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• Networks utilizing Skype for news reports

  New York -- When he wanted to interview a source in Connecticut for a recent "World News" story on technology, ABC reporter Pierre Thomas didn't even leave the office. ABC's cameras showed him sitting in front of a computer screen, talking to Michael Coppolla through Skype.

• Bedbugs Scare Mail Carrier At Apartments

  A pregnant Detroit mail carrier is refusing to deliver mail at a senior citizens apartment building after learning the building was infested with bedbugs.

• 'Portraits of Life and Landscapes: the Art of Frank Kelley, Jr.' intrigues

  Louisiana painter Frank Kelley Jr. paints from dark to light, laying down the deepest shade all across the canvas that he will then layer with "25 to 40" other hues. This show of his art is at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.

• Silence speaks eloquently in 'The American'

  Crisp, compact and cryptic, "The American" is a standard-issue hit-man thriller made to order for George Clooney. Filmed not too far from his Italian home, anchored firmly to his performance and his star presence, it works its way past the designation "formula movie" by the manner in which it builds its suspense.

• Detroit police credit citizens with helping to catch rape suspects

  Citizens patrolling the streets aided Detroit police in catching three suspects in the rape of a 90-year-old woman and the ransacking of her west-side home, police said Monday.