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Deals of the Hour / October 30, 2010, 8:40 pm

Steve Lambert: For Halloween, my top 10 horror flicks

I wouldn't call myself a horror film connoisseur, but I do have a healthy appetite for zombies, vampires and things that go bump in the dark. It started innocently enough during lonely weekend nights as a stay-at-home teenager - wondering if a girl would ... (Source: San Jose Mercury News 2010-10-30T23:55:59Z)

Halloween costumes rules in force for Iowa game

If you plan on wearing a Halloween costume to the Iowa-Michigan State game in Iowa City, university police have special guidelines. University of Iowa police are asking fans not to wear authentic-looking police uniforms or player or game official uniforms ... (Source: Quad-Cities Times 2010-10-29T21:12:31Z)

PATRIOTS NOTEBOOK: Moss no stranger to rookie McCourty

Devin McCourty isn't taking it personally. "It's about going out there as a team," the New England Patriots rookie cornerback said Thursday, looking ahead to this weekend's game with the Minnesota Vikings at Gillette Stadium. "We're focused ... (Source: Patriot Ledger 2010-10-29T02:42:59Z)

Bureaucrats seeing dead people: Coburn report draws attention to federal spending on dead people

Republican Sen. Tom Coburn wants to knife federal spending for dead people. It's not like they'll be hurt by it, right? Just in time for Halloween, Coburn on Friday is releasing a report entitled, "Federal Programs to Die For: American Tax Dollars Se ... (Source: YAHOO! 2010-10-29T06:10:35Z)

Tsunami survivors found in Indonesia; weather hampers aid

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Storms and high waves continued to hamper the delivery of aid relief to tsunami survivors on Indonesia's Mentawai islands Saturday, but rescuers scored one victory when they found alive 135 people who had been missing. The number of ... (Source: Sacramento Bee 2010-10-30T19:38:17Z)

Costume rules for Hawkeye game

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — If you plan on wearing a Halloween costume to the Iowa-Michigan State game in Iowa City, university police have special guidelines. University of Iowa police are asking fans not to wear authentic-looking police uniforms or player ... (Source: Omaha World-Herald 2010-10-30T11:17:12Z)

Vampire lecture kicks off Halloween weekend

BYFIELD — From the "Twilight" books and movie series to the "True Blood" saga, teens and adults alike are drawn to vampires, the dangerously mysterious, yet historically prevalent, characters. So, when the opportunity to engage students at Triton ... (Source: Newburyport Daily News 2010-10-29T07:29:19Z)

Liverpool owner Henry slams talk of star sales

LONDON (AFP) – Liverpool owner John W Henry has hit back at "destructive and unwarranted" speculation that the club are willing to sell some of their top stars. Henry and his New England Sports Ventures group completed their takeover of the Premier ... (Source: Nation 2010-10-30T02:06:01Z)

Gaga and Jersey Shore hot for Halloween

NEW YORK (AP) - Inside a Ricky's NYC store, Lucie Sudmeier selects a Hogwarts uniform from racks filled with sexy pirates, blue Avatar makeup and vampire fangs. "I was going to be a runaway bride, but when I saw this costume, I had to grab it, said the 19 ... (Source: WPRI 2010-10-19T17:56:47Z)

21-year-old Pocatello woman killed by wrong-way driver on I-84

    JEROME, Idaho (AP) — State police say two people are dead after a wrong-way driver caused two separate crashes on Interstate 84.     The crashes occurred shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday near Bliss.     Police say 59-year-old Gabriel Silva of ... (Source: Idaho State Journal 2010-10-30T09:22:40Z)

Top 25 Greatest Halloween Films: #4 – 'The Exorcist' (1973)

The proof of the immortal power of director William Friedkin's triumph is that nearly 40 years after its debut, the story of an innocent twelve year-old girl possessed by Satan remains as bone-chillingly shocking and powerful today as it was then. If ... (Source: Big Hollywood (blog) 2010-10-28T23:01:05Z)

Patriot backs are up

FOXBOROUGH — Patriots rookie cornerback Devin McCourty remembers feeling "kind of nervous'' the first time he lined up against Randy Moss in training camp. About four months ago, McCourty, a first-round pick out of Rutgers, and his fellow defensive ... (Source: Boston Globe 2010-10-30T02:48:58Z)

Halloween costume rules in force for Iowa game

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — If you plan on wearing a Halloween costume to the Iowa-Michigan State game in Iowa City, university police have special guidelines. University of Iowa police are asking fans not to wear authentic-looking police uniforms or player ... (Source: Des Moines Register 2010-10-30T01:23:04Z)

Jersey Shore" Halloween Costumes The Most-Popular Of The Season

" Jersey Shore" Halloween Costumes The Most-Popular Of The Season , A plate of half eaten frog legs, alligator hunting, and fireworks helped close the curtain on the second season of MTV's hit series Jersey Shore — and solidified the Jack & Coke ... (Source: Gather.com 2010-10-27T10:02:01Z)

Hodgson insists talk of spanish exodus from Anfield well wide of mark

Roy Hodgson yesterday joined his new paymasters in rebuffing any notions that Pepe Reina and Fernando Torres will be leaving Liverpool in January and is also comfortable with the idea that he will have to justify any proposed spending to the club's owners ... (Source: Independent 2010-10-30T08:03:56Z)

