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ONLINE WORKOUTS Fitness apps make it possible to exercise almost anywhere. Page C1
Sabres defend an early lead and turn back the Senators, 4-2. Page B1
Manny Fried, a guiding presence to area’s actors, writers and social activists, dies at 97
‘He was a man with a purpose’
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Officer pinned to van kills a drug suspect
Automatic weapons used as witnesses cite deaths ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Manny Fried wrote and spoke out about the plight of the working class throughout his life. Above left, the playwright works in his office in 1978. Top right, the actor rehearses for his one-man show in 2007. Lower right, the activist appears before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1964.
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INSIDE THE NEWS Teachers warned in Wisconsin MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin school districts are warning teachers their contracts might not be renewed as Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cut public employees’ collective bargaining rights remains in limbo despite Assembly approval Friday. Story on A8.
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Anner’s dream to host TV program comes true Oprah gives show to both finalists
Buffalo News Arts Editor Jeff Simon talks about what viewers should look for during Sunday’s Oscar telecast at video.buffalonews.com.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A proposed highspeed rail between Tampa and Orlando got a temporary reprieve Friday when the Obama administration gave Florida Gov. Rick Scott a week to reconsider his opposition. If he rejects the $2.4 billion, New York and others may split it. Story on A5.
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Cloudy, with some snow. High temperature 28, low 24. Details on Page D10. John Neal rides his bike on a snow-covered side street in North Tonawanda on Friday. James P. McCoy/Buffalo News
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BENGHAZI, Libya — Protesters demanding Moammar Gadhafi’s ouster came under a hail of bullets Friday when pro-regime militiamen opened fire to stop the first significant anti-government marches in days in the capital of Tripoli. The president, speaking from the ramparts of a historic Tripoli fort, told supporters to prepare to defend the nation. Witnesses reported multiple deaths as gunmen on rooftops and in the streets shot at crowds with automatic weapons. “It was really like we are dogs,” said one man who was marching from Tripoli’s eastern Tajoura district. He added that many people were shot in the head, with seven people within 10 yards of him cut down in the first wave. Also Friday evening, troops loyal to Gadhafi attacked a major air base east of Tripoli that had fallen into rebel hands. A force of tanks attacked the Misrata Air Base, retaking part of it in battles with residents and army units who had joined the anti-Gadhafi uprising, said a doctor and one resident wounded in the battle on the edge of opposition-held Misrata, about
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An undercover Lackawanna police officer could have lost both his legs if he hadn’t used deadly force and shot three times into the blacktinted back window of a minivan filled with drug dealers, authorities said Friday. When the shootout was over late Thursday afternoon, van passenger Rashad Bradford, 29, of Buffalo, was dead with one bullet in the head and another in his back. The van’s driver, Derrick “Murder” Nailor, who has been arrested 27 times, had stopped gunning the engine and backing up in his attempt to shove an unmarked police minivan out of the way in an attempt to escape, police said. Officer Joseph Milkowski, who fired the shots, had opened the sliding passenger-side door of the police van when the other van rammed it in the parking lot of the NOCO gas station at Grant Boulevard and Abbott Road at about 5:53 p.m.
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Reality show contestant and Kenmore native Zach Anner says his goal has been to stay true to himself, no matter what happens.
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Oprah. Johnny. Ellen. Conan. And now, Zach and Kristina? Zach Anner, the comic filmmaker who grew up in Kenmore, tied with Kristina Kuzmic-Crocco and Oprah Winfrey awarded each their own show in the finale Friday night of “Your OWN Show,” a reality TV competition on the Oprah Winfrey Network. He now gets to host his own show — an inspirational travel program — on Winfrey’s new cable channel. It’s a dream come true for Anner, who has been making silly sketch comedy videos with his friends and family since he was a little boy. But it could be more than that. Anner showed that he’s got what it takes to make it in show business — and it doesn’t See Oprah on Page A2
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Manny Fried, the actor, union organizer and prolific playwright who stood up to McCarthyism and served as an outspoken champion of the working class, died early Friday morning in a Kenmore nursing home. He was 97. Even until this year, he remained a guiding presence in Buffalo’s theater, literary and social activist communities and was widely regarded as the most important figure on Buffalo’s theater scene. “He was a passionate, hardworking man devoted to hardworking people,” said Lorrie Rabin, Fried’s daughter. “He was very focused on his politics and his social beliefs. He was a man with a purpose.” Once dubbed “the most dangerous man in Western New York” for his union-organizing activities and association with the Communist Party, Fried was the subject of government investigations and public recriminations for much of his life. He was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee at least twice, in 1954 and 1964, each time refusing to answer questions posed by the committee or to give names of other suspected communists. In a 2007 interview, Fried recalled his response to the committee’s questions with a few simple sentences. “My answer will be, I will not answer. The First and the Fifth,” he said, invoking constitutional amendments. “Or in other words, it’s none of your business.” During the McCarthy era, he was blacklisted and prevented from working
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