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Dec 17, 2011         10:21 AM ET Jacques Martin has paid the price for the Montreal Canadiens’ poor start. The Canadiens fired their head coach, announcing assistant Randy Cunneyworth will be the interim head coach for the remainder of the season. Larry Carriere will become an assistant coach. The Canadiens (13-12-7) are [...]

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July 21, 2011   1:35 pm The Los Angeles Department of Transportation has fired a 23-year veteran employee who appeared in uniform three years ago in a pornographic video. Traffic officer John K. Dancler was discharged Monday. He challenged his firing on the same day, filing an appeal with the city’s five-member Civil Service Commission, said [...]

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Monday, Jul. 18, 2011 2:36PM EDT   The world’s most famous living archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, has been fired as Egypt’s antiquities minister. Hawass, 64, was removed on the weekend as part of a cabinet shuffle that saw 11 other ministers lose their jobs in response to rising protests calling for a thorough purge of officials [...]

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March 9th, 2011   10:01 a.m. Update at 11:19 a.m. ET NPR chief Vivian Schiller has resigned amid a scandal over a secretly taped video. NPR Board Chairman Dave Edwards confirms that President and CEO Vivian Schiller was forced out of her post. He told NPR reporters on a conference call that “the CEO of any [...]

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011; 8:44 PM The raunchy, ribald antics that cost Capt. Owen P. Honors his command have a long history in the U.S. Navy, where leaders have routinely tolerated such behavior in the name of maintaining morale at sea. But the Navy fired Honors on Tuesday, two days after a series of videos [...]

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Tuesday, January 4, 2011; 6:10 PM ESPN fired veteran play-by-play announcer Ron Franklin on Tuesday, four days after Franklin referred to a female colleague as “sweet baby” and followed that up with an expletive after she objected. Franklin, who has called games for the sports cable network since 1987, was due to broadcast the Fiesta [...]

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