MITCHELL, S.D. – Police officers who responded to what they thought was a robbery of a South Dakota bank found a school tour instead. Sgt. Dave Beintema told The Daily Republic newspaper (http://bit.ly/1bdNypJ ) that students were being given a tour of the First Dakota National Bank in Mitchell on …
Read More »Trial of man charged in Jamaican lottery scam winds down; attorneys give closing arguments
BISMARCK, N.D. – A federal jury in North Dakota will soon be deciding the fate of a man accused in a Jamaican lottery scam that authorities say cost victims around the country millions of dollars. Attorneys are giving closing arguments in U.S. District Court in Bismarck in the case of …
Read More »Chicago Producer Will Go 'Grand' Next
Chicago Goes | Buh-Bye Backstreet Boys | Celine’s Scene | Caroline Rhea Chicago Producer Will Go Grand Next Oscar-winning Chicago producer Marty Richards is not letting any grass grow under his feet. Already back from Los Angeles, Richards tells me he’s had “two offers to do movies and one to …
Read More »The 30 counts against Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
A jury on Friday sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death. Last month, the same jury found Tsarnaev guilty of all 30 federal counts against him. Here are the charges: — Conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death. — Use of a weapon of mass …
Read More »The World Still Hates Us
Newsflash: The world still hates us. And when it comes to our president, they really hate us. In a new BBC poll (search)of more than 11,000 people in 11 countries, when it comes to our big cheese, he’s a big flop. Fifty-seven percent don’t like him –plain and simple. And …
Read More »Salma Hayek Will Paint the Town With Altman
Altman, HayekGet Artsy | Busy Rosie |Al Green’s Back Salma Hayek Will Paint the Town With Altman Robert Altman, the seminally important director who still has no Oscar, is getting his next movie ready just as his most recent one is headed to theatres. Even though “The Company” is just …
Read More »Methodist Bishop Bucks Bush on War
And now the most intriguing two minutes in television, the latest from the wartime grapevine: Missed the Grapevine? Watch it! Postponed Poetry The White House has postponed a poetry festival after an invited versifier vowed to transform the event into a blank-verse anti-war protest. First Lady Laura Bush’s office announced …
Read More »Russia spearheads new push to choke off ISIS funds
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Read More »Ukrainian officer faces 3rd charge in mortar attack that killed Russian journalists
MOSCOW – A third charge has been filed against a Ukrainian military officer who has been behind bars in Moscow for nearly a year over the deaths of two Russian journalists in Ukraine. Nadezhda Savchenko, who worked as a spotter for Ukrainian troops fighting separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine, had …
Read More »Dutch prime minister thanks Americans who gave their lives liberating the Netherlands
MARGRATEN, Netherlands – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has paid tribute at a Memorial Day ceremony to U.S. troops who fought and died liberating the Netherlands from Nazi occupation in World War II. Thousands of people sat under blue skies and wispy white clouds for Sunday’s ceremony at the American …
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