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Legalboxer
Member
11-17-2003
| Monday, July 06, 2009 - 11:47 am
I truly thin Steve McNair would not of registered the new car in both their names and bailed her out of jail last week - thus making his name so publicly connected with her - if it was an "affair"... until we know more i dont want to jump to any conclusions but, at least right now, it really seems like Steve was already separated from his wife even if it was not publicly known.... the one thing i can say definitively is, this loss is hitting me much greater then any of the others the last 2 weeks, given the TOTAL shock of it...
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Monday, July 06, 2009 - 11:58 am
How very sad. One of the articles I read said they were found by a friend that he rents the apartment with. So I was very confused why he's renting an apartment with a friend when he's still married. It sounds like a very strange arrangement for sure. Glad to hear it wasn't drugs. But I must say there's not a man around worth shooting oneself in the head over. Tragic.
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Holly
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, July 06, 2009 - 12:06 pm
Too true, Brenda, too true!
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-31-2000
| Monday, July 06, 2009 - 12:10 pm
When you shoot yourself in the head, you drop the gun before you fall. So yes, it's more likely that it was a murder suicide because the gun was underneath her. Also, the apartment door was locked when his friend arrived (from the inside). It's still possible that it was a double homicide, but it doesn't seem likely.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, July 06, 2009 - 12:12 pm
Apparently the friend who discovered them waited 35 minutes to call the cops. He said he didn't notice them (?!) when he came into the apartment.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Monday, July 06, 2009 - 12:54 pm
Can you imagine?! Yikes. That would be so scary to stumble onto that.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Monday, July 06, 2009 - 7:23 pm
It would also be time enough to mess with the crime scene.. and he didn't call the cops, but he called someone else who then called the cops.
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Gidget
Member
07-28-2002
| Saturday, July 11, 2009 - 8:31 pm
Arturo Gatti, dead at 37.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 8:17 am
?
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Mack
Member
07-23-2002
| Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 8:39 am
Arturo Gatti was a professional fighter and once the junior welterweight champion. As I recall he retired a couple of years ago.
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Erniesgirl
Member
06-26-2006
| Sunday, July 12, 2009 - 4:13 pm
His wife has been taken into custody. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/box_gatti_death;_ylt=Al_qyN359aELlY_wXUyz5nQDW7oF
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 9:49 pm
Apparently she strangled Gatti with the atrap of her purse.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, July 17, 2009 - 5:29 pm
Walter Cronkite, Iconic Anchorman, Dies NY Times Walter Cronkite, an iconic CBS News journalist who defined the role of anchorman for a generation of television viewers, died Friday at the age of 92, his family said. “My father Walter Cronkite died,” his son Chip said just before 8 p.m. Eastern. CBS interrupted prime time programming to show an obituary for the man who defined the network’s news division for decades. Mr. Cronkite’s family said last month that he was seriously ill with cerebrovascular disease. Mr. Cronkite anchored the “CBS Evening News” from 1962 to 1981, at a time when television became the dominant medium of the United States. He figuratively held the hand of the American public during the civil rights movement, the space race, the Vietnam war, and the impeachment of Richard Nixon. During his tenure, network newscasts were expanded to 30 minutes from 15. “It is impossible to imagine CBS News, journalism or indeed America without Walter Cronkite,” Sean McManus, the president of CBS News, said in a statement. “More than just the best and most trusted anchor in history, he guided America through our crises, tragedies and also our victories and greatest moments.” Mr. McManus added: “No matter what the news event was, Walter was always the consummate professional with an un-paralleled sense of compassion, integrity, humanity, warmth, and occasionally even humor. There will never be another figure in American history who will hold the position Walter held in our minds, our hearts and on the television. We were blessed to have this man in our lives and words cannot describe how much he will be missed by those of us at CBS News and by all of America.” Mike Wallace, the “60 Minutes” correspondent emeritus, said simply in a statement, “We were proud to work with him — for him — we loved him.” [...] RIP Mr Cronkite.
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Friday, July 17, 2009 - 5:34 pm
Very sad
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Friday, July 17, 2009 - 7:10 pm

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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 10:52 am
I grew up watching Walter as we watched him every night at 7 PM after watching the Canadian News at 6 PM. I remember when he covered Neil Armstrong landing on the moon and Nixon as well as Watergate. He will be missed. I watched the CNN coverage last night.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Saturday, July 18, 2009 - 12:36 pm
They just showed an interview with him where he was reminiscing about being in Pittsburgh for the opening of the first nuclear power plant which was in Shippensport, PA. He said he stood outdoors atop Mt. Washington for two hours doing his report. He was freezing to death. He said he was eternally grateful to a waitress from a local restaurant who kept bringing him coffee. He smiled and said that it was "laced with a little something." I liked him.
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Ophiliasgrandma
Member
09-04-2001
| Sunday, July 19, 2009 - 6:01 pm
Last update: July 19, 2009 - 7:44 PM NEW YORK - Frank McCourt, the beloved raconteur and former public school teacher who enjoyed post-retirement fame as the author of "Angela's Ashes," the Pulitzer Prize-winning "epic of woe" about his impoverished Irish childhood, died Sunday of cancer. McCourt, who was 78, had been gravely ill with meningitis and recently was treated for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer and the cause of his death, said his publisher, Scribner. He died at a Manhattan hospice, his brother Malachy McCourt said
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Mamie316
Member
07-08-2003
| Sunday, July 19, 2009 - 7:16 pm
Very sad, my thoughts go out to his family. I loved Angela's Ashes. It's a book that has stayed long with me after reading it.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Sunday, July 19, 2009 - 7:32 pm
OG, Mamie, I am heartbroken over his passing. (I've seen the film, read his books, and even read his brother's book.) Yes, very sad. 
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Wink
Member
10-06-2000
| Sunday, July 19, 2009 - 9:34 pm
May the road rise up to meet you Mr. McCourt. You were a treasure.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Monday, July 20, 2009 - 7:58 am
I also loved Frank McCourt. He will be missed.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Monday, July 20, 2009 - 7:04 pm
I am so very thankful I had the opportunity to hear him speak last fall, and I will always treasure my copy of Teacher Man that he so graciously signed.
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Mameblanche
Member
08-24-2002
| Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 8:01 am
Teach, I envy you, you are very lucky to have had that wonderful experience. I admired him soooo much. A true survivor who really lived to pay-it-forward.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 10:07 am
He was hilarious to listen to, and yet he was also extremely inspiring. His final story of the night was somehow both. This is the story (paraphrased): "After teaching 30 years, you're bound to run into students. One afternoon I was walking in NYC and heard my name called. "Hey, Mr. McCourt - It's me, Petie - remember me?" "Yes, Petie, I remember you." "Yeah? I was in your class." "Yes, Petie, I remember." "You know, Mr. McCourt, it was because of your English class I became a writer." "Really, Petie? That's nice." "Yeah, Mr. McCourt, a writer. You know what writers make? Yeah, Mr. McCourt - F**K YOU!" And he walked off the stage. It was hilarious! The man could say anything in that lovely Irish accent, and all the uptight mid-westerners would still laugh. (I was ROFLMAO - but even more so because of the many gasps I heard around me!)
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