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Monday TV Talk Shows: Sanjay Gupta; LeVar Burton; Robert De Niro
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Feb. 3 - 9, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies   --------------------  CBS This Morning Dr. Sanjay Gupta; Jonathan V. Last. (N) 7 a.m. KCBS Today Super Bowl ads; Jenny McCarthy; Louis...
Tags: Louis Gossett Jr., Katharine McPhee, David O. Russell, Sanjay Gupta, Chris Christie
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Earl Weaver dies at 82; Hall of Fame manager of Baltimore Orioles
Irascible, chain-smoking, umpire-baiting longtime Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver penned his own epitaph. "On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived,'" he once said. Weaver, 82, a member of baseball's Hall of Fame and the...
Tags: Sports, American League, Cal Ripken, Jr., Spring Training, Peter G. Angelos
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Breaking the family embargo
Last month, Cuba opened its doors a little wider. President Raul Castro announced that Cuban citizens would no longer need to obtain notoriously hard to get exit permits to leave the country; just a passport. Many Cubans are understandably skeptical...
Tags: Politics, ABC (tv network), Demographics, Barack Obama, Raul Castro
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Patty Andrews dies at 94; Andrews Sisters' last surviving member
They were the swinging, sassy voice of the homefront for U.S. service personnel overseas during World War II, singing catchy hit tunes such as "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and "Rum and Coca Cola" that delighted Americans and catapulted the Andrews Sisters to...
Tags: Al Jolson, Music, Rex Reed, Danny Kaye, Glenn Miller
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Zhuang Zedong dies at 72; helped get 'pingpong diplomacy' rolling
It might have been a chance meeting or a cunning act of propaganda, but the encounter more than 40 years ago between two pingpong champions — one Chinese, the other American — launched what President Nixon would call "the week that changed the...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, White House, Richard Nixon, United States Naval Academy, Sports
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Heart Attack Grill's unofficial spokesman dies of heart attack
Irony is the main entrée in the news this week: An unofficial spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas died of a heart attack Monday. John Alleman, 52, who scoffed at healthy heart warnings by waving in customers outside the downtown eatery while...
Tags: Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Overweight, American Heart Association, Dining and Drinking, Diseases and Illnesses
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PASSINGS: Fontella Bass
Fontella Bass, 72, a St. Louis-born soul singer who hit the top of the R&B charts with "Rescue Me" in 1965, died Wednesday at a St. Louis hospice of complications from a heart attack suffered three weeks ago, said her daughter, Neuka Mitchell. Bass had...
Tags: American Express Company, Rescue Me (tv program), Music, Linda Ronstadt, Aretha Franklin
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Jean Harris dies at 89; killer of 'Scarsdale Diet' doctor
Jean Harris, the onetime headmistress of an elite girls' school whose trial in the fatal 1980 shooting of the celebrity diet doctor who jilted her generated front-page headlines and national debates about whether she was a feminist martyr or vengeful...
Tags: Shootings, Crime, Law and Justice, Bedford (Bronx, New York), Prisons, Trials
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Ray Collins dies; singer with the Mothers of Invention was 75
The Soul Giants were a struggling R&B cover band in Pomona in the mid-1960s when lead singer Ray Collins fired the group's guitarist and invited a musical collaborator from Rancho Cucamonga to take his place. His name was Frank Zappa. The band soon...
Tags: Pittsburgh Penguins, Music, Invention and Innovation, Rolling Stone, Music Industry
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Leafy greens top source of food-borne illnesses, CDC says
Those leafy greens you're always trying to incorporate into your diet? A study released Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says leafy greens such as spinach, kale and lettuces were accountable for the most food-borne illnesses...
Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Calicivirus, Food Industry, Disease Prevention
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Families react to death penalty in forest fire arson case
L.A. NOWThe children of a victim of the 2003 Old Fire in San Bernardino County told the judge who sentenced the convicted arsonist to death Monday that the defendant's actions had destroyed their lives. “It’s still very hard for me to...... -
Death penalty imposed for 2003 Old Fire in San Bernardino County
L.A. NOWA methamphetamine addict with a violent history was sentenced to death Monday for setting the 2003 Old fire in San Bernardino County that destroyed 1,000 homes and led to five deaths. A jury in August convicted Rickie Lee Fowler of......
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