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Not cool. Nobody messes with Pearl Jam! Not to mention, nobody deserves this ever. Police say three men wielding knives mugged Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament outside an Atlanta recording studio late last month. Ament suffered a head wound. Surveillance cameras caught the incident but no arrests have been made.

At least two county supervisors and two county pension officials were issued grand jury subpoenas this week to testify in May, several county sources confirmed. The FBI took an interest in the pension package several weeks ago, according to county Supervisor Robert Krug, who said Friday he had been interviewed by a federal agent. The federal probe is the second criminal investigation into the pension enhancements proposed by the Ament administration and approved by the County Board for most county employees, including elected officials, in 2000 and 2001. When the generosity of the benefits became widely known in January, Ament...

Remember the Milwaukee County pension scandal (and here, and here, and here) over the last few months? Just when you thought it couldn't get any crazier, we find out one of the supervisors called the Sheriff (at three in the morning) and asked him to declare martial law to quot;put this community at ease.quot; Here's the story: Supervisor floated idea of martial law Revelation about call to sheriff stuns crowd By MIKE JOHNSONof the Journal Sentinel staff Last Updated: Feb. 26, 2002 As citizen furor over Milwaukee County's pension scandal mounted early last month, Supervisor Kathy Arciszewski made a 3...