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Long-time CBS broadcaster Andy Rooney dead at 92
The Baltimore SunAndy Rooney, whose CBS career spans the entire post-war history of network news, died Friday as a result of complications following minor surgery, the network announced. A mainstay of Sunday night viewing for millions of Americans, the 92-year-old Rooney...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Depression, CBS Corp., College Sports, Andy Rooney
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Steinbeck, too, raised concerns over war coverage
Sun Television WriterWhen John Steinbeck's dispatches from World War II were compiled and published in 1958 as a collection called Once There Was A War, one critic delivered a particularly acidic assessment: "They are period pieces, the attitudes archaic, the impulses...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, U.S. Navy, Defense, Ernest Hemingway, Wars and Interventions
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Majority of Indiana third-graders pass new IREAD-3 exam
Indiana's Superintendent of Public Instruction called the results of the new IREAD-3 exam ‘good news’. The March test to evaluate the reading skills of Indiana's third-graders show 84 percent of those students have what it takes to move on to...
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Anthony Shadid dies at 43; New York Times foreign correspondent
Reporting from New York -- Anthony Shadid, a journalist who gave voice to those muffled by the turmoil around them — from Iraqi families enveloped in civil war to young Libyans spurred to take up arms against a dictator — died while doing just...Tags: Ralph Nader, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Muammar Gaddafi, Awards and Prizes, Najib Mikati
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Andy Rooney's College Roommate Suffers Heart Attack at Memorial
NEW YORK, NY -- Andy Rooney's college roommate and lifelong friend had a heart attack and was pronounced dead at the newsman's memorial service before being revived by paramedics, TMZ reported Wednesday.
The site initially said that the roommate, Bob...Tags: U.S. Military, Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (tv program), Movies, Andy Rooney, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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'Grading the Teachers' wins Scripps Howard public service award
Readers' Representative JournalEditor Russ Stanton announced the following honors from the Scripps Howard National Journalism Awards: Jason Felch, Jason Song, Doug Smith, Sandra Poindexter and Ken Schwencke on Friday were named winners of the public service award in the 57th annual... -
ISTEP scores better than last year
Fox59.comDuring April and May, it was pencils down for Indiana's third through eighth graders taking the ISTEP. How'd they do? We found out Wednesday when the state's ISTEP results were released. "Today is a very good day for Indiana education," said Dr. Tony...Tags: Examinations, Academic Progress, Teaching and Learning, Arts, William McKinley
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Today in history: April 18
1906: A devastating earthquake struck San Francisco, followed by raging fires; estimates of the final death toll range between 3,000 and 6,000. 1934: The first laundromat (called a ''washateria'') opened in Fort Worth, Texas. 1945: Famed American...Tags: San Francisco, Academy of Country Music Awards, Carrie Underwood
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Craig Noel dies at 94; founding director of San Diego's renowned Old Globe
Craig Noel, the founding director of San Diego's Old Globe who established a vital regional community theater that eventually became a Tony Award-winning font of dramatic productions bound for Broadway, has died. He was 94.
Noel, who began his career...Tags: William Saroyan, U.S. Army, Music Theater, August Wilson, George W. Bush
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Only one of Oscars' top winners added to National Film Registry
Gold DerbyEvery year since 1989, the National Film Registry -- a branch of the Library of Congress -- has chosen 25 movies to preserve for posterity. This year, as usual, most of its choices aren't the ones deemed the best of their day by Hollywood -- that is,...
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