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Woman Gets Cable Bill With Derogatory Name
Murder Numbers Creeping Up in New Orleans
African-American-owned firms increase
Home prices 'extremely overvalued' in 53 cities
Angelina Jolie to play evil queen in 'Beowulf'
Law Enforcement Agencies Take on MS-13
African conservationists denounce proposal for giant US wildlife park
French Ecumenical Christian Leader Slain
Ariz. School Trades Textbooks for Laptops
BTK Serial Killer Gets 10 Life Sentences
Doctor: Coretta Scott King Had Big Stroke
'Peace Mom,' Her Mother Ill, Leaves Camp
Californians Take Big Risks on Real Estate
Kanye West Calls for End to Gay Bashing
'Six Feet Under' Laid to Rest Gracefully
Report: Tommy Hilfiger on Auction Block
Michael Jackson hit with fine in alleged abuse case
Traditional diet exacerbates Niger food crisis
Eminem in Rehab
Farmer Writes Personal Ad in Cornfield

Woman Gets Cable Bill With Derogatory Name
LaChania Govan said she got bounced around by her cable company when she called to complain. She made dozens of calls and was even transferred to a person who spoke Spanish — a language she doesn't understand.

Murder Numbers Creeping Up in New Orleans
Last year, university researchers conducted an experiment in which police fired 700 blank rounds in a New Orleans neighborhood in a single afternoon. No one called to report the gunfire.

African-American-owned firms increase
- About 375,000 businesses were started by African-Americans from 1997 to 2002, new Census data show. That's surprising growth, given that African-Americans trailed Asians and Hispanics five years before, the last time the Census tracked the numbers.

Home prices 'extremely overvalued' in 53 cities
- Single-family home prices are "extremely overvalued" in 53 cities that make up nearly a third of the overall U.S. housing market, putting them at high risk of price declines, according to a study released today.

Angelina Jolie to play evil queen in 'Beowulf'
Actress Angelina Jolie will reportedly play an evil queen in the epic "Beowulf," to be directed by Robert Zemeckis and distributed by Paramount and Warner Bros.

Law enforcement officials from five countries said Wednesday they are struggling to deal with the street gang called MS-13 that is plaguing communities from the United States to Central America.

African conservationists denounce proposal for giant US wildlife park
African conservationists dismissed with contempt a suggestion by US scientists that the best way to save the planet's large wild mammals, most of them native to Africa, is to build a huge nature preserve in the midwest United States.

French Ecumenical Christian Leader Slain
A Romanian woman slipped into a choir of singing monks during an evening prayer service and fatally slit the throat of the 90-year-old founder of an ecumenical Christian community in the presence of 2,500 horrified pilgrims in Burgundy, authorities said Wednesday.

Ariz. School Trades Textbooks for Laptops
Students at Empire High School here started class this year with no textbooks — but it wasn't because of a funding crisis.

Doctor: Coretta Scott King Had Big Stroke
Coretta Scott King suffered a minor heart attack and a major stroke that impaired her ability to speak and affected her right side, but she is "completely aware," a doctor said Thursday.

'Peace Mom,' Her Mother Ill, Leaves Camp
- The grieving woman who started an anti-war demonstration near President Bush's ranch nearly two weeks ago left the camp Thursday after learning her mother had had a stroke, but she told supporters the protest would go on.

Californians Take Big Risks on Real Estate
Soaring home prices in California haven't deterred first-time buyers from entering the market in record numbers, and many of them are going to extraordinary lengths to dive in, according to a study released Thursday.

Kanye West Calls for End to Gay Bashing
Kanye West says "gay" has become an antonym to hip-hop — and that it needs to be stopped. During an interview for an MTV special, the 27-year-old rapper launched into a discussion about hip-hop and homosexuality while talking about "Hey Mama," a song on his upcoming album, "Late Registration."

'Six Feet Under' Laid to Rest Gracefully
Befitting any drama about a family that owns a funeral home, "Six Feet Under" gives itself a graceful send-off to end its five-season run.

Report: Tommy Hilfiger on Auction Block
Fashion company Tommy Hilfiger Corp., aiming to expand its business, is making plans to put itself on the auction block, according to a published report.

Traditional diet exacerbates Niger food crisis
Despite a long-awaited injection of food aid and the creation of renutrition camps for the children hardest hit by Niger's food crisis, malnutrition in the impoverished country remains a perennial problem with roots in the nations eating habits.

Eminem in Rehab
E! Online - Two days after deep-sixing his European tour citing "exhaustion," Eminem has confirmed through his publicist that he is in drug rehabilitation.

Farmer Writes Personal Ad in Cornfield
It sounds a little corny. A farmer looking for love has planted a personals ad, using corn stalks in a cow pasture. It reads: "S.W.F Got-2 (love symbol) Farm'n." Underneath is a 1,000-foot-long arrow pointing single white females to his house.