| Cyndi Lauper charts fun comeback through dance
POP star Cyndi Lauper is planning a chart comeback through dance music, but isn't worried how music listeners will view her change of genre. Lauper, best known for '80s hits Girls Just Want to Have Fun, True Colours and Time After Time will release a dance album this year. Bring You to the Brink was recorded in London, Paris and Sweden, and features collaborations with dance acts Basement Jaxx, Dragonette and the Scumfrog among others. "I wanted a combination of a lot of different rhythms," Lauper explained. "A lot of times in dance music they process the vocals so much you can't connect to it, there's no warmth, you lose the humanity. "So I saw a medium I'd like to work in, but with a voice that's less processed, more human." Lauper, 54, has sold 25 million-plus albums, while Time After Time has been covered by more than 100 acts from Miles Davis to Matchbox Twenty.
Mazzeo to head police department in Northumberland
In July 2006, Mazzeo took a job as a school resource officer at Shawnee Middle School, where a 14-year-old male student accused him of assault in January 2007.
Mazzeo was acquitted by a jury of a charge of simple assault in November 2007. The judge also acquitted him of a summary charge of harassment.
After retiring from Easton, Mazzeo also worked part time for the Catasauqua Police Department in Lehigh County.
Mazzeo was the subject of a lawsuit filed in February 2006 by former traffic clerk Patricia Stasak, who alleged that he sexually harassed her at work while he was lieutenant of the records division in 1999 and 2000. Northampton County Court dismissed the lawsuit because it was not filed within two years of the alleged offenses. Mazzeo's attorney at the time said he was confident Mazzeo would have prevailed had the merits of the case been considered.
U.S. Scrambles to Deal With Bhutto's Death, Repercussions on Efforts ...
FBI and Homeland Security officials sent a bulletin late Thursday to U.S. law enforcement agencies citing Islamist Web sites as saying Al Qaeda had claimed responsibility for the attack and that the group's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, had planned it. .
no mccain for me
On Thursday, at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, Sen. John McCain stood before thousands of conservatives he has done his level best to anger and alienate for a decade -- to ask for their support. And he made a not unconvincing case. What he said essentially was this. We have fought each other in the past, and we have fought side by side. And I admit to having made my share of mistakes. But if we do not work together, we lose the presidency. And if we lose the presidency, your causes will be lost, as well as my last chance to be president. But if you will work with me, many of the causes for which you have fought -- one more justice like Roberts and Alito, retention of the Bush tax cuts, further reductions in tax rates, a more secure border -- will be taken up as the causes of my presidency.
Keammar confident, but thankful
Jamaica's Keammar Daley focuses as he attempts a bicycle kick during the Pan American Games semi-final against Mexico in Rio de Janeiro during July last year. Seeing this young man on the football field, one would never imagine that he is just 19 years old. Poised, prolific and ready to strike, Meadhaven United's star player, Keammar Daley, exuberates class and style way beyond his years. "I have a God-given talent. Football is natural to me," Daley said. His hard work has already started to pay off, as on Tuesday night he was rewarded at the 47th RJR Sports Foundation 2007 Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year awards ceremony for scoring four vital goals that helped to steer the Under-21 Reggae Boyz to a silver medal finish at the Pan American Games in Brazil last year.
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