Lohan won't be charged for New York bar fight

By Alyssa Toomey, Baker Machado and Ken Baker, E! Online

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Lindsay Lohan is off the hook for an alleged altercation with a woman in New York.

Lindsay Lohan may soon be headed to locked-down rehab, but she's legally off the hook for her New York City bar fight.

A source tells E! News the Manhattan D.A.'s office is dismissing its case against the embattled actress, and she will not face charges for her arrest stemming from her New York City nightclub brawl with Tiffany Mitchell back in November.?

Sources close to the investigation say the Manhattan D.A.'s Office will not prosecute LiLo because witnesses close to Mitchell failed to cooperate with the investigation. Specifically, they failed to speak with investigators.?

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In addition, sources say a surveillance video on the night of the fight was inconclusive. The video did not show Lindsay strike Mitchell, and the alleged victim tripped and fell when she was being escorted out of the club, so it is unclear as to what caused her injury.?

After Lohan's arrest, the psychic and apparent assault victim lawyered up with celebrity attorney Gloria Allred.?

Allred tells E! News, "Tiffany is very disappointed that the District Attorney has not decided to prosecute Lindsay."?

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She claims Tiffany had "two witnesses who spoke to the D.A. and corroborated what Tiffany alleged to have occurred."?

"The District Attorney has never told us that there was any issue about Tiffany's credibility," Allred said. "Nor did the District Attorney indicate that their office believed that what Tiffany reported was 'unfounded.'"?

Allred says her client is considering "all her legal options in the civil justice system because of what she suffered that night."?

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"Tiffany has also been unfairly and inaccurately portrayed in the press," she told E! News. "She looks forward to responding in the future and to making sure that the full and accurate story of what happened that night is told."?

As for Lindsay's lawyer's response??

Her attorney Mark Heller tells E! News, "An alleged gypsy fortune teller tried to grasp her 15 minutes of fame by claiming that Lindsay Lohan assaulted her. Unfortunately, she was unable to see in her crystal ball that I would come to Lindsay's defense and present exculpatory evidence to the New York District Attorney's Office, which would facilitate and result in a determination by them to decline to prosecute Lindsay Lohan."?

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"This was the final legal hurdle to overcome and clear the path for Lindsay's freedom," he added. "Accordingly, no formal charges will be brought against Lindsay and her record will be cleared."?

Well, sort of.?

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BracketRacket: 'I thought it's for takeout orders'

Welcome to BracketRacket, your one-stop shopping place for all things NCAA.

Today, LeBron James struggles with "The Decision" (Again? Seriously?), Fox anchor Neil Cavuto tries to order takeout food off a bracket sheet, men debate "hotness," best-selling crime novelist Robert Crais plots a happy ending for the NCAAs (clue: Duke wins! Duke wins!), and one very sad Kentucky fan refuses to take off his hat.

Oh, and the real tournament begins.

But first, let's crank up the time machine.

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THE DECISION ? PART DEUX

It's July 8, 2010. King James has surrounded himself with props (or real children, still not sure which) inside the Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich, Conn. He is about to end the summer of speculation and make "The Decision."

Born and raised in Akron, Ohio, James jumped to the NBA after his junior year of high school and the home-state Cleveland Cavaliers are the only pro team he has ever known. But he's also a free agent and tired of winter.

"I'm going to take my talents to South Beach," he says, "and join the Miami Heat."

Now it's Wednesday, we're back in Cleveland and James and the Heat are closing in on the NBA record for consecutive games won in a regular season. That first decision looks pretty good in hindsight, especially after James finally got that first championship by beating Oklahoma City in the finals last year. Strangely, though, he will be a free agent again in 2014, and he's been coy about his future plans.

So AP sports writer Tom Withers sidles up to James at the Heat's morning shootaround Wednesday and asks the tough question: "Who ya got?"

"Everyone has a chance to win it," James replies. "Everyone."

That's right: The King still hadn't filled out his NCAA bracket, either.

He likes Louisville and Kansas, Indiana and Ohio State. He just can't ? stop me if you've heard this before ? commit.

"There's always going to be one sleeper," he told Withers. "There's always going to be a VCU or a Butler or Norfolk State that's going to be out there in the Elite Eight. We'll see."

Nothing indecisive about the result later that night, though. James leads the Heat back from 27 down in the third quarter to win and extend their streak to 24 straight. The real highlight, though, comes, when a young man runs onto the floor mid-game wearing a T-shirt that read: "We Miss You, 2014 Come Back" (watch it here: http://bit.ly/101q9N8 )

As security hauled him away, James patted the guy on the head.

