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Women claimed three of the top five spots in Forbes' magazine's

2010 Celebrity Power List

Women claimed three of the top five spots in Forbes' magazine's 2010 Celebrity power list, with singer Lady Gaga making her first entry and Oprah Winfrey retaking her No.1 position.

Talk show host Winfrey earned an estimated $315 million, putting her atop the annual Forbes' Celebrity 100 list for the fourth time. Winfrey reclaimed the No. 1 spot from 2009 winner Angelina Jolie, who fell to 18th in the latest ranking.

Grammy-winning R&B singer Beyonce rose to second with an estimated $87 million from a tour and album sales, together with deals in fashion, fragrance and other endorsements.

Despite the worldwide recession, Forbes said that celebrity earnings remain "remarkably resilient, with this year's stars having earned a collective $4.7 billion during the past year, up from $4.1 billion in 2009.

"Forbes' ranking is a measurement of entertainment-related earnings over the past 12 months as well as exposure in print, television, radio, online, and social media.

"Avatar" director James Cameron jumped back onto the Forbes list for the first time since 1999, landing at No. 3 after his movie earned a record $2.7 billion at worldwide box offices.

Glam pop star Lady Gaga made the list for the first time, taking fourth place with estimated earnings of $62 million.

Golfer Tiger Woods is the world's fifth most powerful celebrity, despite a sex scandal that took him out of golfing for five months and lost him several lucrative endorsements.

"He managed to earn $105 million during the past year, even as his revenue streams have diminished and his golf course design business struggles in the global economy," said Forbes.

The top five on the Forbes' 2010 Celebrity 100 list are:

1. Oprah Winfrey, $315 million

2. Beyonce Knowles, $87 million

3. James Cameron, $210 million

4. Lady Gag

1 Dead, Up To 6 Unaccounted For In N.J. Fire

PATERSON, N.J. (CBS) ―

A three alarm fire left 11 people displaced after ripping through E 31st street Wednesday morning.

One person is dead and as many as six are unaccounted for in a fire that swept through three homes in northern New Jersey Wednesday.

Deputy Chief Scott MacGilvray of the Paterson Fire Department says the dead person was among two people critically injured in the early morning three-alarm blaze.

MacGilvray says between three to six people are missing.

Authorities have brought in trained dogs and heavy equipment, but the search has been stymied because the rubble is not stable.

The fire began in a home at 465 East 31st Street around 2:40 a.m. MacGilvray says flames spread to the homes on either side.

The first home collapsed and the fire was declared under control nearly three hours later.

No names have been released and officials are trying to determine the cause.

Eleven people have been displaced. The New Jersey Red Cross is assisting with the situation.a, $62 million

Nearly 2,000 vets may have infected HIV during dental exams at John Cochran Medical Center in MO

BY Aliyah Shahid
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Veterans receiving dental work at a Missouri VA hospital may have been exposed to life-threatening diseases like HIV and hepatitis.

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Veterans receiving dental work at a Missouri VA hospital may have been exposed to life-threatening diseases like HIV and hepatitis.

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Now there really is a good reason to be afraid of the dentist.

A Missouri VA hospital may have exposed more than 1,800 veterans to potentially life-threatening diseases like hepatitis and HIV after patients visited the medical center for dental work.

Letters were recently mailed from John Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis to 1,812 veterans alerting them they may be at risk of contracting hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV, according to CNN.

The situation resulted from failure to clean dental instruments properly, said Gina Michael, the association chief of staff at the hospital.

The tools were supposed to be sent through a special sterilization machine, but technicians were washing them by hand to avoid damaging them. The hand-washing of instruments started in February 2009 and continued until March of this year.

The violation was discovered during a routine inspection by a government medical team.

Rep. Russ Carnahan called the blunder “absolutely unacceptable,” and is demanding a formal investigation by the House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee.

“No veteran who has served and risked their life for this great nation should have to worry about their personal safety when receiving much needed health-care services from a Veterans Administration hospital,” Carnahan said.

This isn’t the first time patients have been informed that medical tools weren’t being used properly.

In June, more than 3,000 patients who underwent colonoscopies were notified by Palomar Hospital in San Diego that they were at risk for infection because medical instruments were being reused.

In Missouri, the hospital set up a special clinic and hotline for veterans who think they were exposed. Carnahan said more could have been done to prevent the fiasco.

“I can only imagine the horror and anger our veterans must be feeling after receiving this letter,” he said. “They have every right to be angry.”

