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Tuesday 11-24-2009 8:27am CT

  NEWS & NUGGETS


OLD TOP SECRET PHOTOS NOW AVAILABLE ON THE WEB _ Aerial photographs of prisoners in high security Colditz, Germany, and POWs who worked on the infamous bridge over the River Kwai are among images now available to view online for the first time. Britain's National Collection of Aerial Photography -- one of the world's largest and most significant collections of aerial imagery -- has posted photographs taken by daring aerial reconnaissance units. The photographs have been digitized and put online as part of a painstaking process of cataloging and digitizing The Aerial Reconnaissance Archives for the newly launched National Collection of Aerial Photography website. Other never-before seen images include a slave labor camp near Mainz, Germany; a test launch site for the Nazi Vengeance; a 1952 shot of a viaduct on the longest national roadway in Europe; and a 1944 RAF photograph of a series of giant bomb craters running through the town of Saumur in Maine-et-Loire, France.

ACCUSED ERIN ANDREWS CREEP PHOTOG PLEADS NOT GUILTY _ An Illinois insurance executive accused of secretly making nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews pleaded not guilty Monday to interstate stalking. Michael Barrett entered the plea in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. Barrett is suspected of finding three hotels where Andrews was staying last year. He rented an adjacent room, altered the peephole and shot videos of Andrews. The videos were shot in Columbus, Ohio, in February 2008; Nashville, Tennessee, seven months later; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in July 2008. Barrett is accused of uploading the videos to the Internet and trying to sell them to celebrity gossip site TMZ earlier this year. Several TV networks and newspapers have aired or published images of Andrews taken from the videos.

NEW CRICHTON BOOK IN STORES TODAY _ Michael Crichton's newest novel,
Pirate Latitudes, is out today. The novel was discovered on one of Crichton's computers by his assistant after the author's death, along with another unfinished novel slated to be published in the fall of 2010. Pirate Latitudes is an adventure story concerning piracy in Jamaica in the 17th century

IS THE PERSONAL CHECK HEADED FOR EXTINCTION? _ Is the personal check on its way out? Several stores lately have made it their policy to refuse personal paper checks: Diesel, True Religion, Ed Hardy and Lululemon Athletica, which are all clothing stores. OK, no real major names there, but clothing giant Gap is also exploring the concept of no longer accepting personal checks. The National Retail Federation, in its annual survey on how Americans plan to spend their money, reports that just 4% of shoppers plan to pay for gifts with personal checks.
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Tuesday 11-24-2009 8:26am CT

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NASHVILLE NEWS
Tuesday 11-24-2009 8:27am CT

 AUDIO: Remembering his early days in Nashville makes JAKE OWEN appreciate his career success all the more. (:38)

The San Antonio Stock Show & Rodeo has announced a number of acts for its 2010 event, February 4-21: TOBY KEITH, LADY ANTEBELLUM, RANDY HOUSER, TIM MCGRAW, JOHN RICH, COWBOY TROY, DARIUS RUCKER, JAMES OTTO, RODNEY ATKINS, BLAKE SHELTON, DIERKS BENTLEY, TRACE ADKINS, ALAN JACKSON and JAKE OWEN. More acts are expected to be announced in the coming weeks. For more details, check out SDRodeo.com.

TAYLOR SWIFT’s episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live that aired November 7 will re-air on the network December 26.

ANDY GRIGGS' Nashville area home was destroyed by fire on November 21. He and his family were not hurt. The cause of the blaze is not known at this time. Andy’s hits include You Won’t Ever Be Lonely, She’s More and If Heaven.

MIRANDA LAMBERT is looking forward to the holidays, because she takes three weeks off and spends time with family. She also enjoys baking and says new cookware is at the top of her Christmas list this year.

PHIL VASSAR’s next album, Traveling Circus, originally due in February, will now be released December 15. Phil co-wrote all the tracks on the set including one called I Will Remember You with KENNY CHESNEY.

The value of CARRIE UNDERWOOD’s jewelry worn at the red carpet of the CNN Heroes event totaled $1.2 million. Carrie sported a diamond and blue sapphire necklace as well as a bangle bracelet and diamond earrings.