Mr Davies said a friend rang him about a newspaper story about a bird that had been found.
Then a couple of years ago Topkis read a newspaper story about someone who had invented a machine that could print a paperback book in 17 minutes.
The defense secretary strongly disputed a newspaper story in The New York Times over the weekend, which said the Pentagon wanted use four bases in Iraq well into the future.
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Try to think of the last time you saw a newspaper story about No Child Left Behind that mentioned low intellectual ability as the reason why some students don't perform at grade level.
The composer got the idea for his Vixen from a serialized newspaper story, with drawings, detailing the adventures of a clever fox cub.
He also accused Mr Murtagh of winding him up with a story that a national newspaper was about to run an expose story about a prisoner - a claim that subsequently turned out to be untrue.
An account was published in a French newspaper, but Mr Chapman found himself in a court of law when he sold his story to a British newspaper.
Pryce, 60, went to a newspaper with the story after their marriage broke up.
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September's report confirmed him as one of the sources for a notorious Sun newspaper story that smeared Liverpool fans after the disaster.
Lulzsec claimed to have attacked News International, owner of the Sun newspaper website, on which a false story was planted suggesting that the newspaper's owner, Rupert Murdoch, had died.
It turned out that this was the result of a sensational story in the Sun newspaper in London about a piece of equipment that Schultz had never heard of.
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Mr Blair played coy on live TV even when a copy of the newspaper story was waved under his nose.
Senator Richard Blumenthal, Senator Chris Murphy and Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty sent a letter to Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg at the end of last week calling for action, after a local newspaper publicised the story.
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Earlier this week, the New York Times followed up on a story the newspaper wrote about a year ago that featured an effort by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois that is achieving some success in how it pays a Chicago-based healthcare system.
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If they don't want a bad story in the newspaper, it doesn't get written.
To make matters worse, the founder of the shop was a Holocaust survivor, a detail that emerged in a prominent story in the newspaper-of-record.
Lulzsec claimed to have attacked News International, whose website for The Sun was defaced with a false story suggesting the newspaper's owner Rupert Murdoch had died.
Steenkamp's father, Barry Steenkamp, told the Afrikaans-language newspaper Beeld for a story Saturday that if Pistorius is lying about how she died, he will have to live with his conscience.
During a stop in Blackburn, Straw summoned up his Beatles trivia to tell Rice that Lennon -- who was murdered in New York by a deranged fan in 1980 -- penned those words after reading a story in the Daily Mail newspaper.
They believed me when I told them who I was and who I was writing, gave me the car, the access to a superstar athlete and when I wrote a story about it in a magazine or newspaper or website as I said I would, it made them a little more likely to believe the next guy.
The newspaper did not print a story after the call and no money changed hands.
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No quality newspaper would print such a story, from a single anonymous source, without further checks.
First, however, they told their story to a Harare newspaper, the Daily News.
Certainly the local newspaper would never run a story about why young Ms. Jones decided to go to Cal Tech over MIT.
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This information first surfaced in a story in the Guardian newspaper in July 2011 after Afridi was arrested by the Pakistani intelligence service, ISI.
There were reports that Penn invited photographers to follow him during his boat rescue, a claim he denied and attributed to a single tabloid newspaper that spread the story.
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One little aside, when I first went to Russia my wife and I ended up with a little newspaper import business (long story as to why and how but not relevant).
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When he put up the sign, it got spotted by a neighborhood newspaper, and then the news story went global.
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