Fantasia Barrino will step back on familiar territory when she returns to the ‘American Idol’ stage. Fantasia returns with the third single off her Back to Me album, Collard Greens & Cornbread. The ‘Idol’ alumnus and one-time Broadway star hit the stage on FOX’s hit competition show Thursday (March 31) perform ‘Collard Greens and...
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Wiz Khalifa, 23 year-old star released his new major label debut. Hook-saturated and amiable, “Rolling Papers” takes the hip-pop trend advanced by artists such as B.o.B. and runs with it; this is a hip-hop album for people who didn’t think they liked hip-hop albums. Under the aegis of pop producers such as Stargate (the...
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Shelvin Mack scored 27 points, including five in overtime, and Butler reached the Final Four for the second year in a row with a 74-71 victory over Florida on Saturday. “This is a huge deal,” said Zach Hahn, whose two 3-pointers helped Butler stay close in the first half. “I don’t know that any...
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March 20, 2011 marks the vernal equinox, and what many people in the Northern Hemisphere particularly the U.S. refer to as the first day of spring. The name “equinox” is derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night), because around the equinox, the night and day have approximately equal length. Although the word...
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The Dukan diet, which is a huge success in France, is coming to America. Dr. Pierre Dukan, a 69-year-old neurologist whose books have already sold millions of copies and been translated into 14 languages. Inspired by both the Atkins diet and Weight Watchers, Pierre Dukan created a diet which he believes is better since...
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Japan should not expect a repeat of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster after an explosion blew the roof off one of its nuclear power plants that had been shaken in a huge earthquake, experts said on Saturday. Japan’s Daiichi 1 reactor north of the capital Tokyo began leaking radiation after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake triggered a...
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GasBuddy.com-an organization which uses hundreds of sites to find national, state and local averages for fuel prices, says the goal of the site is for people to report where they found cheap gas. GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan says the Billings metropolitan area (Billings, Lockwood and Laurel) sees frequent fluctuations under and over...
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Michigan high schools star basketball player who collapsed on the court after making a game-winning shot apparently died of an enlarged heart. The forensic pathologist in Ottawa county, Michigan ruled Wes Leonard suffered cardiac arrest due to his enlarged heart. Leonard, a star athlete at Fennville High, died Thursday night just after making the...
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Rodney King, 20 years ago Thursday, when George Holliday awoke to the sounds of police sirens outside his Lake View Terrace apartment. Grabbing his clunky Sony Handycam, he stepped out on his balcony and changed the Los Angeles Police Department forever. The nine minutes of grainy video footage he captured of Los Angeles police...
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Brigham Young University basketball star Brandon Davies has been suspended from the team for the rest of the season for the most personal of fouls: He had sex with his girlfriend, breaking the Mormon’s school’s honor code. “It was a surprise to everyone,” coach Dave Rose said, The school announced on Wednesday that Davies...
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