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A transgender woman said Tempe Tavern in Tempe, Ariz., refused to serve her Saturday. The woman said she walked into the bar to get a soda and instead was kicked out. “All I wanted to do was see a horse race and have a drink,” Briana Sandy said. But Sandy said she didn’t expect what happened. “‘I can’t serve you any drinks,’ and I go, ‘What? What’s the problem?’ And she goes, ‘We don’t serve your kind,’ and I’m like, I didn’t just hear that. And then all of a sudden, this guy, who was I guess the bouncer, walked...

New Orleans police have arrested a woman in connection with a Central City shooting that left two teenagers wounded Sunday. Verquan Carter, 21, was booked late Tuesday (Oct. 8) with two counts of attempted first degree murder and discharging a firearm during a violent crime. Witnesses at the scene told police Carter opened fire around 6:30 p.m. after getting into an argument with a woman who was walking in a group of people near the intersection of Jackson and South Claiborne Avenues, according to an arrest warrant written by NOPD Detective Virgil Landry. During the argument, Carter took out a...

The Naked Cowboy, a fixture of New York's Times Square, is suing a "Naked Cowgirl" he claims is ripping off his street musician act. Robert Burck, 39, who performs in only a cowboy hat, boots and briefs, is suing fellow Times Square performer Sandy Kane, who calls herself "The Naked Cowgirl," seeking as much as $150,000, the New York Post reported Tuesday. "Your use of Naked Cowgirl is essentially identical to the Naked Cowboy and is clearly in violation (of the Naked Cowboy trademark)," Burke wrote in a cease-and-desist letter to Kane. Burke said Kane balked at his offer of...

Police Come Across Fogged Up SUV On Elementary School Grounds In Baldwin; Residents Shocked, Horrified BALDWIN, N.Y. (CBS) ― A prominent PTA official is facing some serious allegations involving a teenage boy. Police arrested Joan Tuckruskye after allegedly finding her in the backseat of a parked car with a 13-year-old boy on Friday night. Both of them, police said, were partially unclothed. "I feel devastated for the victim," said "Steve," the suspect's neighbor. His son attends school with both the alleged victim and suspect's daughter, and is outraged over charges that Tuckruskye, vice president in charge of fundraising for the...

"I SWEAR I'M A WOMAN!" #In D.C., three corrections officers are being fired after classifying a woman inmate as a man. Virginia Grace Soto is a white Hispanic woman from the Dominican Republic. (No word yet on whether she is a legal U.S. resident.) The corrections reports describe her as "androgynous in nature." But even after a strip search and a shower with male inmates ... they couldn't tell she was a woman? Looks like there's more to this story. Turns out that this was not the first time Soto was arrested. She'd been arrested twice since April and both...

Polygamous lesbians flee Sharia A picture of Aunty Maiduguri from a souvenir given to guests Enlarge Image A Nigerian lesbian who "married" four women last weekend in Kano State has gone into hiding from the Islamic police, with her partners.Under Sharia law, adopted in the state seven years ago, homosexuality and same-sex marriages are outlawed and considered very serious offences. The theatre where the elaborate wedding celebration was held on Sunday has been demolished by Kano city's authorities. Lesbianism is also illegal under Nigeria's national penal code. Nigeria's parliament is considering tightening its laws on homosexuality. Stoning Kano's Hisbah...

A prospective Denver Broncos cheerleader performs a routine on the first day of auditions in Denver,Colorado March 25, 2007. Over 250 women applied for the 34 slots. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

<p>NBC's John Reiss will be reassigned, according to a network executive who spoke on condition of anonymity Thursday because it was a personnel matter.</p> <p>''Nightly News'' has been atop the ratings for much of the past decade, a status that didn't change with the transition of anchormen from Tom Brokaw to Brian Williams.</p>

Afghan soldiers have captured a Taliban leader who tried to flee a security operation in the south dressed in a burqa, NATO said on Wednesday. Tuesday's capture in Kandahar province came as NATO launched a major offensive in neighbouring Helmand to secure a key hydroelectric dam and combat the opium trade. The man was named as Mullah Mahmood and described as an expert bomb-maker. U.S.-led coalition forces also detained five more suspected militants in eastern Khost this week. Fighting is expected to be heavy in 2007 after the bloodiest year since the Taliban's ouster in 2001. The Taliban warn they...

