Jun 2009 Events

U.S. Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) failed to reveal in a Senate financial disclosure statement that he has options to buy 8,000 shares of stock in a real estate investment company where he ...

The Cleveland Cavaliers executed a monster trade Thursday to unite the superstars, acquiring Shaquille O'Neal from the Phoenix Suns in hopes he can help LeBron James deliver this seemingl...

Photos surfaced Thursday of what appear to be widely shut down stands in bazaars located in Tabriz and Saqqez. The organizations or individuals behind the events were not immediately cle...

(CNN) — A day after Mark Sanford admitted to an extramarital affair, one South Carolina newspaper is calling on the state's governor to resign. "Mark Sanford cannot navigate a deep and...

WASHINGTON - On June 4, 1985, the Detroit Tigers chose John Smoltz with the 574th selection in baseball’s amateur draft. Precisely 353 days later, Jordan Zimmermann was born. A record ...

LOS ANGELES -- Pop star Michael Jackson has been taken to UCLA Medical Center by ambulance suffering from cardiac arrest, fire officials confirm. Los Angeles Fire Department Captain St...

Michael Jackson, whose quintessentially American tale of celebrity and excess took him from musical boy wonder to global pop superstar to sad figure haunted by lawsuits, paparazzi and fai...

In the big inning The Orioles sent 13 batters to the plate in the eight-run sixth inning and equaled the season's biggest scoring inning reached in a May 9 game against the Yankees. Me...

ATLANTA - As a rule - and a prudent one, at that - manager Terry Francona avoids Josh Beckett when he pitches. That goes for before and during games. Why face that intensity, that competi...

CIA Director Leon Panetta told lawmakers in a recent briefing that the intelligence agency he heads misled Congress on "significant actions" for a "number of years," a group of Democrats ...

Angry demonstrators broke into the Iranian Embassy outside Stockholm on Friday, climbing in through shattered windows and injuring one embassy worker, police said. More than 150 people...

Maybe what they needed was the challenge of facing one of the game's best pitchers. The Milwaukee Brewers have been a team grinding its gears lately and struggling in several aspects, ...

ST. LOUIS - Runner on second in the ninth. Albert Pujols, THE ALBERT PUJOLS, is the tying run at the plate. What do you do? "People didn't come here to see us intentionally walk ...

"Straight from the G. My apologies. Larry (Eppley) has promised to work on jobs (5). What counts?" —University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman to Law School Dean Heidi Hurd

No matter how many times CC Sabathia said he felt fine and no matter that he threw a clean bullpen session earlier in the week, Joe Girardi wasn't going to be convinced his ace's arm was ...

WHERE DID IT GO? From the second the ball left Nolan Reimold's bat in the fifth inning, Nationals left fielder Josh Willingham had no idea where it was. So Willingham threw up his hand...

ATLANTA - When they have needed him - the day after Daisuke Matsuzaka’s disastrous start in Oakland, in a duel against Cliff Lee in Cleveland - Tim Wakefield has been there for the Red So...

Brazil has called off its search for more bodies and debris from the Air France flight that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean four weeks ago. Brazil Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mu...

This was no night to be a closer. After San Francisco was quite mean to Milwaukee's Trevor Hoffman in the top of the ninth, the Brewers returned the favor - and then some - against the...

Austin Heap, one of the leading Western hackers who helped Iranian dissidents and protesters get their videos and reports to the outside world following last month's disputed presidential...

ST. LOUIS - The Twins left Busch Stadium on Friday content that they had successfully tamed Albert Pujols, the two-time MVP and perhaps the best player in the game today. But, less tha...

"It is so much more than just an example of our pride, it is a chance to educate the rest of the city on all aspects of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender community. Pride gives th..." —Ernie Manhouse

The 2009 San Francisco Pride Theme is, "In Order to Form a More Perfect Union...." What is a Parade Contingent? A parade contingent is essentially a street theater performance with i...

s part of Toronto’s 29th Annual Pride Week celebration, the LGBTTIQQ2S communities, families and friends will unveil this year’s Pride Parade on Sunday June 28th at 2 pm. It will shine w...

