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Tulsa Mayor Kathy Taylor acknowledged Friday that her daughter, 24 year old Elizabeth Frame, was arrested early Friday morning for drunk driving. A Tulsa Police report says an officer pulled over Frame’s vehicle just before 2 a.m. Friday near 15th and Cincinnati for running a red light. In the report, it states the officer smelled an odor of alcohol and asked Frame to get out of the car, where she failed sobriety field tests. The police report says Frame admitted to having 2 to 3 beers and was hopping around to maintain her balance. The report goes on to say...

Heather Mills has accused British Airways of picking on her after she claimed she was forced to walk to her plane at Gatwick airport. The former model, who has an artificial leg, said she was humiliated after staff brought her a wheelchair instead of an electric buggy. She was overheard telling staff: "Have you got it in for me? This is vile. Why are you doing this to me? Don't you know I only have one leg? Why are you treating me like this?" Ms Mills, 38, who is locked in a bitter divorce battle with Sir Paul McCartney, checked...

ATLANTA -- The wife of a Georgia legislator known as an outspoken advocate for immigration rights is in hiding after federal agents came to their home with a deportation order, her lawyer said. Sascha Herrera, the wife of Democratic state Sen. Curt Thompson, was ordered deported after she missed a federal court hearing in February 2005, her lawyer Charles Kuck said. Kuck said he plans to ask an immigration judge Monday to reconsider the order calling for her deportation, though it could take as long as a month before a decision is made. During that time, Kuck said Herrera could...

Steinbach the fifth Bengal to be arrested this year Associated Press NEWPORT, Ky. -- Bengals guard Eric Steinbach was arrested and charged with boating under the influence on the Ohio River, becoming the fifth Cincinnati player in three months accused of breaking the law. A Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources officer stopped Steinbach because he was violating an idle-only zone Saturday night, agency spokesman Mark Marraccini said. Steinbach failed a series of field sobriety tests, Marraccini said. The player was released from the Campbell County jail in Newport after posting bond and was to appear in court Tuesday,...

She crashes weddings, but Oprah brings a gift. Odd gifts but gifts nonetheless. That’s what happened last weekend when Sarah Klein’s little brother got married in Tulsa, Okla. Klein, an actuary for Mercer Human Resource Consulting, lives in downtown Kansas City. On June 3 she was a bridesmaid when her brother, Ben, wed his college sweetheart, Heather Anderson. Bride and groom had just finished their first dance at the reception when the DJ announced to the crowd of about 250 that a special guest had arrived. Elevator doors opened and a camera crew, a gaggle of beefy, good-lookin’ bodyguards and...

Officers Claim Brass Interfered in Investigation of Rep. Kennedy Incident Thursday, May 4; 4:16 pm By John McArdle, Roll Call Staff Police labor union officials asked acting Chief Christopher McGaffin this afternoon to allow a Capitol Police officer to complete his investigation into an early-morning car crash involving Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.).According to a letter sent by Officer Greg Baird, acting chairman of the USCP FOP, the wreck took place at approximately 2:45 a.m. Thursday when Kennedy’s car, operating with its running lights turned off, narrowly missed colliding with a Capitol Police cruiser and smashed into a security barricade...

The occupants of the British Airways first class lounge at Heathrow were probably rather relieved last night that the 30-strong entourage of the US rapper Snoop Dogg were turned away. But Snoop and his minders were not happy and what has been described as a "mini-riot" broke out at terminal one that left the rapper and five of his associates under arrest. Seven police officers were injured. One suffered a fractured hand, the others' injuries were more minor, mostly cuts and bruises.

ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Famous for zipping around New Mexico’s open roadways at high speeds, Governor Richardson was at it again this month. Albuquerque police spokesman John Walsh says an officer spotted a sport utility vehicle speeding southbound on Interstate 25 the morning of June 2nd. In an audio tape, the officer is heard describing the vehicle and trying to signal it to pull over. The vehicle exited the interstate and stopped at a traffic light. That’s when the officer approached it and determined it was the governor. The state Department of Public Safety says it was a simple misunderstanding. The...

Actor Christian Slater was arrested early today for allegedly groping a woman on a Manhattan street, police said. Slater, 35, was accused of touching the woman's buttocks about 1.50am (1500 AEST) said a police spokesman, Detective John Sweeney. The woman, who was not identified, flagged down police to report the incident, Sweeney said. Slater was found nearby and the woman identified him as the man who groped her. Slater, who's appearing on Broadway in The Glass Menagerie, was arrested on a charge of third-degree sexual abuse. Slater starred in the 1980s classic Heathers, as well as True Romance, and Untamed...

WARRENTON, Ga. (AP) Chris Tucker has pleaded guilty to speeding and eluding police during a brief car chase last month. The actor told authorities he didn't hear their sirens because he was on his way to church. Tucker, 32, entered the pleas Tuesday in Warren County Probate Court and paid a fine of $6,999, court clerk Jeremy Moore said Thursday. Tucker was driving a Bentley at 109 mph on Interstate 20 on April 17 when Georgia State Patrol troopers attempted to pull him over, Moore said. The speed limit on that stretch of road is 70 mph. The pursuit lasted...

