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Phil Ivey -- one of the most dominant professional poker players in the world -- isn't suited for marriage ... dude was just granted a divorce from his wifeLuciaetta.

Ivey and Luciaetta filed the joint petition in a Nevadacourt on December 22 ... three days before Christmas. The divorce was granted today -- both parties were present for the ruling.

Phil -- who's reportedly made more than $12 million playing poker -- married Luciaetta back in 2002. The couple has no children together.

Fun Fact: Ivey is known in the card community as the "Tiger Woods of Poker" -- [insert your own joke here].

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HYDERABAD, India (AP) -- The 86-year-old governor of a southern Indian state resigned Saturday, a day after a television news channel broadcast a tape allegedly showing him in bed with three women, an official said.
Gov. Narain Dutt Tiwari's office has denied the allegation, denouncing the tape as fabricated.
Tiwari, a veteran governing Congress party leader in Andhra Pradesh state, sent his resignation letter to the Indian president on Saturday, citing health reasons, a state official said on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to talk to reporters.
The scandal hit as Andhra Pradesh is engulfed in social unrest. Outrage over a delay in creating a new state there erupted into violent demonstrations in several cities earlier this week.

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Target has rehired all seven employees who were fired for buying the season's hottest toy -- Zhu Zhu Pets -- during off-hours, according to a statement released this weekend. Here at Holidash, we're glad to see the company appears to have found a bit of holiday cheer, and if the comments on our original post about this story are any indication, most of you agree!

For those of you unfamiliar with this not-so-merry Christmas tale, the story goes like this: Seven Target employees at a Buffalo, NY-area store (including Susan Kronbeck, who has been with the company for 13 years) were let go after buying the popular toys before 8 a.m. -- a violation of a store policy.

After a review (we're guessing of both the store's actions and the public's very vocal response), Target released a statement saying they had "carefully reviewed the situation at the Walden Galleria Target store, and we have determined that the team member terminations were the unintended consequence of a good policy rigidly applied. Therefore, Target intends to reinstate all seven of the team members, effective immediately.

Kronbeck, who had been in danger of losing her home after losing her income, told WKBW Eyewitness News that she would be back at work today and would be paid for the days she missed. Looks like it'll be a happy holiday after all for these employees (not to mention all of the supporters who vowed to boycott the store unless the employees were rehired -- you know you didn't want to give up shopping at Target!).

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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WTVC-TV) - A 4-year-old boy, beer in hand, is accused of stealing Christmas presents from his neighbors. It's a strange story, but also a sad one.

April Wright is 21 years old and is going through a divorce with her husband who is in jail.  She says she is not sure how her 4-year-old managed to get out of the house, open a beer, and steal the neighbors presents from under their tree.  Now she's just glad he's okay and says she won't let it happen again.

The child, Hayden Wright, was found around 1:45 am Tuesday, wandering the streets of his neighborhood.  In a police reports, officers said he was wearing a little girl's dress and drinking a beer. The police report says the child had to taken to the hospital to be treated for alcohol consumption.

April Wright said, "Biggest concern was him being out there, getting kidnapped, getting run over, the alcohol, having to have his stomach pumped."

Wright says she woke up that night at 1:45 am and panicked when she found Hayden was gone.  She says she put safety devices on all the doors so her kids couldn't get out, but Hayden was able to break the safety device off the doorknob and get outside.

Once out, Wright says her four year old followed his father's footsteps and was found on Blue Spruce Road, drinking.

"He runs away trying to find his father," she said. "He wants to get in trouble so he can go to jail because that's where his daddy is."

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office report says Hayden rang the doorbell a few houses down and the neighbor answered, finding the child holding a partially consumeed 12-ounce beer.

Wright said, "He got it out of my father's cooler in the back and how he got it open I don't understand because it was one of those tab beers."

But it doesn't stop there. The report said Hayden then snuck into a neighbor's house through an unlocked front door, and stole five wrapped Christmas gifts.  One was a girl's brown dress which Hayden was wearing when police found him.

"Going to the neighbor's house and taking their presents, very embarrassing," said April.

She admits she was not just embarrassed, but scared, and rushed to the hospital that night with Hayden. She said she tries to be a good mother and loves her son, but now feels like a failure.

"Kids do things like this and it's out of your control, you can do the best you can as a mother, everyone makes mistakes, it was an honest mistake," she said.

