Opinion:

Let me start by saying that I had no intention whatsoever in posting any articles regarding the Penn State scandal involving Sandusky, Paterno, and the other folks involved in this mess.  There are numerous reports already focusing on this subject, and quite frankly, it is long overdue.

Then I remembered how much hell was given to the King of Pop, Mr. Micheal J. Jackson, who, too, underwent worse scrutiny than this Sandusky guy, involving children.  Thankfully, he was cleared of those charges, but the public and mainstream media had a field day at Mr. Michael Jackson's expense.


So, yeah, Sandusky should be put through the same ringer as Jackson, but worse because this scandal was all about MONEY!  And dare I say, perhaps there is a dark murky secret that lies within Sandusky that hasn't yet surfaced.

However, this particular article I was reading moments ago puzzles me.  Based on the following written article, last paragraph:

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, the former attorney general who launched the investigation two years ago, said on “Meet the Press” Sunday that McQueary failed in his “moral obligation” to report the alleged rape to authorities.

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Granted, McQueary should have notified the proper authorities about what he saw, but the question remains: Since an investigation was launched two years ago by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, then former attorney general, why didn't he take it further himself?  After all, he was the Attorney General for crying out loud!

'Moral obligation.'  Hhmm.  


It was a moral obligation for the Attorney General to do his due diligence also.  So why is McQueary being solely blamed for not reporting the incident to the "proper authorities?"  Isn't the job of an attorney general proper enough for someone to tackle the situation?


Frankly speaking, Corbett should be put into the same criminal bag of laundry right along with Sandusky, Paterno, McQueary, and the whole kit and kubudle!  Yeah, I said it, and I'm sticking to it, damn it!

Maybe it is me who is not reading this article correctly.  What is exactly the role of an attorney general?  Oh well, here is the news article below:

Penn State's Mike McQueary says he 'made sure it stopped' talking about Jerry Sandusky's alleged sex abuse in shower

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Family of Heavy D speaks: 'he was a kind and giving spirit'

The family of legendary rapper Heavy D (born Dwight Errington Myers) has issued a statement regarding the performer's death, just days before his scheduled funeral. The statement, released to theGrio Monday, refers to Errington's love for his family and friends, saying the rapper "was a kind and giving spirit who extended and shared himself with everyone who crossed his path. He had a heart of gold, was approachable, very personable and gave of himself willingly and unconditionally."

Read the family's statement here.

Rocawear Pulls Jay-Z “Occupy” Line After Criticism Over Profits

Jay-Z’s Occupy Wall Street T-shirt line has been pulled from Rocawear’s website just days after critics slammed the millionaire rapper for cashing in on the movement without promising to share a penny of profits with the 99%.

Activists Discourage Muslims From Talking To NYPD

NEW YORK  — After a decade of the police spying on the innocuous details of the daily lives of Muslims, activists in New York are discouraging people from going directly to the police with their concerns about terrorism, a campaign that is certain to further strain relations between the two groups.


Muslim community leaders are openly teaching people how to identify police informants, encouraging them to always talk to a lawyer before speaking with the authorities and reminding people already working with law enforcement that they have the right to change their minds.

Emotional Mom Of Missing Jahessye Shockley Promises “I’ll Find You”

In an emotional interview on Phoenix KPHO TV, Jerice Hunter, the mother of missing Glendale, Ariz. girl Jahessye Shockley has promised her daughter that she will find her.

Jahessye Shockley Missing: Emotional Mom Promises 'I'll Find You' (VIDEO)

 

University President’s “Cool To Be Smart” Message Makes It To 60 Minutes

The president of the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Freeman Hrabowski, was profiled on CBS’s 60 Minutes last night in a segment that focused on the great work he’s done in the areas of science and math at
his university.

Check out the video here

UMBC and its president, Freeman Hrabowski, profiled on ‘60 Minutes’

You can watch the entire “60 Minutes” segment below. It’s well worth your time.


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Personally speaking, I think it is a damn shame that in today's society we have to write an article about the dangers of having sex with animals.  Yeah, I said it, and I'm sticking to it, damn it!

Sex With Animals Can Lead To Penis Cancer: Study

If you're searching for a reason not to have sex with animals, add this to the list: It could give you penis cancer, according to a new study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

The authors found that men who have had sex with animals were twice as likely to develop penile cancer as those who stick with their own kind.

Lead author Stenio de Cassio Zequi, a urologist in Sao Paulo, gave Live Science his theory explaining the increased risk.

"We think that the intense and long-term SWA [sex with animals] practice could produce micro-traumas in the human penile tissue," Zequi said. "The genital mucus membranes of animals could have different characteristics from human genitalia, and the animals' secretions are probably different from human fluids. Perhaps animal tissues are less soft than ours, and non-human secretions would be toxic for us."

