US Weekly Magazine has learned that LaToya Jackson has been approached to compete on the talent show and in related news, La Toya’s brother, singer-turned-reality TV star Jermaine Jackson, has also been tapped for a spot on the ninth season of Dancing With The Stars, premiering next month.
Jermaine Jackson think he shouldn't join the show, but he thinks he could win it all. It’s not as if he doesn’t know how to work an audience, he's just nervous and scare the audience won't like or vote for him on the show. If he joins the cast, this will be a steady job for him in a long time because he hasn’t had any traction with the other projects and reunion shows he’d hoped for. This will be a great opportunity if he joins the show cause once your on this show, you are guarantee to be famous and get a permanent job.
If you don't know who LaToya Jackson or Jermaine Jackson are they were Michael Jackson's brother and sister before he passed away 2 months ago.
The official cast of this season’s celebrity line up for the new Dancing With The Stars will be announce next Monday on Good Morning America.
In his first public interview since being convicted in 2007 for running an illegal dogfighting ring, Michael Vick will appear on “60 Minutes” this Sunday. DeMatha Catholic High School graduate and CBS’ NFL Today anchorman, James Brown conducted the interview yesterday in Virginia. Special advisor and former NFL coach, Tony Dungy along with Wayne Pacelle, head of the Humane Society of the U.S. will be featured in the segment.
Cameras followed the former Atlanta Falcons quarterback as he returned to Atlanta Saturday to speak with at-risk youths at the New Life Community Center about the tragedy of dogfighting.
“He said he did wrong,” Stanley Jones (17) told the Associated Press. “Now he’s trying to come up with a smarter way to help the whole community, for young people like us, to make a change…It seemed like it came from the heart. I heard him saying something about how he came from the same (sort of) neighborhood that we did. He said he had only one dream, and he messed up that whole dream.”
The Phillies have made accommodations for the three-time Cy Young winner by bumping Jamie Moyer to the bullpen. Will it work?
Somewhere, a legion of Mets fans is taking bets on how long it will take for Pedro Martinez to break down. One start? Two? The entire situation is debatable at best, but if the Phils were going to try this – an inevitability since the moment Pedro put ink to paper – now is the time to do it. I said all along the Phils can afford to experiment with one of their rotation slots. There's time to decide whether Pedro can help, with eyes on October. Actually, if you want to get technical, there's enough time for the Pedro experiment to fail and add even more pitching via waivers before the Sept. 1 deadline. That said, I’m still uncertain whether Moyer’s performance this season warranted this switch. Moyer at least kept them in ballgames most of the time. Here, they’re swapping a 79 ERA+ with a guy who had a 75 ERA+ last season and hasn't pitched in the majors since Sept. 25.
In the spirit of objectivity, setting this poll on a nice, even axis, I give Pedro a 50/50 shot of being better than Moyer. It's hard to imagine Pedro lasting a full seven innings. In 20 starts last season, going 5-6 with a 5.61 ERA, he lasted seven innings just twice. But at the same time, it's hard to picture Pedro surrendering 11 hits in five-plus innings, the way Moyer did on Sunday.
Meanwhile, I don't see Moyer's new role as anything more than a backup plan for Pedro. He's not going to be used in any difference-making way out of the pen. The Phils have two double-header dates in September and there's a good chance Moyer will reemerge for those. Even still, the Phils appear to be bending over backwards to some degree, just to accommodate Pedro.
A man suspected of gunning down his girlfriend and another person at the entrance to a busy San Francisco Bay toll bridge was arrested after an overnight manhunt, police said Wednesday.
California Highway Patrol officers arrested Nathaniel Burris, 46, around 3:15 a.m. Wednesday in Placer County, about 120 miles northeast of the shooting at the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge toll plaza. Authorities said Burris was sleeping in an airport shuttle van, but drove off after CHP officers approached and surrendered after a short chase.
Burris was booked into Placer County Jail on two counts of murder.
He's suspected of being the driver who opened fire with a shotgun around 6 p.m. Tuesday, killing his girlfriend, Deborah Ross, who was a 51-year-old California Department of Transportation toll booth collector, and 58-year-old Ersie Charles Everett, who was sitting in his truck in the toll plaza parking lot.
Ross and Burris shared a house in Richmond, and neighbors said the two had been having financial problems.
Everett also was a state transportation employee and had driven Ross to work Tuesday, authorities said. Richmond police said they're looking into the relationship between the victims.
Witnesses said a man used the butt of a shotgun to shatter the window of the No. 3 toll booth, then fired at least three times before fleeing in the van. Officers found Ross' body inside the booth. Patrol Sgt. Trent Cross described the scene as "horrific."
The bridge over the northern portion of San Francisco Bay connects well-to-do Marin County with Richmond and other East Bay suburbs.
Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias told Newsweek that the new e-mails released related to the controversial 2006 firings of U.S. Attorneys across the nation, including himself, “There were improper and potentially illegal — as in criminally illegal — reasons for my removal.”
That’s pretty much the same thing Iglesias, once a rising star in the state Republican Party, said to NMI’s Heath Haussamen.
Iglesias also told the magazine that the revelations “confirm[ed] my worst nightmares.”
Iglesias says that the new documents show that Rove was more than a mere “conduit” as he called himself in House Judiciary Committee hearings last month.
Republican Lamar Smith, the ranking Republican member on the Judiciary Committee, however, said that such talk is unfounded. “Despite all evidence to the contrary, House Democrats continue to falsely accuse former Bush administration official Karl Rove of wrongdoing in the dismissal of several U.S. Attorneys,” Smith said in a statement to Newsweek.
A two-tour veteran of the Iraq War and graduate of West Point and Harvard University, Anthony Woods, 29, enjoys a solid resume that would make him a good candidate for public office.
But if you have heard of Woods, who is seeking election to Congress from California's 10th House District, it likely has little to do with his impressive credentials.
Woods has gained notoriety because he is the first openly gay black man to run for Congress.
His run for office has drawn parallels to the story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to a public office in California. In 1978, Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, another city supervisor who had recently resigned but wanted his job back.
Woods informed military commanders that he was gay and received an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army on the grounds of "moral and professional dereliction" under the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. Woods opposes the policy, created by the Clinton White House in 1993.
While Woods makes little to no mention of his sexual orientation on his campaign Web site, he has support from the gay community. Both the Human Rights Campaign and the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund have endorsed him, calling him a potential advocate for gay, lesbian and transgender issues in the Congress.
It would be a shame if Woods' sexual preference overshadows his political stance on important topics facing the nation, such as balancing the federal budget and health care and immigration reform.
Ultimately, what will mark Woods as a success will have far more to do with his political savvy, maturity and ability to serve constituents than who he sleeps with.
At this point, he is considered a long shot in the high-profiled contest, which includes California's Lt. Gov. John Garamendi, state Sen. Mark James DeSaulnier and Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan.
The election will replace Rep. Ellen Tauscher, who is leaving Congress to become undersecretary of state for arms control and international security in the Obama administration.
A multiparty primary election is scheduled for Sept. 1. If no candidate receives at least 51 percent of the vote, a run-off general election will be held Nov. 3 to decide the winner.
(MarketWatch) -- Total existing home sales in the U.S., including single-family houses and condos, fell 2.9% in the second quarter from the year-earlier period, the National Association of Realtors said Wednesday. Sales rose 3.8% from the first quarter, the realtors group said. "With low interest rates, lower home prices and a first-time buyer tax credit, we've been seeing healthy increases in home sales, which are a hopeful sign for the economy," said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun.
