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  • a2 list data Friday, June 17, 2011 @ 9:09PMLetterman's top 10 lists
  • The pitfalls of prediction, sacred or secular Monday, June 13, 2011 @ 11:28PMPredicting the future is tricky business. That is why I never became a stockbroker, weatherman, or f ...
  • Rep. Anthony Weiner’s district debates his career and his future Tuesday, June 7, 2011 @ 7:37AMFRESH MEADOWS, N.Y. — Last Thursday morning at the Bagel Oasis in Rep. Anthony Weiner’s district of Queens, Mike Boccomino waited to order coffee as a NY1 television anchor on the set above the counter remarked about “the enormous amount of oxygen” the congressman’s lewd picture scandal had received. A newspaper rack next to the Hostess snack cakes offered diminishing piles of the New York Post ...
  • Kelly Bostian: No excuse for not fishing this weekend Thursday, June 2, 2011 @ 2:16AMThe weatherman says the weekend is going to be hot - real hot - but everyone should be going fishing this weekend. And when you plan to go fishing you never really know for sure what you're going to ...
  • BEN column - reorder - end near on X-ray tape; Mike Abbott heaps praise on youth; where are the Jeeps for the parade? Sunday, May 22, 2011 @ 11:29PMGood morning!
  • Retired weatherman enjoys life Sunday, May 22, 2011 @ 11:26PMAs a senior at Notre Dame University, Tom Casey worked for WNDU, an NBC affiliate in South Bend, Ind. He was a Sunday night sportscaster on TV who also had a disc-jockey shift on the radio side - at the same time.
  • Dickey's Barbecue Pit may come to Plattsburgh Saturday, May 21, 2011 @ 2:33AMJim Moore and Ryan Tolbert hope to open the restaurant in Plattsburgh sometime this summer; no location has been chosen yet.
  • Mr. Nice Guy Thursday, May 19, 2011 @ 4:10AMFormer Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty is a conservative without the snarl. Will restless Republican voters ever notice him?
  • Dan Gross: Boreanaz a big Flyer fan Tuesday, May 3, 2011 @ 6:17AM'I'M ORANGE and black all the way," David Boreanaz said last night en route to the Flyers game. The "Bones" star and Malvern Prep alum was sorry he didn't get to attend any of the playoff action last year, but he starts work on a film Friday in Connecticut and came to town early to see his family and catch the first two games.
  • Calverton: PLECO dinner postponed Monday, April 25, 2011 @ 2:22PMWhat a stunning Easter Sunday we had! I always tell people not to worry about what the weatherman says, just be patient, and indeed this Easter Sunday, instead of being full of showers, was sunny, perfectly warm and delightful. I even picked the first rhubarb of the year, mowed the lawn, and Jamie and I [...]
  • Park party adjusts to last-minute venue change Tuesday, April 19, 2011 @ 2:01PMThe second annual Party for the Parks was relocated to the Gaillard Auditorium on Saturday night from its original outdoor locale of Colonial Lake. It was a pity that Mother Nature would not oblige and arrange a forecast of fair weather for the night. After all, the event was benefiting the Charleston Parks Conservancy youd think she might cooperate.
  • Ex-'Enders star Coleman cleared of gun charges Friday, April 15, 2011 @ 7:44AMDes Coleman is cleared of gun charges as a judge criticises the CPS for allowing the case to come to court.
  • EastEnders star cleared of road rage gun attack after alleged victim found to be lying Friday, April 15, 2011 @ 6:34AMACTOR Des Coleman was yesterday cleared of firing an air pistol in a road rage attack.
  • Kuya Kim hopes to instill value of learning among Pinoys Tuesday, April 12, 2011 @ 2:47AMBy Marjorie Gorospe, loQal.phQUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA— Unknown to many, Kim Atienza, or known to many as simply Kuya Kim, started his television career playing a not-so-familiar character.Before becoming the resident weatherman for ABS-CBN's TV Patrol, Kuya Kim was the voice behind Captain Mura in Ultraman and Misakey in Magma Man – both Japanese live action series popular during the 1990s.Born ...
  • Gus Johnson has a real feel for calling a game Friday, March 25, 2011 @ 10:25AMCBS play-by-play announcer Gus Johnson is more concerned with conveying the emotion of an event than the statistical details.
  • 'The Weather Man': Nicolas Cage's Last Good Movie Friday, March 4, 2011 @ 9:44AMThe 2005 film, directed by Pirates of the Caribbean's Gore Verbinski, is the actor's best work in recent years
  • Daytona 500: Chevy teams qualifying notes, quotes Sunday, February 13, 2011 @ 4:57PMON POLE LAP: "I just had to hold it on the bottom as tight on the bottom as tight as I could to the apron. The power and the body and everything does all the work. A lot of great guys working at Hendrick build some awesome cars.
