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New Year's Eve

Latest New Year's Eve Items
  • FILE - In this Dec. 11, 2011, file photo, Auburn quarterback Cam Newton holds the trophy during a news conference after winning the Heisman award, in New York. Newton will forgo his senior season and make himself eligible for the 2011 National Football League Draft. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

    NCAA rules Auburn's Cam Newton eligible to play

    Heisman Trophy favorite Cam Newton can focus on playing for the SEC championship instead of worrying about pay-for-play.


  • NCAA rules Newton eligible to play

    The NCAA has determined that the father of Auburn quarterback Cam Newton broke rules by shopping his son to Mississippi State, but that the overwhelming Heisman Trophy favorite apparently didn't know about it.


  • Jay-Z, Coldplay collaborating on NYE show in Vegas

    Jay-Z and Coldplay plan to share the stage in Las Vegas as New Year's Eve headliners at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas casino-resort.


  • FILE - In this July 21, 2010 file photo, musician Ne-Yo dances while filming a music video for his upcoming single "One in a Million" on the Universal Studios lot in Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)

    New's Year Eve no-show costs singer Ne-Yo $156,000

    A Maryland judge has ordered R&B singer Ne-Yo and his booking agent to pay more than $156,000 in damages because the performer failed to appear at a 2008 New Year's Eve concert in Washington state.


  • BOOK REVIEW: A thoughtful national energy plan

    When in 1977 President Carter declared his "moral equivalent of war" (MEOW, as it appropriately came to be known) on our energy problems, and before being sabotaged by Iranians and killer rabbits, he gave us the Department of Energy (DOE), with no easily definable purpose and staffed by tens of thousands of superfluous bureaucrats, culled from various departments and agencies.


  • Ne-Yo sued over failure to appear at Wash. concert

    R&B singer Ne-Yo and his booking agency are being sued in Maryland by a promoter over the performer's failure to appear at a 2008 New Year's Eve concert in Washington state.


  • William Barker is a historical interpreter who portrays Thomas Jefferson at Colonial Williamsburg and elsewhere.

    Inside the Beltway

    A busy man this weekend. That would be William Barker, an eloquent actor who portrays Thomas Jefferson at Colonial Williamsburg.


  • Chipotle sauce provides the zing for rib-eye steak

    My husband and I had our first date on New Year's Eve. Each year since, we have commemorated that special moment.


  • Officer killed in hit-and-run in Baltimore

    BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland Transportation Authority police officer was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve, authorities said.


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