Author: Travis M. Andrews
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‘Jeopardy!’ host Alex Trebek on leave after brain surgery, says ‘prognosis is excellent’
Alex Trebek’s no-nonsense tone is something of his trademark. The “Jeopardy!” host has employed it in more than 6,800 episodes of the game show, doling out kind rebukes and droll affirmations to players. Trebek used that same tone Thursday to announce on YouTube that he’s on a leave of absence from the show after undergoing…
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A veterinarian shot her neighbor’s dog in the head, police say
“Gimme a break people. This is not normal.” That’s what Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto said earlier this week, when he told a news conference that his office arrested a veterinarian for shooting her next-door neighbor’s dog in the head. The animal later had to be euthanized. “This is crazy, a veterinarian shooting a dog…
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World’s largest, most lavish Starbucks opens in Shanghai
Starbucks once made waves with the indulgent sizes of some of its drinks, such as the Trenta, which contains a staggering 31 ounces of joe. Now, as part of the company’s aggressive expansion in China, the Seattle-based coffee retailer opened its largest store in the world: a nearly 30,000-square foot compound that does much more…
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Trump tweets that suspect in NYC fatal terror attack ‘should get death penalty’
President Donald Trump waded deeper Thursday into the legal procedures ahead for the suspect in the New York City terrorist attack, saying he wishes he could ship him off to Guantanamo Bay and urging for the death penalty. The series of tweets staked out a White House position well ahead of the courts. It also…
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Retired ‘Navy SEAL’ praising Trump on Fox News was a fake
Fox News ran a story on Oct. 8 about a decorated Vietnam War Navy SEAL and glass artist who created an enormous presidential glass seal he hoped to give to President Trump. On Thursday, 11 days later, the network retracted the story after being told the Trump supporter never served in the SEALs or in…
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‘Disposable’ women? TV wives keep dying on male-centered shows
Wives on television are having a rough year. “Blue Bloods,” “Kevin Can Wait” and “Ray Donovan” recently killed off prominent female characters to power plots revolving around the show’s leading men. The spate of deaths caused Philadelphia Inquirer television critic Ellen Gray to declare her unhappiness with “TV’s long love affair with dead mothers.” “As…
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America’s opioid problem is so bad it’s cutting into U.S. life expectancy
Prosecutors in New York announced this week that an August drug raid yielded 140 pounds of fentanyl, the most in the city’s history and enough to kill 32 million people, they told New York 4. Those numbers underscore the dizzying size of the current opioid crisis, and the report of the New York bust comes…
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Oregon court: Couple must ‘debark’ dogs — cut their vocal cords — after neighbors complain
An Oregon appeals court agreed Wednesday that a couple must surgically lacerate their dogs’ vocal cords in a procedure known as “debarking” or “devocalization,” following a lawsuit brought by neighbors annoyed by the pets’ “incessant barking.” The ruling upheld a lower court order. The case began in 2002, when Karen Szewc and John Updegraff began…
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Memphis theater’s pulling of ‘Gone with the Wind’ viewed as ‘cultural cleansing’ by critics
A Memphis, Tennessee, theater has ended its 34-year tradition of screening the 1939 Oscar-winning-film “Gone With the Wind” at least once a year. The Orpheum Theatre dropped the movie from its programming after several patrons complained about an Aug. 11 screening, saying the film was “racially insensitive,” USA Today reported. “While title selections for the…
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$758.7 million Powerball winner sold in Massachussetts
Ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner. Powerball announced that a single ticket sold at a convenience store in Chicopee, Massachusetts, was the winner of Wednesday night’s $758.7 million jackpot, according to the Powerball website. It was the second largest lottery prize in United States history, according to the Associated Press. The winning numbers were…