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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Mega Millions jackpot explodes to $355 million!!!

Lottery fever is raging just about everywhere. The reason: the Mega Millions jackpot, which grew to $355 million this morning, according to the California Lottery website. Players are throwing down all kind of money for these lottery tickets — hoping to score this mega jackpot. This is the second biggest Mega Millions jackpot of all time. The largest Mega Millions jackpot reached $390 […]
Sunday, January 2, 2011

Another winter storm pounds the Southland

UPDATED 12:30 p.m: Monday, January 3rd, 2011 This very cooold storm is slowly moving East, leaving behind clearing skies, some sun, and a few showers here and there in Burbank and the rest of SoCal. As the rain diminishes, the winds are expected to kick up. The weather watchers are predicting winds of 15-to-25 mph with gusts reaching possibly 30 mph this evening […]
Saturday, January 1, 2011

President Obama’s New Year’s Day address

Looking out for the middle class, growing the economy, and creating jobs are at the top of President Obama’s to-do list for 2011. Oh, and Obama is vowing to work with anyone –Democrat or Republican — who has a good idea. Here is the full text of the president’s comments today in his weekly address. Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly […]
Saturday, January 1, 2011

Mega Millions jackpot nears the $300 million mark

The Mega Millions jackpot blew-up again! No one picked all of the winning numbers in yesterday’s New Year’s Eve draw. So today the jackpot skyrocketed to $290 million and will most likely go even higher before Tuesday’s game — with lottery fever on the rampage. The winning numbers from yesterday’s game: 10, 12, 13, 35, 56 and the Mega Ball 9. […]
Friday, December 31, 2010

New Year’s Eve! Party time

Whether you’re ringing in the new year at a small or intimate affair at  home or rocking the night away with a crowd of friends, relatives and or strangers — check out radio station K-Earth 101 FM. This Los Angeles oldies station is counting down the top 101 party jams of all time right now. On the radio or on the Internet, K-Earth is boogieing down this New […]
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

City Buzz

Burbank used same audit firm as Bell A report from State Controller, John Chiang, reportedly found considerable problems with the audit of the city of Bell’s finances by Mayer Hoffman McCann — the same accounting firm that has done work for the city of Burbank. In a news release last week Chiang said: “MHM appears to have been a rubber-stamp rather […]
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

A rainy, cold, and windy Wednesday

Another rainstorm rolling through Burbank and the rest of the Southland today. Rain will be falling off and on, sometimes heavy, this morning. Weather watchers are calling this a fast moving storm — saying we should begin to dry out by this afternoon.  However, a cold and very windy system is hitchhiking on this storm — and it will bring some […]