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Goodbye 'Sweet Micky'? Martelly Serious About Leading Haiti
By Emily Troutman - AOL NewsPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- On the Sunday night before the announcement of Haiti's preliminary election results, tensions ran high. The candidates faced a troubled electoral system, an impatient population, the never-ending sense that what can go wrong, will. At 9 p.m., hip-hop star Pras Michel took to Twitter: RT @PrasMichel Machete + gasoline + matches = the will of people Pras is an internationally known musician, the cousin and former Fugees band mate of Wyclef Jean, and he was one of the first to endorse Michel Martelly. Emily Troutman for AOL News Michel Martelly, the ...
Schwarzenegger to Star in 'The Governator' Cartoon [VIDEO]
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Near-Record Sierra Snow Good News to Parched Calif.
By not in system - AOL NewsSODA SPRINGS, Calif. -- Chris Rivest's father sent him from San Francisco to the family vacation cabin near the Sierra Nevada crest with a seemingly simple chore -- clear it and the driveway of snow. Easy for him to say. When Rivest arrived earlier this week at the cabin near Soda Springs, about 90 miles northeast of Sacramento, the snow was so deep it nearly touched the power lines crossing in front of the cabin. Snow was piled at least 10 feet high on top of the deck of the A-frame home. Rich Pedroncelli, AP A California Department of Transportation snow remover clears a road ...
Why We Care About the Academy Awards
By James Grady - Politics DailyThe Academy Awards shone bright lights in my family's night sky well before 2007, when I stood in a Santa Monica street hugging my black-gowned and borrowed-diamonds daughter Rachel and not crying, I did not cry, I did not! as she climbed into the black limo that whisked her and her co-director/producer Heidi to the Oscars where they would lose Best Documentary to Al Gore. And why yes: it is way cool just to be nominated. The Academy Awards had me long before that night. Way back in America's black & white Cold War daze, my father managed movie theaters on our home turf of Montana prairie ...
Arnold Schwarzenegger Seeks Return to Hollywood
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailyWe all know the catchphrase that has been associated with Arnold Schwarzenegger since he starred in the 1984 movie "The Terminator." He even committed it to concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood when his handprints and footprints were enshrined there as a major star of major motion pictures. Now those words may apply to him again. Schwarzenegger may return to the big screen. With the exception of some cameo roles like the one in the 2010 movie "The Expendables," Schwarzenegger has not had parts in any movies since he was elected governor of California in October 2003. In recent ...
Fitness Guru Jack LaLanne, 96, Dies at Calif. Home
By not in system - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES -- Jack LaLanne was prodding Americans to get off their couches and into the gym decades before it was cool. And he was still pumping iron and pushing fruits and vegetables decades past most Americans' retirement age. The fitness fanatic ate well and exercised - and made it his mission to make sure everyone did the same - right up to the end at age 96, friends and family said. LaLanne died Sunday at his home in Morro Bay on California's central coast, longtime agent Rick Hersh said. The cause was respiratory failure due to pneumonia. ...
Sargent Shriver Hospitalized in Suburban DC
By not in system - AOL NewsBETHESDA, Md. -- A medical center spokeswoman says former Peace Corps director and vice-presidential nominee R. Sargent Shriver has been hospitalized outside Washington. Ronna Borenstein of Suburban Hospital in Bethesda said Sunday evening that she could not comment on the 95-year-old Shriver's condition or say when he was admitted. Shriver announced in 2003 that he had Alzheimer's disease. He served as the first Peace Corps director in the administration of his brother-in-law, President John Kennedy. He also was Democrat George McGovern's running mate in 1972. Shriver's wife and Special ...
Schwarzenegger Reduces Sentence for Son of Ex-Assembly Speaker
By Carla Baranauckas - Politics DailyOn his last day in office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California commuted part of the prison sentence for the son of a former speaker of the State Assembly. Schwarzenegger, a Republican, reduced to seven years a 16-year sentence for a conviction on a charge of voluntary manslaughter being served by Esteban Nunez, the 21-year-old son of Fabian Nunez, a Democrat who was speaker of the State Assembly from 2004 to 2008. Esteban Nunez's 16-year sentence, the maximum allowed by law, was imposed in the 2008 fatal stabbing of a San Diego college student, Luis Dos Santos. In his order reducing ...
Skiers Loving the Extreme Weather in California
By Hugh Collins - AOL NewsThe extreme weather pounding California has brought misery to millions of people, but one group is rejoicing: skiers. As much as 16 feet of snow has fallen in some parts of the Sierra Nevada, just as the nation's skiers strap on their boots for holiday time on the slopes. "The conditions on the mountain are fantastic," Daniel Hansen, public relations manager with Mammoth Mountain ski resort, told AOL News. "People have been making last-minute bookings to come experience the best snow in the world." Hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes after days of intense rain hit ...
Jim Morrison Pardon: 5 Other Music Stars Who Got Clemency
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News(Dec. 9) -- When it comes to being pardoned on criminal charges, late rock star Jim Morrison is in good musical company. Over the years, a number of other popular recording artists have been granted clemency. Surge Desk presents a handful of them. Johnny Cash: The late, legendary singer and songwriter was pardoned in 2007, according to NPR, by the city of Starkville, Miss., for a 1965 public drunkenness arrest. After a concert at Mississippi State University, an inebriated Cash stumbled onto private property and the owner called police. Cash told them he was just picking flowers. Merle ...
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