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<p>SONNY Bono, former husband and singing partner of superstar Cher, was clubbed to death by hitmen on the orders of drug and weapons dealers, an ex-FBI agent claims.</p> <p>Ted Gunderson, now a private investigator, has told the US Globe tabloid that Bono, who served as mayor of Palm Springs for four years, did not die after hitting a tree on a Nevada ski slope in January 1998 as everyone believed.</p>

The live-in girlfriend of a woman who was found killed in her North Side apartment last August was ordered held in lieu of $350,000 bail Thursday after being charged with the woman's murder. Lisa Gunderson, 25, allegedly killed her roommate, Barbara Wolf, 50, after their yearlong relationship soured when Gunderson dated a man in their building at 5415 N. Sheridan Rd., said Assistant Cook County State's Atty. Sanjay Patel. Wolf's body was discovered at her home at the Park Tower Condominiums on Aug. 27, Patel said. A day earlier, Wolf told someone she was ending the relationship when she learned...

This was the paragraph that caught my eye: One effect of a Kerry victory might be to bring out into the open Republican divisions that are already beginning to surface. Former representative Steve Gunderson, a Wisconsin Republican, speaks of "a coming civil war in the party" spurred by the efforts of conservatives to purge moderates from its ranks. This civil war over social issues is compounded by new divisions over deficits and the use of tax cuts not only to "promote growth" -- there is, says Gunderson, "nothing wrong with that" -- but also to "shut down the legitimate role...