  • Maybe Cats ARE Smarter Than Dogs Monday, February 7, 2011 @ 11:52AMHer family takes her for a walk: when they're done, if she comes back in, it means the NFC team will win. Didn't work out that way this year (despite six allged correct picks over the past six years). Again I ask: what cat would put up with this sort of mindlessness?
  • When Judy sings … Monday, January 31, 2011 @ 12:16PMIt’s 8:30 p.m. on a very cold Wednesday in January, and the Coach & Lantern is hopping. The Ancaster pub’s parking lot has been full for more than an hour. It’s now hard to find a spot at the mall two doors down.
  • Former newspaper carriers share recollections Saturday, January 29, 2011 @ 8:52PMDeveloper Charles Wade, 77, bills himself the oldest paperboy in Clovis, but that honor may go to Robert Johnson, 80, who has him by a couple of years. The two are among the many former newspaper carriers responding to our call to recount their...
  • Media Matters: It's a boy for Haley Webb of NBC2 Monday, January 24, 2011 @ 4:13AMIn the weather business, forecasts can often change at the last minute.
  • More Gervais; an NFL ratings rout Friday, January 21, 2011 @ 11:11PMRicky Gervais turns up in the oddest places. The creator of "The Office" and host of the Golden Globes has co-produced the new travel series "An Idiot Abroad" (9:30 p.m., Saturday, Science.) It stars Karl Pilkington, the self-styled ordinary guy given to...
  • Boulder County's Homeless Thursday, January 20, 2011 @ 12:10PMWhen most of us think of the homeless, we picture the bearded, scroungy old man on the corner, holding a hand-scrawled message on cardboard.
  • Newly Released Books - Novels Wednesday, January 19, 2011 @ 4:57PMNew novels by Alice Hofmann, Bradford Morrow, Thelma Adams, Howard Gordon, Suzanne Corso and Adam Schwartz.
  • Loughner's Ex: He's "Completely Different" Now Thursday, January 13, 2011 @ 12:59PMHigh School Girlfriend: He Was "Great," with a Quiet Side; Says His Family Was Kind to Her
  • Khawaja gives hope to Australia Monday, January 3, 2011 @ 3:20AMLatest debutant shows promise during brief Sydney innings
  • New Year's movies for those who pop corn, not corks Monday, December 27, 2010 @ 8:08AMNot everyone’s idea of the perfect New Year’s Eve involves a big party or a night out on the town. For some people, the best way to say goodbye to one year and greet the next is a quiet night at home with a good movie. Local film experts have suggested a number of movies that make for good New Year’s Eve viewing. Some take place on New Year’s Eve — or feature scenes from that night — while ...
  • Column responses: 'Tell me why you live in the Snow Belt" Tuesday, December 14, 2010 @ 7:29AMWhy do I live in the Southtowns? Because we get lake effect for 1 month while the lake freezes, but we have more charm and charcter in one Vidlers, or roundabout, or O'Brien's Pub than you have in all of your strip malls combined.
  • Behind CBS' Morning Show Shakeup Tuesday, November 30, 2010 @ 1:11PMHarry Smith and Maggie Rodriguez got axed from the Early Show Tuesday. Howard Kurtz talks to Smith and CBS News President Sean McManus about the perennial challenges of the low-rated show.
  • Beth's first year without Bill Monday, November 29, 2010 @ 6:59PMI imagine it will be hard for Beth McDonald to listen to Mannheim Steamroller's "Silent Night" this year. It's a lovely hymn, almost a prayer that will carry you, if you let it, to a special place or a special time. For Beth, this year, it will lead to Bill Austin. For nearly 20 years, they were Beth & Bill, the pair who decorated the Valley's airwaves with boughs of holly and buckets of ...
  • Al gets mysterious with ‘Midnight Show Murders’ Monday, November 22, 2010 @ 4:06PMWho knew television was such a bloodbath? Al Roker's fictional celebrity chef-turned-sleuth finds himself in the midst of murder on the late-night talk show circuit.
  • Sailor Bob became a local television institution Saturday, November 6, 2010 @ 11:06PMSailor Bob was in the Army. And he can't swim. Otherwise, Bob Griggs was a perfect fit to host a nautical-themed children's television show.
  • A day in the life of Dr Karl Kruszelnicki Friday, November 5, 2010 @ 8:06AMStanding in the foyer of ABC studios in Ultimo waiting for Dr Karl, I recall a conversation I had with Adam Spencer. I asked Spencer, ‘If Karl wasn’t a media savvy doctor, what could you see him doing?’
