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The Louisiana Democratic Party just went all "Geraldo" on Republican Sen. David Vitter. On Wednesday the party launched a new website, forgottencrimes.com, that may be the most blatant attempt yet to make Vitter's involvement in the 2007 D.C. Madam prostitution scandal a front and center issue in his re-election campaign. Vitter's likely Democratic opponent this cycle is Rep. Charlie Melancon, who so far has allowed the state party to take the toughest whacks at Vitter over the sex scandal that rocked Washington D.C. and Louisiana three years ago. Now the party is promising a series of videos -- which from...

<p>TARPON SPRINGS - Police were called to the home of DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey's mother on Thursday to investigate her apparent suicide.</p> <p>Police have confirmed that the dead person is Palfrey who was 52.</p> <p>Palfrey was dubbed "The DC Madam" by the national media after her arrest for allegedly running an upscale call girl ring in the nation's capitol.</p>

53 minutes ago WASHINGTON - A woman accused of running a prostitution ring in the nation's capital is free to distribute thousands of pages of phone records after a federal judge lifted a restraining order on Thursday. U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler's order granted the request of Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 51, of Vallejo, Calif., to quash restrictions by government prosecutors that prohibited her from giving away the list. "As a result, Jeane has determined to release those records under certain conditions to qualified individuals or organizations," wrote her attorney, Montgomery Blair Sibley, in an e-mail. Palfrey and her attorney...