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A Navy jet crashed Friday into some apartments near Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Bloopers are always funny. It's always a treat to see outtakes from TV shows and movies of people messing up. It's even funnier when it's live and there are no re-takes.

Italy - Rescue workers continued efforts to located about two dozen people who are still missing from the Costa Concordia.  A decision looms, though, to call off the search for survivors.

Gas - Experts say Americans could see  gas prices near $5.  The average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in the United States as of Monday was $3.39.  That’s nearly 30-cents higher than a year ago, according to Triple AAA.

If I asked you what the top story of the year for ESPN was, would you say the N.F.L. draft? The lock out? Maybe you would say something like a new NASCAR Champion, or Tiger Woods collapse in the world of golf. All of these guesses are good, but they are also wrong...

This is one of those stories that just warms your heart. In a world like the one we live in, it's so nice to know that there are those out there who do still have a conscious. To think that a man could spent the majority of his life feeling enough guilt about stealing money from a huge department store, that he one day returns the money that no one misses anymore. You have to think, maybe just may

Massachusetts - A 26-year old man from Massachusetts has been arrested and charged with plotting an attack on the Pentagon.  According to authorities, Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen with a physics degree from Northeastern University, planned to use a $6,500 model aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives...

This is always a difficult bit for me to put together.  It takes discipline to write a News of the Week song every week,  but it was my New Year's resolution to try to do this on a more regular basis.

Katie Couric of the CBS Evening News is leaving when her contract expires in June.  Notice I said "of the CBS Evening News" in case you are under 21 have no clue what show she was on.

With the horrific news and scenes from the Japanese earthquake and Tsunami, and the Hawaiin earthquake and Tsunami as well a lot of people are wondering about seismic activity in their region.

This is a tough assignment--to come up with one of these ditties that rhyme the week's events every week.  But if you think it's worth it, I will try hard to discipline myself to do it.  And if you ever want to contribute , be my guest!   (Gee-how many things can YOU rhyme with Charlie Sheen?)

The suspect in the Arizona shootings that killed 6 was described by friends and college classmates as "paranoid" and an "outcast".