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An 11-year-old girl who was thrown off a Nebraska elementary school’s junior cheerleading squad because she refused to “shake her booty” says that while the gyrations may be a crowd-pleaser, she doesn’t think young girls should be moving their bodies like that. “It just felt wrong. I don’t know why,” Faylene Frampton said Wednesday during an interview on TODAY with Tamron Hall. “It j ust didn’t feel it was a cheer that was appropriate for kids of my age or younger.” The sixth-grader from Ashland, Neb., says she complained to cheerleading coach Tina Harris in the past that she did...

Madison Heights, Mich. (WXYZ) - Jennifer Tesch's six-year-old daughter has been removed from the Madison Heights Wolverine flag football cheer team. The Madison Heights mom contacted Action News last month because she was upset about the words to one of her daughter's cheerleading chants. The cheer she objects to says "our backs ache, our skirts are too tight, we shake our booties from left to right." League members were outraged, saying it cast a bad light on the league and she should have handled it internally. The team voted to keep the cheer and voted unanimously to remove the child...

It is said that the first structure was built around A.D. 1000, by an ancient culture known as the Sinagua, also known as the Anasazi. The Sinagua's were obviously aware of its greatness, as this is where they built their homes and thrived off of the land. They were agriculturalists with trade connections that spanned hundreds of miles. They hunted game and gathered seeds and nuts to sustain themselves. By studying petroglyphs, artifacts, and comparatives of indigenous and Hopi groups, Archaeologists and anthropologists describe Sinagua rituals as being closely related to the flora and fauna of the area. They utilized...

It was the sort of feel-good story that local television loves. A Marine lieutenant calls his hometown station, saying he is coming home early from a combat tour of Iraq and Afghanistan and wants to surprise his wife -- with the cameras rolling. But because Lt. Denver Edick's wife is a cheerleader for the Washington Redskins, the easy score turned into a turf battle in which ABC, the network that pitched the idea, wound up barred from FedEx Field, while the team handed the ball to the NBC station in town, which happens to be its broadcast partner.

At a recent New Jersey Nets vs. Toronto Raptors NBA game, a halftime performance took an unexpected turn when the Raptors' mascot "ate" a cheerleader whole, then left the court. As the announcer put it, "That's... That's wrong."

O.K., if Marco Rubio wins the Florida Senate seat in November, can anyone tell me why a PALIN/RUBIO Ticket could not win in 2012? You'd have a ticket with: Two attractive candidates with youth First Female Nominee for President in History of the U.S. Hispanic Veep candidate V.P. Candidate from a large state And two people of whom either is a heck of a lot better than Obama.

With a portfolio that includes the middle class, stimulus spending, Iraq and politicking for endangered Democrats, Vice President Biden should be cutting a high profile. But the Obama administration's avuncular No. 2 has evolved -- after a sometimes bumpy first year -- into a classic guy-behind-the-guy. He stays busy but rarely makes news, and he's a trusted presidential confidant -- but not exactly in the inner circle. "He's had the occasional gaffe but he's stayed very much behind the scenes -- in the tomb of the unknown vice president," said Cindy Rugeley, a political scientist at Texas Tech University. "He...

In preparation for SuperBowl Sunday, I bring you NFL Cheerleaders.

Video on site An American woman is convinced that a flu shot given to her has lead to a rare disorder which means she can only walk backwards. Even more strangely, she has lost the ability to talk at all - unless she is running. The woman, Desiree Jennings, took a flu jab but just ten days later, she started shaking and struggled to walk in a straight line. She can't stay still without having a spasm, but incredibly when she either walks backwards or runs forwards, she is normal again.Just two years ago, she married her childhood sweetheart Brandon,...

After dancing her way through school, former Miami Heat cheerleader has Fabienne Achille traded in her pom-poms for a stethoscope. From the Heat to the Hospital Watch VideoA former Miami Heat dancer turns in her hot pants for scrubs. The pretty 28-year-old paid her way through pre-med school at University of Miami by cheering on the likes of Alonzo Mourning, then turned her attention to the grueling medical curriculum at University of South Florida. The ballgame glamor made her undergrad days memorable, but it wasn't exactly easy, she says. “It was a lot of hard work especially being pre-med," Achille,...

