 |
||||||||
 |
||||||||
|
||||||||
|
In the news
By Times staff writer Run DMC member killed at New York studioJam Master Jay, part of the pioneering rap trio Run DMC, was shot and killed at a New York City recording studio Wednesday, the group's publicist said. Publicist Tracy Miller confirmed the death of the 37-year-old rapper, whose real name was Jason Mizell. He was shot once in the head and was dead at the scene, said Detective Robert Price, a police spokesman. He said that the shooter remained at large and that police had no information on a motive. A second man, identified by police as 25-year-old Urieco Rincon, was shot in the leg and was taken to a hospital. Run DMC is widely credited with helping bring hip-hop into music's mainstream, including the group's smash collaboration with Aerosmith on the 1980s standard Walk This Way. "We always knew rap was for everyone," Mizell said in a 2001 interview with MTV. "Anyone could rap over all kinds of music." Mizell served as the group's disc jockey, providing background for singers Joseph Simmons, better known as DJ Run, and Darryl McDaniels, better known as DMC. Cirque box office to openCirque du Soleil opens its St. Petersburg box office for Quidam at noon Saturday. Performances are Nov. 7 through Dec. 8 under the Grand Chapiteau in the parking lot of Tropicana Field. The box office is in front of the big blue and yellow tent. It will be open noon to 6 p.m. Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday; after that, regular box office hours will be noon to 10 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday. Tickets may also be purchased at www.cirquedusoleil.com or by calling toll-free 1-800-678-5440. Prices range from $45 to $65 for adults and $31.50 to $45.50 for children; there are discounts for teens and seniors at some performances. Novelist says British artist may have been Jack the RipperJack the Ripper's DNA could match that of respected British artist Walter Sickert, according to a new book from American crime novelist Patricia Cornwell. In Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper -- Case Closed, excerpted in the December issue of Vanity Fair, Cornwell describes how she and a team of investigators came to their conclusion after analyzing DNA samples from 55 letters, envelopes and stamps sent by Jack the Ripper; Sickert, as well as his wife and his mentor; and Ripper suspect Montague John Druitt. While the DNA tests rule out 99 percent of the population as suspects, Cornwell warns that, at best, the results are a "cautious indicator," because the tests compare the Ripper's DNA with what is likely blood or saliva from Sickert. (Sickert was cremated, and no definitive evidence of his DNA exists.) Scotland Yard's former deputy assistant commissioner John Grieve, an expert in the Ripper's crimes, says that if he had been on the case then and in possession of Cornwell's evidence, he would have put Sickert under surveillance.
 © 2006 • All Rights Reserved • Tampa Bay Times
490 First Avenue South • St. Petersburg, FL 33701 • 727-893-8111 
|
From the wire |
