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Obama doesn’t travel light—even on vacation
Category: National Written by Associated Press
by Glen Johnson
VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP)—President Barack Obama had a simple task for his first morning on vacation: shoot over to a Martha’s Vineyard bookstore to fill out his daughters’ summer reading list and grab himself a novel.
Easier said than done.
His SUV, part of a 20-vehicle motorcade, passed through a cordon of Massachusetts State Police motorcycle officers, in a protective cocoon of Secret Service agents. Tagging along for the quick trip Friday were White House communications trucks, an ambulance and two vans full of reporters and photographers.
Last Updated on Monday, 03 December 2012 19:28
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‘48 Hours’ correspondent Harold Dow dies at 62
Category: National Written by Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP)—Emmy-winning CBS News correspondent Harold Dow, who helped shape the documentary program “48 Hours” and covered the kidnapping of Patricia Hearst and the Sept. 11 attacks, has died. He was 62.
Dow died suddenly Saturday morning in New Jersey, network spokeswoman Louise Bashi said. He lived in Upper Saddle River, N.J., but it wasn’t immediately clear if he’d been at home.
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HAROLD DOW
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Dow had been a correspondent for “48 Hours” since 1990. His nearly 40 years with the network also included reporting for “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather” and “CBS News Sunday Morning.”
Last Updated on Monday, 03 December 2012 19:28
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This Week in Black History
Category: National Written by Robert N. Taylor
August 26
1943—In a primarily token gesture Black Chicago Congressman William L. Dawson is recommended to be the Democratic Party’s vice presidential candidate. For several years, Dawson was the only African-American in the United States Congress. He would later be joined by New York’s Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Dawson served in Congress for 27 years from January 1943 to the time he died in November 1970.
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MICHAEL JACKSON
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Last Updated on Monday, 03 December 2012 19:28
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Dr. Laura to quit radio after N-word incident
Category: National Written by NNPA News Service
by Gregory Dale
WASHINGTON (NNPA) —Following the repeated use of the N-word on a recent episode of her radio talk show, Dr. Laura Schlessinger has announced that she will end her radio career at the end of the year.
| CALLING IT QUITS—This Feb. 17, 1998 file photo shows Dr. Laura Schlessinger posing during her morning talk show in her Los Angeles studio. Aug. 10.
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Schlessinger has said in broadcasted interviews that her decision was made in the face of tremendous criticism she has received since the show aired Aug. 10. The incident occurred when an African-American caller phoned in to seek Schlessinger’s advice about whether she should take offense to a neighbor’s racial taunting.
Last Updated on Monday, 03 December 2012 19:28
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Philadelphia Housing Authority director facing foreclosure proceedings
Category: National Written by Associated Press
by Maryclaire Dale
PHILADELPHIA (AP)—A bank has foreclosed on a $615,000 condominium owned by the head of the Philadelphia Housing Authority, who earned $350,000 last year leading the nation’s fourth-largest public-housing agency.
Carl R. Greene, PHA’s executive director, bought the three-bedroom, 2,100-square-foot condo in the upscale Naval Square development in 2007. He put down $215,000 in cash and took out a $400,000 mortgage, city records show.
| LOCKED IN DISPUTE WITH WELLS FARGO—In this Feb. 29, 2008 photo, Philadelphia Housing Authority Director Carl Greene poses in front of a housing development in Philadelphia.
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Greene, 53, stopped making payments on or around April 1, and three months later owed more than $7,500 in missed payments and late fees, according to the bank’s July 27 lawsuit.
Last Updated on Monday, 03 December 2012 19:28
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