Due to the considerable recognition and financial rewards he has garnered during the past decade as violent mob leader and insensitive Hollywood filmmaker Christopher Moltisanti on "The Sopranos," Michael Imperioli owns a fine little theater on West 39th Street in Manhattan and sometimes keeps a rooster named Dino in his nearby home. While Imperioli worked out the financing for the three-year-old Studio Dante through really nice paychecks from the producers of "The Sopranos," his wife, ... [full story]

INDIANAPOLIS - An Indianapolis woman has sued American Airlines, claiming flight crew failed to take proper emergency measures when her husband had a fatal heart attack. Taisuke Matsuo, who had no history of heart problems, suffered the attack while he was in a toilet cubicle on a flight from Japan to Indianapolis in 2005, The Indianapolis Star reported. Carolyn Watts' lawsuit claims negligence contributed to her husband's death. Large commercial airliners operating in the United ... [full story]

There are moments when e-mail's easy access and swift convenience leave us in awe. "What did we do without it?" asks Rita Ali.   OVERLOAD - There are ways to stay on top of that ever-expanding inbox. CNS Illustration by Scott Adrian Hinton. Then there are all those other bold-faced moments Ali knows well - the daily deluge of e-mail messages piling up in the inbox. One day recently, Ali, director of diversity at Illinois Central College, ... [full story]

FORT WORTH, Texas - A man already serving a life sentence in New York has been linked to an 18-year-old Texas killing and could become a suspect in another homicide. Sam Chinn III could receive a death sentence if he is tried and convicted in Texas. Detectives in Fort Worth made a DNA match to semen found in the body of Christina Banks, an 89-year-old widow who was raped, robbed and strangled in her home ... [full story]

THE CHEF With broiled salted fish, Japanese pickles and rice for dinner one night, and homemade ravioli and monicotti the next, Jeffrey Stout learned the meaning of eclectic cuisine at the family table.   JEFFREY STOUT - Jeffrey Stout, along with colleague J.C. Chen, operates Alexander's in Cupertino, Calif., a grand steakhouse with an Asian twist was an immediate hit with both the critics and the public. CNS Photo.    SEARED SCALLOPS AND SMOKED BEEF - Seared Hokkaido ... [full story]

PHOENIX - An Arizona man who contracted drug-resistant tuberculosis in Russia is living in legal limbo in a Phoenix jail cell. Robert Daniels was ordered into involuntary isolation after he failed to obey a court order to wear a face mask in public, USA Today reports. Even Joe Arpaio, the notoriously tough Maricopa County sheriff, expressed sympathy for Daniels. Arpaio plans to return Daniels' television, among items seized by jail employees in February when they ... [full story]

THE CHEF When dining at The Lodge at Sonoma's Carneros Bistro & Wine Bar, it's not surprising to see executive chef Janine Falvo harvesting part of your meal from the 480-square-foot kitchen garden.   JANINE FALVO - In 2005, Janine Falvo took over Carneros Bistro & Wine Bar in Sonoma, Calif., and was named a 'Rising Star Chef' by Restaurant Hospitality Magazine. CNS Photo.    BERKSHIRE PORK CHOPS AND APPLE FRITTERS - Janine Falvo's Pork Chop with Caraway ... [full story]

POTTSTOWN, Pa. - Dark skies and steady rain set the mood as hundreds of law enforcement officers attended services Thursday for slain FBI agent Barry Bush in Pottstown, Pa. Bush, 51, was killed by a stray bullet from another agent's weapon as they closed in on suspected bank robbers in New Jersey last Thursday, the first FBI agent fatally shot in more than a decade and the 51st to die in the line of duty ... [full story]

BERLIN - German politicians are debating whether police should be allowed access to files of digital passport photographs and fingerprints. A law has been drafted that would open photo files, Deutsche Welle reported. In November, digitized fingerprints are to be added to the information stored in computer chips embedded on passports. The question of whether police can use those files is even more controversial. The draft legislation reportedly includes language that would require deletion of ... [full story]

ROME - Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema told Parliament Thursday the five Taliban spokesmen traded for a journalist were not fighters. He defended the government's negotiations for the release of Daniele Mastrogiacomo, saying Italy is not the first country to negotiate with kidnappers, Ansa, the Italian news agency, said. Mastrogiacomo and his Afghan translator and driver were abducted in February. The driver was killed almost immediately, but the translator, Adjmal Nashkbandi, was supposed to have ... [full story]