Buffett buys IBM, Intel and DirecTV

Funeral held in Philadelphia for boxing great Joe Frazier

Boxing great Joe Frazier was laid to rest Monday in Philadelphia, one week after dying of liver cancer and four decades after capturing the world's attention in an epic showdown with Muhammad Ali.


Ali was among those at Frazier's private funeral at Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church, along with other boxing luminaries such as promoter Don King and current World Boxing Council champion Bernard Hopkins, video from CNN affiliate CSN Philly showed. Civil rights activist Jesse Jackson and Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter were also in attendance.

A program for the service billed it as the "Homegoing Celebration of Joseph Frazier," offering friends and family one last chance to pay their respects to the late 67-year-old athlete.

He died November 7, just a month after being diagnosed with liver cancer.

Co-founder of social network site Diaspora, Ilya Zhitomirskiy, dies at 22

Ilya Zhitomirskiy, a co-founder of the startup social networking site Diaspora that put an emphasis on privacy and user-control, has died, a company spokesman said Monday. He was 22.


The cause of Zhitomirskiy’s death in San Francisco wasn’t immediately known, and neither the company nor the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s office would release details.

“No longer will you be at the whims of those large corporate networks who want to tell you that sharing and privacy are mutually exclusive,” Zhitomirskiy said alongside co-founders Raphael Sofaer, Dan Grippi, and Max Salzber.

1 in 10 adults could have diabetes by 2030

In a report issued on Monday, the advocacy group estimated that 552 million people could have diabetes in two decades' time based on factors like aging and demographic changes. Currently, the group says that about one adult in 13 has diabetes.

Players Reject N.B.A. Offer and Opt to Disband Union

Faced with a deal it could not accept, and a negotiating process that had reached a dead end, the National Basketball Players Association elected to disband Monday afternoon, thrusting the N.B.A. into chaos. The prospect of reviving the 2011-12 season now rests with the courts.

World’s Fastest-Growing Facebook App Will Scare the Crap Out of You

“I’ve never seen anything grow this fast that isn’t hugely supported by something,” says Zada, who hoped around 100,000 people would enjoy his side project. He threw the script together in about 30 minutes, and with the collaborative efforts of his production company, Tool of North America, and developer Jason Nickel, completed the interactive video in four weeks. It was simply a side project for Halloween.

“I just wanted to scare people. It’s kind of a horror movie that has no blood, no guts, but there’s this person that you don’t want looking at your information,” says Zada. “And that to me was the scariest of all.” 

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Social Security large part of rural economies

"I don't know if it means we have a larger population of aging individuals or those who are in some way disadvantaged," Bell said. "A lot of our children who go off to college don't come back because they go elsewhere to find jobs. In some cases they don't come back home until they are retirement age.

"If you are on Social Security, you are on a limited income. If that doesn't get adjusted upward, that can result in a trickle-down effect for local businesses. If they can't grow their income, then they have fewer assets upon which to draw."

The figures cover residents receiving an old age pension, a survivor benefit or a disability check, according to the Social Security Administration and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

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Rapper Erick Sermon “OK” After Heart Attack

Erick Sermon, one half of the popular hip-hop duo EPMD, suffered a heart attack on Saturday, but appears to be recovering, reports say.

These Four Things Happen Right Before a Heart Attack

Every year, approximately 785,000 Americans suffer a first heart attack. And 470,000 who’ve already had one or more heart attacks have another one. The scary thing is that 25 percent of ALL heart attacks happen “silently,” without clear or obvious symptoms.

Even when symptoms occur, they can be so mild or vague, most people don’t even realize it’s heart-related (unless they are made aware). Four things in particular are the most sinister signs of a silent heart attack.

Read more on Newsmax.com: These Four Silent Heart Attack Symptoms Happen Right Before a Heart Attack
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Funeral planned for Heavy D at historic NY church

A private funeral for rap legend Heavy D will be held at a historic black Baptist church in a northern suburb of New York City.

Grace Baptist Church of Mount Vernon announced Friday that the funeral for Heavy D had been scheduled for Nov. 18.

The New York-born rapper died at a Los Angeles hospital Tuesday after collapsing outside his home. He was 44.


Study: New drug cuts deaths after heart attack

People recovering from a heart attack or severe chest pain are much less likely to suffer another heart-related problem or to die from one if they take a new blood-thinning drug along with standard anti-clotting medicines, a large study finds.

But this benefit had a cost: a greater risk of serious bleeding, usually in the digestive tract.

Welfare for Millionaires

A startling new report reveals the billions in government dollars that benefit America’s wealthiest citizens.

Class warfare is a politically charged term these days, from the Wall Street protests to the Capitol Hill negotiations over curtailing the nation’s debt. But a new congressional analysis, obtained by Newsweek, may fuel populist outrage by showing the extent of government subsidies that go to the wealthiest people in America.

