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A woman was arrested in Florida over the weekend for allegedly attacking Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) at an event that the congressman was attending with his wife. The Walton County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the report in a statement on Tuesday afternoon, saying that officers “responded to an incident at an event in Miramar Beach Saturday involving Representative Matt Gaetz.” “A 41-year-old Tallahassee woman, Selena Chambers, was arrested after it was found she intentionally threw a glass of wine at Representative Gaetz after shouting obscenities at him,” police said. “She was charged with battery on an elected official and issued a...

A report out of North Carolina seems almost like a Lifetime move: best man fatally stabs bride. Sadly, that is the situation in Raleigh after Jonathan Broyhill allegedly killed Jameson Kirk Hahn this week. The Associated Press via WMBF News shared the details on April 24. A wedding announcement from the wedding of Jamie Kirk Hahn to Nation Hahn from 2009 lists Broyhill as the groom's best man. Now he is facing charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Both Jamie and Nation Kirk were stabbed in their home Monday night. Jamie Kirk...

Pol hit by new accusation. An ex-aide accused state Sen. Kevin Parker of putting her into a headlock in an angry confrontation two years ago that foreshadowed Parker's slugfest this week with a traffic agent, sources said yesterday. The Senate's Democratic leader, Sen. David Paterson of Manhattan, confirmed that Parker's aide, Neysha Williams, reported the March 2003 incident to his staff, but said he did not know of the alleged headlock. Williams alleged Parker (D-Brooklyn) shoved her out of his office during a "screaming, finger-pointing" confrontation, said Paterson. "She said the shoving could have been inadvertent, so she wasn't...

Choking back tears, Ald. Richard Mell (33rd) today declared a public end to the messy feud with his son-in-law, Gov. Blagojevich, in hopes of repairing a first family torn apart. Mell insisted he had every right to take a stand against what he viewed as the governor's attempt to smear him and close a Will County landfill operated by Frank Schmidt, a distant relative of Mell and first lady Patti Blagojevich who was being advised by the alderman. But that doesn't mean the aldermen doesn't regret some of the bitter charges he made against the governor and the effect the...

January 7, 2005 — Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich shut down a landfill in Joliet run by a distant relative. The move ignited a family feud between the governor and his father-in-law, Chicago Alderman Dick Mell. The governor would not discuss the dispute, but Alderman Mell had plenty to say, calling the governor's decision a "political power play." Alderman Dick Mell is not only the governor's father-in-law, he is the architect of Rod Blagojevich's political career. The powerful democratic ward boss's money, manpower and muscle carried Blagojevich from City Hall to the state legislature to Congress and finally to the governor's...

<p>WASHINGTON — A Wisconsin television station has declined to air a political ad that accuses President Bush of misleading the country about Iraq's weapons program, drawing the ire of the Democratic Party chief.</p> <p>The ads show Bush, in his State of the Union (search) address, making the now-disavowed statement about Saddam Hussein seeking uranium from Africa for a nuclear weapons program. The Democratic National Committee (search) paid about $20,000 to air the ads on stations in Madison, Wis., a strongly liberal college town.</p>