In honor of The Band’s Levon Helm, who died Thursday at the age of 71, here’s the song Elton John and Bernie Taupin named after him. “What I’m most proud of is he called me his partner,” said Larry Campbell, Helm’s longtime musical partner. “For me to arrive at a place in my career like that with a great man like him is the ultimate.”
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A plane has reportedly crashed in the Gulf of Mexico after the pilot, believed to be the only person on board, fell unconscious Thursday morning. Two F-15 jets were scrambled to monitor the plane, which went down into the waters of the gulf 170 miles off the Florida coast. [Photo: Flight Aware]
An insane story, visualized.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2qiv4RV8L1qz5ew6o1_500.png)
A plane has reportedly crashed in the Gulf of Mexico after the pilot, believed to be the only person on board, fell unconscious Thursday morning. Two F-15 jets were scrambled to monitor the plane, which went down into the waters of the gulf 170 miles off the Florida coast. [Photo: Flight Aware]
An insane story, visualized.
TMZ reports that iconic presenter Dick Clark has died of a massive heart attack. More info as we get it. (photo by brokentrinkets)
Mega-rich financial genius Warren Buffett announces, via news release, that he has stage one prostate cancer, but that it was caught very early. “I feel great — as if I were in my normal excellent health — and my energy level is 100 percent,” Buffett claims.
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Virginia Beach Police guard one of the ejection seats which landed about 100 yards from the crash site, after an F/A-18D fighter jet crashed into an apartment complex in Virginia Beach April 6, 2012. The plane was part of a training squadron at Naval Air Station Oceana for Navy and Marine aviators in Virginia Beach. [REUTERS/Thomas Slusser]
READ MORE: Navy F-18 crashes, sets Virginia buildings aflame
More from the scene of a fairly crazy crash.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m22rfydtkO1qmaoalo1_500.jpg)
Virginia Beach Police guard one of the ejection seats which landed about 100 yards from the crash site, after an F/A-18D fighter jet crashed into an apartment complex in Virginia Beach April 6, 2012. The plane was part of a training squadron at Naval Air Station Oceana for Navy and Marine aviators in Virginia Beach. [REUTERS/Thomas Slusser]
READ MORE: Navy F-18 crashes, sets Virginia buildings aflame
More from the scene of a fairly crazy crash.
A gunman opened fire at a private Christian college in Oakland, California, on Monday, killing at least two people and wounding at least four, authorities said.
Oakland police said in a brief written statement that a possible suspect was in custody after the shootings at Oikos University.
“No imminent public safety threat appears to exist in immediate area,” police said.
Local television reports had shown police evacuating Oikos students and loading them into a SWAT vehicle as other armed officers took up positions around the school.
READ MORE: Gunman opens fire at Oakland college, fatalities reported
Scary incident; we’ll be keeping an eye out as details unfold.
Latest update: One person reported killed, according to local network KGO-TV.
From MSNBC.com:
The man who shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, setting off a nationwide outpouring of anger, told police that Martin knocked him down with a single punch and slammed his head into the sidewalk several times — an account that police said witnesses have corroborated, according to The Orlando Sentinel.
Important to note.
A bus carrying a Belgian school party home from a ski trip crashed into the wall of a tunnel in Switzerland late on Tuesday, killing 28 people, mostly children.
Distraught parents, many of whom still did not know if their children were among the 22 pupils killed, gathered at a school in Belgium to be flown to Switzerland on military aircraft.
The bus, transporting 52 people, mostly children aged about 12 from the towns of Lommel and Heverlee in Belgium’s Dutch-speaking Flanders region, crashed in the Swiss canton of Valais at 9:15 p.m.(2015 GMT).
A police photograph showed the bus rammed up against the side of a tunnel, the front ripped open, broken glass and debris strewn on the road and rescue workers climbing in through side windows.
Read more: Bus crash kills 28, mostly children, in Switzerland
Jesus Christ. There were kids in that bus. Could not imagine what the parents are going through right now.
From Mother Jones:
A 718-page digital document obtained by Mother Jones contains names, phone numbers, neighborhoods, and alleged activities of thousands of dissidents apparently targeted by the Syrian government. Three experts asked separately by Mother Jones to examine the document—essentially a massive spreadsheet, whose contents are in Arabic—say they believe that it is authentic. As Bashar Al-Assad’s military continues a deadly crackdown on dissent inside the country, the list appears to confirm in explicit detail the scale of the regime’s domestic surveillance and its methodical efforts to destroy widespread opposition.
“The way it’s organized looks similar to other documents I’ve seen,” said Syrian expert Andrew Tabler, a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “It organizes people in such a way that it would allow the security services to be able to track them down.”
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Developing: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on all nations to place travel bans and freeze the assets of senior Syrian officials. Clinton also called on nations to boycott Syrian oil and suspend new investments.
Clinton said the Syrian government and allied states will have “even more blood on their hands” if aid is not allowed into the country, and said Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad will pay a “heavy price” for violating the rights of the Syrian people.
Reuters.com will have the latest on this story as it becomes available
What comes after this, if this doesn’t work?
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Cute poster found at the end of the Facebook IPO filing. [source]
A change of pace from dry, boring IPO documents.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyqj9v86ck1qz5ew6o1_500.jpg)
Cute poster found at the end of the Facebook IPO filing. [source]
A change of pace from dry, boring IPO documents.
It’s official. Facebook has friended the SEC.
Your child’s college education could be in Mark Zuckerberg’s hands.
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