There is a new millionaire this morning.
Jake Long signs $57M deal with Dolphins, will be No. 1 pick. The Michigan left tackle signed a five-year contract with $30 million guaranteed. Dolphin's will select him with the top pick in the draft Saturday.
Hillary won in PA but, is she winning?
And, as oil rises (over $120/barrel?) the results are setting in. Gas in California hit $3.80/gal yesterday. Delta and other major airlines are warning that they will increase ticket prices this summer to cover the fuel increases. I'm not sure that the current US administration knows what is going on. Is it just our problem?
-Shakespere
The voters in Pennsylvania have cast their primary votes. With 99% of the votes counted, CNN is proclaiming Clinton the winner with 55% of the vote.
The exit polls are saying that the Clinton supporters were mainly white and .
There is an online sort of war going on. AP is reporting that Craigslist is firing back at its rival and minority owner eBay, scolding the online auctioneer's actions as unethical and smelling of a hostile takeover. EBay Inc. sued the online classifieds company Tuesday, alleging it unfairly tried to dilute eBay's stake in it.(EBay purchased a 28 percent stake in privately held Craigslist in 2004.)
San Jose-based eBay made $7.7 billion in revenue in 2007 and has 279 million registered users. It is the 17th most popular English-language site, according to traffic ranking site Alexa, while Craigslist ranks 45th. Craigslist, based in San Francisco, has never disclosed revenue figures. It charges for job ads and apartment listings only in select cities.
The 10th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival opens this evening in Roger Ebert's home town in Illinois. Ebert may have to miss it due to a hip injury last week. The critic injured his hip Thursday evening at the Pritikin Longevity Center and Spa in Florida, where he was undergoing physical therapy.
A Whirlpool factory in Evansville, Ind., has suspended 39 workers who signed insurance paperwork claiming they don't use tobacco and then were seen smoking or chewing tobacco on company property. Now, some could be fired for lying, according to a company spokeswoman .
According to a government report, the upper Midwest has the worst drunken driving rates in the country.Wisconsin leads the way. The federal government estimates more than a quarter of the state's adult drivers had driven under the influence. Rounding out the worst five are North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota.
Utah had the lowest incidence of drunken driving. It was the only state where fewer than 10 percent of adult motorists reported driving under the influence. Following closely behind were a slew of Southern states that often fare poorly when it comes to government health statistics. This time, however, they're serving as models. West Virginia, Arkansas, Kentucky and North Carolina all had drunken driving rates for the prior year of less than 11 percent.
USA Today is reporting that President Bush has set a record he'd presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll.
In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, 28% of Americans approve of the job Bush is doing; 69% disapprove. The approval rating matches the low point of his presidency, and the disapproval sets a new high for any president since Franklin Roosevelt.
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