Disgrace at the L.A. Times, Courtesy of The Smoking GunRespondeat Superior, ButZell and a whole lot of people at the L. A. Times will no doubt suffer the fallout from this tragedy; the entire product line is damaged and will cause further loss of revenue. No profit, no business,...
I must admit, before meeting Tom, I had heard so many rumours and so much gossip that I was afraid. Frankly, his gambling debts, his animal magnetism, coupled with his disregard for the feelings of others... His elaborate gun collection, his mad shopping-sprees, the face-lifts, the ski trips, the drug...
PLUMES of smoke were still rising, fires were still burning, but Abyei, a small town in central Sudan, was silent. Most of its 30,000 or so residents had left a few days earlier, running for their lives as mortar shells rained down and machine-gun fire echoed down muddy streets. ...
Financial Services Authority chiefs are believed to have found the "smoking gun" in the recent share-shorting incident that caused the value of HBOS to slump by a fifth in one day. The regulator is set to go public on its findings by the end of the month,...
A DERANGED dad shot his wife and let his children die in a house fire he started before turning a shotgun on himself yesterday. Killer Diarmuid Flood blasted wife Lorraine twice with the gun and his children Mark, six, and five-year-old Julie perished upstairs in the...
With two Democratic presidential candidates locked in a heated debate over everything but substance, their contest has taken on a vaguely Shakespearean quality. It is, to paraphrase Macbeth, a tale told by ideologues, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Or at least not very much. Earlier this...
Princess Diana's favourite lunch-spot has been reborn, thanks to its hot, young, smoke-gun-wielding new chef May I offer you a small pre-review before I serve the main review? What with the current trend for pre-desserts and post- appetisers, it seems appropriate, and will cost you no extra....
INTERVIEWS Broadcaster Sir David Frost, right, is renowned for his softly, softly approach to interviewing. He has interviewed the past seven British Prime Ministers and six US Presidents, but he told 'The Guardian' that there are a few leaders who have eluded him. "I...
The Los Angeles Times apologized for using apparently fabricated documents in a story implying that a 1994 fatal assault on Tupac Shakur was carried out by associates of Sean "Diddy" Combs, and that he knew about it ahead of time. "The bottom line is that the documents...
World News IN BRIEF *LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles Times has apologised for claiming that associates of Sean "Diddy" Combs were implicated in a gun attack on the rapper Tupac Shakur in 1994. The newspaper says it relied on documents that were apparently forged. "The bottom line...
The Los Angeles Times apologized for using apparently fabricated documents in a story implying that a 1994 assault on Tupac Shakur was carried out by associates of Sean "Diddy" Combs, and that he knew about it ahead of time. "The bottom line is that the documents...
Police were quick to develop a suspect after the shooting death in July of Diontea Jackson-Forrest, a promising young athlete and recent Wasson High School graduate. But they didn't get their "smoking gun" until tiny markings on a shell casing were matched to a pistol allegedly...
MAJOR LEAGUE Baseball has forced Morris Levin , 31, a student at the Wharton School, to stop selling T-shirts on his Web site that parody the logos of pro baseball teams with the last name of Sen. Barack Obama and the jersey number 08, TheSmokingGun.com reports. Levin, a graduate...
Across the Web So, who do you think turned them in, Hillary Clinton's people or John McCain's? Funny, perhaps, but Barack Obama supporter Morris Levin wasn't laughing Tuesday. Major League Baseball forced him to shut down his online T-shirt business, which used MLB team...
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson yesterday dodged Senate questions about staff e-mails that the Philadelphia Housing Authority PHA says are "the smoking gun" proving its case that HUD retaliated against the agency. PHA's director, Carl Greene Jr., has accused HUD in federal court of taking away federal...
WASHINGTON AFP — A detailed Pentagon study confirms there was no direct link between late Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and the Al-Qaeda network, debunking a claim President George W. Bush's administration used to justify invading Iraq. Coming five years after the start of the war in Iraq, the...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If you're new to something, sometimes it makes sense to buy a "kit" to get things going. The Traditions Black Powder Redi-Pak has everything you need to start making stinky smoke, but you'll have to add the caps and black powder. Otherwise, the Redi-Pak gets you...
Last week the New York Times, the so-called paper of record for this country, had a Dan Rather moment. Most of us remember the 2004 presidential election, when just weeks before Election Day, Rather did a story on the CBS show 60 Minutes, trashing President George W....
