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  • Facebook 'fact checker' who will arbitrate on 'fake news' is accused of defrauding website

    12/22/2016 2:48:56 AM PST · by Enlightened1 · 14 replies
    The Daily Mail ^ | 12/21/16 | Alana Goodman
    Facebook has announced plans to check for 'fake news' using a series of organizations to assess whether stories are true    One of them is a website called Snopes.com which claims to be one of the web's 'essential resources' and 'painstaking, scholarly and reliable'    It was founded by husband-and-wife Barbara and David Mikkelson, who used a letterhead claiming they were a non-existent society to start their research  Now they are divorced - with Barbara claiming in legal documents he embezzled $98,000 of company money and spent it on 'himself and prostitutes'    In a lengthy and bitter legal...
  • Chubby Checker's federal lawsuit has sexual twist, Gary law firm in Stuart says

    02/13/2013 7:06:25 AM PST · by ConservativeStatement · 5 replies
    TCPalm ^ | February 12, 2013 | Tyler Treadway
    FORT PIERCE — Stuart attorney Willie Gary has filed a federal lawsuit with a "Twist." Gary and members of his law firm filed a lawsuit late Monday in federal court in Fort Pierce on behalf of Chubby Checker, the 71-year-old singer known for "The Twist," against Hewlett-Packard
  • Rock 'n' roll pioneer Sam Phillips dead

    07/30/2003 9:39:24 PM PDT · by Valin · 41 replies · 1,800+ views
    AP ^ | 7/30/03
    MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) Sam Phillips, who discovered Elvis Presley and helped usher in the rock 'n' roll revolution, died Wednesday. He was 80. Phillips died at St. Francis Hospital, spokeswoman Gwendolyn McClain said. No details were immediately available about the cause of death or how long he had been hospitalized. Phillips founded Sun Records in Memphis in 1952 and helped launch the career of Presley, then a young singer who had moved from Tupelo, Miss. He produced Presley's first record, the 1954 single that featured ``That's All Right, Mama'' and ``Blue Moon of Kentucky.'' ``God only knows that we didn't...