Archive for July, 2009

Former Philippine leader Aquino dies: family (AFP)

Former Philippine president Corazon Aquino seen here in 2008. Aquino, 76, died Saturday of cardiac arrest after battling colon cancer for more than a year, her son announced.(AFP/File/Jay Directo)AFP – Former Philippine leader and democracy icon Corazon Aquino died Saturday following a cardiac arrest after battling colon cancer for more than a year, her son announced. She was 76.


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Family believed baby cut from womb was theirs (AP)

This undated photo released by a family member shows Darlene Haynes, 23, who was found dead in her Worcester, Mass., apartment Monday, July 27, 2009, with her fetus cut from her womb, Police were trying to find the missing baby Wednesday, which they said could have survived.  (AP Photo/Family photo via Boston Herald)  MANDATORY CREDIT BOSTON HERALD. NO SALES. BOSTON GLOBE OUT. METRO BOSTON OUT. MAGS OUT. ONLINE USE PERMITTED WITH MANDATORY CREDIT: BOSTON HERALDAP – Little things nagged at Cindy Dion while her son’s girlfriend, Julie Corey, was pregnant: One month Corey said she was four months’ pregnant ? the next it was eight. Her due date pushed back drastically as it neared. And Corey suddenly refused to let Dion’s son, Alex, accompany her to the doctor


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07 2009

Academy’s ‘Keeper of the Oscars’ dead at 47 (AP)

AP – Steven Miessner, the motion picture academy’s devoted “Keeper of the Oscars” who each year donned his signature white gloves to get the golden statuettes ready for their closeup before a worldwide audience, is dead at age 48.

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07 2009

Judge rejects plea deals for 2 ex-Pa. judges (AP)

AP – A federal judge has rejected plea agreements for two northeastern Pennsylvania judges in a kickback scheme involving juvenile detention facilities.

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07 2009

Regulators shut banks in Fla., NJ, Ohio, Okla. (AP)

AP – Regulators on Friday shut down banks in Florida, New Jersey, Ohio and Oklahoma, boosting to 68 the number of federally insured banks to fail this year amid the pressures of the weak economy and mounting loan defaults.

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07 2009

Skeleton wearing a suit found at Ill. cemetery (AP)

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, second from right, looks over the grave where two burial vaults were exhumed in the same grave at Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Ill., Friday, July 31, 2009. Authorities say they've found more discarded burial vaults at a Chicago-area cemetery where workers allegedly dug up bodies and dumped them in order to resell plots. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)AP – Skeletal remains of a man wearing a suit and tie were found sitting in a burial vault with no casket in sight at a historic black Illinois cemetery where workers allegedly dug up bodies and dumped them in a scheme to resell plots, officials said Friday.


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07 2009

K-Fed’s alleged bad tipping gets noticed

The Hard Rock even issued a press release.

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07 2009

Corazon Aquino, Philippines president, dead at 76 (AP)

Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino reads a statement during a news conference in Manila in this July 8, 2005 file photo. Aquino, known as Cory to millions of Filipinos, has died, her family said on August 1, 2009. She was 76. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco/FilesAP – Former President Corazon Aquino, who swept away a dictator with a “people power” revolt and then sustained democracy by fighting off seven coup attempts in six years, died on Saturday, her son said. She was 76.


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07 2009

Indicted NJ mayor resigns after 1 month on job (AP)

Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano, center blue shirt, is surrounded by media as he leaves federal court Thursday, July 23, 2009, in Newark, N.J., after being arrested in FBI sweeps earlier Thursday. Robert Corrales a spokesman for New Jersey Gov. Corzine says Cammarano's lawyers told the governor's office Thursday, July 30, 2009, that the 32-year-old rising Democratic Party star, Cammarano, would step down within 24 hours. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)AP – Mayor Peter Cammarano III resigned Friday, one month after taking office and a week after vowing to fight federal corruption charges against him while remaining on the job.


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07 2009

Mardy Fish withdraws from quarterfinals with abdominal strain

Argentina’s Leonardo Mayer advances to semifinals, where he will face Carsten Ball. Mardy Fish, seeded No. 2 at…

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07 2009

Sen. Dodd has prostate cancer, will have surgery (AP)

Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd and his wife Jackie Clegg Dodd speak at a news conference at his office in Hartford, Conn., Friday, July 31, 2009.  Dodd said Friday that he has been diagnosed with an early stage of prostate cancer and will have surgery in early August, but the prognosis is good and the illness will not affect his plans to seek a sixth term next year.  (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP – Connecticut Sen. Christopher Dodd said Friday that he has been diagnosed with an early stage of prostate cancer and will have surgery in early August, but the prognosis is good and the illness will not affect his plans to seek a sixth term next year.


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07 2009

Ore. faith-healing father gets 60 days in jail (AP)

AP – An Oregon City man convicted of criminal mistreatment in the faith-healing death of his 15-month-old daughter has been sentenced to 60 days in jail and five years probation.

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07 2009

Obituaries in the news (AP)

AP – Corazon Aquino

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07 2009

Angels push hard but fail to get Roy Halladay, Heath Bell

Talks ‘went right up to the deadline,’ GM Tony Reagins says. The potential deal for Halladay reportedly involved left-hander Joe Saunders and at least three other players. …

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07 2009

Biggest banks in US reward stars with huge bonuses (AP)

AP – Even when their profits dried up and they turned to taxpayers to stay afloat, the nation’s biggest banks kept paying huge bonuses. But much of the money went not to top executives, but to star traders and salesmen, even as the economy battled through the worst recession in a generation.

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07 2009

Remake watch: ‘Captain Blood’ edition

If you want to remake an old thriller, you’d better find a way to make it in a modern-day setting.

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07 2009

Michelle Kwan won’t compete in Vancouver

Two-time Olympic medalist chooses school over 2010 Games. The U.S. skater will pursue a master’s degree at Tufts, thus ending her career on the ice without a gold medal. …

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07 2009

Murdoch and Immelt and an MSNBC-Fox News peace

A meeting focused on sniping between Keith Olbermann and Bill O’Reilly.

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07 2009

Jackson’s personal doctor was in financial trouble (AP)

Authorities leave the scene after executing a search warrant at the Red Rock Canyon Country Club residence of Dr. Conrad Murray, Tuesday, July 28, 2009, in Las Vegas. Murray is currently under investigation for his alleged role in the death of pop icon Michael Jackson.  (AP Photo/Daniel Gluskoter)AP – Dr. Conrad Murray was in dire financial shape when he signed on as Michael Jackson’s personal physician earlier this year at $150,000 a month.


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07 2009

As Oklahoma mining town fades, holdouts give up (AP)

In this photo taken Wednesday, July 8, 2009, abandoned buildings line Main Steet in Picher, Okla. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)AP – Two years ago, Orval “Hoppy” Ray vowed it would take someone meaner than him to make him leave the town where he was born.


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