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For Sale, actually wait, we'll pay you to take him. A worthless, no-talent hack of a football coach. Must liquidate immediately - Going out of business sale! Take him off our hands! Need a dishwasher or cabana boy? He's your man, just dont use him as a football coach. Evidence available at http://www.fireronzook.com

Here's the situation. I ran a routine credit check on myself a couple of weeks ago and found that my old cell phone company had reported my account as a charge off or delinquent. The account number in the credit report did not match any account number on any old bills I had, and, as far as I knew, I had paid every single bill ever presented to me. I called the company, but did not get any help. They told me that they had made several failed attempts to contact me, and then turned the matter over to a...

The people-displeasin' rapper, who has provoked Mariah Carey, dissed Christina Aguilera and denied "Weird Al" Yankovic, spoofed Jacko Tuesday in Scotland, dangling a fake baby from a hotel window. Any resemblance between Eminem (news - web sites)'s antics and Jacko's scandalous ones in Berlin last November (in which a real baby was the dangled object) was purely intentional. "It's an obvious joke," a spokesperson for the hip-hopster told E! News Daily on Wednesday. "It's obvious what he's poking fun at. He has people outside hotels where ever he goes and he was just having some fun." Upping the fun quotient:...

<p>DURHAM, N.C. — The mother of Buddy Myers, who vanished from a family home in Roseboro two years ago, said DNA test results show a boy left at a Chicago hospital is not her son, WTVD reported Friday.</p> <p>Federal authorities in Chicago and family members in Roseboro scheduled simultaneous news conferences for Friday afternoon. Myers family spokeswoman Jackie Jacobs was near tears as she announced the local event, and refused to takd a boy who had been left in their care in February.</p>

Sav-A-Center cashier Gennifer Robinson said it didn't take any real detective work to spot that a check given to her April 23 to pay for groceries was a forgery. She immediately recognized the distinctive Looney Tunes background from her own checkbook, which had been stolen from her car along with her purse five days earlier. And there was one more fairly strong hint: "She handed me my own driver's license," said Robinson, 20, who now laughs when she shares the story with friends, though she admits it wasn't so funny at the time. Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies arrested Ashlie Williams,...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A woman lion tamer has run away from a circus in Germany with eight lions, two tigers and the circus director's son, police said on Friday. The woman, in her late 40s, is believed to have developed a close relationship with the 20-year-old man she was training to become a lion tamer, a police spokesman in the northern German town of Melle said. The couple eloped with a truck containing the animals and is still on the run since disappearing on Monday night. "If she can handle lions and tigers she shouldn't have trouble with a 20-year-old...

Demi joins Charlie's Angels Once upon a time there were three little girls ... now it's twice, because Charlie's Angels are coming back to the big screen. And this time there's a fourth angel in the shape of Demi Moore, returning to the big screen at the age of 40 to play the villain, "fallen angel" Madison Lee. The mother of three, recently romantically linked with Spider-Man star Tobey Maguire, is said to have paid £250,000 for a head-to-toe makeover in preparation for her comeback, including cosmetic surgery to make her previous breast implants smaller, liposuction and dental work. She...

U.S. Senate candidate Suzanne Haik Terrell picked up the endorsement of 47 Republican state legislators across Louisiana, two dozen of which were part of a reception committee at the capitol. Suzanne Haik Terrell spoke at a reception Wednesday "We all know the President needs her help, and we can't wait to have you in Washington," says State Senator Ken Hollis, R-Metairie. The endorsements come on the heels of a new poll that shows Terrell ahead of incumbent Democrat Mary Landrieu. The poll commissioned a group called the Susan B. Anthony List, a survey of 503 likely voters. Results show that...

LSU third baseman Wally Pontiff cut short a season of baseball in a Cape Cod amateur summer league earlier this month to spend more time with family and friends in his hometown of Metairie. "If I sign a pro contract, whether it's this year or next, my summers will probably be mostly filled with playing baseball," Pontiff said two weeks ago. "This might be my last summer to just hang out here and be with my family. This might be my last summer to be a kid." Pontiff's last summer came to a sudden end Wednesday morning as the 21-year-old,...

