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4 unusual facts about The News


News-Times

The News-Times, a newspaper in the U.S. city of Danbury, Connecticut

The News-Gazette

The Osceola News-Gazette, a weekly newspaper based in Osceola County, Florida

Grayson County News Gazette, a semi-daily newspaper published on Wednesdays and Saturdays in Leitchfield, Kentucky

The News-Times

Dean Singleton, chairman and chief executive officer of MediaNews, told News-Times employees the paper would remain independent of the larger Connecticut Post, even though the Danbury paper’s publisher will report to the publisher of the Post, The News-Times reported.


Australian Press Council

In 1979, during the run-up to the South Australian state election, the Murdoch owned The News campaigned against the Australian Labor Party in South Australia.

Carlos Hyde

He rushed for 1,653 yards and 16 touchdowns as a senior, and was named Player of the Year after senior season by both the Naples Daily News and the Ft. Myers News-Press.

Joseph Burrows

He was held for nearly five years on death row before being released after his attorney Kathleen Zellner persuaded the real killer to confess at the post-conviction hearing, and Peter Rooney, a reporter for the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, obtained a recantation from a key witness.

Southgate Shopping Center

In August 2007, the News-Herald reported that the center was a candidate to house a Wal-Mart supercenter, which would be the 50th supercenter in Michigan, but only the third in Metro Detroit.


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Aaj Tak

During 2002 Gujarat violence, Aaj Tak decided not to show the news about Hindus planting small statues of Hanuman known as Hulladia Hanumans in Muslim places of worship.

Aisling O'Loughlin

After returning to Ireland O'Loughlin joined Clare FM where she read the news and also reported on local issues.

American Egyptomania

The public, hungry for mystery, followed the news closely, believing in the Curse of the pharaohs as the cause of these deaths.

Ashley Webster

Webster also helped launch the news department of NBC affiliate WGBA-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1996 as the station's first anchor and news director, and also anchored at CBS affiliate KSWT-TV in Yuma, Arizona.

Barry Shear

Shear began directing for television in the 1950s for the news program Newsweek Views the News.

Battle of Fort Cumberland

When the news reached Halifax through the efforts of Thomas Dixson, Lieutenant Governor Marriot Arbuthnot responded by dispatching orders on the 15th for any available ship based at Annapolis to go to Fort Edward in Windsor, to convoy troops to relieve the siege.

BSAA Star Tiger disappearance

Coningham's death shared the front page of the 31 January edition of the New York Times along with the news of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi and the death of Orville Wright.

C. K. Janu

Since then the movement has been in the news less and has concentrated on occupying land at Aralam farm, a huge cooperative farm that the government had promised to distribute amongst landless adivasis.

Campus of New York University

In 2003, Bobst Library was also in the news for being the home of a homeless student who resided at the library because he could not afford student housing.

Charlotte Green

In a 2012 interview, she named the fall of the Berlin Wall as the 'biggest' story that she'd ever read the news for.

Chilevisión

Currently the most important programs of the TV station are SQP, a celebrity gossip program, El Diario De Eva, a teenage oriented talk show and variety program, Yingo a contest show for teenagers, Chilevision Noticias, the news program, Primer Plano, a celebrity gossip program and Fiebre de Baile, a celebrity dancing contest.

Clay D. Land

Within hours of Land's decision, the physician's attorney, Orly Taitz, told the news site Talking Points Memo that she felt Land's refusal to hear her case was an act of treason.

CM Abdulla Moulavi

One of his junior colleagues remembers the smile and pleasure of a true scientist he saw in the face of Qazi when he explained for them the news about dismissal of Pluto from the planet family around the Sun, after reading a latest NASA journal about it.

CNN Daybreak

Similar to First Look on MSNBC, the program was based on covering the news stories of the morning without talk and analysis, usually with correspondents on location or taped stories from the previous evening.

Committee of Sixty

The Committee of Fifty was formed May 16, 1774 in response to the news that the port of Boston would be closed under the Boston Port Act.

Cosmic Circle of Fellowship

After leaving prison, with flying saucers suddenly in the news, Ferguson reported he had travelled astrally to Mars, telling his few followers that Mars was about to send a friendly expedition to the earth.

Dawson Massacre

When the news of the fall of San Antonio reached Gonzales, Mathew Caldwell formed a militia of 210 men and marched toward San Antonio.

Denise Dresser

She writes a political column for the Mexican newspaper Reforma and the news weekly Proceso and was the host of the political talk show Entre versiones on Mexican television.

Emilio Romano

Romano was a member of the Board of Directors for Univision Communications between 1995 and 1998, where he was responsible for leading numerous high profile transactions, including the sale of PanAmSat to Hughes Electronics; the formation of Via Digital DTH venture for the Iberian Peninsula; and the Sky Latin America joint venture with The News Corporation, Organizacoes Globo and TCI.

George Hearst

After spending a cold winter and making meager finds, they moved to Grass Valley on the news of a new lode.

Georges Henein

In the 60’s, he got involved in journalism, in charge of Third World issues for the news magazines Jeune Afrique and L’Express.

Gibraltar Hindu Temple

In 2012, the Mayor of Gibraltar, Anthony Lima, made the news when he announced that he was inviting the Hindu community into Gibraltar City Hall to celebrate the Hindu festival of Deepavali.

Greenbelt News Review

In 1965, an article by reporter Dorothy Sucher in the News Review published two quotations of citizen remarks at City Council meetings in which they characterized as "blackmail" the actions of Charles S. Bresler, a local real estate developer and member of the Maryland House of Delegates.

Hanns Martin Schleyer

After Schleyer's kidnappers received the news of the death of their imprisoned comrades, Schleyer was taken from Brussels on October 18, 1977, and shot dead en route to Mulhouse, France, where his body was left in the trunk of a green Audi 100 on the rue Charles Péguy.

