Leroy “Sugarfoot” Bonner, the colorful and flamboyant lead singer for the Ohio Players, died yesterday at the age of 70. No other details are currently available,…

via CNN The price of sending mail with a first-class stamp, the kind of postage most consumers use, goes up by one cent to 46 cents — a hike the U.S. Postal Service first announced last October. Postcard postage will also rise one cent to 33 cents. Letters to international destinations will rise in cost […]

via BBC News Thousands of people have rallied in Washington DC calling for stricter gun controls as they marched from the Capitol to the Washington Monument. The crowd included residents of Newtown, Connecticut, where a primary school shooting last month revived a debate over security and gun safety. They carried banners carrying the names of […]

Fruitvale, the true story of Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old Oakland man who was killed in 2009 by Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officer, Johannes Mehserle,…

via CNN That was a pretty catchy, sing-songy version of Sir Mix-A-Lot’s rap hit “Baby Got Back” in Thursday night’s episode of “Glee.” It was also very familiar to fans of indie singer-songwriter Jonathan Coulton. As angry Coulton fans are clamoring on Twitter, Coulton arranged and recorded an eerily similar “Baby Got Back” cover. So […]

Heroic Newark, New Jersey mayor Cory Booker once again came to the rescue; this time, saving a freezing dog left on the doorstep by its…