House fire in Warwick, RI, kills 5, including baby The News & Observer | WARWICK, R.I. -- A house fire that officials said might have simmered undetected for hours Saturday killed five people, including a mother and her 7-month-old baby, in one of Rhode Island's deadliest blazes since a 2003 fire at a crowded nightclub killed 100 people. | Firefighters found the victim...
Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz share a lollipop as they watch basketball game The Daily Mail | They've been together nearly four years, but as Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz cuddled up at a basketball game they looked like a couple in the first flush of love. | The pair, who married two years ago, sat wrapped together and shared a lollipop as they watched the game. | But it seemed they were ...
The plot thickens: MacLaine finds cemetery is the perfect setting for 'Valentine's Day' Philadelphia Daily News | By ANGELA DAWSON | Philadelphia Daily News | Entertainment News Wire HOLLYWOOD - Known for her belief in reincarnation, "Valentine's Day" actress Shirley MacLaine had no problem filming a humorous scene in a cemetery surrounded by dozens ...
Readings and Talks New Yorker | MUSEO DEL BARRIO | Silvana Paternostro, Luis Enrique Pérez-Oramas, Esperanza Mayobre, and others read from Bomb magazine’s annual Americas issue, dedicated to Colombia and Venezuela (Fifth Ave. at 104th St. 212-831-7272. Feb. 10 at 6:30....
5 hospitalized after NYC fire rescue The Examiner Comments NEW YORK (Map, News) - New York City firefighters have rescued several children from a burning apartment building in the Bronx. | The blaze happened early Sunday morning in the Morris Heights section of the borough. | All three children were...
PINE, Alvin San Fransisco Chronicle | Alvin A. Pine Cal. State Univ., Long Beach, Art Professor 1933-2010 Passed away peacefully in his sleep on January 28, 2010, of natural causes, at his home in Santa Rosa, CA. Alvin Pine was an award-winning metalsmith and educator. Born in 1933 and...
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Smooth Transition as Obama Joins the Crew The New York Times | President Obama has called for a college football playoff, appeared on last year's Super Bowl pregame show for NBC and charted his 2009 March Madness bracket picks on ESPN with A...
Ways to Reduce Corporate Influence in Elections The New York Times | To the Editor: | Re "Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Campaign Spending Limit" (front page, Jan. 22): | President Obama had it right when he said that the Supreme Court's ruling i...
Yahoo Renews Deal to Use Associated Press Material The New York Times | Renewing a longstanding link, The Associated Press and Yahoo said Monday that they had reached a new agreement for A.P. articles, photos and videos to appear on the Yahoo News si...
Why the 9/11 trial belongs in New York CNN Editor's note: Karen Greenberg is the executive director of the Center on Law and Security at New York University, where Peter Bergen is a research fellow. Bergen is also CNN's national security analyst and a senior fellow at the New America Foundati...
A Veritable Vision in Five-Inch Heels The New York Times | NEAR dusk on a recent winter Sunday, in a glossy and compact one-bedroom in Hell’s Kitchen, Michael Lisbona was drying the toe box of a Louis-style mule with a blow dryer. The upper part of the half-made shoe, which had been cut from black ki...
City Seeks to Close 15 Day Care Centers in Budget Cut The New York Times | More than a half-dozen gentrified neighborhoods in Brooklyn would lose subsidized day care centers for low-income families under proposed city budget cuts, Bloomberg administration officials said Wednesday. | A list of the 15 day care centers that ...
Obama Proposes Agency on Climate Change CBS News Federal Climate Service Would Coordinate with NOAA and Other Agencies on Study of Global Warming | Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments | President Barack Obama makes a statement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, Friday, Dec. 18, 2009. Obama on Feb. 8, 2010 proposed a new federal agency i...
Financials Push Stocks Lower Wall Street Journal By KRISTINA PETERSON | NEW YORK—U.S. stocks opened the week with a modest drop, weighed by financials as investors struggled with nagging concerns over sovereign debt in Europe and U.S. government proposals to regulate banks. | The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 40, or 0.4%, at 9972, in recent trading. Financials components led the mea...
Obama Proposes Agency on Climate Change CBS News Federal Climate Service Would Coordinate with NOAA and Other Agencies on Study of Global Warming | Font size Print E-mail Share 0 Comments | President Barack Obama makes a statement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark, Friday, Dec. 18, 2009. Obama on Feb. 8, 2010 proposed a new federal agency i...
