting.
Kanye and Rihanna team up for this latest ditty, “Paranoid.”
Rapper Pitbull landed one on a “fan” who was throwing money at him during a performance in Aspen, Colorado. He pulled the guy on stage, bopped him, then carried on with the song.
This video’s current popularity could be due to the song’s poppy hooks and groovy disco dancing. Or it could be that Nicole Scherzinger is naked in a bathtub at the beginning.
The Beasties dropped in on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon and performed ‘So What’cha Want’ with a little help from The Roots.
Just what the doctor ordered. A humiliating ad on TV addressing your premature ejaculation. This ad was banned in Australia (and not due to the bad acting).
Branislav Peranovic, an orthodox Serbian priest running a church-backed drug rehabilitation center, was removed from his position after video footage showed patients being beaten. The excuse? It’s all part of the “therapy” at Crna Reka center in southern Serbia and the patients’ parents give there consent.
Chris Brown responds to the “Rihanna situation” publicly for the first time. In a YouTube address he says he “ain’t a monster” and distinguishes between his “real fans” and the “haters.” It’s not a confession nor an apology…just a plug for his new album.
Forces that would rather Sonia Sotomayor didn’t become a Supreme court justice pounced on a comment she made to students in 2005.
Zach Galifianakis chats with Bradley Cooper, star of Wedding Crashers and 2009’s The Hangover.
High school teacher from Chicago Jennifer Espinosa admitted to a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old boy – a former student.
Bruce O’Krepki, an 18-year-old recent high school graduate from Louisiana, fell overboard from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico. Around 35 fellow students were on board celebrating their graduation. O’Krepki’s parents were chaperoning the trip.
The talented and frumpy Susan Boyle performed “Memory,” from Cats on UK TV show Britain’s Got Talent. She went through despite a slight quiver in her voice at the beginning.
