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Atlanta trial dredges up anchor's past 'mistake' January 27, 2006 BY ROBERT FEDER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Despite her hopes to keep it in the past, a Chicago television news anchor's four-year affair with a former mayor of Atlanta is about to be dredged up in federal court. Marion Brooks, who anchors the 4:30 and 5 p.m. weekday newscasts on NBC-owned WMAQ-Channel 5, has been called to testify for the prosecution in the corruption case against Bill Campbell, who was mayor of Atlanta from 1994 to 2002. Campbell, 52, is on trial in Atlanta on charges of accepting more than $160,000 in...

Here we go again... House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is about to get the full 60 MINUTES treatment. CBSNEWS Lesley Stahl and her crew crashed a tsunami-relief photo op that Republican DeLay held last week. Stahl hit DeLay with questions about Ronnie Earle, the Democratic Travis County district attorney who is investigating a Texas political action committee founded by DeLay. “This is about children,” DeLay told Stahl, trying as hard as he could to put a plug in her relentless line of questioning. Stahl hammered away. After about the third question, DeLay ended the press conference. DeLay spokesman Jonathan Grella...