John Legend engaged to model Chrissy Teigen

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"Ordinary People" soul singer John Legend, 32, and supermodel Chrissy Teigen, 26, "got engaged over the holidays while vacationing in the Maldives," Legend's rep tells Us Weekly. The couple began dating in 2007.

"He went to Jared," Teigen joked on Twitter Tuesday.

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Legend, a nine-time Grammy Award winner, will ring in 2012 with a performance at the Pearl Concert Theater at the Palms Casino Resort on New Year's Eve.PHOTOS: Best celebrity weddings of 2011

Teigen is best known for her work as a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model and her two-year gig on "Deal or No Deal."

Copyright 2011 Us Weekly

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Amateur Hour for GOP Candidates

Today was the last day that you could submit signatures to appear on the ballot in the Virginia primaries. It's not an easy process. You need to collect 10,000 valid signatures, including at least 400 from each of Virginia's eleven congressional districts. Rick Perry tried, but failed, to get 10,000. Newt Gingrich submitted over 11,000, but must now pray that enough of them are from actual voters to get him over the hump. Ron Paul and Mitt Romney had no trouble and were certified. Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and whoever else is pretending to run for president, didn't even submit any signatures. In other words, in one of the swingiest of swing-states, we could see a ballot featuring only Romney and Paul. In any case, it will have no more than three candidates to choose from.

May I submit that you can't seriously hope to be the leader of the free world if you can't even get your crap together to get your name on the ballot? No one should take you seriously in Iowa if we know you're not even going to be on the ballot in Virginia. This would be a good opportunity for the media to start ignoring everything Santorum, Perry, Bachmann, and Hunstman have to say.

Look at this comedy:

Jerry Kilgore, former attorney general and chairman of Perry?s campaign in Virginia, said in an interview Friday night he did not know how many signatures were submitted. He said he was disappointed, but that qualifying for the Virginia ballot is a ?daunting task.?

?Hopefully, he will do better in other states,?? he said. ?He can focus on other states.?

Yes, candidates can focus on campaigning in states where they will actually appear on the ballot. That is very good advice.

We have a crazy electoral system. But you have to be able to master it to have any hope of mastering the federal government. Consider the fact that the Clintons screwed up their campaign by not understanding how delegates were allocated until it was too late. And they ran the government for eight years and basically created the process set up by their DNC. It's not a simple thing to run a presidential campaign. It takes a lot of brain power. You've got Rick Perry failing to qualify for the ballot in Virginia and Mitt Romney operating with one office and three staffers in all of South Carolina. These people are amateurs, and they've going to get their heads handed to them.

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Trump drops Republican Party registration in NY (omg!)

NEW YORK (AP) ? Billionaire businessman Donald Trump has changed his voter registration in New York state from Republican to unaffiliated.

A spokesman for Trump says the businessman and television host changed his affiliation to preserve his option to seek the presidency in 2012.

Special Counsel Michael Cohen said Friday that Trump could enter the race if Republicans fail to nominate a candidate who can defeat President Barack Obama.

He said Trump probably would use his substantial wealth to even the playing field with Obama's re-election campaign.

Cohen said Trump's commitment to hosting TV's "The Apprentice" will keep him from doing anything until May, when the show's season wraps up.

He said Trump filed his voter registration paperwork Thursday.

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Cleburne family killed in Mexico robbery spree

by JONATHAN BETZ

WFAA

Posted on December 24, 2011 at 9:55 PM

Updated today at 2:29 PM

CLEBURNE ? A Cleburne mother and two daughters have been killed in a series of attacks on buses in northern Mexico. Maria Hartsell, 39, and her daughters Karla Hartsell, 19, and Cristina Hartsell, 13, were among the seven people who lost their lives.

?I can?t sleep at night,? said Hartsell?s mother-in-law Margaret Schneider of Cleburne. ?I shut my eyes and I see them.?

Schneider says Hartsell ? who is a U.S. citizen ? was traveling with her four children to visit family members for the holidays in the region known as Huasteca. A group of five gunmen attacked three buses in Mexico?s Gulf Coast state of Veracruz on Thursday in what authorities described as a violent robbery spree.

Soldiers apparently killed the gunmen later.

Schneider said Hartsell?s other daughter Angie was also shot, but her condition is unknown. She said another grandchild, Mike Hartsell, 10, survived, but told her he watched the gunmen murder his mother and sister after killing the bus driver.

?Little Mike told me? they turned around and came back and shot her (his mother) in the head with the gun and they shot Karla,? Schneider said. ?He said he knew that his mom and Karla were dead.?

Schneider said Hartsell worked in the cafeteria at Cleburne?s Santa Fe Elementary School.

The U.S. Consulate has urged Americans to ?exercise caution? when traveling to Veracruz, and to ?avoid intercity road travel at night.?

While the specific area where the Thursday attacks occurred is not frequented by foreign travelers, other parts of the Huasteca? ? a hilly, verdant area on the Gulf coast? ? are popular among Mexican tourists and some foreigners.