From unemployment payments to subsidies and tax breaks on luxury items like vacation homes and yachts, Americans earning more than $1 million collect more than $30 billion in government largesse each year, according to the report assembled by Sen. Tom Coburn, a Republican from Oklahoma, who is so often at odds with members of both parties that colleagues call him “Dr. No.” The Internal Revenue Service provided the data showing how much money was going to the much-referenced top 1 percent.

In all, millionaires receive hefty help from Uncle Sam. The $30 billion in handouts, to put it in perspective, amounts to twice as much as the government spends on NASA, and three times the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency. On the other hand, it would only cover the cost of fighting about three months in Iraq and Afghanistan. Still, eliminating them would help make a small dent in the $1.5 trillion congressional leaders are trying to find by Thanksgiving.

Are You Ready to Be a Landlord?

Buying Investment Properties Can Be Risky. Here's How to Do It Smartly

The pitch is compelling: Buy a vacant house or apartment building and rent it out to some of the throngs of Americans who have lost their homes to foreclosure. With interest rates near record lows and property values still slumping, getting into the landlord business is cheaper than it has been in years.

'Wake up or die in your sleep!'

“We have more millionaires, and a few billionaires and more members of the Black middle class, yet the masses of our people are slipping further and further behind and are deeper and deeper in the valley of poverty and want,” said Min. Farrakhan.

“If we as a people are not mentally and emotionally and intellectually ready to fight the war for our survival, then our ignorance of the time will be the means of our own destruction,” Min. Farrakhan said over the airwaves of Chicago’s Black talk radio station and to viewers tuned in to a streaming online webcast.

“We are at war, and the war is for our survival and for the survival of our children and a future for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren.”

Hollywood's New Sodom & Gomorrah persona

People have always been fascinated with the beautiful, beguiling, and the fantasy-filled world created by Hollywood and the entertainment industry. Although the new faces in Hollywood and today's celebrities still inspire awe, admiration, and fanatical devotion, there was a certain mystique that surrounded the young starlets of yesteryear.

While some may look at Beyonce, Rihanna, and Nicki Minaj, as the epitome of stardom, Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, Billie Holiday and the like of these women represented much more of the epitome of Black style, class and grace.

Has the time of regal beauty passed and are we really satisfied with what has taken its place?

Pittsburgh Will Pay You $100,000 If You'll Just Please Move There City resorts to plain bribery

How much money would it take to lure you to move to Pittsburgh? How about $100,000? Some wags in SoHo would probably say no amount is enough. STFU, SoHo! The oft-maligned hometown of the Steelers and Penguins (the Pirates are best ignored) is offering 100K in its "Experienced Dreamers" contest for folks 45 and older. Contest materials explain: "Pittsburgh is a place with a long history of dreamers—pioneers in arts and culture, business, medicine, robotics, and more." The competition "is all about getting you to think about your dream—whatever it is you believe you were born to do—and asking if you have the courage to pick up your life, move to Pittsburgh and make it real. If you've got a dream and the passion to follow it, we want to hear about it.

Remembering Flight 587, 10 Years Later

On a crystal clear morning on November 12, 2001, a routine flight prepares for take off from

JFK International Airport in New York City bound for Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

The American Airlines flight is packed with 260 passengers -- most Dominicans or Dominican-Americans -- and crew. The holidays are near, and there are generations of families on board. Flight 587 is a lifeline between the tight knit towns of the Dominican Republic and the heart of Dominican-American life in Washington Heights and Upper Manhattan.

Read more: http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2011/11/12/remembering-flight-587-10-years-later/?test=latestnews#ixzz1dbyWRsJ3

Wal-Mart Black Friday circular: See the deals

Not to be one-upped by Target, which recently announced it would open at midnight on Black Friday, Wal-Mart said it will kick off its Black Friday deals at 10 p.m. on Thursday.

"Our customers told us they would rather stay up late to shop than get up early, so we're going to hold special events on Thanksgiving and Black Friday," Duncan Mac Naughton, Wal-Mart's chief merchandising officer, U.S., said in a statement.

Starting at 10 p.m., Wal-Mart is offering doorbuster deals on toys, clothes and home accessories like $5 Barbies marked down from $19, jeans for less than $10, children's pajamas sets for $4.47 and a Black & Decker Coffeemaker for $9.44.

Then at midnight, the retailer said it will begin discounting electronics as well. Deals include a Samsung 51-inch plasma TV for $498 down from $649, a Kodak 14 megapixel camera for $49 and a Magellan GPS for $69, marked down from $89.

Another round of discounting will start at 8 a.m. and continue throughout the weekend, Wal-Mart said. Among those deals will be Goodyear tires starting at $59, a Vizio 42-inch 3D LED Wi-Fi HDTV for $598 and a selection of DVDs for $1.96 each.

How Hair Weaves Could Cause You To Die!

Glue extensions, or double sided tape, are often used with popular lace wigs. Unfortunately, they can cause damage that is often permanent. Some of the toxins that seep into your scalp can cause you to be poisoned and go into shock or coma!

