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Mel Gibson Sleeps With Gun: "You've Got To Be Tooled Up"

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(Los Angeles County Sheriffs Dept.)
LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) Mel Gibson has made one thing clear to any potential nighttime attacker: watch your back, because Braveheart is locked and loaded.

"In this day and age, you've got to be tooled up," the star said in a recent Hello! Magazine interview.

"If I'm lying in bed and somebody come (sic) into my room, I'll either wake up or I won't. And I'll either hit 'em with my big stick that I've got or my gun. Or they'll hit me."

Gibson has returned to the screen this month after 7? years with a new movie, "Edge of Darkness."

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Concorde Crash Trial: France Tries Americans for Manslaughter in Fiery Crash That Killed 113

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PONTOISE, France (CBS/AP) Ten years after 113 people died in a fiery crash of Air France's supersonic Concorde jet, a French court is putting Continental Airlines and two of its employees on trial for manslaughter.

Photo: France Concorde flight 4590 takes off with fire trailing from its engine on the left wing from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on July 25, 2000.

Two Air France employees and a French civil aviation worker will also be tried.

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Rip Torn is Loose: Actor So Drunk He Thought He Was Home When He Broke Into Bank, Say Court Docs

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LITCHFIELD, Conn. (CBS/AP) Rip Torn knows how to party. Prosecutors say the "Men in Black" actor was so drunk when he broke into a bank carrying a loaded gun that he thought he was home, taking off his hat and boots and leaving them by the door.

Photo: Rip Torn leaves a Bantam, Conn., court Feb. 1, 2009.

Now the 78-year-old is free on $100,000 bond and is expected to enter rehab in New York as early as Tuesday, according to his lawyer.

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Sandra Bullock, Jesse James Lose Latest Round in Custody Battle with Porn Star Janine Lindemulder

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NEW YORK (CBS) It's round three for porn star Janine Lindemulder, her ex-husband, reality television star Jesse James, and his current wife, Sandra Bullock.

Photo: Sandra Bullock and Jesse James.

PICTURES: Sandra Bullock vs. Porn Star

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Colorado Neo-Nazis Doing a Great Job Picking Up Highway Trash

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BRIGHTON, Colo. (CBS/KCNC/AP) - Their free speech may not be pretty, but their highway just might be. A Colorado neo-Nazi group that's being allowed to participate in an Adopt-A-Highway program hit the road Saturday to start picking up litter.

Photo: Neo-Nazis picking up trash.

The National Socialist Movement, which calls itself "America's Nazi Party," is responsible for cleaning up along a one-mile stretch of Highway 85 in Brighton, Colo., near a suburb north of Denver.

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Fatal Police Shooting Near Phoenix Triggers Wild 50 Mile Chase; Cop Cars Disabled, Suspects Wounded

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GILBERT, Ariz. (CBS/AP) The fatal shooting of police Lt. Eric Shuhandler set off a wild 50-mile midnight chase, involving about 50 officers, from the Phoenix suburbs into the nearby mountains.

Photo: Gilbert, Az. Police Lt. Eric Shuhandler.

The suspects, Christopher Redondo and Daimen Irizarry, fired shots at police cars from their speeding pickup truck, and even tossed out wrenches, other tools and an air compressor tank during the 50-mile pursuit, police said. A half dozen police cruisers were disabled after hitting debris or being struck by bullets, in a pursuit that ultimately left the two gunmen wounded.

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Rip Torn Stars in Court Appearance for Drunken Burglary Charge

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LITCHFIELD, Conn.(CBS/AP) Rip Torn, Oscar-nominated American actor of stage, screen and television, made an initial court appearance on burglary and firearms charges in Connecticut on Monday.

Photo: Rip Torn enters Manhattan Criminal Court in 2006.

He stands accused of breaking into a bank in his hometown of Salisbury on Friday with a loaded revolver while intoxicated.

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Trucker Chokes on Chili, Gives House a New Back Door

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LOWELL, Mass. (CBS/AP) It could end up being the most expensive meal Eric Gremm has ever eaten - hope it was worth it. Gremm, a flatbed lumber truck driver, told authorities in Massachusetts that he was eating chili when he went over a bump. choked and lost consciousness, just before his truck plowed into a house.

Photo: Eric Gremm crashed his flatbed into a house after choking on chili.

Lowell police say the truck ran off the road Jan. 29, crashed through a white picket fence and then crashed through the back of the house in Lowell, Mass., about 35 miles from Boston.

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"Real Housewives" Danielle Staub Vindicated in Court; Co-Star's Daughter Guilty of "Weave" Assault

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WAYNE, N.J. (CBS/AP) Danielle Staub of "Real Housewives of New Jersey" knows a thing or two about drama, judging from the first season of the Bravo hit.

Photo: Danielle Staub, left, and Jacqueline Laurita of Bravo's "Real Housewives of New Jersey" .

Photos: "Real Housewives," Real Trouble

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John Edwards Sex Tape Worth "Gigantic Amounts of Money," Says Former Aide

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RALEIGH, N.C. (CBS/AP) What's a sex tape allegedly featuring John Edwards and his mistress Rielle Hunter worth? "Gigantic amounts of money," according to former Edwards aide Andrew Young who says he's rejected offers to release the video.

Photo: John Edwards, Rielle Hunter.

Young claimed in a book released last week that he found the tape in a box left in a home he and his wife had shared with Edwards' mistress, videographer Rielle Hunter.

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