poughkeepsie shooting

A shooting has occured on Friday in Poughkeepsie where a NY police officer, a man and a woman, reported to be husband and wife, have all been killed in a rapid turn of events that seemed to be centered around an argument over a child. The child is reported as being fine amidst the fracar.

It began at around 1 p.m. Friday when police received a call about a woman shot, and arrived on the scene to find a woman wounded in a car and a man walking away holding a small child, police said. "When [a police officer] tried to confront the suspect, he tried to run from him," Poughkeepsie Police Chief Ronald Knapp said. The officer was able to overtake the suspect and confront him a second time, and he somehow got the 3-year-old child out of the man's arms and gave the toddler to a bystander as other police arrived.

So a shocking turn of events emerging from the area of poughkeepsie sees 3 people murdered and more details about the event to no doubt be revealed.

migraine aura

Serene Branson, The reporter for CBS who seriously messed up her lines when reporting at the grammys has been diagnosed with not a stroke but a "migraine aura".

The previous diagnosis from doctors was a "complex migraine" but now according to reports in the LA times, the reporter experienced a migraine aura.

Symptoms for a migraine aura include visual, language and sensory problems. Branson said she suffered from blurred vision and numbness and tingling in her face and hands, two key symptoms of migraine aura according to Dr. Andrew Charles, director of UCLA's headache research and treatment program. The final set of symptoms is what audiences saw: dysphasic language dysfunction. Dr. Charles told the L.A. Times that DLD happens when the victim knows what she wants to say "but can't come up with the words."

So the real reason behind the reporter's bizarre turn has seemingly been revealed and will make more people aware of such an ailment occuring.

ricky lee kalichun

Last month police laid charges against ricky lee kalichun (pictured left) for using a weapon as intimidation alongside public intoxication as it was revealed that he reportedly tried to attack an old roommate with a sword for not returning video games, according to the Evansville Courier and Press.

And that mug shot? He had apparently covered his face with black marker - as a disguise? Kalichun had put on his warpaint for this mission. Inside his former roomie's apartment he started unplugging the appliances and, when they hustled him out into the hall, Kalichup pulled a sword and started swinging for the fences. No one was hurt, luckily. Aside from the tribal designs on his cheeks, I think I make out a sun and what appears to be a desert landscape on his forehead.

So a bizarre case for the police to have to deal with and certainly not one of ricky lee kalichun's best days!

britney spears hold it against me video

Britney Spears released the music video for new song "Hold It Against Me" on Thursday night and it has much appeal for everyone, especially if you're on the lookout for new record buys. In the video Spears dances in a wedding dress, then fist fights herself but the real focal point is her own perfume products, dating site plentyoffish.com and sony electronics.

“You just cannot deny / there’s a spark in between us,” she sings, but the spark feels imposed more by the quick edits and bravura setpieces of director Jonas Akerlund than anything else; her dance moves are scarcely shown, spliced into strobelight-second flashes of small, I’m-trapped-in-an-invisible-box movement. It’s hard not to wonder: Is Britney having any fun?

So certainly a hot topic regarding her new music and whether it will be as much of a smash hit as past releases.

the 5 browns

Father of classical piano group "The 5 Browns" has just pledged guilty to sexually abusing his daughters when they in their childhood and now will have to go to prison for life. The trial was instigated when his daughters who are now 26, 30 and 32 went to the police after finding out their father was going to manage other child musicians.

55-year-old Keith Scott Brown was charged with one count of first-degree felony sodomy upon a child, and two counts of second-degree felony sexual abuse of a child. According to court documents, the abuse lasted sporadically from 1990-1998. Sentencing is scheduled for March -- and he faces anywhere between ten years to life in prison.

So a harrowing tale is hopefully going to find justice when the case reaches it's conclusion in the next month and Keith Scott Brown gets his sentence.

santorum

Rick Santorum is looking to run for the GOP nomination for president and is currently aggrieved with is what is termed as a "google problem". He's made it well known in the media about the problem which is maybe not the best idea but maybe is depending on whether you're also a candidate for president.

What is Santorum's Google problem? Chances are, you know it already -- "Savage Love" columnist Dan Savage started a website that linked the name "Santorum" to a transgressive sexual neologism. I'm in a bind, here, because explaining it or linking to it would only further it. And then I am "part of the problem." But if you Google "Rick Santorum" right now, the second result is a Wikipedia entry that explains it all. (Happily, the first entry is a Wikipedia entry that explains all of the other non-Google problem aspects of Rick Santorum's life.)

So certainly an embarrassing situation for the politician and one that he was dreading would ever happen.

oj simpson beaten

Sources from USA Today say a prison official claims that the National Equirer's report about O.J. Simpson being attacked has been fabricated and is "totally bogus". Steve Suwe is a public information officer for the Lovelock Correctional Center in Nevada and refutes the claims in an interview with game on!

The National Enquirer reported on Tuesday that O.J. Simpson was attacked in the Nevada prison and beaten unconscious. The 63-year-old has reportedly been a "marked man" in prison "ever since white supremacists overheard him brag about his sexual conquests of beautiful white women." Simpson's former business partner, Bruce Fromong, told the paper: "Unfortunately for O.J., a group of young skinhead punks were within earshot - and they were enraged."

So sources now say that the story broke on Tuesday is now a fabrication and that there is no truth but the truth will be revealed sooner or later.