Democratic congressional candidate Phil Kellam said Friday he regrets his actions in an incident that led to him pleading guilty to assaulting a woman 28 years ago, when he was a 21-year-old college student in North Carolina. Kellam, who is challenging first-term Republican Rep. Thelma Drake, said he never touched the woman but lost his [...]
A man who police say was caught with two pounds of marijuana allegedly told officers the drugs weren’t his because he stole it. Bradley Robison, 18, of Cedar Rapids, was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and failure to affix a drug tax stamp. When police found him with the [...]
Yankees lefty Randy Johnson has a herniated disc in his lower back, an injury that could prevent him from pitching in the playoffs next week. The injury was discovered during an MRI exam Thursday. After being examined by team physician Dr. Stuart Hershon and back specialist Dr. Paul Kuflick, Johnson received an epidural injection [...]
A Massachusetts Superior Court judge ruled on Friday that a lesbian couple from Rhode Island could marry in Massachusetts because Rhode Island does not have a law specifically banning it.
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The gunman who took six girls hostage in a high school classroom, killing one, had sexually assaulted at least some of them, the sheriff said Thursday. “He did traumatize and assault our children,” Park County Sheriff Fred Wegener said. “I’ll only say that it’s sexual in nature.”
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It might not be coming out until November, but the upcoming film “Borat,” starring Sacha Baron Cohen as a faux-Kazakh buffoon, is making Kazakhstan deeply nervous about its national image — so much so that the country’s government took out a pricey four-page full-color ad in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune [...]
Seth Meyers gets the plum job of “Weekend Update” anchor next to Amy Poehler in a newly streamlined “Saturday Night Live” this season, the show’s creator and executive producer, Lorne Michaels, said on Thursday. Meyers, entering his fifth season on the late-night institution, must replace the popular Tina Fey on the fake-news anchor desk.
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