Archive for January, 2009
Focusing on the homeless – LDS Man writes new Book
By Doug Robinson Deseret News For a man who drives two top-of-the-line Mercedes, owns three homes and serves as CEO of a Fortune 500 company, Lynn Blodgett seems an unlikely advocate for the homeless. But when your brother has died at your side and two other siblings have died young, the empathy for others’ misfortunes [...]
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Girls Basketball Team Regrets Winning 100-0, Seeks Forfeit
DALLAS — A Texas high school girls basketball team on the winning end of a 100-0 game has a case of blowout remorse.
Pennsylvania man scammed hundreds by forging famous signatures on books to sell online, federal investigators say
List of luminaries
A Reading man is accused of forging these names and others on books to sell online:
Truman Capote, Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, John Irving, Norman Mailer, James Michener, Annie Proulx, Anne Rice, Philip Roth, Leon Uris, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Wolfe
Brent Ashworth of Provo, UT rare book Dealer uncovers lost journal of Mormon Apostle
January 22nd, 2009 @ 6:40pm By Carole Mikita of KSL A rare-documents collector in Provo says he has found the so-called “lost journal” of William McLellin — an early, controversial Latter-day Saint church leader. The document was at the center of the fascinating murder and forgery saga of Mark Hofmann two decades ago. Latter-day Saint [...]
The Forgotten Warrior by Kathi Oram Peterson
Title: The Forgotten Warrior Author: Kathi Oram Peterson Publisher: Covenant Communications Genre: Fiction Year Published: 2009 Number of Pages: 257 Binding: Quality Paperback ISBN10: 1-59811-551-0 ISBN13: 978-1-59811-551-2 Price: $15.95 Reviewed by Jeffrey Needle Historical fiction is a tricky genre, even when written by an accomplished writer/historian. Time travel novels are even trickier, even when attempted [...]
McLellin journal finally is located by Local Book Dealer – Brent Ashworth
By Michael De Groote Deseret News PROVO — Brent Ashworth found a long-lost notebook of one of the earliest and most controversial general authorities of the LDS Church. The rediscovery of what Ashworth believes is a notebook of William E. McLellin, an excommunicated Mormon apostle, also brings closure to a central part of the forgery [...]
Supreme Court Kills Internet Pornography Law
WASHINGTON — The government lost its final attempt Wednesday to revive a federal law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet. The Supreme Court said it won’t consider reviving the Child Online Protection Act, which lower federal courts struck down as unconstitutional. The law has been embroiled in court [...]
Michigan Postal Worker Hoarded Thousands of Pieces of Mail Instead of Delivering Them
DETROIT — There were jokes and snickers at a Michigan post office when customers learned that an overwhelmed carrier had rented a storage unit to hide thousands of pieces of mail.
Review and comparison of two books on Emma by Harlow S. Clark
Title: Beloved Emma: The Illustrated History of Emma Smith Author: Lori E. Woodland, Ill. by Liz Lemon Swindle Publisher: Salt Lake, Deseret Book, 2008 Genre: Biography Year Published: 2008 Number of Pages: 194w Binding: Perfect Hardbound ISBN10: ISBN13: 978-1-59038-828-0 Price: $24.95 Title: Mormon Enigma: Emma Hale Smith Author: Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery [...]