News Archive for March 28 2008

Poison drummer arrested on rape warrant

Poison drummer Rikki Rockett was arrested on a rape warrant and his case was turned over to the district attorney's office for possible grand jury consideration, officials said Friday.

Traveler says TSA forced her to remove nipple piercings at Texas airport

A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.

Trailer: "Tracey Ullman's State Of The Union"
Report: North Korea test-fires missiles

North Korea test-fired several short-range missiles off its western coast Friday, a news report said.

Award-winning writer Abby Mann

LOS ANGELES - Abby Mann, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 1961's "Judgment at Nuremberg" and such acclaimed TV movies as 1989's "Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story," died Tuesday of heart failure in Beverly Hills.

Doug Davis Diagnosed With Thyroid Cancer

Arizona Diamondbacks left-hander Doug Davis has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. "We don't know much, other than he does have thyroid cancer," team president Derrick Hall said in a telephone interview on Friday. "It's saddening. It was a complete surprise to the entire organization, and to him."

Teenage binge-drinking toll revealed

Teenagers are drinking 44 bottles of wine or 177 pints of beer a year each, a new study into under-age alcohol intake and violence shows.

Delaware court rules in favor of IAC's Diller

Move paves way for IAC chief Barry Diller to go ahead with proposed spinoff of company units.