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The snow, combined with tremendously low visibility and strong wind gusts caused widespread delays and cancellation of flights across the U.S.
About 500 travellers had to spend overnight Tuesday at Chicago’s O’Hare International, the second busiest airport in the United States, after stormy weather cancelled more than 500 flights Tuesday, said Chicago Aviation Department spokeswoman Karen Pride. More than 100 flights were cancelled at O’Hare on Wednesday.

Travelers to San Francisco were warned that arriving flights could be delayed up to one hour and 47 minutes because of strong winds.
Area roads have …

Visionary filmmakers Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Nightwatch) collaborate to produce director Shane Acker’s unique and breathtaking story “9”.

“9″ takes place in a world parallel to our own, in which the very legacy of humanity is threatened. A community of fully mobile rag dolls living a post-apocalyptic existence find one of their own, 9 (Elijah Wood), displaying leadership qualities that may help them to survive. The conflicted but resilient community includes 1 (Christopher Plummer), a domineering war veteran; 2 (Martin Landau), …

I wonder if all surfers from Huntington Beach talk this way.

The Daily Contributor Team wants to greet all of Our Readers a Merry Christmas! A majority of our readers comes from the US and Canada but we don’t want to miss out someone here, so here’s a list on how to say Merry Christmas in different languages:

Mark Everett born as Manuel Benitez, was a former American child actor in Hollywood films. He was a fugitive wanted by the FBI for the bludgeoning murder of Stephanie Spears in Hawthorne in 2004. He was reported shot and killed by police officers responding to a hostage situation in El Monte, California on Wednesday.
Everett was killed after a 2-hour standoff as he held his 7-year-old son hostage in a restaurant, the authorities said. The boy was reported wounded.
El Monte police Detective Ralph Batres said the standoff began after an officer …

Wal-Mart agreed Tuesday to pay as much as $640 million to settle allegations that the company didn’t pay workers for overtime or let them take breaks.
The world’s largest retailer, which has more than 1.4 million employees, said the amount it pays will depend on how many claims are submitted by eligible workers and could range from $352 million to $640 million.
“After many years of hard fought litigation, the parties have reached an agreement that values the work of Wal-Mart’s employees by providing both economic and injunctive relief,” said Carolyn Burton …

Cyclist Lance Armstrong will be a father again, the AP reports. Armstrong is expecting a baby with her girlfriend Anna Hansen. Lance Armstrong and Anna Hansen, according to several Internet sites met through charity work and have been dating since July 2008.

A guy from WormyTV has created a fake Thundercats: The Movie trailer. Using his expertise in frame-by-frame, he digitally altered footage of Vin Diesel, Hugh Jackman, and Brad Pitt.

ScrollMotion, a New York mobile app developer, has launched a book reading interface wrapper for the iPhone and iPod Touch and partnered with big names like Simon & Schuster, Random House, Houghton Mifflin and Penguin in order to bring best-selling books like Twilight and The Golden Compass to you.
There are already several e-book readers in the app store, as well as a number of out-of-copyright e-books, but ScrollMotion’s product is unique in that these are stand-alone and newer in-copyright titles and best-selling novels.
Each book is a separate application using ScrollMotion’s …

After three years, Snowzilla’s gone.

According to Anchorage Daily News, Municipal officials have put an end to Snowzilla– the16-plus-foot-tall giant snowman Billy Ray Powers built.
Anchorage enforcement officials claim Snowzilla has become a noisy nuisance to Billy Ray’s neighbors and poses safety hazards to admirers.
The popular giant snowman attracted plenty of sightseers–a favorite for photographers and camera crews from Russia and Japan. It was too big to use buttons for its eyes, so Snowzilla gazes over the neighborhood from beer bottles.
A few weeks ago, city code enforcers left three red signs at …