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ARVADA, Colo. -- Their Father’s Day ended with a bang. Nancy Passarella and her family found themselves picking up the pieces after their Martha Stewart Living glass top patio table suddenly exploded sending flying glass and food everywhere. "All of a sudden we heard this loud explosion, and the table proceeds to disintegrate," Nancy told us. The mother and grandmother took pictures right after it happened, and you can see the family’s startled expressions and fresh injuries. “My son and his girlfriend were cut by the flying glass,” she said. Passarella now believes the table she bought from K-Mart in...

The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has passed the Senate 54-45 and now moves to the House. If passed, the implementation of CAFTA would expand NAFTA--the 1993 free trade agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico--to include Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic. Judging by the miserable failure of NAFTA to accomplish any of its stated goals, CAFTA can be expected to further increase the U.S. trade deficit, loss of American jobs, poverty in Central America, and the influx of poor illegal immigrants to the United States. A study by the Carnegie Endowment for...

Martha Stewart is now relying on the kindness of convicts to make herself pretty. Once a board member for cosmetics giant Revlon, the guru of good living borrowed makeup last weekend from a fellow prisoner at a federal lockup in West Virginia, one inmate told the Post. And one could bet it wasn't Chanel. Stewart, the inmate said, borrowed the cosmetics to make herself more presentable for her daughter, Alexis, who came to visit the disgraced domestic diva during her first days behind bars at the Federal Prison Camp in rural Alderson, W.Va. Also last weekend, Stewart was frequently interrupted...

Westport's Martha Stewart has been ordered to report to a prison in West Virginia to serve her five-month term, a source close to Stewart said today.Stewart had hoped to serve her time in Danbury so she could be close to her 90-year-old mother, or in a prison facility in Florida where there are good transporation links.The U.S. Bureau of Prisons told Stewart last week to report to jail by Oct. 8. The source said Stewart had been told to report to the federal prison camp for women in Alderson, W. Va.Stewart's lawyer, in a Sept. 15 letter to a federal...

<p>March 6, 2004 -- Martha Stewart's goose isn't just cooked - it's burned to a crisp. In a swift, decisive verdict that shocked America, a Manhattan jury yesterday branded the one-time golden girl a dumb criminal who lied to the feds, obstructed justice and conspired to protect herself and her one-time billion-dollar honey pot.</p>

Heads up, the jury has returned with a verdict to be announced soon.

<p>As the feds zeroed in on Martha Stewart, the domestic diva suddenly took over her assistant's desk, grabbed the computer mouse and, with a few clicks, changed an incriminating telephone message from her stockbroker, the aide testified in court yesterday.</p>

Mop up this, bitch!

MARTHA ON THE RACK: BROKER ASSISTANT TELLS INVESTIGATORS HOW STOCK STORY WAS CONCOCTED! An explanation for Martha Stewart's sale of nearly 4,000 ImClone shares on Dec. 27 was concocted after the fact -- prosecutors have been told, the NEW YORK TIMES is planning to report on Tuesday... Developing...