News: FILE 2011: Andrew Madoff, son of disgraced financier, Bernard Madoff, talks to "60 Minutes" in New York.AP Photo/60 Minutes, File

Andrew Madoff, Bernard Madoff's last surviving son, died of cancer on Wednesday, his lawyer said.

Andrew Madoff and his brother, Mark, both worked on a trading desk at Bernie Madoff's firm, a side of the business that wasn't directly involved in their father's $65 billion Ponzi scheme.

Bernard Madoff was arrested in December 2008. Almost exactly two years later, Mark Madoff hanged himself by a dog leash on a metal ceiling beam in his Manhattan loft apartment, as his 2-year-old son slept in another room.

- Andrew Madoff told People magazine

"One way to think of this is the scandal and everything that happened killed my brother very quickly," Andrew Madoff told People magazine last year. "And it's killing me slowly."

Andrew Madoff, 48, died at a New York City hospital from mantle cell lymphoma, his attorney Martin Flumenbaum said Wednesday.

He was first diagnosed with the rare form of cancer in 2003 but went into remission. He blamed the relapse on the stress of living with his father's scam. The disease returned in October 2012, and he told People magazine that he felt "blindsided."

Andrew Madoff had served as the chairman of the Lymphoma Research Foundation's board of directors until his father's scheme was revealed.

Funeral arrangements will be private.

Title: Bernie Madoff's son Andrew dies of cancer in NYC


News: " says Smithers was color incorrect when he first appeared on the show ... black.

Waylon Smithers' black hue was simply a mistake, but producers didn't have the money to turn him to his intended yellow ... so says

Groening gives an interesting explanation for the error, which was short-lived. It was corrected for Smithers' second appearance in the town of Springfield ... whatever state it's in.

Groening also tells us why all the other characters are yellow ... and it's not what you'd expect.

Title: 'The Simpsons' Creator Matt Groening -- Smithers Was Black By Mistake ... Doh!


News: BANJUL, Gambia — Yahya Jammeh, the president of Gambia, has been defeated in his bid for re-election, a stunning turn for a nation that has lived for more than two decades under what human rights groups have described as a repressive regime.

The electoral commission officially declared Adama Barrow the winner on Friday morning, the day after voters cast ballots, in an upset victory that astonished observers. Mr. Jammeh, who had said he would stay in power for a billion years if God wanted, was expected to make a public statement later on Friday.

Mr. Barrow won 46 percent of the vote, and Mr. Jammeh 37 percent.

People celebrated in the streets, calling it a new era in the West African country, with some chanting, “One Gambia, one love, one family.”

Early in the morning, one of Mr. Jammeh’s cabinet ministers appeared on state television urging Gambians “to go on their normal businesses and stay calm until final results are announced.”

After more than 24 hours of an internet and phone blackout, networks lit up Friday morning as the news that Mr. Jammeh was trailing in the vote count began to trickle out. Gambians overseas who had been too afraid to return under the current president’s rule cheered the news on social media.

Mr. Jammeh seized power during a coup in 1994, and has become known for eccentric behavior that included claiming to be able to cure AIDS with herbs, prayer and a banana. He has been denounced by human rights groups for threatening to behead homosexuals, ordering so-called sorcerers to be hunted and killed, and arresting and prosecuting journalists and supporters of the opposition.

Two opposition protesters have died in custody, including the main opposition party’s national organizing secretary, Solo Sandeng, who was beaten to death at the National Intelligence Agency in April, according to an Amnesty International report.

Mr. Barrow led a coalition of opposition groups that gelled in the final days of the campaign. This week, enthusiasm swept the streets of Banjul, the capital, as people gathered in the hundreds for peaceful protests, crying out for the end to what they said was an oppressive regime.

Mr. Jammeh’s defeat is a rare turn for longtime leaders on the continent. Many leaders have amassed so much power — and often, wealth — through decades of incumbency that they manage to stay in office until death. Other so-called leaders for life have interfered with elections to cling to power.

Mr. Jammeh had himself been accused of keeping power by rigging elections in the past.

Follow Jaime Yaya Barry @jaimetrixx, and Dionne Searcey @dionnesearcey on Twitter.

Jaime Yaya Barry reported from Banjul, and Dionne Searcey from Dakar, Senegal.

Title: Gambia’s President, in Power 22 Years, Loses Election


News: By LEAH CHERNIKOFF DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Wednesday, July 2nd 2008, 1:49 PM

'Friends' may be coming to a theater near you.

The whole gang â Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston (a.k.a. Monica, Joey, Phoebe, Chandler, Ross and Rachel) â is getting back together again on the big screen, according to U.K. paper The Daily Mail.Â Though rumors of a "Friends" movie have circulated ever since the show's finale in 2004, it is the success following the "Sex and the City" movie that has reportedly inspired the actors to start work on the movie version of their successful sitcom within the next 18 months.

Even Aniston, arguably the show's biggest star, who was said to be resistant to the idea of "Friends" on the big screen, has come around after seeing what the "Sex and the City" movie did for Sarah Jessica Parker's career.

