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Police investigators have arrested a Queens man suspected in the vicious slaying of a psychologist who was hacked in her office with a meat cleaver.

Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says David Tarloff, 39, was taken into custody early Saturday. He says investigators matched his fingerprints with prints found at the bloody crime scene.

Therapist Kathryn Faughey was slashed 15 times with a meat cleaver and a 9-inch knife in her Manhattan office on Tuesday evening. A psychiatrist who worked in the building, Dr. Kent Shinbach, came to Faughey's aid and was badly injured. Read more

“It was a very horrific scene with the number of individuals in the road at one time and the amount of debris”

WASHINGTON - Eight people were killed early on Saturday when a car plowed into roadside spectators watching an illegal high-speed street race in a town near Washington, according to media reports.A sedan, which ... via Reuters

“Several of our party members are lying in a pool of blood”

A bombing outside an election office in northwestern Pakistan killed four people and wounded 12 others Saturday, an opposition party spokesman said.

The reports came from party workers in an area bordering Afghanistan, said Farhatullah Babar, a spokesman for the Pakistan People's Party of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.

The explosion came two days before parliamentary elections considered crucial to restoring democracy after eight years of military rule under President Pervez Musharraf. Read more

MediaNews Group Inc., one of the nation's largest newspaper chains, reported a 34 percent increase in fiscal second-quarter net income because of one-time gains including a legal settlement and the sale of ... via New York Daily News

News Corp. may pay James Murdoch, the son of Chairman Rupert Murdoch, almost $US20 million this year, following his promotion to chief executive officer of the media company's Europe and Asia operations. via The Sydney Morning Herald

Daily Entertainment Photos - "Get all the fashion, glamour and scandal here in pictures!" The list of presenters for this year's Academy Awards includes the Hannah Montana starlet. via KOST-FM Glendale

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“People are worried ... about what it means and where it will stop”

The New York Times said on Thursday it will eliminate 100 newsroom jobs as the newspaper girds for a weaker economy and an overall decline in print advertising and circulation revenues. via Reuters

“It was a rough year last year, but I would say business got a whole lot tougher at year end and so far this year”

Stressing he still believes Tribune Co.

cannot cut its way to prosperity but citing the impact of 'a weak economy and significant declines in advertising volume at our newspapers,' Chairman and Chief Executive Sam Zell announced cutbacks at the flagship Chicago Tribune and its sister papers Wednesday.

Between those and previously reported reductions at Tribune Co.'s corporate offices, sources said these cuts were likely to eliminate at least 400 to 500 positions companywide, or about 2 percent of its workforce. Zell said Tribune Co.'s broadcasting and interactive divisions, both of which have new leadership as of this week, remain under examination. Read more

A deal has been reached with kidnappers for the release of two CBS News journalists, radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's office in Basra said Wednesday.

Harith al-Ethari, a director of al-Sadr's office in the southern Iraqi city, said negotiations had persuaded the kidnappers to release the British journalist and his Iraqi interpreter later Wednesday.

'We reached an agreement with kidnappers to hand over the Iraqi interpreter to the police command in Basra and the British journalist will be handed over to al-Sadr's office in Basra this afternoon,' al-Ethari told The Associated Press. He did not give a specific time. Read more

Brenda Barnes, chief executive of Downers Grove-based Sara Lee Corp., is stepping down from the board of The New York Times Co. after a decade as a director.

New York Times' directors are elected annually and Barnes decided not to stand for re-election at this spring's annual meeting, Catherine Mathis, a spokeman for the Times, said Tuesday.

'She has significant outside commitments that would make it difficult for her to put in the time,' Mathis said.

Barnes, 53, has been CEO of Sara Lee since February 2005. Prior to joining the foodmaker in July 2004 as chief operating officer, she had been a high-ranking officer at Pepsi-Cola. Read more

“Iraq is the most dangerous country in the world for journalists and the deadliest conflict for the press in recent history. Journalists face incalculable risks in ord er to bring us the news about what is happening on the ground there.”

By KIM GAMEL The Associated Press Monday, February 11, 2008; 9:01 PM BAGHDAD -- Two CBS News journalists were missing in the predominantly Shiite southern city of Basra, the network said Monday. via The Washington Post

For writers, few steps in the publishing process are as strange as the state of suspended animation between submitting a manuscript and seeing the book appear in stores.

These days, a requirement for any nonfiction book proposal is a marketing plan. In your plan, you, the author, must convince an editor there is an eager audience ready to pounce on your book idea once published. Additionally, you must show how you will market the book to this audience.

Following up and renaming this past fall's “Best Recommended List,” this morning the NBCC launched a list of book recommendations now called “NBCC’s Good Reads.”

Explaining that it is possible Barnes & Noble could report negative same-store sales figures in the current year, JP Morgan analyst Charles Grom downgraded the stock to “neutral” from “overweight” yesterday.

“It's a great day for the labor movement. We have suffered a lot of privation in order to achieve what we've achieved”

The Writers Guild of America moved swiftly Sunday toward a resolution of its three-month-old strike, with guild leaders voting unanimously to ask members to decide on ratifying the contract and ending the walkout.

Membership meetings will be held Tuesday to allow writers to decide whether the strike should be brought to an immediate end, said Patric Verrone, president of the guild's West Coast branch.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. Read more

Standard & Poor's Corp. placed Chicago-based Tribune Co. on Creditwatch a day after expressing concern about the entire newspaper industry losing money. via UPI