Englishchic's Blog – April 2010 Archive (8)

Barbara White of Eek-A-Mouse …

DENVER (AP) - A thief's thirst for a brand new iPad cost a Colorado man not only a much-coveted device but also two-thirds of a pinky finger.

Doctors had to amputate part of Bill Jordan's left pinky after a man Thursday yanked away a bag containing an iPad that Jordan had just purchased at a Denver mall.

Jordan, 59, had the cord of the bag wrapped around his left hand when the thief "completely blind-sided" him…

Ohio police say they've apprehended a wily white bank robber who threw them off the trail by disguising himself as a black person. Authorities say 30-year-old Conrad Zdzierak would rob the banks in a high-quality mask, then take it off as he drove to his next robbery target, confounding police on the lookout for a black man. He allegedly managed to hit four banks and a CVS within just three…

Hip-hop icon Keith "Guru" Elam died Monday as a result of cancer-related causes, MTV reports. He was 43 years old.

Guru was…

WASHINGTON – Dorothy Height, the leading female voice of the 1960s civil rights movement and a participant in historic…

A senior nurse at Haifa's Bnei Zion Medical Center's neonatal unit was photographed recently with a premature baby-girl in her uniform pocket – as a humorous gesture.

The hospital's administration refused to allow the nurse or the neonatal unit's director to personally comment on the photo, opting instead to release the following statement: "The Bnei Zion Medical Center's management views this incident as severe and…

Buju Banton's been awaiting trial for the past four months, and right when we thought the ball was gonna start rolling, a judge decided to reschedule the trial date to June 21st, without explanation. According to Buju Banton's star lawyer, David Oscar Markus, "We really want to go on trial and were ready to go on April 19th."



David Oscar…