Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 1:49 am, Over one day old
AP - Unable for weeks to agree on terms for a new contract, Hollywood studios and the Screen Actors Guild have now found themselves unable to agree on whether negotiations will continue.
Read Hollywood producers say SAG rejects contract offer
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 1:49 am, Over one day old
AP - It seems even 22 miles of open ocean might not be keeping gangs off Catalina Island, a mist-shrouded outpost of Los Angeles County best known for its Hollywood history and crystal-clear harbors.
Read Cops fear Calif. isle is turning gangster paradise
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 1:49 am, Over one day old
Politico - Just as Barack Obama and John McCain are making subtle and not-so-subtle moves toward the center in preparation for the general election, another group of candidates is also repositioning, apparently with an eye toward November: their prospective vice presidential running mates.
Read VP prospects move to fix flaws
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 1:49 am, Over one day old
The Christian Science Monitor - John McCain has made nuclear power a centerpiece of his energy plan. But at a town hall-style meeting in this struggling Appalachian city Wednesday, the first person he called on was a local woman in the corner with a hand-drawn "No Nukes" sign.
Read How the candidates' speaking styles play
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 1:49 am, Over one day old
Dear Margo - DEAR MARGO: I'm engaged to a man I love ferociously.
Read Wake Up and Smell the Malevolence
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 1:49 am, Over one day old
Reuters - Beijing has asked hotels and
restaurants in the city to take dog meat off the menu for the
duration of next month's Olympics and September's Paralympics.
Read Beijing takes dog off the menu for Olympics
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 1:49 am, Over one day old
AP - Judy Davis was awarded $134,000 in damages Friday from a newspaper that ridiculed her as heartless for opposing a plan to erect floodlights in a park near the actress' harborside home in Sydney.
Read Judy Davis awarded damages in defamation suit
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
AP - Iran test-fired more long-range missiles overnight in a second round of exercises meant to show that the country can defend itself against any attack by the U.S. or Israel, state television reported Thursday.
Read Iran test-fires more missiles in Persian Gulf
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
AP - Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Matt Jones faces a felony drug charge in his former college town after police say he was inside a car cutting up cocaine with a credit card.
Read Jaguars' Jones arrested on felony drug charge
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