SNL’s Kenan Thompson accused of careless driving in Bernards

Kenan Thompson, star of “Fat Albert” and a regular cast member on “Saturday Night Live,” has been charged with driving carelessly in Bernards Township, authorities said.

Thompson, 29, was stopped on South Finley Avenue after a resident complained that a white Cadillac Escalade was being operated erratically on North Maple Avenue shortly after 8 p.m. on March 26, Lt. Stephen Elder said.

An officer smelled marijuana as he approached, police said. When questioned, a passenger in the vehicle, Kyle Mosley, 39, of Long Beach, N.Y., surrendered a small quantity of marijuana, which he said belonged to him, police said. Mosley, who owns the vehicle, was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, specifically rolling papers, Elder said.

Mosley was cooperative and turned over a suspected marijuana cigarette from a cigarette pack, police said.

Thompson, who lives in both New York City and Los Angeles, has been acting since age 5. Hewas on Nickelodeon’s “All That” from 1994-1999. He has starred in several films, including “Good Burger” in 1997 and “Fat Albert” in 2004. He has been a featured player on “Saturday Night Live” since 2003, becoming a full-fledged cast member in the 2005-06 season

SNL’s Kenan Thompson accused of careless driving in Bernards

Kenan Thompson, star of “Fat Albert” and a regular cast member on “Saturday Night Live,” has been charged with driving carelessly in Bernards Township, authorities said.

Thompson, 29, was stopped on South Finley Avenue after a resident complained that a white Cadillac Escalade was being operated erratically on North Maple Avenue shortly after 8 p.m. on March 26, Lt. Stephen Elder said.

An officer smelled marijuana as he approached, police said. When questioned, a passenger in the vehicle, Kyle Mosley, 39, of Long Beach, N.Y., surrendered a small quantity of marijuana, which he said belonged to him, police said. Mosley, who owns the vehicle, was charged with possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia, specifically rolling papers, Elder said.

Mosley was cooperative and turned over a suspected marijuana cigarette from a cigarette pack, police said.

Thompson, who lives in both New York City and Los Angeles, has been acting since age 5. Hewas on Nickelodeon’s “All That” from 1994-1999. He has starred in several films, including “Good Burger” in 1997 and “Fat Albert” in 2004. He has been a featured player on “Saturday Night Live” since 2003, becoming a full-fledged cast member in the 2005-06 season.

Another Continental employee linked to drug ring

 third Continental Airlines employee tied to an international drug smuggling operation out of Newark Liberty International Airport has been arrested after authorities seized more than two pounds of heroin at his home.Ruben Torres Cruz, 40, of Newark, was charged today in connection with a case that has already led to the arrests of a Continental Airlines mechanic and a ramp employee, who were arrested last week in a scheme to smuggle bundles of heroin carefully hidden aboard a number of Continental commercial flights from South America.

According to federal prosecutors, Cruz worked as a Continental ramp employee. However, while the two others involved were allegedly were smuggling drugs aboard aircraft, Cruz is charged with shipping heroin-saturated clothing by mail from E. Salvador in an effort to escape detection.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Dennis Carletta said the investigation is continuing.

Era of the celebrity broadcaster fades on local TV

The buyouts this week of three of WBZ-TV’s highest-paid star reporters, including sportscasting legend Bob Lobel, could signal the end of the celebrity lineup at local news stations struggling with declining advertising revenues and shrinking viewership.

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The departure of Lobel and others as part of stationwide cuts reflects a shift in strategies traditional media are taking as they struggle to compete in the new digital age. Television stations, newspapers, radio, magazines, and other media are getting squeezed by declining ad revenues, growing competition from the Internet and cable channels, and demands to invest millions in new digital technology.

Amid downturn, workers find a haven in hotels

Step aside, employee of the year. Embassy Suites Boston at Logan Airport now names five outstanding workers a year – plus it throws big parties for the honorees and their families.Management is hoping to strengthen the hotel’s bond with its rank-and-file workers at a time when they’re being hotly pursued by others on Boston’s growing list of hotels.

“That’s aimed at stopping the hemorrhaging,” said Millette R. Desormeaux, director of sales and marketing at the airport hotel that has recently lost staff. “We’re experiencing ‘the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.’ “

Immigrants’ children put fate in smugglers’ hand

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Mass. leads bid to limit

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In a departure from the January and August 2007 intelligence estimates, the intelligence agencies have declined to release an unclassified summary of its key points. National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell decided last fall that NIEs should not as a rule include an unclassified section because he believes analysts are less likely to be forthright in their writing if they believe the language will become public

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Obama Outraises Clinton 2 – 1 in March

Barack Obama raked in $40 million in March, leaving clinton and her $20 million in the fundraising dust and stuffing his campaign treasury so he can outspend her in the crucial Pennsylvania primary.His haul in new donations also buttressed his argument to Democratic superdelegates that he has built a vast network of donors and volunteers that they wouldn’t want to lose by denying him the nomination.Obama has attracted nearly 1.3 million donors, largely through the Internet.

He has raised $131 million in just the first three months of this year to $70 million for Clinton. Republican john campaign has not revealed his March fundraising, but he has been far behind the Democrats, raising less than $23 million in January and February combined

Obama’s Support Softens, Poll Shows

Mr. Obama’s favorability rating among Democratic primary voters has dropped seven percentage points, to 62 percent, since the last Times/CBS News survey, in late February. While that figure is by any measure high, the decline came in a month in which he has come under withering attack from Mrs. Clinton and has had to respond to reports that his former pastor had made politically inflammatory statements from his church’s pulpit in Chicago.

Still, the events of the last month do not appear to have fundamentally altered the Democratic race or provided what Mrs. Clinton’s campaign has been looking for: evidence of a collapse in Mr. Obama’s standing or an overwhelming preference voiced for Mrs. Clinton by Democratic voters in polls, developments that could be used to persuade uncommitted superdelegates to sign on with her.