Michelle Obama, Jill Biden booed at NASCAR championship

Michelle Obama and Jill Biden at the car-racing league’s season-ending event in Florida.

The First and Second Ladies were at the Homestead Miami-Speedway on Sunday to honor military families and draw support for their Joint Forces program, an initiative to get jobs for veterans.

Serving as grand marshals with a retired Army sergeant and his family, the two women shrugged off the jeers, beaming broadly as they announced, "Gentleman, start your engines!"

The pair had received a warmer welcome at a pre-race meeting, where drivers gave them a standing ovation, The Associated Press reported.

The First Lady hailed NASCAR for being “amazing in terms of its support, not just today but every day, for military families."

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Car fatal NY hit-and-run crash sought

State police say they're looking for the driver of a car that caused a fatal crash on the Adirondack Northway and then left the scene of the accident.

A man told troopers he was driving in the northbound lanes of Interstate 87 around 7:20 a.m. Sunday when another car rear-ended his vehicle in the Essex County town of Schroon (skroon), 80 miles north of Albany.

The man's car slammed into a guard rail, crossed the median, went into a ditch and struck an earth embankment.

Troopers say the man's sister, 65-year-old Mary Morrissey of Mechanicville, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police say they're seeking a light-colored car, possibly a Toyota, with the letters "DWD" in the license plate.

The Northway's northbound lanes between exits 27 and 28 were closed for several hours after the crash.

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Mississippi: police officer arrested in baby death

A Jackson, Miss., police detective has been charged with felony child abuse following the death of a 1-year-old girl.

Police spokeswoman Colendula Green tells The Clarion-Ledger (on.thec-l.com/rFaFps ) officers were called on Sunday to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where they found Aubrey Brown had injuries to her abdominal area. The baby died about two hours later. A Jackson Police Department detective is charged with felony child abuse following the death Sunday of a 1-year-old baby.

Police spokeswoman Colendula Green said officers were called to the University of Mississippi Medical Center at about 2:41 p.m. "in reference to unknown injuries to a 1-year-old child."

They found Aubrey Brown of Jackson "had injuries to her abdominal area," Green said. The child died at UMC at about 4:30 p.m., she said.
Police arrested Natyyo Gray, 36, who is assigned to the department's vice and narcotics unit, Green said.

No other details of circumstances surrounding the child's death were available. Authorities say 36-year-old Natyyo Gray is charged in the case.  Gray is a JPD Detective assigned to the Vice and Narcotics Unit. Authorities say one-year-old Aubrey Brown was taken to UMC with injuries to her abdomen.  She later died at the hospital.

An autopsy will determine the cause of death.  Gray's charges may be upgraded, pending the results of the autopsy.

Green says police arrested 36-year-old Natyyo Gray, who is assigned to the department's vice and narcotics unit. An autopsy is planned, and charges could be upgraded depending on the results. It's unclear whether Gray has an attorney.

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'Breaking Dawn' Scores Fifth-Biggest Box-Office

The fourth of Summit's vampire-and-werewolf movies had the franchise's second best three-day opening ever, behind 2009's "New Moon" ($142.8 million in November 2009).

For a box office that's down about 3.5 percent from last year, "Breaking Dawn" is only the second movie this year, including the summer's final "Harry Potter" film, to open to more than $100 million. (There were four $100 million openers last year.)

And it had the third-best opening Friday ever, grossing $71.4 million -- behind only this year's "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" and "New Moon."
With the release of the latest and fourth Twilight series movie, Breaking Dawn: Part 1, parents are again asking themselves about the right way to talk about sex with their teenagers.

The Twilight series follows the relationship of Bella, a human teenage girl, and Edward, a vampire who looks 17 but is actually over 100 years old. The Twilight series has been praised for acknowledging teenage sexual desire — now that’s going out on a limb — while wholesomely suggesting to teens that they should save themselves for marriage, or at least the fourth movie, before having rough vampire sex.
'Breaking Dawn' Scores Fifth-Biggest Box-Office Debut
'Twilight' flick's $139.5 million weekend puts it in the record books, with 'Happy Feet Two' at a distant second.
Despite the fact that Bella and Edward, old fashioned couple that they are, wait until marriage to consummate their relationship, others have criticized the series as soft core porn in the guise of abstinence promotion.
"Breaking Dawn's" international numbers were as strong as its domestic ones. The movie grossed $144 million in 54 territories, giving it a worldwide box office total of $283.5 million in just three days. The movie cost about $110 million to make, after tax rebates.

While "Breaking Dawn" almost exactly matched its pre-release predictions, the animated penguins of Warner Bros.' "Happy Feet Two" grossed only $22 million, according to studio estimates -- enough to rank the movie No. 2 this weekend, but still a disappointing performance. The movie was projected to open to about $30 million.

Relativity Media's "Immortals," meanwhile, grossed $12.2 million in its second weekend of release -- a 62 percent drop. It is No. 3 at the box office.
This weekend, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1" will see competition from Jason Segel's spirited and reverential revival of "The Muppets" (which currently boasts a perfect 100 score on film review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes); iconic filmmaker Martin Scorsese's 3-D adventure "Hugo"; and kids' flick "Arthur Christmas," among others. Horror master David Cronenberg's period drama "A Dangerous Method" and Oscar bait "My Week With Marilyn," which stars Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe, open in limited release.

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Justin biebers baby brothers birthday a rumer

When is Justin Bieber's little brother's birthday? he was born November 20th 2009
It's sometime this year. A very happy 1st birthday to Justin Bieber’s little brother  Jaxon Bieber! What a cutie! Here is what Justin Tweeted as a message to his brother (who might be a bit too young to be using Twitter just yet!

The Wanted have got a special relationship with Justin Bieber, what with a US tour under their belts, and also joining him to switch on the Christmas lights at the Westfield shopping centres in London and the teen told them that Mariah Yeater's baby allegations were "bulls*** lies".

Max George has become close buddies with the 17-year-old and he considers Bieber like an "adopted little brother" and reveals that the paternity lawsuit is "the worst time of his life".

Talking to The Mirror, 23-year-old Max said: “He is really cut up by being accused of being a father. He said it’s absolute bulls*** lies and that it didn’t go down like that at all."

He also added: “I told him to keep his head up, we’re right behind him. He knew we’d understand because girls are around us all the time, too.”
Justin's natural mother, Pattie Mallette, became pregnant with him when she herself was 17 during a brief relationship with Jeremy Bieber, a young carpenter and martial arts enthusiast with a criminal record for assault. The Butlers stepped in, along with Pattie's mother, to provide what they describe as 'additional parenting' when Pattie found herself unable to cope.

Bieber has been accused of fathering three-month-old baby Tristyn with Mariah Yeater after the pair met following a gig at the Staples Centre in Los Angles in October 2010.

The Wanted toured with the teen in South America earlier this year, and Max admits that he's impressed with the way that Bieber has addressed the situation.

“He’s had the worst time of his life and handled it so well. Doing the paternity test shows how grown-up he’s being about it," he said.

During the tour, Bieber was like any normal kid and Max insists that he wasn't looking for opportunities to get girls backstage for a quick romp.

Max continued: “Justin is like our adopted little brother, that’s why I believe all this baby stuff is rubbish. Any spare time Justin had on tour, he’d joke around – crawling under seats and grabbing girls’ ankles. It was hilarious.”
justin Faced with a 20-year-old woman's claim that their idol Justin Bieber fathered her baby, they are worried about the potential results of the imminent paternity test.

The 17-year-old singer will visit a laboratory to provide the necessary DNA sample when he returns from a European concert tour this week.

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