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• USA Today price rising to $1 on newsprint costs
NEW YORK - USA Today said Friday it will raise its newsstand price by 25 cents to $1 to offset rising newsprint costs. The 33 percent increase could affect the nation's highest-circulation newspaper more than the other two national newspapers, which ...
• PR consultant helped Palin grab spotlight
... Sarah Palin kept a relatively light schedule on her workdays in Juneau, making ceremonial appearances at sports events and funerals, meeting with state lawmakers, and conducting interviews with Alaska magazines, radio stations and newspapers. But this ...
• Rogers must repay Lions $8.5 million
DETROIT - The Detroit Lions didn’t get what they wanted from Charles Rogers on the field, but might recover some money from the first-round bust. Executive vice president Tom Lewand confirmed in a Booth Newspapers report Wednesday night that an ...
• Opus’ creator to retire from comic strips
WASHINGTON - Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed is retiring, leaving a hole in the Sunday funnies and the hearts of "Opus" fans. The last strip featuring the beloved, large-beaked penguin will run in about 200 newspapers nationwide ...
• Placid exterior hid Los Angeles murder-suicide
LOS ANGELES - The only hints of trouble in the big beige house on Como Lane were the newspapers in the driveway and the lack of any activity behind the front door. But when police summoned by worried friends of the residents got inside Monday, they ...