The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that approximately 75 of its workers may have accidentally come into contact with anthrax this month due to a safety issue with its Atlanta labs. According to independent experts, it’s the largest anthrax incident in the last decade involving a U.S. lab. The CDC said the exposure […]
It may have seemed like the end of the world for millions of Facebook users Thursday morning when, around 3 a.m. Central Time, the site crashed for 30 minutes. Yes, the social media 1.2 billion users were unable to check their accounts and were greeted with the message “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on […]
A three-year-old Mississippi girl was asked to leave a Jackson, Miss. KFC in early June because the little girl’s scars were frightening the other customers. The KFC employee told the family that they had to leave because Victoria’s face was a disruption to their restaurant’s customers. The little girl’s grandmother Kelly Mullins said her granddaughter […]
Starbucks is providing its workers with another uncommonly seen perk for the service industry – the company will pay for workers’ last two years of college to get an Online degree from Arizona State. Best of all, there are no strings attached. The company, in a deal with the university, will reimburse employees’ the full […]
Icon radio personality Casay Kasem died Father’s Day at the age of 82. According to Kerri Kasem, her father suffered from advanced Parkinson’s disease. She wrote on her page the following, “”Early this Father’s Day morning, our dad Casey Kasem passed away surrounded by family and friends,” Kerri Kasem wrote. “Even though we know he […]
Chuck Noll, the legendary Pittsburg Steelers coach who won four Super Bowls, died Friday night at his home in Pittsburgh. Noll was 82, and according to the medical examiner in Allegheny County, he died of natural causes. Noll coached the Steelers from 1969 until 1991 and had a 209 -156 – 1 record, which includes […]
Tom Wheeler, the Federal Communications Commission Chairman, said he’s going to look into the reasoning of why people are not getting the good service they pay for to stream videos such as the ones from Netflix. Wheeler said he hates the idea of waiting for the buffering Netflix does, and he said consumers have a […]
Crude oil prices were pushed to their highest levels so far this year on Friday based on the civil unrest occurring in Iraq. According to a report, the worldwide demand for oil is likely to increase but the oil supplies in the country are not at an “instantaneous” risk. International Energy Agency, out of Paris, […]
Star Wars actor Harrison Ford was injured on the set of Star Wars: Episode VII and was airlifted to the hospital after a hydraulic door fell and crushed him. Ford, 71, was in Buckinghamshire’s Pinewood studios when the accident took place. Medics immediately assessed his condition at the studio’s M Stage where the Millennium Falcon […]
More than 560 people have been infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus since its discovery two years ago in Saudi Arabia, with 179 of those folks succumbing to the illness. In April, a rise in cases led the country’s King Abdullah to fire the health minister and criticized the infection control processes […]