Niagara woman nominated for Gemini for her segment on old Buffalo Auditorium (St. Catharines Standard)
A St. Catharines native is basking in the glow of a recent Gemini Award nomination. Jennifer Barr, 32, got the nod this week for best sports feature segment. “I was quite surprised,� said Barr, who recently returned from the Olympics in Beijing, where she produced special [...]
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Horoscope • Jeraldine Saunders (San Jose Mercury News)
BIRTHDAY GAL: TV host Lisa Ling was born in Sacramento, Calif., on this date in 1973. This birthday gal served as co-host of the popular morning show "The View" from 1999 to 2002.
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Family, admirers wreath LBJ with memories (Austin American-Statesman)
Under blue skies, members of the late President Johnson's family marked the 100th anniversary of his birth Wednesday with a wreath-laying and the opening of his Texas White House.
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08-28-08 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE (Eurweb)
SUGE KNIGHT JAILED FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: Cops show up to find ex-mogul standing over girlfriend with knife. *Las Vegas police said they caught Marion "Suge" Knight in the act of assaulting his girlfriend Wednesday morning and promptly threw him in jail.
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Alec Baldwin (AskMen)
Why Is He Famous? One of Hollywood’s most prolific leading men, Alec Baldwin, recently received his seventh Primetime Emmy nomination for his role as nutty network exec Jack Donaghy on 30 Rock . In addition to starring on the hit NBC sitcom, Alec Baldwin has also appeared in dozens of blockbuster films including The Hunt for Red October (1990), Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) and The Departed (2006).
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Police issued mug shots after £7,000 of Cabbage Patch dolls were stolen from a Caerphilly factory. (icWales)
The pudding-faced dolls were among the 40 boxes of toys taken during the burglary at the Hasbro factory on the Bedwas industrial estate.
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Dane gets 18 months for eating rape victim's thumb (Canada.com)
A Danish court on Friday handed down an 18-month jail sentence to a teenager who cut off and ate a young woman’s thumb, a report said.
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The Obama phenomenon: a view to history in making (Rocky Mountain News via Yahoo! News)
Before we begin, we should get our premise straight. So, let’s agree that whatever leaked campaign memos you’ve been perusing lately, the story of the Democratic presidential nomination is not how Hillary Clinton lost.
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Alan Carr: I couldn't come out to my football boss dad - I've never been in! (Daily Mail)
His soccer boss father wanted him to be a footballer, but Alan Carr always knew he was different. Now Britain's campest comic is making millions.
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Update: Margaret “Mag� Black-Scott (Jacksonville Daily Record)
This is another in a series on area executives and political and community leaders who have played prominent roles in the development of Downtown or Jacksonville as a whole over the years. Some are still in the area, working or retired or a bit of both.
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