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A few days after country singer Julie Roberts lost her record deal, she watched her car float down the block. The Sunday morning floodwaters had risen to the front door of her west Nashville home — a condo she shared with her mother, her sister and four dogs. She remembers the rain slashing away at the rooftop and the eeriness of watching the Mercedes she had just paid off silently wash away. She and her family ran upstairs, snacked on Cheese Nips and waited for a rescue boat. "I had...

They remember the hard hits — most of them, at least. The brain-rattlers that left them blank-eyed and disoriented, they have no recollection of at all. But the ones that snapped ligaments, rendered bones the consistency of crushed ice or bent joints in ways they ought not to bend are still felt every morning years later. A career in the National Football League creates echoes good and bad. Some reverberate in medical records, others in luxuries from rich contracts. But the most vivid ones for many former...

Regarding the April 2 front-page article " Many find golden years tarnished by student debt ": Maybe it's because both my parents grew up in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl of the 1930s, passing on to me their Depression-era terror of debt and aversion to credit, that I maintain such old-fashioned views of debt. Or maybe I was just fortunate enough to attend graduate school during a cheaper era when state legislatures still supported their excellent university systems. I was offered a one-time loan of $7,500 but was scared even to accept that much.

MILAN — Milan prosecutor seeks 6 years jail and lifetime public office ban for Berlusconi in sex trial. Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

HIGHLIGHTS "Antiques Roadshow" (WETA at 8 p.m.) continues in Billings, Mont., and looks at items including a suit of armor and an 1820s serving tray that could be worth up to $70,000. Monday night, "PBS Newshour" (WETA at 7) starts airing "Autism Now," a six-part series hosted by "Newshour" co-founder Robert MacNeil, which looks at how a child with autism can affect a family. Royal wedding madness is heating up in the TV world, and Lifetime...

When Fox announced in June 2011 it was canceling "America's Most Wanted" after 23 years, nobody was more surprised than John Walsh. "Our ratings were great," said Walsh, 66, the host of the show. "We owned Saturday nights. " But financially, it had been a rocky few years for the Silver Spring-based television show. In 2010, "America's Most Wanted" shut down its Los Angeles-based West Coast bureau and laid off one-third of its staff. There had been more budget cuts since then,...

Project Runwaywon't show up on Lifetime this fall, after all, following an NBC Universal ( NYSE: GE ) victory in New York State Supreme Court. The Weinstein Co's hit reality show was supposed to switch from Bravo to the ABC-Hearst-owned network for its sixth season in November. But NBCU won a preliminary injunction late Friday when Judge Richard Lowe ruled that the GE subsidiary might be able to prove in court its claim that it legally had first refusal for renewing the...

Those bad-boy Hollywood moguls Bob and Harvey Weinstein have transferred the favor of their "Project Runway" -- cable's top-rated reality competition series -- from that sweet little chick cable network Bravo to the older, better-endowed chick cable network Lifetime, starting with the show's sixth edition. Bravo's outraged parent, NBC Universal, has sued the Weinsteins for breach of promise, er, contract. The scandal broke just days after those downright upright Peabody Awards people...

The United States has held 56 presidential elections, going back to the first in 1789. And every time, we're told that the latest one is really, really important. Just listen to this year's Republican contenders . "I believe this is the most important election in your lifetime, no matter how old you are," Rick Santorum told a crowd in Tulsa this past week. Former House speaker Newt Gingrich goes further, deeming this race the most crucial "since 1860. " Democrats do it, too. "This is...

If you found the Apollo 11 flight interesting, then you might want to check out "Future Tech: From Personal Robots to Motorized Monocycles. " This National Geographic Investigates book shows you some of the cool technologies and breakthroughs that are likely to happen later in your lifetime.

