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Former US president Bill Clinton tried to 'hit on' actress Demi Moore, her husband Ashton Kutcher has said. Kutcher, the star of the hit MTV show Punk'd, told chat host Jay Leno that Clinton made eyes at his superstar wife during a recent function. Kutcher said although the three were all sat at a table next to each other he felt like "the invisible man". Kutcher says Clinton didn't say one word to him the whole evening as he was so engrossed with Ghost actress Moore. "I met Bill Clinton once but he didn't really talk — he was hitting...

GAYLORD, Minn. — A 22-year-old Gaylord man is in custody pending charges after he allegedly assaulted and robbed two teenagers after one of them threw a snowball that hit his car. Police are asking that the suspect be charged with fifth-degree assault, simple robbery and making terroristic threats. Authorities say the suspect became upset after his car was hit with a snowball and followed the boys into a nearby home in Gaylord. The suspect allegedly punched and kicked the 13-year-old in the head and upper body and demanded an apology, then told the 15-year-old to give him a gold necklace...

LOS ANGELES - Take seven brainy nerds and seven dim beauties, add Ashton Kutcher as a matchmaker and what do you get? A television reality series, of course. Kutcher, the brains behind MTV's "Punk'd," is producing the new series for the WB network this summer. The goal of "Beauty and the Geek" is to couple seemingly mismatched pairs and see which can work best together, said David Janollari, the network's entertainment president, on Saturday. "It's really looking at stereotypes of people and how we look at beautiful women and not-so-beautiful men," he said. They will go through a series of...

They just announced on Fox news that former VP Gore was robbed somewhere in Italy of the $35,000 he had! They had few details at this time.

Bush crew feeds 'news,' TV swallows By Joanne Ostrow Denver Post Media Critic Imagine that you manage a small-market TV station. You are pressed for time, understaffed and face the usual gaping holes of several newscasts to fill. What do you slap on the air, another minor local crime story that will take staff time, or a ready-made, professionally packaged treatment of a timely issue? The White House spin doctors have made your life easy. They've provided a one-sided but slick-looking report on the new Medicare law, something nobody in-house has time to cover. The Bush administration this week was...

Clark staffer attacked Gen. Wesley Clark's Michigan campaign got a firsthand taste this week of Detroit's crime problem. State spokesman Jonathon Beeton was mugged Tuesday outside the Coney Island across the street from campaign headquarters. He had just picked up a take-out order when a man who had been inside the restaurant cornered him outside. The man shoved him against the wall and ripped open his pants pocket to steal Beeton's wallet. Then the man hooked his legs behind Beeton's and pushed him to the ground. Beeton said he suffered minor cuts on his head and back but otherwise was...