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FACEOFF: Are today’s political commentators going too far with their ...
I recall not THAT many years ago, when commentators were older journalists, with decades of experience behind them. This came well before iReporters, and Twitter, and even CNN ...
Source: Mineral Daily News-Tribune

Baseball Capsules: MLB attendance drops for second straight season
NEW YORK — Rich Aurilia noticed all the empty seats as he made his way around the major leagues during the second half of this season. "You have to," the San Francisco Giants ...
Source: Brownsville Herald

He Read, She Read: Turning Tragedy Into Comedy Probably Saved Carrie ...
The title of Carrie Fisher's latest book is a wry comment on her less-than-conventional childhood, unusual career, failed relationships and fondness for drugs and alcohol. Part ...
Source: Daily News-Record

Kyle Farnsworth, Jerry Manuel and A.J. Burnett
There was just never any doubt last night, once Kyle Farnsworth took the mound for the Royals in the bottom of the ninth inning. In the best-case scenario, you figured, the Royals ...
Source: Newsday

Ken Davidoff's baseball insider
Off last night's Yankees game , I wrote about - who else? - Joba Chamberlain . The young man offered an encouraging performance, obviously, at a time when the Yankees needed to see ...
Source: Newsday

NFL Preview - Tampa Bay (0-4) at Philadelphia (2-1)
There are currently six winless teams in the National Football League, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers happen to be one of them. Bucs first-year head coach Raheem Morris is off to a ...
Source: Tacoma News Tribune

the melrose thursday 10: Robert Forshay
Melrose resident Robert “Bob” Forshay lost his wife Mary to Lou Gehrig’s disease (also known as ALS) last year, on July 9. In her memory, Forshay will lead “TEAM MARY ...
Source: Abington Mariner

Ken Davidoff's baseball insider
'Twas quite a day for Mets fans yesterday, as their leadership did an Accountability Tour of sorts: A news conference at Citi Field , followed by a Jeff Wilpon sitdown with SNY ...
Source: Newsday

Yankees, Mets, trade rumors and more MLB musings
I'd qualify it as a non-shocker that Stephen Strasburg and the Nationals came to terms at "11:58 and 43 seconds" last night, to quote Nats president Stan Kasten. Both sides had too ...
Source: Newsday

NFL Preview - Tampa Bay (0-4) At Philadelphia (2-1)
By Shawn Clarke, Contributing NFL Editor -- (Sports Network) - There are currently six winless teams in the National Football League, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers happen to be one ...
Source: WSB-TV Atlanta

D.C. foster-child project recasts concept of family
WASHINGTON — It's Friday night, and the pizza has just arrived. The kids race to claim their slices and load up on the homemade macaroni salad. The grown-ups are in the dining ...
Source: Daily Press

Colletti: McCourts’ problems not affecting team
LOS ANGELES — Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti said Friday it’s been business as usual running the team despite owner Frank McCourt firing his wife as CEO of the club ...
Source: The Gaea Times

Archive: October, 2009
The Philadelphia Inquirer Blog - Green Living ... Momentum is building toward an international day of climate change action this Saturday.
Source: Philadelphia Daily News

The Steel Cage
Newsday tag team champs Alfonso Castillo and Seth Mates slam you with pro wrestling news and insights. I’ve gone to hundreds of wrestling shows over the years, witnessed dozens ...
Source: Newsday

Hand sanitizer, a foe of the flu, can be dangerous, too
Hand sanitizer is touted by medical experts, including the Centers For Disease Control, as one of the best ways to combat swine flu and other bugs. It kills germs, and it's cheap ...
Source: Evening Sun

Sunday reading: ALCS Game 2 review, and a Matt Holliday tidbit
The very late night prompted the Yankees to cancel their workout in Anaheim, and that prompted me to push back my departure to Cally until tonight. Gonna take the day to pack, say ...
Source: Newsday

Psychiatrist Details Anna Nicole's Drug Addiction
A psychiatrist who treated Anna Nicole Smith for drug dependency during her pregnancy said she tried to set up a program to wean her off prescription painkillers but found the ...
Source: NBC Philadelphia