The attack occurred near the border with the state of Tamaulipas, an area that has been the scene of bloody battles between the Zetas and Gulf drug cartels. According to some estimates, more than 40,000 people have been killed over the past five years in Mexico?s ongoing drug war.

Schneider said she begged her daughter-in-law not to take the trip.

?I told her not to go to Mexico. I just kept repeating it,? Schneider said. ?Why did they have to lose their life? It?s just senseless.?

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Foundation Announces Free College Tuition for Buffalo Students

BUFFALO, N.Y. - Christmas came early to kids in?Buffalo public?schools on Tuesday.

Starting with this year's junior class, any kid that graduates will have their tuition paid for to any SUNY school.

George Weiss is the philanthropist who founded the "Say Yes To Education" program.

Buffalo is the second city in the state to be chosen for the program, which?will provide $100 million in scholarships over the next 20 years.

Scott Brown:?"Do you know how many problems and how dysfunctional the educational system here is?"

George Weiss: "What makes it work is a city realizing what they've done hasn't worked and they are suddenly about change. This is the only way people put aside their political differences."

School Board President Lou Petrucci:?"We hope it improves attendance, we hope it improves grade point average, we hope it improves their graduation rate, we hope it improves everything."

Scott Brown:?"How much more incentive does this give you to do well in school?"

Terrel Harris, Performing Arts student: "It definitely gives us a lot to see that we have a purpose, that we can do stuff in the future and that college is there, it's a reachable goal."

The "Say Yes" program also insists that it have a major say in how the school system is run in terms of curriculum, tutoring, and summer school.

Syracuse was the first city in the state to get the program. It now has over 100 colleges - SUNY and private schools - taking part in the program.

Starting in January, members of the Bufffalo Say Yes program will begin to negotiate with local private colleges to say whether they'll take part in the program.

The program is funded through the Say Yes Foundation and local foundations and donors.

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The organization Say Yes to Education is partnering with the Buffalo Public Schools to invest $15 million into the school system and offer a scholarship for free tuition for students to attend state schools.

The scholarship is part of a "promise" fund for students in the Buffalo Public School system to cover up to 100% of their tuition at a SUNY school. The class of 2013 will be the first class eligible for the scholarships.

The tuition is offered to students who complete all four years of high school. Nearly 1,000 students have received scholarship in Syracuse where the program has been operating for four years.

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Japan looking to buy Chinese government bonds (Reuters)

BEIJING (Reuters) ? Japan will seek to buy Chinese government bonds, the Japanese government said in a statement issued after Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda held talks in Beijing with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Sunday.

The statement given to reporters gave no details of when Japan might seek to buy the bonds or on what scale.

Japan had earlier indicated it is in talks to buy Chinese government debt to strengthen economic ties.

Despite sometimes rancorous political ties between the two neighbors, Japan's economic fortunes are increasingly tied to China's economic growth and consumer demand.

China has been Japan's biggest trading partner since 2009.

In 2010, trade between the two nations grew by 22.3 percent compared to levels in 2009, reaching 26.5 trillion yen ($339.3 billion), according to the Japan External Trade Organization.

China and Japan are also the world's first and second-biggest holders of foreign reserves.

(Reporting by Chris Buckley; Editing by Yoko Nishikawa)

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Fresh Android Apps for Dec. 23: Papa John?s Pizza, Siegecraft, Real Racing 2 (Appolicious)

Don?t let the holiday stress get to you. Just use the ol? Android to grab some pizza (Papa John?s Pizza), fend off Viking zombies (Siegecraft), or put the pedal to the metal (Real Racing 2).

Merry Christmas! I?ll meet you back here on Tuesday next week.

Sure, you probably have big holiday dinner plans, but what about all the other meals before the New Year? How does pizza sound?

Order off the entire menu from Papa John?s through this fresh app with or without an account. Quick Picks let you submit common choices with just one or two taps or store your regular order as a Favorite so you can recall it and use it later. Need to find a ?PJ? restaurant, this app provides search, location, and directions to one near you.

The app displays all PJ special offers and lets you use Promo Codes while ordering if you have them. Choose to pick up your food or mark it for delivery, if you can?t get off the couch.

Catapults are fun! Lob crazy stuff at the strange enemy hordes trying to invade your castle in this new 3D, NVIDIA Tegra-friendly twist on tower defense. You?ll find the standard siege munitions ? huge spears and canon balls ? but you can also throw cows, pumpkins, troll heads, and other ?off menu? items to really shake up the bad guys.

By the way, they had zombies back in medieval times as well, and you?ll face some Viking undead as you level up. On Android tablets, check out the special multiplayer levels and fire away!

Wanna go for a ride? As the title suggests, this EA driving game goes for racing realism by putting the style, ride and physics of real production cars into the app. Cars include the 2010 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500, 2010 Nissan GT-R, 2012 McLaren MP4-12C, and others. Use Quick Race mode for a fast course against 15 competitors or join the circuit in Career Mode.

This introductory app is free but to unlock the full game that includes?30 cars, 15 tracks, and a Career Mode with 10 hours of racing, you?ll need to use the in-app purchase.

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