NEW YORK (AP) – Rapper Foxy Brown was summoned to court unexpectedly Monday after being accused of violating probation stemming from a fight in a nail salon more than two years ago.Brown, appearing in Manhattan Criminal Court, where she was sentenced in October to three years’ probation, was accused of failing to keep appointments with […]

BURBANK, Calif. (AP) – Nicole Richie was arrested early Monday for investigation of driving under the influence after her car was reported headed the wrong way on a freeway.Richie, 25, star of “The Simple Life” reality series and daughter of pop singer Lionel Richie, was arrested without incident at 1:45 a.m. (PST) after she failed […]

LONDON (AP) – Kate Winslet finds the glamorization of ultra-thin models and actresses disturbing and says she keeps magazines featuring such women away from her 6-year-old daughter.“It’s only a matter of time before she becomes aware of it, and it frightens the life out of me,” Winslet said of her daughter, Mia.Winslet, who is married […]

Dec. 11: BETHEL, the Mahoosuc Community Band Christmas concert will be held at 7 p.m. at the West Parish Congregational Church.Dec. 11: DRESDEN, a country western line and partner dance will be held at 7 p.m. at Dresden Masonic Hall, Route. 127. $3/$4 622-4884Dec. 11: NEW SHARON, the Cape Cod Hill School concert will be […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Mel Gibson’s bloody epic “Apocalypto” debuted as the No. 1 weekend movie, proving the filmmaker still can deliver a winner despite his drunken-driving arrest and anti-Semitic rant last summer.“Apocalypto,” a Disney release set in the Mayan civilization and told in an obscure Mayan language, opened with $14.2 million, according to studio […]

The sad news reached Lewiston of the death from asphyxiation by gas of Ex-Governor Alonzo Garcelon of this city, widely known as the “grand old man of Maine.” The asphyxiation was accidental, and according to Dr. Cleaves, the old man was easily overcome because of his extreme age and feeble condition.Two thousand members of the […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) – Clint Eastwood’s “Letters From Iwo Jima,” the second of his two World War II sagas this year, was picked as the top movie of 2006 Sunday by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.Set for release Dec. 20, “Letters From Iwo Jima” stars Ken Watanabe and chronicles the battle from the perspective […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Forty years after it was made, the Velvet Underground’s first recording – purchased for pennies at a Manhattan flea market – became a financial success in cyberspace.Selling price: $155,401, on eBay.That was the closing bid posted online for the rare recording of music that eventually ended up on the influential New […]

n Mark LaFlamme, award-winning journalist and local author, will sign copies of his book “The Pink Room” at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, at Percy’s Burrow, at the Lewiston Mall, 20 East Ave., next to Heartland. For more information, call 376-3225.n Sandra Lee Huston, author and photographer of “Loons of Tacoma Lakes,” will sign copies […]

DEAR ABBY: I come from a family of seven kids that has been torn apart ever since the year our mother decided to leave our stepfather of 11 years to be with another woman.It’s not the fact that she chose to be gay; it’s the distance that came along with it. She has severed her […]