The Dallas Police Department has transferred a sergeant who brought a Chick-fil-A sandwich to work last week, an act that reportedly led to an argument with two lesbian officers, a Dallas TV station reported Wednesday.

For a short time, they seemed so simpatico: the idealistic congressman, the teenage singing sensation, their shared disappointment in the U.S. health care system.
A significant bloc of Republican National Committee members wants embattled Chairman Michael S. Steele to step aside, but the rank and file have failed to settle on a clear alternative, according to Associated Press interviews with committee members.

Thanks to record gold prices, hundreds of small-scale mining operations are proliferating along the northeastern shoulder of South America. Small-scale miners produced a record of nearly 16.5 metric tons of gold in 2009, according to Suriname's government.