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Hurricanes, Ward agree to $37.8 million contract extension
Published on 3 Nov, 2009 at 19:44 in Sports | Viewed 113 views times | No Comments
The Carolina Hurricanes and goaltender Cam Ward have both agreed to a six-year $37.8 million contract extension that will begin next season and run through the 2015-16 NHL season, the Raleigh-based hockey club announced Wednesday. The Hurricanes will pay the 25-year-old Canadian an average of $6.3 million a year. “We are pleased to have reached
Rams’ Vobora suspended 4 games for substance offence
Published on 3 Nov, 2009 at 19:43 in Sports | Viewed 134 views times | No Comments
St. Louis Rams linebacker David Vobora has been suspended for four games after testing positive for performance-enhancing substances. The NFL said Vobora had violated the league’s policy on banned substances, but provided no further details in a statement Tuesday. The suspension is effective until October 26. Vobora’s agent Marc Lillibridge said on NFL.com that his
Canadian circus guru makes journey into space
Published on 3 Nov, 2009 at 19:40 in Travel | Viewed 167 views times | No Comments
Canadian billionaire and circus tycoon Guy Laliberte on Wednesday blasted off in a Russian spaceship to become the world’s seventh space tourist. The 50-year-old former fire-breather and founder of the Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil is accompanied by two other astronauts. The three-man crew is due to dock with the International Space Station sometime today, October
Ahmadinejad is reason for hotel party cancelation
Published on 3 Nov, 2009 at 19:33 in Hotels | Viewed 359 views times | No Comments
The Helmsley Hotel in New York recently canceled a banquet scheduled this week after hotel personnel found Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s name on the guest list. The hotel later said that the man who called the Holocaust a lie was not welcome. Ahmadinejad was due in New York next week to attend the U.N. General
Gretzky steps down as Coyotes head coach
Published on 3 Nov, 2009 at 19:32 in Sports | Viewed 136 views times | No Comments
NHL hall of famer Wayne Gretzky announced today that he has stepped down as head coach of the Phoenix Coyotes due to reasons concerning the franchise’s gloomy ownership situation. “This was a difficult decision that I’ve thought long and hard about,” said Gretzky, widely considered the best player ever to play in the National Hockey
Marriott shrinks luxury timeshare segment
Published on 3 Nov, 2009 at 19:30 in Hotels | Viewed 242 views times | No Comments
Hotel giant Marriott International Inc said that its luxury timeshare segment will undergo price reductions and cancel development plans due to lack of demand. The cuts are predicted to result in an estimated $760 million charge. The operator of the Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotel chains reported plans to sell off some of its fractional ownership
U.S. bankruptcy court ok’s cubs sale
Published on 3 Nov, 2009 at 19:27 in Sports | Viewed 157 views times | No Comments
The Chicago Cubs baseball team will soon be under the new ownership of the Ricketts family, who today received court approval to acquire the team for $845 million from the Tribune Company, a media conglomerate trying to emerge from bankruptcy. Under the deal, the Ricketts family, which made its fortune from the TD Ameritrade Holding
Burger King aims at “upscale” makeover
As part of a plan to be revealed Wednesday in Amsterdam, the company will announce a massive effort to overhaul its 12,000 locations worldwide. The sleek interior will include rotating red flame chandeliers, brilliant TV-screen menus and industrial-inspired corrugated metal and brick walls. “I’d call it more contemporary, edgy, futuristic,” Chairman and CEO John Chidsey
Man denied food at closed Miami Taco Bell shoots worker
Published on 3 Nov, 2009 at 19:09 in Dining | Viewed 147 views times | No Comments
Police say a man upset he couldn’t order food after closing time at a Miami Taco Bell shot at employees as they tried to leave, hitting one in the leg. Police say the man waited in the parking lot and opened fire around 3:40 a.m. Tuesday. Investigators are still searching for the suspect, and the
Late Anna Nicole Smith investigated in murder plot
Published on 3 Nov, 2009 at 19:08 in Entertainment | Viewed 132 views times | No Comments
The FBI investigated whether Anna Nicole Smith plotted to kill her tycoon husband’s son as they battled for his father’s fortune, newly released files show, but the former Playboy Playmate who died in 2007 was never prosecuted. Smith’s FBI records say the agency investigated Smith in 2000 and 2001 in a murder-for-hire plot targeting E.