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Unwitting tourists attend White House breakfast

By BEN EVANS (AP) – 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON — The White House is once again explaining how uninvited guests wound up shaking hands with President Barack Obama.

This time, a Georgia couple hoping to tour the White House ended up at an invitation-only Veterans Day breakfast.

White House officials say the couple mistakenly showed up a day early and were allowed into the breakfast because there were no public tours available. They say the couple, Harvey and Paula Darden of Hogansville, Ga., were properly screened for security.

Harvey Darden, however, said there appeared to be a mix-up. No one told them about the breakfast, he said, and the Dardens thought they were starting their tour until they were ushered into the East Room and offered a buffet.

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BOULDER, Colo. -- Former "Family Ties" actor Brian Bonsall has been charged with second-degree assault after police say he repeatedly hit a friend in the head with a broken wooden stool.

Bonsall could face between two and six years in prison if convicted of the charge that prosecutors filed Friday.
Bonsall, 28, was arrested Saturday and appeared briefly in a Boulder courtroom Wednesday morning. Police said he was involved in a fight at an apartment in the 1100 block of 11th Street in Boulder on Saturday. The victim told police that Bonsall hit him with a part of a broken wooden stool.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - The porn family feud that played out in federal court this week ended in a draw Friday when a jury ruled that Larry Flynt's estranged nephews infringed on their famous uncle's trademark when they launched their own smut business, but did not invade his privacy and were not liable for the substantial attorney fees both sides rang up.

The jury of four men and four women rendered its verdict after a four-day trial, during which they sat next to a big-screen TV that was used to repeatedly display blown-up photos of porn DVD boxes featuring naked women on the front and people engaged in all sorts of contortions on the back.

They listened as Flynt, who was paralyzed when he was shot by a white-supremacist sniper in 1978, sat in his gold-plated, velvet-lined wheelchair on Tuesday and Wednesday and testified that in the porn business his name stands for quality. His nephews, he said, were besmirching it by putting that name on "trashy" adult movies.

"The junk they publish hurts my reputation, which in turn hurts my revenue," the gruff, gravelly voiced porn king testified.

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A pornography actress was today the tenth woman to be linked to scandal-hit golfer Tiger Woods.

Joslyn James, who has starred in a number of extremely explicit adult films, allegedly slept with the sportsman on a number of occasions.

According to sports website Deadspin.com, she had boasted of their relationship to a friend.

James, whose real name is Veronica Siwik-Daniels, is said to have considered herself Woods' 'full-time mistress.'

Shortly after the golfer's personal life imploded, she posted a status update on her Facebook page, saying: 'I find it comical when certain individuals have no life of their own and want to be ME... so terribly bad.'

James, 39, joins a string of women to have reportedly had affairs with the golfer, including another porn star Holly Sampson, 36.

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Brian Bonsall -- who played Andy on "Family Ties" -- was arrested for allegedly hitting his best friend in the face with a bar stool ... at which point cops realized Bonsall was also wanted for another crime.

According to the Colorado Daily, cops were called to a Boulder, CO apartment three times -- where Bonsall and his friend Michael Trujillo allegedly got into a heated argument -- before they finally arrested Bonsall on suspicion of beating Trujillo in the face with a piece of a broken bar stool.

According to Trujillo, the two began arguing, Trujillo asked Bonsall to take a hike, and Bonsall went ballistic.

Bonsall claims he was so drunk he doesn't remember a thing.

The former child actor has been wanted since last year after failing to appear for a hearing stemming from a 2007 assault charge -- resulting in a bench warrant out for arrest.

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In his almost 30 years of crusading against global warming, Al Gore has worn a variety of hats. In roughly chronological order these include: congressman, senator, author, vice president, traveling evangelist, filmmaker, investment adviser, and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Now, with the publication of his new book, Our Choice, Gore has unveiled a fresh and most unexpected talent: the book’s opening chapter of concludes with a poem he wrote—21 lines of verse that are equal parts beautiful, evocative, and disturbing.

Here is how the poem begins:

One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun

Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea

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Individual Illegally Throws Out Copies of UCSB Newspaper

By Sabrina Ricci / Staff Writer

Published Thursday, April 12, 2007

Issue 101 / Volume 87

An unidentified male took over 100 copies of the Daily Nexus yesterday from the stand in front of the Buchanan Hall coffee cart, throwing some away and bagging the rest.

