LOS ANGELES (AP) – Ryan Seacrest’s new year is looking good so far. The “American Idol” host and radio disc jockey signed a deal with E! Entertainment Television that includes producing and hosting the channel’s red-carpet awards coverage.Seacrest, who joined Dick Clark for ABC’s “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” on Saturday and has called Clark a […]

NEW YORK (AP) – He sat stiffly behind a desk, one hand in front of him, one down at his side. His words had the familiar slurred sound of a stroke victim. But his cadence was brisk, he made himself clear and, most of all, he was there – on national TV for the New […]

Knight Ridder Newspapers Nervous? Who’s nervous?Elizabeth Vargas had the jitters – in a good way – just hours before debuting with colleague Bob Woodruff Tuesday as the new faces of “ABC World News Tonight.”Any anchor who denies being nervous “is either lying or needs to resign,” she says. “It’s an enormous responsibility. … We all […]

By Colleen Lunn Scholer,Special to the Sun Journal LISBON – Joan Gemme found herself cooking a lot when she had four young children. Now, she said, “My kids think I am crazy because I like to do this.” But she still loves to cook today, and her family has grown to include five grandchildren and […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) – The Donald does not want to be the governor.Donald Trump, mega-developer and star of NBC’s “The Apprentice,” said he has no interest in running for governor of New York this year.“I’m not going to run for governor because I’m having too much fun doing what I’m doing now,” Trump told the […]

A recent European invention that now is being brought to the attention of municipal authorities is an automobile street sweeping and watering machine says Harper’s Weekly. This device, which has been tried in Paris with some success, consists of a large automobile truck fitted with a tank having a capacity of 470 gallons of water. […]

At the January meeting of the Auburn City Government which was held, City Clerk Bumpus read writs which were served, the city having been sued for $3,200 by Nathan Pulsifer and Janet D. Pulsifer, their land on Mill street and vicinity having been damaged, it is claimed, by the city having carted away earth from […]

The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. Imagine having the power to create your own world according to your deepest longings and desires. Then consider for a moment the solipsism and grandeur of the universes created by Bill Gates, Hugh Hefner, Steven Spielberg or even Oprah Winfrey and you’ll quickly realize there is nothing more disturbing or […]

Today Jan. 3: SOUTH PARIS, “Various Cartoons,” will be shown at 5:30 p.m. and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” will be shown at 6 p.m. at the Paris Fire Station. 743-2501 Tomorrow Jan. 4: AUBURN, L/A Arts presents “Touching the Void,” at 7 p.m. at Central Maine Community College Kirk Auditorium, 1250 Turner St. […]

By Jay Lustig,Newhouse News ServiceDavid Lee Roth takes his goofy shtick to radio. Thank goodness for exclamation marks. Without them, there would be no way to adequately convey in print what David Lee Roth sounds like.“I don’t think of it as morning radio,” says the former Van Halen frontman of his 6-10 a.m. EST talk […]