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A former deputy attorney for Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was wrongfully fired for bringing to light a plan to deliberately delete e-mail messages from the state executive's office in order to keep it away from the media and the greater public.

Mel Gibson's booze-fueled, anti-Semitic outburst during his DUI arrest last August is old news, to be sure. But the Associated Press reported today that an internal investigation of the incident showed that Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials did their best to cover up some of the Academy Award winner's more bizarre and offensive comments during the arrest.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has failed to fully disclose payments by nonprofit funds for private jets and luxury accomodations on his overseas trips, according to a revealing piece in the Los Angeles Times today. 

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in a 4-2 decision Tuesday that Penn State football coach Joe Paterno's "salary and related information" is public information, and must be disclosed under the state's Right To Know law.

CBS in Los Angeles reports that a Los Angeles judge dismissed a defamation suit against blogger Perez Hilton (nee Mario Lavandeira) for postings on his Web site about disc jockey Samantha Ronson and her relationship with actress Lindsay Lohan.