His family released the following statement:

“It is with profound sadness that the family of George M. Steinbrenner III announces his passing. He passed away this morning in Tampa, Fla., at age 80. He was an incredible and charitable man. First and foremost he was devoted to his entire family – his beloved wife, Joan; his sisters, Susan Norpell and Judy Kamm, his children, Hank, Jennifer Jessica and Hal; and all of his grandchildren. He was a visionary and a giant in the world of sports. He took a great but struggling franchise and turned it into a champion again.”

The 80-year-old Steinbrenner has been in ill health for years

A U.S. Navy veteran — retired from running the Yankees in 2006 … leaving his sons Hank and Hal to run the team.

Since Steinbrenner took over the team in 1973, the Yankees locked up 11 pennants and 7 World Series titles.

Among Steinbrenner’s many accomplishments — his famous “grooming policy” … in which players and coaches are not allowed to sport hair past their collar … and the only acceptable facial hair is a mustache.

This time, Colton Harris-Moore, the tall teenager accused of being the “Barefoot Bandit” who once hopscotched the San Juan Islands of the Pacific Northwest riding stolen speedboats and airplanes, Facebook fame and boundless gumption, crash-landed in the Bahamas. And this time, he was caught.

Early Sunday, after Mr. Harris-Moore had fled across the continent, the police in the Bahamas arrested him after they shot out the engines on his stolen boat and roared up beside him in open waters in the middle of the night. It had been more than two years since he had vanished from a halfway house in the Seattle suburbs in 2008 and begun eluding repeated efforts to track him in the dense forests of the Northwest.

American authorities said it could have been the success of Mr. Harris-Moore’s trek itself — making it all the way to the Bahamas — that ultimately led to his downfall.

“It was inevitable that he would make a wrong move. He was in a different culture. He probably stood out,” Sheriff Bill Cumming of San Juan County in Washington said of Mr. Harris-Moore. Now 19, he is 6-foot-5 and white.

While Mr. Harris-Moore had thousands of followers on Facebook — and his mother has hired a prominent entertainment lawyer to field proposals about his tale — his victims saw little romance in his spree.

“It was always in the back of your mind, you’re kind of wondering, when’s the next one coming?” said Scott Lancaster, who owns a hardware store on Orcas Island, Wash., that the police believe Mr. Harris-Moore burglarized twice, once stealing bolt cutters and $4,000. “It’s a bit unsettling. We were all locking our doors and we never had before.”

By the time the sun came up on Sunday, Mr. Harris-Moore was shackled and wearing a bulletproof vest as he was escorted to jail. His feet were still bare on the hot Caribbean concrete.

A statement by the Royal Bahamas Police Force noted that their search “lasted for all but seven days.” Joel Lewis, 73, a cabdriver in Nassau, was at the airport when Mr. Harris-Moore was brought in by police airplane from Eleuthera. “I was asking, ‘What are all these police doing all over the place?’ Then I hear it’s just for one guy!” he said. “He wouldn’t raise up his head at all. He was walking with it down.”

Mr. Lewis said the plane was met by local police who boarded the plane and chained Mr. Harris-Moore. Mr. Harris-Moore was wearing short pants and shuffling with shackles around his ankles and handcuffs behind his back.

He is due in court in Nassau on Tuesday. He faces dozens of charges in the United States, including a federal warrant on charges of stealing a plane last fall in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.

The authorities in Washington had spent two years tracking Mr. Harris-Moore, after they linked him to scores of crimes in the San Juans and nearby, from stealing cash and tools to speedboats and small airplanes, which they say he repeatedly crashed.

This spring, the police believed they had Mr. Harris-Moore surrounded in the Turtleback Mountain area of Orcas Island. Sheriff’s deputies were joined by dog teams and helicopter pilots from the Department of Homeland Security.

“He was seen,” Sheriff Cumming said. “But it’s very, very rugged and very difficult to cover all that area extensively and completely. He was able to elude, and that was frustrating and expensive.”

Sheriff Cumming, who is retiring this year, said the search had affected his agency’s budget, in part because the department had to pay overtime to its 20 officers, who patrol four major islands and many more smaller ones. It was that search that appears to have prompted a series of boat and plane thefts that led Mr. Harris-Moore far beyond his Northwest comfort zone.