Week in Sloth
“The League” (FX 11:30 p.m.) A raunchy ensemble comedy about the unethical, backstabbing, win-at-all-costs players in a fantasy football league? Sounds like a fine companion ...
Source: Weekly Alibi

Bills’ Whitner gets probation diversion program on disorderly ...
CLEVELAND — Buffalo Bills defensive back Donte (DAWN’-tay) Whitner has been placed in a first-time offenders program with probation for three months for a disorderly conduct ...
Source: The Gaea Times

An Endless -- and Escalating -- War at Home, Part II
In my previous post, "An Endless -- and Escalating -- War at Home, Part I ," I ended with the following afterthought on a prediction that Denver's Morrison Road might be the next ...
Source: Huffingtonpost.com

Archive: October, 2009
The Philadelphia Inquirer Blog - Green Living ... On Saturday, Clean Ocean Action is holding its annual beach clean-up in New Jersey.
Source: Philadelphia Daily News

Festivus 2009
4/11 KRBZ /Kansas City Aftentra's Prom at The Midland featuring The English Beat, Iglu and Hartly and The Zeroes. 4/11 WJBX /Ft Myers Live X at City Of Palms Park featuring Staind ...
Source: FMQB

Yankees, Mets, trade rumors and more MLB musings
As we planned our David Wright/Mets coverage yesterday, my boss (no, not that boss ) suggested we put together a chart on recent baseball players who had suffered concussions. I ...
Source: Newsday

Downward mobility, Hollywood-style
How do you go from “Charles in Charge” to overcharged? From “Eight is Enough” to not having enough to avoid foreclosure? From minor celebrity to major drug addict? “Broke ...
Source: LJWORLD

Will There Be Food Among America’s Ruins?
Were I an aspiring farmer in search of fertile land to buy and plow, I would seriously consider moving to Detroit. There is open land, fertile soil, ample water, willing labor, and ...
Source: HoweStreet.com

Yankees, Mets, trade rumors and more MLB musings
Man, it is really weird doing these blog posts and knowing that no one will comment. I feel like Patrick Swayze's character in "Ghost," after he's murdered and before he hooks up ...
Source: Newsday

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Source: Politicker

Thanksgiving for a Redskins rookie
Thanksgiving was a bleak day for the Williams family on Lee Street in Northeast Washington two decades ago. Cheron and her husband, Edwin, both were habitual users of cocaine. The ...
Source: FOXSports.com

Decade Retrospective: 2001
We continue our year-by-year look back at the decade with the year 2001, back when people wore fedoras and smoked in the office, back when Jimmy Carter was President of the United ...
Source: DEADSPIN

Jailbird O.J. in killer shape
On Oct. 3, 2008, as the jury deliberated charges against him – 13 years to the day after he was acquitted of murdering his wife, Nicole, and Ronald Goldman – Simpson spoke with ...
Source: New York Post

Eagles CB Brown expects to play on Sunday night
PHILADELPHIA — On the injury report submitted by the Eagles Friday, Sheldon Brown was listed as questionable. If he were a question then, he already had his usual answer: Yes. In ...
Source: Reporter

Cops: Fake prescriptions drove drug operation
Detectives charged Maria Capelli with 657 different counts, including felony drug offenses, conspiracy and identity theft. The alleged leader of a Lower Bucks prescription drug ...
Source: Burlington County Times

Hotstar return to index
In the very first line of “Mama’s Eyes” from Justin Townes Earle ’s acclaimed second album, Midnight at the Movies , the 28-year-old singer-songwriter mournfully announces ...
Source: POLLSTAR

'Bad News' Always Made Headlines
After signing a seven-year, $2.1 million ABA contract in 1974, Marvin Barnes averaged 24.1 points and 13.4 rebounds over the next two seasons with the Spirits of St. Louis. That ...
Source: FanHouse

Villanova scrapes by St. Joe's
Associated Press Villanova's Taylor King slams in a pair of points during the Wildcats' win over St. Joes. PHILADELPHIA — Scottie Reynolds willed third-ranked Villanova to ...
Source: Daily Local News

