NEW YORK – Cartoonish violence ruled the day at the annual knockdown competition among advertisers Sunday, as Bud Light, Diet Pepsi, Michelob and Sprint all used physical gags to hawk their wares at the Super Bowl, the most-watched television broadcast of the year. Watch the Ads Here Borrowing inspiration from …
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NEW YORK – Nobody turns off the microphone on Mick Jagger without a fight. Censorship of their songs during the Super Bowl halftime show was “absolutely ridiculous and completely unnecessary,” the Rolling Stones said through a spokeswoman on Tuesday. The NFL, which produced the show seen on ABC Sunday night, …
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DETROIT – A man was holding several hostages after robbing a bank in southwest Detroit on Wednesday afternoon. The man entered the Comerica Bank branch and announced a robbery, then was given an undetermined amount of cash, Deputy Chief James Tate said. The man then fired one shot into the …
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TORONTO – Canada’s new ambassador to the United States said Thursday that resolving a decades-long lumber dispute with Washington would be his first priority, and he predicted a new tone in relations between the neighbors. The Bush administration began imposing antidumping duties against Canadian lumber in 2002. Canadian lumber exporters …
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LOS ANGELES – Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) said Thursday its quarterly net profit fell in its critical holiday-oriented fourth quarter, and revenue missed Wall Street expectations, sending shares down 12 percent. The online retailer said quarterly net income was $199 million, or 47 cents per share, compared with $346.7 million, or …
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KHARTOUM, Sudan – Sudan‘s vice president told a visiting U.S. delegation that the country opposed a proposal to deploy international peacekeepers to Darfur, but was committed to negotiations to end tensions in the region, state media reported Monday. Despite the Sudanese objections, U.S. Ambassador John Bolton on Monday accused the …
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NEW ORLEANS – Mardi Gras in the Big Easy used to be best known for three things: beads, booze and boobs. And only six months after the devastation brought by Hurricane Katrina, Mardi Gras is still New Orleans’ biggest celebration. In the areas of the city that weren’t damaged severely, …
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LOS ANGELES – Dennis Weaver, the slow-witted deputy Chester Goode in the TV classic western “Gunsmoke” and the New Mexico deputy solving New York crime in “McCloud,” has died. The actor was 81. Weaver died of complications from cancer Friday at his home in Ridgway, in southwestern Colorado, his publicist …
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PHILADELPHIA – A 7-year-old girl brought cocaine to her second-grade classroom and passed it around, police said Tuesday. Detectives were trying to determine where the girl got the drugs, which she brought into the John M. Patterson School in her backpack Monday, said police Capt. Benjamin Naish. The teacher called …
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NEW YORK – Alan Greenspan is in talks with major publishers about writing a memoir, which could net the Delphic former central banker more than $1 million, sources familiar with his proposal said Monday. Greenspan is represented by Washington-based lawyer Robert Barnett, who negotiated an $8 million advance for Sen. …
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