NEW YORK (AP) — The former television producer who tried to blackmail David Letterman was freed Thursday after four months in jail for a plot that put a spotlight on the comic icon's office affairs, city Correction Department records show.
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SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Police had been negotiating with James Jae Lee for several hours and intended to keep him talking for as long as it took to safely resolve the standoff at the Discovery Channel's headquarters. Inside the lobby, Lee's three hostages had no intention of waiting.
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LOS ANGELES -- Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband wants have her body plastinated by controversial anatomist and Body Worlds exhibit founder Gunther von Hagens when she dies.
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VISTA, Calif. -- A woman who was stabbed 23 times by "40-Year-Old Virgin" actor Shelley Malil says she felt primal, instinctual, animal terror when he showed up at her San Diego County home two years ago.
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For the first time since she was a teenager, one Dallas woman in her 40's can now bend down and twist without discomfort. She said, "It completely changes your life. Now when someone says, 'Do you want to go and do something?' I don't give it any thought."
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The federal government passed legislation in the spring to make the student loan process easier. But some students say it's not quite working in their favor just yet. I spoke with a UTD student whose fees are due tomorrow and he's worried.
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Tomorrow is forecast to be nearly the same temperature as today.
Nowcast as of 10:41 PM CDT on September 2, 2010
Now
Isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms will be possible across North Texas through the early morning hours. Most of the severe thunderstorms will remain to the west of the North Texas area...but a few storms may still produce winds in excess of 50 mph west of a Bowie...to Mineral Wells...to Comanche line. Otherwise storms will be capable of brief heavy rainfall and cloud to ground lightning. Elsewhere...some widely spaced showers are possible with lighter rainfall amounts. A cold front was located from Paris to Denton to Graham at 1030 PM and will continue to move south at 30 mph. Winds will switch to the north behind the front.
Mostly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Lows around 70. East winds around 5 mph becoming north 10 to 15 mph after midnight.
Friday
Partly sunny. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds 10 to 20 mph shifting to the northeast in the afternoon.
