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Billy Mays has died today, 6/28/09. RIP Billy.

Billy Mays has died after a bumpy landing at Tampa airport; America’s favorite pitchman was found dead by his wife Deborah.

According to Fox news reports, Billy May has died. The report says”Mays was found unresponsive by his wife inside his Tampa, Fla., home at 7:45 a.m. on Sunday, according to the Tampa Police Department.

Billy Mays a passenger on U.S. Airways Flight 1241 flying from Philadelphia to Tampa landed. Billy Mays said after the landing “All of a sudden as we hit you know it was just the hardest hit, all the things from the ceiling started dropping. It hit me on the head, but I got a hard head,”, Myfoxtampabay.com reported. Watch the video of the Fox report below.

It is unknown at this time if Billy Mays death was a result of the plane’s hard landing.

Billy Mays used Twitter to send a message after the plane’s landing yesterday. The Tweet said “Just had a close call landing in Tampa. The tires blew out upon landing. Stuck in the plane on the runway. You can always count on US Air.”

Billy May’s son used Twitter to send a message about his dad’s death this morning. The message said “My dad didn’t wake up this morning.. I’m sure you’ll all hear about it. It hasn’t yet hit me but it’s about to.” He also Tweeted “On my way to the house. He’s gone. I’m gonna be strong for him. Thank you for all the thoughts and prayers everyone.”

Discovery Channel issues a stement on the death of Billy Mays

Discovery Channel spokeswoman Elizabeth Hillman released a statement Sunday extending sympathy to the Mays family.

“Everyone that knows him was aware of his larger-than-life personality, generosity and warmth,” Hillman’s statement said. “Billy was a pioneer in his field and helped many people fulfill their dreams. He will be greatly missed as a loyal and compassionate friend.”

Billy Mays wife, Deborah issued a stement “Although Billy lived a public life, we don’t anticipate making any public statements over the next couple of days,”. She also said “Our family asks that you respect our privacy during these difficult times.”

Billy Mays was just on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. You can watch the video below.

Our prayers go out the Billy’s Mays family.

This story is still developing.

UPDATE: http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/jun/28/281143/tv-pitchman-billy-mays-found-dead-tampa-home/news-metro/

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We’ve just learned Michael Jackson has died. He was 50.

Michael suffered a cardiac arrest earlier this afternoon at his Holmby Hills home and paramedics were unable to revive him. We’re told when paramedics arrived Jackson had no pulse and they never got a pulse back.
A source tells us Jackson was dead when paramedics arrived. A cardiologist at UCLA tells TMZ Jackson died of cardiac arrest.

Once at the hospital, the staff tried to resuscitate him but he was completely unresponsive. We’re told one of the staff members at Jackson’s home called 911. La Toya ran in the hospital sobbing after Jackson was pronounced dead. Michael is survived by three children: Michael Joseph Jackson, Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince “Blanket” Michael Jackson II.

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COPPELL, Texas (UPI) – A pizza chain may be violating U.S. laws with a promotion involving advertising stickers on pennies.

CiCi’s Pizza, which has its headquarters in Coppell, Texas, and operates 650 restaurants, mostly in the eastern United States, started its Penny Picker Up campaign Monday, the Jacksonville, Fla., Times-Union reported. The company distributed a total of 1 million pennies to stores with stickers redeemable for food.

A spokesman for the U.S. Mint declined to comment on whether the stickers violate laws against defacing U.S. currency or using it for advertising, saying any decision to prosecute would be up to the Justice Department.

Tom Koenigsberg, CiCi’s head of marketing, said he believes the campaign is legal because the stickers are redeemable. Any pennies returned to the stores are to be donated to Big Brothers Big Sisters, Advertising Age said.

Copyright 2009 by United Press International

PAXON, Ill. (UPI) — An Illinois man who helped create a car that transforms into an airplane said the vehicle will be available for public purchase within about two years.

Sam Schweighart, 31, of Paxon, Ill., said the Terrafugia Transition, which took its first flight March 5, is expected to retail for about $194,000, the Champaign (Ill.) News-Gazette reported.

He said about 50 people have already put down $10,000 deposits on the transformable vehicles.

