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His legacy will live on through the superstar recording artists he produced or promoted during a career that started when Clovis, New Mexico’s Norman Petty took him under his wing and introduced Ray to the music industry. Petty, who also introduced Buddy Holly to the world, mentored Ray Ruff who achieved countless gold and platinum records for the artists he produced and promoted. The Texas native contributed greatly to the careers of Pat Boone, Glen Campbell, Don & Phil Everly, Merle Haggard, Reba McEntire, Roy Orbison, Willie Nelson, Buck Owens, George Strait, Marty Robbins, Ray Price, Hank Williams Jr. and...

New Orleans is a city famous for its music makers, but none more loved than Fats Domino. The 76 year old Fats had eight children with his wife Rosemary, who lived with him and his daughter in a three-story pink-roofed house. On Monday afternoon, Domino told his manager, Al Embry of Nashville, that they would not be attempting to flee the city as officials suggested. The Grammy Lifetime Achievement winner and Rock Hall of Fame member was missing for several days and concern for his welfare was nationally noted when his home in the 9th district of New Orleans was...

The host of a nationally syndicated radio show was seriously injured Thursday afternoon in a motorcycle crash near Mount Spokane State Park. Laurie Roth, affectionately called the "Annie Oakley of the airwaves" by listeners, was airlifted to Sacred Heart Medical Center after she collided with a deer on state Highway 206 about 3:30 p.m., said Washington State Patrol Trooper Jeff Sevigney. She was listed in critical condition Thursday night.

The original American Idol, Pat Boone, is celebrating his 50th year with a career few singers come close to, I am shocked and astounded to learn Pat Boone is absent from his rightful place in the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. How couId this terrible oversight have occurred? No one alive today is more deserving of this honor than Pat Boone.

In a major victory for the voters of Arizona and the integrity of the referendum process, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today dismissed a lawsuit brought by illegal aliens in Arizona challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 200. The San Francisco-based court ruled that the plaintiffs lacked the “legal standing” necessary to challenge the initiative approved by Arizona voters in November 2004.

D.A. King of The American Resistance subs for vacationing Laurie Roth tonight. Rick Oltman of FAIR will fill in on Wednesday. Erin Anderson, a rancher on the Mexico/Arizona border will guest host on Thursday and Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch returns Friday. Terry Anderson of KRLA will fill in Monday and Tuesday of next week, Dr. Roth returns to her nationally syndicated show on Wednesday, August 10th.

Walton McCarthy, an expert on how to survive a nuclear, biological or chemical weapons attack, will guest on tonight’s national Laurie Roth radio show. His Book, “Principles of Protection” will be discussed with some surprising information on your chances of survival…if you are prepared. Laurie Roth is heard on many radio stations and the internet at www.TheRothShow.com - 7 – 10 pm PST

A nuclear end to the United States within the next year is predicted by several intelligence analysts if a plan by Osama bin Laden is executed, sealing an apocalyptic fate for the beacon of the free world and Western civilization. Paul Williams, award-winning investigative journalist, former FBI consultant and author of “Osama’s Revenge: The Next 9/11,” has conducted extensive interviews with the intelligence community and has connected many reports and news stories that lead to the conclusion that al Qaeda terrorists have nuclear weapons, some of them are in the United States, and they plan to coordinate a simultaneous devastating...

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - Colorado Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo, one of the most outspoken anti-illegal immigration advocates in Congress, on Monday unveiled his plan for a guest worker program tied to getting the southern border under control. Among other things, the sweeping legislation would eliminate the H-1B visa for foreign workers and give the military authority to stem illegal immigration at the borders and deploy 10,000 more border patrol agents.

Former FBI consultant Dr. Paul L. Williams returns to the national Laurie Roth radio show tonight - July 18th. His best seller, “Osama’s Revenge”, based on intelligence from US, British, Pakistani and Israeli sources, tells of nuclear weapons that may have been stolen from the Russian arsenal during the breakup of the USSR and have found their way into the hands of Osama bin Laden. In previous appearances with Dr. Roth, he has warned of an al Queda nuclear attack on the United States. “It’s imminent”, advises Dr. Williams, “as spelled out in bin Laden’s recent Letter to America”. According...

