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24 May 2010 10:04

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Culture: Brittany Murphy’s husband suffers a fate similar to his wife’s

  • december Actress Brittany Murphy was found dead of reasons later discovered to include drug intoxication.
  • may Her husband, director Simon Monjack, was found dead last night in the same house. Yikes. source
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19 May 2010 21:13

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World: Be glad you’re not Mongolian, don’t have to clean up this mess

Unless you are. In which case we feel really awful that a rough winter killed all of your livestock. The country’s entire economy could feel the ripple effects of this. source
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12 May 2010 10:37

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World: Holy crap: Sinkhole kills entire family in Quebec

  • strangeness The family was just at home minding their own business when the ground below their home started to fall apart in a mudslide.
  • sadness A day later, after a crew of rescuers tried to help, four people – the entire family – was found dead inside the home. source
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12 May 2010 09:20

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World: A huge plane crash in Libya reportedly had a survivor

  • 100 number of people who reportedly
    died in the crash
  • one child, somehow, survived, Dutch tourism officials say source
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08 May 2010 12:31

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About, Music: Sad news: The Saturday Mixtape’s taking a break

  • why? Blame it partly on Lala’s closing,
    but we also think it’s  a good
    chance to reconsider our
    short-form musical approach.
  • next We plan on trying different music features in the future. Our first was “Non-Expert Opinion.” We’ll keep you posted, guys. source
  • » Will the mixtape return eventually? Probably, but its form might change. We might also move it to Monday. Who knows? We might get lucky and iTunes will have a similar embed feature that uses HTML5 (hint, hint).
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07 May 2010 13:01

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U.S.: Twitter’s in disbelief about a shooting at a Chicago Old Navy



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07 May 2010 12:04

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U.S.: Scary: Chicago Metra’s director has Metra enact his final directive

  • He threw himself in front of a train and was killed. The commuter rail system’s executive director, Phil Pagano, killed himself near Crystal Lake, Ill. earlier this morning. Pagano, who had been in the position since 1990, was put on paid administrative leave last month after he gave himself an unauthorized $56,000 bonus last year. Wow. source
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05 May 2010 20:31

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World: Spam your condolences: Nigeria’s president dies after long illness

The soft-spoken Nigerian president, Umaru Yar’Adua, went missing from the public eye for nearly six months before his death due to health issues. source
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03 May 2010 19:06

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U.S.: U.Va.’s lacrosse teams hit hard by murder within their ranks

Men’s lacrosse player George Huguely has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Yeardley Love, a female player he had a relationship with. source
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03 May 2010 12:17

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Culture: RIP: Twitter’s sad about the death of actress Lynn Redgrave



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