Devon Blunden, a second-year geography major, saw a young man, who was presumably a student, take all of the Daily Nexus newspapers from their stand at about 11 a.m. Before shoving about 50 papers into his backpack, Blunden said, the man threw away a stack of papers into a nearby recycling bin.

Blunden described the man as a tall Caucasian with short, dirty blonde hair.

“I asked him why he was grabbing a huge stack of newspapers, and he said, ‘I have to deliver them to some people,’” Blunden said. “As he tossed them into the trashcan, I asked if the people were in the garbage. He said, ‘Hey, get off my fucking back.’”

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While making a Costco run with my wife some douche broke into my car and yanked my cd deck out. We were in the store for a total of no more than thirty minutes, so it had to be someone casing the parking lot.

I notified the Costco folks and was told they have had problems with people's car's getting broken into in the past. I was thanked for the info, and moved along. Naturally I decided to not report it to the cops, because it would do me no damn good.

Today while getting in my car I noticed a cell phone to the left of the driver's seat I'd never seen before. Seeing that only my wife and I use the car, it's for sure the property of whomever stole my deck.

I'm heading into the police station tomorrow with the phone in hopes that they catch whomever is doing this.

I thought reddit in particular would appreciate this "when good criminals go dumb" moment.

I'll update this post if I have anything entertaining to add to the story :D!

Edit 1 : Took some pictures of the phone since people seem to be interested in the story.

• Cell phone left in my car

• Phone splash screen

Edit 2 : I went in and made a formal report at the sheriff's department. The guy taking the report seemed initially excited at there being a left behind cell phone, but turned into a bit of a douche when he heard there was minimal damage done to my car. After that he seemed to lose interest in the whole situation and turned into a bit of douche.

My experience in the sheriff's office is exactly the reason why no one reports these types of things - cops treat it as a waste of their time.

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Ron Livingston -- the guy who played Peter in "Office Space" -- is sick and tired of someone constantly changing his Wikipedia page to say he's in a gay relationship ... and now he's suing to make the rumors stop.

Ron -- who married a woman earlier this year -- claims some mystery Internet bandit began relentlessly changing his Wiki page to say he's in a relationship with a man named Lee Dennison ... a claim Livingston says is completely false and "malicious."

According to the lawsuit, filed yesterday in L.A. County Superior Court, the Wiki-hacking began back in May -- and every time Ron's reps remove the false info from his Wiki page ... the bandit "changes them back almost immediately."

And it gets better: Ron believes the perp also created fake Facebook profiles for himself and Lee, and both pages claim the two are "In a relationship" with each other.

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A U.S. Army cadet reads a book entitled "Kill Bin Laden" as he waits with other cadets for U.S. President Barack Obama to deliver an address on U.S. policy and the war in Afghanistan at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York December 1, 2009. Obama is expected to announce a plan to send 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan over six months in a bid to beat back the Taliban and bring a quicker end to a costly and unpopular eight-year war.

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Teen "Skank Agent" In Craigslist Bust

Cops: Wisconsin gang robbed prospective johns lured to motel by ads

DECEMBER 1--A Wisconsin teenager who described herself as a "skank agent" is facing felony charges for allegedly using Craigslist to rob prospective johns looking for sex. According to a Circuit Court complaint filed yesterday, Samantha Stubbe, 17, last month placed an ad in the online classified site's "Adult Gigs" section offering sexual favors in return for an apartment. After men were lured to a Fond du Lac motel for a purported liaison, Stubbe's male friends attacked them and stole their money. Stubbe, pictured below in the mug shot at right, was aided in the scheme by Stevi Smet, 18, who served as the female decoy outside the motel. Smet is pictured below at left. When questioned by police, Stubbe admitted orchestrating the strong-arm robbery scheme, but told Detective Steve Kaufman that "she would not consider herself a pimp but a 'skank agent,' meaning that she was an agent with skanky friends." Since state criminal codes do not address skank agentry, Stubbe was charged with soliciting prostitution and armed robbery. Smet, also charged with armed robbery, is facing a prostitution rap for allegedly having sex with a man who answered the Craigslist ad. The man, 19, told cops that he paid for Smet's services with a $175 check. (4 pages)