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Mayhew passed away at his North Texas home on April 30 with his family by his side. He is survived by his wife and three children.

Complete Headline: Michelle Obama Tells Grads: ‘I Could Take Up a Whole Afternoon Talking About’ Barack Obama’s Failures First lady Michelle Obama in her commencement speech at a high school in Nashville, Tenn., on Saturday said she could “take up a whole afternoon talking about” her husband’s failures. “And then there’s this guy, Barack Obama, who lost – I could take up a whole afternoon talking about his failures, but – he lost his first race for Congress, and now he gets to call himself my husband,” she told graduates of Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet High School during commencement...

No surprise here: Vogue is out with its "Top 10 Best Dressed" list, and Michelle Obama has won the honor. Branding Obama "The Independent" the fashion bible's website shows a photo of the first lady stepping off of a plane in a flowing blue and white dress. Vogue has also released a "Best Dressed" edition that hits newsstands this week. The special issue features Obama sporting designers Moschino, Peter Som, Tracy Reese, Narciso Rodriguez and others. Vogue’s at-large editor, Andre Leon Talley says of Obama: "Style is not an afterthought to this wife and mother committed to national service; whether...

How's this for chilling -- the night before she was shot in Berkeley over the summer, Dartmouth College student Meleia Willis-Starbuck handled the very gun that was used to kill her. That's the story Willis-Starbuck's friend and accused killer Christopher Hollis is telling authorities, and it's one of several new details emerging from the tragic shooting. The 19-year-old Willis-Starbuck, who graduated from Berkeley High School and had just finished her freshman year at Dartmouth, was arguing with a group of UC Berkeley football players and their friends on College Avenue early July 17 and reportedly used her cell phone to...