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ROCKVILLE, Md. - While Tareq and Michaele Salahi are perhaps the world's most famous party crashers, a new lawsuit alleges that the clueless couple bounced a nearly $24,000 check for liquor purchased for a charity polo event they held in May.

According to Maryland court documents, the couple returned more than $10,000 worth of the intoxicating merchandise, but the gate crashers still owe more than $13,000.

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WASHINGTON - Days after American Amanda Knox was sentenced to 26 years in an Italian prison for murdering her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she'll meet with anyone who has concerns about the case.

Knox, of Seattle, and her ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were found guilty Dec. 4 of murdering Kercher in what the prosecution has called a sex game gone wrong. All three were college students in Perugia, Italy, when the 2007 slaying occurred.

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NEW YORK - They are pictures of a scandal. Tiger Woods' scratched face, a wrecked Cadillac Escalade, Jaimee Grubbs partying it up and Rachel Uchitel dodging the flashbulbs at a Los Angeles airport. Some you have seen. Some you haven't.

Now, as the criminal record of Jamiee Grubbs, the woman who claims she had a 31-month affair with Woods, has emerged, Crimesider has exclusively obtained photos of the 24-year-old Los Angeles cocktail waitress.

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GSTAAD, Switzerland - If only we could all be as lucky as Roman Polanski.

The Oscar-winning director of "Rosemary's Baby," "Chinatown" and "The Pianist" has moved from cooling his heels in a Swiss jail to home confinement in a swank million-dollar Alpine chalet as he prepares for potential extradition to America for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.

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WASHINGTON - Three uniformed Secret Service officers have been put on administrative leave for the security breach at last week's White House state dinner, Mark Sullivan, head of the agency, said Thursday.

President Barack Obama was "never at risk" despite Tareq and Michaele Salahis ability to get into the executive mansion without invitations, Sullivan said.

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LONDON - Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood was arrested Wednesday night for possible assault on his 21-year-old Russian girlfriend, Ekaterina Ivanova, police said.

Wood was released on bail Thursday after being arrested in southern England.

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CLEVELAND - Anthony Sowell, the former Marine now accused of killing at least 11 women and leaving their remains in and around his Ohio home, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the charges.

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HARTFORD, Conn. (CBS/AP) - Jennifer Hramadka, the fiancee of Raymond Clark III, the Yale University lab technician charged with killing graduate student Annie Le, has been asked to provide a sample of her DNA to authorities, her attorney said Wednesday.

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WASHINGTON - The e-mail trail seems to blow up the story of White House crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi, as the spotlight-seeking couple spins a tale of how they supposedly got invited to President Barack Obama's first state dinner.

The Salahis pressed a friendly Pentagon aide for over four days to obtain tickets to the gala, yet copies of e-mails between the parties undercut the Salahis' claims that they were expected guests.

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PALMVIEW, Texas - President Barack Obama's approval rating may be hovering in the 50 percent range, but that doesn't mean America's Commander-in-Chief isn’t catching on with new constituents.

There is now a line of Ecstasy pills made in the image of the 44th president of the United States, according to Texas police who have snatched a batch off the streets.

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