Last month, a South Dakota family was reportedly startled to find a man believed to be Mr. Harris-Moore in their home, naked. Once again, he slipped away.

“This was his full-time job,” Sheriff Cumming said. “He was not a casual fugitive. This was what he did on a full-time basis, and we do give him credit in terms of his ability to plan his activities and his escape routes.”

First arrested at age 12 for several crimes, including setting fire to Stanwood Middle School, Mr. Harris-Moore had a difficult upbringing on Camano Island. He was raised largely by his mother, who he said could be abusive, according to several news media accounts over the years.

His mother, Pam Kohler, has urged her son to continue to flee and fretted publicly that she hoped he would be more careful about the planes he stole — preferably avoiding single-engine aircraft. She has told reporters that she hoped he would flee to a country that does not allow for extradition to the United States. The Bahamas does allow extradition.

Ms. Kohler, who could not be reached for comment, recently hired a Seattle entertainment lawyer, O. Yale Lewis Jr. “We have lots of proposals,” Mr. Lewis said.

In April, Variety reported that 20th Century Fox was buying the film rights to “Taking Flight: The Hunt for a Young Outlaw,” based on a story about Mr. Harris-Moore by Bob Friel in Outside magazine in January.

A “Colton Harris-Moore Fan Club” page on Facebook with more than 23,000 followers describes him like this: “Western Washington’s new Jesse James (without the murders). Without a doubt one of the greatest and most notable outlaws to come from an otherwise boring area. Some of his greatest achievements include the Kamikaze theft and crash landing of three airplanes (with no flight training) as well as commandeering a couple boats. Let’s hope that he remains healthy, free and at large for a long time! Fly Colton, Fly!”

Much has been made of Mr. Harris-Moore’s ability to disappear into the evergreen forests of the Northwest, his ability to pick locks, navigate dark channels by boat and fly planes without any professional training.

Law enforcement officials in Washington State expressed frustration at what they said was the glamorous light in which he has sometimes been cast, including the idea that he was harmless.

“What if that plane landed on a day care or a house?” said Steven Dean, the assistant special agent in charge of the F.B.I.’s Seattle field office. “He’s potentially dangerous.”

At the same time, they said Mr. Harris-Moore was not necessarily their most sought-after target.

“To say he posed no danger is not necessarily accurate, and to say we spent every waking moment looking for him is not accurate either,” Mr. Dean added. “He was just another fugitive to us. The media made him bigger than he really was.”

Still, his profile was rising with law enforcement, too. In December, Mr. Harris-Moore was charged in federal court in Washington with stealing a $340,000 plane from Bonners Ferry, Idaho, and crash-landing it near Granite Falls, Wash. The court documents also detail firearm thefts in British Columbia and “bare footprints consistent with those left by Harris-Moore at other crime scenes.”

It was unclear how soon Mr. Harris-Moore might return to face charges in the United States.

The proposal took place on July 9, after Santana and Blackman, previously worked with Lenny Kravitz, played together the song ‘Corazon Espinado’, during the performance that was part of the Universal Tone Tour 2010 tour.

After she accepted, the just-engaged couple kissed, and the audience broke out into cheers.

“Being in love is a gift from the universe, and the spirit and vibrations that come with it are infinitely powerful. I look forward to expressing that incredible energy through my music, and in helping to tip the balance toward more love in the world with what Cindy and I share”, Carlos said.

Blackman is a jazz and rock drummer who has recorded and toured extensively with Lenny Kravitz, and played with a wide range of artists including Pharoah Sanders, Cassandra Wilson, and Bill Laswell.

This is the second marriage of the musician born in Jalisco (Mexico) after his divorce with Deborah Santana in 2007, after 34 years of marriage.

The 35-year-old actress flashed a new tattoo on her inner thigh in the August issue of Vanity Fair, a week after premiering some new swirls on her arm at the Mexican premiere of “Salt.”

Jolie’s new ink was exposed when she posed in short shorts for the fashion magazine’s cover spread.

