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Know when to say when. OK, it’s time for a grain of salt - and when I say “grain,” I mean a grain of salt so massive that the sodium would make your heart explode just from looking at it. If the scuttlebutt is true, Hillary Clinton isn’t finished quite yet. A couple of weeks ago, we heard that she would never again darken the door of an American election. Then we heard rumblings about the former Secretary of State mounting an assault on the New York Mayor’s office. Then we heard rumblings that Bill Clinton was digging through all...

SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has settled a lawsuit in London brought by a former British TV host who accused the governor of fondling her and later said the governor's aides had smeared her reputation, attorneys for both sides said today. Anna Richardson, a former late-night personality, sued Schwarzenegger and two of his top aides in London's High Court in May 2004. She accused them of falsely saying she had forced herself on Schwarzenegger and said the accusation was intended to protect his "ruthless political ambition" during the 2003 recall election. In the final week of that turbulent campaign, Richardson...

LOS ANGELES - Jan Murray, one of the fabled generation of comics who rose from the Catskills to prime time TV, tickling fans of the 1950s game show "Treasure Hunt," has died. He was 89. Murray, who appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows, died Sunday at his home in Beverly Hills, son Howard Murray said in a telephone interview Monday. "Treasure Hunt" ran from 1956 to 1959 in both daytime and prime time versions, first on ABC and later on NBC. The contestant who won a quiz got to pick among treasure chests, which contained anything "from a...