New Year's Day/Eve News

FORMER world champion boxer Scott Harrison yesterday walked free from court after being cleared of forcing his way into his ex-girlfriend's house and leaving her terrified.

Most of the flash and glitter will vanish from Hong Kong's brightly lit commercial areas after midnight if a government task force's recommendations are accepted.

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I put it off for years but kept stowing things up there, and on the steps to go up there, until it got to be like Fibber McGee and Molly's closet: I couldn't open the attic door without something falling out and onto my feet.

Daniel Collingwood was attacked by his partner's uncle Thomas Gordon, who narrowly missed the victim's jugular vein, following a New Year party in January.

WE KNOW we're sounding like your nanna, but "hasn't the year flown? Who would have thought it was June".

A man involved in a New Year's Day crash that killed 20-year-old UNF student Dara Kusiv is now in the Duval County jail.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West welcomed a baby girl June 15, 2013, in Los Angeles.

She made a public declaration at the start of the year that she was hoping to get her exercise regime back on track.

Ana Sabrina Carmona was talking to her fiance, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Rex Schad, on March 10 when the soldier, who was deployed to Afghanistan, asked her to do him a favor.

It looks like restaurateur Richie Notar will be able to relaunch the fabled Lenox Lounge site as the "gem of New York" - as he called the fabled Harlem jazz mecca when he took over its lease last year.

Tonight's broadcast of the Eurovision Young Dancers contest from Poland might not have been as big a ratings winner as its cousin, the Eurovision Song Contest , but EYD continues to promote one of the goals of the Eurovision project - to act as a test-bed of new broadcast technology - with a combined 4K and 3D camera.

The long unsolved case of Jack the Ripper gripped the world in 1888 and in the century that followed: Five unsolved murders in and around London will certainly grab your attention.

Boy, has the year gone by quickly - almost too quickly for my liking, actually. Wasn't it just yesterday when we were talking about how to kick off a spanking new year, carrying along with it its fair share of hopes and dreams? Well, September is coming, and with it one too, is able to expect the coming arrival of the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, a ... (more)

Tea, cake and kittens are to be the order of the day at an event at Woodland Nook Cat Rescue in Swanwick on Saturday, June 22. The shelter, run by Ripley and Heanor News New Year Honours winner Jane Lynegar is to be open from 11am until 2pm for a tea fund-raising tea party to help care for the cats living there.

By Monisha Martins - Maple Ridge News Published: June 13, 2013 4:00 PM Updated: June 13, 2013 4:45 PM The new MLA for Maple Ridge-Pitt Meadows failed to get support for a leave of absence from city council Tuesday, when several colleagues called on him to resign.

On January 1, 2013, while millions of people around the world were making their New Year's resolutions, Steve Perry , PhD, had something a little bit different on the horizon.

People watch fireworks light up the sky along Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro on January 1, 2013, during celebrations by over three million people attending New Year's Eve festivities.

Film historian Ed Rampell details Hollywood's entangled relationship with the CIA and the Pentagon; HOUSES OF THE DEAD: Nancy Kurshan exposes the cruel human rights offenses taking place inside America's vast gulag of Control Unit Prisons; BROTHERHOOD OF SUMMER: David Macaray charts the history of the most powerful union in the US: the Baseball ... (more)

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