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Four women who say they lived with Germaine “Jell-O” Wallace — a Colorado prostitution suspect who was arrested in Houston earlier this week — are coming to his defense. Wallace was in a cab with four women when he was handcuffed along the Northwest Freeway near FM 1960 on Thursday. The four tell KHOU-Channel 11 that Wallace isn’t a pimp and has done nothing illegal. They also say they’re not prostitutes, but earn livings as exotic dancers:

<p>POOLER, Ga. (AP) — An 80-year-old woman has died after being sickened by fumes at a McDonald's restaurant in south Georgia.</p> <p>Pooler Police Chief Mark Revenew says Anne Felton of Ponte Vedra, Fla., died early Thursday. She and her husband were customers at the restaurant. An autopsy will be conducted to determine her cause of death.</p>

An illegal immigrant allegedly swindled out of his $3 million lottery jackpot win will finally collect his prize, the Daily Mail reports. The man won the jackpot after purchasing a lottery scratch card at N&K Quick Pick in Spring Valley, N.Y., on Feb. 3. Three of the store's workers had allegedly tricked the man by telling him he'd be deported if he tried to collect his winnings. "When he presented the ticket, they scared the hell out of him," Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Zugibe told the Daily Mail. Atif Ali, 22, Riaz Khan, 45, and Mubeen Ashraf, 22, tried...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Paris Hilton is suffering a new bout of cellphone drama. The heiress-turned-TV star reportedly lost two mobile devices on a flight to the Philippines for a visit to promote a hotel resort. Television footage showed Hilton combing through a bag looking upset while she was surrounded by airline staff at the Manila airport late Sunday after arriving from Dubai. Manila radio station DZBB reported that airport and airline authorities are investigating. In 2005, hackers gained access to Hilton's Sidekick cellphone and famously splashed the private mobile numbers of her celebrity friends on line. The latest loss...

BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) -- With police nowhere to be seen, the Muslims of Dudley Road armed themselves with bricks and stones, clubs and cricket bats to fend off carloads of marauding gangs. Their vigilante stand in Birmingham's west end saved a humble row of family-run shops and a red-brick mosque from the looters' grasp - but at a terrible cost. A carload of rioters sped into a fleeing crowd of shop defenders, witnesses said, hurling three young men into the air and killing amateur boxer Haroon Jahan, 21, and brothers Shazzad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31. "We all had...

With just a month before her big 3-0, Beyonce has been reflecting on an amazing decade. And as she poses in a stunning new photoshoot for Harper's Bazaar UK magazine, she admits performing in Egypt just two months before the country's uprising started was a memorable experience. The pop star admitted she found it incredibly moving to see Egyptian women wearing burkas singing along to her female empowerment song Irreplaceable - while many of their male partners standing nearby were obviously unamused. Despite protests from ultra-conservative Islamic groups ahead of the gig who did not approve of her risqué outfits...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (The Blaze/AP) — The University of Tennessee bookstore has quit selling packages of breath mints that satirize President Barack Obama after a state legislator complained The box bears a picture of Obama and is labeled “disappoint-mints.” Officials pulled the product after Democratic state Rep. Joe Armstrong visited the bookstore and told the manager he found the mints offensive. Armstrong told The Knoxville News Sentinel that UT uses federal and state funds and should be sensitive to what he called “politically specific products.” The Knoxville legislator says he went to the bookstore after a UT student complained to him...

RED WING, Minn – A black student is suing her former Minnesota high school for celebrating "Wednesday Wigger Day," where white students pretended to be black during homecoming week, The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Wednesday. Quera Pruitt, who graduated from Red Wing High School last year, filed the lawsuit last week, saying the "wigger" celebration caused her to be so depressed that she almost dropped out of school. The slang word "wigger" is commonly used to refer to a white person who copies the mannerisms, language and fashions commonly associated with American black culture. "It's offensive to black folks and,...

An interview with Ann Coulter on Follow the Money.

The US has said it will send aid to famine-hit areas of Somalia controlled by the Islamist group al-Shabab. But US aid officials say assurances must be given that the insurgents will not interfere with its distribution. The US considers al-Shabab a terrorist group and last year stopped aid to the large area of Somalia it controls. The UN has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as the region experiences the worst drought in more than half a century. Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group which controls large swathes of south and central Somalia, had imposed a ban on...

