NEW YORK (AP) – Assuming military criminal investigators should do such a thing, they’re popping champagne corks over at “NCIS.” The CBS series topped the television ratings last week for the first time in its four-year history.It has been a methodical climb for “NCIS,” which had a particularly strong summer in repeats this year. With […]

Eds: AMs; ADDS photo numbers. Moving on general news and entertainment services.AP Photos NYRM101-120By ADAM GOLDMANAssociated Press WriterNEW YORK (AP) – Donald Trump gave Miss USA a reprieve Tuesday, allowing the boozing beauty queen to retain her title after she agreed to enter rehab and undergo drug testing.In a moment of television drama filled with […]

More good news for Lewiston! It is announced that beginning Dec. 31, wages in the Lewiston cotton mills will be advanced five per cent. This comes as a New Year’s present to hundreds of employes, as the increase will make the yearly payroll thousands of dollars larger than it otherwise would be, and means much […]

Williams, 50, visited the North Arabian Gulf and spent time with sailors aboard the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower earlier this month.“During a season when it is all too easy to become immersed in our own hectic schedules, we wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the military men and women who are away from their […]

) Gibson edges out Williams in battle of the network anchors (EDITORS: Archive photos for many of the celebrities mentioned in the TUBENOTES column are available on MCT Direct.)By Gail ShisterThe Philadelphia Inquirer(MCT)For the second consecutive week, Charlie Gibson’s “ABC World News” edged Brian Williams’ “NBC Nightly News” for first place among 25-to-54- year-old viewers.No […]

By David BianculliNew York Daily News(MCT)The cancellation of ABC’s “Day Break,” the Taye Diggs drama in which his cop character relived variations on the same horrible day, doesn’t bother me.What bothers me, though, is ABC’s halfhearted attempt to appease fans by promising the remaining unseen episodes will be shown on the ABC Web site. It’s […]

Photo of book cover (NNS2)450 words“Hannibal Rising’ by Thomas Harris (Delacourte, 336 pp., $27.95)Categories: eBy CARLO WOLFFc.2006 Newhouse News Service(UNDATED) Hannibal Lecter, the most famous cannibal in literary history, is almost engaging in this fourth book about him. This one is set in the Europe of Lecter’s youth – World War II and its immediate […]

KENAI NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Alaska (AP) – “Timber!”Seven-year-old Zack Selinger scrambled to his feet as the white spruce he had felled with a hand saw tipped gently into his father’s arms.“We should have brought a snowmachine,” he said, as his dad, Jeff, began hauling the family Christmas tree over the tussocks of a frozen swamp […]

The most memorable TV moment of 2006 was (drumroll, please): Katie Couric’s tear-filled final day on NBC’s “Today.”That’s according to a new poll commissioned by TiVo, the popular DVR company.Curiously, however, nowhere in the top 10 is Couric’s first day on “The CBS Evening News.” That particular historical milestone, which was preceded by weeks of […]

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) – The core cast of the freshman CBS sitcom “The Class” is crammed around a dining table on a Warner Bros. soundstage rehearsing a dinner-party scene.Lina’s done the cooking and Richie is apologizing sotto voce for the result.Kat, Duncan, Kyle and Ethan, meanwhile, are trying not to gag on the Moroccan chicken […]