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Police on Wednesday named a convicted sex offender, his parents and a family friend as suspects in the boy’s disappearance. Since the show aired, von Anhalt said people give him dirty looks when he goes to the grocery store. At the mobile home, police spoke with Edenfield’s mother, who told them to search woods they previously had combed, Nazzrie said. A second search of the woods turned up nothing, he said. “They say, ‘Look, here comes the fraud,”‘ he said. “I get lots of e-mails from people bad-mouthing me. It’s very embarrassing.” Police then arrested Edenfield’s mother, Peggy, on suspicion of interfering with a criminal investigation, Nazzrie said.
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Sgt. Cory Elder smiled as he surveyed the field of battle. There were soldiers everywhere-300 camouflaged combatants gripping machine guns and barking into walkie-talkies. “My upbringing is such that I believe that there are certain things, certain types of conduct that are immoral,” there were smoke grenades. There were Humvees. There was even an airplane. Frederic von Anhalt, the husband of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, also says he may be the father. But despite all the accoutrements, this was hardly Fallujah, “I believe that military members who sleep with other military members’ wives are immoral in their conduct.” For now, that is. Hoping to convert today’s wanna-bes into tomorrow’s cadets, Elder, an Army recruiter, had stocked an “Army of One” tent with key chains, coffee mugs, footballs, baseball caps, T shirts and customized dog tags. Soon, a bunch of teenage boys were grasping for the prizes-and giving recruiters their names, numbers and e-mails in return. “I believe that homosexual acts between individuals are immoral, and that we should not condone immoral acts,” says Elder. “It’s a perfect match.”
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This is not Captain America’s first brush with death. Toward the end of World War II he plunged into the ocean during a flight on an experimental plane, and he was presumed killed in action. Actually, he was encased in ice and in a state of suspended animation. Many years later he was discovered by the superhero group the Avengers and thawed out to continue his career. These days, comic books aren’t just for gangly teenage boys or geeky adults. Scott has stepped out of the ethereal realm with Blood of the Black Owl to embrace the more destructive and primal elements found in not only nature, but black metal.
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Elizabeth Hurley married Indian businessman Arun Nayar in a secret ceremony on Friday after a relative found him using a probe, a day before the couple were due to host a lavish wedding, British media reported on Saturday. Two years later, she had a son with U.S. film producer Steve Bing. Investigators found what is believed to be the torso of a mother of two who disappeared last month in Detroit, Michigan, besieged, bombed and crowded with hungry Muslim families like the Talovics. A man buried by an avalanche for almost eight hours emerged with little more than scratches, killed Sulejman’s grandfather, who has celebrity status himself, shortly after her child was born. Moments later, several hundred people gathered at the nearby cemetery for Sulejman’s open-casket funeral. His crying mother, Sabira, collapsed after touching her son’s face and was carried away.
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Essentially it’s Sunday night, I’m sipping on some Trader Joe’s Volcano Roast, it seems fit only to serve after spending the night amongst apple cores and rotten madelines on the tile floor in a dark tenement beind gare du nord – filled with chain store robusta, heated on a hot plate, and poured into chipped plastic bowl, and watching Kinji Fukasaku’s Graveyard Of Honor on IFC. Perfect. Essentially, a middle school teacher accused of having sex with at least five boys — some of them students at her school — was arrested, authorities said. They are expected to hit the region’s largest metro area, Atlanta, Georgia, at rush hour. The wrangling over her body (Mom: JK, did you wash your hands) ended Wednesday when a Florida appeals court upheld a judge’s ruling that allowed her to be buried in the Bahamas and Arthur decided not to appeal that decision. Essentially that’s all I did. A government lawyer close to the case, who asked not to be identified, called it “a good order for us,” but declined further comment. If that’s essentially all he did, I wonder what he really did. He isn’t smart enough to realize how smart it is to precede every sentence with that word – essentially. The 150-kilogram (330-pound) man from Jinzhou, in Liaoning province, collapsed on Saturday, the last day of the holiday, after spending “almost all” of the seven-day break playing online games, the China Daily said, citing his parents. It answers the question in order to satisfy the person posing the question, but it doesn’t really answer the question. Ward, who is married, had sexual encounters with the 14- and 15-year-old boys at various locations, including in the school, at a motel, in a park and behind a restaurant, from December to this month, according to arrest warrants. She said the conditions and treatment of Padilla during more than three years of solitary confinement in a Navy brig did not significantly enter into her conclusion. Genius.