I’ve often said, “the world these days pays little attention to anything that happened before last Saturday.” Learning from history and from the history makers is a rare experience for today’s society. I always appreciated the time spent hearing the lessons of life and those experiences so many others shared with me over the years. Today’s trade publications seldom give notice of the passing of those who contributed so much to the radio or the recording industry. In the future, I will try to do so. One such person was Simon Waronker, a name only a very few in the...

Dr. Madelelene Cosman outlines how the horrendous diseases that long ago America had conquered are resurging. Horrific diseases common in Third World poverty and medical ignorance suddenly are appearing in American emergency rooms and medical offices. Along with the visible invasion of Illegal Aliens across our borders is an invisible invasion of deadly diseases. She returns to The Laurie Roth radio show tonight (6-9-05) live across the nation on radio and via the internet - http://www.TheRothShow.com

A multidrug-resistant tuberculosis known as MDR-TB is persistent in California, primarily among its "foreign-born" population, and has serious financial implications for the state's public-health system, federal and state health officials said yesterday. "Treatment for MDR-TB is very expensive -- ranging from $200,000 to $1.2 million per person, over an 18- to 24-month time period," said Dr. Reuben Granich, a lead investigator for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a press conference in the District yesterday.

For almost four decades, radio was a magical era. Returning from the ashes of having been ambushed by television, radio was given new life by legendary names like Gordon Mc Lendon, Todd Storz, Cecil Heftel, Graham Richards, Chuck Blore and a few others. They fed many of us the motivation to excel and carry the torch on to a new generation of programmers. Radio stations programmed by Bill Drake, Ron Jacobs, Buzz Bennett, Paul Drew and a growing army of excellent programmer’s, did much to extend radio’s life into the arrival of FM. Then came Bill Tanner, Lee Abrams and...

The bolt from the blue from Crawford, Texas, hit a slumbering Middle East overnight Sunday, June 5. The news agencies took down every careful word dictated by "senior administration officials." The Bush administration, they were told, is showing signs of easing its hard-line approach towards Hamas… It has acceded to the (terror group) running candidates in the Palestinian elections, even while they refuse to disarm and are still listed by Washington as a major terrorist organization. Middle East leaders woke up Monday, June 6, to find that the Bush administration had hit on a way of leapfrogging over the standoff...

An embattled Mayor Jim West, facing Spokane media for the first time in the month-long sexual misconduct scandal at City Hall, vowed not to resign and to pay for his own legal defense – even borrowing money from his elderly father if necessary. "I can still continue to be an effective mayor … . I never violated my oath of office, and I never used my office in violation of the law or for any personal gain," West said. West singled out two powerful Democrats – former Washington Gov. Mike Lowry and ex-President Bill Clinton – for surviving sex scandals...

The Spokane City Council Tuesday unanimously called for Mayor Jim West to resign, and took an initial step to give the council impeachment power over the mayor through the City Charter. West, meanwhile, took a national stage in a morning appearance on NBC's "Today" show in his emerging strategy to preserve power in the wake of a sex scandal that has drawn international attention to Spokane and prompted widespread calls for his resignation.

<p>For a quarter century, the man who is now Spokane's mayor has used positions of public trust – as a sheriff's deputy, Boy Scout leader and powerful politician – to develop sexual relationships with boys and young men.</p> <p>In addition, an investigation by The Spokesman-Review has revealed that 17 months after leaving the state Legislature, West has used the trappings of the mayor's office to entice and influence young men he met on a gay Web site.</p>

The Laurie Roth national radio show http://www.TheRothShow.com will cover this story tonight. An article written factually by a high school freshman, Morgan Filan, for her Walla Walla, Washington high school newspaper bring threats from Hispanic's. Not all immigrants are the same. Many come here and become good citizens. They apply themselves, work hard, learn the language; they dedicate themselves to this country and make a contribution to society. These are the kind of immigrants that we should welcome into this country. Aside from them there are other immigrants who lie, cheat and sneak their way into this country. As soon...

Dr. Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard University graduate of political science and author of “Unfit for Command” will be a guest tonight on the nationally syndicated “Laurie Roth Show” to reveal how the terrorist regime in Iran bought the bomb and American politicians as documented in his new best seller “Atomic Iran”. Dr. Corsi exposes the deficit of religious freedom in Iran and how it has led to tyranny. With the reconstruction in Iraq under way and the distraction of the U.S. presidential election behind us, focus will once again turn to a gathering threat—The Islamic Republic of Iran. A...