Schweighart, who holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, created the car along with colleagues from the same university. He said the Transition runs on high-octane gas or aviation fuel and gets 30 to 35 miles per gallon on the ground. In the air, the Transition uses about 5 gallons an hour and can remain airborne for 460 miles at a time.

“If you need to drive and fly a short distance, it solves several problems, including finding or paying for a hangar,” said Thomas Haines, editor in chief of the news site for the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. “It’s really meant for a special kind of consumer.”

Copyright 2009 by United Press International

Special Olympics is running a campaign to stop the use of the "R-word."

(CNN) — An unexpected and sudden spotlight on the Special Olympics, an organization that for more than 40 years has served and honored those with intellectual disabilities, comes less than two weeks before the nonprofit launches a new campaign: Spread the Word to the End the Word.

March 31 is being billed a “national day of awareness,” a call to Americans to recognize and rethink their use of the word “retard,” or as the organization would prefer, the “R-word.”

“Most people don’t think of this word as hate speech, but that’s exactly what it feels like to millions of people with intellectual disabilities, their families and friends,” a statement about the campaign reads. “This word is just as cruel and offensive as any other slur.”

The push for increased respect is being spearheaded by young people who are collecting pledges or vows to not use the word at http://www.r-word.org/, and are leading online discussions on how people can get involved in this cause.

So far, across the country, 300 schools have already committed to hosting rallies on March 31, Special Olympics President and CEO J. Brady Lum said.

An aggressive print and online campaign, targeting people ages 18 to 30, will follow, said Kirsten Suto Seckler, who directs the organization’s global brand marketing and awareness.

The ads designed by BBDO New York, will challenge the public — with language meant to raise eyebrows — to think about the issue more deeply. The campaign uses slurs against Asians, homosexuals, Jews and African-Americans to make the point that language can be harmful to all groups, including people with intellectual disabilities.

Attention on the Special Olympics skyrocketed Thursday when, in a quick and clearly unscripted moment, President Obama exhibited the power of words during his history-making visit with Jay Leno.

While joking on The Tonight Show about his bowling prowess (during last year’s campaign trail he shamefully scored 37 in a game), Obama said he’d been practicing at the White House.

He told Leno that he bowled 129 in the White House bowling alley and said his bowling skills are “like Special Olympics or something.”

The comment during the taping of the show prompted Obama to pick up the phone on Air Force One and call Special Olympics Chairman Timothy Shriver to preemptively apologize for the remark before it hit television screens. He also reportedly invited Special Olympic athletes to Pennsylvania Avenue to hit the lanes and give him tips or shoot some hoops.

The president “expressed his heartfelt and sincere commitment to work with our athletes and make this country a more accepting place for people with special needs,” Lum, the organization’s president, said.

What Obama said on The Tonight Show adds to the discussion that’s needed to raise awareness and has proven “an incredibly important and seriously teachable moment,” Lum said.

From playgrounds to the “top rungs of our leadership, including our president,” he said Americans have plenty to talk about and learn when it comes to stereotypes and how words can sting.

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Student Johnathon Locke Jr., says he wasn't the one who passed gas on the bus.

POLK COUNTY (Bay News 9) – A Polk County student is banned from riding the bus for three days after he apparently passed gas while on the bus.

Bill Duncan Opportunity School eighth grader Johnathon Locke Jr. says he wasn’t even the one who, well, farted.

“And it wasn’t even me,” Locke said. “It was a kid in front of me.”

It appears that Locke’s assumed guilt is based on the old rule, “he who smelt it, dealt it.”

“Everybody like then smelled a fart, so then I started laughing,” Locke said. “And then the bus driver thought that I did it, and then she wrote me up for it.”

But the school district doesn’t have a specific policy on passing gas on a school bus. But it does have a rule against disruptive behavior.

An official school bus misbehavior form reads, “Johnathon passes gas on the bus to make the other children laugh, and it is so stink that you can’t breathe after he does it.”

Locke’s father admits his son hasn’t been perfect in school, but figures this is taking school bus rules a little too far.

“It was something more than I could comprehend over something so silly,” said Johnathon Locke Sr.

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