Cheryl K. Chumley

Study: Barbie sours girls’ career ambitions while Mrs. Potato Head busts gender roles

A new study at Oregon State University finds that girls between the ages of 4 and 7 are influenced by Barbie to believe a woman's place is in the home. Mrs. Potato Head, however, and changes that perception.

March 7, 2014

Ted Turner hospitalized in S. America with possible appendicitis

Ted Turner of Turner Broadcasting System and CNN fame has been transported to a hospital in South America for an undisclosed reason.

March 7, 2014

Obamacare fallout: 49 percent pessimistic; 45 percent ‘scared’

Ask Americans how they feel about Obamacare and 49 percent of them will tell you: Pessimistic. And another 45 percent will add: Frightened.

March 7, 2014

Russia accused of sinking own cruiser to block Ukrainian navy

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense claims Russia has sunk one of its own vessels to block the Ukraine navy from sailing its own ships from Donuzlav Lake.

March 7, 2014

Pope Francis: I snatched a cross from my confessor’s corpse

Pope Francis admitted he went to pray by the open casket of his confessor — and took the cross from his dead hand.

March 7, 2014

Calif. shop facing angry fire pulls ‘smart gun’ from shelves

A California shop that was about to go down in history as selling the first supposed "smart gun" in America has now done a one-eighty and pulled the product, after customers and Second Amendment activists unleashed a slew of complaints.

March 7, 2014

Napoleon’s death-bed hair, shirt to hit the auction block

Napoleon Bonaparte's death bed and sweat-stained shirt is about to hit the auction block in France -- and so is a lock of his hair, his ivory cane and some of last-living bandages.

March 7, 2014

Rachel Canning revealed: Host let teen throw booze parties

The millionaire lawyer who's letting 18-year-old high-schooler Rachel Canning stay with his family as she sues her parents for money and college tuition allowed her a few years ago to throw a booze-filled party that left her drunk and puking in the streets.

March 7, 2014

Bob Costas botox caused pink eye; NBC host denies claim

NBC is fending off claims circulating through the media that the dramatic case of pink eye that drove Bob Costas from his Olympics broadcast perch was due to Botox injections.

March 7, 2014

Woman born male sues CrossFit for gender discrimination

Chloe Johnson, a transgender athlete who was born a male and who was prohibited by CrossFit from competing in a strength competition as a woman, has now launched a lawsuit claiming discrimination.

March 7, 2014

U.S. tasks Navy destroyer to Black Sea amid Ukraine tensions

The United States has ordered a dozen F-16 fighter gets to Poland and a guided-missile destroyer to the Black Sea in moves that are being billed as "scheduled" deployments -- but that nonetheless come amid heightening tensions in the region, from Russia-Crimea relations.

March 6, 2014

Teen on deathbed awakens as family sings hymns

A BYU student who was struck by a car and given a five percent change of emerging from a coma shocked her doctors by opening her eyes — at the same time her family had gathered at her hospital bed to sing hymns.

March 6, 2014

Staples shuttering 225 stores by mid-2015

Staples is closing down 225 of its stores in North America -- about 12 percent of its stock -- in an effort to cut costs and shore up weak revenue numbers.

March 6, 2014

Rutgers professors to Condi Rice: Go home, and take your speech with you

Professors and students at Rutgers University have joined forces to protest an administrative decision to ask former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to serve as this year's keynote commencement speaker.

March 6, 2014

Ohio kid, 10, suspended for forming finger like gun

In yet another show of zero tolerance policy, administrators at one central Ohio middle school sent a fifth-grader home for three days for shaping his fingers like a gun and pointing them at another student's head.

March 6, 2014

Kim Jong-un calls for execution of 33 Christians

North Korea tyrant Kim Jong-un has reportedly ordered that 33 Christians believed to be working alongside South Korean Baptist missionary Km Jung-wook be put to death.

March 6, 2014

Justice Dept. sues Philadelphia schools over beard-length rule

The Department of Justice has launched a lawsuit against the Philadelphia School District, claiming a school rule the limits how long employees' beards can grow actually violates First Amendment religious freedoms.

March 6, 2014

HIllary Clinton tries to walk back Putin-Hitler slam

Hillary Clinton tried to walk back from a comparison she made of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, calling on a critical public to remember she was only speaking to the historical links.

March 6, 2014

Rep. Alan Grayson rocks headlines for domestic dispute: ‘She’s simply lying’

Rep. Alan Grayson — the Floridian who once famously declared that Republicans' idea of health care was for the sick and elderly to die — is now rocking national headlines for a different reason: Domestic dispute charges.

March 6, 2014

U.S. mocks Putin: You’re full of ‘Russian fiction’

The State Department issued a mocking message for President Vladimir Putin over justifications he's put forth about his invasion of Crimea: You're full of "Russian fiction," the statement read

March 6, 2014