"There are metal detectors here, so we were OK," James said. "I embraced it."

No word yet on who the kid was picking.

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'WHAT DO YOU MEAN, GET MY OWN CHICKEN SALAD?'

Neil Cavuto is a serious news guy. He said so himself a half-dozen times in his "Common Sense" segment Wednesday on Fox. But even he couldn't resist trying to glom onto the coattails of the NCAAs at this time of year.

In his opening segment, the anchor decided to chide President Obama for failing to submit a budget on time. But how to tie it into the tournament? Try an NCAA-styled graphic showing that while the president had completed his brackets ahead of the tournament every year in office, he'd blown through the deadline for submitting a budget in four of those five.

A stretch?

Sure. And so finally, as his guest, Guy Benson, the political editor of Townhall.com, was offering a light-hearted defense of the president, Cavuto cut him off and conceded, "I don't understand this bracket thing."

But at least he knows now why everybody on his staff has been running around the studio this week waving sheets of paper, and why getting lunch ordered in could be a problem for the next two.

"At first," Cavuto conceded a moment later, "I thought it was for takeout orders!"

We report, you decide.

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SO HE'S GOT THAT GOING FOR HIM ...

Yesterday, BracketRacket sought out Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's take on the tournament, only to find out he doesn't even watch.

Today, in the interests of fairness, we turn to that other aging arbiter of the culture of "hotness," Cosmo.

The magazine just unveiled its "Hottest Guys of March Madness 2013" list. See it here: http://bit.ly/ZO5Wc4

There are plenty of "hot" guys on it, if by that you mean big-name players who could go on a tear and carry their teams all the way to the championship game, like Duke's Seth Curry and Michigan's Trey Burke.

Then there's Creighton's Ethan Wragge.

You'll have to judge for yourself whether he's "hot" in the Cosmo sense. But he must have something, because the bearded, 6-foot-7 junior hasn't even cracked the Bluejays' starting lineup, though he is the first guy off the Creighton bench.

"Ethan has great aim. He's awesome at 3-pointers. That's hot," Cosmo coos.

You can imagine his teammates' reaction. Even coach Greg McDermott couldn't resist.

"There are a lot of things in life that maybe aren't accurate," he said, "but that has to be close to the top."

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WE SHOULD ALL BE THIS LUCKY

Our first celebrity alum has it all ? literary awards galore, another sure-to-be-best-seller already on the shelves ("Suspect"), an Emmy nomination (for "Hill Street Blues") ? heck, Robert Crais even owns a legit rooting interest in one of the best college football teams in the land, having studied at LSU before bolting for Holywood to become a writer.

And now he's got a daughter at Duke, and plenty of cover for his other blue-blooded rooting interest.

"I live and die with the Duke Blue Devils,' Crais told AP national writer Hillel Italie.

Crais tracks their progress from L.A. these days, but he admitted that finding room in his heart for basketball wasn't easy at first.

"Life in Louisiana revolves around LSU football, the Saints, and the opening day of duck season," Crais said. "I still try to fly back for one or two games every year with my tail-gater buddies."

But that's still six months off. Italie wanted to know instead how the NCAAs are going to end three weeks from now.

"Kansas made it to the top spot on my bracket," Crais hedged, "but if Duke can focus, stay focused, and bring their 3-point game, they can take it."

Mystery solved.

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GLUM ALUM

Full disclosure: BracketRacket set out to get Will Ferrell (USC, Class of '90), but he big-timed us.

So what? Southern Cal went 14-18 this season and didn't even make it into the tournament. Who needed him, anyway?

Full disclosure Actually, Ferrell was tied up filming "Anchorman 2," so his agent put AP business writer Christina Rexrode on hold, then transferred her to Ben Hoffman's agent, who in turn got his client on the phone.

It must have been cloudy Wednesday in LA. Hoffman sounded despondent.

"I thought we were literally playing a guy named Robert Morris," he said.

(At this point, Rexrode was probably despondent, too; snubbed by Will Ferrell and then, on the rebound, forced to type "Ben Hoffman" into Google as fast as she could.)

Turns out Hoffman, 37, raised and schooled in the bluegrass state (Kentucky '98), is a comedian and host of "The Ben Show with Ben Hoffman" on Comedy Central. He was featured in this week's "Rolling Stone" magazine (here: http://rol.st/WW6npD ) under the headline "The Most Anxious Man on TV."

Of course, a lot of Kentucky fans felt the same less than 24 hours after the Colonials of the Northeastern Conference threw a wrench into their juggernaut in the first round of the NIT. Hoffman, though, might be the only one who makes his living that way.