In a sit-down interview with MTV News, Angelina Jolie, replied shyly: “Ohh, it’s for Brad ‘, when asked for whom he had made the new tattoo on her thigh.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have been partners for over five years and when asked what makes their relationship successful, Angelina said, “I actually think it’s important to be completely honest, however difficult that may be. I’m bad at hiding secrets anyway”.

Boz Group, a construction conglomerate based in Turkey and northern Cyprus, invited the star to participate on July 24 at the opening of Cratos Premium Hotel, located in Kyrenia, in which the Turkish company has invested $ 220 million.

Boz agreed to pay three million dollars to Jennifer Lopez for her performance, but as soon as it became publicly known, Greek Cypriot groups began a protest campaign by sending thousands of emails to the singer. According to these groups, the performance in the Kyrenia hotel legitimizes the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), an internationally recognized state only by Turkey, located in the northern part of the island, divided after the Turkish invasion of 1974.

Under the Greek Cypriot pressure, Lopez decided to cancel, so she now faces the anger of the Turkish Cypriots.

“Jennifer Lopez has caused great harm to the image of our hotel. We have given her a deadline until Monday, if she does not change her decision (not attend the inauguration), we will demand for the damages,” Boz Group Vice President, Murat Bozoglu, told the reporters.

He explained that they have engaged in the services of two lawyers in New York, but still have hopes of solving this problem amicably. “If it’s needed, we (the Turks) will send her a million emails showing our intentions friendly and brotherly,” Bozoglu added.

According to journalist Norelys Morales Aguilera and his blog ‘Islamia’, Castro was on Wednesday at the National Center for Scientific Research.

The note does not give any more details of it except that it is “the first visit of this kind that he [Castro] made since 2006 when he left his duties as a statesman for health reasons” and that “he was attended by the directors of the center,” “workers of the institution came to say hello” and “saw him smiling and healthy.”

Following the news, the official website “Cubadebate” has confirmed the appearance of former Cuban president. In particular, the digital page published five photographs of the Cuban leader signed by one of his sons, the photographer Alex Castro Soto del Valle, where he is seen wearing white sports clothes and chatting with several directors of the institution.

Cubadebate is the page in which the former ruler publishes articles with his thoughts. “Commander in Chief Fidel Castro visited last Wednesday, July 7, the National Center for Scientific Research, in the context of the 45th anniversary of the forerunner of the Scientific Center of the Cuban capital,” the note was saying next to the images.

The visit came the same day in which his brother, President Raul Castro met with the Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos and Cardinal Jaime Ortega and announced the gradual release of 52 Cuban political prisoners.

Since he became ill, Castro has received in hospital and at his home, several heads of the state, personal friends and even a group of young Venezuelan students.

However, this is the first time confirming an exit to the street or a visit to a Cuban institution, although there are rumors that he was seen walking with his bodyguards, in the streets of the villages near his residence.

Intelligence analyst Manning, 22, was attributed to the charges of leaking classified information, gaining access to prohibited electronic documents and transfering these data to his PC, the military said in a statement, thus announcing the forthcoming a military trial.

Manning was part of the troops deployed in Baghdad and is in custody in Kuwait, or at least it was when U.S. authorities announced his arrest last month.

The controversial video appeared on the media after being exhibited across the portal Wikileaks, a site in which any citizen can provide confidential information anonymously in order to combat corruption.

Wired magazine recently described Manning as an intelligence analyst who attracted suspicion after confessing the controversial leak in an email sent to a hacker. Además, el militar también estaría siendo investigado por otros envíos de información clasificada, entre ellos unas imágenes de un ataque bomba de Bagdad en 2009 en el que murieron varios civiles o 26.000 documentos clasificados de la diplomacia norteamericana. In addition, the military would also be under investigation for other shipments of classified information, including images of a bomb attack in Baghdad in 2009 that killed several civilians or 26,000 classified documents of American diplomacy.

That’s because Fox’s pop juggernaut ‘Glee’ continued its rampage through the cultural landscape by racking up an impressive 19 Emmy nominations, including Outstanding Comedy, Lead Actor in a Comedy (Matthew Morrison) and Lead Actress in a Comedy (Lea Michele).