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News: FILE 2011: Andrew Madoff, son of disgraced financier, Bernard Madoff, talks to "60 Minutes" in New York.AP Photo/60 Minutes, File

Andrew Madoff, Bernard Madoff's last surviving son, died of cancer on Wednesday, his lawyer said.

Andrew Madoff and his brother, Mark, both worked on a trading desk at Bernie Madoff's firm, a side of the business that wasn't directly involved in their father's $65 billion Ponzi scheme.

Bernard Madoff was arrested in December 2008. Almost exactly two years later, Mark Madoff hanged himself by a dog leash on a metal ceiling beam in his Manhattan loft apartment, as his 2-year-old son slept in another room.

- Andrew Madoff told People magazine

"One way to think of this is the scandal and everything that happened killed my brother very quickly," Andrew Madoff told People magazine last year. "And it's killing me slowly."

Andrew Madoff, 48, died at a New York City hospital from mantle cell lymphoma, his attorney Martin Flumenbaum said Wednesday.

He was first diagnosed with the rare form of cancer in 2003 but went into remission. He blamed the relapse on the stress of living with his father's scam. The disease returned in October 2012, and he told People magazine that he felt "blindsided."

Andrew Madoff had served as the chairman of the Lymphoma Research Foundation's board of directors until his father's scheme was revealed.

Funeral arrangements will be private.

Title: Bernie Madoff's son Andrew dies of cancer in NYC


News: " says Smithers was color incorrect when he first appeared on the show ... black.

Waylon Smithers' black hue was simply a mistake, but producers didn't have the money to turn him to his intended yellow ... so says

Groening gives an interesting explanation for the error, which was short-lived. It was corrected for Smithers' second appearance in the town of Springfield ... whatever state it's in.

Groening also tells us why all the other characters are yellow ... and it's not what you'd expect.

Title: 'The Simpsons' Creator Matt Groening -- Smithers Was Black By Mistake ... Doh!


News: BANJUL, Gambia — Yahya Jammeh, the president of Gambia, has been defeated in his bid for re-election, a stunning turn for a nation that has lived for more than two decades under what human rights groups have described as a repressive regime.

The electoral commission officially declared Adama Barrow the winner on Friday morning, the day after voters cast ballots, in an upset victory that astonished observers. Mr. Jammeh, who had said he would stay in power for a billion years if God wanted, was expected to make a public statement later on Friday.

Mr. Barrow won 46 percent of the vote, and Mr. Jammeh 37 percent.

People celebrated in the streets, calling it a new era in the West African country, with some chanting, “One Gambia, one love, one family.”

Early in the morning, one of Mr. Jammeh’s cabinet ministers appeared on state television urging Gambians “to go on their normal businesses and stay calm until final results are announced.”

After more than 24 hours of an internet and phone blackout, networks lit up Friday morning as the news that Mr. Jammeh was trailing in the vote count began to trickle out. Gambians overseas who had been too afraid to return under the current president’s rule cheered the news on social media.

Mr. Jammeh seized power during a coup in 1994, and has become known for eccentric behavior that included claiming to be able to cure AIDS with herbs, prayer and a banana. He has been denounced by human rights groups for threatening to behead homosexuals, ordering so-called sorcerers to be hunted and killed, and arresting and prosecuting journalists and supporters of the opposition.

Two opposition protesters have died in custody, including the main opposition party’s national organizing secretary, Solo Sandeng, who was beaten to death at the National Intelligence Agency in April, according to an Amnesty International report.

Mr. Barrow led a coalition of opposition groups that gelled in the final days of the campaign. This week, enthusiasm swept the streets of Banjul, the capital, as people gathered in the hundreds for peaceful protests, crying out for the end to what they said was an oppressive regime.

Mr. Jammeh’s defeat is a rare turn for longtime leaders on the continent. Many leaders have amassed so much power — and often, wealth — through decades of incumbency that they manage to stay in office until death. Other so-called leaders for life have interfered with elections to cling to power.

Mr. Jammeh had himself been accused of keeping power by rigging elections in the past.

Follow Jaime Yaya Barry @jaimetrixx, and Dionne Searcey @dionnesearcey on Twitter.

Jaime Yaya Barry reported from Banjul, and Dionne Searcey from Dakar, Senegal.

Title: Gambia’s President, in Power 22 Years, Loses Election


News: By LEAH CHERNIKOFF DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Wednesday, July 2nd 2008, 1:49 PM

'Friends' may be coming to a theater near you.

The whole gang â Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston (a.k.a. Monica, Joey, Phoebe, Chandler, Ross and Rachel) â is getting back together again on the big screen, according to U.K. paper The Daily Mail.Â Though rumors of a "Friends" movie have circulated ever since the show's finale in 2004, it is the success following the "Sex and the City" movie that has reportedly inspired the actors to start work on the movie version of their successful sitcom within the next 18 months.

Even Aniston, arguably the show's biggest star, who was said to be resistant to the idea of "Friends" on the big screen, has come around after seeing what the "Sex and the City" movie did for Sarah Jessica Parker's career.

