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Mother said Josh Powell threatened her
ATLANTA, March 18 (UPI) -- ABC "World News" anchor Diane Sawyer has signed on as host of the upcoming 69th annual George Foster Peabody Awards ceremony in New York.
The event honoring 2009's best in broadcasting is to take place May 17 at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Manhattan.
Sawyer will be the first media personality to emcee a second Peabody ceremony. She presided over the 56th annual awards in 1996. Sawyer also shared in the Peabody Award bestowed upon "Rush to Read," a 1994 investigative report presented by ABC News' "Prime Time Live."
"Diane Sawyer has worked in every facet of broadcast journalism," Horace Newcomb, director of the Peabody Awards at the University of Georgia, said in a statement Thursday. "Now, as anchor of ABC's 'World News,' all her prior experience is brought to bear on the most significant events of our time in the most professional manner. We are delighted that for the second time she will serve as our host and Master of Ceremonies for the 69th Peabody Awards presentation."
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NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
Macaulay Culkin is in "perfectly good health," his publicist said after the former child star was photographed looking gaunt and disheveled in New York.
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TACOMA, Wash., Feb. 9 (UPI) --
The mother of Josh Powell, who killed himself and his sons in a fire in Washington state, said in divorce papers he exhibited disturbing behavior as a teenager.
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
The Israeli government plans to build a floating liquefied natural gas terminal with a sea-based defense radar system off its Mediterranean coast while forming a naval force to protect its rich offshore gas fields against terrorist attack.
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XINXIANG CITY, China, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
A set of parents in China said they expected a large baby, but they were shocked when their son came out weighing a potentially record-setting 15 1/2 pounds.
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