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Roger Clemens told “60 Minutes” he received injections of vitamin B-12 and lidocaine, not performance-enhancing drugs, CBS said Thursday.
The man who fell nearly 500 feet is now talking and may walk again, his doctors said.
Francis X. Morrissey Jr. has been accused of wrongfully meddling in the estate matters of wealthy individuals in order to enrich himself.
The new year opened with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg back to his familiar coy self, doing nothing to dampen the relentless speculation about his presidential intentions.
Clark Johnson, who plays a crusading newspaper editor in the fifth and last season of “The Wire,” talks about his role, the show and his directing projects.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 2, 2008, covering January 4, 2008.
Josh Groban
Mary J. Blige
Alicia Keys
Eagles
Miley Cyrus
2008Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist (born 1932)[†]
Xavier Chamorro Cardenal was a Nicaraguan journalist. He began his career working at his father’s newspaper, La Prensa, and in 1980 became founding editor and publisher of El Nuevo Diario, a competitor newspaper.
2008A Let L-410 Turbolet crashes in the Los Roques Archipelago in Venezuela, killing 14 people.[†]
The Let L-410 Turbolet is a twin-engine short-range transport aircraft designed and produced by the Czech aircraft manufacturer Let Kunovice.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]