Extra, Extra

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• Seems folks cant just go out and have a good time. Now its gonna put one of the Sunset Strip's marquee clubs in jeopardy. Chill out people!
• In an apparent attempt to escape justice, the Japanese man who was just brought back to the US to face murder charges was found dead in his cell from an apparent suicide. His lawyer is confused by the move and an investigation is still pending.
• In another of the "pay-to-play" investigations, a former Los Angeles commisioner was sentenced to 5 years in state prison. He used his influence in the Hahn administration to procure lucrative deals for a Taiwanese shipping company.
• Some suspicious letters containing a white powder sent to "comedian" Bill Maher were found to be harmless. The theater where Maher was performing had to be evacuated as a precaution. There is no truth to the rumor that a showing of his film "Religulous" was used to evacuate the theater.
• A DWP worker needed rescuing after falling down an underground vault. The vault is filled with a bunch of live wires and the worker was lucky to escape with minor injuries.
• Finally, congrats to Lisa Marie Presley on the birth of her twin girls. No names were released or maybe the parents just haven't thought of any yet. Or perhaps she is just trying to get back at the "vicious media" for making her reveal her pregnancy in the first place. Great times!