- The heatwave that has graciously broken could have lead to 25 deaths here - Republican congressman Paul Gilmour of Ohio found dead in his apartment in DC - Shaq is filing for divorce from his wife of five years. Together the couple had four children: Shareef, 7, Amirah, 5, Shaqir, 4, and Me'Arah, 1 - 400 court interpreters are on strike from San Luis to Santa Barbara to LA counties, any chance they're......

LA author, blogger, and photographer Luke Ford was the first person to report that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's days of being married were over. In his post on January 29 titled Antonio Villaraigosa’s Marriage Kaput, Ford brought up several telling key details that turned out to be right on the money. The mayor and his wife Corina haven’t been seen together in public in about ten months (since the president of Mexico, Vicente......

For a guy who got famous because of a Monica, Matt Drudge sure seems uncomfortable about saying anything about Monica Goodling who continues to add to the case that the Attorney General of the United States lied under oath to Congress in testimony that has "the hearing room generally falling silent on Goodling's every word." What is Drudge deciding to send his millions of clickers to instead of the big news of the day?......

The OJ Trial never ends. People will be debating the botched police work, the missing blood, the glove that didn't fit, the 9-1-1 call, Kato hearing a knock, the cut on OJ's hand, the mysterious slow Bronco chase that was never even alluded to during the epic trial, and Mark Fuhrman getting caught lying on the stand for years to come. For a jury who heard all the testimony and came back quickly with......

As Matt Drudge continues to drive his "Edwards and Kerry are gay lovers" gag into the ground for a third day, L.A.-based blogger Max Blumenthal makes a riposte. Okay, Matt? Are we done with this yet? Call me a stick-in-the-mud, but when the Bush administration is making efforts to stigmatize gay relationships in the constitution, this stuff seems more than churlish. And after Drudge's botched attempt to smear Kerry with a fabricated sex scandal, we......