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(CBS/AP) – Sports car fans, rev up your wallets. Sheryl Crow is selling her 1959 Mercedes-Benz 190SL Roadster, and it’s all for a good cause. The Grammy award-winning singer said Monday that’s she is auctioning of the classic car next month, with proceeds benefiting the tornado-ravaged city of Joplin in her native state of Missouri. Pictures: Sheryl CrowPictures: Joplin tornado The 49-year-old told The Springfield New-Leader that she loves the car and has had it for 동해출장업소 six years, but doesn’t drive it anymore. “Like everybody else in America, the coverage of the devastation in Joplin was just heart-rending,” Crow said. “We wanted to figure out a way to create some funds that were immediate, and I looked around me and I thought about the Mercedes because I love the car and have such great memories, but I don’t drive the car anymore.” “It was the car I always dreamed of owning, so it’s bittersweet to...

(AP) BEIJING – Four senior Chinese police officers went on trial Friday on accusations they helped the wife of one of the country’s highest-profile politicians cover up the murder of a British businessman in a scandal that has shaken the highest levels of leadership. The case was heard in the same court in eastern China’s Anhui province where the murder case against Gu Kailai finished in less than a day Thursday. Hefei Intermediate People’s Court clerk Zhang Li confirmed the officers’ trial was being held but gave no details. Gu, the wife of Bo Xilai, the disgraced former Communist Party boss of the western city of Chongqing, 꽁 머니 토토 did not contest the charges against her, court officials said. The verdict against her and a family aide also charged with murder was expected soon. A guilty verdict is all but assured and carries the potential punishment of 10 years in prison up to a death sentence. Murder trial for fallen China pol wraps in a dayExpert: China murder trial “just theater”China politician’s wife charged with murder The four Chongqing officers are accused of helping Gu cover up her actions during an investigation into business associate Neil Heywood’s death last November, the official Xinhua News Agency said. It named them as Guo Weiguo, a former deputy chief of Chongqing’s Public Security Bureau, Li Yang, Wang Pengfei and Wang Zhi....

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(CBS/AP) DAYTON, Ohio – Author Barbara Kingsolver, a leader in the literature of social change, will be the first recipient of the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. The award, previously known as the Dayton Literary Peace Prize’s lifetime achievement award, has been renamed in honor of the late Ambassador U.N. Richard Holbrooke. First given in 2006, the prize honors authors whose works promote peace. It was inspired by the Dayton peace accords on Bosnia brokered by Holbrooke in 1995 negotiations at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton in southwest Ohio. Founder Sharon Rab says the prize organization wanted to honor Holbrooke’s international role in seeking peace and his special importance to Dayton. The longtime U.S. diplomat died last December at age 69 following surgery on his torn aorta. Kingsolver, 56 will receive award on Nov. 13. The novelist and poet is best known for https://www.queen888.club her books “The Poisonwood Bible,” a story of a missionary family in the Congo, and “The Lacuna” about a Mexican-American who runs afoul of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s. Kingsolver has won numerous writing awards and her “The Poisonwood Bible,” was on the Pulitzer Prize’s short...

(AP) CARACAS, Venezuela – President Hugo Chavez announced Thursday that Venezuelan security forces have arrested a U.S. citizen and suspect he is a mercenary who could be involved in an alleged plot to destabilize the country if the opposition’s candidate loses the upcoming presidential election. Chavez said the Hispanic man was detained Aug. 4 while crossing into Venezuela from Colombia. The president said the man was carrying a U.S. passport with entrance and exit stamps from countries including Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya as well as a notebook containing geographical coordinates. The man’s identity was not released. Chavez did not say where he was being interrogated. An official from the U.S. Embassy in Caracas did not answer repeated telephone calls seeking comment on Chavez’s announcement. “He has all the appearance of a mercenary,” Chavez said, speaking during a campaign rally in the coastal state of Vargas. “We are interrogating him.” The man tore up part of the notebook in his possession when he was detained, Chavez said. Chavez suggested, without offering evidence, the American might have been recruited by government opponents to instigate violent protests if opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles loses the Oct. 7 election. Chavez has repeatedly vowed to win re-election and continue trying to steer Venezuela toward socialism. The president has repeatedly claimed the opposition plans to accuse election officials of rigging the vote and refuse to...