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Cardinals notebook: Broadcast legend Jaime Jarrin was ready for 'fantastic' Pujols' 700
LOS ANGELES — Depending on the timing of the swing that produced No. 700, Albert Pujols wasn't going to be the only one making a historic exclamation as his homer leaves the ballpark. Pujols sped toward the milestone Friday night with two…
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WDBJ7′s Robin Reed honored by Capital Emmys for service to broadcast television
Published: Sep. 24, 2022 at 7:40 PM EDT|Updated: 13 minutes ago COLLEGE PARK, Md. (WDBJ) - On Saturday evening, WDBJ7 Anchor Robin Reed was inducted as a member of the Capital Emmys prestigious Silver Circle. The National Capital Chesapeake Bay…
Detroit radio news anchor killed in attempted murder-suicide at his home
A Detroit, Michigan, radio news anchor was killed in an attempted murder-suicide at his home, the station said Friday. Jim Matthews, 57, was found dead at his Chesterfield Township residence on Bayview Drive around noon Friday. Three other victims…
This Surveillance Artist Knows How You Got That Perfect Instagram Photo
David Welly Sombra Rodrigues, a 35-year-old French teacher, loves to travel. After the pandemic forced him to offer his language lessons virtually, he seized the moment, relocating from Brazil to Europe, where he could hop on trains to new cities…
Detroit radio news anchor killed, 4 others injured in domestic attack
Sept. 24 (UPI) -- A man identified as a Detroit radio news anchor was killed Friday as part of a domestic attack near the city in which four others were injured, police said. Police responded to a call at an address in Chesterfield Township, Mich.…
Michigan news anchor Jim Matthews killed in attempted murder-suicide
Detroit radio announcer Jim Matthews was murdered in a failed murder-suicide. A Detroit news radio anchor was killed in an attempted murder-suicide at his house that left four other people seriously injured. Jim Matthews, a 57-year-old overnight…
Detroit news anchor killed, family wounded in failed murder-suicide
A Detroit area news anchor was the victim of a botched murder-suicide. WWJ-AM news anchor Jim Matthews was murdered Friday in Chesterfield Township, Michigan, by an unidentified 54-year-old described as a frequent visitor to Matthews's house. The…
NL Interview: Barkha Dutt on NDTV's takeover by Adani and the state of Indian TV news
Barkha Dutt has had a long journey in journalism. She describes covering the Kargil war in 1999 and the Covid pandemic in 2020-21 as the bookends of her career. A veteran TV journalist, Barkha quit NDTV in 2017 and launched her own independent…
'They Have Nothing to Lose': Why Young Iranians Are Rising Up Once Again
The 22-year-old woman emerged from the Tehran subway, her dark hair covered with a black head scarf and the lines of her body obscured by loose clothing, when the capital city's Guidance Patrol spotted her. They were members of Iran's notorious…
Michigan Radio News Anchor Killed & 3 Of His Family Members Injured In Attempted Murder-Suicide At Home
A radio news anchor in Detroit, Michigan, was killed in an attempted murder-suicide at his home. According to The Detriot News, WWJ 950 overnight anchor Jim Matthews was murdered by a 54-year-old man during a vicious attack on him and his family at…
News radio anchor killed in suspected murder-attempted suicide at Michigan home
MACOMB COUNTY, MI -- Police are investigating what they described as a murder-attempted suicide at a suburban Detroit home that left a news radio anchor dead and four others injured. Chesterfield Township police said a 57-year-old man died and WWJ…
Tories must not believe the Left's lie that tax cuts are unpopular
To judge by the broadcast news coverage there is scarcely anyone in the country who approves of tax cuts. Really? It is just about credible that a majority of people would disapprove of tax reductions if they were confined to those who are already…
A true crime podcast has helped free Adnan Syed but the killer must still be caught
In 2014, one audio series kickstarted the podcast revolution and reinvigorated true crime documentaries. Serial was a US audio series created by Julie Snyder, Ira Glass and Sarah Koenig. It examined the murder in 1999 of an American teenager, Hae…
'It's extraordinary': Liz Truss's low-tax gamble has yet to convince Tory MPs
In the hyperbole-fuelled theatre of Westminster, where breathless rhetoric and implausible spin are so often the defining qualities, few events can truly be said to live up to a big billing. Yet when allies of the chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng…
Murmurs of discontent grow in China as Xi poised for third term
Tensions are ramping up in China ahead of the major Communist Party Congress next month that is expected to see President Xi Jinping given an unprecedented third term in office. The increasingly febrile atmosphere coincided with unusual rumours…
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