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...

Gustav leaves a difficult trail in its wake with others hot on its heels

Frustrated New Orleans residents who tried to return to their homes yesterday were turned away and told the city was not ready. People became stranded in parking lots or at roadblocks with nowhere else to go and...

Storms Swirl in Atlantic, Floods Hit Haiti

Just as Hurricane Gustav appears to be subsiding, the next wave of Atlantic-formed tropical storms has begun to strike Haiti, the Bahamas, and the southeast American coastline. "Heavy rains flooded parts of...

Gustav down, Ike to go

Phrases deserving junking include "dodging a bullet."  Taking metaphorical liberty, does anybody assume a shooter has a single-shot gun?  At least three more Atlantic storms are either near the Gulf...

Anatomy of a hurricane

Hurricane season comes every June through November. Though Americans dread the storms, eastern Asia and many other areas of the world, including the Baja Peninsula of Mexico, depend on hurricanes to bring...

Kids aged 5 & 4 love mum's milk

" THERE’S no doubt breast-feeding is best - it reduces the risk of tummy upsets, allergies, obesity and a host of health problems in later life. But mum Stella Onions believes her kids can’t get enough of a good thing. So five-year-old Josephine and her...

Napoleon wife`s watch sells for 1.3 million dollars

"A watch that belonged to Empress Josephine, wife of 19th century French ruler Napoleon Bonaparte, sold in Geneva for more than 1.3 million dollars Monday, more than seven times its pre-auction estimate. The watch, made in 1800 in gold and enamel and set with diamonds, went...

Ex-soldier admits killing four of his family

"LONDON (Reuters) - A Gulf War veteran who suffered mental problems after leaving the army admitted on Monday shooting dead four members of his family at close range with a handgun fitted with a silencer. David...

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