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AP intern Armando Montano celebrated at service

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on July 15th

By The Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Hundreds of friends and colleagues gathered Sunday for a memorial celebration for Armando Montano, a news intern for The Associated Press who died at age 22 in Mexico City. The service was held at Colorado College, where Montano's parents

Penn Staters tire of unhappy scandal in the valley

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on July 14th

By MARC LEVYAssociated Press STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - They've had to reconcile the school whose sports programs vow "success with honor" with one of the worst scandals in sports history. Almost inconceivably, they have been forced to reconsider the integrity and iconic status of the late Joe

Penn State to renovate areas where boys abused

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on July 13th

By GENARO C. ARMAS and MICHAEL RUBINKAMAssociated Press STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Penn State plans to renovate the building where former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually molested boys, confronting one of the most potent and sinister symbols of a scandal from which it is still

A look at Netflix since much-hated price hike

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on July 12th

By The Associated Press Thursday marked one year since Netflix announced an unpopular price increase in the U.S. It has bounced back this year to revive its subscriber growth, though its stock remains 70 percent down from its peak about a year ago. Here's a look at the developments over the

Fire brings challenges at Washington state college

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on July 10th

By SHANNON DININNYAssociated Press TOPPENISH, Wash. (AP) - A fire at a private, liberal arts college in Washington state has left school officials scrambling to ensure academics aren't adversely affected and grateful that more wasn't lost for the largely minority students who make up the

Art historians claim to find new Caravaggio works

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on July 5th

By FRANCES D'EMILIOAssociated Press ROME (AP) - Two Italian art historians claim to have discovered as many as 100 works, most of them drawings, by a very young Caravaggio in a collection long attributed to a master Milanese artist he studied under while a boy in the late

R&B singer Frank Ocean comes out, opens up about first love

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on July 5th

By Sadie Gennis, R&B singer Frank Ocean came out in an emotional blog Tuesday, revealing that his first love at 19 was a man."4 summers ago, I met somebody. I was 19 years old. He was too. We spent that summer, and the summer after, together. Every day almost. And on the days we were together

Conservation renews portraits of founding fathers

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on July 2nd

By BRETT ZONGKERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - Sixteen paintings by American artist Gilbert Stuart of some of the nation's founding fathers and other figures are showing their true colors for the first time in decades through a major conservation project at the National

Kinkade estate dispute to remain public for now

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on July 2nd

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - Hearings in the dispute between Thomas Kinkade's widow and girlfriend over the late artist's $66 million estate will not be conducted behind closed doors - at least for now, a judge ruled on Monday. Kinkade's widow, Nanette

Writer-filmmaker Nora Ephron dies at 71

Submitted by Fox First at Ten on June 27th

By HILLEL ITALIEAP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) - Among the injustices about the death of Nora Ephron is that she isn't around to tell us about it. "She was so, so alive," says her friend Carrie Fisher. "It makes no sense to me that she isn't alive anymore." Ephron, the essayist, author