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Akpalapa Rejoice, also known as Emperor the Akpalapa1 in the entertainment industry, is one of those upping the ante in humour business in the country. His stagecraft and jokes show that he is not into the business by accident or lack of things to do. Though not counted among the A-list comedians in.... |
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When Betty and Bill Ridenour, both 92, went to El Cajon’s City Hall to get their marriage license, the clerk told them the marrying couple had to obtain it in person. The clerk didn’t realize that the Ridenours were the marrying couple. Their wedding was held July 17 at Gateway Church in El Cajon, with Pastor Mark Jappee and the Rev. |
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Obi Madubuogwu. At that time, Madubuogwu was almost tipping at 300kg in weight. However tides soon turned for him health wise that all seemed to fall apart like a pack of cards. Movie business took a nose dive as he had to stay alive first. He had lost extreme weight in a whiff of time and was.... |
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HUNDREDS of children, together with their teachers and parents, screamed at the top of their lungs to cheer as 15-year-old Matthew Parry-Jones serenaded them at the gymnasium of Basak Elementary School last March 29. Despite having a defective microphone that stopped every few minutes,.... |
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Policemen attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department Panti Yaba Lagos State police command are investigating a female pastor over allegation that she stole a nine- day- old baby in Lagos State. It was gathered that the pastor one Mrs Esther Ozuem the founder of Word Encounter Ministry.... |
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The so-called Scarsdale "Pot Mom" has reinvented herself as a devout Church Lady. Andrea Sanderlin, a real-life version of the Mary Louise Parker character from Showtime's "Weeds," is seeking a merciful sentence of probation when she's sentenced later this month for operating a massive marijuana farm in a Queens warehouse. |
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By David Himbara. The show trial of my brothers Frank Rusagara and Tom Byabagamba has made me take a harder look at myself. To be sure this was a show trial. The term “show trial” dates back to what became known as “the Great Purge” or “the Great Terror” in the old Soviet Union. |
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Then-Mayor Frank Zeigler, right, with his wife Agnes on election night in 1952 in Milwaukee. Credit Historic Photo Archives/Milwaukee Public Library. MILWAUKEE — One night in April 1948, when Bernie Sanders was a 6-year-old boy in Brooklyn, Frank Zeidler was elected mayor of Milwaukee on the Socialist Party line. |
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Sneed is told Cook County Board Commissioner Richard Boykin plans to curb the city’s gun violence with a new tax on motor fuel to pump $50 million into a new jobs program for at-risk youth. • Translation: Watch for Boykin, who represents a huge chunk of the city’s West Side, to seek a $0. |
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On March 2, 1955, a young African American woman boarded a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., took her seat and, minutes later, refused the driver’s command to surrender it to a white passenger. “It felt like Harriet Tubman was pushing me down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth was pushing me down on the other shoulder,” she mused many years later. |
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BRONX, New York—Mercer Jabul sat quietly at the very top of a hill at St. Mary’s Park, huddled underneath a hooded white coat as she waited, with an estimated 18,500 others, for Bernie Sanders to arrive in the South Bronx. A black woman in her 60s, Jabul is devoted to Sanders and said she has plans to vote for him in New York’s April 19 primary. |
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Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, center, walks behind his spokesman, Clay Chandler, left, as reporters ask him if he will sign a bill that would let government employees and private businesses cite religious beliefs to deny services to same-sex couples who want to marry, following a news conference on a.... |
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Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, center, walks behind his spokesman, Clay Chandler, left, as reporters ask him if he will sign a bill that would let government employees and private businesses cite religious beliefs to deny services to same-sex couples who want to marry, following a news conference on a.... |
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I N a bid to prepare the ground for the flagging off of the training of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Uhogua, Edo State, the wife of Edo State Governor, Iara Oshiomhole on Friday introduced the facilitators to the Director, Pastor Solomon Folorunsho and the students/trainees. Mrs. |
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LOS ANGELES -- A recent stream of movies with religious elements -- "Risen," "The Young Messiah," "Miracles From Heaven" and the just-released "God' s Not Dead 2" -- have been hitting theaters. There was a time when any movie that touched on religion would be lumped under the "faith-based" category. |
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Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, right, walks past reporters on his way to a meeting of a youth jobs program board, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Friday, April 1, 2016. Reporters asked him if he would sign a bill that would let government employees and private businesses cite religious beliefs to deny services to same-sex couples who want to marry. |
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Myanmar's new Foreign minister Aung San Suu Kyi chats with Vice president Henry Van Thio as they attend the ceremony to handover the country's presidency. Photo / Getty Images.
Dunedin's small Myanmar community is buzzing after one of their own went from working at an Otago freezing works to being.... |
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Say you have a problem child. If it’s a toddler, maybe he smacks his siblings. Or she refuses to put on her shoes as the clock ticks down to your morning meeting at work. If it’s a teenager, maybe he peppers you with obscenities during your all-too-frequent arguments. |
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Say you have a problem child. If it’s a toddler, maybe he smacks his siblings. Or she refuses to put on her shoes as the clock ticks down to your morning meeting at work. If it’s a teenager, maybe he peppers you with obscenities during your all-too-frequent arguments. |
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Republican Gov. Phil Bryant, right, walks past reporters on his way to a meeting of a youth jobs program board, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., Friday, April 1, 2016. Reporters asked him if he would sign a bill that would let government employees and private businesses cite religious beliefs to deny services to same-sex couples who want to marry. |
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Government employees and private businesses in Mississippi could deny services to same-sex couples who want to marry under a bill passed by the House on Friday — one of numerous attempts across the country to enact so-called religious protection statutes after a Supreme Court ruling that effectively legalized gay marriage. |
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Say you have a problem child. If it’s a toddler, maybe he smacks his siblings. Or she refuses to put on her shoes as the clock ticks down to your morning meeting at work. If it’s a teenager, maybe he peppers you with obscenities during your all-too-frequent arguments. |
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A COMMUNITY cafe for cash-strapped families proved a hit on its opening day. Parents from St Luke's CE Primary, in Silverdale, have taken over the eaterie at the village's Cornerstone Community Centre. They are relying on ingredients and produce that is near to the end of its shelf life which has.... |
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The music video for “Hurt” directed by Mark Romanek took home a Grammy in 2003. Cash and I share a birthday—today, February 26. He would’ve been 84. On Cash’s distinct singing style, here’s Francis David in a titled “God’s Lonely Man”: piece from our March 2004 issue To read his obituaries, one.... |
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Nearly a half-century later, the New Ulm Diocese has publicly identified the Rev. David Roney, one of 16 priests whose names were released Tuesday as priests who have been credibly accused of abusing children. Schmit couldn't believe it took 48 years, including years in which Roney, now deceased, went on to abuse more children. |
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