Joe Frazier: 10 Facts You Didn’t Know About The Boxing Great

Heavy D: Ten Facts You Didn’t Know About The Hip-Hop Legend

More US mortgages 'underwater'

The number of U.S. homeowners who owe more than their properties are worth climbed in the third quarter as lenders repossessed fewer houses, according to real-estate data provider Zillow.

The share of borrowers with negative equity rose to 28.6%, up from 26.8% in the second quarter and 23.2% a year earlier, the Seattle company said Tuesday. Last quarter's portion was the biggest since Zillow began tracking the measure in the first quarter of 2009, when 22.3% of households were "underwater."

The number increased because fewer delinquent properties are being taken over by banks, said Stan Humphries, Zillow's chief economist. Banks have slowed the pace of seizures as they negotiate with state attorneys general probing the mishandling of foreclosure documents.

Home builders dogged by tougher lenders, foreclosures

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Rap legend Heavy D of Heavy D and the Boyz leaves lasting final lyric: ‘BE INSPIRED!’

LOS ANGELES — It was as if Heavy D knew that it would be his last tweet.

The self-proclaimed “overweight lover” of hip hop, who became one of rap’s top hitmakers with his charming combination of humor and positivity, enthusiastically told his Twitter followers Tuesday morning to “BE INSPIRED!” He later collapsed outside his home following a shopping trip, unable to breathe, before he was transported to a nearby hospital.

Heavy D died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to Lt. Mark Rosen of the Beverly Hills police. He was 44. Rosen said detectives found no signs of foul play and believe his death was medically related. If true, Heavy D would of course not have known that “BE INSPIRED!” would be his last tweet but that it was is fitting for the life that Heavy D lived.

Heavy D may have died from pneumonia complications

Rapper Heavy D, who was pronounced dead Tuesday at the emergency room at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, may have collapsed and died from complications related to pneumonia, authorities said.

Dwight Arrington "Heavy D" Myers 

May 24, 1967 – November 8, 2011

May God Bless His Soul & Spirit!

Emergency alert system to be tested Wednesday

The White House is preparing the country for the first nationwide test of the country's emergency alert system on Wednesday.

The test will occur at 2 p.m. EST Wednesday and will last about 30 seconds, presidential spokesman Jay Carney told reporters.

Mortgage payments show surprising rise in delinquencies

While lawmakers in Washington debated the debt ceiling and consumer confidence dropped, more homeowners were having a harder time making their

mortgage payments.

The rate at which mortgage holders were late with their payments by 60 days or more rose in the June-to-September period for the first time since the last three months of 2009, according to TransUnion.

The credit reporting agency said 5.88% of homeowners missed two or more payments, an early sign of possible foreclosure. That was up from 5.82% in the second quarter.

The increase surprised TransUnion researchers, who had expected late payments, or delinquencies, to fall for the quarter.

Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard)

But, it turns out, middle and high school students are having most of the fun, building their erector sets and dropping eggs into water to test the first law of motion. The excitement quickly fades as students brush up against the reality of what David E. Goldberg, an emeritus engineering professor, calls “the math-science death march.” Freshmen in college wade through a blizzard of calculus, physics and chemistry in lecture halls with hundreds of other students. And then many wash out.

Studies have found that roughly 40 percent of students planning engineering and science majors end up switching to other subjects or failing to get any degree. That increases to as much as 60 percent when pre-medical students, who typically have the strongest SAT scores and high school science preparation, are included, according to new data from the University of California at Los Angeles. That is twice the combined attrition rate of all other majors.

LME plans to list Charleston as steel warehouse

The London Metal Exchange plans to approve Charleston, South Carolina, as a location of good delivery for steel billet, head of business development Chris Evans told Reuters.

The port was chosen for its proximity to steel mills on the southeast coast of the United States and is aimed at expanding the steel contract's footprint in North America even as domestic steel mills continue to resist using the futures market for hedging.


Ventre: Frazier Deserves Same Reverence Given to Ali

It’s almost impossible to look at the career of Smokin’ Joe Frazier, who passed away far too soon Monday night from liver cancer at the age of 67, without also noticing the dancing shadow of Muhammad Ali. The two are locked in a clinch for eternity, and boxing fans tend to favor the flashier performer, especially when he is brilliant also as well as a once-in-a-lifetime personality.

But Joe Frazier was great, too. The phrase “Ali-Frazier” has been burned into the lexicon. It represents two titans of sport, not one and his able foil. It has been used to describe every clash between two parties of equal strength who pose a test to each other — Yankees-Red Sox, Lakers-Celtics, etc.

Boxing champ Joe Frazier passes away at 67

Frazier, who died Monday night after a brief battle with liver cancer at the age of 67, will forever be linked to Ali. But no one in boxing would ever dream of anointing Ali as The Greatest unless he, too, was linked to Smokin' Joe.

