Icy weather causes power outages to more than 450,000 in South
COLUMBIA, S.C. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ? A blast of freezing rain and ice across Georgia and the Carolinas on Thursday closed schools, snarled traffic and caused power outages to more than 450,000 customers. At least one death was blamed on…
Read MoreHold the phone: More people than ever gabbing while driving
WASHINGTON Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ? More people than ever are turning their cars into personal phone booths, with a million and a half drivers gabbing on cell phones at any given time. Women and young people are the most common…
Read More11 million U.S. adults are not literate in English
WASHINGTON Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ? About one in 20 adults in the U.S. is not literate in English, meaning 11 million people lack the skills to handle many everyday tasks, a federal study shows. From 1992 to 2003, adults made…
Read MoreCobie Smulders is right as the wrong girl in ‘How I Met Your Mother’
LOS ANGELES Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ? Cobie Smulders thinks it’s time “maybe to take my stuff out of storage.” After all, she co-stars in “How I Met Your Mother,” the freshman CBS sitcom that’s No. 1 in its Mondays at…
Read MoreCarol Burnett stacks up a fourth version of ‘Mattress’
LOS ANGELES Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ? For Carol Burnett, once around with “Once Upon a Mattress” was far from enough. Before Burnett established herself as one of television’s great comedians, she made a sparkling Broadway debut in the 1959 musical.…
Read MoreVideo games go Hollywood
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ? Video games tend to make terrible movies, and vice versa. But that doesn’t seem to faze anyone ? it seems every new action or kid-friendly movie these days gets a video game makeover. We looked at…
Read More‘The Producers’ is wacky and giddy
Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ? And so it’s springtime for Hitler again, time to choose sides over the two movie versions of “The Producers,” Mel Brooks’ comedy about Broadway con artists. Do Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, reprising their roles from…
Read More‘The Family Stone’ a sappy, yet traditional, holiday film
(AP) ? As the war on Christmas rages across the nation ? at least on Fox News Channel ? the holiday remains firmly intact with “The Family Stone,” your typical feel-good, feel-bad, feel-good-again family Christmas movie.Writer-director Thomas Bezucha packs his idyllic, snow-covered New England setting with all the familiar elements of the genre: a big,…
Read MoreTeen in state custody after guilty plea in school bomb threat
ERWIN, Tenn. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ? A Unicoi County High School student has pleaded guilty to calling in a bomb threat to the school. The 17-year-old, who was not identified because of his age, pleaded guilty Wednesday in juvenile court.…
Read MoreIraqi election turnout in Nashville expected to exceed January’s
NASHVILLE, Tenn. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. ? More Iraqi expatriates are expected to cast ballots in Nashville for this week’s parliamentary elections because of a streamlined process that allows them to register and vote at a single site, elections officials said.…
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