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...what's the next move for Lacy and the DA's office? In addition to having recently added an extra investigator to their team, they're following up on new leads that Lacy's chief investigator, Tom Bennett, says seem to have been triggered by the public's renewed interest in the case. Over the past four years, Boulder investigators have traveled around the country repeatedly to investigate suspects, without alerting the media of their efforts, and they will continue to pursue any material leads that dribble in. As for Karr, Lacy says that having been charged by the state...
...year-old San Francisco lawmaker is an aggressive, hyperpartisan liberal pol who is the Democrats' version of Tom DeLay, minus the ethical and legal problems of the former Republican House leader. To condition Democrats for this fall's midterm elections, she has employed tactics straight out of DeLay's playbook: insisting other House Democrats vote the party line on everything, avoiding compromise with Republicans at all cost and mandating that members spend much of their time raising money for colleagues in close races. And she has been effective. House Democrats have been more unified in their voting than...
...Here's big news: Tom Cruise, the biggest star in the world, has been terminated from his relationship with Paramount. Earlier today he called Brooke Shields to see if he could borrow some antidepressants." --DAVID LETTERMAN...
Veterans' groups understandably want the health-care system expanded to accommodate vets with higher incomes and no service-related ailments. Tom Bock, commander of the American Legion, has another idea: allow elderly vets not in the system who are drawing Medicare payments to spend those benefits at a VA facility instead of going to a private doctor, as is now required by Medicare. "It's a win-win-win situation," he argues. Medicare, which pays more than $6,500 per patient annually for care by private doctors, could save with the VA's less expensive care, which costs about...
...Katrina pretty much intact, the haunting images (including tourists trapped in hotels) and constant media attention left over from Katrina has kept the bulk of sightseers from returning. "It's been slow. Seems like everybody's doing about 30 percent of the business they were doing pre-Katrina," says Tom Mullen, whose grandmother founded the French Quarter psychic reading shop Bottom of the Cup Tea Room back in 1929. On a display shelf in the shop, next to the crystal balls and good-fortune candles, are packets of incense that promise to "Cleanse Negativity" and restore "Peace and Balance...