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Nixon library hosts reunion for Vietnam POWs
U.S. Navy Lt. Commander Doug Burns was on a night reconnaissance mission searching for enemy trucks when he was shot down by anti-aircraft fire and taken prisoner during the Vietnam War. Burns broke three vertebrae when he ejected into a flooded rice paddy and spent the first weeks of his ...
Cuomo appoints lawyer to ethics board
Gov. Andrew Cuomo is appointing a lawyer to the ethics and lobbying board who works for the TV network which carries the cooking show hosted by the governor's girlfriend, Sandra Lee. Cuomo appointed lawyer David Arroyo to the state Joint Commission on Public Ethics. JCOPE regulates ethics and lobbying involving ...
Warrant for rapper Tim Dog, despite death reports
Lack of a death certificate or of a burial site and sparse obituary information led to talk in hip-hop circles that rapper Tim Dog, who owes thousands of dollars to women he was convicted of swindling, faked his own death in February. The 46-year-old, whose real name is Timothy Blair, ...
Warrant for rapper Tim Dog, despite death reports
Lack of a death certificate or of a burial site and sparse obituary information led to talk in hip-hop circles that rapper Tim Dog, who owes thousands of dollars to women he was convicted of swindling, faked his own death in February. The 46-year-old, whose real name is Timothy Blair, ...
Sons of rap label founders sentenced in tax case
Two sons of the founders of the Sugar Hill Records hip-hop recording label have been sentenced to probation for failing to file taxes. Joseph Jr. and Leland Robinson appeared Thursday in federal court in Newark. The pair and a third brother pleaded guilty last year to failing to file taxes ...
Writer Chinua Achebe honored in Nigeria funeral
Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria's corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honors, never fearing to criticize those he felt ruined his country. On Thursday, however, the lawmakers and the country's elite came to praise him. Hundreds attended Achebe's funeral among the rolling hills of his eastern Nigeria home, a ...
Robert Taylor: arresting as TV lawman 'Longmire'
You may not recognize Robert Taylor as anyone other than the title character he plays on the crime drama "Longmire." But he's no newcomer. "I've been working pretty solidly for a long time," says Taylor, with a wry throwaway: "Not that anyone would notice, you know what I mean?" But ...
Kids, teachers from devastated school reunite
Students from a suburban Oklahoma City elementary school destroyed by this week's tornado reunited with their teachers Thursday and collected whatever could be salvaged from the ruins. Some children carried thank-you cards. A first-grader was eager to see her favorite gym teacher and for a chance to say goodbye for ...
Nalen says he tried to hurt Olshansky in '06
One of the quietest players in NFL history sure had a lot to say Thursday. Former Denver Broncos center Tom Nalen made up for all those "no comments" during his 15-year career during an extraordinary half hour that at times showed precisely why he was wise to stay silent rather ...
WWII historian taking on American Revolution
An award-winning and best-selling World War II historian is turning to an older conflict for his next project: the American Revolution. Henry Holt and Company announced Thursday that Rick Atkinson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and reporter, plans a trilogy covering the years 1775-1781. Atkinson recently completed an acclaimed trilogy of ...
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