He told Rexrode his own writers were plotting a mutiny Thursday night, when the show regularly airs but the tournament begins in earnest. Maybe because they've still got teams to root for; all Hoffman has left is his Kentucky hat.

"It makes me look like the saddest guy in L.A.," he said. "People think I bought the wrong hat ? like I meant to buy a Kansas hat or something."

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STAT OF THE DAY

If you stayed up for play-in games both nights, you heard a lot about teams wandering in the wilderness. That's because this year, four teams that have gone at least 18 seasons between appearances in the tournament finally made it ? Middle Tennessee (24), La Salle (21), James Madison (19), North Carolina A&T (18). That got the folks at STATS wondering whether it was a debutante-like record.

Nope. It's actually happened at least four times since 1980, including 2012, when Harvard led a quartet of the long-suffering into the NCAAs after missing out for a dizzying 66 years.

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QUOTE OF THE DAY

"She's still got a credit card with my name on it," ? Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim, whose team plays Montana in the opening-round game, on whether he's worried that his daughter, a former teacher at the university who still lives in Missoula, might have divided loyalties.

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Jim Litke is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at jlitke(at)ap.org and follow him at Twitter.com/Jim Litke.

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Hacking highlights dangers to Seoul of North's cyber-warriors

By Ju-min Park

SEOUL (Reuters) - A hacking attack that brought down three South Korean broadcasters and two major banks has been identified by most commentators as Pyongyang flexing its muscles as military tensions on the divided peninsula sky-rocket.

Officials in Seoul traced Wednesday's breach to a server in China, a country that has been used by North Korean hackers in the past. That reinforces the vulnerability of South Korea, the world's most wired economy, to unconventional warfare.

One government official in Seoul directly blamed Pyongyang, although police and the country's computer crime agency said it would take months to firmly establish responsibility.

Jang Se-yul, a former North Korean soldier who went to a military college in Pyongyang to groom hackers and who defected to the South in 2008, estimates the North has some 3,000 troops including 600 professional hackers in its cyber unit.

Jang's alma mater, the Mirim University, is now called the University of Automation. It was set up in the late 1980s to help North Korea's military automation and has a special class for professional hacking.

The North's professional "cyber-warriors" enjoy perks such as luxury apartments for their role in what Pyongyang has defined as a new front in its "war" against the South, Jang told Reuters.

"I don't think they will stop at a temporary malfunction. North Korea can easily bring down another country in a cyber warfare attack," Jang said.

Like much about North Korea, its true cyber capabilities are hard to determine. The vast majority of North Koreans have no access to the Internet or own a computer, a policy the regime of Kim Jong-un strictly enforces to limit outside influence.

The nominee to be the next South Korean intelligence chief told MPs recently the North was suspected of being behind most of the 70,000 cyber attacks on the country's public institutions over the past five years, local TV channel YTN reported.

North Korea recently threatened the United States with a nuclear attack and said it would bomb South Korea in response to what it says are "hostile" war games in the South by Washington and Seoul.

Threats to bomb the mainland United States are empty rhetoric as Pyongyang does not have the capacity to do so and its outdated armed forces would lose any all-out war with South Korea and Washington, military experts say.

That makes hacking an attractive, and cheaper, option.

"North Korea can't invest in fighter jets or warships, but they have put all their resources into raising hackers. Qualified talent matters to cyber warfare, not technology," said Lee Dong-hoon, an information security expert at Korea University in Seoul.

Much of North Korea's limited funds also go into its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

LIMITED ATTACK

Wednesday's attack hit the network servers of television broadcasters YTN, MBC and KBS as well as two major commercial banks, Shinhan Bank and NongHyup Bank. South Korea's military raised its alert levels in response.

About 32,000 computers at the organizations were affected, according to the South's state-run Korea Internet Security Agency, adding it would take up to five days to fully restore their functions.

It took the banks hours to restore banking services. Damage to the servers of the TV networks was believed to be more severe, although broadcasts were not affected.

South Korea's military, its core power infrastructure and ports and airports were unaffected.

Investigations of past hacking incidents on South Korean organizations have been traced to Pyongyang.

"There can be many inferences based on the fact that the IP address is based in China," said the South Korean communication commission's head of network policy, Park Jae-moon. "We've left open all possibilities and are trying to identify the hackers."

North Korea has in the past targeted South Korea's conservative newspapers, banks and government institutions.

