In April, 3 Doors Down bassist Todd Harrell was charged with causing a fatal crash in a suburb of Nashville, Tenn. Police say the 41yearold Harrell was under the influence when he was speeding down Interstate 40 and clipped the back of a pickup truck. The driver of the truck, 47yearold Paul Shoulders Jr.A few sports execs were double or tripledipping. NBA deputy commissioner Adam Silver, who sort of looks like me, gave to Obama and Hillary Clinton. Leonsis gave the max to Hillary, McCain and Obama, while his wife did likewise for Hillary, Giuliani and Obama.

On Monday, after word leaked that Bank of America and MBIA hadresolvedtheir epic fiveyear, multidimensional litigation against one another, investors in both companiesjudged the deal. Shares in MBIA, whose structured finance arm had been widely considered to be on the brink of a regulatory takeover, closed 45 percent higher at $14.29, adding about a billion dollars to the market capitalization of the insurer holding co