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The supervisor is said to have not adequately followed up a complaint against a Long Island woman who is now accused of drowning her three young children.
Starbucks temporarily closed stores as it retrained workers and tried to revive “the romance of coffee.”
A Democratic assemblyman won a stunning upset in a State Senate election in a district that has been in Republican hands for a century.
A doctor faces three felony counts in a case that has sent a shudder through the field of transplant surgeons.
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton set aside their cordiality and traded accusations in a contentious debate.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 27, 2008, covering February 27, 2008.
Jack Johnson
Amy Winehouse
Alicia Keys
Various Artists
Herbie Hancock
2008William F. Buckley, Jr., American author and journalist, founded the National Review (born 1925)[†]
William Frank Buckley Jr. was an American conservative writer, public intellectual, political commentator and novelist.
2008Myron Cope, American journalist and sportscaster (born 1929)[†]
Myron Sidney Kopelman, known professionally as Myron Cope, was an American sports journalist, radio personality, and sportscaster. He is best known for being "the voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers".
2008Ivan Rebroff, German vocalist of Russian descent with four and a half octave range (born 1931)[†]
Ivan Rebroff was a German vocalist, allegedly of Russian ancestry, who rose to prominence for his distinct and extensive vocal range of four octaves, ranging "from a low F to a high F, one and a quarter octaves above C". An imposing figure on stage, usually bearded and dressed in Cossack clothing, his presence was enhanced by his height, being over 2 metres tall.
2008Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari escapes from a detention center in Singapore, hiding in Johor, Malaysia until he was recaptured over a year later.[†]
Jemaah Islamiyah was a Southeast Asian Islamist militant group based in Indonesia, which was dedicated to the establishment of an Islamic state in Southeast Asia. On 25 October 2002, immediately following the JI-perpetrated 2002 Bali bombings, JI was added to the UN Security Council Resolution 1267.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]