LONDON (Reuters) – Scottish producer and singer Calvin Harris returned to the top of the British album charts with “18 Months” in the first week of 2013, the Official Charts Company said on Sunday.The release, his third studio album, had hit the number one spot on its debut in November, and climbed from seventh place to regain the best sellers’ crown.Singer Emeli Sandé slipped one notch to number...
Alarm in Albuquerque Over Plan to End Methadone for Inmates
Label: HealthMark Holm for The New York TimesOfficials at New Mexico’s largest jail want to end its methadone program. Addicts like Penny Strayer hope otherwise. ALBUQUERQUE — It has been almost four decades since Betty Jo Lopez started using heroin. Her face gray and wizened well beyond her 59 years, Ms. Lopez would almost certainly still be addicted, if not for the fact that she is locked away in jail,...
Blackhawks fans, shops cheer end to NHL lockout
Label: Business As soon as he heard the Chicago Blackhawks may soon be lacing up to play, Jim Boffa took his family out for a celebratory lunch...
Jan
06
At least 10 people shot Saturday, 2 fatally
Label: World An afternoon shooting in the Englewood neighborhood has left a man dead Saturday, a day in which at least 10 people were shot,...
Cricket-Herath alive and bowling despite death rumours
Label: TechnologySYDNEY, Jan 5 (Reuters) – As Mark Twain might have said, rumours of the death of Sri Lankan spinner Rangana Herath which spread like wildfire across social media late on Friday proved to be greatly exaggerated.Far from lying in a Sydney morgue alongside former test bowler Chaminda Vaas after perishing in a car crash as the reports had suggested, Herath was very much alive when he pitched up for work...
HBO Sets Premieres for ‘Parade’s End,’ Christopher Guest’s ‘Family Tree’
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – ‘Family Tree,’ Christopher Guest‘s latest foray into documentary-style comedy, will premiere this spring on HBO, the network said Friday.Meanwhile, the five-part, World War I-era miniseries “Parade’s End” will premiere February 26 at 9 p.m. The miniseries, which stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall and Adelaide Clemens, will have additional airings on February 27 and...
Despite New Health Law, Some See Sharp Rise in Premiums
Label: HealthHealth insurance companies across the country are seeking and winning double-digit increases in premiums for some customers, even though one of the biggest objectives of the Obama administration’s health care law was to stem the rapid rise in insurance costs for consumers. Bob Chamberlin/Los Angeles TimesDave Jones, the California insurance commissioner, said some insurance companies...
Chicago restaurateurs shrug off economic worries
Label: Business Chicago may have lost a few of its Michelin-starred restaurants in 2012 and waved goodbye to the inimitable Charlie Trotter's,...
Jan
05
Second escaped inmate caught in former neighborhood
Label: WorldChicago Tribune reporter Jason Meisner on the recent arrest of Kenneth Conley, a convicted bank robber who escaped from federal jail in December. (Posted on: Jan. 4, 2013.) ...
Kobe Bryant: I’m on Twitter now
Label: TechnologyLOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant is no longer a holdout. He’s on Twitter.With five words — “The antisocial has become social” — the Los Angeles Lakers guard sent the first tweet from his account Friday. About 270,000 people followed his verified account, (at)kobebryant, within a few hours and he was up to 365,000 late Friday night as the Lakers played the Clippers.Bryant tiptoed into the Twitterverse...
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