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The verdict against Martin R. Heidgen, 25, of Valley Stream, is one of only a few murder convictions won in fatal drunken driving cases anywhere.
Passing the six-week mark on the “CBS Evening News,” Katie Couric has lost much of the ratings momentum her program had early on.
With the arrival of its PlayStation 3 nearing, Sony is aiming at its rival's sweet spot: Internet-based gaming.
Giants running back Tiki Barber, the leading rusher in the N.F.L. this season, said yesterday that he was likely to retire at season’s end to pursue his ample off-field opportunities.
Jeanine F. Pirro and Andrew M. Cuomo, the candidates for New York State attorney general, used their second and final debate on Tuesday to exchange personal attacks.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 18, 2006, covering October 18, 2006.
Evanescence
The Killers
George Strait
Tony Bennett
Justin Timberlake
2006Mario Francesco Pompedda, Italian cardinal (born 1929)[†]
Carlo Mario Francesco Pompedda was an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and the Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura for the Roman Curia. He spent nearly fifty years in a variety of posts within the Catholic Church's ecclesiastical court system, from 1955 to 2004.
2006Anna Russell, English-Canadian singer and actress (born 1911)[†]
Anna Russell was an English–Canadian singer and comedian. She gave many concerts in which she sang and played comic musical sketches on the piano. Among her best-known works are her concert performances and recordings of The Ring of the Nibelungs – a humorous 22-minute synopsis of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen – and her parody How to Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera.
2006Laurie Taitt, Guyanese-English hurdler (born 1934)[†]
John Lawrence Taitt was a British sprint hurdler. He was born in Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, British Guiana and competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]