Neil Graves
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JEWS MARK NEW YEAR
September 30, 2008 | 8:03amRosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, began at sundown yesterday amid tightened security at houses of worship. The start of the High Holy Days, marking the Year 5769 on the...
"EAGLE EYE" SOARED TO THE TOP OF THE WEEKEND BOX OFFICE WITH A $29.2 MILLION PREMIERE
September 29, 2008 | 7:53am"In a distant second to the Shia LaBeouf thriller was the middle-age romancer "Nights in Rodanthe," starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane, with $13.6 million. In third was last week's...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 29, 2008 | 7:53amWhen customs officers at the Sao Paulo, Brazil, airport asked a Portuguese man, "Hey, what's in the bag?" they got a surprise - about 200 birds. About 65 of the...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 24, 2008 | 7:51amNew Zealanders were scrambling to a beach near Wellington to get a piece of a disgusting 44-gallon blob - thought to be whale vomit. But one man's vomit is another...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 23, 2008 | 7:49amA British tycoon fled his $7 million, 52-room mansion in Nottinghamshire, claiming he had unwanted guests - ghosts. Anwar Rashid, 32, said the place was infested with the apparitions, which...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 16, 2008 | 8:17amWitchcraft is being blamed for a riot that left 13 youths dead at a Congo soccer match. Accusations surfaced that one of the players was practicing the dark craft during...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 15, 2008 | 8:02amA costumed cop thought he'd slay 'em with laughs at a carnival in Cornwall, England. But nobody was amused when he appeared in his get-up - as Osama bin Laden...
AN 'ANGEL' CHANGES LIVES IN SI
September 2, 2008 | 7:28amSome call him the "angel" of Staten Island, and Charles LaGanga has certainly earned his wings, intervening on behalf of gravely ill kids and cash-strapped schools. "There is an angel...
'THUNDER'OUS VICTORY
August 25, 2008 | 8:04am"Tropic Thunder," a comedy about the making of a farcical combat movie, was the No. 1 film at the North American box office for the second week in a row,...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
August 25, 2008 | 8:04amA Wisconsin couple must have a secret formula for winning the lottery, having each recently claimed a $350,000 jackpot - twice. The winnings have brought Verlyn and Judith Adamson's lottery...
FLYING HIGH
August 21, 2008 | 7:54amEven at age 86, Roscoe Brown, an original World War II-era Tuskegee Airman, simply won't slow down. "We had our convention last month in Philadelphia," said Brown, who was the...
'THUNDER' BOX-OFFICE LIGHTNING
August 18, 2008 | 7:54amIt took four of Hollywood's biggest and baddest stars to take down Batman. The comedy "Tropic Thunder" - with Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black and Tom Cruise -...
IRAQ GI AT WAR OVER KIDS ON HOMEFRONT
August 11, 2008 | 7:59amLike most good dads who are away from home, Jonathan Maldonado tried phoning his daughter on her birthday in June. But hearing his 2-year-old's adoring voice wasn't going to happen....
'MUMMY' 'BAT'TERED
August 4, 2008 | 8:09amBatman flexed his box-office muscle for the third week in a row - refusing to get wrapped up in close competition brought by the "Mummy" sequel. "The Dark Knight" retained...
VERIZON UNIONS' STRIKE ON HOLD
August 4, 2008 | 8:09amTwo unions representing some 65,000 Verizon workers delayed a strike scheduled for yesterday morning. The Communications Workers of America, which represents 50,000 of the workers, said the postponement came "in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
July 18, 2008 | 7:33amHe's a very rookie cop. An 11-year-old kid in a Louisville, Ky., residential subdivision wears a reflective vest and aims a toy radar gun at speeding cars. He also has...
HORDES OF MOVIE FANS GO TO 'HELL'
July 14, 2008 | 7:43amA cigar-chomping demon roasted the competition over weekend, racking up $35.9 million to top the box office in the sequel "Hellboy II: The Golden Army." The Guillermo del Toro-directed film...
WILL SMITH: BOX-OFFICE $UPERHERO
July 7, 2008 | 8:10amWill Smith, showing what star power is all about, overcame some of the worst reviews of his career to top the weekend box office with "Hancock" - scoring a superheroic...
"WASHINGTON: THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN CAPITAL"
July 6, 2008 | 6:00amShady land deals, cost overruns, arguments over design - long before Ground Zero, there was Washington, D.C. This Independence Day, it may be comforting to know some things never change....
MOVIEGOERS GET 'SMART'
June 23, 2008 | 8:13amWould you believe... "Get Smart," blockbuster? The film adaptation of yesteryear's spy spoof topped the box-office charts in a landslide, with $39.2 million over the weekend, nearly doubling the take...