Lawmakers Pay $5 For All-They-Can Drink/Eat POSTED: 11:51 am CDT May 2, 2005 MADISON, Wis. -- The state Ethics Board has fined the Tavern League of Wisconsin $2,500 for a reception it held for lawmakers in March. About 100 state officials attended -- nearly half were lawmakers -- and paid $5 for as much food and beer as they wanted. The reception came to light after state Sen. Russ Decker, who attended the party, was pulled over for drunken driving in Middleton. News 3 and Channel3000 will have more information later today.

April 17, 2005 -- WE all know celebrities get free stuff - swag - just for being famous. But did you know that there are some stars who eat, fly, sleep, party, do virtually everything in their day-to-day life for free? All they do is demand it, take it, or simply walk out on the tab. The Hollywood "gimme!" syndrome has run amuck. "It's at a fever pitch right now. It's assumed that if you are a celebrity and show up that you will get something. There are so many real stars and quote-unquote stars who don't even understand that...

PORTLAND, Ore. - Olympic ski champion Bill Johnson was charged with assaulting an officer and resisting arrest after punching a sheriff's deputy in the face during a traffic stop, police said. Johnson was stopped in his pickup truck Friday by a Multnomah County sheriff's deputy and a suburban Troutdale police officer. When the officers approached, Johnson pulled out his 1984 gold medal and taunted them by saying, "You don't have one of these," police said. Authorities said Johnson threw his keys at Deputy Jeff Cordes, reached out his window, grabbed the deputy's shirt and punched him in the face. Johnson...

<p>ALEXANDRA Kerry might not have made the most gracious presidential daughter. She waltzed into the Converse suite at the Motorola lodge and started demanding shoes. "The woman running the suite was helping someone else, but Alexandra didn't care," said our spy. "She just started pointing to all these shoes and saying really loudly, 'A 10! In those, those and those! Didn't you hear me? A 10!' " When the Converse woman told Kerry she didn't have her size, Kerry waggled her finger and sniffed, "I am NOT impressed with what's going on here." The woman sighed, "Well, then, you can leave — I am not impressed with you!"</p>

A hulking Boston bodyguard was arrested yesterday, accused of hurling a scalding Starbucks coffee at a meter maid who slapped a ticket on his illegally parked Hummer in the Back Bay.      The alleged attack unfolded about 8:30 a.m. when Christi Noviello, 44, was walking her Berkeley and Boylston streets beat and saw the black Hummer parked in a loading zone with a woman in the passenger seat.      ``I am a nice meter maid,'' Noviello told the Herald yesterday in an exclusive interview. ``As a courtesy, I gave the lady a chance to move, but she pointed at the Starbucks and...

A Hollywood actor jailed two years ago in Pakistan for possessing opium has been released. Erik Anthony Aude, 24, from California, was freed on Thursday from a jail in Rawalpindi, prison officials said. He had been arrested at Islamabad airport in February 2002 trying to leave for Dubai and was later sentenced to seven years in jail. Aude, who had a role in the film Dude, Where's My Car?, said he had no idea the drugs were in his luggage. His release followed an appeal by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. The governor's spokesman, Billy Sparks, told the AFP news...

Men who have been in combat together often form a bond that lasts long after the war is over. It is hard to think of a single example of men who faced enemy fire side by side and who later publicly denounced each other. The glaring exceptions are the men who served alongside John Kerry in Vietnam. When Vietnam veteran John O'Neill contacted men who had served with Lt. Kerry in Vietnam, he was overwhelmed by their readiness to publicly condemn the Senator. Retired Navy Commander John Kipp was quoted as saying: "If there is anything I can do to...

A small slice from the corpulent creature called the Arrogance of Power: Sen. Arlen Specter is a busy and important man. So beyond the pale of ordinary humans, according to a report by John Shumway of KDKA-TV, that his aides skirted security regulations at Pittsburgh International Airport in order to speed the senator's departure from the erstwhile Steel City. How? By getting his boarding pass with the help of authorities so Mr. Specter could breeze on his way to accomplish even more important things. Someone tipped off Mr. Shumway, who arrived at the airport and talked to an indignant Specter...

60 Minutes' Mike Wallace arrested by taxi and limosine commission cops for disorderly conduct. He was handcuffed and brought to jail, according to a report on CBS2. He has been released from custody, but is charged with a violation.

NY DAILY NEWS....LLOYD GROVE Just because Teresa Heinz Kerry is a billionaire doesn't mean that she doesn't pinch pennies. I hear that folks at George's Salon in Washington's Four Season Hotel - where Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry's wife gets her nails done - are complaining that the Heinz Ketchup heiress wants the manicurist to service her at home, a few blocks from the luxury hotel in Georgetown, but is balking at the $90 charge. Last week, a Lowdown spy overheard a George's manicurist say that Heinz Kerry has been haggling over the fee for her home manicures - three...