After 30 years in the military, Roosevelt Dickerson wasn’t looking for a new career challenge. A retired Air Force chief master sergeant, he took some small-time jobs here and there for a few years — nothing too strenuous, nothing too taxing.
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Tyra Banks talks body image, hair on ‘Larry King Live’
Tyra Banks has gone from supermodel to super businesswoman. With her successful TV talk show, “The Tyra Show,” as well as her duties as host/creator and executive producer of “America’s Next Top Model, it would seem that Banks has scant room left on her plate.
Why are some politicians forgiven in sex scandals?
Damning new allegations about former Sen. John Edwards’ extramarital affair are coming out — this time, the claims could spell the end of Edwards’ political career.
Mayweather pays the price for extra weight
Floyd Mayweather Jr will have to pay Juan Manuel Marquez a reported $600,000 after weighing in two pounds too heavy ahead of Saturday night’s welterweight showdown in Las Vegas.
U.S. war veterans at a glance
It was the Brawn team’s fourth one-two finish of the 2009 season.
Federer and Nadal talk up U.S. Open duel
Former world number one, Rafael Nadal, has exclusively told CNN his levels of fitness ahead of the U.S. Open are "better than expected," boosting his chances of becoming only the seventh man in history to win a career grand slam with victory at Flushing Meadows.
Old-school portraits see resurgence online
The art of portraiture, once reserved for the rich, the royal and the holy, has found a new mass appeal online. Some avid social-network users are commissioning artists to create small digital images to represent themselves in the online world.
Prison was ‘a turning point,’ quarterback Vick says
The Philadelphia Eagles welcomed Michael Vick back into the National Football League on Friday after the quarterback spent almost two years in federal prison on a felony dogfighting conviction. Vick, formerly with the Atlanta Falcons, has signed a two-year deal with the Eagles. “I think everybody deserves a second chance,” Vick said at a news conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Friday
Agent: Michael Vick signs with Philadelphia Eagles
Michael Vick, recently reinstated to the NFL after being freed from federal prison after a dogfighting-related conviction, has signed a two-year deal with the Philadelphia Eagles, according to his agent, Joel Segal. The former Atlanta Falcons quarterback reports to Philadelphia on Friday, Segal told CNN. Details of the deal were not immediately available Thursday night
Can Joe Sestak Buck the Odds — and His Party’s Leaders — Against Arlen Specter?
On paper, perhaps, Congressman Joe Sestak seems to be on a quixotic mission — to unseat Arlen Specter, a 30-year incumbent Senator who is arguably the most successful politician in Pennsylvania history.