In Rochester, marriage counselors are sending a warning to even happily married couples: Facebook affairs are threatening healthy couples, too.

Ned Hibberd of MyFoxHouston.com comments:

Maybe they should change the marriage vows to include, “until Facebook do us part.”

Facebook and other social networking sites can certainly connect you with long-lost friends.

But a new study suggests Facebook can also help disconnect you from your better half.

The site, which boasts more than 350 million active users, is mentioned by name in almost 20% of divorce petitions, according to Divorce-Online.

Prominent Houston divorce attorney Bucky Allshouse can understand why.

“It’s really kind of shocking what people put on Facebook,” says Allshouse.

Perhaps it’s not so shocking that the social networking site can essentially pour kerosene on “old flames.”

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Karl Kleppinger Jr.’s family was one of the first to sue over deaths and injuries suffered by the 126 crew members who were on the rig when it blew out while drilling a well for BP Plc off the Louisiana coast. The explosion caused the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history, with more than 4.1 million barrels of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.

Bloomberg News reports:

“The Kleppingers have settled all of their claims arising out of the death of Karl Kleppinger Jr. against any current or possible defendants,” Steve Gordon, the family’s maritime lawyer, said today in an interview. “The Kleppingers’ claim against BP has concluded.”

The settlement was posted today in the docket of the New Orleans federal court handling suits arising from the explosion. Transocean attorneys and Gordon submitted a court filing asking for dismissal of the suit because of the settlement.

Gordon declined to disclose the amount of the settlement or who would be paying it. The claims are resolved “against all parties they sued or could have sued,” he said.

“The terms are confidential,” Ellen Barry, a Transocean spokeswoman, said in a phone interview today.

Kleppinger was a floor hand on the rig when it exploded.

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“The Kleppingers have tried to close a very terrible chapter in their lives,” said Gordon, maritime lawyer of Gordon, Elias & Seely LLP in Houston. “It is time to move on.” Gordon also represents Transocean employees who were injured in the explosion. Those cases remain pending, he said.

The Kleppinger suit, filed in Texas state court, was removed to federal court in New Orleans and combined with hundreds of others seeking compensation for injuries and economic damages from the explosion and spill.

Daren Beaudo, a spokesman for BP, declined to comment on the settlement.

The case is In Re: Oil spill by the Oil Rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010, 2:10-md-2179, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana (New Orleans).

To contact the reporters on this story: Margaret Cronin Fisk in Southfield, Michigan, at mcfisk@bloomberg.net; Laurel Brubaker Calkins in Houston at laurel@calkins.us.com.

To contact the editor responsible for this story: David E. Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.net.

Gloria Allred

According to TMZ, Gloria Allred plans to starve herself for the next 30 days in order to support women everywhere, even ones she doesn’t represent.

Alred says she is going on a solid food fast, skipping a total of 90 meals in order to draw attention to the need to pass the Equal Rights Amendment.

Allred’s strike will end on August 26 which is the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote.

Allred told TMZ her last supper before the strike was hors d’oeuvres.

Al Gore accused of sexual misconduct by Portland massage therapist

The woman spoke with Detective Molly Daul in January 2009 – two years after she canceled three appointments to meet with investigators.

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During the interview, the massage therapist describes Gore as a “crazed sex poodle” as she details the moves he made during a late-night appointment at a downtown Portland hotel.

Police declined to file charges against Gore, saying there was insufficient evidence.

Source: NY Post

Now Star Magazine exclusively reveals that the former Vice President was having an affair with Larry David’s ex-wife — for the past two years! …

In the June 28 issue of Star, on sale Wednesday, they report that Al and Tipper’s breakup didn’t come as much of a surprise to one Hollywood player, Laurie David.

Star has learned that Gore has been having an affair with Laurie, who divorced Seinfeld creator and Curb Your Enthusiasm star Larry David in 2007 amidst reports she was cheating with the caretaker of their Martha’s Vineyard summer home.

“Al and Laurie went from friends to lovers,” an insider tells Star. “It couldn’t be avoided.”

Pick up the new issue of Star tomorrow for our complete story of how the pair, who have been fighting for the environment for years and worked together on Al’s 2006 Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, fell hard for one another — and if Tipper had any clue.

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Laboratory records alleged to show that former San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds used performance-enhancing drugs are inadmissible in the court case against him, a federal appeals court ruled Friday…

The appeals court ruling upholds a lower court decision barring federal prosecutors from showing the jury any evidence collected by Bonds’ personal trainer Greg Anderson.

Anderson last year told the trial court judge that he would rather go to jail on contempt of court charges than testify against Bonds.

The court says evidence tied directly to Anderson is inadmissible “hearsay” evidence unless the trainer testifies to the items’ authenticity.

The 2-1 ruling upheld a decision by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston to exclude the drug test log sheets from Bonds’ trial on charges of lying to a federal grand jury about taking steroids and other banned substances.

Illston had ruled that the drug-test records from Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative were connected to Bonds only by hearsay evidence, as the trainer who reportedly submitted the blood and urine for testing has refused to testify that the samples came from Bonds.

The federal government’s appeal of Illston’s ruling delayed Bonds’ trial for more than a year. Legal analysts now suggest the trial itself could be dropped, as prosecutors have been denied the use of what they considered crucial evidence.

“When lawyers have invested a lot of time and emotional capital into a particular case, it is not easy to let go,” said University of San Francisco law professor Robert Talbot. “But it will be pretty hard for them to win. That was key evidence.” The lab results seized during a raid by federal agents impugned more than 100 professional baseball players.

