3 who died in Detroit race described as healthy

The deaths of three runners who collapsed during a 13.1-mile half marathon appear to have been an aberration, but at least six runners have died while competing in such events in the last two months.

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Autopsies expected after 3 die during Detroit race

Autopsies are expected after three half-marathoners died during the Detroit marathon.

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3 runners die competing in the Detroit marathon

A half-marathoner and two other runners died during the Detroit marathon on Sunday, organizers said.

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Rumors: Richard Jefferson stiffs bride at altar

San Antonio Spur was supposed to get married last weekend in New York but he apparently broke it off so late that he didn’t bother some of his pals who came in for the $2 million wedding. He was going to get hitched to former Net dancer but decided that he wasn’t interested in spending the rest of his born days with her just before the weekend got underway. Nichols apparently found the strength to let her friends and family know but Jefferson seemed to forget. (New York Post)

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For its trouble, downtrodden Detroit gets Pulitzer

Struggling simply to survive as readership and advertising drop, the Detroit Free Press celebrated winning a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for its reporting of a sex scandal that brought down the city's mayor.

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Rumors: Cavaliers might fire Brown, hire Riley

You stick with a good thing, right? Well, Cleveland could be ditching heed coach even though he won Coach of the Year this past season. The Cavs had the league’s best record, but the front office has been on a mission to improve since the team lost to Orlando in the playoffs. And some of them reportedly seem to think they’d improve without Brown, who these same people apparently think was not as good as his counterpart in Orlando,. Rumor has it the execs were just as disappointed in the team’s wins over the Magic as its losses and said Brown’s game plan for the series was “junk.” Some are saying could be coming to Cleveland to save the day. Or at least keep a couple of hairdressers employed there. (ProBasketballNews)

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Rumors: Lakers assistants interested in USC job

Assistant coaches Jim Cleamons and Brian Shaw are trying to help the Lakers win the NBA finals, but they've also got their eyes on the USC head coaching job, vacated by the departure of Tim Floyd on Tuesday. (L.A. Times)

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Fee for Reading

I was on this, (http://redtape.msnbc.com/2009/12/hidden-fees-more-annoying-than-dog-poop-.html?GT1=43001) site tonight reading about a poll from Consumer Reports where they asked about the things that people find annoying and it was revealed that hidden fees are the #1 most annoy …

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As evidenced by continual battering from the White House, Fox News is once under the gun. Are any of us surprised. This opinion expresses the opinion of many of us who realize we have made a massive error in judgement when this administration was supposedly elected to the post.

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All politics aside, saying a hearty farewell to Bill Safire tonight

I didn't agree with Bill Safire when I was but a young 'en in Des Moines and VP Spirow Agnew came to my home town in 1972 to call the press a bunch of "nattering nabobs of negativism."

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The artist behind the infamous Mohammed cartoon, Kurt Westergaard, and the president of the International Free Press Society, Lars Hedegaard, will speak to Yale University students as a new book about the cartoon crisis is set to be published.

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Some people are wondering who is next after Van Jones. But the Van Jones story is not over. And we still don't know who hired this "obscure" official, as some on the left are now trying to refer to him. Some of these controversies are currently being investigated by the new media.

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The biggest U.S. Internet service providers urged regulators to adopt a conservative definition of "broadband," arguing for minimum speeds that were substantially below many other nations.

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J. S. Tissainayagam, a respected Tamil journalist and editor for the North Eastern Monthly magazine, and contributor to the local Sunday Times newspaper, is the recipient of the 2009 Peter Mackler Award for courageous and ethical journalism.

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Under fire following revelations that a military command in Afghanistan is compiling profiles of reporters covering U.S.

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With a number of states reporting huge seizures of fake Indian currency notes (FICNs), India will soon take up the issue at global fora, like Interpol, in a big way and will also ask some European countries to keep a watch on importers of currency-standard printing paper and i …

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No Press, No Justice. Why did our Free Press not more widely report last year that Americans who invested in a 529 Account so that their child could attend college lost an average of 27% of their investment. We Can Do Better.

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The latest Big Picture photo blog from Burlington, Vermont. Small, compressed photo galleries be damned!

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A Detroit city council member paid only $68 in property taxes this year because city records showed her home doesn't exist.

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Also: Burma, Iran top group's list of worst countries in which to be a blogger...

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Activist editors at Wikipedia have changed the name of the "World Trade Center Controlled Demolition Hypothesis" page to "World Trade Center Demolition Conspiracy Theories", are removing all links to the paper "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trad …

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A co-pilot may have accidentally activated the autopilot on a medical plane shortly before it crashed and killed both pilots and a four-member organ transplant team, according to a federal safety agency's report.

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ASK, a French-based radio-frequency identification manufacturer, will lease 15,000 square feet of space from IBM Corp.'s Vermont microelectronics plant to produce "contactless inlays" for a range of products, the governor's spokeswoman said Tuesday.

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Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is out of jail. His ex-lover and top aide, Christine Beatty, still has weeks behind bars. But their text messages to one another continue to hit the public.

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Drunken Corporate-Media Bandwagon Going Strong: Misinformation Regarding Obama's Eligibility

Federalism and truth aside, AOL may be a new vine among news organizations relatively speaking, but they've joined the corporate-media bunch, name calling and pigeon holing those who question Obama's Constitutional eligibility to be president.

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News organizations will be allowed to photograph the homecomings of America's war dead under a new Pentagon policy, defense and congressional officials said Thursday.

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Fairey Folly or Yellow Journalism?

Tuesday, Feb.10. 2009

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Government Money + Newspaper Industry = No More Free Press

With the swift moving Keynesian influenced president named Barack Obama, it appears as though the newspaper industry will soon dispatch its payroll towards the land of government sponsored handouts.

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Louise Desnoyers, 51, came to Vermont District Court for an hour-long hearing about whether prosecutors could introduce incriminating statements at her upcoming murder trial. Judge Michael Kupersmith did not rule, but said he expects to issue a decision in the coming days.

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THE good that men do is not always interred with their bones. This week saw the publication of a remarkable posthumous column by Lasantha Wickrematunge, a Sri Lankan newspaper editor. He had written it in anticipation of his own murder.

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Vermonters heading to President Elect Obama's inauguration tell us why they are going and what it means to them to witness history.

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NEW YORK — A US Airways plane crashed into the frigid Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after striking a bird that disabled two engines, sending 150 on board scrambling onto rescue boats, authorities say. No deaths or serious injuries were immediately reported.

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