International Herald Tribune
Americas
Associated Press
Officer Ronald Campbell said Juanita Bynum met with authorities Thursday at an undisclosed location to press the charges against preacher Thomas W. Weeks III, founder of Global Destiny churches.
The struggle happened early Wednesday in a hotel parking lot near Atlanta’s airport, and a hotel bellman pulled Weeks off Bynum, Campbell said.
The Mercury News
Associated Press
Media Rights Capital, the financing company that backed last year’s film “Babel,” is supporting the two projects. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The programs will appear in a video box that a user would click on to start. The box will be packaged with banner advertising and video ads that will appear either before or after the programming.
The Chicago Tribune
By BOB THOMAS
Associated Press Writer
Griffin died of prostate cancer, according to a statement from his the family that was released by Marcia Newberger, spokeswoman for The Griffin Group/Merv Griffin Entertainment.
From his beginning as a $100-a-week San Francisco radio singer, Griffin moved on as vocalist for Freddy Martin’s band, sometime film actor in films and TV game and talk show host. His “The Merv Griffin Show” lasted more than 20 years, and Griffin’s said his capacity to listen contributed to his success.
The Enquirer (Cincinnati)
BY WILLIAM A. WEATHERS
Problem was, his hookups were illegal, investigators say
Police say 33-year-old John Warren was so proficient at installing illegal cable television hookups that he was making a good living, enough to support himself, his girlfriend and their four children.
“He was doing really good,” District 5 Detective Julian Steele said Thursday. “He’d mastered his trade. The only thing missing was a (Time) Warner Cable uniform.”
International Herald Tribune
Asia-Pacific
By Barry Bearak
KABUL: Seven years ago, in a very different time in a very different Afghanistan, a medical student named Daoud Sediqi was bicycling from campus when he was stopped by the Taliban’s whip-wielding religious police. The young man immediately felt an avalanche of regret, for he was in violation of at least two laws.
One obvious offense was the length of his hair. While the ruling Taliban insisted that men sprout untrimmed beards, they were otherwise opposed to scruffiness and the student had allowed his locks to grow shaggy. His other transgression was more serious. If his captors searched his things, they would find a CD with an X-rated movie.
Austin 360
By Diane Holloway
AMERICAN-STATESMAN TELEVISION WRITER
WCVBTV/DT
O’Donnell Spokeswoman: ‘It Will Never Happen In This Lifetime Or Beyond’
Donald Trump asked NBC executives to invite Rosie O’Donnell to be on the next version of “The Apprentice.”
The news came Monday morning as NBC announced plans to invite celebrities to take part in the Trump leadership test.
KVAL News
By Elissa Harrington
There has been drama surrounding this story than the ending of the Sopranos. And how the hell did Springfield, VERMONT become the official home of the Simpsons? I have never found myself watching an episode of the Simpsons and said to myself, “You know, that Bart Simpson really has a New Englander accent.” WTF.
The Boston Globe
Associated Press
The southeastern Vermont community has been declared the winner among 14 communities of the same name nationwide that competed for the title of the official hometown of the Simpsons, of TV comedy fame.
IC Coventry
By Emma Stone
They will be attempting to break the record for the most amount of people dressed as Smurfs at any one time.
Students from across the city are being invited to paint themselves blue and join in the fun from 7pm.
The record attempt has been incorporated into Score - a weekly night held at the union.