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LAS VEGAS - Preliminary tests indicate that a package found at a motel contained the toxin ricin, and seven people have been taken to hospitals, authorities said.

(Note: Mark Sabbatini will reporting daily from the world’s northernmost jazz festival, PolarJazz, starting Jan. 30 in Longyearbyen, Norway. As preview of the Scandinavian Arctic’s jazz scene, this is his feature from last summer’s festival in Vadso, on the northern edge of the country’s mainland.)

He created ‘American Hot Rod’ reality TV show, ‘Cadzilla’ custom Cadillac. WHITTIER – Car-building legend Boyd Coddington, whose testosterone-injected cable TV reality show “American Hot Rod” introduced the nation to the West Coast hot rod guru, has died. He was 63.

It has been a long, often hesitant, introduction. For a while, it did not look as if it would happen at all. From “Yo, dog” to “What’s up,” Arizona State freshman Rihards Kuksiks still is learning all of the American ways to say hello.

National Review founder William F. Buckley Jr. died overnight in the study of his Stamford, Connecticut, home, the magazine announced on its Web site Wednesday.

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Rick Springfield is hot.He’s Hollywood handsome, but isn’t afraid to work up a lather leaping around the stage and into the arms of legions of screaming female fans spanning two generations.Boomer mothers had the hots for Dr. Noah Drake on television’s “General Hospital” while swooning to “Jessie’s Girl” climbing the ’80s pop charts.Twenty-five years later, their grown daughters also got to …

Broomfield, Colo. - The Rocky Mountain Rage reclaimed sole posses of first place in the Northwest Division Sunday afternoon. Backed by a solid two-way effort, the Rage defeated their in-state rival Colorado Eagles 7-1 at the Broomfield Event Center.

A suicide bomber detonated a vest packed with metal ball bearings in a refreshment tent full of Iraqi pilgrims heading to a Shi’ite festival on Sunday, killing 40 people and wounding 60, police said.

The documentary film “Freeheld,” chronicling Laurel Hester, an Ocean County Detective’s struggle to transfer her pension to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree. Earlier tonight, the 38-minute film, won an Academy Award in the documentary short subject category.