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℘℘℘ Roma Downey received the first ever Irish Diaspora Award from the Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) and the government of Ireland in Dublin on April 9 for her “extraordinary achievements and vision as a producer and an actress alongside her charity and humanitarian work worldwide.” Born in Derry, Northern Ireland, the youngest of six, Roma and her husband, Mark Burnett, the British-born television producer she married in 2007, live in Malibu, California with Reilly, her daughter from her marriage to director David Anspaugh, and James and Cameron, Mark’s sons. Though she f...

Region loses two local leaders with passing of Magee, Damsky Two former Central New York politicians have died within days of one another this week, their relatives announced. Former state Assemblyman William "Bill" Magee died Thursday at the age of 81, his niece confirmed to syracuse.com. The Democrat from the Madison-county town of Nelson served what is now the 121st Assembly District — which includes all of Madison County and portions of Oneida and Otsego counties — from 1990 until 2018, when he was defeated by Republican John Salka. "Bill was born and raised in Central New York’...

Former longtime Assembly member William Magee dies at 81 FacebookTwitterEmail New York State Assembly members, William Magee, left, and Peter Lopez, ask questions directed at Julie Suarez, foreground, director of the public policy division of the New York Farm Bureau, as she testified at a hearing held by the Assembly Standing Committee On Agriculture and the Assembly Standing Committee On Governmental Operations on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011 at the Legislative Office Building in Albany, NY. Magee, a longtime Assembly member, died on Dec. 24, 2020.  (Paul Buckowski / Times Union)Paul Buckowski ...

Share This: This is Part II of the series. To read Part I, click here. I lost my virginity in Acapulco, Mexico on my 16th birthday. It’s a funny story but one that I mostly left out in my first book, The Red Circle. So much ended up on the cutting room floor. I’ll tell that story soon enough but more about my scuba diving now. I learned how to scuba dive without any pool sessions; it was all open-water Pacific Ocean dives from the start. Pretty soon I found I preferred diving without a buoyancy compensator, a kind of inflatable vest with an air hose plugged into it that most divers wear....

“And of course,” he added, “he’ll have to cut out the sports.” My mom nearly gasped. “What do you mean, cut out the sports?” She was terrified: Without sports, she knew it would be no time at all before I was getting into worse and worse trouble. They tried putting my legs in braces, but as soon as the braces were on I was off skateboarding around the harbor. Finally, they realized they had no choice but to put me in casts. As much as I hated them, those casts probably saved my life, or at least my knees. Confined to plaster casts, my joints were finally able to grow properly. ...