BEAVER, West Virginia – A man is in jail after authorities say he foiled his own robbery by accidentally pepper-spraying himself. The Register-Herald (http://bit.ly/1P5rwbx ) reports 43-year-old Michael Kevin Meadows of West Virginia was arrested Wednesday for attempted robbery. Authorities say a man went into a pharmacy in Beaver on …
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Sex Is Back |Whitney Pregnant? |Goodbye, Art Cooper Sex Returns With a Bang Last night’s premiere for the final season of Sex and the City — which is after all a TV series — was like an event for a new movie. A really great movie. HBO filled the Museum …
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And now the most compelling two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: FOX Fans: Missed the Grapevine? Watch it in the Screening Room! All According to Plan? An Iraqi intelligence officer in Saddam Hussein’s former regime says coalition forces looking for weapons of mass destruction “will never …
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This was not a good week for Democrats. The last time Kentucky had a Republican governor,Richard Nixon (search)was president. They have a new one. He isErnie Fletcher (search), a former fighter pilot who wanted to be an astronaut. In addition to intercepting Soviet jets attempting to test U.S. air defenses …
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Quaid, Gere, Leo Shut Out By Oscars I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Once the Golden Globes take care of movie stars’ nominations, the Oscars move on. And so it was this morning for Dennis Quaid, Richard Gere, and Leonardo DiCaprio. All of them did very good …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Officials in Northern California on Wednesday warned Bay Area Rapid Transit commuters that they may have been exposed to measles after an infected LinkedIn employee used the trains. Contra Costa County public health officials say someone diagnosed with the disease rode BART trains between Lafayette and San …
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ORLANDO, Fla. – A judicial review panel is recommending a four-month suspension for a Florida judge who was captured on video berating and threatening to assault a public defender. In findings released Wednesday, the six-member Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission found Brevard County Judge John C .Murphy guilty of violating various …
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WASHINGTON – A man convicted of killing Washington intern Chandra Levy is expected to get a new trial after government attorneys withdrew their opposition to one. On Friday, after more than a year of sporadic hearings and legal wrangling, government attorneys withdrew their opposition to a new trial for Ingmar …
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PARIS – A French farmer is on trial for killing a suspected truffle thief with two blasts from a pump-action shotgun. Laurent Rambaud, 37, told police he was guarding his truffle patch around nightfall Dec. 20, 2010 when he was surprised by a man and a dog. Saying he feared …
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PARIS – Thousands of doctors, nurses and other hospital personnel are demonstrating in central Paris to protest planned working-hours changes they say will result in more burnout and worse patient care. Technicians in white lab coats and nurses wearing green scrubs gathered in the street outside the headquarters of Paris’ …
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