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There's an anecdote from the early days of television: A breathless champion of the new medium is explaining its virtues to a lifelong radio enthusiast. "It's like radio with pictures!" the TV person says. To which the radio person replies: "Pictures of what?"

The mayor of Central Falls, R.I., which sought bankruptcy protection last year, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal corruption charge in connection with accepting gifts from a longtime political supporter who received no-bid contracts, officials announced Wednesday. The case was the second recent action by federal prosecutors against officials in small Northeast cities. Earlier, this month, officials charged the mayor of Trenton, N.J. , his brother and an associate with corruption in connection with a parking garage project.

Houston Mayor Kathy Whitmire was installed Wednesday as the new president of the Conference of Mayors at the conclusion of the group's five-day meeting here. Whitmire succeeds Mayor Arthur J. Holland of Trenton, N.J.

Trenton, N.J., Mayor Tony Mack -- aka “Napoleon,” “the Little Guy” and “Honey Fitz” -- was released on bond Monday after his arrest earlier in the day on a federal corruption charge , the result of a two-year probe into alleged kickbacks taken in connection with a purported development project.  Mack, whose administration has been hammered by corruption and incompetence accusations since he was elected in 2010, did not speak as...

Police were investigating the death Sunday morning of the estranged wife of professional basketball player Darryl Dawkins. Trenton police said Kelly Barnes Dawkins, 28, died between midnight Saturday and 11:45 a.m. Sunday. Mrs. Dawkins, whose family lives in Trenton, was pronounced dead on arrival at 12:26 p.m. Sunday at Mercer Medical Center. Dawkins, who was traded by the New Jersey Nets to the Utah Jazz on Oct.

"I remember reading in my youth a small book ? 'The Life of Washington' ? and of all his struggles none fixed itself on my mind so indelibly as the crossing of the Delaware preceding the Battle of Trenton?" ? Abraham Lincoln, Feb. 21, 1861 George Washington was the Father of Our Country and our first president. Before he was president, he was Gen. George Washington, the commander in chief of the Continental Army and a wealthy landowner. He led America to a military victory over Great Britain ?

A New Jersey teen-ager kidnaped two years ago while walking to school sobbed uncontrollably while describing her ordeal today and then bolted from an FBI news conference on the arms of two sisters. Cheryl Cramer, 16, was rescued Monday and her alleged abductor, John Stanley Sykora, 32, taken into custody at a Miami Beach apartment building where they had been living.

Prosecutors in the Randy Steven Kraft murder trial say a paper with 61 entries, found in his car trunk when he was arrested May 14, 1983, is a death list--Kraft's own score card of how many young men he had killed dating back to late 1971. Kraft's attorneys deny it is a death list, and call it meaningless information that will only inflame his jury. Kraft himself, in a 1983 interview, called the list nothing more than references to friends of his and his roommate at the time.

SCHOOL: Reseda SPORT: Basketball YEAR: Senior SEASON AT A GLANCE: Reseda is off to a 10-0 start and Cross has led the charge. But that's no surprise. The returning All-City Section point guard averaged 21.8 points as a junior, which helped land him a scholarship to Cal State Northridge. Although Reseda has two transfers with double-figure scoring averages, Cross is averaging 18.7 points.

FBI agents on Thursday raided City Hall in Trenton, N.J., as part of an investigation into corruption. “We have executed search warrants on various offices pursuant to an ongoing investigation,” FBI spokeswoman Barbara Woodruff said in a telephone interview with the Los Angeles Times. She would not give any details about the nature of the investigation. Trenton Mayor Tony F. Mack, whose home was searched Wednesday by the FBI, defended himself. “I have not violated my duties or the public trust and have no further comment on this matter,”  Mack said in a statement posted on the city's website.

Trenton, N.J., Mayor Tony Mack -- a.k.a. "Napoleon," "the Little Guy" and "Honey Fitz" -- was arrested and charged with corruption Monday following a two-year federal probe into kickbacks allegedly taken by city officials in connection with a development project. A 31-page complaint also accuses two other men -- the mayor's brother, Ralphiel Mack, and Joseph A. Giorgianni (a.k.a. "the Fat Man," among other monikers) -- of demanding $119,000 in payments from a man they thought was vying to build a parking garage in Trenton, the state capital.