NEW DELHI, India (AP) -An Indian runner who won a silver medal in the women's 800 meters at the Asian Games failed a gender test and was stripped of the medal. Shanti Sounderajan, 25, took the gender test in Doha, Qatar, after placing second. The Indian Olympic Association said Monday it has been told by the Olympic Council of Asia that the 25-year-old runner was disqualified. "IOA has asked the Athletic Federation of India to return the medal as desired by the Olympic Council of Asia,'' the Indian Olympic group said. The IOA also asked its medical commission to inquire...

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan (R) wipes her brow as she maintains her vigil near a roadside checkpoint leading to U.S. President George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas August 7, 2006. Sheehan's military son Casey was killed in Iraq in 2004, and for a year has sought to meet President Bush about the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES)

A cryptic, ill-timed podium protest in Whistler that mocked transgendered mountain biker Michelle Dumaresq will likely cost Maple Ridge downhiller Danika Schroeter a spot at the world championships in New Zealand in late August. Schroeter's racing licence was suspended for three months on Monday by the Canadian Cycling Association after a review of the podium ceremony at the national mountain bike downhill championships in Whistler on July 22. Dumaresq, who lives in Vancouver, was born a man but underwent a sex change operation in the mid-1990s. The 36-year-old won her third Canadian title in a time of three minutes, 37.85...

U.S. anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan gestures next to Social- Democrat Party Leader Alfred Gusenbauer during a news conference at Vienna's airport June 19, 2006. Sheehan arrived in Vienna to support protesters during the visit of U.S. President Bush in Vienna, Wednesday, June 21, 2006.

HARARE, Zimbabwe — A prize-winning track athlete who competed in women's events was actually a man, a court in Zimbabwe (search) has been told. Samukaliso Sithole (search), who competed in domestic and regional competitions, faced charges of crimen injuria, or psychological offense, in the Zimbabwean city of Bulawayo, the state-run Herald newspaper reported Wednesday.

CANNES, France (AFP) - Alexandra Kerry, 30-year-old daughter of US Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites), walked up Cannes' celebrated red-carpet for the premiere of Quentin Tarantino's "Kill Bill 2" wearing an off-shoulder black number that turned transparent under the flashes. Kerry, who is showing a short film at the festival, was tailed by the press during her stay at Cannes but French newspapers reported that her staff had warned journalists off questions concerning her famous father. Her film entitled "The Last Full Measure" is being presented in the Short Film Corner section and describes the ravage...

It looks like NippleGate2, folks. Drudge has this photo of Kerry's daughter from the Cannes Film Festival.

GENEVA — Helen Thomas, a print journalist who has covered every U.S. president from John F. Kennedy to George W. Bush, will be the first speaker in this semester’s President’s Forum series Thursday at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Thomas was the only print journalist to join Richard Nixon on his trip to China in 1972 and traveled extensively with other presidents. She is known for asking the first question at presidential press conferences and for closing every one with, “Thank you, Mr. President.” Currently a columnist for the Hearst newspaper chain, she also has written two books — “Thanks...

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | In the upcoming weeks, political observers finally will start to focus on Florida's Democratic gubernatorial primary. The delay probably can be written off to the fact that most Americans assume former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno is a lock to win her party's nomination. That would earn her the right to take on presidential brother and current Florida governor, Republican Jeb Bush. And if the economy keeps flirting with a second recession on the heels of the one supposedly just ended, even mighty Jeb could be vulnerable come November. But there's a hidden story in the Reno race...