LITTLE ROCK — Vice President Dick Cheney told CNBC's Kudlow & Company that he and Illinois' Sen. Barack Obama, a Democratic presidential candidate, haven't discussed reports that they share distant relatives, saying: "Cousin Barack? No, we haven't - haven't had the opportunity to talk about it."
Bill Butler, 61, a Houstonarea bookstore owner who said he is a collector of 1960s items, bid $100,000 for a hair lock snipped from Ernesto "Che" Guevara before his burial in 1967, making Butler the only bidder and the winner of the 3-inch tress at a Dallas auction.
Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican and presidential candidate, appearing Sioux City, Iowa, with Col. Bud Day, a fellow Vietnam prisoner of war, to mark the 40-year anniversary of McCain's being shot down over Vietnam, said, "I served in the company of heroes, and that's the great privilege of my life."
Daniel Dae Kim, 38, who plays tough guy Jin-Soo Kwon on ABC's Lost, has been arrested in Hawaii on suspicion of drunken driving.
Jean Ziegler, a United Nations food expert, called for a five-year moratorium on biofuel production and said the practice of converting food crops into fuel is "a crime against humanity" because it is creating food shortages and price jumps that cause millions of poor people to go hungry.
Andrew Peterson, a Spring Hill, Kan., police officer, made a traffic stop on U.S. 169 and ended up delivering a baby boy, named Matthew, for David and Charlotte Grate, who were speeding to the hospital.
George Ryan, 73, the former Republican governor of Illinois who was convicted in April 2006 of steering state contracts to friends, using tax dollars to run his campaigns and covering up drivers' license bribery, has been ordered to report to prison by Nov. 7 to 1 start serving a 6/2-year prison sentence although his lawyers are seeking to keep him out of prison pending a U.S. Supreme Court appeal.
Javon Patrick Morris, 22, has been sentenced in Charleston, S.C., to three years in prison for tossing a 10-week-old puppy, which suffered head injuries and had to be put to death, off an apartment balcony during an argument with his girlfriend.
Craig S. McCullough, 47, was charged with misdemeanor indecent exposure in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent allegedly found him in an office building restroom lying next to an inflatable doll with his pants down.
Dino Rossi, 48, a Republican who lost the closest race for governor in U.S. history, by 129 votes, in 2004, plans to seek a rematch with Washington Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire next year.
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