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Morning deejays Woody & Jim on WFLY-FM (92.3) have a new CD to sell just in time for the holidays.
``The Scam Files'' -- a compilation of phone scams, parody songs and comedy bits -- will be sold for $9.20 Tuesday from 4 to 7 p.m. in front of the F.Y.E. store at Colonie Center, Wolf Road, Colonie. …
With the Sex and the City girls gone and The Sopranos getting whacked after next season, HBO is looking for men to save the summer.
In three weeks, HBO roils out a triple threat of lighter, half-hour programs designed specifically to reach a young-male audience. On July 18, the network will premiere The Entourage in the prized 10 p.m. Sunday night slot after Six Feet Under.
The comedy, executive-produced by rapper-turned-actor Mark Wahlberg, focuses on a Hollywood hopeful's posse of four young men. The premise of the show is unabashedly similar to Sex and the City." One friend (Adrian Grenier) hits it big in Hollywood, while his buddies ride his wave of fame. …
Stephen Fleming gave up the chance of a valedictory century, falling for 87, as New Zealand reached 348 for seven at tea Sunday, the second day of the second cricket test against Bangladesh.
Fleming enlarged one of the poorest conversion rates of 50s to 100s among world-class batsmen when, after reaching his 43rd test half century before lunch, he was out 13 runs short of his 10th test hundred.
This may be Fleming's last international season and he expressed a strong desire before play began Saturday to fill a gap in his curriculum vitae by achieving his first test century on the Basin Reserve, his adopted home ground.
Only two of Fleming's nine …
TAMPA, Fla. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers cleared the way for VinnyTestaverde to be their full-time quarterback Thursday by tradingveteran Steve DeBerg to the Kansas City Chiefs for safety MarkRobinson and two draft picks.
In addition to Robinson, the Buccaneers will receive the Chiefs'picks in the fourth and eighth rounds of the NFL draft this month.The Chiefs owned multiple picks in both rounds.
Kansas City general manager Jim Schaaf said DeBerg, expected toback up Bill Kenney, had agreed to a three-year contract. The Chiefstraded backup quarterback Todd Blackledge to Pittsburgh this week.
"Our team needed a proven NFL quarterback as a backup to …
Albany Common Council Member Anton Konev's controversial bill to introduce spoken prayer at council meetings could be resolved quickly and happily.
My suggestion is that the present "moment of silence" be lengthened by …
Byline: DAVID BAUDER Associated Press
NEW YORK -- A postponed ``60 Minutes'' report about whether Iraq had nuclear capabilities has quickly become CBS' most famous shelved story since the 1995 tobacco piece made famous in the movie ``The Insider.''
The Ed Bradley story questions a crucial piece of evidence used by the Bush administration to support the war. CBS decided it was inappropriate to air so close to the election.
That prompted an e-mail campaign by supporters of Democrat John Kerry urging CBS to run the completed story. The liberal watchdog organization Fairness and Accuracy in Media has tried, so far unsuccessfully, to find and post a copy on the Internet. And the Web site Salon.com summarized Bradley's story after receiving a copy before CBS decided to postpone it.
All this shows the …
Paul R. Smith, vice president and general manager of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette since 1981, has been named president of WEHCO Newspapers, Inc. (Arkansas …