About the only person to have a better day than the cast of ‘Glee’ was Betty White, who continued her amazing career high with a nod for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series as host of ‘Saturday Night Live,’ her 20th Emmy nomination.

Of course, ‘Glee’s’ path to victory won’t be an easy one, as perennial powerhouses ’30 Rock’ and ‘The Office’ both also received nominations in all three categories.

Here’s the list of 10 major categories:

Drama Series:

Lost
Breaking Bad
Dexter
Mad Men
True Blood
The Good Wife

Comedy Series:

Glee
Modern Family
Nurse Jackie
30 Rock
The Office
Curb Your Enthusiasm

Actor, Drama Series:

Jon Hamm (Mad Men)
Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights)
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad)
Hugh Laurie (House M.D.)
Michael C. Hall (Dexter)
Matthew Fox (Lost)

Actress, Drama Series:

Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife)
Mariska Hargitay (Law & Order: SVU)
Glenn Close (Damages)
Kyra Sedgwick (The Closer)
January Jones (Mad Men)
Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights)

Supporting Actor, Drama Series:

John Slattery (Mad Men)
Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad)
Martin Short (Damages)
Terry O’Quinn (Lost)
Michael Emerson (Lost)
Andre Braugher (Men of a Certain Age)

Supporting Actress, Drama Series:

Sharon Gless (Burn Notice)
Christine Baranski (The Good Wife)
Christina Hendricks (Mad Men)
Rose Byrne (Damages)
Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife)
Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men)

Actor, Comedy Series:

Larry David (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
Alec Baldwin (30 Rock)
Matthew Morrison (Glee)
Steve Carell (The Office)
Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory)
Tony Shalhoub (Monk)

Actress, Comedy Series:

Lea Michele (Glee)
Tina Fey (30 Rock)
Toni Collette (The United States of Tara)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus (The New Adventures of Old Christine)
Edie Falco (Nurse Jackie)
Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation)

Supporting Actor, Comedy Series:

Chris Colfer (Glee)
Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Modern Family)
Jon Cryer (Two and A Half Men)
Eric Stonestreet (Modern Family)
Ty Burrell (Modern Family)

If you want to see the full list you can visit http://www.emmys.com

Dye was arrested after the underage girl she is accused of having sex with fled the hotel room that she shared with Dye, reports CBS News. Police say that the girl fled after finding out that Dye was an adult woman and not the boy that she had claimed to be.

Dye has admitted to posing as a young boy, but has not yet spoken on allegations of whether or not she had sex with the victim. Before her arrest, Dye stayed with the girl for in a hotel for three days.

“They were boyfriend-girlfriend,” Sgt. Bob Marchiny said. “(Dye) looks just like a boy.”
Dye, a 4-foot-11 woman from Franklin was six inches shorter than the victim and has no local criminal record to show.

Dye is charged with corruption of a minor and unlawful sex with a minor. She is being held on $100,000 bail.

Johnston, 21, attracted considerable media attention during the election campaign of 2008 when it was revealed that Bristol, the eldest daughter of the then Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, expecting his child.

After the race, Johnston and Bristol fought, although in the middle of last month they agreed in sharing the upbringing of his son, Tripp, who now is 18 months old.

“Last year, after Bristol and I broke up, I was unhappy and a little angry. Unfortunately, against my better judgment, I publicly said things about the Palins that were not completely true,” Johnston told PEOPLE magazine.

The young man did not clarify what those things were and to what extent they were true.

“I have already privately apologized to Todd and Sarah. Since my statements were public, I owe it to the Palins to publicly apologize.” Johnston said.

During the months after the break, Johnston said that Palin used to complain of her work as governor of the State of Alaska, and stated that in Palin home “there was much talk about the divorce.”

In August last year, Johnston said publicly that Palin had resigned from her post as governor due to longstanding marital problems, and because she had received lucrative offers to publish a book and presentations in the media.

Palin, meanwhile, described as “malicious” the statements mde by the young man and criticized Johnston because he had posed for the nude male magazine “Playgirl”, and for his statements about sex in the television show of Tyra Banks.

While the two young people apparently settled their differences, Bristol has made its debut in the ABC television show Family “The Secret Life of teens in America.”