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  • Hollywood star Steven Seagal visits Chechnya

    Hollywood star Steven Seagal spent some time with Ramzan Kadyrov, the former militant fighter who now heads Chechnya, in the latest in a series of visits by Western celebrities to the volatile Russian republic. "The famous American actor, film producer, writer, director and martial arts expert (seventh dan aikido) Steven Seagal visited our republic today (Wednesday)," Kadyrov wrote on ...

  • Czech police seek man from California suspected of murdering 4 in city of Brno

    PRAGUE - Czech police are searching for an American man suspected of killing four people and say they believe he is on the run and armed. Brno Police spokeswoman Petra Vedrova identified him as Kevin Dahlgren, born in 1992, and released his photograph. A Facebook page containing the same photograph says that Dahlgren is from Palo Alto, California, and lives in the Czech Republic's ...

  • Southern California Marijuana Dispensary Workers Join Labor Union

    Marijuana dispensary workers in Los Angeles have joined a labor union to fight for their jobs in an industry that the federal government considers illegal. Workers at 14 pot shops have formed the "medical cannabis and hemp division'; of the United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 770. The 35,000-member union also represents grocery clerks, pharmacists and health care workers. ...

  • Distressed home sales decline in California

    Distressed home sales in California in April declined to their lowest level since February 2008, according to the California Association of Realtors.Distressed sales fell to 24.4 percent, down from 27.9 percent in March and 45.8 percent in April last year.CAR also said the share of lender-owned sales fell to single digit percentages for the first time since late 2007 – 9.2 percent in April, ...

  • Hollywood in Haverhill Denzel to film in empty Lowes building

    May 23--HAVERHILL -- Denzel Washington is coming to Haverhill. Columbia Pictures is leasing the former Lowe's building off Route 97 to film the "The Equalizer," a big-screen adaption of the popular 1980s television series that starred Edward Woodward as a private detective with a mysterious past who doled out vigilante justice. Mayor James Fiorentini said production crews are ...


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Movie Review

Hustle & Flow

Hustle & Flow

In Craig Brewer's Hustle & Flow, Terrence Howard, who has been an ensemble and supporting player in dozens of movies over the past decade, does a star-making turn as DJay, a low-level hustler and pot dealer on the mean streets of Memphis, Tennessee. Howard's searing performanc ... ...

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  • Possible Space Shuttle Successor is Readied for Testing

    The "Dream Chaser" spacecraft is designed to take astronauts to and from the International Space Station in NASA's post-shuttle era. The "next generation" spacecraft is smaller, less complex and easier to operate. Patrick Healy reports from Edwards Air Force Base for the NBC4 News at 6 p.m. on May 22, ...

  • Backyard Dig Reopens 35-Year-Old Cold Case

    Agents dig through a backyard in the 500 block of Essex Street in Glendora on May 22, 2013, as part of an investigation into the 1978 disappearance of a then-24-year-old woman who used to live at the ...

  • Pesticides May Be To Blame For Bee Die-Off In California Nation

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  • Sister Of Murdered Fullerton Student Reacts To Suspect’s Interview From Jail

    SANTA ANA (CBSLA.com) -- The sister of murdered Fullerton student and Iraq War veteran Maribel Ramos listened Wednesday to an interview that the accused killer gave from jail. On Tuesday, KC ...

  • Taxpayers Foot The Bill For Top LA County Chief’s Commute To And From NorCal

    LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) -- Taxpayers are footing the bill for a top Los Angeles County official's more than 600-mile round-trip commute to and from his Northern California home, according to CBS2 investigative reporter David Goldstein. LA County Chief Probation Officer Jerry Powers, who makes $255,000 a year, has headed the largest probation department in the nation for the past 17 ...

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