CenturyTel, CenturyLink To Buy Qwest: Stock Swap, Merger

CenturyLink, CenturyTel Qwest Merger: $22.4 Billion Telecommunications Deal CenturyTel has bought Qwest Communications in a $10.3 billion stock swap and assumed $11.8 billion of Qwest debt. The CenturyLink-Qwest...

Frisbee Inventor Dies: Walter Frederick Morrison

Walter Frederick Morrison, inventor of the Frisbee, died at age 90 in Monroe, Utah. Walter Frederick invented the Frisbee after playing with a round cake pan with his girlfriend on a beach.  Walter Frederick...

Trina Thompson, A Jobless Grad, Sues Monroe College

A Monroe College grad Trina Thompson, 27, found herself at the Bronx Supreme Court filing a lawsuit against her college instead of being happily employed upon graduation. Thompson is suing her college for $70,000, the cost of tuition she paid to get her now useless...

Nevaeh Buchanan's Body Identified by DNA Test: Michigan Police

Michigan State Police confirmed that the remains of a young girl discovered last Thursday, are indeed those of Nevaeh Buchanan, the 5-year-old girl who had been missing from Monroe since May 24th.The Monroe County Sheriff's Office made the announcement on Tuesday after a...

Nevaeh Buchanan Body Found deceased

MISSING PERSON'S POSTERNEVAEH BUCHANAN   DOB:  Feb 3, 2004 Missing:  May 24, 2009 ...

High School Teacher Gets Charged After Sex Romp with Student in Parked Car

By MARK REITER BLADE STAFF WRITER MONROE - The case of a Monroe High School teacher charged with indecent exposure after being accused of having sex with a male high school student in a parked vehicle has...

Narco Cop Denies Charges; House Raided

Narcotics officer's house raided by Ray Kisonas , last modified December 05. 2008 11:28AM A Michigan State Police lieutenant who oversees narcotics investigations in Monroe County is on paid administrative...

Disturbing Issue of JFK's Secret Illness

Barry Artiste Op/Ed New Facts come to light that US President John F Kennedy suffered daily from a Host of Ailments and was in excruciating pain because of it. Guess, just not excruciating enough to keep his...

Lindsay Lohan Launches 6126 Holiday Leggings

Lindsay Lohan celebreated the launch of her latest 6126 leggings collection last night at Henri Bendel in New York, where a percentage of sales were donated to Ovarian Cancer Research.""I love to wear leggings,...

Robber Hires Henchmen on Craiglist

A armored-truck robber took a page from Thomas Crown and gave it a Web 2.0 twist: he used Craigslist to hire his accomplices, who unwittingly acted as decoys for his getaway, for which he threw in a bit of Prison...

Bank Robber Escapes On An Inner Tube

A man  in Monroe, Washington robbed an armoured car outside a bank and found a unique escape route: inner tubing down the Skykomish River.  The robber managed to elude police who searched the area on foot and by helicopter."Mitch Ruth, who works across the...

Audi rewords its 2009 TT with Quattro treatment

"Can you believe it? Audi TT has been driven for 10 years. To mark this, Audi has revealed the most performance focused version of its iconic sports car, the TTS Quattro. The TTS made its debut this week at the...

Obama says Palin's family off-limits

It is with my fearless leader's insistance that I will from now on, refrain from posting stuff about Palin's daughter. If I publish anything regarding Palin it will be stuff directly related to her ability or lack thereof to lead this nation should she be elected to do...

Judge Won't Lift Gun Ban at the Airport

The city of Atlanta’s ban on guns at the world’s busiest airport will continue despite a new state law easing restrictions on carrying firearms in public. U.S. District Judge Marvin Shoob Monday rejected a request for a preliminary injunction against the ban filed by a...

A Louisiana Flavor at the Beijing 2008 Olympics

"Twenty athletes with ties to the Pelican State will represent the United States during the 17-day athletic extravaganza. It is believed to be the largest Olympic contingent ever from Louisiana. Click to see what Olympians have Louisiana ties The athletes range in age from 18...

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