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In Sunday’s special photography section in Issues & Ideas, staff photographer Marsha Halper’s service with The Miami Herald was misstated. Halper has been with the paper for 26 years. Link  Report an error

Lava Man’s trainer: A reader’s letter in Saturday’s Sports section took trainer Doug O’Neill to task for racing Lava Man after the horse had recovered from ankle injuries, accusing the trainer and Lava Man’s handlers of greed as motivation for running the horse again. The letter should not have run: O’Neill had said earlier, and [...]

A Jan. 3 Outlook review of Marc Spitz’s book “Bowie: A Biography” incorrectly grouped the 1980s British alternative rock band the Smiths with Depeche Mode and Moby, describing them as synth and electro-pop acts. The Smiths were a guitar-based band. Link  Report an error

In some versions of a Dec. 29 story about a Supreme Court ruling on highway usage, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Israel has a network of roads reserved for Jews. These roads are open to all Israeli citizens, including Arabs, as well as foreigners and tourists, while banning virtually all Palestinians. Link  Report an [...]

A Dec. 25 front-page story about commercial properties scheduled for foreclosure auctions had incorrect information. The Dunwoody Hall retail center in DeKalb County has not been foreclosed on and is not scheduled for foreclosure auction.  Report an error

A report in the “Arts, Briefly” column on Monday about the playwright and actor Sam Shepard was published in error. His arrest on charges of speeding and driving under the influence of alcohol occurred a year ago, not early Saturday morning. The Times regrets the error. Link  Report an error

Brazil soccer: A soccer column in Sunday’s Sports section looking irreverently ahead to 2010 included the following passage: “Brasilia — Lulu, the president of Brazil and no relation to the 1960s English pop singer, has decreed that the country can field only players with names consisting of four or fewer letters.” The president of Brazil [...]

In a Jan. 2 story about the North Dakota National Guard on duty in Kosovo, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the soldiers responded to a roadside bomb. The soldiers responded to a roadside crash. Link  Report an error

A cutline in Saturday’s Spectator incorrectly identified Jes-Lynn Chaplin’s new baby as a boy. Baby Harlow, Hamilton’s first baby of the new year, is a girl. The Spectator apologizes for the error. Link  Report an error

Because of a reporting error, a story on Page 3E on Sunday listed author John Updike as still living. He died in January. Link Thanks, Ernest!  Report an error

In a Dec. 28 story, The Associated Press, relying on information from Van Morrison’s Hollywood-based publicist and his official Web site, reported erroneously that the Irish singer had a new baby boy with a woman identified as “his wife, GiGi.” Morrison said Thursday in a statement through his Dublin public relations firm that the report [...]

A photo caption inside the front section of Wednesday’s Observer incorrectly identified a Star Wars character on Wall Street as a stormtrooper. The character in the photo, who was accompanying Darth Vader and Lucasfilm executives at the New York Stock Exchange, was a clone trooper. Link Thanks, Rich!  Report an error

FURTHER to our article about increased security at Coronation Street's studios for their live 50th anniversary episode (December 9), we would like to make clear that while cast and crew were subject to full body searches, there was no specific threat from Al-Qaeda as we reported. We apologise for the misunderstanding and are happy to [...]

An article last Sunday about the death of Edward M. Kennedy in August misstated the length of his tenure in the Senate. He served 47 years, not 46 years. (The error appeared in Mr. Kennedy’s obituary and another article, about memories of the Senator, on Aug. 27, and also in an editorial that day. The [...]

Although the Rangeview Library District and one of its consultants, Ambient Energy, described the new Anythink Brighton library branch as “carbon positive,” meaning the building has a “positive” impact on the environment, the common terminology for a building that generates more energy than it uses is “carbon neutral” or “carbon negative.” The term was used [...]

In our report “Brighton TV producer escapes jail for “repulsive” child porn collection” at 5.49pm on Monday December 21 2009, we wrongly identified the defendant accused of downloading “unspeakable” child porn at a trial heard at Southwark Crown Court as Martyn Smith, the Bafta-nominated TV director, producer and writer whose achievements include the BBC programme [...]

A photo of Arindam Ghosh, a vice president at consulting firm Analysis Group, appeared with a Wednesday article about the Galleon insider-trading case. Because of incorrect information provided by Bloomberg News, Mr. Ghosh was misidentified as Intel Corp. executive Rajiv Goel, a defendant in the Galleon case. Link  Report an error

In “What Tony did next” (News Review, December 20) we referred to the allegation that “senior Labour figures were offering peerages in return for donations to the party”. As stated in the piece, Tony Blair was questioned by the police in the course of their inquiry into the allegation. A further eight officials or donors [...]

The Globe and Mail and Jan Wong did not intend to identify the owners of a Thornhill home whose home was described in the Maid for a Month series in 2006, and apologizes for any harm that may have been caused by the publication of the article to Steven, Georgina and Angelo Nitsopoulos. Link This [...]

The Prototype column last Sunday, about customer innovation centers, reported on a program at the 3M Company’s headquarters in St. Paul and described the company as being “at the forefront of a movement” in which corporations meet face to face with customers to elicit feedback. After the column was published, The Times learned that 3M [...]

From TheBostonChannel.com: The Boston Herald apologized Saturday for identifying the wrong man in an article about a hit-and-run death in Quincy.The man killed was Paul F. Moore, 63, of Milton.”The Herald deeply regrets the error and pain caused to the Moore family,” the newspaper wrote in its correction.The Herald said it incorrectly reported that Paul [...]

In the Dec. 16, 2009, post Real Student Default Rates Much Higher Than Previously Known, [1] we reported that the Department of Education was projecting that 47 percent of the federal money lent to students at for-profit education institutions in 2007 would never be repaid. We also said that the department had estimated that 40 [...]

Ben Welter’s Yesterday’s News blog at the Star Tribune recently featured a lengthy correction that was published on January 1, 1890: The Tribune has no apologies to offer for an annual number that is, considering the circumstances under which it has been prepared, a most creditable piece of statistical and review work. But it must [...]