College Basketball: Reynolds, Villanova turn back Saint Joe’s
PHILADELPHIA — Scottie Reynolds was mad. Despite scoring 12 points, the 6-2 senior from Villanova felt he had a sub-par first half against Saint Joseph’s and was determined to ...
Source: Delaware County Daily Times

ART THOU: Danziger’s Intimacy with Nature
When I was younger, probably in high school, I had a friend who had struggled with a drug addiction for years. He was constantly in and out of rehab trying to kick the habit ...
Source: MontgomeryNews.com

Buffalo's Ralph Perella's Offense Distasteful To NFL Eagles/Packers ...
In this economy we should all be huddling together to help each other pull through the worst recession in a century. Team Work! Imagine my shock when I learned my favorite ...
Source: OfficialWire

Habits, Kicked
It's kind of amazing — given that big-city bureaucracy can be like a sticky, endlessly layered onion — what you can sometimes get away with in this town. For instance, you can ...
Source: Philadelphia Citypaper

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New Trial Date Set for Woman Charged in DUI Crash that Killed Mother ...
UPDATE: December 7 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A new trial date has been set for the woman charged in that fiery crash that killed a mother and two St. Joe High School students ...
Source: WSAZ

The Rehab Wars
The Rehab Wars Can a radical nun and a house full of junkies save Philadelphia from drug addiction? by Isaiah Thompson
Source: Philadelphia Citypaper

Chevon Miller's greatest save
It's a day that still motivates all these years later, a day that Chevon Miller makes sure she always thinks about. Would she survive, would she die, would she simply lose the last ...
Source: York Daily Record

Chevon Miller's greatest save was a gift for Chaz Powell, too
It's a day that still motivates all these years later, a day that Chevon Miller makes sure she always thinks about. Would she survive, would she die, would she simply lose the last ...
Source: York Daily Record

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Treacherous Snow Storm Strikes East Coast
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A treacherous wintry storm slammed the East Coast on Saturday, dumping more than a foot of snow in some areas and creating misery for motorists on the weekend ...
Source: Salon

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Source: Politicker

Big Brother 9' winner ordered to Mass. treatment center as he ...
'Big Brother 9' winner ordered to drug center ... ‘Big Brother 9' winner ordered to drug center. BOSTON — The winner of the CBS reality television show “Big Brother 9? was ordered ...
Source: The Gaea Times

Doctor Linked to Tiger Woods Facing Drug Charges
On Wednesday, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police issued a news release that Dr. Anthony Galea, had been charged by the RCMP's Greater Toronto Area Federal Enforcement Section with ...
Source: NBC Philadelphia

truesee's Blog
(Yong Kim / Staff Photographer) The home of Pastor Kirk Caldwell on the 100 block of Ridge Ave., in Darby Borough, where Caldwell allegedly killed his son, Jordan Caldwell ...
Source: Lottery Post

More youths fall to heroin allure
Heroin abuse among young people is rising at an alarming rate, judged by reports from police and a major area rehabilitation program. The number of admissions of young heroin ...
Source: Recorder Community Newspapers

Latin Grammy winner freed from Mexican jail 11:46
Latin Grammy winner Ramon Ayala was released from jail for health reasons Wednesday, but authorities said he remains under investigation for alleged ties to a drug cartel. Ayala, a ...
Source: Town Hall

Sport quotes of 2009
Sport stars can be profound, pretentious or just pig-ignorant, so put your feet up and look back over some of the more memorabel turns of phrase in 2009 with Part 2 tomorrow. Best ...
Source: Age

2009 Year in Review: RIP Manny Rivera and Chris Jones, heroes who died ...
Two public servants — a Trenton fireman and a Middletown, Pa., cop — died in the line of duty in 2009, both leaving legacies as heroes who died watching out for others. City ...
Source: Trentonian

