Matthew Cole
Matthew Cole is a published author, journalist, freelance writer and an aspiring screenwriter. He is currently completing his M.A. in English.
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August 05, 2005
Hunter Kelly, the 8-year old son of Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly has died. Hunter suffered from Krabbe’s disease, a fatal disorder that ravages the central nervous system. A foundation named in his honor, Hunter’s Hope, started by his parents in 1997, has raised millions for research of this...
July 06, 2005
The rumors are true—somewhat. Angelina Jolie is expecting a child it’s just that she is not pregnant as some of the rumors suggested. Jolie, 30, is adopting her second child, a baby girl, orphaned by AIDS, from Ethiopia.
The adoption of Zahara Marley Jolie who is said to be “less than a year ...
July 06, 2005
The wrongful death court case involving the rapper Notorious B.I.G. was declared a mistrial Wednesday July 6, 2005. Federal Judge Florence-Marie Cooper’s ruling was based on her assessment that the Los Angeles Police Department deliberately withheld evidence in the case.
The trial, which began...
June 30, 2005
Jennifer Garner, 33, and Ben Affleck, 32, were married Wednesday night, June 29th, according to their representatives. She is pregnant with his child. The ceremony took place at the Parrot Cay resort in the Turks and Caicos Islands in the Caribbean.
The pair first met during the filming of “P...
June 24, 2005
Zack Sinclair, 35, described as an Idaho drifter, was convicted of stalking actor Mel Gibson, 49, Wednesday. Sinclair who accosted the actor after the release of Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” will serve 3 years in prison.
The drifter was arrested in September 2004 and convicted in a Los...
June 23, 2005
Summer officially arrived in Arizona, California, Utah, Idaho and Nevada via wildfires. Each of these states is dealing with fires that has forced many from their homes and burned many acres of land.
In Arizona a wildfire has scorched more than 6,200 acres of desert brush and destroying at least...
June 20, 2005
In London a man posing as a news reporter outside a movie theater squirted actor Tom Cruise in the face at the premiere of Steven Spielberg’s “War of the Worlds”.
The 42-year-old actor was busy doing press interviews when a man London Metropolitan Police did not identify the man but acknowledge...
June 19, 2005
Katie Holmes, the new fiancée of Tom Cruise, is considering joining the Church of Scientology. However, is Ms. Holmes truly ready for the conversion? Does Katie Holmes realize why the public has such a tainted view of this Church?
The Church has had its share of problems and scandals. In 1977...
June 18, 2005
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio attended a party thrown by Paris Hilton’s ex-boyfriend, Rick Salomon, and was struck by a bottle and required stitches to close the wound.
The object believed to have hit DiCaprio was a beer bottle. The actor was reported to have received a dozen stitches. However, the...
June 16, 2005
Lawrence Franklin, the former Pentagon analyst, was indicted on charges he leaked classified information to a lobbying group and a foreign government.
In the 20-page indictment filed by U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty in Alexandria, Virginia there were allegations the Franklin gave top-secret infor...
June 15, 2005
Terry Schiavo, the much-publicized brain-damaged women who collapsed in 1990 did not show any signs that she suffered abuse from the hands of her husband, Michael Schiavo, as it had been speculated. The autopsy, released Wednesday, revealed that Mrs. Schiavo did not suffer any trauma before her col...
June 14, 2005
Malcolm Glazer, 76, American financier, has now obtained over 97.3 % of Manchester United, moving him one step closer to privatizing the British soccer club.
Glazer initially offered to buy all remaining shareholders out—that offer ended Monday. However, Glazer is allowing two more weeks for th...
June 13, 2005
An earthquake shook the remote northern Andes near the Bolivian border in Chile Monday killing an elderly man while injuring several others, government officials reported.
The quake was registered at 6:48 p.m. and measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale, U.S. Geological Survey and Chilean officials co...
June 12, 2005
RUSSIA - A train bound from Chechnya to Moscow Sunday was derailed after an explosion created a crater in the track. At least fifteen people have been reported injured in the blast.
The blast occurred as the Russians were preparing to mark the Day of Russia, a version of Independence Day.
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June 12, 2005
A 5.5 magnitude earthquake shook most of the area around Palm Springs, California early Sunday.
The moderate quake was centered about 20 miles south of Palm Springs, according to the earliest reports from the U.S. Geological Survey.
There were no reports of injuries or damage, authorities are ...
June 11, 2005
A Shanghai man, Qiu Chengwei, 41, an online game player has been convicted of stabbing fellow online gamer and competitor, Zhu Caoyuan, to death. Qiu stabbed Zhu after Zhu had sold his “dragon sabre”, a virtual weapon used in the popular online game Legend of Mir 3. This created a serious dilemma ...
June 11, 2005
This off-season has been unique for the NFL in regards to their long-standing ticket policy. The NFL states that it is forbidden for any team employee to scalp tickets. According to NFL spokesman Greg Aiello the league’s commissioner Paul Tagliabue would determine the punishment for such a transac...
June 11, 2005
NEW YORK- Bernard Ebbers, 63, the former WorldCom Inc. CEO asked a federal judge Friday June 10th for lessening his sentence. In a brief filed Friday Ebbers’ attorneys cited his good character, age, poor health and the low risk of his becoming a repeat offender while in U.S. District Court in New Y...
June 11, 2005
Janet Reno is the first woman Attorney General of the United States of America. Nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993. Reno was reappointed as Attorney General in 19971 crashed her famous red pickup on the afternoon of June 10th in Marathon, Florida near the Florida Keys.
The f...