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Former U.S. president Bill Clinton campaigns for Congressional candidates in Chicago October 23, 2006. REUTERS/John Gress (UNITED STATES)

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Eric Clapton is playing "Cocaine" in concert again. The recovering drug addict and alcoholic, who founded the Crossroads Centre addiction recovery center on the Caribbean island of Antigua, stopped performing the song written by J.J. Cale when he first got sober. "I thought that it might be giving the wrong message to people who were in the same boat as me," Clapton recently told The Associated Press. "But further investigation proved ... the song, if anything, if it's not even ambivalent, it's an anti-drug song. And so I thought that might be a better way to...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Bill Clinton reveled in the spotlight on Thursday as political friend and foe alike, including two presidents named Bush, helped him dedicate his $165 million presidential library, which highlights his achievements with a little bit of Monica Lewinsky mixed in. Only 91-year-old Gerald Ford was among former presidents absent, a group that grew smaller last summer with the death of Ronald Reagan. Democrat Jimmy Carter, 80, and Republican George Bush, 80, and his son, President Bush, and their wives, attended a rain-soaked ceremony on the bank of the Arkansas River. The event featured 30,000 of...

I am informed that Roger Clinton has not been paying the court-ordered child support payments for his daughter in Tennessee. According to the information, Roger is now $9,000 behind in his payments to her. Attempts by the girl's mother to serve legal papers on Roger Clinton have been unsuccessful so far. It was also reported a few weeks ago that Roger Clinton is now divorced and owed his ex-wife and son more than $24,000 in overdue child support and spousal payments. (See Clinton’s Cash Crisis Could Mean Jail). So these bills for overdue support payments are piling up fast....