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Sep 24, 2010

It's nice Jennifer Lopez wants to give kids free health care, but why not help out your old block

Newest 'Idol' judge J.Lo (below) hasn't helped her old school, Holy Family in the Bronx.
It's nice to know Jennifer Lopez has snagged a $12 million deal with "American Idol." It would be a heck of a lot nicer if she'd finally give some of her millions to her old school in the Bronx.

Teresa Lewis dies by lethal injection, executed in Virginia despite thousands of appeals to save her

Death penalty protestors rally against the execution of Teresa Lewis on Thursday.

Helber/APDeath penalty protestors rally against the execution of Teresa Lewis on Thursday. A Virginia woman met her fate Thursday night.
Teresa Lewis, who in 2002 stood by while her husband and stepson were brutally murdered as they slept, was executed thanks to a lethal cocktail of chemicals shortly after 9 p.m. at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va.

Crime pays for world-famous organist

Classical organist Carlo Curley with the St Paul's Cathedral organ before his recital in Dunedin last night. Photo by Jane Dawber.

Who says crime does not pay?
It is fair to say Carlo Curley has gone to extraordinary lengths to break into the music scene.
Like many musicians, the 58-year-old flamboyant and popular classical concert organist got his introduction to music from his grandmother, who taught him to play piano when he was 4.
Later, he joined his grandmother in the local church choir in North Carolina, where he discovered the organ.

Franklin speaks out over assault on son

Aretha Franklin has spoken out over the assault this week on her adult son. AP Photo/Carlos Osorio

Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin is speaking out on the beating her adult son took from three men at a Detroit gas station this week.
Franklin said in a statement some early reports had some innaccuracies.
Franklin said through a public relations firm that Eddie Franklin underwent surgery after arriving at a hospital emergency room earlier this week. She said his jaw was wired shut.
Franklin also said her son's girlfriend gave the wrong location of the attack.

Pop idol Eddie Fisher dead

Eddie Fisher, whose huge fame as a pop singer was overshadowed by scandals ending his marriages to Debbie Reynolds and Elizabeth Taylor, has died. He was 85.

His daughter, Tricia Leigh Fisher, of Los Angeles, said Fisher died of complications from hip surgery at a hospital in Berkeley

Beckham to sue over allegations in US magazine

Los Angeles Galaxy's David Beckham looks on during a training session in Carson, California, yesterday.(AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
David Beckham's management company says it is taking legal action against a US magazine which published claims the former England captain slept with prostitutes.
The company said in a statement the allegations in the weekly In Touch are "completely untrue and totally ridiculous as the magazine was clearly told before publication."
"Sadly we live in a world where a magazine can print lies and believe they can get away with it. We are taking legal action against the magazine," the statement said.

How to separate without hurting the children | Life and style

Divorce

Children are used as "ammunition" during separation. Photograph: Getty
Sir Nicholas Wall, Britain's most senior family judge, warned this week that parents are harming children during divorce proceedings, by using them as "the battlefield, [and] the ammunition".

Fired for being openly gay

Rhonda Davis

After serving for 11 years in the US navy, Rhonda Davis openly admitted to being gay, and was thrown out. Photograph: Guardian
Campaigners against the Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) policy, which bans openly gay people from serving in the US armed forces, were offered hope when Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, said he would schedule a vote on it next week.....

How a catwalk show at London Fashion Week brought my memories back to life

TopShop Unique: London Fashion Week
Memories come alive . . . Models walk the runway at the Topshop Unique show. Photograph: Danny Martindale/WireImage
Long ago, in a far-off land called the 1970s, the fashion spreads in magazines for young teens used to be drawn, not photographed. I loved those drawings, of tall, slender, elegant creatures, all with exactly the same faces, figures and hair, in perfectly fitting, perfectly draping clothes.

Second shot: An amateur takes to the riser