Ike forecast to slam Texas as Category 4, with 130 mph winds
[postpic=center]84156[/postpic] The frail and elderly were put aboard buses Wednesday and authorities warned 1 million others to flee inland as Hurricane Ike steamed toward a swath of the Texas coast that includes the nation-s largest concentration of refineries and chemical plants. Drawing energy from the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the strengthening storm was expected to blow ashore early Saturday somewhere between Corpus...
Hurricane Ike over Gulf of Mexico, aims at Texas
[postpic=center]84155[/postpic] Hurricane Ike gathered strength as it churned through the Gulf of Mexico-s warm waters on Wednesday on a track that would skirt the heart of the U.S. offshore oil patch before slamming into the Texas coast on Saturday. Ike grew to a Category 2 storm with 100 mph (155 kph) winds and could come ashore as a ferocious Category 4 storm on the five-step intensity scale with winds of 132 mph (213 kph), the...
Ike forecast to be Category 4 hurricane at landfall
[postpic=center]84154[/postpic] Mandatory evacuations were ordered in some Texas Gulf Coast counties Wednesday ahead of Hurricane Ike, which is expected to hit the coast Saturday. The storm could swell to a dangerous Category 4 but is currently a Category 2 hurricane, forecasters said. As of 5 p.m. ET, Ike had top sustained winds near 100 mph and was about 720 miles (1,155 km) east of Brownsville, Texas, and about 370 miles (590 km)...
Britney Spears worked her magic for the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards
[postpic=center]84153[/postpic] More than 8.4 million viewers tuned in to Sundays three-hour music event, a 19% increase over last years viewership (and 46% higher than the 2006 tally). Spears heavily hyped kickoff to the 25th edition of the VMAs included no more than a taped bit with Superbad star Jonah Hill and a 30-second introduction, but the night gave the pop star the comeback she tried to achieve last year: Her clip for...
Lynne Spears: Britney is -my brave little girl-
[postpic=center]84152[/postpic] The mother of Britney Spears says that the singer has overcome the tabloid nightmares of the past few years and believes that little by little, her daughter is regaining her “glorious voice.” Lynne Spears writes of her famous child and her other celebrity daughter, Jamie Lynn, in Through the Storm, to be published Sept. 16 by Thomas Nelson, a leading Christian publisher. The Associated Press...