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The Guinness World Record for longest fingernails was broken Wednesday, so to speak. The fingernails Salt Lake City resident Lee Redmond has been growing since 1979 were broken off in a four-car pileup Wednesday in Holladay, said Salt Lake County sheriff's spokesman Don Hutson. Redmond was a passenger in one of the cars in the 1:30 p.m. crash. She and at least two others were taken to a hospital with minor injuries, Hutson said. She was ejected from the vehicle, Hutson said. Redmond's nails were 33 inches long when The Tribune last interviewed her in 2007. She then was 66....

<p>There have been several "live threads" posted today regarding the debate starting early this morning. Let's make this the official thread.</p>

More than three decades apart, two political riots influenced the outcome of U.S. presidential elections. In 1968, protests at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago hurt Democrat Hubert Humphrey and helped Republican Richard Nixon eke out a victory. On Nov. 22, 2000, the so-called “Brooks Brothers Riot” of Republican activists helped stop a vote recount in Miami -- and showed how far George W. Bush’s supporters were ready to go to put their man in the White House. But the government reaction to the two events was dramatically different. The clashes between police and Vietnam War protesters in 1968 led...