HAPPY NEW YEAR!

 

 

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A HAPPY PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR TO AMERICA AND THE WORLD!

‘THIS OLD HOUSE’ GOES TO NEW ORLEANS

Rashida Ferdinand sits in front of her Lower Ninth Ward house.

ALEX BRANDON PHOTOS: ASSOCIATED PRESS

 

Dec. 30, 2007, 7:12AM

By STACEY PLAISANCE
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — In a city chockfull of 150-year-old houses with wooden porches and scrolling wrought iron, New Orleans would seem perfect fodder for This Old House.But when producers of the television show surveyed the [...]

5 OF JAMES BROWN’S CHILDREN CHALLENGE HIS WILL

Dec. 30, 2007, 2:50PM

They say his advisers would profit from trusts that would benefit needy children and the singer’s grandchildren’s education
Associated Press

AIKEN, S.C. — Five of James Brown’s children say their late father’s will should be invalidated because his former advisers used undue influence to get him to create charitable trusts that the advisers would [...]

DONORS, GRANTS HELPING TO MAKE COLLEGE A REALITY

Michigan State University sophomore Lauryn Scott, 19, reads to her cousin, Harmoniee Ryan, 2, at home in Oshtemo. Scott is among students benefiting from promised tuition.

SHAWANO CLEARY: CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Dec. 29, 2007, 11:45PM

Programs that promise tuition are springing up for public school grads
By TIM JONES
Chicago Tribune

HOW TUITION GUARANTEES CAN WORK
• Kalamazoo, Mich.: Funded by private donors [...]

2007 IN MEMORIAM

http://www.chron.com/entertainment/photogallery/2007_in_memoriam.html
RELATED LINKS:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/obituaries/notable-obits-2007.html?ref=magazine

PASADENA SHOOTINGS CREATED SHOCK WAVES

Joe Horn Horn has not been charged in the fatal shooting of two suspected burglars, although the district attorney will likely present the case to a grand jury to determine if charges should be filed.

AP

Dec. 30, 2007, 2:08PM

By ALLAN TURNER
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle
Vigilante or just vigilant, Pasadena resident Joe Horn blasted himself into a world [...]

LOS ANGELES GANG, F13, ACCUSED OF TARGETING BLACK PEOPLE

By THOMAS WATKINS | Associated Press Writer December 30, 2007

LOS ANGELES – In a murderous quest aimed at “cleansing” their turf of snitches and rival gangsters, members of one of Los Angeles County’s most vicious Latino gangs sometimes killed people just because of their race, an investigation found.
There were even instances in which Florencia 13 [...]

MISSING IN TEXAS

FROM THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN:
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/PubCaseSearchServlet?act=usMapSearch&missState=TX&searchLang=en_US

ANU SOLANKI

DIVERS HUNT FOR WOMAN AFTER RIVERSIDE RITE
Woman’s Family Says She Went to the River to Perform a Hindu Ceremony

An undated photo released by the Solanki family shows Anu Solanki, 24, of Des Plaines, Ill. Solanki disappeared Monday after going alone to a forest preserve in Wheeling, Ill., to deliver a religious statue to the river. [...]

BENAZIR BHUTTO (June 21, 1953-December 27, 2007)

AFP Photo: Pakistani former premier Benazir Bhutto looks at her supporters during her last election compaign rally…

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CNN.com: Benazir Bhutto assassinated

by Nasir Jaffry

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AFP) – Former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a stunning suicide attack Thursday that plunged the Muslim nation deeper into crisis and sparked alarm around [...]