ENTERTAINMENT EXTRA

ENTERTAINMENT EXTRA
Playing the gamefor a nomination
k IT'S THAT time of year when actors, actresses and other film-industry types play the nomination game in search of coveted inclusion among this year's batch of Academy Award nominees.
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SPORTS
Valley hockey teamnames manager
j GRANT BUCKBOROUGH, who helped build a Central Hockey League franchise in Texas, was introduced Wednesday as the general manager for Youngstown's new franchise. The minor-league team will begin play later this year in the downtown convocation center.
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NATION
Senate panel OKsCondoleezza Rice
k THE SENATE Foreign Relations Committee voted Wednesday to confirm Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state after two days of hearings in which she faced strenuous Democratic assaults.
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LOCAL
Trumbull merger
kTHE MERGER of two Trumbull County departments -- the Child Support Enforcement Agency and the Department of Job and Family Services -- would create an agency with five distinct purposes.
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Driver charged withDUI in fatal crash
k CAMPBELL POLICE arrested a Youngstown woman on a drunken driving charge in connection with a crash this week that killed her sister.
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SOCIETY
Fashion faux pasfor '05: pantyhose
k HERE'S A NEWS flash for women not in the know: Traditional pantyhose, the longtime staple of women's chic, have gone out of style.
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BUSINESS
GM profits tumble
k RISING HEALTH-CARE costs and lingering struggles in its European operations helped drive down General Motors Corp.'s profit by 37 percent in the fourth quarter of 2004.
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