| City pays $20K for 'CNN' infomercial Gumbel files suit to have ads
I believe we have now stopped running the ads, however, and we will endeavor to make sure they are not run again without proper identification." Producers for Encore could not be reached for comment. The Eagle-Tribune left two messages with the company's studio in Florida. The calls were not returned. In the lawsuit, Gumbel claims he was told he was paid $110,000 for doing introductions for "education and news-oriented shows," but instead the generic clips he filmed were used to introduce "time-shares, water treatment, fiber products, windshield repair and magnet therapy." Gumbel's generic introduction of the Lawrence piece is only a few words different from what he uses to introduce "The Economic Report" on Rochester, N.H. "As the cities become more crowded and overpopulated, many areas are luring companies back to their roots by creating a great business environment," Gumbel says in the introduction to the Lawrence broadcast.
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Mexican drug cartel peddles meth, preaches religion
The seminars highlight the acts of charity and piety attributed to La Familia, a cartel notorious for running extortion rackets, corrupting politicians and police forces throughout the western state of Michoacan and manufacturing tons of methamphetamines in clandestine laboratories. Its leaders reputedly pave roads and pay hospital bills in impoverished pueblos, talk up law and order and even preach a homespun version of the gospel from a text authored by a cartel capo that goes by the handle El Mas Loco, or The Craziest One. "These people carry a Bible in the right hand . . . and a gun in the left hand," Larios says. Displays of religiosity are nothing new for Mexico's narcotics kingpins; it's alleged they have donated big to the Catholic Church - a charged denied by church officials - and adore Jesus Malverde, a Robin Hood-like figure they claim as their patron saint.
Celebrating the re-opening of Clove Road after a long-term water
Running from noon to 4 p.m., it featured discount rabies shots for pets, and other deals on veterinary medications, as well as face painting and swag for dogs, including bandannas and Frisbees. Other merchants and restaurant owners also stepped up to offer coupons and gifts, to drum up business again after a particularly difficult few months, when Clove Road was a chopped-up mess of potholes and traffic cones. "We want everybody to know we're still open and you can park and drive here," said Dr. John Sangiorgio of the Veterinary Emergency Center, who estimated his business dropped about 40 percent during construction and is slowly coming back. "I realize [the project] had to be done, but it's a shame it had to happen here. As soon as they opened the road, it started getting better." Most of Clove has already been repaved, and customers can now navigate through the neighborhood, to start shopping again.
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