City Charter High School, Downtown, has won the Working Hearts May Community Challenge of the Jewish Healthcare Foundation.
Its victory in the physical activity and health competition was announced Tuesday at the school in the Clark Building on Liberty Avenue. As the winner, the school will donate a $2,000 grant from the Jewish Healthcare Foundation to Venture Outdoors and the Three Rivers Rowing Association.
Those two groups were part of a list of wellness-oriented organizations the healthcare group aimed to benefit.
Faculty, staff and students from the privately run City Charter High School raised more than 16,000 points in the month of May. Points were accumulated by performing physical activities, participating in health events and eating properly.
-- Bob Karlovits
Bono, former stylist battle over belongings
Bono wants his hat back. And his earrings. His sweat shirt, too.
Dublin-based rock band U2 went to court Tuesday to recover items from former stylist Lola Cashman, who has a range of memorabilia from her work on their 1987 Joshua Tree world tour.
Bono testified in Dublin Circuit Court that he was "saddened and disgusted" when Cashman tried in 2002 to auction off some of the items, including a cowboy hat, sweat shirt, pants and earrings that he wore during the tour.
U2's lawyers stopped the sale by telling a London auction house that the goods weren't Cashman's to sell. Cashman then filed a lawsuit against the band, alleging defamation of character.
Bono testified that the Stetson was a particular icon of U2's history because the cowboy hat is featured in so many of the band's photos and performances from that period.
Cashman, who testified after Bono left the courtroom, said the singer gave her the hat and earrings as gifts after a concert in Arizona in 1987.
Cashman left the group in 1988 amid arguments over whether she had overcharged for expenses.
-- The Associated Press
'Apprentice' gets down to work
Kendra Todd got down to business as Donald Trump's latest "Apprentice" during her first day of work at the Trump National Golf Club in Briarcliff Manor.
"I'm evaluating both national and international properties for potential golf expansion," Todd said. "Additionally, I'm still juggling the day-to-day operations of MyHouseRE.com, my real estate marketing company based in Palm Beach."
Todd will work at Trump National Golf Club with Trump adviser and Executive Vice President Carolyn Kepcher for three months before returning to Florida to oversee the renovation of Trump's Palm Beach mansion.
"I truly feel like I have won two apprenticeships in one," Todd said. "I've already learned so much from Carolyn in a very short amount of time. She's been very sensitive to the fact that I own my own company and have my own employees to manage."
Todd was selected as Trump's third "Apprentice" during the NBC reality show's live finale last month, winning a $250,000 salary and the chance to learn about business from the real estate mogul.
-- The Associated Press
'Little House' cast reunites for festival
Cast members from "Little House on the Prairie" will reunite this weekend in Tombstone, a town known for its old West roots.
Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls Wilder, is scheduled to reunite with Dean Butler (Almanzo Wilder) and Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson) during the Tombstone Western Film Festival that runs Friday through Monday.
"People watched it, but they didn't want to talk about it," Butler said. "It was almost an embarrassed pleasure."
The show, based on the books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, showed the struggles of the Ingalls family and other pioneers in Walnut Grove. The drama ran from 1974-83.
Butler said the show's longevity was a credit to Michael Landon, who played family patriarch Charles Ingalls.
"Michael Landon understood something about the simple aspirations of everyday people to live a happy life," Butler said. "It was so simple it was genius."
The Tombstone festival will feature screenings of the cast members' favorite episodes and question-and-answer sessions.
- The Associated Press