Jim Thomas Live
onemoreramfan : If the Ram's draft Suh, who stays and who goes on the DL? Jim Thomas : Assuming no other moves are made in free agency, I would think Suh, Ryan and Darell Scott ...
Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Charlie Sheen accused of using weapon 9:41
Authorities say actor Charlie Sheen is accused of using a weapon in an alleged case of domestic violence in Aspen. Sheen spent part of Christmas Day in jail after being arrested at ...
Source: Town Hall

Fifth seed or bust
Thanks to the magic of air travel, we're coming to you live from The Hangar mere hours after leaving a teary Indianapolis, where Colts fans continue to lament Jim Caldwell/Bill ...
Source: Newsday

Elton John Says He's Helping Eminem Fight Drugs
Musician Elton John said early Saturday that he's helping rapper pal Eminem cope with substance abuse issues, staying by the "Slim Shady" chart-topper's side as he deals with ...
Source: NBC Philadelphia

truesee's Blog
KFC has been making positive moves with its KGC brand, or its grilled chicken. However, in terms of KFC commercial advertising and political correctness, it appears they have a way ...
Source: Lottery Post

Suburban hospitals forced to be competitive
Local full-service hospitals face pressure to expand and add profitable medical services. They also face new competition from private doctors. Ten years ago, four hospitals in ...
Source: Burlington County Times

Kindness fills an empty heart
The couple had overcome drug addiction to turn their lives around. Stephanie McCleary tries to be the person who holds open doors for others. But it's been others who've been ...
Source: Burlington County Times

The Steel Cage
Newsday tag team champs Alfonso Castillo and Seth Mates slam you with pro wrestling news and insights. January 4, 2010 – a date that has been on the tongues of wrestling fans for ...
Source: Newsday

Chubby ex-hubbies Kevin Federline and Bobby Brown to appear on ...
Kevin Federline best known as K-Fed has been photographed during the last few months looking more like the Pillsbury Dough boy, than the dancer and wanna be rapper that he aspired ...
Source: Examiner

Redmond O'Neal Arrested On Drug Charges
Redmond O'Neal has been arrested again, Access Hollywood has confirmed. O'Neal, the son of Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal, was taken in custody on December 29 on a felony drug ...
Source: NBC Philadelphia

truesee's Blog
President Obama's misbegotten bank tax is precisely the wrong policy at precisely the wrong time. It will wind up backfiring across the board. Why? Because bank consumers and ...
Source: Lottery Post

BUSINESS NEWS IN BRIEF
WASHINGTON (AP) — Consumers should not use certain beef dog treats distributed by Merrick Pet Care because the pet food might be contaminated with salmonella, health authorities ...
Source: Mercury

UPI NewsTrack Sports
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas pleaded guilty Friday to one felony count of carrying a pistol without a license. The violation of the District ...
Source: United Press International

Over the Hedge: Disease is rampant, but lifestyle choices can help ...
Hardly. I’ve seen cardinals in winter before, but last Friday morning, as I opened the front door to find remnants of the snow shower during the night, I had a moment of joy in ...
Source: MontgomeryNews.com

Obituaries for Jan. 13
MELROSE - Grace R. Cartin, 88, a longtime resident of Melrose, died January 11 at Pleasant Valley Infirmary in Argyle, her residence since 2007, following a long illness. Born in ...
Source: Troy Record

Suburban hospitals learn to compete with big city counterparts
Local full-service hospitals face pressure to expand and add profitable medical services. They also face new competition from private doctors. Ten years ago, four hospitals in ...
Source: Burlington County Times

Could popping a pill stop you hitting the bottle?
IF YOU'RE hoping to find out about using pills to treat alcohol addiction, the Alcoholics Anonymous website is the wrong place to look. Search there for "medication" and the ...
Source: New Scientist

News, Blogs, Access: Jan. 11 AM
NBA: "When the dust eventually settles on the saga of gun-toting Gilbert Arenas, the aftershock of the sordid tale could be felt leaguewide. ... In the way of empty seats. You ...
Source: ProBasketballNews.com

The Steel Cage
Newsday tag team champs Alfonso Castillo and Seth Mates slam you with pro wrestling news and insights. . Last night’s Raw: Like everyone else who grew up in the 1980s, I thought ...
Source: Newsday

