Animator Edmund Earle’s parody of Yogi Bear isn’t your average Hanna-Barbera cartoon. The dark, western-style video, which was posted on YouTube Monday morning at 8:30 PST and had already garnered almost 13,000 hits 12 hours later, depicts Yogi being shot and killed by his sidekick Boo Boo. Earle started working on the meticulous parody in [...]
If the tides and tugs cooperate, the slow voyage of the disabled cruise ship Carnival Splendor should end within a few hours Thursday with the big ship docking in San Diego and the 72-hour odyssey at sea of 3,299 paying passengers concluding. [Updated at 7:52 a.m.: The ship has entered San Diego Harbor, but officials [...]
Posted by uspostWorldThursday, November 11th, 2010
The vessel is being pulled by two tugboats and followed by three others. The Carnival Splendor, which is carrying 4,500 people, was 200 miles (310km) south of San Diego when the fire broke out on Monday morning. The head of Carnival Cruise Lines has called the fire the worst accident in the company’s 35-year history. [...]
Authorities say there has been a shooting at a post office in the Tennessee town of Henning. Vice Mayor Debra Taylor told The Associated Press the shooting happened Monday morning. She couldn’t confirm a report by WMC-TV that two people were killed. Beth Barnett, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Postal Service spokeswoman, said there had [...]
Philippines braces as Megi becomes super typhoon : A super typhoon bore down on the northeastern Philippines on Sunday packing winds of more than 250 kph (155), and evacuations began before it makes landfall on Monday morning. Typhoon Megi would be felt on Sunday night in the north of the main island Luzon, a rice [...]