Now, I’m not going to get all sentimental and say anything like “I grew up with Vincent Schiavelli”, but I can say he has played a big part of the movie entertainment experience in my life. I remember well his roles ranging from the recovering coffee addict science teacher in Fast Times at Ridgemont High [...]
This is a really sad story. Please keep her and her family in your prayers. A mother-of-five was killed when she fell from her loft as she collected her children’s Christmas presents. Eternal rest grant unto them oh Lord. And may perpetual light shine on them. May the souls of the faithful departed through the [...]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Nashville fire department officials say a man lying on a railroad track has been killed by a train. Department spokesman Charles Shannon says it isn’t clear why the victim was on the rails when the C-S-X train passed over him. The Nashville police department and the medical examiner’s office are investigating the incident [...]
MUNICH, Germany – Cardinal Leo Scheffczyk, a conservative theologian who due to his age did not participate in the conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI in April, has died, his office said Friday. He was 85. I didn’t know anything about him until reading his obit, but he sounded like a good man… Eternal rest [...]
SANTA MARIA, Calif. – A Greyhound bus ran off a freeway, overturned and slid at least 100 yards on its side before hitting a tree Sunday, killing a pregnant woman and a man on aboard, authorities said. Faro Jahani, 50, of San Francisco, and Martha Contreras, a 23-year-old Santa Maria resident who was seven months [...]
A powerful earthquake has hit southern Iran, killing at least 10 people, injuring dozens more and damaging several villages, officials say. The 6.1-magnitude quake struck Qeshm island, home to 120,000 people, and the city of Bandar Abbas, state media said. Every time I see new story on this incident, the death rate is higher. On [...]
It a sad day. This guy was an awesome actor. He will be missed….. The 73-year-old died at his home in Las Vegas on Thursday of natural causes, his wife Evelyn said. Born in California to immigrant fruit pickers, he was among the thousands of Japanese-Americans sent to internment camps during World War II. Morita, [...]
“LONDON (Reuters) – The last known surviving allied veteran of the Christmas Truce that saw German and British soldiers shake hands between the trenches in World War One died Monday at 109, his parish priest said.” Alfred Anderson was the oldest man in Scotland and the last known surviving Scottish veteran of the war. When [...]
I didn’t know him or hear of him until tonight. But he was a medal of honor winner and a “doc” so he deserves my attention. “TACOMA, Wash. – Robert Eugene Bush, who received a Medal of Honor for bravery in tending to the wounded while under enemy fire at Okinawa, has died at age [...]
“MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The Rev. Adrian Rogers, a three-time president of the Southern Baptist Convention and leader of a conservative takeover of the denomination, the nation’s second largest, died early Tuesday in Memphis. He was 74.” While I would differ with him a great deal theologically, Rev. Rogers is man I have a great deal [...]
Here’s another Sunday post only because it’s so worthy and urgent…. EVANSVILLE, Ind. – A tornado ripped across southwestern Indiana and northern Kentucky early Sunday, killing at least 15 people, wrecking homes and knocking out power to thousands, authorities said. This is terrible. Please be sure to pray today for the repose of the souls [...]