Harris is active
We were just handed the official list of today's inactives and LB David Harris, as we expected, will play. And just to tweak the Bengals and Cedric Benson a bit, Rex Ryan dubbed ...
Source: Newsday

Cydney Gillis
I started my career in journalism in ’80s with an inflammatory feminist column at The Daily, the student newspaper at the University of Washington. I got a B.A. in Russian and ...
Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer

Father of hip-hop, Gil Scott-Heron is a survivor
If you ask any of the world's most relevant rappers — from Chuck D to Common — who inspired them, odds are good they'll cite Gil Scott-Heron. PHILADELPHIA — In the late 1960s ...
Source: Houston Chronicle

February 2010 Archives
DOUGLAS, Ga. (AP) A memorial service is scheduled Saturday for a 23-year-old Douglas woman who died in the earthquake in Haiti. The body of Courtney Hayes, a student from Lynn ...
Source: News/Talk 750 WSB

Father of hip-hop’ Gil Scott-Heron is a survivor
PHILADELPHIA — Rumors of Gil Scott-Heron’s demise have been greatly overstated, declared the man himself. “I just turned 60 last April first,” Scott-Heron shared with a ...
Source: Popmatters.com

Kindness fills an empty heart
The couple had overcome drug addiction to turn their lives around.
Source: Burlington County Times

The allure of snake oil for parents of autistic children
Jeanette Holden remembers her parents struggling to comprehend why her younger brother had autism. Family vacations could be a desperate search for someone, anyone, who could give ...
Source: Toronto Star

Drew Brees: Standing taller than ever
MIAMI — He is "the other'' quarterback in the Super Bowl, and he brings quite an impressive résumé. High School: state champion. College: Lifts his school, for the first time ...
Source: Austin American-Statesman

Injured Conaway ‘making Funeral Plans’
JEFF CONAWAY’s girlfriend is calling for a medical intervention for the troubled GREASE star, after he started making bizarre funeral plans following his freak fall on Monday ...
Source: The Gaea Times

Sovereign Brands Beacham A ‘bully’ After Reality Tv Stint
British rapper LADY SOVEREIGN confronted TV bosses during her stint on a U.K. reality show accusing DYNASTY actress STEPHANIE BEACHAM of bullying her. The hip-hop star, real name ...
Source: The Gaea Times

Priest accused of cocaine buy had history of addiction
A local Catholic priest accused of buying cocaine in Philadelphia had a known history of drug addiction and volunteered ministering to recovering addicts at a rehab facility near ...
Source: Scranton Times-Tribune

truesee's Blog
To some in his remote Indian village he is a living version of India's multi-limbed God Lakshmi and worshipped every day as holy. To others eight-year-old Kumar Paswan is a monster ...
Source: Lottery Post

Chatham Courier > News
CHATHAM TWP. - The Green Village Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary is sponsoring a bus trip to the 2010 Philadelphia International Flower Show on Saturday, March 6, at the ...
Source: Recorder Community Newspapers

Erma Brown Pleads Guilty to DUI Crash that Killed Mother, Two St. Joe ...
UPDATE: 2/19 10:00am HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- The woman charged in that fiery crash that killed a mother and two St. Joe High School students has decided to a avoid a trial and ...
Source: WSAZ

February 2010
FORT WORTH — Colt McCoy said Monday his shoulder is progressing well enough that he’ll try to throw at the NFL scouting combine. The combine is scheduled for Feb. 24-March 2 in ...
Source: Austin American-Statesman

Sheen rehab could prove costly as show shuts down
Actors Charlie Sheen (L), Jon Cryer (C) and Angus T. Jones celebrate backstage after winning the award for Favorite TV Comedy for ''Two and a Half Men'' at the 35th annual People's ...
Source: Reuters

The Jan Brady Syndrome Of No. 2 Picks
Sometimes the best deals are the ones that aren’t made, at least that's how the saying goes. Andrew Perna runs through the rumored and proposed trades that didn't come to ...
Source: RealGM

