Englishchic's Blog – March 2010 Archive (10)

After years of keeping quiet about his personal life, pop star Ricky Martin has announced that he is gay.

"I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man," Ricky said in a message posted on his…

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- The founder of a cocaine-smuggling gang blamed for about 1,400 slayings has died of illnesses at a Jamaica hospital, a year after returning to his native island following a prison term in the United States.

WASHINGTON – Summoned to success by President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled Congress approved historic legislation Sunday night extending health care to tens of millions of uninsured Americans and cracking down on insurance company abuses, a climactic chapter in the century-long quest for near universal coverage.



"This is what change looks like," Obama said a few moments later in televised remarks that stirred…

Stacey Pagli told police she strangled her daughter Marissa with her bare hands when "she pissed me off for the last time," according to interview transcripts released Thursday.

The attack, followed by her failed suicide, came the day after her husband berated her as a "b****" and said "things you don't say to your wife if you love her," Pagli told police.

The…

Six women from the Essex County area who wanted fuller bottoms ended up in hospitals after receiving buttocks-enhancement injections containing the same material contractors use to caulk bathtubs, officials said.

The women checked into hospitals in the county after their procedures, apparently administered by unlicensed providers, went horribly wrong, state health officials said. The women underwent…

For the third time in three years, the world has a new richest man.

Riding surging prices of his various telecom holdings, including giant mobile outfit America Movil (AMX), Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim Helu has beaten out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the wealthiest person on earth and nab the top spot on the 2010 Forbes list of the…

Britain is shipping 42 million condoms to South Africa to help prevent the spread of HIV during the World Cup.

Up to a half a million people are expected to flood the country for the month-long soccer tournament…

Photo of Andrew Grande (a.k.a. Dustin Michaels) from Twitter, a gay porn actor who according to police died after being Tasered by cops and choking on a bag of pot he swallowed.

A simple early morning disturbance call ended with the death of a gay-porn actor.

And it was all captured on video.

Deputies with the…

This Chelsea restaurant has gone from brasserie to brassiere.

Chef Daniel Angerer is letting diners at Klee Brasserie munch on cheese made from his wife's breast milk.

"It tastes like cow's-milk cheese, kind of sweet," he told The Post.

The flavor depends on what the cheese is served with -- Angerer recommends a Riesling -- and "what the mother eats," said Angerer, who once bested Bobby Flay on TV's "Iron…

R&B crooner D’Angelo has been absent from the spotlight for years, but he reappeared this weekend in police custody.

The Grammy winner, 36, was arrested Saturday around 2:30 a.m. after allegedly offering an undercover policewoman $40 for oral sex while driving through New York City’s West Village, according to the…