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By the NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Friday, Dec. 8, 2006 4:32 p.m. EST Future Chelsea Clinton In-Law in Jail Rumors have been heating up that former first daughter Chelsea Clinton and her boyfriend Marc Mezvinsky are heading for the altar. If true, the father of the groom would likely be conspicuous by his absence – he’s behind bars. Ed Mezvinsky, a former Iowa Congressman, was sentenced in January 2003 to nearly seven years in jail after pleading guilty to 31 fraud-related counts. After leaving Congress, Mezvinsky, now 65, moved to the Philadelphia suburbs with his wife...

FORT GORDON, Ga. (Army News Service, July 17, 2006) – Sgt. 1st Class Christine Shedrick shares a bond that few have with an in-law. “We’ve always been very close. Now we’re more like sisters than sisters-in-law,” said Shedrick of the 15th Regimental Signal Brigade, who donated 60 percent of her liver to Tammy Johnson on May 4. Johnson was diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis five years ago. The disease blocks the bile ducts and leads to a hardening of the liver, which eventually stops functioning. “The only cure is to have a transplant,” said Johnson, who lives in El Paso,...

Fonda flick doesn't fly in Hardin County By JOHN FRIEDLEIN The owner of Hardin County's two movie theaters is refusing to show the nation's top-grossing movie. Like many veterans, Ike Boutwell has an issue with "Monster-in-Law" star Jane Fonda. On the ticket window at the Elizabethtown Movie Palace is a sign that tells movie goers the cinema will not show the film because of what she did in Vietnam. Below the message are pictures of Fonda clapping with a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft crew in 1972. The sign on the marquee outside Showtime Cinemas in Radcliff reads: "No Jane Fonda movie...

CLEVELAND (AP) - It was 1980 when Ed Nishnic met Irene, a receptionist at the company where he worked. ``One day I was walking by her desk and I saw her name on a piece of paper. I said, 'Are you related to that guy?' She said, 'That's my dad,''' Nishnic recalled. ``That guy'' was John Demjanjuk, the Ohio mechanic accused of being a Nazi death camp guard so sadistic that he was nicknamed Ivan the Terrible. The encounter led to marriage - and launched Nishnic on a 20 year odyssey to clear his father-in-law's name. Through that time, he...