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HOME The week's gone and the wife and I got up early and aimed east, back to our "big league city."  (It struck me while we were driving this morning that if you have mountains, generally speaking you don't need a basketball team to attract people.)

The wedding we attended was an EVENT, unlike any I've ever been involved in.  The bride and groom (my nephew) are both from Oklahoma City, but as is the trend with some these days, they went with a "DESTINATION WEDDING" in Santa Fe.

The limousine for the bride and groom was a 1957 Chrysler Imperial stretch with the largest whitewalls I've ever seen, even in a 1970's black exploitation movie.  ("Freddie's Dead.....that's what I said.")

The courtyard near the entrance of the art gallery where the wedding was held,  was filled with hummingbirds shooting around from flower to flower, doing whatever it is hummingbirds do, often times just inches away from the guests standing around waiting for things to happen. 

The wedding, with bride, groom and 9 attendants on each side,  plus the  reception,  were held in an outdoor area of the gallery, complete with waterfall and pond.   Immediately after the ceremony ended, the same area was morphed into a banquet scene for a sit down dinner for the 200 plus that were in attendance.

After dinner, there was dancing with a two man band (drummer and keyboards) from Oklahoma City called C-PLUS.  I was surprised they could pull it off with just those two things and no additional "tape loops" or "samples," but these guys were GOOD.

And that was just the wedding.  

The rehearsal dinner was the nicest I've ever attended, and was put together by a person(s) with a great mind for all the details that make an event unique and memorable for the wedding couple and their large group of friends and family.  

Then there was the golf for 25, picked up by the father of the groom, and the "morning after" brunch on Sunday, which we skipped, but no doubt was a first class affair.

The best part of the event though was actually seeing my nephew marry his lifelong love.   He was smitten with her in 9th, dated throughout high school, broke up for college, (which clearly was a heartbreaker for him,) and came back together again when they had finished up with school and began their careers.

It was clear that he was one "happy boy."

-  No DNA test for the baby that John Edwards is denying.  Gee, how convenient for John.   (But I'm "sure" he'd take one if asked.)

- Bill Clinton scheduled to speak the same night as the Democrats Vice Presidential nominee.  Makes you wonder if he might be introducing someone he knows as Vice President?    Twice as many reasons to vote for John McCain.

- McCartney in Santa Fe.   Lady with her baby asked for an autograph, which he refused, saying "I'd rather not, I'm on vacation....but....."    He pulled a harmonica out of his pocket and played a song for the baby and other people standing around.   ("Cry Baby Cry?")  

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On August 10, 1977, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz is arrested and charged with being the "Son of Sam," the serial killer who terrorized New York City for more than a year, killing six young people and wounding seven others with a .44-caliber revolver. Because Berkowitz generally targeted attractive young women with long brown hair, hundreds of young women had their hair cut short and dyed blond during the time he terrorized the city. Thousands more simply stayed home at night. After his arrest, Berkowitz claimed that demons and a black Labrador retriever owned by a neighbor named Sam had ordered him to commit the killings.

There was some question about whether Berkowitz was mentally fit to stand trial, but on May 8, 1978, he withdrew an insanity defense and pleaded guilty to the six .44-caliber murders. He was given six 25-years-to-life sentences for the crime, the maximum penalty allowed at the time. He has since been denied parole. Since 1987, he has been held at the Sullivan Correctional Facility in upstate New York, where he allegedly converted to Christianity.

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Isaac Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless "Theme From Shaft" won Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said. He was 65.

A family member found him unresponsive near a treadmill and he was pronounced dead an hour later at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis, according to the sheriff's office. The cause of death was not immediately known.

In the early 1970s, Hayes laid the groundwork for disco, for what became known as urban-contemporary music and for romantic crooners like Barry White. And he was rapping before there was rap.

His career hit another high in 1997 when he became the voice of Chef, the sensible school cook and devoted ladies man on the animated TV show "South Park."

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One of the largest and most photographed arches in Arches National Park has collapsed.

Paul Henderson, the park's chief of interpretation, said Wall Arch collapsed sometime late Monday or early Tuesday.

The arch is along Devils Garden Trail, one of the most popular in the park. For years, the arch has been a favorite stopping point for photographers.

Henderson said the arch was claimed by forces that will eventually destroy others in the park: gravity and erosion.