"You can't mention Ali without mentioning Joe Frazier," said former AP boxing writer Ed Schuyler Jr. "He beat Ali, don't forget that."

Joseph William "Joe" Frazier

January 12, 1944 - November 7, 2011

PHOTOS: Frazier's life in photos

A Bright Economic Outlook: Kool Smiles Plans to Hire Nearly 100 South Carolina Residents in the Next 12 Months

Increased Patient Demand Fueling Expansion Plans for Leading Dental Health Provider

ORANGEBURG, S.C., Nov. 7, 2011 -- – While the monthly news from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics reports slow – if any – job growth, Kool Smiles is pleased to announce plans to hire nearly 100 new employees for its South Carolina offices within the next 12 months. A leading

dental health provider for children and adults, Kool Smiles has seen an increase in patients through positive patient referrals and will continue to expand to meet the growing demand.

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FBI Joins Search for Missing 2-Year-old Washington Boy

The FBI has joined the search for a 2-year-old Washington state boy who was last seen by his mother inside a parked car.

Sky Metalwala was reported missing Sunday morning after his mother discovered him missing from her car in Bellevue, Wash.

The child's mother, Julia Biryukova, told police that she had run out of gas and left the boy buckled into his car seat while she and her 4-year-old daughter walked to a Chevron gas station, about a mile away.

Conrad Murray guilty in death of Michael Jackson

Cardiologist Conrad Murray has been convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the drug-overdose death of Michael Jackson. Prosecutors accused him of administering a fatal dose of the powerful anesthetic propofol to the King of Pop.

The judge ordered Murray held without bail until sentencing Nov. 29.

D.A.: Conrad Murray unlikely to serve 'appropriate' sentence

It is unlikely that Dr. Conrad Murray will serve a lengthy stint behind bars, L.A. County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley said Monday after the physician’s conviction in the death of Michael Jackson.

Cooley said legislation that calls for some state prison inmates to be returned to county jails will probably mean that Murray -– who was handcuffed and taken into custody after his conviction -– will probably not serve “an appropriate sentence.”

Murray faces a maximum term of four years in prison when he is sentenced Nov. 29.

SC's new voter ID law could hit GOP seniors

BLUFFTON, S.C. -- South Carolina's new voter ID law could affect an unlikely group: older white voters who have higher incomes, are reliably Republican and live in retirement homes and gated golf communities along the state's southern coast, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.

There are roughly 217,000 active voters in the state who do not have a driver's license or state ID card, election officials said. Of those, almost a third are 65 or older, and nearly 1,600 of them live in precincts in Beaufort County's Sun City retirement community or affluent neighborhoods nearby, according to AP's analysis.

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The Corporate Welfare State

The Occupy Wall Street protesters aren't good at articulating what they want, but one of their demands is "end corporate welfare." Well, welcome aboard. Some of us have been fighting crony capitalism for decades, and it's good to have new allies if liberals have awakened to the dangers of the corporate welfare state.

Corporate welfare is the offer of special favors—cash grants, loans, guarantees, bailouts and special tax breaks—to specific industries or firms. The government doesn't track the overall cost of these programs, but in 2008 the Cato Institute made an attempt and came up with $92 billion for fiscal 2006, which is more than the U.S. government spends on homeland security.

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New census measure shows aid programs are helping poor children

A new, more accurate way of measuring poverty shows that antipoverty programs are working to keep children from falling into absolute deprivation.

The U.S. Census Bureau released a supplemental poverty measure Monday that shows children's poverty is at lower levels than previously calculated, thanks to food stamps and other programs aimed at helping families survive.

"It looks like the programs are targeted well at families with children, bringing many up out of poverty," said Kathleen Short, the Census Bureau economist who wrote the report.

At the same time, the report shows that the number of elderly living in poverty is much higher than previously calculated.

49.1 million people are poor, new Census estimates show

The ranks of America's poor are greater than previously known, reaching a new level of 49.1 million — or 16%— due to rising medical costs and other expenses that make it harder for people to stay afloat, according to new Census estimates.

Based on the revised formula, the number of poor people exceeds the record 46.2 million, or 15.1%, that was officially reported in September.

Banning Sodas At School Not Enough, Say Experts

Although children are not buying sugary drinks at school because of state bans, their overall consumption of such beverages does not seem to have dropped, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago reported in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine after carrying out a study involving nearly seven thousand pupils in 40 US states.

Emergency warning test coming to every radio and TV in the nation

This is only a test. Seriously.

That's what the Federal Emergency Management Agency wants the public to know about the first nationwide test of the emergency alert system, scheduled for Wednesday.

The decades-old warning system is often tested locally, but it’s never been tested on every radio and TV station in the country at the same time, according to FEMA.

