Judges Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj put their differences aside to send 19-year-old Papa Peachez to Hollywood. By Adam Graham Judges on “American Idol” Wednesday night Photo: Fox
Wednesday’s show may have focused on the Nicki/Mariah spat, but a few contestants managed to make their voices heard. By Adam Graham Mariah Carey, Keith Urban and Nicki Minaj in Charlotte on “American Idol” Photo: FOX
Bundle up out there folks, isht is real ! The freezing temperatures across the country are killing people and causing massive fires. You have to see the photos from one such blaze in Chicago that required nearly 200 firemen to extinguish the flames. Here are the details via NY DailyNews : The Upper Midwest remains locked in the deep freeze, with bitter temperatures stretching into a fourth day across several states. The cold snap arrived Saturday night as waves of Arctic air swept south from Canada, pushing temperatures to dangerous lows and leaving a section of the country well-versed in winter’s pains reeling. Authorities suspect exposure has played a role in at least four deaths so far. Among the coldest temperatures recorded Tuesday was 35 below at Crane Lake, Minn., a National Weather Service forecaster said early Wednesday. The coldest location in the lower 48 states Monday was Embarrass, Minn., at 36 below. On Sunday it was Babbitt, Minn., at 29 below, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasters said late Tuesday that overnight temperatures wouldn’t get that low, but warned it was still frigid: Embarrass, Minn., was up to 15 below by late Tuesday night. Nighttime temperatures round 10 degrees made it harder for Chicago firefighters to battle a warehouse blaze described by officials as one of the largest in recent years. The Chicago Sun-Times reported late Tuesday that more than 170 firefighters responded to the five-alarm blaze at an abandoned warehouse on the city’s South Side that took nearly three hours to get under control. The Northeast was also feeling the chill from Ohio to Maine. In Connecticut, overnight temperatures were expected to range from 0 to 10 degrees over the next several days, and the wind chill could make it feel as cold as minus 15 degrees in some parts of the state. In Millinocket, Maine, residents awoke to temperatures of minus 9 degrees. The bitter conditions were expected to persist into the weekend in the Midwest through the eastern half of the U.S., said Shawn DeVinny, a National Weather Service meteorologist in suburban Minneapolis. Ariana Laffey, a 30-year-old homeless woman, kept warm with a blanket, three pairs of pants and six shirts as she sat on a milk crate begging near Chicago’s Willis Tower on Tuesday morning. She said she and her husband spent the night under a bridge, bundled up under a half-dozen blankets. “We’re just trying to make enough to get a warm room to sleep in tonight,” Laffey said. In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, residents woke to a wind chill that made it feel like 35 below. The temperature in Madison, Wis., was a whopping 1 degree above just before midday Tuesday. For northern Illinois, it was the first time in almost two years that temperatures had dipped below zero. The temperature in Detroit was a toasty 7 degrees with a 10 below wind chill around midday. City officials said they planned to extend hours at its two warming centers. A warming center run by St. Peter and Paul Jesuit Church downtown that usually sees 50 to 60 people on a typical winter day had taken in about 90 people Tuesday morning. Police in Milwaukee, where the temperature was just 2 degrees at noon, checked under freeway overpasses to find the homeless and urge them to find a shelter. The United Way of Greater Milwaukee has donated $50,000 to two homeless shelters so they can open overflow centers. On Sunday, a 70-year-old man was found frozen in his unheated home in Des Plaines, Ill. And in Green Bay, Wis., a 38-year-old man was found dead outside his home Monday morning. Authorities in both cases said the victims died of hypothermia and cold exposure, with alcohol a possible contributing factor. A 77-year-old Illinois woman also was found dead near her car in southwestern Wisconsin on Saturday night, and a 61-year-old Minnesota man was pronounced dead at a hospital after he was found in a storage building Saturday morning. At least two fires in southern Wisconsin were blamed on property owners using heaters or other means to thaw frozen pipes. In one case, a dairy barn was destroyed, and in the other, a mobile home was lost. No one was hurt. Our thoughts and prayers are definitely with the elderly and homeless who are hit hardest by these conditions! We hope no one else dies because of the weather. APImages
Bundle up out there folks, isht is real ! The freezing temperatures across the country are killing people and causing massive fires. You have to see the photos from one such blaze in Chicago that required nearly 200 firemen to extinguish the flames. Here are the details via NY DailyNews : The Upper Midwest remains locked in the deep freeze, with bitter temperatures stretching into a fourth day across several states. The cold snap arrived Saturday night as waves of Arctic air swept south from Canada, pushing temperatures to dangerous lows and leaving a section of the country well-versed in winter’s pains reeling. Authorities suspect exposure has played a role in at least four deaths so far. Among the coldest temperatures recorded Tuesday was 35 below at Crane Lake, Minn., a National Weather Service forecaster said early Wednesday. The coldest location in the lower 48 states Monday was Embarrass, Minn., at 36 below. On Sunday it was Babbitt, Minn., at 29 below, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasters said late Tuesday that overnight temperatures wouldn’t get that low, but warned it was still frigid: Embarrass, Minn., was up to 15 below by late Tuesday night. Nighttime temperatures round 10 degrees made it harder for Chicago firefighters to battle a warehouse blaze described by officials as one of the largest in recent years. The Chicago Sun-Times reported late Tuesday that more than 170 firefighters responded to the five-alarm blaze at an abandoned warehouse on the city’s South Side that took nearly three hours to get under control. The Northeast was also feeling the chill from Ohio to Maine. In Connecticut, overnight temperatures were expected to range from 0 to 10 degrees over the next several days, and the wind chill could make it feel as cold as minus 15 degrees in some parts of the state. In Millinocket, Maine, residents awoke to temperatures of minus 9 degrees. The bitter conditions were expected to persist into the weekend in the Midwest through the eastern half of