Shout out to 'Loosie Man'...but not really By 8:30 a.m., amid the procession of sleepy-eyed office workers and addicts from the nearby methadone clinic, Lonnie Loosie plants himself in the middle of the sidewalk on Eighth Avenue in Midtown. Addressing no one in particular, he calls out his one... Read more...
The Pentagon said Tuesday it had requested an investigation into a hacker group's reported cyber threat against a military base that is being used to hold a US soldier suspected of giving documents to WikiLeaks. Pentagon spokesman Colonel David Lapan said the probe was requested after news th... Read more...
John Casor was a black man who lived in Northampton County in the Virginia Colony in the mid 17th Century. He was an indentured servant to a man named Anthony Johnson. Their story is intertwined, and the importance of Casor's story is inextricable from Johnson's. After fifteen years of service, Jo... Read more...
ESPN aired their 30 For 30 documentary series chronicling NBA star Allen Iverson’s trial from a 1993 incident that racially divided his home state of Virginia. Cross over to the other side for the second half. Props: (If I can say that followed by)WSHH (more…) Read more...
Rep. Eric Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the House of Representatives, said Thursday that a bullet had been fired through a window at his district office in Richmond, Virginia. He also said he had received threatening messages. He said he would not publicly release the messages out of concer... Read more...
The heads of US mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may each receive pay packages of up to $6m (£3.7m) for 2009, depending on company performance. The government has put $111bn of public money into the companies since taking them over and the awards go against moves to curb lavish pay packa... Read more...
Washington (CNN) - With less than a year to go until crucial mid-term contests, the Republican National Committee says they've raised what they call an off-election year record of money last month. The RNC reports Thursday morning that they raked in $8.79 million in October, with $11.2 million ca... Read more...
Space explorers have yet to get their hands on the replicator of "Star Trek" to create anything they might require. But NASA has developed a technology that could enable lunar colonists to carry out on-site manufacturing on the moon, or allow future astronauts to create critical spare parts during... Read more...