Headlines for: 04-06-2000

FERGIE FEARS DAUGHTER WILL INHERIT HER CHUBBY GENE NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- Once-chubby Sarah Ferguson fears her daughter may be taking after her in the pig-out department. Fergie reveals in the upcoming issue of "TV Guide Celebrity Dish"

TEENS INTO CLEAN COLONS THANKS TO BLINK-182 CARMICHAEL, Calif. (Wireless Flash) -- Blink-182 has made high colonics a hit with youngsters. A colon hydrotherapist in Carmichael, California, says she's seen

FUNERAL FROCKS: CLOTHES YOU COULD BE CAUGHT DEAD IN ABILENE, Texas (Wireless Flash) -- Here's a fashion niche where the clothes are truly to die for: funeral frocks. One company that's sort of the Calvin Klein of coffin clothes is

`WORLD CUP' OF VIDEO GAMES TO BE HELD IN DALLAS DALLAS (Wireless Flash) -- It's official: video games are now considered a professional "sport." An organization calling itself the Cyberathlete Professional

SURVEY: WOMEN COMPARE PERSONALITIES TO SHOES SAN FRANCISCO (Wireless Flash) -- A lot of women wish they could give their personality the boot -- at least if a new shoe survey is correct. The Just The Right Shoe company recently asked women which shoe

MODERN SEARCH FOR E.T BEGAN 40 YEARS AGO MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (Wireless Flash) -- Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the day scientists first tried to phone E.T. at home. On April 8, 1960, astronomer Frank Drake in Green Bank, Virginia,

WIRELESS FLASH BRIEFS FROM AROUND THE WORLD NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- The wife of deceased 700-pound rapper Big Pun insists his death in February was caused by obesity, not drugs. Liza Rios tells "The Source" magazine that her husband suffered a

CANADIAN PASTOR USES VENTRILOQUISM TO PREACH EDMONTON, Can. (Wireless Flash) -- A pastor in Edmonton, Alberta, has found a unique way to spread the gospel: Ventriloquism. Pastor Sheila Loosley entertains her flock using "Digger," a dummy

DIRTY AIR CLEANER YIELDS NEW SHADE OF PAINT PORTLAND, Ore. (Wireless Flash) -- A Portland paint company has found a unique way to recycle old pigments: just mix them all together into a new color.