Bryon Shane Carpenter, a fugitive in a fatal drunken-driving case, faked his obituary in an attempt to escape trial, according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving. One month after Carpenter’s obituary appeared in the Albuquerque Journal, he was arrested for placing his death in the newspaper, MADD said. “We were quite surprised when we found out [...]

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CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) — Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was impeached and removed from office earlier this year, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal corruption charges. A federal grand jury indicted him this month on 16 felony counts, including racketeering, conspiracy, wire fraud and making false statements to investigators. The indictment also charges some [...]

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People magazine is reporting that tennis champion Andy Roddick is marrying Sports Illustrated swimsuit model this weekend in Austin, Texas. Roddick, 26, and Brooklyn Decker, 21, started celebrating their upcoming nuptials last weekend in North Carolina. I wish them all the luck, but I don’t think it’s going to last.

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Russian surgeons who thought they were removing a tumor from a twenty-eight year-old patient they were convinced had cancer, found a fir tree growing inside the man’s lung instead. Doctors were convinced that Artyom Sidorkin had cancer when he started complaining about extreme chest pain and coughing up blood. “We were 100 percent sure,” Dr. [...]

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UPDATE: 5/29/10 GREENWICH SECRETS IS NOT BASED AROUND THE CHRIS CORNA CASE.  GREENWICH SECRETS IS A NOVEL. Update: 12/18/09 Ethan Michael Topper, the 45-year-old fiancé of Greenwich resident Lisette Coen was arrested on suspicion of felony DUI last weekend. According to California Highway Patrol, Topper was driving his Porsche along Howell Mountain Road in Napa [...]

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