Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio has agreed to plead guilty to several federal charges in this year's Ambramoff-and-the horse-you-rode-in-on lobyying scandal. Ney withdrew from his congressional race earlier and the six-term congressman's 18th district is now rated a toss-up -- just one reason the Republicans are sweating this year.
Former prosecutor Nancy Grace, now a TV personality, badgered a guest on national television early this week. The 21-year-old guest, whose son's kidnappingg, was slow to respond to Grace's increasingly vicious line of questioning which implied that she had something to do with the boy's disappearance, and after the taping was over, killed herself. Then Grace aired the interview anyway.
Grace is refusing to apologize. Her broadcast has garnered plenty of controversy.
Two pork companies in Oklahoma have agreed to pay $445,000 in federal fines for violating environmental laws. Quoting from the story: "The complaints filed against the companies accused them of allowing lagoons containing pig manure and urine and other waste products to leak into ground water at five Oklahoma farms. Seaboard also is accused of allowing the release of excess amounts of ammonia -- considered a hazardous substance -- from a central Oklahoma farm."
Somehow I have the feeling that the $445,000 is a drop in the bucket to the pork producers.
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