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It’s a movie that hasn’t been seen in decades, missing for so long that many didn’t even know it existed. That is, until it turned up in Omaha, Nebraska. On a projector in a Kansas City home, Gary Huggins cues up a recent discovery. “I was relieved to find it wouldn’t explode!”, he said. Huggins soon refocused his attention from the technical to find something he definitely wasn’t expecting. “Wow, I think I’ve discovered this film that nobody’s seen in at least 50 years, if not 100,” Huggins said. Huggins, a filmmaker himself, picked up the film at an auction...

Prosecutors in Santa Clara County have served at least three search warrants while investigating whether Sheriff Laurie Smith’s office gave out coveted concealed-gun permits in exchange for campaign money, sources familiar with the investigation told The Chronicle. The Santa Clara County district attorney’s office raided the sheriff’s San Jose headquarters Aug. 2, seizing evidence through a search warrant that remains sealed. About a week before that, sources said, prosecutors served search warrants on two of the sheriff’s higher-ranking supervisors. Among those who have been contacted by investigators is AS Solution, a security company whose bodyguards protect Silicon Valley tech executives....

Dylan Campfield @d_campfield @ClaraJeffery, Mother Jones "co-editor" commits libel against actor @adamsbaldwin; deletes tweet, still hasn't offered apology. 8:00 PM - 11 Mar 13 Reading is hard. Especially when you’re a liberal who’s hell-bent on smearing an articulate, unapologetic conservative. When Clara Jeffery saw this headline: Screen Shot 2013-03-11 at 2.57.45 PM She tweeted out to her followers that Adam Baldwin is a tax delinquent. Never mind that Adam and Stephen are not, in fact, the same person, much less related. She had garbage to spew and, darn it, she wasn’t about to let facts get in the way! Or...

The Trouble with Translations by Dr. Jeff Mirusspecial to CatholicCulture.org It is said that the English translation of the latest edition of the Roman Missal (2002) is still years away. Not only must the translation work its way through two ecclesiastical committees, but both groups are still learning to work within the new guidelines for translation set forth in Liturgiam Authenticam in 2001. It is too soon to tell whether all this will result in better translations, but it may at least slow the rate of linguistic change. The Language WarsFor the past generation, conflicts over translations of the Liturgy,...

Clara Rosenberger, 77, may she rest in peace, is widely known today as the 30th person to die from the Passover Massacre at Netanya's Park Hotel. It wasn't the first time she was known by a number. She had one tattooed on her arm. Clara was born in Czechoslovakia, and remembered a time in her childhood when the head of state came to a wedding in the town's rebbe's family. But then everything changed. Her family was rounded up and taken to Auschwitz. Her father perished. Young enough to work, she sorted the personal items of men, women and children...

  Suburban Madness Why would a devoted wife deliberately run over her beloved husband three times? It's quite simple, really. He was having an affair with a woman accused by her allegedly pill-popping ex-husband of carrying on a lesbian relationship with her best friend, whose ex-husband has been indicted for an illegal wiretapping scheme designed to catch the two in the act and cover up his own infidelities with her former Lamaze-class buddy. Any questions?by Skip HollandsworthLATE IN THE AFTERNOON OF July 24, Clara Harris, a pretty and personable 44-year-old dentist from the Houston suburbs, put on a silky blue...