The agency is trying to get the word out about the test to avoid unnecessary alarm like, say, the panic caused by Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast of a fictional Martian invasion in New Jersey.

Officials also want to prevent the test from tying up 911 phone lines.

"We have alerted our 911 call centers about the possibility for increased call volume during the Nov. 9 test,'' Alisa Simmons, a spokeswoman for the 911 network in Tarrant County, Texas, said in a statement appealing to the public not to call to inquire about the exercise.

Wednesday's 30-second test, which will sound and look like the familiar local tests, will begin at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PST). Some 30,000 radio and TV operations will participate in the test.

Federal officials considered a three-minute test but decided on 30 seconds "to reduce any potential disruptions to the American people, while still maintaining our ability to test the system's nationwide capabilities," said FEMA spokeswoman Rachel Racusen.

Woods: Williams apologized over racial slur

Tiger Woods says he has received an apology from former caddie Steve Williams over a racial slur, and the two met and shook hands Tuesday at The Lakes Golf Club ahead of the Australian Open.

At a caddies' awards party last week, Williams talked about a television interview he gave following his new employer Adam Scott's win at the Bridgestone Invitational, saying "it was my aim to shove it up that black a---."

Woods said Tuesday the comment "was hurtful ... the wrong thing to say, and something that he has acknowledged. Stevie is not racist."

Engaged couple discover they are brother and sister when their parents meet just before wedding

An engaged couple who dated for five years have been left in turmoil after their families met and they discovered they were brother and sister.

The woman, who is due to give birth next month, is devastated by the discovery that the father of her child is her brother.

The couple, who met at university, had decided they wanted to introduce their single parent families to each other before they got  married.

It reported: 'Their parents separated when the woman was eight months old and the man was two years old.

'The man's father said he dumped his wife in 1983 because she was cheating on him. The girl was raised by her mother, while her brother was raised by his father.


'Neither of them knew they had a sibling.' 

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Case of missing Jhessye Shockley reaches 3-week mark

Sources inside the Shockley family tell CBS 5 News that Jhessye wasn't in 
school for a week and a half before she disappeared.

Family members say Jhessye's mother, Jerice Hunter, told the school Jhessye had ringworm.
Police said Monday the girl's mother is not a suspect.

Glendale police Det. Jeff Daukas tells CBS 5 Hunter's polygraph test has not yet been scheduled. Daukas says it will be conducted by the FBI or Glendale police.

Jhessye Shockley has been missing since Oct. 11 after police believe she wandered from her apartment in Glendale, outside Phoenix, while her mother was running an errand.

Ultrasound of patient’s testicles reveals startling image of a man in agony 

Doctors at a Canadian hospital found a shocking image staring right back at them as they were scanning the testicles of a 45-year-old paraplegic man. The image of one of the testicles, shown above, looks like a man's face grimaced in agony.

"It was very ghoulish, like a man screaming in pain," Dr. Naji Touma of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario told The Toronto Star. "His mouth was open and it looked like one eye was gouged out."

The image, taken in 2009, was sent to the medical journal "Urology," and was recently published with the headline, "The face of testicular pain: A surprising ultrasound finding."

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Arrest warrant issued for WR Terrell Owens

An arrest warrant was issued for Terrell Owens after he failed to show up for a court date regarding
child support payments.

Diana Bianchini, a spokeswoman for Owens, said Saturday the free-agent wide receiver tried to reschedule an Oct. 24 hearing in Contra Costa County Court because he had set up a televised workout in the hopes of hooking on with an NFL club. No teams attended the workout.

According to Bianchini, Owens was looking for a new attorney and was representing himself while trying to change the court date. She said his new attorneys will deal with the warrant issued this week.

Oklahoma quake buckles highway, damages several homes

No serious injuries had been reported as of midnight after the 5.6 magnitude earthquake near Oklahoma City, but a major highway buckled in three places, at least three homes sustained major damage and others had roof and chimney damage, officials said.


U.S. Highway 62, which crosses Lincoln County, buckled west of Prague, Okla., according to Aaron Bennett, a dispatcher with Lincoln County 911 and emergency management.

"There's a boulder the size of an SUV in a rural road," Bennett said, noting the quake had left many coping with "a lot of broken glass and ceiling tiles."

NBA Offers Players up to 51 Percent of Revenue

NBA players have an offer that could get them up to 51 percent of basketball-related income.
They rejected it Saturday, and if they don't take it by the close of business Wednesday, they'll get a proposal that would guarantee them just 47 percent and call for a flex salary cap.

Could Michael Jordan impede labor progress?

Charlotte Bobcats owner Michael Jordan is reportedly leading a faction of hard-line NBA owners that will urge the league not to make any more concessions to the players, according to a report in the New York Times. The group of 10 to 14 owners is reportedly upset that the league has proposed a 50-50 split of basketball-related income with the players and would likely vote against such an agreement.