Heartbeat Productions

Simon Edwards was looking to release records by local punk band Vice Squad, however Cherry Red were not enthusiastic, so with Dave Bateman and Shane Baldwin from the band he set up Riot City Records (they had chosen the name, as Bristol had recently been in the news due to the 1980 St. Pauls riot).

History of Manipur

As soon as the news of the failure of the plan to arrest Yuvraj Tikendrajit and the execution of the British officers reached the Government of India, three columns of troops were sent to Meitrabak from Kohima, Silchar and Tamu under the command of Major General Henry Collett, Col. R.H.F. Rennick and Brigadier General T. Graham respectively.

Incidents at European amusement parks

The news was broken by Children's BBC TV news programme, Newsround.

James George Deck

But in 1875 the news of the division that had occurred in England became known in New Zealand and with visits to New Zealand by George Wigram and John Nelson Darby the division was enforced with the cost on Deck being that he ceased writing hymns, for which he is internationally respected.

Jonathan Arking

However, a chance encounter with Dick Kernan from the Specs Howard School of Broadcast Arts led him to take the News Director position at WTWR-FM in Monroe, Michigan.

Justin Catanoso

In 1992 his investigative reporting for the News & Record into fraud in the tobacco industry earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination, a Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers, and Medical Writer of the Year in North Carolina.

Kevin O'Leary

In January 2014, O'Leary was criticized for his remarks on his television show The Lang and O'Leary Exchange, saying that the news that the world's richest 85 people owned as much wealth as the bottom half of the global population was "fantastic news."

Kodagu Gowda

AreBashe News in Madikeri AIR: the news in Arebhashe is broadcast on Madikeri AIR daily at 7:45 pm, featuring the Local news of Kodagu and various Gowda activities held in Sullia and Mysore.

Leonard Abramson

In the late 1990s, Abramson sued Inside Edition for invading his privacy when the news show covertly videotaped him and his family at their Jupiter, Florida home, as part of an expose on the lifestyles of wealthy HMO executives.

Leonard Parkin

During the Falklands War of 1982, Parkin temporarily replaced Michael Nicholson as main presenter of the News at 5:45, and broke to the UK the news that the ARA General Belgrano had been sunk in a controversial incident during the Falklands War.

Los Angeles Times suburban sections

The Los Angeles Times suburban sections or zone sections were printed between 1952 and 2001 as adjuncts to the main newspaper to cover the news of and sell advertising space in various parts of Southern California that the Times considered to be in the prime part of its circulation area.

Mitt Romney dog incident

In August 2012, the band Devo released a single called "Don't Roof Rack Me, Bro (Seamus Unleashed)", to keep the incident in the news as the presidential campaign moved to a conclusion.

Operation Black Buck

The news of the bombing raid was reported on the BBC World Service before either the Vulcan or the last tanker arrived at Ascension.

Operation Hametz

British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, upon hearing the news of the start of the offensive, ordered that Jewish forces be prevented from capturing Jaffa, or, if they did capture it, to be immediately driven out.

Piero de Ponte

He became a Knights Hospitaller and was the Order's governor of the island of Lango when Rhodes fell to the Ottomans on New Year's Day 1523, and was still there in 1534 when he received the news of his election to the office of Grand Master of the Order, to succeed Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam at Malta.

Planet Half-Life

In addition to the news, Planet Half-Life hosts extensive, in-depth collections of information regarding Half-Life, Half-Life 2 (along with Portal), Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Day of Defeat.

Ruud Lubbers

In February 2005, the case was in the news again when the British daily the Independent obtained a copy of the OIOS report and accompanied by an article by Kate Holt published its contents.

Skirmish at Miskel Farm

Upon learning the news, Taggart immediately dispatched Captain Henry C. Flint and five companies of the 1st Vermont Cavalry to kill or capture the Rangers.

Sue Lawley

Lawley was praised after a broadcast on 23 May 1988, when the studio was invaded by protesters opposed to Section 28: she continued to read the news whilst co-presenter Nicholas Witchell restrained one of them.

The Great Buck Howard

The trick works, but despite a large press turnout, no one is there to record the act, since the news media is called away at the last second to cover a car accident involving Jerry Springer.

The Jo Whiley Show

Although both Whiley and Bowman moved to weekend slots on Radio 1, the news that Whiley and Bowman would leave their weekday shows led to some controversy, with BBC bosses facing allegations of being biased against older presenters, particularly as the announcement came shortly after the revelation that 30-year-old singer Alesha Dixon would replace the much older Arlene Phillips as a judge on Strictly Come Dancing.

The News Today

The News Today is an English evening daily newspaper in Chennai, India.

Things That Make You Go Hmmm...

In 1992, the song was featured highlights of the Philippine Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association, this was used during the PBA First Conference in the highlight footage of the Vintage Sports coverage of the PBA on PTV-4 before the news program Pangunahing Balita.

Truth/Kaze no Mukō e

"Truth" was used as the theme song for Arashi member Satoshi Ohno's 2008 drama Maō while "Kaze no Mukō e" was used as the theme song for the news coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics on NTV, featuring member Sho Sakurai as the main newscaster.

William A. Rusher

He was in the news during the hearings for the Samuel Alito Supreme Court nomination in 2005, when he allowed Senate staff members to inspect documents related to the Concerned Alumni of Princeton group, in which Alito was tangentially involved, in the Rusher Papers at the Library of Congress.

William McKay

The news of the declaration of war he carried, along with orders from Major General Isaac Brock, the Commander in Upper Canada, allowed the British detachment to take the American detachment at Fort Mackinac by surprise.