the U.S., said Shawn DeVinny, a National Weather Service meteorologist in suburban Minneapolis. Ariana Laffey, a 30-year-old homeless woman, kept warm with a blanket, three pairs of pants and six shirts as she sat on a milk crate begging near Chicago’s Willis Tower on Tuesday morning. She said she and her husband spent the night under a bridge, bundled up under a half-dozen blankets. “We’re just trying to make enough to get a warm room to sleep in tonight,” Laffey said. In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, residents woke to a wind chill that made it feel like 35 below. The temperature in Madison, Wis., was a whopping 1 degree above just before midday Tuesday. For northern Illinois, it was the first time in almost two years that temperatures had dipped below zero. The temperature in Detroit was a toasty 7 degrees with a 10 below wind chill around midday. City officials said they planned to extend hours at its two warming centers. A warming center run by St. Peter and Paul Jesuit Church downtown that usually sees 50 to 60 people on a typical winter day had taken in about 90 people Tuesday morning. Police in Milwaukee, where the temperature was just 2 degrees at noon, checked under freeway overpasses to find the homeless and urge them to find a shelter. The United Way of Greater Milwaukee has donated $50,000 to two homeless shelters so they can open overflow centers. On Sunday, a 70-year-old man was found frozen in his unheated home in Des Plaines, Ill. And in Green Bay, Wis., a 38-year-old man was found dead outside his home Monday morning. Authorities in both cases said the victims died of hypothermia and cold exposure, with alcohol a possible contributing factor. A 77-year-old Illinois woman also was found dead near her car in southwestern Wisconsin on Saturday night, and a 61-year-old Minnesota man was pronounced dead at a hospital after he was found in a storage building Saturday morning. At least two fires in southern Wisconsin were blamed on property owners using heaters or other means to thaw frozen pipes. In one case, a dairy barn was destroyed, and in the other, a mobile home was lost. No one was hurt. Our thoughts and prayers are definitely with the elderly and homeless who are hit hardest by these conditions! We hope no one else dies because of the weather. APImages
During rehearsals, remaining three talk to MTV News about how they’re preparing for Wednesday’s finale. By Chris Kim Carly Rose Sonenclar on “X Factor” Photo: FOX
Simon Cowell confirms L.A. Reid’s departure and bashes competition show ‘The Voice’ ahead of Wednesday’s season-two finale. By Chris Kim Demi Lovato Photo: Gary Miller/ FilmMagic
The nurse who apparently took her own life after she being duped by a hoax call about the pregnant Kate Middleton left a suicide note, it was revealed today. The content of the note written by Jacintha Saldanha is unknown. Kate Middleton Prank Call It is understood to have been addressed to her family, according to sources, with an autopsy on the 46-year-old nurse scheduled to begin in London today. Saldanha died in a suspected suicide Friday after she was fooled by two Australian radio hosts’ Kate Middleton prank call , shocking the royal family and the world. The two DJs called King Edward VII Hospital in Marylebone, Central London, impersonating Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles and inquiring about Kate’s health. They DJs are facing a probe into their actions by police in Britain. Some say the nurse’s family has been given less support than the Australian DJs, who have apologized and are said to be in fragile mental states themselves. At the same time, their employer says they did nothing legally wrong. Political officials have demanded a full inquiry into Saldanha’s death after meeting her husband and two teenage children at the British House of Commons. Prime Minister David Cameron said in a statement that all the information possible about her death should be gathered and shared with the appropriate parties. “When you read of how hard she had worked across her life and all the things she had done and how much she cared about health and looking after people,” he said. “This is just a terrible, terrible case and, as I said, I am sure there are lessons to learn.” “When any of these things happen, having the full facts of the case doesn’t bring anybody back, but it does, I think, help people come to terms with what has happened.” “So, in so far as that is possible, I would support that.” The radio hosts of 2Day FM, who boasted of their call while the duchess was hospitalized for morning sickness, have had their show canceled and suspended themselves.
Lindsay Lohan could be headed to the can for a long time, according to reports. The fallout from her recent run-ins with the law could mean 245 days behind bars. When Hot Mess Anonymous is arraigned Wednesday for allegedly lying to police following her car accident last June, the judge will likely revoke her probation. Linds is on probation for her jewelry heist conviction. Judge Stephanie Sautner will then set a date for a hearing to formally decide if Lindsay Lohan violated the terms of her probation by breaking the law again. The hearing will take place at the same time LiLo stands trial on criminal charges – this is unrelated to her punching Tiffany Mitchell , for which she was also arrested. Even if Lindsay is found not guilty in the criminal case, the judge can still rule she violated probation; proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt is not required. The stakes for Lindsay are high, to say the least. She’s looking at eight months in jail for just the probation violation, and that doesn’t include the potential jail time if she’s convicted in the car accident case. Another bad sign? The L.A. City Attorney is “out for blood” and will file papers Wednesday asking that Lindsay’s probation be revoked, according to TMZ. The judge makes that determination on her own – prosecutors don’t even have to ask for it – but their voice will certainly be heard, and their voice won’t be kind. Of course, this is Lindsay Lohan. She’s pulled legal rabbits out of her hat more times than we can even count. Hell, she makes beating the rap look easy. The 26-year-old star always claims police are out to get her … maybe the judge will agree and give her one more chance for the 74th consecutive time. You tell us: Do you think she should do hard time? Yes, that train wreck brat will never learn otherwise! No, quit trying to make an example out of her, haters! View Poll »
For more Mars, tune in to our ‘Big & Best of 2012’ live stream, starting Wednesday at noon on MTV.com. By Kara Warner Bruno Mars performs on “MTV First” Photo: MTV News
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