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With local TV stations scrambling as advertising dwindles, it's prompting some to examine a money stream traditionally relegated to newspapers: obituaries. WNEM-TV, a Saginaw, Michigan, CBS affiliate owned by Meredith Corp. (MDP), may be the first TV station in the U.S. to air obituaries -- an idea...

For the past year or so, Larry Mendte, an award-winning broadcast journalist, has been caught in a scandal that seems like it was ripped from the pages of a bad melodrama. Now, it's finally coming to an end. Earlier this week, Mendte ended the sentence of house arrest he received after pleading...