Donna Summer Dead
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Donna Summer -- the Queen of Disco -- died this morning after a battle with cancer ... TMZ has learned. We're told Summer was in Florida at the time of her death. She was 63 years old. Sources close to Summer tell us ... the singer was trying to keep the extent of her illness under wraps. We spoke to someone who was with Summer a couple of weeks ago ... who says she didn't seem too bad. In fact, we're told she was focused on trying to finish up an album she had been working on. Summer was a...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 01:59:45 PM
Transgender conservative Republican takes on Broward-based U.S. Rep. Wasserman Schultz
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Karen Harrington and Robert Lowry are also seeking the Republican nomination. Whoever wins the Aug. 24 GOP primary faces incumbent Wasserman Schultz of Weston in November.
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 01:59:45 PM
Police investigating purported Zeta kidnapping[South Texas/Mexico]
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DONNA - Police are investigating a kidnapping purportedly carried out in Reynosa by members of Los Zetas, the Gulf Cartel's enforcement wing. A Donna woman reportedly told police she received several phone calls from suspects claiming to be members of Los Zetas a week after her son was kidnapped in Reynosa during a trip to Diaz Ordaz. The woman called police from her home on April 19 only after the men grew impatient and threatened to kidnap her other son if she did not pay a ransom soon for the victim's release, police records show. The woman told police the...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 01:59:45 PM
'Offensive' phone call by publisher preceded her firing
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For weeks, publisher Judith Regan had been in trouble with higher-ups over the debacle of the canceled O.J. Simpson book and TV deal. But her firing swiftly followed a Friday afternoon phone call from her Los Angeles office to a HarperCollins attorney that included comments that were characterized as offensive, two highly placed corporate sources said Saturday. The comments, the precise nature of which was not disclosed, came just before News Corp., the parent company of HarperCollins, held its annual holiday party, an expensive hotel bash in Manhattan attended by more than 4,000 people. Regan's company, Los Angeles-based ReganMedia, is...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 01:59:45 PM
Another Bad Slip for 'NY Times': Katrina Victim Unmasked
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NEW YORK For the second time in less than a week, The New York Times today admitted to a serious error in a story. On Saturday it said it had misidentified a man featured in the iconic "hooded inmate" photograph from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Today it discloses that a woman it profiled on March 8 is not, in fact, a victim of Hurricane Katrina--and was arrested for fraud and grand larceny yesterday. As it did in the Abu Ghraib mistake, the Times ran an editors' note on page 2 of its front section, along with a lengthy news...
Published on Monday 21st of May 2012 01:59:45 PM
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