Grand Marshal of this year's parade is actor, teacher and activist, Alexandra Billings. She will be riding in a classic car near the front of the parade procession. (see elsewhere on this...

ATLANTA - It’s the last one that’s the rub. The final game of the series, the inability to close out a sweep. Not that the Red Sox are getting that greedy, mind you. They’ll take the seri...

Mays was found unresponsive by his wife in his Odessa, Florida, home on the morning of June 28, 2009. He was then pronounced dead at 7:45 am, appearing to have died sometime overnight. Th...

Iranian media earlier reported that eight local staff at the mission had been detained for their "considerable role" in post-election riots. UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband called ...

José Manuel Zelaya Rosales (born September 20, 1952) is a Honduran businessman and politician. A son of a wealthy businessman, he finished high school and attended college. He inherited h...

ST. LOUIS - Carlos Gomez grooved to music in the clubhouse and his teammates didn't seem to be in a hurry to head to Kansas City after the Twins beat St. Louis 6-2 on Sunday to take the t...

Mariano Rivera's 500th save may have grabbed the headlines Sunday night, but there was another number that could have been even more important to the Yankees: One. As in Chien-Ming Wan...

Troops in Honduras have ousted the president and flown him out of the country after a power struggle over plans to change the constitution. After arriving in Costa Rica, deposed Presid...

Joe finds that it is rough being a member of JONAS when he develops a crush on a cello player who dislikes rock stars, so he decides to play the triangle in the orchestra. Nick and Kevin ...

You thought that whole business of the Orioles hacking it up on Sundays was over, didn't you? They had won their previous two Sunday games and you thought, "OK, the dark cloud has pass...

This year the Parade is Sunday, June 28th, starting at 11:00 am from the corner of Union St. and 4th Ave. it will be limited to approximately 2 ½ hours in length this year and should take...

New York City celebrates Gay Pride for a full week each June, to honor what many consider to be one of the foremost events in the history of lesbian and gay rights, the Stonewall Riots, w...

BALTIMORE - When J.D. Drew stepped to the plate in the eighth inning, with Jason Varitek standing on second base and the day yielding to darkness, a feat lay before him, in the gaps and d...

While many remain dissatisfied by Iran's partial recount in its contested presidential election, supporters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (ah-muh-DEE'-neh-zhahd) are celebrating. Ir...

KANSAS CITY, MO. - The Twins arrived at Kauffman Stadium on Monday looking forward, finally, to a game in which they weren't shorthanded or waiting for someone to come off the disabled li...

On Monday, the children, ages 7, 11 and 12, were placed under the temporary guardianship of their paternal grandmother, Katherine Jackson, by a Los Angeles judge. The biological mothe...

The look on Casey McGehee's face never changed. Not once. At least not while it was visible to the public. McGehee redeemed himself after a costly and embarrassing gaffe put the ...

"I asked, 'Why in the world are we admitting this student who is so low?'" —Abel Montoya, former admissions worker at University of Illinois

With a worldwide pandemic under way and more than a million Americans sickened by the new swine flu, the special nature of this disease is becoming better understood. Several articles ...

A federal judge sentenced Bernard L. Madoff to 150 years in prison on Monday for operating a huge Ponzi scheme that devastated thousands of people, calling his crimes “extraordinarily evi...

BALTIMORE - By the time Jonathan Papelbon jogged in from the bullpen, the Red Sox celebratory mood had withered. Where once they were mocking each other for leaving the field with just tw...

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood is a Western themed first-person shooter video game. Developed by Techland and published by Ubisoft, it is a prequel to the first game, Call of Juarez that ...

Darkest Day is the eighth studio album by the American death metal band Obituary. It was released on June 30, 2009 through Candlelight Records. 1. "List of Dead" - 3:34 2. "Bloo...

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a video game, developed by EA's Bright Light Studio and published by Electronic Arts. The game was released on June 30, 2009, to coincide with th...

Todd S. Purdum unleashed a torrent of anonymously corroborated indictments against (now former) Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, accusing her of erratic, irrational, unethical and down-rig...

An incoherent mess rambled from the side of one's mouth is not an unusual notion on Fox 'News' Channel's "Glenn Beck" (neither is a denim suit replete with denim tie). This instance was ...