The names of some of the most prominent players were later leaked to news media, including Alex Rodriguez of the New York Yankees, Red Sox slugger David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez, now with the Dodgers. In an earlier ruling by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the government was told to return the lab records seized in the raid except for the 10 players whose names were on the search warrant.

Source: LA Times

The father of the murder girl told Peruvian reporters Wednesday he is certain Dutch national Joran van der Sloot killed his daughter, 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez. Ricardo Flores, a race car driver and well-known businessman in Peru, told reporters, “This is my daughter’s assassin.”…

There is “incriminating evidence” linking van der Sloot to the killing of 21-year-old Stephany Flores Ramirez, who was found dead in a Lima hotel room Wednesday, Cesar Guardia Vasquez, of the criminal investigations unit said at a news conference.

The hotel room where Flores was found was registered in van der Sloot’s name, he said.

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A hotel guest and an employee witnessed the pair entering the hotel room together at 5 a.m. on Sunday, Guardia said.

Police have video of the previous night, May 29, of van der Sloot and Flores together at the Atlantic City Casino in Lima, he said.

According to immigration officials, van der Sloot fled to Chile over land on Monday, Guardia said.

“We have all the evidence to show that the killer is this man,” the victim’s father, businessman and race-car driver Ricardo Flores told CNN en Español.

But van der Sloot’s attorney, Joseph Tacopino, told CNN it was too early to make any conclusions.

“If history teaches us any lesson from van der Sloot/Holloway case, it’s that there have been way too many false facts that have been leaked and rumors that have been proven untrue,” Tacopino said. “We need to take a step back. I have not been contacted and the family has not been contacted. Joran has not been asked by anyone to surrender.”

Ricardo Flores said that police found his daughter’s car about 50 blocks from the hotel, and that inside, they found pills like those used in date rape cases.

Similar to the Holloway case, van der Sloot allegedly met at a night spot, in this case, a casino. Ricardo Flores said he did not believe that his daughter knew the Dutch citizen from before.

Both of them speak English, and at the casino they struck up conversation, he said.

Source: CNN contributed to this story

According to TMZ the prosecutor Fred Bright said the alleged victim wrote a letter on March 17, in which she stated that she no longer wanted to pursue the case…

During his investigation, Bright claims “everyone” agreed that both Ben and his accuser were highly intoxicated on March 5 when they went into the bathroom at Capital City nightclub.

Bright said there are still “significant questions about what occurred” in the bathroom … but Ben will not be prosecuted.

Bright said after the alleged incident, the woman went to a local hospital where a doctor and two nurses examined her and found “a superficial laceration,” bruising and bleeding in the genital area.

Bright said the woman told doctors “a boy kinda raped me” — but Bright said the doctor could not definitively say if the woman’s injuries were the result of a sexual assault.

Bright said Ben initially claimed that the woman fell and hit her head in the bathroom — but after she arrived at the hospital, doctors found no trauma to the woman’s head. After that, Bright says Ben’s agent stepped in and said the quarterback wouldn’t answer questions with an attorney present.

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Defense lawyers will argue that Michael Jackson's Propofol addiction caused him to inject himself

L.A. County Coroner’s investigators took a picture in the room, showing an empty Propofol bottle on the floor, underneath the nightstand by Jackson’s bed. The defense will argue Jackson grabbed the bottle from the nightstand, injected himself and then dropped the bottle…

Law enforcement believes Dr. Murray hid bottles of Propofol before paramedics arrived. The defense will argue that if Dr. Murray was really hiding Propofol, he would have removed the empty bottle under the nightstand that caused Jackson’s death.

According to TMZ the defense argument time-line will go as follows:

• At around 10:50 AM, Dr. Murray gave Jackson 25 mg of Propofol from a 20 ml bottle — that’s only about 1/8 of the bottle.
• The dose Dr. Murray administered would keep someone asleep for only 5 to 10 minutes, but the Propofol, along with the Ativan and Versed that was already in MJ’s system, had a synergistic effect that put Jackson to sleep for a longer period of time.
• For the next hour, Dr. Murray stayed in the room and was on the phone for much of the time. Dr. Murray didn’t leave the room to make the calls because MJ liked activity in the room, regularly sleeping with the lights on and cartoons blaring on the TV.
• At around noon, Dr. Murray left the room for approximately two minutes to go to the bathroom. While he was gone, the defense believes Jackson suddenly awakened and was frustrated he had spent nearly 9 hours trying in vain to sleep. The defense theory — Jackson took the 20 ml bottle of Propofol and self-injected the remaining contents through the IV, causing a massive overdose that stopped his heart.
• Dr. Murray walked back in the room and saw Jackson with his eyes open and pupils dilated. Dr. Murray dropped the phone (he was speaking with his girlfriend) and began administering CPR.

TMZ could not reach Ed Chernoff, Murray’s lawyer, for comment.

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Edwards, who has been in the media for his sexual scandal involving his mistress Rielle Hunter, is said to have illegally paid Hunter using campaign funds.

The Enquirer talked to one friend who revealed that John was “terrified”:

“While he believes he’s done nothing illegal in trying to hide his extramarital affair with Rielle and their daughter, he thinks the Feds are going to make an example of him.”

Edwards, who was exposed recently by the release of Andrew Young’s tell-all memoir of campaign trail debauchery and details of an Edwards-Hunter sex tape, has recently separated from his cancer stricken wife, Elizabeth.

Rumors have it that Edwards has proposed to Hunter and the two plan to move into a recently purchased $3.5 million beachfront home.

If Edwards is convicted and ends up in jail, their plans may be delayed.

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