By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years

The trustee overseeing Casey Anthony's bankruptcy case has filed a motion to sell the rights to her story so she can pay her debts.

Casey Anthony filed for bankruptcy in Florida on Friday, claiming about $1,100 in assets and $792,000 in liabilities.

A judge appointed Michael Jackson's nephew on Wednesday to share guardianship responsibilities for the singer's three children, but not without a last-minute effort by some relatives to delay the decision.

Former Italy, Lazio and New York Cosmos star Giorgio Chinaglia has died of complications from a heart attack, his son said. The Italian football great was 65.
Former New York Cosmos star Giorgio Chinaglia died of complications from a heart attack Sunday. The Italian soccer great was 65.

Dolores Hope, the sultry-voiced songstress who was married to Bob Hope for 69 years and sometimes sang on his shows for U.S. troops and on his television specials, has died at age 102.
A lawyer for a man accused of killing a soldier outside an Arkansas recruiting center says his client drove through three states looking for someone to attack after seeing video of U.S. military action in the Middle East.
Mark Rylance won his second Tony Award. And, for a second time, left people baffled.

After days of denials, a choked-up New York Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner confessed Monday that he tweeted a bulging-underpants photo of himself to a young woman and admitted to "inappropriate" exchanges with six women before and after getting married.

Some jittery Memphis residents began abandoning low-lying homes as the dangerously surging Mississippi River threatened to crest in coming days just shy of a 48.7-foot record from a devastating 1937 flood.

In 2000, the standoff between federal authorities and Miami's Cuban-American community over the fate of Elian Gonzalez - a young refugee rescued after his mother drowned at sea during their escape from Cuba - became a referendum on both Fidel Castro's revolution and the thirst for freedom that had led so many Cuban refugees to sacrifice life itself.
A former British ambassador who served in Washington through the critical years before the Iraq war gave rave reviews Thursday to the new book by President George W. Bush, calling "Decision Points" interesting and readable "with frequent flashes of humor."
The New Jersey Nets' attempt to acquire Carmelo Anthony is in a holding pattern.

The curtain will close early next year on the hit revival of "West Side Story."
George Wendt returns to Broadway as Santa Claus in the holiday comedy "Elf."
"The movies are not judged on technical merit because that's one way to make film very elitist. It's not so much about that or the quality of the lens but more the strength of the idea and the concept," he said. "Previously it's people who may have been excluded or may not have the money but they have the talent and here they can show it."
"The Rev. Jackson and my father were very, very close friends and I wouldn't have it any other way," Cornelius' son Tony wrote in a statement.