Larry Harmon, longtime Bozo the Clown, dead at 83
(AP)
03.07.2008, 22:14:12
 AP - Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 83. |
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Texas man freed by DNA after 15 years in prison
(AP)
03.07.2008, 22:29:27
 AP - A Texas man who spent more than 15 years in prison after being wrongly convicted of kidnapping and robbery raised both arms skyward and collapsed in his mother's embrace Thursday after being told he was a free man. |
U. S. officials condoned Hunt-Kurd oil deal-documents
(Reuters)
03.07.2008, 07:26:02
Reuters - U.S. officials condoned Hunt Oil Co
efforts to obtain an exploration deal with Iraq's Kurdish
regional government, contrary to public statements discouraging
it, according to documents cited by a congressional committee. |
Colombian hostages say life grew more dire
(AP)
03.07.2008, 21:23:07
 AP - A meal was rice and beans. Bed was the ground under a patched plastic tarp. They bathed in rivers, and when they weren't chained by the neck to trees, they were forced on long marches to new hideouts under the jungle canopy. |
U.S. cuts jobs for 6th month
(Reuters)
03.07.2008, 12:36:53
 Reuters - U.S. employers cut workers from
their payrolls for the sixth straight month in June for the
country's longest losing streak since 2002, while the
unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent, government data
on Thursday showed. |
Italy starts fingerprinting Gypsies
(AP)
03.07.2008, 18:24:50
AP - Italian authorities have started fingerprinting tens of thousands of Gypsies living in nomad camps across the country — adults and children alike — brushing aside accusations of racism by human rights advocates and international organizations. |
New Hunter S. Thompson film focuses on writings
(Reuters)
03.07.2008, 19:24:31
 Reuters - When Oscar-winning director Alex
Gibney began filming the story of drug-addled U.S. journalist
Hunter S. Thompson at the late author's funeral, he says it was
one of his "greatest failures" in making the documentary. |
Dow's bear market run spells trouble for Wall St.
(Reuters)
02.07.2008, 22:49:22
 Reuters - With the Dow sliding into a bear
market on Wednesday, the dark days on Wall Street are far from
over, amid record oil prices, struggling consumers and the
never-ending credit crisis. |
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