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Rodney King's fiancée is telling friends Rodney had been drinking all day Saturday ... and had smoked weed in the hours leading up to his death ... sources close to King tell TMZ. According to our sources, King's fiancée, Cynthia Kelley, is telling friends King was at the house all day drinking, and he smoked marijuana at some point, before she went to went to bed at 2:00 AM.

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Racial tension has been building at Owatonna High School this week after a fight broke out Monday between white and Somali students, prompting heightened police presence, backpack searches and widespread parental worries. Owatonna Police Chief Shaun LaDue said between six and 15 officers have been assigned this week to the school, which usually uses one liaison officer. Principal Don Johnson said the problems began when two white students wrote papers in recent weeks that were "inflammatory and very disrespectful." One student handed out copies of his paper to friends, while the other posted his on a class blog. Both were...

(ATTACKED: Ryan Smith, 25, is recovering in Miami Beach, after undergoing brain surgery from a brutal attack.) (VICTIMS: Ryan Smith, center, and his boyfriend, Justin Swensen, left, were attacked in St. Maarten in April. Patricia Smith, right, learned her son was gay after the attack.)A young CBS News employee is recovering in Miami Beach from a near-fatal gay bashing during a vacation last month in St. Maarten. Two were arrested on Saturday. Ryan Smith's communications skills earned him an internship in the Clinton White House. He talked his way into jobs with David Letterman and CBS News. But today, Smith,...

A local Ft. Collins man was charged with sexual assault and "domestic violence harrassment" after his wife complained to police that on numerous occasions in the past year she awoke at night to find him "having sex or oral sex" even though she had told him this seemed like rape to her. The husband also admitted to taking nude photos of her while she slept. Full story here.

President Bush's troubles with congressional Republicans, which erupted during the backlash to the Dubai seaport deal, are rooted in policy frustrations and personal resentments that GOP lawmakers say stretch back to the opening days of the administration. For years, the Bush White House and its allies on Capitol Hill seemed like one of the most unified teams Washington had ever seen, passing most of Bush's agenda with little dissent. Privately, however, many lawmakers felt underappreciated, ignored and sometimes bullied by what they regarded as a White House intent on running government with little input from them. Often it was to...

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Bush Takes Milder Tone on Terrorism Wednesday, September 14, 2005 / 10 Elul 5765 (IsraelNN.com) President George W. Bush told the United Nations on Wednesday that world leaders must change conditions which he said cause people to turn to terrorism and that war by itself will not defeat terrorism. "There can be no safety in looking away or seeking the quiet life by ignoring the hardship and oppression of others," Bush said. His speech was milder than his previous calls for a world-wide war against terrorism. "We know that this war will not be won by force of arms alone,"...

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) -- Police have arrested a Bowling Green State University student accused of attacking her roommate with a hot iron in their dorm room. Eighteen-year-old Sharronda A. Barkley of Macedonia has been charged with felonious assault. Police say she hit eighteen-year-old Heather Haase in the head and burned her arm with the iron when Haase returned to their room early Tuesday. Hasse, of Jefferson in northeast Ohio, was treated for a skull fracture, bruises, cuts and a burn at a hospital and then released. Police say Barkley accused her roommate of planting a hidden camera in the...

Grand jury clears white restaurateur in fatal shooting of black man in Aurora By Jeremy Meyer and Manny Gonzales Denver Post Staff Writers Aurora - A grand jury has recommended no charges against a white restaurateur who fatally shot a black postal worker and wounded the victim's wife in a parking-lot dispute, the district attorney announced Thursday. A grand jury found that Glenn Eichstedt, 52, didn't break any laws when he fired his .38-caliber revolver on Nov. 13 after being struck with a metal bar. The incident arose over a dispute about a collision between car doors. Aaron Davis, 39,...

Paris Hilton has ditched Nicole Richie from the fourth series of their Simple Life TV show - after a joke went wrong. The blonde heiress had invited friends round to watch a video of her Saturday Night Live performance - but prankster Nicole reportedly put on Paris' infamous sex tape instead. After a massive row, the former best friends are said to be completely ignoring each other. Paris said: "It's no big secret that Nicole and I are no longer friends. Nicole knows what she did." The 24-year-old hotel millionaire is now drawing up a short-list of possible pals for...

Many argue that communism will never be possible because of "human nature". The essence of this false argument is the belief that a communist society would consist of an all-powerful central government that would tell everybody what to do--and would therefore undermine the creative initiative of individuals and the search for happiness. • This argument is based on two false assumptions: (1) It assumes that a communist society will look like the former Soviet Union, or the current China, North Korea, etc (ie: corrupt police states with a feudal-style ruling class) (2) It assumes that people will only work in...

For the past several months, fate has conspired to keep me away from the computer. I haven't posted nearly as much on FR as I used to. With the holidays, though, I've had an opportunity to catch up a bit. What I found on my return is a bit disconcerting. While there's always been an element here that refuses to reason and does little more than insult Democrats and RINOs, it seems that this mentality has taken over a large portion of our membership. I've encountered more shrill, radical nonsense in the past couple of days than I had in...

It was a bit like the once-popular "To Tell the Truth" television show: Will the real road rage defendant with the lacerated nose please stand up! The TV tableau played out at a San Diego Superior Court hearing this week for two Escondido men accused of attempting to murder a motorist after a freeway encounter. One, Saky Sengsakda, 20, was in custody and sat at the defendant's table wearing a blue County Jail jumpsuit. The other, Vatthana Sanmur, 21, was out of custody having posted bail and sat wearing street clothes in the back of the courtroom. A bandage was...

A California author and filmmaker who became famous for trekking to Alaska's remote Katmai coast to commune with brown bears has fallen victim to the teeth and claws of the wild animals he loved. ...The fearless former drug addict from Malibu, Calif. -- who routinely eased up close to bears to chant "I love you'' in a high-pitched, sing-song voice --

RIALTO, Calif. (AP) - Rodney King, whose videotaped beating led to the deadly 1992 riots in Los Angeles, was hospitalized with a broken pelvis after he lost control of his SUV while weaving through traffic at 100 mph and crashed into a house, police said. King, 39, was spotted Sunday by a police officer who said King was speeding and weaving through traffic in his 2003 Ford Expedition when he slammed into a utility pole, a chain-link fence and then the home, police said. No one in the home was injured. King was in fair condition Monday afternoon, hospital spokesman...