Federal Eye: GOP report shows nearly $1B paid to 250K dead people

Just in time for Halloween, a new Republican study finds the federal government has paid nearly $1 billion to at least 250,000 dead people since 2000. The aptly timed report, "Federal Programs to Die For: American Tax Dollars Sent Six Feet Under," (see ... (Source: Washington Post 2010-10-30T11:10:02Z)

Devin McCourty Faces Former Challenger and Teammate Randy Moss on Halloween

FOXBORO, Mass. —There were moments during training camp when Patriots rookie cornerback Devin McCourty was starving for a good meal. That's because wide receiver Randy Moss consistently took his lunch and danced all over him every day at practice. Moss ... (Source: NESN.com 2010-10-30T11:52:59Z)

Indonesia's Kepulauan Mentawai Quake Left 23 Dead, Agency Says

Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- A magnitude-7.5 earthquake in Indonesia's Kepulauan Mentawai off western Sumatra yesterday left 23 people dead, the National Disaster Management Agency said in a statement posted on its website. The death toll was as of 3:30 p.m ... (Source: BusinessWeek 2010-10-26T10:03:12Z)

Henry promises to keep stars

New Liverpool co-owner John Henry has promised that he will be buying players, not selling them. In a week where there has been plenty of speculation over the futures of key Liverpool players, Fernando Torres and Pepe Reina, Henry has described the rumours ... (Source: EatSleepSport 2010-10-30T12:07:18Z)

Halloween through local ministers' eyes

It can be hard to see the hallowed (holy) in a holiday filled with vampires, demons, werewolves and every other disgusting manifestation of evil. The Rev. Thomas E. McDaniels is one who cannot. "You have to remember the genesis of it, where it all began ... (Source: Longview News-Journal 2010-10-30T07:49:37Z)

Indonesia's Kepulauan Mentawai Quake Leaves 23 Dead

(Updates with tsunami in second paragraph.) Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- A magnitude-7.5 earthquake that caused a small tsunami in Indonesia's Kepulauan Mentawai region off western Sumatra yesterday left at least 23 people dead and 167 others missing, the ... (Source: BusinessWeek 2010-10-26T10:17:31Z)

Lisa Blount dies at 53; actress starred in 'An Officer and a Gentleman'

Lisa Blount, who played Debra Winger 's best friend in the 1982 movie "An Officer and a Gentleman" and later shared an Academy Award as executive producer of the live-action short film "The Accountant," was found dead in her home in Little Rock , Ark., on ... (Source: Orlando Sentinel 2010-10-29T01:38:34Z)

Lisa Blount Dies

Lisa Blount, an Arkansas-born Academy Award-winning producer and actress, was found dead in her Little Rock home Wednesday by her mother. She was 53. There were no signs of foul play, and Blount appeared to have died on Monday, Pulaski County Coroner ... (Source: People 2010-10-28T14:32:51Z)

Two dead after I-84 wrong-way crashes

Two people are dead after a Buhl man entered Interstate 84 in the wrong lane of travel on Thursday night. Gabriel Silva, 59, of Buhl died at approximately 8:52 p.m. when the 1988 Chevrolet pickup truck he was wrongfully driving eastbound in I-84's ... (Source: Twin Falls Times-News 2010-10-30T07:28:08Z)

Unsettle your Halloween with some Bergman magic

One of Ingmar Bergman 's oddest and most bracing films, and one of his freest in terms of tone, "Ansiktet" — "The Face" in its original Swedish release, more widely known as "The Magician" — reminds us how much Bergman's work owed to simple theatrics ... (Source: Chicago Tribune 2010-10-29T02:57:18Z)

Government paying dead people, Sen. Tom Coburn report says

WASHINGTON — The federal government sent more than $1 billion in payments from various programs to dead people in the past 10 years, according to a new report from U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn . The report — compiled primarily from studies by internal ... (Source: Daily Oklahoman 2010-10-30T15:27:44Z)

Snooki, Gaga and Buzz hot for Halloween this year

Inside a Ricky's NYC store, Lucie Sudmeier selects a Hogwarts uniform from racks filled with sexy pirates, blue Avatar makeup and vampire fangs. "I was going to be a runaway bride, but when I saw this costume, I had to grab it," the 19-year-old said ... (Source: Kansas City Star 2010-10-26T03:15:11Z)

Actress Lisa Blount, memorable for 'An Officer and a Gentleman,' is found dead at 53

Lisa Blount, 53, who played Lynette Pomeroy in the 1982 film "An Officer and a Gentleman" and won an Academy Award for producing the 2001 live-action short film "the accountant," was found dead Wednesday by her mother at her home in Little Rock, Ark., the ... (Source: Los Angeles Times 2010-10-27T23:16:35Z)

Scary classic films set mood for Halloween

The film industry has turned to the likes of the murderous Jason Vorhees , Norman Bates , Freddy Krueger , Count Dracula and other creatures who go bump in the night to scare box office totals ever since Georges Melies 1896 horror film "Le Manoir du diable ... (Source: Times Union 2010-10-29T04:01:44Z)

Wrong way crash kills two on I-84

JEROME -- State police say two people are dead after a wrong-way driver caused two separate crashes on Interstate 84. The crashes occurred shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday near Bliss. Police say 59-year-old Gabriel Silva of Buhl was driving the wrong way in ... (Source: KREM 2010-10-30T15:42:03Z)

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