Scientology promoted in Bart Simpson's voice

Bart Simpson is known for prank calls, but Nancy Cartwright, who provides Bart's voice on "The Simpsons," has been heard this week in a phone message using the voice of the cartoon fourth-grader to promote Scientology.

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Bart Heads Cast of 'Young Frankenstein'

In the last six years, Roger Bart has had quite a ride. "The Producers," of course. Movies. Television. Remember George, the psychotic pharmacist on "Desperate Housewives"? And now back to Broadway as the lead in Mel Brooks' stage version of his 1974 film classic, "Young Frankenstein."

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An Oakland, California-area transit police officer was captured on video forcing the head of an unruly man into a heavy-duty glass window, which shattered, during an arrest at a passenger station, authorities said.

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18:59 PST OAKLAND -- BART police are again defending an officers' use of force after a YouTube video was posted of a glass-shattering altercation that bloodied an officer and a patron on the West Oakland platform Saturday evening.

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WASHINGTON - DOES Homer know? What will Bart think? Marge Simpson, Homer's wife and Bart's mother on the hit television show The Simpsons, is the cover girl on the November issue of Playboy magazine.

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OAKLAND -- BART police bungled the New Year's disturbance that ended in an officer shooting an unarmed patron to death, says a scathing report now in the hands of BART brass.

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Des Moines Area Regional Transit confirms a driver refused to drive a bus with an atheist advertisement Monday. DART officials said the driver faces disciplinary action for refusing to drive the bus.

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Proposed New BART Contract Avoids Work Stoppage

Bay Area commuters resumed their morning commutes with many relieved that a last-minute settlement avoided a strike by BART employees.

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(08-13) 16:11 PDT Oakland -- BART workers will strike beginning at midnight Sunday, the union that represents train operators and station agents announced this afternoon.

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A four-month old infant boy died early Monday evening after being left inside a closed parked car at the El Cerrito Plaza BART station for most of the day, according to authorities.

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Since the shooting of Oscar Grant by a BART police officer, I have heard Grant's name quoted on a daily basis.

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Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer accused of murder in the Jan. 1 shooting death of an unarmed man on the Fruitvale Station platform in Oakland, was released Friday afternoon after posting a $3 million bond, authorities said.

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Former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle meant to fire his Taser stun gun, not his pistol, when he fatally shot an unarmed man on an Oakland station platform, his defense attorney said Friday in persuading a judge to set bail in the murder case.

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Protests in Oakland after former BART cop receives $3 million bail

Jan. 30 -- Protests and demonstrations are underway in downtown Oakland after the news that the former Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officer responsible for killing 22 year old Oscar Grant received a $3 million bail from an Alameda County Judge.

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OAKLAND — Former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle, accused of murdering a 22-year-old while on-duty on New Year's Day was given a $3 million bail Friday by an Alameda County judge who said he was both a danger to society and a flight risk.

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The BART police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man on an Oakland train platform and then refused to explain his actions to investigators was arrested Tuesday in Nevada on suspicion of murder, authorities said.

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The former police officer accused of shooting an unarmed man at a northern California commuter train station was arrested Tuesday in Nevada, authorities told CNN affiliate KGO.

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Johannes Mehserle, 27, of Lafayette was taken into custody in Douglas County, Nev., said Deputy Steve Velez of the Douglas County sheriff's office. The arrest was also confirmed by David Chai, chief of staff to Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums.

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More than 16 years ago, Bay Area Rapid Transit investigators dealt with a very similar shooting of a young African-American man by a BART officer.

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On January 9th, California Governor Jerry Brown met with Alice Huffman and members of the California NAACP concerning the BART shooting of 22 year old Oscar Grant. After the meeting, Gov Brown is set to intervene...

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If it's not clear by now that no matter what city you're in, the Police are the biggest gang in the land, then you must live in a cave in Minnesota.

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Protests erupted shortly after a young man killed by a subway police officer was laid to rest in Oakland on Wednesday night, according to local media and iReporters.

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Grant, 22, was killed on a Bay Area Rapid Transit station platform after officers went there amid reports about groups of men fighting on a train. He was one of a small group of men taken off the train, and officers had made him lie face down at the time he was killed.

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A protest over the fatal shooting by a BART police officer of an unarmed man mushroomed into several hours of violence Wednesday night as demonstrators smashed storefronts and cars, set several cars ablaze and blocked streets in downtown Oakland.

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A New Year's Day shooting in which a subway police officer fired a deadly shot into the back of an unarmed man has the San Francisco Bay Area demanding answers as authorities appeal for patience. Oscar Grant, 22, was killed January 1 in a shooting at a subway station in Californ …

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