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What’s another 25 years when you’re already serving a life sentence? Fotios “Freddy” Geas — the ex-Mafia enforcer already serving a life sentence — was given an additional 25 years by a judge Friday for bludgeoning notorious New England crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger to death inside a federal prison in 2018. He pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and assault resulting in serious bodily injury for the brutal attack on Bulger. Geas had been behind bars since 2011 for multiple crimes, including the 2003 killing of Genovese crime boss Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno. Prosecutors said Geas repeatedly battered the 89-year-old...

Al Molinaro, who played the beloved chef at the drive-in on "Happy Days" ... died in a Wisconsin hospital on Thursday. Molinaro's son confirmed the actor's death ... telling us he had very bad gall stones, but Al elected not to have surgery due to his age. He was 96.  On "Happy Days" he played Big Al Delvecchio, who started out as the chef at Arnold's Drive-In. He eventually became owner of the Fonz's fave hangout, and remained on the show for 10 years. Molinaro also played the Big Al role on the spinoff, "Joanie Loves Chachi." His character would...

The Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office confirmed today that a woman who alleged unwanted sexual contact by Al Gore reported it to police in 2006, and the prosecutor’s office was briefed by the Portland Police Bureau in late 2006 and January 2007. “We were told the woman was not willing to be interviewed by the Portland Police Bureau and did not want a criminal investigation to proceed,’’ Multnomah County District Attorney Michael Schrunk said, in a prepared statement. Today, as the National Enquirer reported that it had interviewed a Portland masseuse who complained of unwanted sexual contact by the former...

Al "It's the Jews' fault" Sharpton spoke today at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, sponsored by the College Democrats and State Rep. Yaphett El-Amin, D-Dist. 57. Rep. El-Amin introduced him, after the usual tirade about "Bush spending on war instead of keeping schools open", referring to the recent school closings at the St. Louis public school district. Then, Fat Al gave his speech. First, he gave his campaign promises: Repealing Bush's "tax cuts for the wealthy", and give healthcare, education and jobs to the poor. Then he spoke about how President Bush "misled us" into this war, and how he...

The Rev. Al Sharpton, the bombast from New York who is a 2004 White House hopeful, is trying to win the endorsement of the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. I bet he will not get it. But Sharpton, a second-tier long-shot candidate, is trying hard. The centerpiece of Sharpton's platform was adapted from the writings of Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.). Sharpton supports the lawmaker's drive for constitutional amendments to guarantee equality in public education, health care and voting rights. Sharpton's entry into the 2004 presidential race adds an interesting chapter to the history of Sharpton and Jackson Sr.'s long-running,...

WASHINGTON - The number of people living in high poverty neighborhoods declined during the 1990s as the economic boom lifted incomes, studies by two liberal-leaning think tanks found. At decade's end, about 8 million people were in neighborhoods in which at least 40 percent of the residents lived in poverty, according to the Brookings Institution. That was 24 percent less than in 1990. People found better-paying jobs or those with higher incomes moved into the neighborhoods and reduced the poverty level, rolling back increases from the previous two decades. "This is a stunning reversal," Bruce Katz, head of the Center...

CONFIDENTIAL MEMO DATE. September 26, 2002 TO: Senator Tom Dachshund FROM Barbra Streisand/Margery Tabankin RE. Your fantabulous speech! As all the world is aware, Brbara Streisand is preparing for her ninth-annual farewell tour, as well as finishing her first-ever, all-by-herself reading of “Green Eggs and Ham,” so she ordered me to “shut the hell up and write down what I want you tell that little guy on the television, you filthy worthless peasant!” Naturally, Brabra's not surprised to see the Busch administration say mean things about peoples of color and those who are less heterosexual than the magority. They’ve always...