HOUSTON – A convicted murderer is accused of killing his girlfriend, a young mother of three little girls, according to the Harris County District Attorney. Ervin Jones, 39, is charged with murder in the shooting death of 22-year-old Robyn Hightower in southwest Houston. HPD said around 10 p.m. on July 13, Jones and Hightower were arguing over the phone before he drove to her home, located in the 15700 block of Clarke Springs, and rushed into her bedroom. The couple started arguing again, and at some point, police said Jones pulled out a gun and shot Hightower in the chest....

WALLACE, NC (WECT) - Vishon Murphy knows the phrase "no shirt, no shoes, no service" but when he decided to wear a dress to pick up some food at the Pizza Hut in Wallace, N.C. he says he was turned away for being ‘disruptive.' "As soon as I walked in the general manager told me that I cannot be in the restaurant because I was dressed in 'drag,' in women's clothing, and he asked me to leave," Vishon Murphy said. On Sunday, Pizza Hut representatives tell WECT News that Murphy had visited the restaurant three times and had not purchased...

PHOENIX (AP) -- The Rev. Jesse Jackson is urging baseball's All-Stars to speak out against the Arizona immigration law, saying they should follow the example set by Jackie Robinson when he broke the game's color barrier more than a half-century ago. The sport's national spotlight returned this week to the Sonoran Desert for the first time since Luis Gonzalez's ninth-inning single off Mariano Rivera won Game 7 of the 2001 World Series for the Diamondbacks, landing the All-Stars - those who didn't drop out - in the hot debate over the law known as SB 1070. Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig...

NEW YORK (AP) -- First comes love, then comes marriage. Now adoption lawyers and agencies in New York say they're getting ready for a baby boom as same-sex couples emboldened by the state's new gay marriage law take the next step and try to adopt children. New York will allow same-sex marriages beginning July 24, becoming the most populous state to legalize such weddings. Thousands of couples are expected to tie the knot. The state already permits unmarried couples, both gay and straight, to adopt children. But a wedding ring is an important milestone in a relationship - and can...

Tens of thousands of Americans are lining up in support of a police officer in Tulsa, Okla., who was punished for refusing his department's order to attend an "Islamic proselytizing event" even as a legal team representing the captain is petitioning the court to add new allegations of misbehavior by his superiors to a lawsuit over the dispute. WND reported earlier when a legal action was brought by attorneys with the Thomas More Law Center on behalf of Paul Fields. Named as defendants are the city, police chief Charles W. Jordan and deputy chief Alvin Daryl Webster. The lawsuit focuses...

THIS Morning made a big boob again today - by interviewing the woman who holds the record for having the largest natural breasts in the world.Annie Hawkins-Turner, who is better known by her pseudonym Norma Stitz, showed off her whopping 102ZZZ assets, which weigh a massive eight stone, making her a Guinness World Record holder. The 52-year-old told Phillip Schofield and Jenni Falconer how she's constantly been taunted over her mammoth cleavage since her bust started growing when she was nine. Annie, from Atlanta, Georgia, said: "I never knew I was different. I was just growing up and I was...

An online hoax that falsely suggests McDonald's discriminates against African-American customers is causing a PR headache for the Golden Arches. Over the weekend, the photograph above circulated widely on the internet. The image shows what looks like an official McDonald's notice in the window of a restaurant, telling customers that blacks will be charged $1.50 extra "as an insurance measure due in part to a recent string of robberies." Many internet users retweeted the photo, using the words "Seriously McDonald's," to express their disapproval of the burger chain. In response, McDonald's sent a tweet of its own on Saturday: "That...

<p>Tracy Morgan is beloved by millions for the crazy things he says on 30 Rock and in real life. But has the comedian gone too far?</p>

SMICKSBURG (KDKA) — An Amish woman from Indiana County died this week after an accident while she was doing laundry. Ella Miller, 32, was doing laundry in a pot over an open flame early Monday morning. State police say she threw some kerosene on the fire in an attempt to intensify the heat, but that caused an explosion which caught her clothing on fire. Miller suffered first, second and third degree burns. At her request, she was treated with home remedies by family and neighbors

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A judge sentenced Lindsay Lohan to 120 days in jail on Friday for a probation violation after hearing evidence against the actress in a theft case. Lohan's attorney, Shawn Holley, said she will appeal the ruling, which will allow the actress to post bail. Sautner also ordered Lohan to serve more than 400 hours of community service, including 300 hours at a women's center. The ruling came after Sautner reduced Lohan's grand theft case down to a misdemeanor and after prosecutors gave their case against the actress. It will be Lohan's fourth jail stint