North Charleston plant churns out bullet-proof vehicles for diplomats, CEOs

The 30,000-square-foot Fain Street factory and its 32 employees churn out 10 to 14 bullet-resistant vehicles a month on its single production line, but by late next summer Streit USA Armoring plans to expand, add two assembly lines and eventually 40 new employees to its payroll.

The auto armorer will leave the leased building where it has bullet-proofed about 125 vehicles a year since 2007 and will build a new, 75,000-square-foot, company-owned facility on eight acres along Palmetto Commerce Parkway beside the Daimler van assembly plant.

Does it pay to drive a cab in D.C.? A look at the fair wage debate in the nation’s capital

“Basically, we’re getting slammed out here,” he says, swinging his 2003 Grand Marquis to the curb recently. “If cabbies are a little grumpier these days, there’s a reason. We’re hurting.”

The District of Columbia implemented a new meter system and fares three years ago, and today few, if any, major U.S. cities offer such a sweet deal for the riding public. On the other hand, as Frankel, 58, and his cabbies have argued loudly ever since, the flipside is that cabbies are being shortchanged with virtually every fare.

6 Reasons Why You Can't Lose Weight

Do you feel like you've done everything you can but still don't seem
to lose weight? Chances are, you're not doing the right things. Americans are more confused than ever about how to effectively lose weight and keep it off. Furthermore, many people are surprised to learn that the seemingly insignificant choices they make every day can negatively affect their goal of losing weight. Are you guilty of any of these behaviors?

DC program turns vacant buildings into apartments

Named Sweat Equity, the program is centered in the poorest of part of the city, the southeast neighborhood just about five miles away from the White House. It takes homeless D.C. residents on temporary assistance and gives them jobs renovating vacant buildings owned by the city. Upon completion, participants can live in the buildings for two years rent-controlled. Though it is still a pilot program, officials with the Department of Homeland Securtiy have seen results, giving them hope it will become a permanent fixture for getting those on public assistance back into the workforce.

16-year-old girl shot repeatedly, killed in Philly

 

Teen Girl Shot, Killed in Norristown

Forgotten Negro league players finally get recognition

Amid headstones of chiseled and polished granite, at a Topeka Kansas Cemetery, Jeremy Krock, an Illinois Anesthesiologist, has purchased a new marker and is working hard to give a name to some African-American baseball heroes, who were invisible in death. Many of those men never became household names like their white counterparts, and sadly, some of those black players passed away and hardly anyone noticed, until now.

Click here to view a slideshow of some of the nameless Negro Leaguers being honored

"They played in anonymity and I don't want to see them buried forever in anonymity," said Krock. "To know that these players are out there and to know where they're buried and to just walk out there and see a plot of grass is an injustice."

Declining numbers of Blacks seen in math, science

With Black unemployment reaching historic levels, banks laying off tens of thousands and law school graduates waiting tables, why aren't more Blacks looking toward science, technology, engineering and math—the still-hiring careers known as STEM?

The answer turns out to be a complex equation of self-doubt, stereotypes, discouragement and economics—and sometimes just wrong perceptions of what math and science are all about.

“White men make up less than 50 percent of the U.S. population. We're drawing (future scientists) from less than 50 percent of the talent we have available,” says Mae Jemison, the first Black woman astronaut, who has a medical degree and a bachelor's in chemical engineering.

“The more people you have in STEM,” she says, “the more innovations you'll get.”

The McRib Is Actually The McPigIntestines

 Analyzing the contents of the mysterious sandwich. The reconstituted pork-based patty probably contains tripe, heart, and scalded stomachs. That may sound a bit gross to some, but they're all edible meats already found in products like sausages.

Rapper RoseMo Killed After Twitter Beef WorldStar Video

LOS ANGELES — Jomo Adoula Zambia who rapped under the name, “RoseMo,” was killed in Los Angeles, California while
driving his car.

Boxing Legend Joe Frazier Seriously Ill With Liver Cancer

PHILADELPHIA — Former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier has liver cancer and is under hospice care.

The 67-year-old boxer was diagnosed four or five weeks ago, Frazier’s personal and business manager said Saturday. Leslie Wolff told The Associated Press that doctors have not yet told Frazier how long he has to live.

 

City In The Dark! Unable To Pay Bill, Michigan City Turns Off Lights

HIGHLAND PARK, Mich. — As the sun dips below the rooftops each evening, parts of this Detroit enclave turn to pitch black, the only illumination coming from a few streetlights at the end of the block or from glowing yellow yard globes.

It wasn’t always this way. But when the debt-ridden community could no longer afford its monthly electric bill, elected officials not only turned off 1,000 streetlights. They had them ripped out — bulbs, poles and all. Now nightfall cloaks most neighborhoods in inky darkness.

More People Joined Credit Unions In Last Month Than In All Of 2010

At least 650,000 people joined credit unions since September 29th, the day Bank of America announced it would charge a $5 per month fee to use their debt card for purchases starting in 2012. The bank has since killed that idea after all the negative feedback they received from it.

