Editorial Bytes
Was Laura Ling in North Korea by accident?  Didn't sister, Lisa Ling, worm her way into North Korea illegally to record and video tape a great and amazing look into life in North Korea?  When arrested, did the North Korean's put the two together?

Laura Ling is a correspondent for Current TV's Vanguard- a television series dedicated to all things global, including areas in conflict and engaged in serious drug wars.

This trip was no different, they wanted to show the world what really happens to North Koreans who fly the coop and head for China. The picture is not pretty - but who would have guessed the ladies would end up with first hand recounts of why anyone would want to flee anyway?

Twelve years in a communist prison is enough to make the majority of us stay away from North Korean borders, (The United States is no stranger to entering countries illegally and it becoming a national sensation, are they?), but not enough for Laura and Euna Ling.

How would their story be different had they never been caught?

World News
Smithville couple dies in what police are calling a murder - suicide  Northland's Newscenter

China faces pressure to act over North Korea at summit  BBC

Israel bombs Gaza in night raid wounding two seriously  BBC News

Oil clean up workers report illness  Los Angeles Times

Thaksin faces Thai terrorism charge  Wall Street Journal

DOJ investigating Apple's digital music tactics  Billboard

Celebrity Deaths
Dennis Hopper, Gary Coleman, Simon Monjack, Art Linkletter, and Paul Grey are keeping celebrity deaths in the news this week. Rest in peace.

Publishing News
TitleTown Publishing have taken a step backward by stating how much they save on the environment by their being green, continuing that it costs them nothing.  They then claim consumers are "willing to pay between $.25 and $1 more for titles printed on recycled paper."

Jennifer Lynn Olson-Servo
Jennifer landed her first television job July 2002.  Less than three months later, she was murdered at her Abilene, Texas apartment.  That was September 18, 2002.

Who killed Jennifer Lynn Olson - Servo?

(pictured above: ex-boyfriend, Ralph Sepulveda and Jennifer Olson-Servo)

Daughter of a King  (a touch of Sarah McLachlan meets La La Palooza)

Never did running for office look so good. Rebecca Cervera is the total package (Texas State Representative, District 41), but that's not why we love her.  One hundred percent of each album sold is used to supply treats and music to our deployed troops. Cervera's voice carries and reminds us all we are is "dust in the wind."