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Clem's Chronicles: Good Economy-Bad Economy/Stimulus Jobs/Sec of State Clinton Interview

TGIF folks. Here's our nightly missive........ THE ECONOMY/CONSUMER SPENDING-The market giveth and the market taketh away. Fresh off yesterday’s 200 point gain and widespread enthusiasm that an economic recovery was underway, a reversal of engines and optimism on this Freaky...

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October 30, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (1)

Helping Those With Locked-In Syndrome

Tonight's Person of the Week is a reunion story like no other. In 1986 Pat Chawki was a high school baseball player who helped lead his team to a city championship held at Dodger Stadium. Then years later at age...

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October 30, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (14)

Facebook Wins $711 Million Suit Against Infamous Internet Spammer

ABC's Whitney Lloyd reports from New York: A California judge awarded Facebook $711 million in damages against an infamous internet spammer who bombarded the social networking site with junk messages and phony wall posts. Sanford Wallace, a Las Vegas-based disc...

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October 30, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (5)

Swine Flu’s Impact on Children -- More Tough News

The CDC has released a new, troubling number. Over the past week the deaths of 19 children were reported from swine flu. Last week 95 pediatric deaths were reported making this the biggest one week increase since the virus came...

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Picture of the Day: Massive Church Steeple Crashes Down Onto Car

Storms rolled through the Mississippi Valley last night. This is an image of a church steeple that toppled over and crashed down onto a car in Shreveport, Louisiana. Amazingly, the driver survived.

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October 30, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (5)

A Warhol Painting from Back of Closet to Auction Block -- It's a Blockbuster

ABC's David Wright reports from Washington: There's a lovely little story buried in the New York Times today about an Andy Warhol self-portrait that Sotheby's will auction on November 11th. The piece belongs to Cathy Naso, who as a high...

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What's the Best Halloween Costume You've Seen?

Go ahead and use the comments section to nominate the best costume out there. Here’s one that’s making a bit of buzz. The Bay Area duo is going this year as iPhones. They’ve rigged their actual iPhones to large LCD...

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October 30, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (9)

Women in Peril: A Look at TV's Disturbing New Storyline Trend

ABC's Tom Shine reports from Washington: "A woman is shown getting beaten before a perpetrator unzips his pants and says he's going to show her 'just how functional he really is,'" -- a scene from the FOX TV series Prison...

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October 30, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (17)

Clem's Chronicles: Good GDP/President Obama to Dover/House Health-Care

It's almost Friday! Here's what we're working on tonight....... GOOD NEWS ON THE ECONOMY- The Commerce Department announced today that the gross domestic product rose at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the third quarter . That’s better than...

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October 29, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (0)

The Harvard Professor & Cambridge Officer Go for Second Round

There is word today from Boston that the famed professor and Cambridge police officer have gotten together for a second round. A local TV station reports that Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates and Sgt. James Crowley were seen hanging at a...

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October 29, 2009 | Permalink | User Comments (5)