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Former Pop Superstar Patti Page Dies at 85

Posted January 2nd, 2013 at 5:10 pm (UTC-5)
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American Singer Patti Page, who sold more than 100 million records during her seven-decade-long career, has died. She was 85 years old. The Oklahoma-born Page was a major star and the premier female popular singer in the pre-rock ‘n roll era of the early 1950s. Her best selling recordings of “The Tennessee Waltz” and “How […]

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US House of Representatives Ending Page Program

Posted August 9th, 2011 at 6:05 am (UTC-5)
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The U.S. House of Representatives is ending a nearly 200-year-old program that gave high school students the opportunity to work in Congress for several months. Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Minority leader, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, say the page program will close at the end of this month. They cited the program’s $5 million yearly […]

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