Richard Portillo, 46, a veteran soccer referee, died yesterday after a week long battle with swelling in his brain. Portilo was punched in the face by a 17-year-old goalie, playing his first game for the La Liga Continental de Futbol squad in Utah.
Attraction, a shadow dance group from Hungary, appeared on Britain’s Got Talent and is the favorite to win according to Ladbrokes, an online betting site in Britain. It was the troupe’s initial audition, that stirred the audience’s and judge’s emotions and the video of that performance is going viral.
One half of the 90′s phenom rap group Kris Kross, Chris Kelly, died of an apparent drug overdose, after he was found unconscious at his Atlanta home yesterday, TMZ reports. Kelly, 34, who was known as Mac Daddy, when he performed with his partner Chris “Daddy Mac” Smith, was pronounced dead at the Atlanta Medical Center.
Atlanta Braves starting pitcher Tim Hudson became just the 112th person in the history of Major League Baseball to win 200 games Tuesday night in an 8-1 defeat of the rival Washington Nationals. Hudson is only the third active 200-game winner, joining the Yankees’ Andy Pettitte and the Phillies’ Roy Halladay.
FEMEN has struck again. Every heterosexual male’s favorite female activist troupe doffed their tops (as usual) and attacked Archbishop Andre-Jozef Leonard, the head of the Catholic Church in Belgium, by showering him with water from Virgin Mary-shaped water bottles.
Mark Sanford debating a cardboard cut-out of Nancy Pelosi.
Oklahoma State Rep. Dennis Johnson (R-Duncan), has apologized after using the phrase “They might try to Jew me down,” and then delivering an equally distasteful on-the-fly apology, when discussing a law to prevent “Big Box”stores from offering prices so low that small businesses can’t compete.
On Monday, District Court Judge Marianne B. Bowler, presided over the initial hearing of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings. The hearing took place in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where Tsarnaev is recovering from injuries he sustained during a shootout with police in Watertown, MA last week.
ViralRead will be updating throughout the week with just the facts of the Boston Marathon tragedy. We will update what we have learned about the victims, the progress of the investigation and any new developments that we learn throughout the day.
This photo has just been confirmed, posted by coldrunnings, a Reddit user who claims his friend on Boston Police Department sent it to him. This is the first image of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as he is being captured. He is lying on his back, bloody faced, receiving medical attention. UPDATE 5:35 p.m. April 20, 2013: We at ViralRead like to give credit where credit is due, and when we first published […]
