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'Doctor Who,' 'Girls,' Lorne Michaels among Peabody Award winners
"Doctor Who" is celebrating 50 years on the air this year, new episodes begin airing Saturday and to top it all off, the good Doctor has just received a Peabody Award for 50 years of "evolving with technology and the times like nothing else in the known...
Tags: ABC Family (tv network), Wars and Interventions, University of Memphis, Lorne Michaels, Southland (tv program)
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Newtown families speak to Connecticut lawmakers about gun issues
It was a bloody rampage on Connecticut more than a month ago that brought gun control back onto the national political stage, so it was appropriate that state’s Legislature became one of the first Monday to publicly wrestle with the thorny questions...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Gun Control, Justice System, Justice and Rights, Weaponry
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306,000 in Connecticut are -- still -- without power
Nation NowNortheast snowstorm: About 306,000 residents in Connecticut are still without power after a snowstorm in the Northeast last weekend.... -
Mark Twain House employee embezzled $1 million
Jacket CopyThe Mark Twain House in Hartford Connecticut faced financial struggles - while one of its employees embezzled $1 million.... -
Book review: 'The Forgotten Founding Father' by Joshua Kendall
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Forgotten Founding Father Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture Joshua Kendall Putnam: 355 pp., $26.95 Reading Joshua Kendall's smart new biography of the pioneering lexicographer Noah Webster Jr. (1758-1843) brings to...Tags: Harry S. Truman, Crime, Law and Justice, George Washington, Justice System, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Time for Comcast to up commitment to NBC, local news
The Big PictureComcast commits to support non-profit news outlets. But it could do a lot more.... -
PASSINGS: Stephen Barnett, Douglas Duitsman, Erich Lehmann
Stephen Barnett Vocal critic of California court system Stephen Barnett, 73, a 1st Amendment professor emeritus at the UC Berkeley School of Law and a prominent critic of the state court system, died Tuesday in Berkeley of complications from cardiac...Tags: Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Justice System, U.S. Department of Justice, Brooklyn (New York City), Local Government
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Ken Ober dies at 52; host of MTV's 'Remote Control' game show
Ken Ober, a comedian and actor who as host of MTV's "Remote Control" in the 1980s guided the raucous question-and-answer trivia contests on the irreverent cable TV game show, was found dead Sunday at his home in Santa Monica. He was 52.
Lee Kernis of...Tags: Boston, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Game Shows, Denis Leary, The Brady Bunch (tv program)
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Sculptor carving 563-foot likeness of Crazy Horse
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEditor's note: This story originally appeared in the L.A. Times on April 25, 1980. -------------------- Crazy Horse, S.D. -- The tall, heavyset sculptor with flowing gray beard stood outside his mountain tomb puffing on a cigar and musing aloud: "I...Tags: Metal and Mineral, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Sculpture, Arts and Culture, Travel
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Joza Karas dies at 82; musician revived compositions by Jews in concentration camp
Joza Karas, a Czechoslovakian-born violin teacher who spent decades tracking down and reviving musical compositions written by Jews in the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt, died Nov. 28 at his home in Bloomfield, Conn. He was 82 and had congestive...Tags: University of Hartford, Czech Republic, Civil Unrest, Religious Conflicts, American Red Cross
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Noah Webster: The definition of Yankee know-how
Were it not for Noah Webster Jr., the farm boy from West Hartford, Conn., who would have been 250 on Thursday, Americans might all be reading their newspapers from back to front today. As the War for Independence was winding down, the linguistic...Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Jefferson Davis, Constitutional Issues, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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A parallel wartime experience
"A Return to Wartime Philippines" [Special Asia Issue, Aug. 7] was quite a bittersweet nostalgia trip for me. Like the author's mother, Leanne Blinzler Noe, I lived in the Philippines from 1938 to 1947. All my experiences parallel hers. However, I...Tags: Philippines, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Death
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