In the News, June 5th, 2008

Happiness in Hockeyland..

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Detroit, aka Hockeytown, wins it's 11th Stanley Cup. It's thethe fourth time in 11 seasons that the Detroit Red Wings are the Stanley Cup champions. They beat the Pittsburgh Penguins on with a 3-2 victory in Game 6 of the finals.

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She is finally going to bow out.
According to the campaign people working for Hillary Clinton , she will announce her endorsement of Barack Obama on Saturday. There is an expected to do among NY Dems that will join her in supporting the Democratic candidate.

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Remember when they wanted to 'move their tails for us'?
Well, now Continental Airlines Inc. is cutting 3,000 jobs and reducing capacity by 11 percent, citing record fuel costs and an industry in "crisis."

Also, the company's chief executive and president say they will not take a salary for the rest of this year and will decline bonuses. The cuts represent about 6.5 percent of the company's total staff of 45,000.

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WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?
A mother of eight who Long Beach police say took her two youngest children with her when she sold heroin from her SUV is now in jail awaiting arraignment.
She was arrested on suspicion of drug dealing and child cruelty after she left five of her children alone for at least 12 hours, according to Long Beach Police Department's drug investigations unit.

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Officers searched the single mother's two-bedroom apartment found about $10,000 in cash and $40 in black tar heroin.The plastic bag that held two pieces of heroin was stuffed in a white baby shoe, , wads of money, along with welfare credit cards, were stuffed into the pockets of clothing crammed in suitcases, in the closet and in drawers.

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Officials have charged actor Dennis Farina with three counts of carrying a loaded weapon stemming from his May arrest when the former cop was stopped by airport security on his way to board a plane.

The actor, faces up to 2 1/2 years in jail and $3,000 in fines if convicted on all three misdemeanor counts, according to a spokesman for the Los Angeles City Attorney's office.

Ironically, the actor was a policeman in Chicago for nearly 20 years before building a Hollywood career mostly playing detectives.
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Good news! They found the missing lighthouse.

Local historians for decades thought the 30-foot tall lighthouse that once overlooked Wellfleet Harbor had been taken down and destroyed in 1925.

Turns out, the cast-iron tower had just been moved to the California coast. The lighthouse now resides at Point Montara, 25 miles south of San Francisco.

A researcher says that she discovered correspondence that proves the lighthouse, first erected in 1881, had been moved by the Coast Guard from Wellfleet to Yerba Buena, Calif., and eventually to Point Montara.