FBI agents on Thursday raided City Hall in Trenton, N.J., as part of an investigation into corruption. “We have executed search warrants on various offices pursuant to an ongoing investigation,” FBI spokeswoman Barbara Woodruff said in a telephone interview with the Los Angeles Times. She would not give any details about the nature of the investigation. Trenton Mayor Tony F. Mack, whose home was searched Wednesday by the FBI, defended himself. “I have not violated my duties or the public trust and have no further comment on this matter,”  Mack said in a statement posted on the city's website.

The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict A novel Trenton Lee Stewart Little, Brown: 470 pp., $17.99, ages 8 and up Nicholas Benedict is best known to readers as a kindly father figure in Trenton Lee Stewart's bestselling "Mysterious Benedict Society" series. In the author's new prequel, fans finally get the back story on the narcoleptic genius, long before he placed the newspaper ad that sought four gifted orphans to help him save the world. Set decades earlier in the same rural locale, the books' namesake is just 9 years old in "The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict.

"I remember reading in my youth a small book ? 'The Life of Washington' ? and of all his struggles none fixed itself on my mind so indelibly as the crossing of the Delaware preceding the Battle of Trenton?" ? Abraham Lincoln, Feb. 21, 1861 George Washington was the Father of Our Country and our first president. Before he was president, he was Gen. George Washington, the commander in chief of the Continental Army and a wealthy landowner. He led America to a military victory over Great Britain ?

Event organizer Cindy Rakowitz positions a gorgeous twentysomething in a bikini bottom and body paint outside the Backstage Cafe in Beverly Hills. Nearby, Jim "Poorman" Trenton -- the dreadlocked surferdude host of the TV show "Poorman's Bikini Beach" and sponsor of this evening's "Governor's Ball" -- gathers reporters and his posse of bikini babes and shows them some newly developed snapshots. "I visited kitchens in L.A., and look!

Postal inspectors are searching for a letter sent to a Bronx address near the home of a woman who died of anthrax, after they determined it was processed at the same time as an anthrax-laced letter mailed Oct. 9 to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), officials said Sunday. The letter in question is one of about 300 being tracked by postal authorities who have used bar codes to reconstruct which pieces of mail passed through a sorter at the Trenton, N.J., postal hub within seconds of the Leahy letter.

The mayor of Central Falls, R.I., which sought bankruptcy protection last year, has agreed to plead guilty to a federal corruption charge in connection with accepting gifts from a longtime political supporter who received no-bid contracts, officials announced Wednesday. The case was the second recent action by federal prosecutors against officials in small Northeast cities. Earlier, this month, officials charged the mayor of Trenton, N.J. , his brother and an associate with corruption in connection with a parking garage project.

Arthur J. Holland, mayor of Trenton, N.J. for nearly three decades and recent president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, died Thursday of cancer in a Trenton hospital. He was 71. Shortly after Holland ended his term as president of the conference in June, the nationwide group gave him its highest honor, the Distinguished Public Service Award. Previous recipients included Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley.

After a three-month silence, "Anti-Radio" returns to the airwaves today,with host/originator Jim "Poorman" Trenton shelling out even more now than he did last summer to promote music by acts that are unsigned or record for independent labels. Trenton said he made a profit buying air time and selling his own ads for the show's 12-week run on KPLS-AM (830) last summer. He said that ended when the Orange County station was sold to a religious broadcaster.

Chapman may have been the top-seeded and top-ranked team as well as defending champion, but Trenton (N.J.) State finished the NCAA Division III softball tournament as champion with a convincing 7-2 victory Sunday at the Moyer Sports Complex. Well-rested and seeded second, Trenton State was playing its third game of the tournament. Chapman, playing its fifth game in three days and third game in 20 hours, had to beat the Lions twice on another hot and humid day to repeat as champions.