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Bobbi Booker and her unborn baby lost their live because of an idiotic game of one-upmanship three days ago.

Police said that Booker, 27 years old, who was four months pregnant, died at 9:20 p.m. Monday at Albert Einstein Medical Center.

Doctors had tried to find a way to save the mother of two and her fetus since Sunday night, when Booker was hit in the side of the head with a stray bullet while her boyfriend, Michael Thomas, traded gunfire with Lamar Johnson, police said.

Thomas, 26 years old, and Johnson, 22 years old, were officially charged yesterday with Booker’s murder and the murder of her unborn baby.

Homicide investigators said that the gunfight, which occurred outside the Queen Lane Apartments in Germantown, was simply an escalation in an ongoing petty feud involving Thomas, Johnson, and several other men.

Thomas used a shotgun during the shoot-out, while Johnson fired shots from a 9-mm handgun, police stated. Homicide Capt. James Clark has said that both men have “lengthy” criminal records.

Book was inside of the apartment building and was apparently hit by a stray bullet from the 9-mm when she walked by a window.

On June 1st, 2008 CBS 3 made a statement that Larry Mendte “will not be on CBS 3’s broadcasts pending further investigation,” related to the federal probe into whether the anchor illegally read emails of former colleague Alycia Lane.

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Bill Cosby’s hip-hop CD comes out soon, and boy is the nation excited! The Cos(by) gave an interview to Ukee Washington, who irritatingly kept calling him “Dr. Cosby.”

Cosby told kids to put down guns and get real jobs by going to Community College. And look what you can do afterward!

“You can become a mechanic, what kind of mechanic? Air-conditioning? Listen, think about that. You can charge 75 dollars just for showing up, not having the parts and saying you’ll be back! That’s a lot of money!”

Hey, kids, put down the guns and you can get a job as an unreliable mechanic everyone hates! Thanks, Dr. Cosby. We can’t wait to hear what else you have to say.

The murder trial of Mark Patrick O’Donnell in Montgomery County on Friday somehow turned into a sex toy show. O’Donnell is charged with killing his girlfriend’s daughter, 14-year-old Ebony Dorsey; the Daily News writes the prosecution’s case paints O’Donnell as a crackhead sex fiend.

But, wait, the defense has another theory, and then this happened:

First, Assistant District Attorney Kevin Steele walked to the back of the room and asked a group of teenage girls to leave – “It’s probably not a good idea to be in here” - as Santarelli slid on a pair of rubber gloves and got to work.

Judge William J. Furber, who is presiding over the nonjury trial, nodded stoically as the detective displayed a vibrator, purple anal beads, a bottle of “pleasure-enhancing lubricant,” a videotape titled “Big Bad Biker Bitches” and a mysterious sex device with wires coming out of it. “Whatever this device is,” Santarelli said from the witness stand, holding up what appeared to be a black tassel whip.

Ahh, yes, of course, the sex toy defense, where you attempt to… to what, exactly? Oh no, the victim’s mother had sex toys, clearly this defendant is innocent. Innocent, biker bitches!

Currently Philadelphia police are on the lookout for a gun-toting thief who snuck into a Drexel University building and gave a female employee the scare of a lifetime.
The robber made his way into Stratton Hall at 32nd and Chestnut streets shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday and soon wandered into a faculty member’s office, said Capt. Benjamin Naish of Southwest Detectives.

The unidentified employee screamed when she saw the man, who was clutching a handgun. “He told her to shut up, and then there was a slight struggle,” Naish said. “The victim did not, however, suffer any serious injuries.”

The crook made off with the woman’s cell phone, but his face was captured on several Drexel security cameras. Naish described him as a thin, 6-foot to 6-foot-3 mustachioed black man in his 20s who wore a distinctive long-sleeved white shirt that appeared to have an image of a mime on it.

Dominic Ceccanecchio, Drexel’s senior associate vice president for public safety, said the university is asking its students and faculty to remain on alert. School officials have shared video images of the suspect with security officers at Drexel and the University of Pennsylvania.

“We hope that we get a positive outcome in the near future,” Ceccanecchio said.

Crazy.

Larry, we all know you wanted those bikini photo’s, but you didn’t have to do this!

Federal authorities have launched a criminal investigation of CBS3 anchor Larry Mendte and searched his home to determine whether he illegally accessed the private e-mail of onetime colleague Alycia Lane, numerous sources told The Inquirer today.

Mendte’s lawyer, Michael A. Schwartz, confirmed tonight that FBI agents approached his client Thursday and searched his home. Schwartz said it was related to “claims made by Alycia Lane.” He added that “Larry is cooperating fully with the investigators and hopes to promptly reach a resolution of this matter.” [...]

FBI agents from the Computer-Crimes Squad executed a search warrant on Mendte’s Chestnut Hill home on Thursday and seized his personal computer - a rarity given his status as a journalist.

Wow. And, once again, the whole Alycia Lane saga continues to not only (A) drag on, but (B) get even stranger. Who knows. But now that the feds are involved, will they release the bikini photos? Maybe?