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Kobe Bryant says mom not told she could sell basketball memorabilia
The Kobe Bryant memorabilia story has taken another turn: The Lakers star claims he never gave his mother permission to sell some of his basketball mementos. Bryant's lawyers have asked New Jersey-based Goldin Auctions to terminate plans to sell items...
Tags: Auction Service, Kobe Bryant, Basketball, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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Wheeler rolling to FCC. DreamWorks Animation eyes AwesomenessTV
After the coffee. Before a long morning of earnings calls. The Skinny: I got through the season finale of "The Following" last night. It wasn't easy. Fortunately, afterward I watched the premiere of Comedy Central's "Inside Amy," which was a tad...
Tags: Jon Cryer, Mad Men (tv program), CNN (tv network), AMC (tv network), Media Industry
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Hilary Koprowski dies at 96; developed oral vaccine for polio
Hilary Koprowski, a Polish-born researcher who developed the first successful oral vaccine for polio, has died. He was 96. Koprowski died of pneumonia April 11 at his Philadelphia home, said his son, Dr. Christopher Koprowski, a radiation oncologist....
Tags: Pneumonia, Discrimination, Biotechnology, Pharmaceuticals, Centocor Incorporated
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WATCH: Philadelphia triple shooting caught on video, man sought
 Philadelphia police have released dramatic footage of a shooting that left three youths injured and the gunman at large. Police didn't give a possible motive for the Tuesday shooting, which happened just outside a Chinese takeout food store. The...
Tags: Shootings
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Sick of Black Friday, Cyber Monday hype? Try 'Giving Tuesday'
At this rate, soon every day of the holiday season will have a name. Thanksgiving Thursday begot Black Friday, which then begot Cyber Monday, and which nonprofits are hoping this year will now beget Giving Tuesday — a new branding effort after...
Tags: Cyber Monday, United Nations, Holidays, NPR, Charity
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Marc Duvoisin named L.A. Times managing editor
Readers' Representative JournalA message to the newsroom from Editor Davan Maharaj: I’m pleased to announce that Marc Duvoisin is the new managing editor of the Los Angeles Times. As you know, this announcement is a long time coming. It reflects months of...... -
Philadelphia Orchestra shows local boy some brotherly love
The Philadelphia Orchestra has come to the rescue of a budding musician, 9-year-old Aidan Milligan. The special-needs fourth-grader was so excited over an upcoming trombone lesson that he left his instrument on the curb at the end of his driveway. It soon...
Tags: Culture, Entertainment, Music, Arts and Culture
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Karl Fleming dies at 84; Newsweek reporter chronicled civil rights struggle
Karl Fleming, a former Newsweek reporter who helped draw national attention to the civil rights movement in the 1960s — and risked his life covering it with perceptive stories about its major figures and the inequalities that fueled it —...
Tags: Radio, Durham (Durham, North Carolina), University of Alabama, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace
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Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia: What did the critics think?
One of the most controversial moves in recent art-world memory, the relocation of the Barnes Foundation, has drawn the national press to Philadelphia where the venerated art institution opened its new building earlier this month. The Barnes, which was...
Tags: Architecture, Museums, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Arts, Arts and Culture
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PASSINGS: Ron Palillo, Al Freeman Jr., James M. Naughton
Ron Palillo Actor played Arnold Horshack on 'Kotter' Ron Palillo, 63, an actor whose signature role was Arnold Horshack in the 1970s TV sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," died Tuesday of a heart attack in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., said his agent, Jackie...
Tags: Theater, Ron Palillo, Celebrities, Heart Attack, Entertainment Events
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Lupe Ontiveros dies at 69; 'Desperate Housewives' actress
Veteran actress Lupe Ontiveros, the El Paso-born daughter of Mexican immigrants, once estimated that she had played the role of a maid more than 150 times during her career. That's why the 4-foot-11 actress was so overjoyed more than a decade ago when...
Tags: Radio, Eva Longoria, Miguel Arteta, Career and Workplace, Celebrities
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Review: Charming son shines in Buzz Bissinger's 'Father's Day'
Father's Day A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son Buzz Bissinger Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 256 pp., $26 It took author Buzz Bissinger four years to write "Father's Day: A Journey into the Mind and Heart of My Extraordinary Son,"...
Tags: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Theft, Travel, Authors, Human Interest
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