A giant Mega Millions jackpot grew larger Wednesday to an estimated $640 million after another drawing without a winner. No one won the lottery game’s top prize Tuesday night, making it 21 straight drawings without anyone matching all six numbers. The next drawing will be Friday night. Scientific Experiment On… Read More
New Orleans guitar legend dies at 79
New Orleans music legend Walter “Wolfman” Washington, a cornerstone of the city’s musical nightlife for decades, has died of cancer, just days after turning 79. Washington died Dec. 22 at Passages Hospice, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported. Funeral services are scheduled for Jan. 4. at 2 p.m. at Jacob… Read More
Cameraman hurt on New Mexico film set nets $66M in lawsuit
A Los Angeles cameraman who suffered a spinal cord injury while on a New Mexico movie set has been awarded more than $66 million in a lawsuit, among the largest settlements in the state’s history, a news outlet reported. The Santa Fe New Mexican quoted Jame Razo as saying that… Read More
Northern California statue of meat-packing magnate beheaded
The statue of a 19th-century Northern California rancher and meat-packing magnate was decapitated earlier this week, leaving investigators in the state’s capital city scratching their heads to find a motive behind the vandalism. Tipsters could receive a $1,000 reward for information about what befell the nearly century-old granite statue of… Read More
Midwestern waitress gets $1,000 tip from Christmas customer
A Wisconsin waitress got a Christmas morning surprise from a customer — a $1,000 tip. Callie Blue, 29, was waiting tables at Gus’s Diner in Sun Prairie, just outside Madison, at 6 a.m. Sunday when she started chatting with one of the few customers in the restaurant at that hour,… Read More
Southwest cancels more flights Wednesday with investigation looming
Southwest Airlines scrubbed thousands of flights again Tuesday in the aftermath of the massive winter storm that wrecked Christmas travel plans across the U.S., and the federal government said it would investigate why the company lagged so far behind other carriers. A day after most U.S. airlines had recovered from… Read More
Celebrity chef eats his way through Spain with daughters
On his new TV show, celebrated chef José Andrés goes into a restaurant kitchen in Spain and confronts a massive moray eel. Only one of them is leaving that kitchen intact. Andrés oversees as cooks prepare the eel for it’s final flourish — deboned, sliced paper thin, dredged in three… Read More
House Dems race to release Trump’s tax returns before Friday
On Dec. 20, the House’s tax-writing committee voted to publish the tax returns of former President Donald Trump. One week later, the Ways and Means Committee has yet to release the records… and it’s running out of time. Eerie WW2 Photo Reveals Shocking Secret [sponsored] The committee has already released… Read More
Japan adopts plan to maximize nuclear energy, in an about-face
Japan adopted a plan on Thursday to extend the lifespan of nuclear reactors, replace the old and even build new ones, a major shift in a country scarred by the Fukushima disaster that once planned to phase out atomic power. In the face of global fuel shortages, rising prices and… Read More
Country music star drops ‘All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster’ album
The chorus against Ticketmaster’s contentious concert pricing practices is growing, numbering among them Zach Bryan and friends. The country music artist dropped a live album, “All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster,” on Sunday. With it came a statement posted to social media in which he decried “a massive issue with fair… Read More
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