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Local TV stations in Iowa reporting that Shawn Johnson will be doing the Pledge of Allegiance at the DNC convention. Looking for links to the story.

TAMPA - The Hillsborough County teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student was once the sweetheart of local Backstreet Boy Nick Carter, friends of hers told ABC Action News, and a former lesbian girlfriend of hers is now in the hospital because of the stress surrounding the case.

Natalie Maines, the Dixie Chicks' lead singer, is pictured in a full-page ad on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union in the June 14 issue of The New Yorker.

Winifred Skinner doesn't wear her Tommy Hilfiger jacket anymore. She bought the jacket on sale years ago, before she retired. She wore it as she walked on the east side of Des Moines, picking up discarded soda pop and beer cans, which she redeemed for a nickel apiece, using the proceeds to help pay for her prescription drugs.

Body of missing Okemah woman found in a ditch in Hughes County The family of a missing Okemah woman talks about the baby, and the future she'll never have. It's a bizarre case that's taken authorities to Okfuskee and Hughes Counties. Authorities say 21-year-old Carolyn Simpson of Okemah may have been killed for her baby. Simpson had been missing since last Monday. Her body was found in a Hughes County ditch by a hunter. She'd been shot in the head. Authorities say her attacker carved her baby from her body. Simpson's family is in shock over what's happened. "Disbelief...

Patriot act: Chuck E.'s in love. Rickie Lee's in revolt By Larry Katz Friday, October 31, 2003 Rickie Lee Jones first charmed listeners 24 years ago with her biggest hit, ``Chuck E.'s In Love.'' Now she's singing about a guy named George W. and she's got no love for him at all. With her new album, ``The Evening of My Best Day,'' Jones ventures into topical songs for the first time in her career. She says she didn't start out intending to mix politics with her music. President Bush drove her to it. ``I started working on the record a...

Are Democrats the new Tories? In light of recent events concerning the war on terrorism, it would appear so. The Tories of the Revolutionary Era--or Loyalists as some called them-- chose to side with the British insteard of their fellow colonists. By siding against American interests in the war on terror, Democrats and their allies have taken on the role of the Tories. History will not look favorably upon the Democrats due to their constant opposition to efforts to ensure American success in Iraq. The Tories of the Revolutionary War period were ''vilified as offenders against the public good who...

Naked Nude Dixie Chicks dad says daughters not nude in E.W. Cover By Neil Haislop, Country Forever Productions NASHVILLE, TN Wednesday 5.7.2003 /netmusiccountdown.com/ -- According to the father of the Erwin sisters, Dixie Chicks, Martie (MaGuire) and Emily (Robison), the Chicks didn't exactly pose nude for their now famous Entertainment Weekly cover. Paul Erwin reportedly says the nudity was accomplished by an accomplished air-brush artist, so reports MJI. Aw shucks!

12-08, Local: Officials seek cause of three local deaths By PATRINA A. BOSTIC A Gregg County justice of the peace says local officials will likely have to wait until January before they get a better idea of what caused the deaths of three East Texas women who became ill and died over a span of nine days after experiencing similar symptoms late last month. Precinct 1 Justice of the Peace B.H. Jameson requested autopsies for all three — including a teen and two women in their 40s — after they each died within 16 to 42 hours of becoming ill....

I am looking for coffee cup with GI on it that says "Shut the Hell Up"

There is probably a dumber community in America, but nobody is as hell-bent on proving it in public as Hollywood. The series of brainless rants around Oscar time two weeks ago was the climax of months of escalating public idiocy by people who confuse celebrity with wisdom.