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Gory and bucolic all at once, cockfights have drawn crowds to small-time pits and full-blown arenas in towns around Louisiana for generations. By next week, they'll be against the law. Everywhere.

On Friday, Louisiana will become the last state to outlaw the rooster fights, a move that cockfighting enthusiasts say marks the end of a rich rural tradition.

"The culture, the custom of the Cajun people, it's gone," said Chris Daughdrill, who breeds fighting roosters in Loranger (lor-AHN-zher), a community about 50 miles north of New Orleans. "It's another one of the rights that big government has taken away from the people."

Maybe so, but supporters and opponents agree that the blood sport won't be wiped out entirely. Like bootlegging, cockfights will continue on the sly in remote areas, and getting caught could mean fines or even prison.

"They're still going to fight, they're still going to fight for years to come," said Elizabeth Barras, who with husband Dale ran a cockfighting pit in St. Martin Parish for 14 years. "They've still got cockfighting in every state. They just hide it from the law."

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Russia expanded its bombing blitz to the Georgian capital, deployed ships off the coast and, a Georgian official said, sent tanks from the separatist region of South Ossetia into Georgian territory, heading toward a border city before being turned back.

Russia also claimed its forces sank a Georgian missile boat that was trying to attack Russian ships in the Black Sea, news agencies reported.

The Russian Defense Ministry refused to comment to The Associated Press on the reports of the sinking and Georgian officials could not immediately be reached. If confirmed, it could mark a serious escalation of the fighting that has raged between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia.

Georgia called a cease-fire and said its troops were retreating Sunday from the disputed province of South Ossetia in the face of Russia's far superior firepower, but Russia said the soldiers were "not withdrawing but regrouping" and refused to recognize a truce.

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US defeats China 101-70 in basketball.

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Former President Ford secretly advised the FBI that two of his fellow members on the Warren Commission doubted the FBI's conclusion that John F. Kennedy was shot from the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository in Dallas, according to newly released records from Ford's FBI files.

Ford, still a congressman at the time, also told a senior FBI official about internal panel disputes over hiring staff, Chief Justice Earl Warren's timetable for completing the final report on the assassination and what panel members said about the FBI.

In turn, Assistant FBI Director Cartha "Deke" DeLoach confidentially advised Ford of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's position on panel disputes; discussed where leaks were coming from; and, with Hoover's personal approval, loaned him a bureau briefcase with a lock so he could securely take the FBI report on the 1963 assassination with him on a ski trip.

The new details were included in 500 pages of the FBI's large file on Ford, released in part this past week in response to requests under the Freedom of Information Act that The Associated Press and others made on the day Ford died in December 2006. The FBI intends to release additional documents about Ford in several batches, all with parts censored for law enforcement and privacy reasons.

That Ford served as the FBI's eyes and ears inside the commission has been known for years. Long ago, the government released a 1963 FBI memo that said Ford, then a Republican congressman from Michigan, had volunteered to keep the FBI informed about the panel's private deliberations, but only if that relationship remained confidential. The bureau agreed.

It was also well-known Ford was an outspoken proponent of the bureau's conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald killed Kennedy acting alone.

A newly released memorandum provides more details about Ford's role as the FBI's informant. DeLoach wrote on Dec. 17, 1963, to outline what Ford told him in the congressman's office about the commission meeting the day before.

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Michael Phelps got one of his toughest races out of the way, and it couldn't have been any easier.

With President Bush cheering him on, Phelps dominated his first event of the Beijing Olympics on Sunday morning, crushing his own world record and all hopes of his challengers with a mark of 4 minutes, 3.84 seconds in the 400-meter individual medley.

This was thought to be a potential stumbling block in Phelps' quest to win eight gold medals after fellow American and good friend Ryan Lochte matched him stroke for stroke at the U.S. Olympic trials just over a month ago. Both went under the previous world record in the 400 IM then, with Phelps touching first in 4:05.25.

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A Mexican border city has begun fining U.S. drivers who cross the border to fill extra drums, tanks or barrels with government-subsidized Mexican fuel.

The city of Ciudad Acuna, across the border from Del Rio, Texas, said Friday that it fined four U.S. residents for carrying extra diesel and would impound their cars until they pay. The fines equal 70 percent of the value of the diesel confiscated.

U.S. drivers can fill up their own vehicles, but carrying extra fuel containers back across the border violates customs regulations and possibly safety rules, a report from the city said.

