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Cincinnati restaurateur Jeff Ruby was at his restaurant in Louisville for Kentucky Derby weekend, when an employee approached him, apparently excited that O.J. Simpson was sitting down to dinner. Ruby said he took another puff of his cigar and another sip of his drink and decided, "I don't want him here." Ruby said he found Simpson in the Churchhill room of his "Jeff Ruby's Louisville" steakhouse and told Simpson, "I'm not serving you." Ruby said he did it for the Goldman and Brown families, referring, of course, to the families of the people O.J. was accused of killing. Simpson was...

'They won't be able to continue. They won't be able to do the deployment. They won't have the equipment, they don't have the training and they won't be able to do the work. There’s no question in my mind.” – John Murtha

China criticised foreign media for their lack of objectivity in reporting on the country and promised to arrange more news conferences with senior officials to put things straight. China keeps a tight rein on the flow of information, jailing local reporters for daring to cover sensitive topics such as official corruption. Ministries are often reluctant to speak to reporters, especially foreigners, or even at times to pick up their telephones. "As for overseas reports on China's situation, I think the proportion of positive or totally objective stories is still quite small," Cai Wu, head of the cabinet spokesmen's office, told...

O.J. Simpson is confessing. Hypothetically, that is. The former football great, who was acquitted in criminal court 11 years ago of killing his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ron Goldman, reportedly has been paid a whopping $3.5 million to write about the double murder that shocked and riveted the nation in 1994, according to a detailed report in the new National Enquirer. But Simpson is not actually confessing to the murder — rather, he’s writing a “hypothetical” book — which the Enquirer reports is tentatively being called “If I Did It.” The early part of the book tells...