  • Sam Champion to Take Time Away From "Good Morning America" After Passing of Father Tuesday, October 26, 2010 @ 12:45PMSam Champion did not grace the weather report this morning on ABC's "Good Morning America" because he is spending the time with family and friends, mourning the death of his father, Lt. Col. James H. Champion. The weather anchor's father passed away Oct. 25 -- he was 75. "After a life of service to his country and his family, Lt. Col. James H. Champion, U.S. Marine Co
  • Credit Unions — 1970s Good Attitude, 21st Century Technology Tuesday, October 26, 2010 @ 8:40AMWhy credit unions are the new banks.
  • Friends remember TV anchor Wendall Woodbury, 68 Wednesday, October 20, 2010 @ 9:45PMMary Haverstick was new at Lancaster's television station in the 1980s, so it meant a lot to her when a veteran reporter "took me under his wing," she recalled Wednesday. "I used to think to myself, 'You don't have to do that!' He was just a very gentle soul. … I adored Wendall, and he was t...
  • Steve Lambert: Upon further review, CNN hasn't changed Saturday, October 16, 2010 @ 8:41PMI have to admit, I stopped watching CNN months ago - and not because of any supposed political leanings. It was simply too damn distracting.
  • NASCAR: Chester’s Osborne is Edwards’ chief Wednesday, October 13, 2010 @ 4:29AMA NASCAR Sprint Cup crew chief has many responsibilities during a race. There’s keeping the driver encouraged no matter what the situation, knowing the sometimes ever-changing weather conditions, or understanding a slight aerodynamic change to a car can be the difference between winning or finishing out of the top 10.
  • Portland celebrities dish it up for our camera Tuesday, October 5, 2010 @ 2:08AMIn between wowing us with star power, a celebrity's gotta eat. Come along as we cook with Storm Large, Dave Salesky and Trail Blazer Jeff Pendergraph at home.
  • Barber always kept it interesting Monday, September 27, 2010 @ 5:13AMEveryone's life has a story. In "Lives," we tell some of those stories about North Shore people who have died recently. "Lives" runs Mondays in The Salem News. The tour bus was heading through Galway Bay in Ireland under a full moon. It might have been a scene memorable for its beauty alone — one worthy of a picture or a postcard, perhaps.
  • Spears denies harassment claims Friday, September 10, 2010 @ 11:12AMLOS ANGELES - Britney Spears denied a bodyguard's accusations that she sexually harassed him and abused her children, saying yesterday on her website that authorities looked into his claims but found no reason to act.
  • Former 11 News Meteorologist Dan Meador dies of cancer Friday, September 3, 2010 @ 8:52PMHOUSTON – Former 11 News Meteorologist Dan Meador passed away Friday after a battle with cancer. Meador was a longtime meteorologist with 11 News, and was the right-hand man to Dr. Neil Frank. Colleagues knew Meador as a nice man who worked behind the scenes as a videotape editor until he worked his way onto the air as a weekend weatherman. "I didn’t know him long, but appreciated his enthusiasm ...
  • Broadcast hall of fame to induct 7 Tuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 3:51AMThe Buffalo Broadcasters Association has announced the inductees for the 14th annual Buffalo Broadcasting Hall of Fame. This year, the honorees include two people still actively working in local media.
  • Bachelor Pad: Gia and The Weatherman Kiss and Tell Wednesday, August 25, 2010 @ 10:58AMThe latest contestants kicked off the show discuss, strategy, chemistry and all that smooching
  • 1990 tornado 20th anniversary Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 12:31AM1990 tornado 20th anniversary: Aug. 28, 1990. A day that haunts me every time I hear that there is a thunderstorm watch or see a tornado on TV. I was 11 years old.
  • Herzog retraces his steps to Cooperstown Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 11:41PMWith Ozzie, Sutter and Brett seated behind him, Whitey Herzog tells crowd of 10,000: "Being elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame is like going to heaven before you die."
  • The Heat is On Tuesday, August 17, 2010 @ 2:00AMAs I write this column, I have a bead of sweat dripping down my nose. It's working its way to the tip of my nose, where it will slowly drip off and land on my desk. It's annoying, but reaching up to wipe my face would just take more energy, which in turn would get me sweatier, if that is even possible.
  • Conspiracy Again! at Cream Puff Eating Contest Friday, August 13, 2010 @ 12:03AMWell, once again we have a controversy at this year's Cream Puff Eating Contest and once again they changed things up again.
  • Ownership suits Waltrip just fine Thursday, August 12, 2010 @ 12:08PMMichael Waltrip has weathered the storm and now looks to take the next step as a Cup owner.
  • The Bachelorette finale: Ali Fedotowsky chooses Roberto Martinez, sends Chris Lambton home early Monday, August 2, 2010 @ 7:14PMAli Fedotowsky gave her finale rose to now-fiance Roberto Martinez, 26 on the August 2 finale of " The Bachelorette ." Ali broke up with Chris Lambton, 33, before their last date when she realized that she was in love with Roberto. Ali and Roberto are still together and plan to share an apartment in San Diego while they plan their wedding, which will likely happen in the spring. Who will become ...