A suspected Colorado shoplifter may just have wanted to pick up something nice for Mother’s Day. Police tell The Gazette of Colorado Springs that Ashanti Black, 22, walked into the SoundTrack (search) consumer-electronics store in town Sunday afternoon, greeting employee Jason Caldwell with a friendly “What’s going on?” Caldwell said …
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – State Sen. John Ford (search), a member of one of Tennessee’s most powerful political families, has resigned after being placed under house arrest facing charges from a two-year FBI sting, the lieutenant governor said Saturday. Ford announced his resignation in a letter Lt. Gov. John Wilder (search) …
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LOS ANGELES – Matthew McConaughey’s “Sahara” (search) heated up the weekend box office, with the action flick set in the African desert debuting at the top with $18.5 million. Audiences gave a cooler reception to “Fever Pitch,” the weekend’s other new wide release. The Drew Barrymore and Jimmy Fallon (search) …
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LOS ANGELES – Basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson (search) endorsed Antonio Villaraigosa for mayor Monday, giving the challenger one of the race’s prized endorsements and another A-list supporter in the politically crucial black community. Speaking at one of his health clubs in the San Fernando Valley (search), Johnson’s announcement became …
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You won’t see another pope like John Paul II (search). It can’t happen and here’s the reason: This was a man whose life was unfortunate enough that he lost both his parents and a brother while he was still young. He stood at that odd crossroads of the world in …
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LOS ANGELES – “Desperate Housewife” Teri Hatcher (search) told Associated Press Television News that she doesn’t court bad publicity. “I don’t really think about it, because I know who I am,” she said Tuesday night, as the ‘Wives’ launched their new charity, “Clothes Off Our Covers.” “And I’m a good …
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NEW YORK – Pfizer Inc. (PFE), the world’s biggest drug company, said its first quarter net income plunged 87 percent because of numerous charges, including one for suspending sales of its pain reliever Bextra, which it said will drive earnings for the year below its previously announced forecast. Pfizer earned …
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HOUSTON – Democrats, who often ignored Rep. Tom DeLay’s (search) Republican-leaning district, see a political opening in 2006 now that the House Majority leader faces ethics questions and dismay over his intervention in the Terri Schiavo (search) case. Democratic activists in the suburban Houston district have been composing a wish …
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Terry McAuliffe and other Democrats should pay close attention to their talking points these days. The nutjob running Iran, President Ahmadinejad, sent President Bush a letter, and if it weren’t postmarked Tehran it might have been mistaken for a crank letter from an angry leftist in L.A. or Boulder or …
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HOUSTON – Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, given the nickname “the hammer” during his political career, can add one more title to his resume: reluctant movie star. The Texas Republican was the focus of a new documentary that premiered Friday night in Houston examining the scandals that drove him …
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