A Baton Rouge jewelry store and a mall kiosk are closed as part of an ongoing federal investigation into suspected links between a franchise owner and terrorists. FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service agents swept through Intrigue Fine Jewelry and the Gold Center kiosk at the Mall of Louisiana on Bluebonnet Boulevard about two weeks ago, closing the shop and taking the proprietors away in handcuffs, witnesses to the raid said. The raid, on June 26, was part of a nationwide investigation focusing on a chain of stores, most of them called Intrigue Jewelers. The chain is owned by a...

A Tri-State woman looking for a quick and easy tan received an eye-opening burn instead. Larri Brown of Williamstown, Ky., got into her home tanning bed last week and set the timer. Then she fell asleep. The timer was supposed to shut off the ultraviolet lights after 20 minutes, but the timer stuck. Three hours after she first climbed into the bed, Brown's husband, Steve Brown, found his sleeping wife and pulled her out of the bed. "We went to the hospital, but because it was a tanning bed burn, they couldn't do anything because the burn comes from the...

Triumph the Insult Dog interviews the fans waiting to see Attack of the Clones. May be mildly offensive to some, but I thought it was pretty funny. It's a long clip; about 10 minutes.Have a great weekend!

WENDY'S INTERNATIONAL has had a corporate change of heart. After removing its founder, Dave Thomas, from all its advertising and marketing efforts after his death in January, it will now put him back into its campaigns beginning next month. Wendy's executives had thought consumers would consider it unseemly or exploitive to continue running ads that featured the avuncular founder. But after witnessing the intense bond consumers still had with Mr. Thomas even after his death, Wendy's will introduce television commercials promoting its low-priced "Super Value Menu" in which an announcer will describe items like cheeseburgers and salads as being "prepared...

Chelsea Clinton’s media outing has hit a bump. The former first daughter was scheduled to appear on the “Oprah Winfrey Show” next week, but after the show was booked, she cancelled. Clinton had agreed to discuss the forward she wrote to a new book by one of her Stanford professors, James P. Steyer. Clinton also did research for the book, “The Other Parent: The Inside Story of the Media’s Effect on Our Children.” “We will still have a segment discussing that topic, but Chelsea Clinton will not be part of it,” a spokeswoman for Winfrey’s show told the Scoop. When...

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<p>GREEN RIVER, Wyo. -- The weather can still turn chilly in southwest Wyoming in late April, but that's not why a snowplow was needed on Interstate 80.</p> <p>The westbound lanes about 20 miles west of town were closed for about an hour Thursday after a semi truck with a trailer full of Hormel chili rear-ended another semi.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — Washington's most visible bachelor is off the market.</p> <p>White House spokesman Ari Fleischer announced Tuesday that he is getting married. The 41-year-old Fleischer popped the question this weekend to his 26-year-old girlfriend Rebecca Davis, a staffer in the office of Budget Director Mitch Daniels.</p>

NEW ORLEANS, LA -The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against grocery store giant Winn-Dixie on behalf of a heterosexual male truck driver who was fired because he sometimes dresses in women's clothing and expresses a feminine identity away from work. Pride At Work has joined a coalition of organizations calling for a National Mobilization Against Winn-Dixie from December 18 through January 5. The coalition has four goals: (1) To educate Winn-Dixie that it was wrong to Peter Oiler, and that such actions will not go unnoticed; (2) To raise awareness in the general public...

New Orleans was within its rights last month to change its charter to require employers in the city to pay their workers $1 an hour more than the federal minimum wage, a Civil District Court judge ruled Monday. The New Orleans Campaign for a Living Wage, which sued to have the courts uphold the charter change approved by 73,500 New Orleans voters in February, hailed Judge Rosemary Ledet's decision as a historic move that puts the city's low-income workers a step closer to getting a pay raise. "This will give working poor people the relief they have needed and create...