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Show Celebs&People Today'slssue NEW YORK (AP) - A judge sentenced Busta Rhymes to three years' probation Tuesday for assaulting his former driver and a fan, and warned the rapper to stay out of trouble. The 35-yearold Rhymes, whose real name RHYMES is Trevor Smith, was also ordered to perform 10 days of community service; pay a $1,250 fine, plus court costs; and enroll in a drunken The policy of The Utah Statesman is to cordriving program. rect any error made as soon as possible. If After the sentencing, Rhymes said you find something you would like clarified the terms of the plea deal won't be a or find unfair, please contact the editor at problem. "I have no trouble being a 797-1762 or TSC 105. good dude because that's what I am," he said. DEMOCRATIC HOPEFUL B A RACK O B A M A speaks about race during a news conference in Philadelphia, Tuesday. AP Scott Leemon, Rhymes' lawyer, said a photo private agency called Rock Corp. will work out the community service program. He said he doesn't know yet what it will be. He also said Rhymes has paid most of the fines and surcharges he owed. WASHINGTON (AP) - Americans have Manhattan Criminal Court Judge a right to own guns, Supreme Court justices Larry Stephen put Rhymes on notice declared Tuesday in a historic and lively that he must abide by the conditions of debate that could lead to the most significant his probation. interpretation of the Second Amendment "If you mess up, you're going to jail," and who on more than one occaHe said he recognized his PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Barack since its ratification two centuries ago. he said. "I've given you a chance." sion has uttered racial or ethnic race has been a major issue in a Obama confronted the nation's Governments have a right to regulate LONDON (AP) - A judge's ruling in stereotypes that made me cringe." campaign that has taken a "parracial divide head-on Tuesday, those firearms, a majority of justices seemed the bitter Paul McCartney-Heather ticularly divisive turn." Many tackling both black grievance and Obama's father is a black man to agree. But there was less apparent agreeMills divorce case shed new light people have been turning to the from Kenya who left the family ment on the case they were arguing: whether white resentment in a bold effort Tuesday on a miserable marriage, saying Internet to view statements by his to quiet a campaign uproar over when he was 2. He was raised by Washington's ban on handguns goes too far. Mills twisted the truth when converace and his former pastor's incen- longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah his white mother and her parents The justices dug deeply into arguments on nient and made "exorbitant" financial Wright, who suggested in one diary statements. in Hawaii. one of the Constitutions most hotly debated demands. sermon that the United States Wright's controversial stateStanding before a row of provisions as demonstrators shouted slogans brought the Sept. 11 terrorist "To some extent she is her own worst ments have gotten new life as his outside. Guns are an American right, argued eight American flags near the attacks on itself and in another enemy" wrote Judge Hugh Bennett. "She church's most prominent member building where the Declaration one side. "Guns kill," responded the other. said blacks should damn America has an explosive and volatile character." became the front-runner for the of Independence was adopted, Inside the court, at the end of a session for continuing to mistreat them. Mills, who lost part of her leg when she Democratic presidential nomiObama urged the nation to break extended long past the normal one hour, a was hit by a motorcycle, cast McCartney nation. A CBS News poll taken "a racial stalemate we've been Obama rejected Wright's divimajority ofjustices appeared ready to say 1 as an abusive, alcoholic husband who Sunday and Monday indicated stuck in for years. " sive statements but still embraced that Americans have a "right to keep and cruelly made fun of her disability. But most voters had heard at least the man who brought him to "The anger is real," he said. "It bear arms" that goes beyond the amendthe judge made clear the angry assersomething about Wright's comChristianity, officiated at his wedis powerful, and to simply wish ment's reference to service in a militia. ments, and about a third said they tions rang hollow. ding, baptized his two daughters it away, to condemn it without Several justices were openly skeptical made them feel more negative. and inspired the title of his book In a devastating indictment, Bennett understanding its roots, only that the District of Columbia's 32-year-old Obama at first tried to avoid the "The Audacity of Hope." called Mills' testimony "not just inconserves to widen the chasm of mishandgun ban, perhaps the strictest in the controversy. Then he responded sistent and inaccurate, but also less understanding that exists between "I can no more disown him nation, could survive under that reading of Friday in a blog entry on the than candid. Overall she was a less than the races." than I can disown the black comthe Constitution. Huffington Post in which he said impressive witness." munity," Obama said. "I can no The speech, at the National "What is reasonable about a total ban he was not in church to hear those more disown him than I can my Constitution Center, was by far on possession?" Chief Justice John Roberts comments and condemned them. white grandmother — a woman the most prominent airing ot asked. That only increased news coverwho helped raise me, a woman racial issues in Obama's 13-month Walter Dellinger, representing the disage, and Obama's advisers said he who sacrificed again and again campaign to become the first trict, replied that Washington residents came to them Saturday saying he for me, a woman who loves me could own rifles and shotguns and could use black president. 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Huntsman signed bills that make torturing a dog or a cat a felony, require booster seats for children under age 8, and increase the amount of auto insurance coverage. than-expected earnings from two big investment banks, were also galvanized by the Federal Reserve's decision to cut interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point. The Dow Jones industrial average soared 420 points, its biggest one-day point gain in more than five years. Many investors were expecting the Fed to cut rates a full point, but appeared to overcome their early disappointment, especially since a 0.75 point cut is still substantial. The central bank's benchmark fed funds rate is now at 2.25 percent FREE TIE When you purchase lowering rates exactly six months ago, after the credit markets seized up due to soaring defaults in subprime mortgages. 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