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Arnie snubs awards, AB Jr clueless

Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was to give away the Green Globe award to Abhishek, was missing in action

Retailers, council oppose restriction on cigar sales

NEW BEDFORD — The City Council on Thursday went on the record against a Board of Health regulation that would have prevented the sale of some single-stick cigars within city limits.

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BANKS & FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES Venue: Conf. Rms. 1&2 RVM Bldg. Time: 09:30 AM Agenda/Resource Person: HR 779 – Inquiry into the practices of the International Netherlands Group (ING) Bank N.V. Manila Branch that defrauded Filipino investors of billions of pesos (Rep. Andres Salvacion, Jr.)

Martin Luther King's Simsbury Connnection

SIMSBURY — Lynne Sloan never lived in civil rights battlefields like Atlanta, Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma or Memphis.

Events honor MLK’s legacy

The wind died down somewhat and the rain held off as dozens of men, women and children marched Monday through downtown Richmond in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s time in Simsbury evokes awe

SIMSBURY — Lynne Sloan never lived in civil rights battlefields like Atlanta, Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma or Memphis.

Obscure Simsbury Martin Luther King landmark delights neighbors

SIMSBURY — Lynne Sloan never lived in civil rights battlefields like Atlanta, Montgomery, Birmingham, Selma or Memphis. But the Simsbury, Connecticut registered nurse, wife and mother was pinching herself last week at the thought that the late Martin Luther King, Jr., as a teenager, lived, worked and preached on the footprint of her subdivision.

Al Sharpton’s Favorite Medication Is Air

Name: Reverend Al Sharpton Age: 57 Neighborhood: Upper West Side Occupation : Host, MSNBC’s PoliticsNation at 6 p.m. ET Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? Former Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. To me, he represented the perfect mixture of sophistication and activism. As a kid growing up in New York I admired him: He was an activist like I wanted to be, but he ...

75 years ago today, Alfred P. Sloan Jr. told GM workers, 'We refuse to negotiate' with Sit-Down strikers

With the Sit-Down Strike of 1936-37 four weeks old and workers refusing to leave General Motors' Fisher Body plants, GM President Alfred P. Sloan took his case directly to employees 75 years ago today.

Police Log February 9

Abington Drug charges … Brian McAneny, 19, of the 2800 block of Solly Avenue, Philadelphia, was charged Nov. 30 with acquiring a controlled substance by fraud, forgery, deception or misrepresentation; possession of a controlled substance, forgery, receiving stolen property, and criminal conspiracy in connection with incidents in October 2011 in which fraudulent prescriptions were filled, police ...