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Politically connected consultant gets 12 months The Associated Press November 29. 2005 4:52PM Raymond Reggie, a media consultant and son of a politically prominent former Louisiana judge, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 months in prison for bank fraud. Reggie pleaded guilty earlier this year to one count of bank fraud and one count of bank fraud conspiracy involving a scheme to cheat banks in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier gave Reggie 12 months on each charge, and ordered the sentences to be served at the same time. Reggies also was ordered to serve three years...

MSNBC cancels Connected Coast to Coast, Entertainment shows: From: Kaplan, Rick (NBC Universal, MSNBC) Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 1:57 PM To: @MSNBC Everyone Subject: ANNOUNCEMENT I wanted to share with all of you some news about a realignment of our dayside coverage. Beginning after the first of the year, we are going to increase our live news coverage on the weekends. With the addition of our new program with Connie Chung and Maury Povich, we will be in live or topical news programming from 8am until 5pm on Saturday and Sunday. This more than doubles our current live weekend...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2005 – Coalition forces captured a terrorist today known to have connections with senior leaders of al Qaeda in Iraq, officials reported. The action occurred at a raid on a terrorist safe house in Haditha. Four terrorists were killed when they converged on the safe house during the operation, and coalition aircraft destroyed a vehicle being used by one of the terrorists. Elsewhere, Task Force Freedom soldiers participating in Operation Restoring Rights captured 78 suspected terrorists during operations in Tall Afar Sept. 12, officials reported today. The operation is being conducted to remove terrorists from Tall Afar...

Kristinn Taylor of Free Republic appeared on Connected: Coast to Coast today to discuss John Bolton’s nomination.

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<p>SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) - As wildfires grew to epic proportions along Southern California's mountain crests, so did a network of displaced residents hungry for detailed information about their homes, friends and family.</p> <p>Many turned to the tools of technology and found community through Internet message boards, e-mails and online emergency scanner traffic.</p>

<p>Gov. Gray Davis argued Wednesday that recalling him would make it harder for future state governors to make tough decisions for fear of facing a recall themselves.</p> <p>He said he was wrong the time he told state legislators that their job was to “implement my vision.”</p>

Two volcanic systems 'connected deep beneath surface' Geologists say an outpouring of lava from the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii that began last May may have stemmed from activity beneath neighbouring Mauna Loa. The statement revives a decades-old debate over whether the two volcanic systems are connected. "We have detected a correlation between these events at a very short time scale," scientists reported in the current issue of the journal Nature. The scientists have long believed that Mauna Loa, the world's largest volcano, and Kilauea are connected deep beneath the Earth's surface. But the new study suggests there is a shallow...