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Sat, 05/28/2011 - 15:55 by Jaspreet Virk
Often feel that your husband turns a deaf ear to you while reading newspaper at the breakfast table? Well, spare him the tough looks, as a new study has found that being engrossed in an activity can block one's ability to hear.
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Thu, 12/09/2010 - 10:20 by Prince damin
New York -- An elderly woman says she was hit with a $100 fine for tossing a newspaper into a city trash bin outside her Manhattan apartment building.
Delia Gluckin, 80, tossed the paper into the city litter basket on her way to the subway station downtown when she was approached by a woman in a blue uniform, the New York Post reported Wednesday.
"I thought she was going to ask for directions. She said, 'You just dropped garbage in there.' I said, 'I didn't, it was just a newspaper,' and I offered to take it out," Gluckin said.
Sanitation cop Kathy Castro wrote Gluckin a ticket for putting "improper refuse" in a city litter basket marked "litter only" and "no household trash."
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Wed, 12/08/2010 - 10:17 by Prince damin
Pittsburgh -- Pittsburgh football Coach Dave Wannstedt has been fired, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Tuesday.
The newspaper said it learned of Wannstedt's dismissal from defensive line coach Greg Gattuso. The assistant head coach told the newspaper the assistants were notified of Wannstedt's firing Tuesday afternoon.
School officials had not issued any comments on the report.
Wannstedt, 58, who has been at Pittsburgh since 2005, signed a two-year contract extension this year that was to keep him at the school through 2014.
The Panthers are 7-5 and are to play Kentucky in the BBVA Compass Bowl Jan. 8 in Birmingham, Ala.
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Sat, 12/04/2010 - 23:47 by Prince damin
Arlington, Va. -- A U.S. Army spokesman confirmed an investigation is ongoing concerning remains at Arlington National Cemetery that were moved from their burial sites.
In October, officials discovered eight cremation urns in a single grave site that was marked with headstone that read, "Unknown," The Washington Post reported Saturday.
Army spokesman Gary Tallman also confirmed reports that at least one of the urns had been dug up on 2002 and was later discovered in a landfill, before being returned to the cemetery.
"Clearly, this discovery of eight separate remains under an 'Unknown' marker raised suspicions," Tallman said.
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Wed, 12/01/2010 - 07:03 by Prince damin
Green Bay, Wis. -- Green Bay signed cornerback Tramon Williams to a four-year contract extension worth $33 million, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday.
Citing unnamed sources, the newspaper said Williams' deal with the Packers will average $8.25 million per year and is effective through 2014.
It reportedly includes a $6 million signing bonus and roster bonuses of $2.5 million in 2011, $2.8 million in 2012 and $300,000 in both 2013 and 2014.
The source said the package guarantees Williams $11.1 million.
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Wed, 12/01/2010 - 06:29 by Prince damin
Oakland, Calif. -- Oakland Raiders quarterback Bruce Gradkowski has a third-degree separation of his throwing shoulder, the Oakland Tribune reported Tuesday.
The newspaper said Gradkowski had an MRI performed after re-injuring the shoulder during Oakland's 33-17 loss to Miami Sunday.
Gradkowski was making his first start since an Oct. 10 win against San Diego when he took a hit that aggravated the injury he first suffered in a Sept. 26 loss against Arizona.
He missed the next four games after the San Diego game and now in is jeopardy of missing the rest of the season.
He has completed 52.9 percent of his passes for 1,059 yards, five touchdowns and seven interceptions in six games this season.
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Tue, 11/30/2010 - 07:41 by Prince damin
Paris -- A retired French electrician says his collection of 271 paintings, drawings, sketches and lithographs by Pablo Picasso were gifts from the artist.
Britain's Guardian newspaper said the cache discovered three months ago is conservatively estimated at $79 million.
The works, many of which were previously unknown, date from 1900 to 1932.
An elderly man calling himself Pierre Le Guennec brought the pieces to the offices of the Picasso Administration and told the 20th century artist's son, Claude, the famed painter and his wife, Jacqueline, had given them to him after he installed alarm systems at the painter's various homes during the three years before his death in 1973.
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Mon, 11/22/2010 - 18:38 by Anter Prakash Singh
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is gearing up to launch a newspaper for the iPad, according to several media reports.
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Fri, 11/19/2010 - 10:29 by Prince damin
New York -- A New York 19-year-old accused of shoving a turkey breast into his pants at a grocery store told a newspaper he took a sandwich but denied stealing the breast.
Deon Williams turned down a plea deal with a six-month jail sentence for the robbery charge, claiming he was falsely accused of shoving the 12-pound Boars Head turkey breast into his pants and attempting to smuggle it out of the Fine Fare supermarket, the New York Post reported Thursday.
"I didn't do it," Williams told the Post. "OK, I stole a cold-cut sandwich because I was hungry, but I put everything (else) back."
Prosecutors allege Williams left the store with the turkey in his pants and was chased down by the butcher, who demanded he hand over the breast.
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Wed, 11/10/2010 - 10:01 by Prince damin
Auburn, Ala. -- Auburn quarterback Cam Newton left the University of Florida two years ago amid an academic cheating scandal, The New York Times reported Tuesday.
Citing a a person briefed on Newton's situation, the newspaper said the presumed Heisman Trophy front-runner left the school rather than face a suspension or expulsion, partly due to three alleged instances of cheating.
The Times report comes after allegations by former Mississippi State quarterback John Bond that a man connected to an NFL agent had been shopping Newton's services to colleges for a "specified payment," reportedly $180,000.
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Wed, 11/03/2010 - 02:14 by Prince damin
Los Angeles -- John Dunne of Los Angeles was told Tuesday -- wrongly -- he couldn't vote because the voting inspector was in jail, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Dunne, 29, told the newspaper he went to the MacArthur Park Community Center about 7:30 a.m. He found no voting booths or election equipment, just a lone woman at a table. When he asked the poll worker where he could vote, she told him the inspector was arrested and in jail, the Times reported, and suggested he try coming back around 6 p.m.
A furious Dunne went to another polling place and cast a provisional ballot. "It's ridiculous," he said by phone with the Times. "They're just completely disenfranchising a whole voting district."
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Fri, 10/22/2010 - 09:43 by Prince damin
Boston -- A potential buyer has expressed interest in The Boston Globe and a sister newspaper in Worcester, Mass.
A Massachusetts company, 2100 Trust, issued a statement Wednesday saying it is putting together an investor group and intends to put in a bid for the Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, the Boston Herald reported. The two newspapers are owned by The New York Times Co.
The Times tried to sell the Globe last year but took it off the market when it failed to receive an attractive offer.
This suitor, headed by 37-year-old greeting card entrepreneur Aaro Kushner, hasn't divulged how much it may offer, the Herald said.
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