ABC News: Judge Awards $101M to Men Framed by FBI

FBI STUNG
In a stinging rebuke of the FBI, a federal judge has ordered the government to pay a record judgment of nearly $102 million because agents withheld evidence that would have kept four men from spending decades in prison for a mob murder they did not commit.
(REUTERS, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)

WRITER DUMPS HUBBY FOR TED | | Gossip - New York Post Online Edition

TABLOID DREAM INDEED!
Put down your cup of coffee or you might spill it," Butler, 62, wrote to his graduate students and fellow professors at Florida State University in Tallahassee. "Elizabeth is leaving me for Ted Turner."

Elizabeth is Butler's wife of 12 years, Elizabeth Dewberry, 44, an author in her own right, who might be attracted to Turner, 68, because the media mogul resembles the grandfather who molested her as a child, Butler writes in the shocking e-mail.
(NEW YORK POST)

NPA.RMLABS.NET - Phone Number Geolocator

TRACK THAT PHONE NUMBER
Here's an interesting spin on telephone number lookups. Okay, so you tried finding their address using Google or some other reverse number lookup and you can't find it. Well, knowing the area code and the exchange can help you narrow down the location if you use the Geolocator. We tried this and it works pretty well - with one important caveat: the area codes appear to be out of date. We had to use Mobile's old area code (334) for this to work.
(Suggested by Lifehacker)

CINDY SHEHAN VISITS ALABAMA
“We can’t stay in the blue states always preaching to the choir" Cindy Sheehan told a group of Alabama fellow travelers during her recent visit to Mongtomery. "We can’t do that. … We need to come where we can make the biggest impact.”
(COMMON DREAMS)

Detainee Transfers Concern Senators - washingtonpost.com

GULAG TRANSFER WORRIES SENATORS
Senators have expressed 'grave concern' that detainees at Guantanamo Bay will be sent to countries where they have a credible concern of mistreatment upon their arrival. The senators cited recent transfers of detainees to nations such as Libya (yes, Libya!) and Tunisia.
(WASHINGTON POST)

Queen storms out of Leibovitz photo shoot | AccessAtlanta

ICE QUEEN
You'd have thought she'd been asked to pose with Johnny Rotten or something. Annie Leibovitz received an icy stare and a stern response when she asked Queen Elizabeth II to remove her crown for an official portrait, according to a BBC documentary.
(ATLANTA JOURNAL)

WORTHY OF A HEISMAN
A father and his two children awake to flames and smoke. An upstairs window is the only way out. A barefoot hero stands below ...Adolph Cobb and his two children leaned outside a window of their third-floor Decatur apartment gasping for air and trying to decide whether to trust a voice below urging him to toss his babies to safety.
(ATLANTA JOURNAL)

POLL SHOWS IMPEACHMENT SENTIMENT GROWING
A survey by the American Research Group found that 45 percent support the US House of Representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against Bush, with 46 percent opposed, and a 54-40 split in favor when it comes to Cheney.
(COMMON DREAMS)

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2 lawyers found after kidnapping | ajc.com

LAWYERS FREED AFTER BEING HELD HOSTAGE IN "CABBAGETOWN" (NO, REALLY!)
The text message sent by one man to his brother was chilling: "We've been kidnapped. Please call the police and help us."
(ATLANTA JOURNAL)

USA Today's 'Sicko' Debate

A DEBATE WORTH HAVING?
The United States spends twice as much or more on health care per capita than Canada, Britain, France and Cuba, countries with single-payer systems that USAToday criticizes as "beset by inefficiencies." The U.S. government spends about as much on health care as a share of GDP as the Canadian, British and Cuban governments do, and France's government spends only somewhat more--even as the U.S.'s private spending on health dwarfs that of any developed country.
(FAIR)

Music industry attacks Sunday newspaper's free Prince CD | | Guardian Unlimited Business

PRINCE CD DISTRIBUTED FOR FREE
The eagerly awaited new album by Prince is being launched as a free CD with a national Sunday newspaper in a move that has drawn widespread criticism from music retailers.
(GUARDIAN)

Trackstick

STICK IT
Okay, this is too weird. Google is offering a GPS "Trackstick" which "records its own location, time, date, speed, heading and altitude at preset intervals." It can store months of "travel information" and "is the perfect tool for individuals looking for a way to track anything that moves." While the ad postulates that you can use it to track your hiking, biking or vacationing moves, it sounds like it can be used for more sinister motives like checking out where your significant other goes at night.
(TALKLEFT, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)

Warehouse Fire Claims Ton of Marijuana - washingtonpost.com

I DID NOT INHALE
Firefighters who spent half an hour fighting a blaze in which 2,000 pounds of marijuana went up in smoke breathed so much of it that they would have failed a drug test, a fire chief said.
(WASHINGTON POST, unearthed by Bill Messick)

COMPUTER FIRST AID KIT
So, going out of town? Whether it's a seminar, deposition or vacation, if you're taking your laptop you might want to pack a few of those USB flash drives and load them up with portable apps. This Wikipedia site has an exhaustive list of portable software that will come in handy in a pinch. See Also the Portable Apps.
(Suggested by FUTURELAWYER)

Local News | Man who lied about actions in Iraq admits faking forms | Seattle Times Newspaper

DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE
Jessie MacBeth claimed to have killed more than 200 people, many at close range, some as they prayed in a mosque. He spoke at an anti-war rally in Tacoma and appeared in a 20-minute anti-war video that circulated widely on the Internet. The trouble is that none of MacBeth's deeds were ever done. He made it through only six weeks of Army basic training, was never a Ranger and never set foot in Iraq.
(SEATTLE TIMES)