A baby giraffe born at a Central California zoo last month has died after running into a fence in an exhibit. KFSN-TV reports that the male giraffe born Sept. 9 at the Chaffee Zoo died Sunday afternoon.
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Lithium safe, effective for children with bipolar disorder, study shows
Lithium was found in a recent study to be safe and effective for treating bipolar disorder in children, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine reported. Lithium is one of the oldest drugs for bipolar disorder, a chronic brain condition marked by spontaneous, seesawing bouts of abnormally high moods and depression. The drug’s ability to stabilize mood extremes …
Read More »Steven Tyler: Aerosmith Tells Donald Trump To Stop Using His Music
Steven Tyler has asked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to stop using the band’s power ballad Dream On at campaign events. The rock star’s lawyers sent Trump a cease-and-desist letter on Saturday after the Republican started using the song at campaign events. In the letter, Tyler’s attorney says that the use of the song “gives a false impression that he …
Read More »Jim Carrey joins hundreds in Tipperary for ex-girlfriend Cathriona White’s funeral “Video”
Jim Carrey carried the casket of his late girlfriend, Cathriona White, at her funeral in Cappawhite, Tipperary, Ireland on Saturday. Taking to his Twitter page just hours after the funeral the comedian posted a silhouetted picture of him and Cathriona looking lovingly into each other’s eyes.
Read More »Shia LaBeouf arrested for public drinking ‘Video’
Actor Shia LaBeouf, who starred in the blockbuster Transformers movies, has been arrested for being intoxicated in public. The Transformers star was reportedly in the city for the Austin City Limits music festival when he and a female friend attempted to gain entry into a local bar.
Read More »Randy Quaid: Hollywood actor arrested crossing US-Canadian border “Video”
Actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi were taken into custody in rural Vermont on Friday night after attempting to cross the border from Canada into the United States, police said. The couple left the American soil in 2010 when they were facing felony vandalism charges for squatting in a guesthouse of a home they previously owned. They skipped several …
Read More »Calgary firm opens pilot project to pull carbon from air
The provincial government is providing $435,000 in support of Carbon Engineering’s (CE) carbon capture pilot project that converts CO2 into synthetic fuel. The company that built the plant, Carbon Engineering, was founded by a Canadian scientist named David Keith. A Harvard professor of applied physics, Keith has made headlines before for his outspoken advocacy for more research into geoengineering (specifically, …
Read More »Former Stooges star Steve Mackay dies at age 66
Sad news to report as Steve Mackay, saxophonist with the legendary band the Stooges, has passed away at the age of 66 after being hospitalized recently in critical condition with sepsis, a complication from an infection that can cause multiple organs to fail. Mackay’s profile rose when he was recruited to work with The Stooges by lead singer Iggy Pop …
Read More »McLaren releases limited-edition 650S Can-Am (Photo)
McLaren is celebrating 50 years since the inaugural season of the Can-Am series with the new limited-production McLaren 650S Can-Am road car based on the 650S Spider. It pays tribute to five decades of the Can-Am motorsports series, which brought about racing greats such as Graham Hill, John Surtees, Jackie Stewart and Bruce McLaren – the man that started it …
Read More »Tamir Rice shooting was ‘justified’, two separate reports find
Two new reports assert that the white rookie Cleveland police officer who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice last November was justified in his actions. In reports prepared for the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor, the action taken against Rice, who was holding a pellet gun at the time of his death, has been labeled “objectively reasonable.”
Read More »‘The Martian’ rules box office for 2nd week; Pan Flops
The Martian starring Matt Damon dominated the box office in its second straight weekend of release, hauling in $37 million to bring its total to more than $108 million. Holding on to second place for another weekend, Hotel Transylvania 2 continues to draw audiences in, taking in an additional $20.3 million. At Tribute.ca, viewers gave it a very respectable rating …
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