It’s the night before Halloween that continues to haunt Rebecca De Mornay. The 48-year-old actress was charged Thursday with driving under the influence in connection with her Oct. 30 bust following a traffic stop, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office. De Mornay is scheduled to be arraigned Monday on counts of DUI and driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08 percent or above, both misdemeanors. She does not have to appear in person. Beverly Hills police said at … Continue reading
SAN DIEGO: Leave it to the Holiday Bowl — and with a hand from Texas coach Mack Brown’s stepson — to produce a strange play like this. Chris Jessie, a member of his stepfather’s football operations staff, was a few feet on the field and reached out to touch a live ball in the second quarter Thursday night, taking away what would have been a huge turnover for the Longhorns and setting up a touchdown for Arizona State. Trailing 21-0 … Continue reading
Here is President Bush’s Statement on the Bhutto Assassination HORRIFYING millions of frightened Pakistanis, Benazir Bhutto, the leader of the country’s biggest political party, was assassinated on Thursday December 27th. Her attacker fired gunshots into her car as she was leaving a political rally in Rawalpindi, then exploded a suicide bomb. At least 15 of Miss Bhutto’s followers were also killed. Miss Bhutto had been campaigning in Rawalpindi, the headquarters of Pakistan’s military elite, for an election set for January … Continue reading
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — With approval ratings consistently between 80 percent and 90 percent, Sarah Palin is not only the nation’s most popular governor; she might be the public official in America who is held in the warmest regard by her constituents. Just a year into her first term, Palin is gaining even more national attention. As political honeymoons go, her’s might be one for the record books. In 2007, new Gov. Palin got the Legislature to give her the gas … Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Zoo was closed to visitors and considered a crime scene Wednesday as investigators attempted to determine how a tiger escaped from its enclosure and attacked three visitors, killing one of the men and mauling two others. The tiger, a female named Tatiana, was the same animal that ripped the flesh off a zookeeper’s arm just before Christmas 2006. An investigation of that incident by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health faulted the … Continue reading