Search Resumes For Missing Swimmer In Queens The Coast Guard has resumed its search in the waters off Queens for a 14-year-old boy who went missing yesterday while swimming at Riis Park after lifeguards had gone home for the day. $1.4 Billion Development at Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn Wins Key Council Support By CHARLES V. BAGLI The $1.4 billion plan to transform the former Domino Sugar refinery into a reresidential development on the Brooklyn waterfront won critical support in the City Council on Tuesday, after the developer agreed to cut the size of the project’s two tallest towers and provide a shuttle bus to the nearest subway. The project at the defunct Domino Sugar refinery in Brooklyn will offer 660 of its planned 2,200 apartments to poor and working-class New Yorkers. The New Domino project, on the East River in Williamsburg, had divided a once-working-class neighborhood in desperate need of housing for longtime residents but overwhelmed by a wave of new luxury towers during the recent real estate boom. The developer, the Community Preservation Corporation, has promised that 600 of the 2,200 apartments at the 11-acre Domino site will be for poor and working-class New Yorkers. The corporation is also preserving Domino’s refinery building and its 40-foot tall sign, while providing a public esplanade, shops and office and community space. “This is a way of turning a dead industrial site into a vibrant, mixed-use and mixed-income community that can be a model for redevelopment,” said Michael Lappin, president of the Community Preservation Corporation, which owns the site. During last-minute negotiations, the developer agreed to reduce two planned 40-story towers to 36 floors. The lost space from those floors will be added to other buildings on the site. The corporation also agreed that construction, building service and eventual supermarket workers at the New Domino would be paid prevailing wages. As a result, the Council’s land use committee and a subcommittee on zoning voted unanimously to approve the project. The vote is regarded as the last political hurdle for New Domino project, although the project must still go back to the City Planning Commission and the full Council for final approval next month. Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, labored behind the scenes to work out a compromise with the developer and the project’s chief critics, who include Councilman Stephen Levin of Brooklyn and his mentor, Vito J. Lopez, the Brooklyn assemblyman who often plays a pivotal role in city and state housing developments. Mr. Lopez had demanded that the developer reduce both the height of the buildings and the total number of apartments, while increasing the number of subsidized units. But Diana Reyna, a Brooklyn councilwoman who worked with the Community Preservation Corporation and is a political adversary of Mr. Lopez, feared that reducing the number of units would undermine the financial health of the project, in a neighborhood where 51 residential buildings under construction are already at a standstill because of the recession. Already, she said, the corporation had promised that 30 percent of the units would be affordable when most other rental housing developers were including only 20 percent. In the end, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg urged Mr. Lopez to come around. Mr. Levin issued his own press release on Tuesday taking credit for the deal. He said he was pleased with the outcome and looked forward to working with the developer “to ensure that all the community’s needs are addressed as the project is built and inhabited.” Separately, Ms. Reyna said the New Domino was “a true reflection of a collaborative process with the community.” Rob Solano, executive director of Churches United for Fair Housing, added: “The true winners of this campaign are the families who will be receiving affordable housing.” Larry King to End Show After 25 Years By PopEater Staff On Tuesday evening, TV broadcasting legend Larry King dropped a bombshell: after 25 years of hosting the 'Larry King Live' show on CNN, his nightly show will end this fall. King made the surprising announcement via his Twitter account right before he taped this evening's show. "Announcing tonight: I'm ending my nightly show this fall but continuing at CNN," King wrote. In a full statement on CNN.com, the TV icon said, "Before I start the show tonight, I want to share some personal news with you. 25 years ago, I sat across this table from New York Governor Mario Cuomo for the first broadcast of Larry King Live. Now, decades later, I talked to the guys here at CNN and I told them I would like to end Larry King Live, the nightly show, this fall and CNN has graciously accepted, giving me more time for my wife and I to get to the kids' little league games. "I'm incredibly proud that we recently made the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest running show with the same host in the same time slot. With this chapter closing I'm looking forward to the future and what my next chapter will bring, but for now it's time to hang up my nightly suspenders." A Democratic Stronghold Loses a Big Pillar By ERIK ECKHOLM SOPHIA, W.Va. — The décor and the conversation in Larry Jones’s cluttered place on Main Street — a former shop where retired miners now gather to sip coffee — convey the split personality of West Virginia politics. Enlarge This Image Jon C. Hancock for The New York Times Larry Jones owns an old shop in Sophia, W.Va., where retired miners gather to talk, lately about politics after the death of Senator Robert C. Byrd. Multimedia How West Virginia Has Voted Related The Caucus: Byrd to Lie in Repose in Senate Chamber (June 29, 2010) Robert C. Byrd, a Pillar of the Senate, Dies at 92 (June 29, 2010) Times Topic: Robert C. Byrd

Search Resumes For Missing Swimmer In Queens

The Coast Guard has resumed its search in the waters off Queens for a 14-year-old boy who went missing yesterday while swimming at Riis Park after lifeguards had gone home for the day.

