Murder suspect has history of KKK activity (St. Tammany News)
Raymond “Chuck” Foster, the alleged Ku Klux Klan leader arrested Monday for killing a woman following a Klan initiation ritual near Sun, has a history of Klan activity dating back at least to January 2001, Mark Potok of Southern Poverty Law Center said.
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Leisure news in brief (West Salem Coulee News)
Here are a selection of brief news items pertaining to arts, entertainment, culture and other fun things to do in your spare time:
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Monument hosts annual ‘Elegant Evening’ (The Pasadena Citizen)
Nearly 100 people gathered to bring history back to life at the San Jacinto Monument on Thursday evening.
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NEWS IN BRIEF (Nine O'Clock)
A policeman was injured in an accident at the intersection of the Bucharest-Targoviste Road with the Ion Gheorghe Sinesti Street in Bucharest, yesterday, by a utility vehicle that had not given way to the police car which it hit.
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First Interplanetary Internet Test Completed (Linux Today)
[ Thanks to Scott for this link. ] "NASA and Vint Cerf, a vice president at Google Inc., in Mountain View, Calif., partnered 10 years ago to develop this software protocol.
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Robert Fisk: Making movies the Afghan way (Independent)
Drive north of Kabul for an hour, turn left into a grey desert and head east for fifteen minutes, the sand shawling up the side of the windows until an armed man in the uniform of the Iranian police stops you before a forbidding compound of watchtowers, mud walls and razor wire. For a brief moment, that willing suspension of disbelief - I can see the inmates sitting on the sand beyond the iron ...
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Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang to step down (People's Daily)
CEO Jerry Yang announced Monday that he is stepping down after a turbulent year and a half of running the Internet giant. Yang, 40, told employees in a memo that he will continue as CEO until a replacement is found, then will go back to his old job as " Chief Yahoo." He will remain on the board. Yang, who briefly served as CEO early in the company's history, returned to that job in June 2007 ...
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Students to visit Ortona battle site (Owen Sound Sun Times)
An 11-day tour of Italian campaign battle sites is both professional and personal for Chesley District High School history teacher Don Matheson. Seventy Bluewater District [...]
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Manulife Financial (MFC): Fundamentals Foster Faith Among Investors (Schaeffers Research)
This article comments on the aggregated intelligence of more than 120,000 investors participating in Motley Fool's CAPS, the site's free investing forum...( Read More )
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Yang to step down after 17 months as Yahoo CEO (San Francisco Chronicle)
Yahoo co-founder and Internet pioneer Jerry Yang will resign his post as CEO, the company said Monday, ending a brief, turbulent tenure that was marked by a slumping business and a failed takeover bid by Microsoft Corp. The Sunnyvale Web portal said that a...
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