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Soul singer and arranger Isaac Hayes, who won Grammy awards and an Oscar for the theme from the 1971 action film "Shaft," has died, sheriff's officials in Memphis, Tennessee, reported Sunday. Relatives found Hayes, 65, unconscious in his home next to a still-running treadmill, said Steve Shular, a spokesman for the Shelby County Sheriff's Department. Paramedics attempted to revive him and took him to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 2 p.m., the sheriff's department said.

(CBS) CHICAGO -- A south suburban elementary school has been rocked by scandal after an X-rated DVD showing the principal and a teacher was leaked to parents. As Chicago CBS television station WBBM-TV's Mai Martinez reports, the video reportedly shows the principal, Leroy Coleman, in his office having sex with science teacher Janet Lofton at Sandridge Elementary School in Lynwood, Ill. Another woman, also a teacher, appears in the two-hour video as well. The footage has left the school district administration many parents deeply concerned. Some parents reported that copies of the video have been circulating for the past couple...

Isaac Hayes and his wife are the parents of a baby boy, the couple announced Tuesday. Nana Kwadjo Hayes was born April 10 and weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces, spokesman Rob Moore said. In the Ghanaian language, Nana means "King," and Kwadjo (pronounced "Kwo-Jo") means "boy born on Monday." In 1992, Hayes was coronated an honorary king of the Ada district of Ghana for his humanitarian work. Kwadjo is Hayes' fourth son and the first with wife Adjowa. The 63-year-old soul singer and actor is best known for his recordings with Stax Records in Memphis and his 1971 No. 1...

While certainly not limited to the 20-30 something crowd, viewers of South Park tend to be the latchkey offspring of the infamous Baby Boomers. These children of MTV and video games have extremely limited attention spans and as a result are always moving from one experience to the next in hopes of finding fulfillment. Unfortunately, all they are finding in South Park is a wasteland.