$1.4 Billion Development at Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn Wins Key Council Support

By CHARLES V. BAGLI

The $1.4 billion plan to transform the former Domino Sugar refinery into a reresidential development on the Brooklyn waterfront won critical support in the City Council on Tuesday, after the developer agreed to cut the size of the project’s two tallest towers and provide a shuttle bus to the nearest subway.

The project at the defunct Domino Sugar refinery in Brooklyn will offer 660 of its planned 2,200 apartments to poor and working-class New Yorkers.

The New Domino project, on the East River in Williamsburg, had divided a once-working-class neighborhood in desperate need of housing for longtime residents but overwhelmed by a wave of new luxury towers during the recent real estate boom.

The developer, the Community Preservation Corporation, has promised that 600 of the 2,200 apartments at the 11-acre Domino site will be for poor and working-class New Yorkers. The corporation is also preserving Domino’s refinery building and its 40-foot tall sign, while providing a public esplanade, shops and office and community space.

“This is a way of turning a dead industrial site into a vibrant, mixed-use and mixed-income community that can be a model for redevelopment,” said Michael Lappin, president of the Community Preservation Corporation, which owns the site.

During last-minute negotiations, the developer agreed to reduce two planned 40-story towers to 36 floors. The lost space from those floors will be added to other buildings on the site. The corporation also agreed that construction, building service and eventual supermarket workers at the New Domino would be paid prevailing wages.

As a result, the Council’s land use committee and a subcommittee on zoning voted unanimously to approve the project. The vote is regarded as the last political hurdle for New Domino project, although the project must still go back to the City Planning Commission and the full Council for final approval next month.

Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, labored behind the scenes to work out a compromise with the developer and the project’s chief critics, who include Councilman Stephen Levin of Brooklyn and his mentor, Vito J. Lopez, the Brooklyn assemblyman who often plays a pivotal role in city and state housing developments. Mr. Lopez had demanded that the developer reduce both the height of the buildings and the total number of apartments, while increasing the number of subsidized units.

But Diana Reyna, a Brooklyn councilwoman who worked with the Community Preservation Corporation and is a political adversary of Mr. Lopez, feared that reducing the number of units would undermine the financial health of the project, in a neighborhood where 51 residential buildings under construction are already at a standstill because of the recession. Already, she said, the corporation had promised that 30 percent of the units would be affordable when most other rental housing developers were including only 20 percent.

In the end, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg urged Mr. Lopez to come around.

Mr. Levin issued his own press release on Tuesday taking credit for the deal. He said he was pleased with the outcome and looked forward to working with the developer “to ensure that all the community’s needs are addressed as the project is built and inhabited.”

Separately, Ms. Reyna said the New Domino was “a true reflection of a collaborative process with the community.”

Rob Solano, executive director of Churches United for Fair Housing, added: “The true winners of this campaign are the families who will be receiving affordable housing.”

Larry King to End

Show After 25 Years

By PopEater Staff

On Tuesday evening, TV broadcasting legend Larry King dropped a bombshell: after 25 years of hosting the 'Larry King Live' show on CNN, his nightly show will end this fall. King made the surprising announcement via his Twitter account right before he taped this evening's show. "Announcing tonight: I'm ending my nightly show this fall but continuing at CNN," King wrote.

In a full statement on CNN.com, the TV icon said, "Before I start the show tonight, I want to share some personal news with you. 25 years ago, I sat across this table from New York Governor Mario Cuomo for the first broadcast of Larry King Live. Now, decades later, I talked to the guys here at CNN and I told them I would like to end Larry King Live, the nightly show, this fall and CNN has graciously accepted, giving me more time for my wife and I to get to the kids' little league games.

"I'm incredibly proud that we recently made the Guinness Book of World Records for having the longest running show with the same host in the same time slot. With this chapter closing I'm looking forward to the future and what my next chapter will bring, but for now it's time to hang up my nightly suspenders."

A Democratic Stronghold Loses a Big Pillar

By ERIK ECKHOLM

SOPHIA, W.Va. — The décor and the conversation in Larry Jones’s cluttered place on Main Street — a former shop where retired miners now gather to sip coffee — convey the split personality of West Virginia politics.

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