NEW YORK – “Entertainment Tonight” says it won’t air a video it has acquired that shows the late Heath Ledger at a Hollywood party where drugs were apparently being taken. The syndicated magazine’s sister show, “The Insider,” aired a preview of the tape Wednesday that showed an unidentified man who …
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MIAMI – A reputed gang member showed off his guns and taunted police on an Internet video to come and get him — and they did just that. “Last night, we granted his wish,” said U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta on Wednesday. “King Bird Road” Rudy Villanueva, 31, and another …
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Emily Joost, 8, can’t talk back to her parents when they talk to her, but she can smile, and that is enough for Elaine and Lyndon Joost. Emily has Aicardi syndrome, a genetic disorder so rare that only 500 people worldwide have been diagnosed with it, the Belleville News-Democrat in …
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WASHINGTON – Despite numerous veto threats, senators in both parties have loaded up President Bush’s war funding bill with a grab bag of domestic programs, including work permits for immigrant farm labor and heating subsidies for the poor. The Senate was scheduled to begin debate on the measure Tuesday, just …
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WASHINGTON – A new indictment of a former top CIA official alleges that he received bribes in the form of “sexual companionship” from a friend seeking an edge in landing multimillion-dollar contracts from the agency. Federal prosecutors in Alexandria, Va., on Tuesday obtained a superseding indictment against Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, …
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UPPER MARLBORO, Md. – A former Prince George’s County police officer who also served as a county homeland security official has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for shooting two furniture delivery men last year. Keith Washington received the maximum sentence Tuesday from Circuit Court Judge Michael Whelan for …
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RALEIGH, N.C. – A North Carolina judge says he will decide later whether to unseal the autopsy report of University of North Carolina student body president Eve Carson. Orange County Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour heard brief arguments Wednesday from the News & Observer of Raleigh. The newspaper has filed …
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WASHINGTON – Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand from New York gave birth Thursday to a healthy baby boy, a day after voting on a major piece of legislation. The delivery makes her the sixth woman to have a child while a member of Congress. Gillibrand, a first-term Democrat, gave birth at Bethesda …
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HOUSTON – Toxicology tests show that Grammy-winning Tejano singer Emilio Navaira was intoxicated when the tour bus he was driving crashed into freeway barrels in suburban Houston in March, authorities said. The toxicology tests were released this week, and the Houston Chronicle reported on the results Thursday night on its …
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This is a rush transcript of “Special Report With Brit Hume” from May 20, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SEN. BARACK OBAMA, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We are going to reach a milestone today, hopefully, that is very important. …
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