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News: FILE 2011: Andrew Madoff, son of disgraced financier, Bernard Madoff, talks to "60 Minutes" in New York.AP Photo/60 Minutes, File

Andrew Madoff, Bernard Madoff's last surviving son, died of cancer on Wednesday, his lawyer said.

Andrew Madoff and his brother, Mark, both worked on a trading desk at Bernie Madoff's firm, a side of the business that wasn't directly involved in their father's $65 billion Ponzi scheme.

Bernard Madoff was arrested in December 2008. Almost exactly two years later, Mark Madoff hanged himself by a dog leash on a metal ceiling beam in his Manhattan loft apartment, as his 2-year-old son slept in another room.

- Andrew Madoff told People magazine

"One way to think of this is the scandal and everything that happened killed my brother very quickly," Andrew Madoff told People magazine last year. "And it's killing me slowly."

Andrew Madoff, 48, died at a New York City hospital from mantle cell lymphoma, his attorney Martin Flumenbaum said Wednesday.

He was first diagnosed with the rare form of cancer in 2003 but went into remission. He blamed the relapse on the stress of living with his father's scam. The disease returned in October 2012, and he told People magazine that he felt "blindsided."

Andrew Madoff had served as the chairman of the Lymphoma Research Foundation's board of directors until his father's scheme was revealed.

Funeral arrangements will be private.

Title: Bernie Madoff's son Andrew dies of cancer in NYC


News: " says Smithers was color incorrect when he first appeared on the show ... black.

Waylon Smithers' black hue was simply a mistake, but producers didn't have the money to turn him to his intended yellow ... so says

Groening gives an interesting explanation for the error, which was short-lived. It was corrected for Smithers' second appearance in the town of Springfield ... whatever state it's in.

Groening also tells us why all the other characters are yellow ... and it's not what you'd expect.

Title: 'The Simpsons' Creator Matt Groening -- Smithers Was Black By Mistake ... Doh!


News: BANJUL, Gambia — Yahya Jammeh, the president of Gambia, has been defeated in his bid for re-election, a stunning turn for a nation that has lived for more than two decades under what human rights groups have described as a repressive regime.

The electoral commission officially declared Adama Barrow the winner on Friday morning, the day after voters cast ballots, in an upset victory that astonished observers. Mr. Jammeh, who had said he would stay in power for a billion years if God wanted, was expected to make a public statement later on Friday.

Mr. Barrow won 46 percent of the vote, and Mr. Jammeh 37 percent.

People celebrated in the streets, calling it a new era in the West African country, with some chanting, “One Gambia, one love, one family.”

Early in the morning, one of Mr. Jammeh’s cabinet ministers appeared on state television urging Gambians “to go on their normal businesses and stay calm until final results are announced.”

After more than 24 hours of an internet and phone blackout, networks lit up Friday morning as the news that Mr. Jammeh was trailing in the vote count began to trickle out. Gambians overseas who had been too afraid to return under the current president’s rule cheered the news on social media.

Mr. Jammeh seized power during a coup in 1994, and has become known for eccentric behavior that included claiming to be able to cure AIDS with herbs, prayer and a banana. He has been denounced by human rights groups for threatening to behead homosexuals, ordering so-called sorcerers to be hunted and killed, and arresting and prosecuting journalists and supporters of the opposition.

Two opposition protesters have died in custody, including the main opposition party’s national organizing secretary, Solo Sandeng, who was beaten to death at the National Intelligence Agency in April, according to an Amnesty International report.

Mr. Barrow led a coalition of opposition groups that gelled in the final days of the campaign. This week, enthusiasm swept the streets of Banjul, the capital, as people gathered in the hundreds for peaceful protests, crying out for the end to what they said was an oppressive regime.

Mr. Jammeh’s defeat is a rare turn for longtime leaders on the continent. Many leaders have amassed so much power — and often, wealth — through decades of incumbency that they manage to stay in office until death. Other so-called leaders for life have interfered with elections to cling to power.

Mr. Jammeh had himself been accused of keeping power by rigging elections in the past.

Follow Jaime Yaya Barry @jaimetrixx, and Dionne Searcey @dionnesearcey on Twitter.

Jaime Yaya Barry reported from Banjul, and Dionne Searcey from Dakar, Senegal.

Title: Gambia’s President, in Power 22 Years, Loses Election


News: By LEAH CHERNIKOFF DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Wednesday, July 2nd 2008, 1:49 PM

'Friends' may be coming to a theater near you.

The whole gang â Courteney Cox, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston (a.k.a. Monica, Joey, Phoebe, Chandler, Ross and Rachel) â is getting back together again on the big screen, according to U.K. paper The Daily Mail.Â Though rumors of a "Friends" movie have circulated ever since the show's finale in 2004, it is the success following the "Sex and the City" movie that has reportedly inspired the actors to start work on the movie version of their successful sitcom within the next 18 months.

Even Aniston, arguably the show's biggest star, who was said to be resistant to the idea of "Friends" on the big screen, has come around after seeing what the "Sex and the City" movie did for Sarah Jessica Parker's career.

Title:
Report: 'Friends' movie in the works