Music
An exhibit featuring an urn filled with the late DJ Alan Freed’s ashes was recently removed from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, just a week or so after Beyoncé’s wardrobe moved in.
Aug. 7, 2014
Movies
Radio: A network bio-pic tells the story of the disc jockey who changed the face of popular music.
Oct. 15, 1999
“This is your old Moondog here,” raved the young deejay from Cleveland on his first broadcast in New York City in 1954, “with rhythm and blues records with the big beat in popular music in America today. . . . “ “Oh my God,” said one of the staff announcers in horror.
May 15, 1991
World & Nation
When American contractor Alan Gross received a call from his lawyer Tuesday morning telling him he would be freed from the Cuban military hospital where he had been imprisoned for five years, he was silent.
Dec. 17, 2014
Alan Johnston’s captors free him after Hamas fighters surround their compound, a boost for the militant group.
July 4, 2007
Man exonerated, freed in Florida now faces attempted-murder charge
July 31, 2012
A Belfast-born woman wanted in Britain on suspicion of three terrorist murders disappeared Sunday after a weekend in which she was freed because of an invalid extradition warrant, recaptured in a high-speed car chase, then freed again on the same technicality.
March 24, 1986
A man was freed in Tampa after spending nearly 24 years in prison after being convicted of rapes that new DNA tests showed he did not commit.
Jan. 24, 2006
California
A Stanislaus County man was freed after 22 months behind bars for an attempted armed robbery he said never happened.
Aug. 22, 1991
Guerrillas free ex-governor
Feb. 4, 2009