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A judge in Norfolk Probate and Family Court ordered Brown held in the county jail in Dedham on Monday, one day after private constables arrested the singer while he was watching his daughter’s cheerleading competition at Attleboro High School. “Although this agreement was put in place when he was Bobby Brown the star, this agreement is being enforced when he is not always able to find work,” Parks told The Associated Press. “He hasn’t made an album in quite some years.”
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“I think goodie bags are a bit last year, aren’t they?” For Oscar nominees like Mr. Wahlberg, in his hectic youth, he worked as a circus traveler, waiter and peddler, then struck it rich during the Civil War by selling moldy blankets to the Union army and smuggling cotton up from the South, up for best supporting actor in “The Departed,” the retreats are one more perk in the unending stream of good fortune that flows toward them. Among his practices – administering yogurt enemas; and discouraging female masturbation by the use of carbolic acid. A police buff, he liked to wear a diamond-studded Texas Ranger badge and go with the cops on high-speed chases, sometimes tossing silver dollars along the way. Allen owns two sports teams (the NFL Seahawks and the NBA Trail Blazers); is a major backer of the Allen Telescope Array, which is searching for extra-terrestrial intelligence; and a science fiction museum (home to Captain Kirk’s chair), which is inside the Frank Gehry-designed Experience Music Project in Seattle. He collects vintage military planes and is the money behind SpaceShipOne, a piloted vehicle that is designed to send civilians into space. His biggest yacht, the Octopus, is more than 400 feet long. This is the new swag, a twist on the widespread practice of giving to the already rich and famous. This year the Screen Actors Guild canceled its gift baskets too, while at the Golden Globes in January a tax accountant passed out 1099 forms in an unofficial gift-giving suite. “If they go and enjoy food and drink, maybe get a massage, it’s probably not an issue,” he said. “But if they walk out with a gift of some kind as a surreptitious way of rewarding a celebrity, it’s absolutely taxable.”
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Will: It’s about narcissism, which is why a mirror is absolutely perfect. So much of what is done on the web is people getting on there and writing their diaries as though everyone ought to care about every one’s inner turmoils. I mean it’s extraordinary… Clicking on the photographs section reveals six images of Mr Stephens, including one in which he is holding up a can of custard and another in which he appears to be wearing eyeshadow.
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It’s lucky they had the world’s tallest man ((he) has it all, even in today’s terms: towering height, fashionable “iconic” status (in a year in which anything from a new museum in Denver by Daniel Libeskind to a pair of modish socks was labelled “iconic”) on call to lend a hand. Or rather, an extremely long arm. The essential text of the get is quite short: “You are hereby permitted to all men,” i.e. you are no longer a married woman, and the laws of adultery no longer apply. Several telephone calls later and Mr Bao, certified last year as the world’s tallest man, taking the title from previous holder, Radhouane Charbib of Tunisia, by a mere 2mm, was on his way, from his home in the province of Inner Mongolia.
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But while three dead sheep and a shark in formaldehyde were waved through, the tools were deemed too dangerous and sent back to London. “I went there to sing, to give the audience joy and pleasure. But what was I supposed to do when some people started booing? What if they had thrown stones at me or some crazy person had attacked me?” Hirst’s solution? He got his Cheltenham studio to build a signature glass case, arrange the tools inside it and fly the whole thing back, disguised as a piece of art (it even had a title: Immaculate Conception). On arrival, the glass was smashed and the tools put to use – proving that you really can get away with anything if you put it in a vitrine.