Mexico, one of the world's top 10 oil producers, sells diesel fuel domestically at subsidized prices of about $2.25 per gallon, about half the U.S. price.

Mexican filling stations near the U.S. border have seen an increase in American drivers who cross over to fill up. Mexican truckers and drivers complain the run on fuel is causing temporary shortages and longer lines for them.

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 John Edwards lied when he denied his affair. Now he’s asking the nation to take his word that he’s revealed everything.

But the strange behavior of Edwards and those around him, coupled with the backlog of other tabloid allegations, raise many unanswered questions.

Three weeks ago, for instance, the National Enquirer confronted John Edwards at 2:40 a.m. leaving his mistress' hotel room in Beverly Hills, allegedly after visiting their so-called love child. Shortly afterward, FOXNews.com confirmed Edwards indeed had been escorted from a hotel bathroom by security guards who witnessed his sprint from reporters.

In the days that followed, Edwards dismissed all related questions, consistently saying he wouldn't respond to "tabloid lies."

Now, he has answered the biggest question surrounding the reports by admitting to an extra-marital affair with a filmmaker, Rielle Hunter, in 2006.

He still, however, denies claims that he fathered her child and all knowledge of his supporters' financial support of her and the former staff member who has claimed to be the father.

"These are all things in supermarket tabloids, which make the most outrageous allegations every week," he told ABC News. "We’ll just start with where the source of this information comes."

In this case, the source was right on one thing.

Ex-Mistress: No Paternity Test

In 2007, reporters first started to question the relationship between Edwards and Hunter, who produced video "webisodes" for his campaign. The New York Post had published a gossip item about a presidential candidate with a New York City girlfriend and another reporter had written about the abrupt disappearance of the videos from the Edwards campaign web site.

The National Enquirer in December discovered a then-pregnant Hunter, who had moved from New York to a few miles from the Edwards presidential campaign headquarters in North Carolina. She was driving a car registered to Andrew Young, a top Edwards aide, and living in a gated community a few streets away from where Young lived with his wife and three children, the paper reported.

Shortly afterward Young claimed, through his attorney, that he was the father of Hunter’s child, and that he had left the Edwards campaign and sought privacy as he worked to heal his family. The Enquirer and others have reported a number of facts that, while not proving paternity, indicate a complicated effort to finance and hide the pregnant woman.

Reports stated Hunter moved within blocks of Andrew Young, his wife, Cheri, and their children, even sharing meals. When questioned by the Enquirer, Hunter first denied her identity and then refused all questions. Andrew Young was also coy about his identity and blocked the Enquirer reporter's car in his driveway, while Cheri Young called 911. No charges were filed against the reporter, Alan Butterfield.

Within months, Hunter and the Youngs had moved to the West Coast. Enquirer reporters say that they all moved into the same house in a gated section of Montecito, an exclusive section of Santa Barbara, Calif., and one of the nation's most expensive communities.

FOXNews.com confirmed that public records connect Cheri Young to the rented home worth approximately $4 million. Since leaving New York, no public records exist of Hunter living anywhere, however, when her daughter, Frances Hunter, was born, she signed the birth certificate in Santa Barbara on Feb. 27.

The space for "father" was left blank.

Financing Two Families

As for reports that Edwards is paying "hush money" to Hunter and Young, Edwards has stated that he never paid money to anyone to keep them quiet about the affair.

A source close to Edwards’ former campaign confirmed to FOX News reports that Fred Baron, a Dallas lawyer and former campaign finance chairman for Edwards, secretly provided financial help to both Hunter and Young. He apparently paid with his own funds and has told other news outlets Edwards did not know about the arrangement.

Edwards said he learned of the payments through reporters and that he "had no knowledge" of the payouts outside of that.

The payments reportedly have been towering — $15,000 a month to Hunter, according to reports, plus other payments to Young.

The Youngs previously lived in an upscale, gated North Carolina community just south of Chapel Hill, renting a property then owned by a top Edwards donor, former NBA star Eric Montross. He told FOXNews.com the Youngs paid market rates and the arrangement was "totally free of any ties to the political campaign."

Multiple calls left to the owner of the California house have not been returned.

Paternity Questions

The most prominent unanswered question remains, who is Frances Hunter's father?

