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Historical Wikinews report from 2010-08-30. Week one of the Gippsland Football League (Gippsland League, GL) finals was played over the weekend at the Traralgon and Wont
Historical Wikinews report from 2008-08-07. Across Easter weekend Wellington, New Zealand was host to Rock2Wgtn, an international two-day hard rock festival. Large crowd
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-03-06. Friday, Fennville, Michigan high school athlete Wes Leonard, 16 years old, suddenly collapsed on the basketball court after m
Historical Wikinews report from 2007-09-13. Jon Stewart is to return as host of the Academy Awards. It will be the second time he has hosted the awards, having first don
Historical Wikinews report from 2018-07-15. Yesterday, English football club Chelsea FC announced signing Maurizio Sarri as the club's new coach. The Italian coach has s
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-06-20. Clarence Clemons, soulful saxophonist most famed for his forty years as a sideman in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, died
Historical Wikinews report from 2006-09-02. Singing group At Last was recently a finalist in America's Got Talent, covering songs like "Let's Stay Together" and "Ain't N
Historical Wikinews report from 2008-09-22. Julie Ditty won the singles title of the ColemanVision Tennis Championship in Albuquerque, New Mexico, defeating No. 1 seeded
Historical Wikinews report from 2009-12-28. The release of the movie Avatar, written and directed by James Cameron, has generated increased interest in the field of cons
Historical Wikinews report from 2009-09-20. Traralgon were defeated by Maffra in the West Gippsland Latrobe Football League (WGLFL) Grand Final at the Recreation Reserve
Historical Wikinews report from 2010-04-23. Peter Porter, an Australian-born British poet, has died at the age of 81 after suffering from liver cancer for a year. The po
Historical Wikinews report from 2015-12-20. Today, Catalonia-based football club FC Barcelona defeated Argentine club River Plate FC 3–0 at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama in
Historical Wikinews report from 2006-01-24. January's second Interview of the Month was with Danny O'Brien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on 23 January in I
Historical Wikinews report from 2007-10-17. Vernon Bellecourt, once the primary spokesperson for the American Indian Movement, died recently at age 75. Bellecourt, an Oj
Historical Wikinews report from 2015-10-10. Wikinews visited 'Doc Wilkes House of Horrors' located in Longview, Texas recently for a private tour. Co-owner Laura Wilkes
Historical Wikinews report from 2012-06-23. Yesterday, Basketball Australia announced the final Olympic squads for the 2012 Summer Olympics ahead of a farewell series in
Historical Wikinews report from 2007-02-17. A trio of freshmen at a New York design school say that residents aren't taking advantage of a valuable and countless resourc
Historical Wikinews report from 2009-05-31. German team Werder Bremen won the DFB-Pokal (Germany's equivalent of the FA Cup) on Saturday night by beating Bayer Leverkuse
Historical Wikinews report from 2010-10-12. A 21-year-old Swedish man killed himself and broadcast it over the internet via his webcam feed Monday, after posting to a me
Historical Wikinews report from 2007-07-08. The 2007 AFC Asian Cup has begun in South-East Asia, with Thailand drawing 1-1 with Iraq in the opening match of the tourname
Historical Wikinews report from 2008-10-26. Local authorities in Chicago, Illinois, United States have asked that the FBI help in the murder and kidnap investigation of
Historical Wikinews report from 2013-01-04. Recently, Wikinews spent time with with Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketballer Shelley Chaplin. ((WN)) Right. And when
Historical Wikinews report from 2008-04-09. The animated television show, The Simpsons, has been taken off Venezuelan television after claims that the programme is "inap
Historical Wikinews report from 2018-07-06. On Tuesday, Sweden defeated Switzerland 1–0 and England defeated Colombia 4–3 on penalties in the FIFA football World Cup in
Historical Wikinews report from 2009-06-12. The child of singer Cher and the late Sonny Bono, Chaz Bono (born Chastity), will undergo a sex change operation, according t
Historical Wikinews report from 2008-03-07. Prior to the main race of 2008 Tour de Taiwan, the 2008 Taipei Cycle (Taipei International Cycle Show, located at TWTC Nangan
Historical Wikinews report from 2007-07-03. Soprano Beverly Sills, who brought opera to United States popular culture through frequent television appearances, died last
Historical Wikinews report from 2010-02-09. Ringo Starr, who is a member of The Beatles, was given his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday. The event, which
Historical Wikinews report from 2017-10-11. The Australian federal government has blocked the Under-19 men's team of North Korea from entering the country. "Hosting the
Historical Wikinews report from 2012-04-23. English football club Wolverhampton Wanderers have been relegated from the Premier League after a 2-0 defeat to Manchester Ci
Historical Wikinews report from 2012-01-10. Music celebrity Calvin Broadus (aka Snoop Dogg) was arrested by US Customs and Border Protection on Saturday at the US/Mexico
Historical Wikinews report from 2007-09-10. With main topic of "Sports Elites Shining in Port City - Kaohsiung", winners of 2007 Taiwan Sports Elite Awards, organized by
Historical Wikinews report from 2010-04-26. Singer Bret Michaels has remained in a critical condition after suffering a brain haemorrhage. The Poison singer was rushed t
Historical Wikinews report from 2010-03-15. Soccer player David Beckham has had surgery for an injury to his Achilles tendon. As a result, he has been ruled out of playi
Historical Wikinews report from 2016-07-02. Garrison Keillor, the humorist and longtime host of A Prairie Home Companion on US public radio network NPR, hung up his micr
Historical Wikinews report from 2016-04-23. A little over 100 days before the scheduled start of the 2016 Summer Olympics, on Thursday the Olympic flame was ignited in a
Historical Wikinews report from 2010-07-18. Jonathan Ross presented his final episode of Friday Night with Jonathan Ross on the BBC after more than nine years. He also f
Historical Wikinews report from 2009-07-04. Rumen Petkov, the chief of the Bulgarian Motorycling federation has been invited by Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One boss,
Historical Wikinews report from 2015-05-28. Two daughters of blues legend B.B. King are claiming on Monday that he was poisoned by business manager LaVerne Toney and per
Historical Wikinews report from 2012-09-07. London, England — On Wednesday, Wikinews interviewed Duncan Campbell, one of the creators of wheelchair rugby. Duncan Campbel
Historical Wikinews report from 2011-12-01. Today saw Edinburgh's Scottish National Portrait Gallery reopen following a two-and-a-half-year, £17.6m (US$27.4m) refurbishm
Historical Wikinews report from 2009-08-08. Dani Jarque, the Captain of the Spanish football team Espanyol, has died from a heart attack at the age of 26. Jarque was pra
Historical Wikinews report from 2010-01-21. After a long night of negotiations, United States television personality and seven-month host of The Tonight Show Conan O'Bri
Historical Wikinews report from 2015-08-04. On Sunday, London-based football club Arsenal, winners of the 2015 FA Cup, defeated 2015 Premier League Champions Chelsea 1–0
Historical Wikinews report from 2008-03-13. Wikinews held an exclusive interview with Jeremy Robinson, the bestselling American author from Massachusetts who wrote the t
Historical Wikinews report from 2008-05-03. The Olympic torch has returned to Chinese soil. More than 1 million Hong Kong residents and visitors ignored light showers on
Historical Wikinews report from 2007-09-01. The terrestrial analogue television broadcasts in Finland ended in September 1, 2007, at 04:00 local time, marking the transi
Historical Wikinews report from 2008-04-15. American Major League Baseball relief pitcher Joba Chamberlain of the New York Yankees returned a call to his sister after an