LOS ANGELES — This square is his square.
An intersection in downtown Los Angeles will now bear the name of Woody Guthrie as the city celebrates the 100th birthday of the folk singer, social crusader and “This Land is Your Land” writer.
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Mike and Ike might have been a popular candy years ago, but the brand is in need of a facelift. Enter the Elevator Group, an ad agency that has chosen a pretty progressive tactic for getting young people to care about the candy again: gay divorce.
That’s right folks, Mike and Ike are heading for splitsville, so Mike can work on his music and Ike can work on his art. This separation is realized through new packaging, which has logos with either “Mike” or “Ike” scrubbed out reports the New York Times. The Times also reports that billboards with the scrubbed-out names will begin appearing in July, including an animated billboard in Times Square.
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A New York man was convicted Wednesday of coercing a woman to molest her underage daughter while he watched via a webcam.
Brooklyn resident Micheal Ledee, 29, was found guilty in federal court of conspiracy to sexually exploit a child, sexual exploitation of a child and receipt of child pornography. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum sentence of 30 years for the conspiracy and sexual exploitation charges, and a mandatory minimum of five years for the child pornography count.
Prosecutors said Ledee used Yahoo! Messenger to direct the molestation and watch the abuse via webcam, according to a press release from the FBI and the United States Attorney’s Office in New York.
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Presumably, Bergeron’s mission in writing The Right Side of Forty was to help spur a healthier outlook on aging for gay men. His disillusionment and suicide send the exact opposite message. However, we must not allow it to reinforce an outdated message of hopelessness regarding aging.
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Criticism of the TPP process is mounting from members of both state and federal government in the United States. Internet activists in Chile are calling on their government to defend the rights of their citizens from what could be the next SOPA.
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In my many years of practicing family law, I have always advocated to my clients that court should be the last resort.
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While Michigan’s economy appears to be doing better than last year, the state’s economically depressed cities are still struggling with widespread foreclosures.
In March, Michigan ranked eighth in the country for number of foreclosures, with one out of 489 households receiving filings, according to RealtyTrac data. In Detroit, the foreclosure rate in March was nearly 10 percent higher than in February, at one in 300 households.
While Michigan still ranks high for its percentage of foreclosures, it was one of the few states to show an overall decline in filings from February — 31 other states had more foreclosure filings than the previous month.
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NEW YORK — Hewlett-Packard Co. is showing signs of recovery as it strengthened its position as the world’s largest maker of personal computers and gained back some of the business it had lost while weighing whether to dump its PC division.
HP’s stock jumped 7 percent by mid-afternoon Thursday, after research groups Gartner and IDC released their PC shipment estimates for the first three months of the year. HP was the best performer in the Dow Jones industrial average.
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The personhood debate stems from legal rights enjoyed by corporations. Do they have standing in court? Can they donate to their favorite politician? Do they have freedom of speech? And joking aside, these are legitimate debates.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Running for the Senate in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney once assured voters in a state with strong gun-control laws: “I don’t line up with the NRA.” Now the likely Republican presidential nominee, Romney will headline the National Rifle Association’s annual convention Friday and assure tens of thousands of gun-rights activists that he’s squarely on their side.
Coming just days after rival Rick Santorum dropped out of the nomination race, the NRA convention in St. Louis provides Romney an opportunity to shore up his credentials with an important conservative constituency that badly wants to oust Democratic President Barack Obama.
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