The National Enquirer published a grainy picture that appears to show Edwards holding a child, and the tabloid says it is confident the child is his.

Edwards said Friday he’s happy to take a paternity test to establish he is not the father of Frances Quinn Hunter. The National Enquirer, which stands by its “love child” claim, has repeatedly called on Edwards to submit to a test, and now Rielle Hunter's sister has joined that call.

"As far as being the father of Hunter's love child, you might as well go all the way now, Johnny Boy," the newspaper wrote on its Web site Friday night. "Submit to a DNA test.”

Both Edwards and his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth Edwards, say he is putting it all on the table in an attempt to move past the allegations and innuendo that until Friday existed mostly in tabloids, blogs and political rumor mills.

In his written statement, John Edwards said Friday he used the fact that the tabloid stories "contained many falsities" to deny them in the first place.

"But being 99 percent honest is no longer enough."

In a statement released on the Daily Kos, Edwards’ wife said "our private matter" could no longer stay private, "because of a recent string of hurtful and absurd lies in a tabloid publication, because of a picture falsely suggesting that John was spending time with a child it wrongly alleged he had fathered outside our marriage."

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Dick Clark is still Mr. New Year's Eve — but he'll be sharing the title with Ryan Seacrest.

Starting this December, Clark's longtime end-of-year special will be called "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest," ABC and dick clark productions said Friday.

It was also announced that Seacrest will serve as co-host with Clark and as an executive producer on the broadcast for another three years, through the 2010 show ringing in 2011.

The show's name change reflects Seacrest's success in co-hosting "one of America's most time-honored traditions," Orly Adelson, executive producer and president of dick clark productions, said in a statement.

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Opening ceremony sets ratings record for NBC...

Phelps on course as US claim two world records.

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Rice: Israel can decide for itself on Iran attack...
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  • Singer, songwriter Isaac Hayes dies at age 65
    MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Isaac Hayes, the pioneering singer, songwriter and musician whose relentless "Theme From Shaft" won Academy and Grammy awards, died Sunday afternoon, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office said. He was 65....

  • Rob Riggle's off the hook in China
    NEW YORK (AP) -- Foreign correspondency on the fake news of "The Daily Show" usually amounts to someone standing in front of a video screen on the New York set, a few steps away from Jon Stewart's desk....

  • `Dark Knight' stays on top with $26M
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Batman was higher than Hollywood's newest pot heads....

  • Bernie Mac's family expected him to pull through
    CHICAGO (AP) -- Comedian Bernie Mac's family had expected him to fully recover from the bout of pneumonia that put him in a hospital three weeks ago, his daughter said Sunday....

  • Opening night big TV draw for NBC
    NEW YORK (AP) -- The colorful Olympics opening night ceremony from Beijing on NBC averaged 34.2 million viewers, making it the biggest television event since the Super Bowl....

  • McConaughey to plant son's placenta in orchard
    NEW YORK (AP) -- Matthew McConaughey says the birth of his son will help bring a little joy to others in the world someday. The actor kept the placenta from the July birth of his son and plans to plant it in an orchard, he tells CNN's "House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta" in interview scheduled to air in two parts Aug. 9 and Aug 16....

  • 'American Idol' crooner Clay Aiken now a father
    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Former "American Idol" runner-up Clay Aiken is a father. The 29-year-old crooner from Raleigh announced the birth of Parker Foster Aiken on his Web site's blog Friday. "No hyphens. One first name," he wrote. "One middle name. One last name."...

  • Richard Dreyfuss sues father, uncle over loan
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Richard Dreyfuss is suing his father and uncle over an $870,000 loan he claims was never repaid. The lawsuit centers around a loan Dreyfuss claims he made to his relatives in 1984, who owned an interest in a downtown Los Angeles office building....

  • Happy New Year: Clark, Seacrest a duo through 2010
    LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dick Clark is still Mr. New Year's Eve - but he'll be sharing the title with Ryan Seacrest....

  • Group promotes New Orleans anthem
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Kevin Molony was listening to a version of the old spiritual "I Shall Not Be Moved," when it struck him as the perfect anthem for New Orleans residents still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina....

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Photo: Close-up of red and yellow raindrops

Ph Balanced

In this macro close-up, a bromophemol solution is dripped on raindrops found on a daisy petal to test their acidity. The solution is reddish and has turned one drop yellow. The rain is pH 3, the same as vinegar.