NJ town backs its "Idol" despite pictures
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POINT PLEASANT, New Jersey  - She may be a brash careerist willing to use XXX-rated pictures for publicity, or just a Jersey girl trying to get ahead, but Antonella Barba is easily the most famous person from this small seashore town.
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A much-debated plan to create &quot;African Town&quot; in Detroit got the go-ahead from the city council Monday, but this resolution is different from the one that some called unconstitutional.
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(1010 WINS) SPRINGFIELD, NJ Nearly three-thousand people in New Jersey are proving hard to find by the IRS -- and it&#39;s not because they owe money.
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It's not so much the photos that trouble Miss New Jersey; it's the words that someone put with them.
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American Idol contestant Antonella Barba, from Point Pleasant, N.J., may be in rocky waters after topless photos of her appeared on the Internet.
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They still look like the Bon Jovi of old &#151; with their leather jackets and jeans. And they still act like the boys from New Jersey, proud of their musical brotherhood that spawned numerous hit albums and No. 1 singles.
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Art imitates life, and  life imitates art, and sometimes it's hard to tell which is  which. Take the little town of Marceline, Mo., a place so  idyllic, so orderly, so utterly all-American that it seemed  impossible to improve on. Marceline declined once the  automobile came and the crowds started to roll in, but it is  forever enshrined in the memories of several generations of  Americans.
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Marla Coppler's barbershop is a shrine to her favorite hometown quarterback &#151; Ben Roethlisberger. A Roethlisberger clock is attached to the wall. Newspaper clippings detailing his breakout rookie season are taped to the mirrors. And a replica of his Pittsburgh Steelers jersey greets everyone who walks in.
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By The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Feb. 25--Legislators have never trusted mayors or county commissioners to raise a local sales tax for transit.   But, apparently, they'll trust these local officials to OK or veto a nuclear power plant -- unilaterally.
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NEWARK, N.J. - A major donor to embattled Gov...
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By Margaret F. Bonafide, Asbury Park Press, N.J.  Jun. 23--LAKEWOOD, N.J. -- Tony Iannarone has been in the service-station  business since he was a boy working for his father in Newark. He has not  forgotten the lessons his father taught him.
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America voted and ended contestant Antonella Barba's hopes of becoming the next "American Idol" on Thursday, after several racy photos of the New Jersey resident surfaced on the Internet.
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The mix of nude dancers, orange juice and black-and-white independent films wasn't in Bob Rieger's original business plan. But it has helped his Racehorses Gentlemen's Club survive amid the cornfields of McCook County and fend off a two-year barrage of challenges from politicians and outraged members of Citizens Against Nude Juicebars and Pornography.
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After Bruce Springsteen announced plans to participate in the anti-Bush concert tour, Vote for Change, a New York candidate for US Senate has countered with a &quot;Boycott the Boss&quot; television spot.
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A state judge, Vincent J. Grasso of Superior Court in Ocean County, has ruled that New Jersey voters who cast absentee ballots for a candidate who has dropped out of the presidential race can vote again.
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CRAWFORD, Texas - A tiny weekly newspaper that bills itself as President Bush's hometown paper has endorsed John Kerry for president, saying the Massachusetts senator will restore American dignity.    The Lone Star Iconoclast, which has a weekly circulation of 425, said in an editorial dated Sept...
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WASHINGTON  The hottest campaign in town this week? It&#39;s not for president. It&#39;s for Idol. Producers for Fox&#39;s top-rated talent series estimate that 21,000 candidates and their supporters ...