W. Phila abortion doctor had problems 38 years ago
Kermit Baron Gosnell, whose West Philadelphia abortion clinic was shut down this week as a "clear danger to the public," was a key figure in a disastrous abortion experiment 38 ...
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

The New Huggins Hospital, Part Three
[Editor's Note: This is the third part of a three-part series prepared by Huggins Hospital to present our readers with a view of the new facility now nearing completion. The first ...
Source: Granite State News

From the Journal Gazette
Alfonso Soriano came to spring training Monday with his typical big smile and offered up a question mark about his surgically repaired left knee. Soriano underwent arthroscopic ...
Source: FortWayne.com

Author: Edith Tucker
AP - Charlie Sheen's publicist announced Tuesday the actor has entered rehab and is taking a break from television's top-rated comedy, "Two and a Half Men," prompting the network ...
Source: Granite State News

Haywood's recognition long overdue (cont.)
"If it were my choice," Haywood said, "it would be at the All-Star Game, [players] would walk me out onto the floor in the first quarter or the second quarter, and as the players ...
Source: CNN Sports Illustrated

Steele Hill says road to resort is damaging business
SANBORNTON — Bill Cutillo, owner of Steele Hill Resort, made an impassioned plea to Sanbornton selectmen last Wednesday evening, asking tham to help save his business by fixing a ...
Source: Carroll County Independent

Coös' health ranking is state's lowest
WHITEFIELD — A new study has determined that Coös County ranks the lowest on overall health as compared to other counties in New Hampshire. Overall health is measured by looking ...
Source: Carroll County Independent

truesee's Blog
Authorities were trying to determine Friday how an 8-year-old boy obtained a loaded handgun that was found in his backpack by school police after he made threats toward a classmate ...
Source: Lottery Post

Scranton priest facing drug charge dies in Minn.
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Roman Catholic officials say a northeastern Pennsylvania priest who was facing drug charges has died after developing a medical problem in rehab. Officials ...
Source: Pocono Record

Pa. priest facing drug charge dies
Officials from the Diocese of Scranton say 50-year-old James Shimsky died Thursday at a Rochester, Minn. hospital. Shimsky had been residing at a nearby rehab facility following ...
Source: WPVI

Northeastern Pa. priest charged with drug possession dies after ...
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — Roman Catholic officials say a northeastern Pennsylvania priest who was facing drug charges has died after developing a medical problem in rehab. Officials ...
Source: FOX43.com

Priest Arrested On Drug Charges Dies
A priest from Lackawanna County recently arrested on drug charges has died. The Diocese of Scranton confirms the Rev. James Shimsky died Thursday at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota ...
Source: WNEP-TV 16

Chantix and a Loaded Gun: Police Officer Freaks Out
Philadelphia, PA : Pete (real name withheld) will most likely lose his job as a police officer because of Chantix . "At one point I put my gun on the kitchen counter and told my ...
Source: Lawyers and Settlements

A rare pact: Teens’ double suicide ahead of speeding train rocks Pa ...
NORWOOD, Pa. — As the high-speed Acela train came thundering down the rails, a teenage girl screamed at her friends to get off the tracks. But Gina Gentile and Vanessa Dorwart ...
Source: The Gaea Times

Mallards, Salvation Army team up for clothing drive Friday
MOLINE, Ill. (March 2, 2010) – The Quad City Mallards, proud International Hockey League (IHL) affiliate of the Philadelphia Flyers, have partnered with the Salvation Army of the ...
Source: Quad Cities Onlines

Allen Iverson won't return to 76ers this season
Allen Iverson's second stint with the team he once led to the NBA Finals ended with a whimper Tuesday when the Philadelphia 76ers announced he would not return for the rest of the ...
Source: Los Angeles Times

Spring roundup: Prospect Curtis wins it for Yanks with 3-run blast
TAMPA, Fla. -- Alex Rodriguez went 1 for 2, Colin Curtis hit a game-winning three-run homer in the ninth inning and the New York Yankees beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-3 Wednesday ...
Source: CBS Sports

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