Man Says He Was Fired For Hiring Black Cashiers At Bread Shop

PITTSBURGH  — A white man claims he was fired as manager of a suburban Panera Bread shop for repeatedly having a black man work the cash register instead of putting him in a less visible location and having “pretty young girls” be the cashiers.

Andy Rooney dead at 92

Andy Rooney, the "60 Minutes" commentator known to generations for his wry, humorous and contentious television essays - a unique genre he is credited with inventing - died Friday night in a hospital in New York City of complications following minor surgery. He was 92, and had homes in New York City, Rensselaerville, N.Y. and Rowayton, Conn.

Large asteroid between Earth and the moon

Astronomers are keeping a very close eye on an asteroid which will pass between Earth and the moon in a few day's time. It's about 400 metres in diameter, and nothing that big has come quite as close to hitting earth for decades.

Earthquake, multiple aftershocks rattle central Oklahoma

The earthquake was the second-largest in Oklahoma history, seismologist Austin Holland said.

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Around 3 million gather on Mount Arafat for Haj

ARAFA: As many as three million pilgrims gathered on Sunday on the historic Mount Arafat and its surrounding plain, marking the peak of the annual Haj pilgrimage.

Swarms of pilgrims who had spent the night in Mina on Friday headed towards Arafa to attend the day long stay, praying to God and chanting in unison: "Allah, I am responding to your call,"

Most of the unemployed no longer receive benefits

Nearly one-third of America's 14 million unemployed have had no job for year or more

The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America's unemployed are no longer receiving unemployment benefits.


Early last year, 75 percent were receiving checks. The figure is now 48 percent — a shift that points to a growing crisis of long-term unemployment. Nearly one-third of America's 14 million unemployed have had no job for a year or more.         

Former caddie Williams makes racial inference to Tiger

Steve Williams received a mock award Friday night for "Celebration of the Year" for his TV interview after Adam Scott won the Bridgestone Invitational. That was the day Williams said it was "the best win of his life," despite being on the bag with Woods for 13 majors.

At an awards party filled with banter, Williams said of his interview, "It was my aim to shove it right up that black a------."

NYPD Teams With FBI To Bust Harlem Gang

Investigators took down a violent street gang this week whose members are accused of terrorizing Central Harlem and stashing guns all over the neighborhood.

The New York City Police Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation recovered about 20 guns. Officials said Friday that dozens of people could have easily been killed with just two of them: a TEC-9 and a Chinese military semiautomatic rifle.
The members are accused of using violence to defend their drug-dealing territory near West 129th Street and Lenox Avenue.

Earthquakes have a bigger health toll than other disasters

There are more than a million earthquakes, of varying severity, around the world each year.
As well as the immediate deaths, many people receive serious injuries which cannot be treated because of the quake damage to infrastructure.

The Lancet review says children are often at particularly high risk.

Chickenpox lollipops? Some moms may be sending in mail

You’ve probably heard of "chickenpox parties," where parents get unvaccinated kids together (in the home of an infected child) in the hopes they'll catch the disease. They think making their kids suffer through the disease will help them develop stronger immunity than immunization would provide.

But now the buzz is all about people shipping objects that have been contaminated with the chickenpox virus to people who live too far away to attend a pox party.

A Phoenix TV station last week reported that a Facebook page called “Find a Pox Party in Your Area” was helping to arrange shipments of contaminated objects—jammies, blankets, suckers.

But shortly after the Phoenix story ran, the “pox party” FB page posted a warning:

Johnson & Johnson Baby Shampoo Has Cancer-Causing Chemicals, Group Says

TRENTON, N.J. -- Two chemicals considered harmful to babies remain in Johnson & Johnson's baby shampoo sold in the U.S., even though the company already makes versions without them, according to a coalition of health and environmental groups.

The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics has unsuccessfully been urging the world's largest health care company for 2 1/2 years to remove the trace amounts of potentially cancer-causing chemicals – dioxane and a substance called quaternium-15 that releases formaldehyde – from Johnson's Baby Shampoo, one of its signature products.

Johnson & Johnson said it is reducing or gradually phasing out the chemicals, but did not respond directly to the campaign's demands.

South Carolina women get life for toddler's death

Two South Carolina women will spend the rest of their lives in prison for beating a toddler to death in 2009, a sentence that fits their crime, the case's prosecutor said on Friday.

Erika Mae Butts and Shanita Latrice Cunningham, both 25, each received a life sentence from a Charleston judge on Thursday, two years to the day after 3-year-old Serenity Richardson died while in their care.

They pleaded guilty to the crime in August.

'Scared' bus drivers return to work in Detroit

Public buses resumed rolling on the city's streets Friday afternoon after Detroit's mayor promised drivers increased police patrols and security checks at stations.