WARREN, Mich. — Lester Stiggers has been a wanted man for 43 years, but he hasn't been hiding. He lives in a one-bedroom apartment, window blinds partly closed, along a busy road in a Detroit suburb. He gets by on $700 a month in Social Security benefits, usually making trips outside only to see a doctor. He needs an inhaler and 10 pills a day for his diabetes, high blood pressure and other ailments. A stocky man with thick arms, Stiggers grappled with sewer lines as a plumber until two...

When the ON AIR light is glowing, his voice blurs warm and cool. But when it goes dim, he shouts along to the music, taps his Oxfords on the grimy carpet, grabs at the air as if wrangling some phantom trumpet. The radio station's mantra is "Jazz and Justice," but for three hours every Monday night, justice gives way to the undiluted wisdom of Robert Northern , the 78-year-old jazz traveler known to listeners as Brother Ah. His weekly show on WPFW (89.3 FM) spans the vast musical dialect he helped...

Two giants of the feminist movement, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, have been named winners of the 2013 lifetime achievement award from the National Book Critics Circle . Their books, particularly " The Madwoman in the Attic " (1979) and " The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women " (1985), changed the shape of literary criticism and influenced generations of students and scholars. The announcement came on Monday, along with the list of 30 finalists ...

James Taylor was a dark-complexioned young man with thick black hair. Joe Biden was more dapper than usual, with a neat little moustache. Barack Obama looked decades too young, and a little too starry-eyed, as "Hail to the Chief" played and he held up his right hand to take the oath of office . For a select group of U.S. government employees and members of the military, it was the role-play of a lifetime: On Sunday morning, on a stage in...

Kyle Shanahan stands in his office at Redskins Park, flipping through the 154 gridded pages of a brown composition book. It's rare that this pad, more a football journal for the Washington Redskins ' 32-year-old offensive coordinator, is beyond a few yards away. It's with him at the team facility, at home, in his SUV. In this one and the stack on the bottom shelf behind him — filled and filed away throughout the season — he draws plays and leaves himself notes, working through...

In his more than two decades with the National Wildlife Refuge System, Jim Hall has literally seen and done it all. During assignments in Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alaska, Hall has been involved in a major reforestation effort, helped establish a new wildlife refuge, protected endangered species, witnessed many of the wonders of nature, rescued lost hunters, fought forest fires and dealt with those who been illegally fishing, hunting and...

Although visually alluring and dutiful to its subject in every way, "Georgia O'Keeffe" (airing Saturday night on Lifetime) unfortunately has all the excitement of a Wikipedia entry on the artist. But weirdly enough, when reduced to its prime plot threads, O'Keeffe's story sounds roughly like a thousand Lifetime movies that have come before: Young art gal (that would be O'Keeffe) moves to New York, has affair with married gallery owner-photographer (that would be Alfred Stieglitz )

Long after they leave office, American presidents are still with us. Many stay in the public eye, of course, calling attention to the Middle East peace process, AIDS or disaster relief. They give speeches for substantial sums and sometimes even stump for their spouse on the campaign trail. All the while, in the limelight or out, they are still on the public dime. There is the lifetime pension, in effect since Congress approved it in 1958. The award is taxable and pegged to the annual salary for Cabinet secretaries,...

Combine Gourmet and Cat Fancy magazines: How to prepare the finest meal Tabby will never eat. Back in Week 985, we published five typically zany cartoons by the Nothing if Not Zany Bob Staake and asked the Losers to tell us which Invitational contest — an actual one or a new idea — it might be illustrating. One honorable mention went to Megaloser Kevin Dopart for his example for the the cartoon above. So let's not let Kevin's idea go to waste: This week: Combine two magazines or...

The Lifetime Original Movie is a time-honored tradition of lazy weekend afternoons, even for those who will never admit that they stayed glued to the couch all the way through "The Pregnancy Pact" or "Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?" Or especially "My Stepson, My Lover. " These movies, filled with bizarre plots and comically over-intense acting, always cover serious topics that are a sharp contrast to how shamefully entertaining they are to watch. That's why it's so disappointing that the channel's...