GREEN BAY, Wis. - A 33-year-old woman stole her daughter's identity to attend high school and join the cheerleading squad, according to a criminal complaint filed against the woman...

She was captain of her high school cheerleading squad, a nearly straight-A student and a soon-to-be pre-med student at the University of Florida. But now, 18-year-old Stephanie Kuleba is dead, and her friends and family are pointing to breast augmentation surgery as the cause, The Palm Beach Post reported. "She was a role model for a lot of people," her friend Vicky Goldring, 16, told the paper. "She was incredibly smart. She wanted to help people. She was just a happy 18-year-old girl." Kuleba died Saturday of what friends believe were complications from the plastic surgery she had the previous...

YORKTOWN - The attorney for the Billy Fischer family, whose daughter was cut from the Yorktown High School junior varsity cheerleading squad, says her clients have no other option but to sue the school district. "At this point we are planning on going forward with a lawsuit," said Lisa Duke of the San Antonio law firm of Anderson and Duke. "We have not filed the paperwork yet, but we will soon." Incoming freshman Wycoda Fischer was cut after tryouts were held for six positions on the squad. Seven girls tried out. The family contends that because an exception was made...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is an exuberant cheerleader for his policies to fight global warming. At times, unfortunately, his exuberance gets the best of him. A recent example is a May 18 speech he delivered to the International Low Carbon Fuel Symposium at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. During the speech, Schwarzenegger claimed that development of ethanol and other biofuels could help reduce gas prices, which now average about $3.45 a gallon in California. "The Low Carbon Fuel Standard is our best weapon against rising oil prices and gas prices because a vibrant market in alternative fuels and alternative vehicles, alternative...

Michelle releases her inner cheerleader to give a shout to Harry Reid and the rest of the Defeatocrats.

Bonnie-Jill Laflin always stands out when she's in a crowd. As a former cheerleader, model and actress it's hard not to. On this day, however, she's standing out more than usual. There's no crowd at the Los Angeles D-Fenders-Arkansas Rimrockers NBA Developmental League game at Staples Center, where Laflin is the only person sitting in the seats behind the D-Fenders bench. While the game changes leads at breakneck speeds, Laflin, wearing a plaid blazer, Capri pants and folding her Dolce & Gabbana-boot-covered legs, is jotting down notes in a folder. It's an interesting sight for a woman who has been...

Hold a Halloween party. Invite a few high school cheerleaders who arrive in lingerie-like costumes. Mix in some male prep athletes. Then add other students who smoke and drink. Take snapshots. Post them on MySpace. What happens? Five girls end up suspended from the cheerleading squad, no boys are punished and one of the cheerleaders sues the school district for sex discrimination. Jaimee Bruno, 17, one of the five cheerleaders suspended from the Leland High School squad, and her mother, Denise Bruno, allege that educators selectively suspended the female cheerleaders for attending the 2005 party, but took no action against...

Related To Story Sally Jordan Hill walks to a court hearing in Charlotte, N.C. Nurse Arrested In 2001 Death Of Former High School RivalCold Case Unit: N.C. Nurse Administered Fatal Dose Of PainkillerCHARLOTTE, Colo. -- A registered nurse from North Carolina was ordered held without bond Monday and faces homicide charges in the death of a patient who turned out to be a classmate rival from 30 years ago.  Sally Jordan Hill of Matthews, N.C., was accused of killing Sandra Baker Joyner, who died after undergoing cosmetic surgery in 2001 in Charlotte.  Hill is a certified registered nurse anesthetist...

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CBS4) ST. LOUIS, MO Kristi Yamaoka wasn't about to let a broken neck and concussion keep her school spirit down. The Southern Illinois University cheerleader lost her balance during a routine Sunday and fell about 15 feet onto her head, hushing the crowd of about 14,000 as she was placed in a back and neck brace. But the 18-year-old sophomore, in fair condition Monday and expected to make a full recovery from chipped neck vertebra and a concussion, let the stunned fans and national television audience know right away that she was going to be OK. When the pep band...