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Josephine Baker Reborn

Opening tomorrow at the Alexander Kasser Theatre in Montclair is "Looking for Josephine." The Jazz performance is based on an African-American  artist who fled the U.S. for Europe during the decades of Jim...

My Blueberry Pie Story and recipe

During WWII while my father was fighting in Europe my mother supported us by working at Table Talk Pies Inc. Located in Worcester Massachusetts, it was established in 1924. Like many other business of that time,...

Child in US custody fight adjusts to living in China

This is a very different situation than what one normally see in these cross border custody battles.  Many times the conflict comes between one forigen national parent and a parent that is a U.S....

Study: U.S. suicides rising; risk high in middle age

Another sad statistic of the Bush administration will be the rise in suicides due to unemployment and foreclosures. During the depression of 1929 the suicide rate spiked and many Wall Street investors and brokers jumped from high rise buildings after the stock market crash....

Magic Johnson outraged over claims he faked HIV

Former NBA star Magic Johnson has said he is "outraged" after two talk radio hosts in Minnesota accused him of faking his HIV status."Chris Baker and Langdon Perry of station KTLK questioned whether or not Hall of...

Four People Killed In Jet Crash

I just found this story about the Blink 182 drummer and another musician getting injured in that recent airplane accident.  I was unaware that 4 people were killed.  There was a loud noise.  I wonder if it was terrorists?"Four people were recently killed in a...

Galveston: Why 40,000 Ignored Hurricane Ike "Certain Death" Warning

EXPERTS estimate that of 500,000 in the mandatory evacuation zone, only 300,000 left, and of those in the "certain death" zone, 30% chose to stay behind.  Gene Hafele director of the Houston-Galveston National Weather Service says there is "no one answer" in NATIONAL...

We Hardly Knew Ye: Caribbean Monk Seal Extinct

Not seen for more than fifty years, the Caribbean monk seal has been declared extinct, with its Mediterranean cousins not far behind."Humans hunting the docile creatures for research, food and blubber left the...

Giants among the Lilliputians

"CAMDEN, S.C. — While the political class was focused on the meaning of pigs wearing lipstick, a few fortunate South Carolinians were riveted by the meaning of valor. The occasion was a celebration of four of the state’s living recipients of the Medal of Honor—Charles...

Lobster caught by Devon fishermen believed to be 100 years old

"The crustacean was so heavy that it broke the winch on board Jack Baker and Mark Tennyson's fishing boat.Weighing in at 5.88kg (12.9lbs) and measuring 32in (81cm) long, the huge creature is the largest of its...

Displaced by Katrina and edged out of FEMA trailer parks

It's the disaster story that will not go away..."BAKER, LA. -- Curtis Westbrook cut a lonely figure as he sat outside his trailer this week, chain-smoking as workmen hauled another empty trailer away.He had...

Paul Burrell could be deported from the United States to face criminal invest...

"The People's Traitor Paul Burrell faces being kicked out of America over his many lies at the Princess Diana quasi-inquest at the 'Royal' Courts of 'Justice'. The devious ex-butler could even be banned from...

Diana jury deliberates verdicts

The jury in the Princess Diana inquest has now retired to deliberate the verdict. Many are waiting with baited breath to see what the outcome will be. "Before they left, coroner Lord Justice Scott Baker instructed...

Flowers & Hidden Camera Taken from Cemetery

"MACCLENNY, FL -- A Baker County woman was so set on finding the crooks that kept stealing her husbands' grave flowers, she bought a high-tech motion activated camera to catch them in the act. So was she...

Diana's porous rock: Coroner says 'liar' Burrell leaked secrets and cashed in...

"Diana's porous rock: Coroner says 'liar' Burrell leaked secrets and cashed in on her nameBy REBECCA CAMBER - More by this author »Last updated at 22:52pm on 1st April 2008 Paul Burrell has shamelessly cashed in on Princess Diana's memory, the coroner in charge of her...

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