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LAS VEGAS - A retired Elvis impersonator helped Las Vegas police nab a man suspected of stealing more than $300,000 worth of memorabilia from the Elvis-A-Rama museum, authorities said Wednesday. Duke Adams, a 62-year-old "older-era Elvis," said he was approached while in line at a pharmacy by a man offering to sell him items once owned by Elvis Presley, including jewelry, clothing and the king's revolver. Remembering the March 2004 burglary, Adams said he asked the man to stop by his business the next day. Adams went home and called police. Authorities arrested Eliab Aguilar on Nov. 3. after the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ten years after he was acquitted of killing his ex-wife and her friend, O.J. Simpson was back in Los Angeles - autographing sports memorabilia for people attending a horror movie convention. Simpson acknowledged it felt "strange" to be signing autographs in such venue, but said it didn't occur to him that the date nearly coincided with the 10th anniversary of his Oct. 3, 1995, acquittal on charges of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. "I don't keep these dates in my head," Simpson told The Associated Press on Friday as he...

WHEN ELVIS PRESLEY STROLLED onto the stage for his last performance, there was something different about him. His face had swelled, and his gut was pregnant with obesity. His hair and signature sideburns overran his head and face, and his movements, karate kicks, and hip swivels, were no longer crisp or energetic. He could still sing--he never lost that--and he still had a charismatic stage presence, and he could still send fans into a frenzy. But for years leading up to his death, it seemed the brightness that once shone from this superstar came more from his sequin-adorned jumpsuits than...

Saddam memorabilia on sale in Baghdad Baghdad, Iraq Press, February 23, 2004 – Iraqis know a lot about the fabulous palaces the former leader Saddam Hussein built for himself and his family. But they have little knowledge about his personal belongings. Saddam Hussein was rumored to have had hundreds of expensive hats of different shapes and sizes. His suits, coats, shoes and shirts were said to be of the most expensive type Italian, French or British boutiques offered. A collection of these items is now for sale in the al-Amil District in Baghdad. The organizer and owner of the memorabilia...

Pictures from The Gathering The Gathering” reunion of Vietnam transportation veterans will be at Fort Eustis Wednesday-June 15. The Transportation Museum will provide a hospitality room for the veterans to visit and display their memorabilia. “The Gathering” provides the Vietnam veterans an opportunity to return to the home of the Transportation Corps and a chance for current transporters to learn from people who helped write an important chapter in Transportation Corps history. For more information, call 878-2856/1115. The public is invited, and it runs through Sunday, 15 June. If you are in the Hampton Roads area this weekend, and...

<p>Activists on Friday asked the Internet auction site eBay to stop listing items they say are racially offensive and demeaning to blacks.</p> <p>The Southern California groups said eBay is violating its own policy that discourages sellers from listing items that promote racial intolerance.</p>

A baseball signed by all three political Bushes will be auctioned at this Thursday's "Tommy Glavine's Spring Training" annual charity fund-raising event. My wife is a kidney transplant recipient (she is the poster child for transplant success; thanks for asking). As a result of this experience, we are involved with the Georgia Transplant Foundation, and are sponsors for their annual fund raising event, which is described in more detail at the URL above. Last Thursday, we attended a pre-event function for sponsors, at which several of the items to be auctioned this Thursday were displayed. Among many interesting items was...

Posted on Mon, Apr. 22, 2002 It's now or never to sell Elvis By DAVID M. HALBFINGERThe New York Times MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The King may be immortal, but his fans are not. That is the essence of the problem facing the Elvis industry, which has hummed along quite nicely without him for 25 years, selling and reselling songs, movies, posters, books, clothing and every other imaginable form of merchandise, souvenir and retail experience related to or inspired by the King of Rock 'n' Roll. The cashing-in is about to crest this year, the 25th anniversary of Elvis Presley's...