Mohammad Amawi, 28; Marwan El-Hindi, 45, and Wassim Mazloum, 27, face maximum sentences of life in prison. Prosecutors said the men were learning to shoot guns and make explosives while raising money to fund their plans.Brice and Sandra McMillan were jailed Friday on charges of murder and felony child abuse in the death of their […]
“In Long Beach, you step on the gas and it’s like the Bonneville Flats — straight and level and conducive to speeding,” said Lt. Michael Tangney, commanding officer of the Long Beach Police Department’s traffic division. “In the last three months, we’ve given tickets for cars traveling between 50 and 68 in a 35-mile-an-hour zone.”The […]
Winemaker Robert Mondavi samples food while talking with his assistant Mary Azevedo, during the Napa Valley Wine Auction’s lot preview and barrel tasting at the St. Supery Vineyards in Rutherford, Calif., Thursday, June 4, 1998. Robert Mondavi died Friday, May 16, 2008 in his Yountville home. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)Robert Mondavi, the man hailed as the […]
Laurie Fendrich, a painter who lives and works in New York, is a professor of fine arts and the director of the Comparative Arts and Culture Graduate Program at Hofstra University. Her writing has focused on the place of art and artists in society and the education of young artists, but she has also written […]
The managers in charge of state and local government agencies should make sure that employees who handle public records know which ones must be saved, a state advisory committee concluded Wednesday.Gov. Mike Easley’s e-mail panel also endorsed creating a computerized training tutorial and quiz for government workers who need or want it. The committee is […]
“12 Angry Men” was released with Henry Fonda (above center and below) in 1957, but it started as a play for television called “Twelve Angry Men” with Robert Cummings. In 1964, the movie script was then adapted to the stage.Reginald Rose’s vintage teleplay “Twelve Angry Men,” which manipulates the deliberations of a jury meant to […]
Bruce A. Monk, 55, Bucyrus, failure to pay tax, fined $324 with $225 suspended; failure to pay tax, fined $339 with $225 suspended; failure to pay tax, fined $324 with $225 suspended; failure to pay tax, fined $324 with $225 suspended; failure to pay tax, fined $329 with $225 suspended; failure to pay tax, fined […]
•For a while it looked as if The Bourne Ultimatum, which took three technical honors, might steal the Oscar thunder on a night where no one film seemed to dominate. But the spy thriller was not up for any big honors.Instead, the Coen brothers finally got their full due with four Oscars for their Western […]
The $3.1 trillion fiscal year 2009 budget that President Bush released last week continues the “reigning philosophy” among politicians — “evade choices” on spending for health care and other programs, a practice used by both political parties and “largely approved by the public,” Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson writes. According to Samuelson, Bush “says […]