ENTERTAINMENT
March 26, 2013 | By Jenny Hendrix
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is drawing heat over his choice of ghostwriter for a forthcoming book. As the National Review online reported, Walker will team up with former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen on the book, which according to a source will "tell his story. " The book, which is not yet titled, will be published by Sentinel, an imprint of the Penguin Group. Thiessen, a Washington Post op-ed columnist, supports "enhanced interrogation" in the war against terror, as spelled out in his 2010 book "Courting Disaster.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 26, 2013 | By Maura Dolan
SAN FRANCISCO -- Retired U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker, whose ruling on Proposition 8 led to Tuesday's U.S. Supreme Court hearing, presided over the first federal trial on same-sex marriage. The tall, lanky, white-haired former judge is now in private practice in San Francisco doing mediation and private judging. Walker, 69, retired in February 2011. He was busy mediating a business dispute Tuesday morning but was going to listen to a recording of the arguments and read a transcript later.
SPORTS
March 22, 2013 | By Diane Pucin
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Markel Walker has an adventurer's spirit. She was born in Philadelphia and after her second year of high school moved to Pittsburgh so she could live with her sister. From Pittsburgh she chose to cross the country and play college basketball at UCLA. The 6-foot-1 senior had mapped out a plan. "I wanted to get a good degree and then go back to Philadelphia and open up 'Power Centers,'" Walker said Friday before third-seeded UCLA (25-7) practiced for its first-round NCAA women's basketball tournament game against 14th-seeded Stetson (24-8)
NATIONAL
March 21, 2013 | By Molly Hennessy-Fiske and Jenny Deam
HOUSTON -- A man suspected of trading gunfire with North Texas authorities Thursday and who could be linked to the slaying of Colorado's prisons chief is likely to die, Texas officials said. Wise County Sheriff David Walker said the suspect was being kept alive by machines at a Fort Worth hospital and is “basically legally dead.” “If he survives, he will be charged with attempted capital murder of a police officer,” Walker said at a news briefing in Decatur, about 65 miles northwest of Dallas.
ENTERTAINMENT
January 25, 2013 | Ed Stockly
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 27 - Feb. 2, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies SATURDAY Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC The Chris Matthews Show Clinton and Biden 2016 prospects; Inaugural address: Chuck Todd, NBC; Kathleen Parker, the Washington Post; Kelly O'Donnell, NBC; Chris Frates, National Journal. (N) 5 p.m. KNBC; Sunday 5:30 a.m. KNBC McLaughlin Group (N) 6:30 p.m. KCET SUNDAY Today Hoda Kotb.
NEWS
January 17, 2013 | By Rosemary McClure
Travelers who enjoy Scotch are raising a glass to celebrate the opening of Johnnie Walker House , a new upscale whiskey center in Beijing. The four-level club, which the company calls "the world's largest embassy for luxury Scotch whiskey outside of Scotland," offers rare whiskeys, personalized whiskey blends and culinary fusion pairings provided by in-house chef Phoebe Cleland. The Beijing House is Johnny Walker 's second in China;...