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'Twilight' Shines In Third Box Office Win Over Bond
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The "Twilight" teen movievampires sucked more money out of theaters over the weekend, leading James Bond, Brad Pitt and the rest of box office pack with $17.4 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales and scoring its third weekly...
Tags: Entertainment, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 (movie), Holidays, The Collector (movie, 2009), Movies
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Rejected Beatles Audition Tape Appears at Auction
The Beatles audition tape rejected by a record label executive in arguably the biggest blunder in pop history has resurfaced and will go on sale at a London auction next week. Ted Owen of The Fame Bureau, an auction house specializing in pop...
Tags: The Rolling Stones (music group), Entertainment, George Harrison, Auction Service, The Beatles (music group)
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Big Kenny Opens Up
![<span style="font-size: small;">This year marks the triumphant return of the multi-platinum duo Big and Rich. Their current release, ‘Fake I.D.,’ is their first new single in over three years to impact country radio. The song is part of the remake of the new movie ‘Footloose,’ set to hit theaters next month, and it will also be included in the movie’s soundtrack, which will become available for purchase in stores on September 27.</span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-09/64960791-23040759.jpg "<span style="font-size: small;\">This year marks the triumphant return of the multi-platinum duo Big and Rich. Their current release, ‘Fake I.D.,’ is their first new single in over three years to impact country radio. The song is part of the remake of the new movie ‘Footloose,’ set to hit theaters next month, and it will also be included in the movie’s soundtrack, which will become available for purchase in stores on September 27.</span>")
This year marks the triumphant return of the multi-platinum duo Big and Rich. Their current release, ‘Fake I.D.,’ is their first new single in over three years to impact country radio. The song is part of the remake of the new movie ‘...Tags: Entertainment, Artists, American Music Awards, John Rich, Dirty South (music group)
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Q&A: 'The Hangover: Part III' star Justin Bartha
In “The Hangover: Part III,” Justin Bartha’s Doug isn’t just lost or sidelined while his pals and brother-in-law deal with constant mayhem. He’s kidnapped and an organized crime boss threatens his life. “I think...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Entertainment, Human Interest, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights
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Cheers greet Mexican soldiers relieving western town cut off from supplies by drug cartel
Associated PressLA RUANA, Mexico (AP) — Residents of a western Mexico area who endured months besieged by a drug cartel cheered the arrival of hundreds of Mexican soldiers Monday. People in La Ruana in Michoacan state lined the main road to greet more than a dozen...Tags: Defense, Felipe Calderon, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Forces, Blackmail and Extortion
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Arkansas state treasurer faces federal charges, calls to resign
ReutersBy Suzi Parker LITTLE ROCK, Ark., May 20 (Reuters) - Arkansas' state treasurer was charged with extortion on Monday following a weekend arrest on accusations that she took repeated cash payments for state bond business, including money delivered in a pie...Tags: Mike Beebe, Bonds, Government, Politics, Executive Branch
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Cartel-controlled border towns present big challenge in Congress' quest for immigration reform
Associated PressMATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — Just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, stands a dormitory-style shelter filled with people recently deported from the U.S. and other migrants waiting to cross the border. The long rows of bunk beds offer...Tags: International Law, Religion and Belief, Immigration, Gulf Cartel, Migration
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Despite curbs, China's vast hot money triangle flourishes
Reuters* Underground banking network remits billions of yuan daily * Money laundering risks exacerbated by unofficial networks * Macau junkets act as pseudo banks for China capital outflows * Chinese authorities soft on enforcement, say intermediaries By...Tags: Central Bank, Macau, Economy, Business and Finance, Hong Kong, Beijing (China)
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Insight: Despite curbs, China's vast hot money triangle flourishes
ReutersZHUHAI, China/HONG KONG (Reuters) - In an underground mall just a stone's throw from China's teeming border with Macau, a row of 30 small shops with identical golden plaques does a brisk, though shadowy trade with mainland Chinese visitors, many of them...Tags: Central Bank, Macau, Economy, Business and Finance, Beijing (China), Hong Kong
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A Hartford Wise Guy And A $500 Million Museum Heist
The Hartford CourantIt was a shore dinner in Maine a decade ago that transformed Robert Gentile, an aging, unremarkable wise guy from Hartford, into the best lead in years in one of the world's most baffling crime mysteries, the unsolved robbery of half a billion dollars...Tags: Gun Control, Firearms, Punishment, Police Arrests, Museums
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Casino bill would give city unparalleled control
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is pushing lawmakers to pass a gambling bill that would allow the city to weigh its choice of a casino operator in secret and forbid state regulators from taking away its license. The legislation also would grant the mayor authority...
Tags: Casino and Gambling Industry, Louis I Lang, Crime, Law and Justice, Values, Freedom of Information Act
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Correctional Officers' Bill of Rights scrutinized after Baltimore City Detention Center scandal
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comThe Correctional Officers’ Bill of Rights, which was sponsored by a former Washington County senator and signed into law in 2010, is getting fresh scrutiny in the aftermath of a scandal at the Baltimore City Detention Center, where 13 female...Tags: Police Investigations, Michael E. Busch, Christopher B. Shank, Thomas V. Mike Miller, Donald F Munson
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