The biggest hacking effort attributed to Pyongyang was a 10-day denial of service attack in 2011 that antivirus firm McAfee, part of Intel Corp, dubbed "Ten Days of Rain". It said that attack was a bid to probe the South's computer defenses in the event of a real conflict.

North Korea last week said it had been a victim of cyber attacks, blaming the United States and threatened retaliation.

"North Korea is able to carry out much bigger attacks than this incident such as stopping broadcasts or erasing all financial data that could panic South Korea," Lee of Korea University said.

(Additional reporting by Jack Kim, Narae Kim, Hyunjoo Jin, Joyce Lee and Se Young Lee; Editing by David Chance and Dean Yates)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cyber-attack-south-korea-originated-chinese-ip-regulator-012915599--sector.html

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Britain's growth halved, Osborne turns to Bank of England for help

By William Schomberg and David Milliken

LONDON (Reuters) - Chancellor George Osborne turned to the Bank of England on Wednesday to do more to help spur the country's stagnant economy as he announced a halving of this year's growth forecast.

In an annual budget statement peppered with cat-calls from opposition politicians, Osborne said the central bank's inflation target would remain at 2 percent a year - but that that was not enough.

"As we've seen over the last five years, low and stable inflation is a necessary but not sufficient condition for prosperity," he told parliament.

Osborne said the country's economy was now expected to grow only 0.6 percent this year, half the rate predicted only three months ago, but he vowed to stick the course on austerity.

"It is taking longer than anyone hoped, but we must hold to the right track" he said.

Osborne said he was publishing a review of the Bank's mandate and said the central bank might need to use "unconventional monetary policy instruments" and give a clearer idea of what it will do in the future.

Such instruments in the past have included printing money to buy assets as a way of pumping cash into the moribund economy.

"The new remit explicitly tasks the MPC (Monetary Policy Committee) with setting out clearly the tradeoffs it has made in deciding how long it will be before inflation returns to target," he told parliament.

Such a change might make the Bank operate in a way similar to the U.S. Federal Reserve which has given increasingly explicit signs about how long it will continue to provide support to the U.S. economy.

Sterling briefly fell against the dollar and was weaker against the euro. British bond, or gilt, futures pared losses.

The Bank moves coincide with the arrival in July of a new governor of the Bank, Mark Carney, currently the head of the Bank of Canada. Carney has previously said he wanted a debate on the role of the Bank.

Osborne said Carney and the central bank's current governor Mervyn King both agreed with the new remit which is set by the Chancellor each year.

A further review of the mandate would be carried out before the end of 2019.

CRAWLING

Shortly before Osborne began speaking in parliament, some details of his market-sensitive statement were leaked on the Internet, prompting goading by opposition leader Ed Miliband.

The Labour opposition argues that the Conservative-led government has stuck too long to austerity, failing to provide needed growth.

Forecasts by Britain's budget watchdog showed growth was expected to pick up to 1.8 percent in 2014, after the 0.6 percent this year, Osborne said.

That was also lower than the watchdog's December forecast but Osborne said UK growth was expected to be stronger than in France and Germany in 2013 and next year, Osborne said.

He said Britain remained on track to eliminate its underlying budget deficit within five years. But a secondary target of stopping the rise of debt as a share of GDP would take a year longer than forecast in December, when it was also pushed back by a year.

Despite a slump in opinion polls, Osborne and Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron have stuck to their push to fix Britain's budget deficit and rising public debt, hoping for a recovery before they fight for re-election in two years time.

Britain's economy may be back in a recession again, while rising inflation is hurting households.

Osborne announced several tax changes including a cut in corporation tax to 20 percent in 2015 and a cut in employment taxes for businesses.

Individuals would be able to pay no income tax on their first 10,000 pounds of income from 2014, a year earlier than previously expected.

(This story corrects name of opposition leader in 14th paragraph)

(Additional reporting by UK bureau; Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)

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College students face another round of sticker shock

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As college acceptance letters go out in the next few weeks, prospective students and their parents are in for another round of sticker shock.

And while tuition costs keep rising, the roughly three out of every four students headed to state colleges and universities in the fall may not find all of the courses and services they sampled on their college tour.

Faced with continued budget cuts at the state and federal level, state universities continue to raise tuition and cut offerings, according to a recent analysis by the Center of Budget Policy and Priorities.

On average, states are now spending more than $2,500 less per student than they did five years ago, when the Great Recession blew a large hole in most state budgets.

That 28 percent spending cut has forced an average tuition increase of $1,850 per student over the same period. It?s also forced schools to continue to look for ways to cut back, according to Phil Oliff, a CBPP policy analyst who prepared the report.

?They?ve eliminated faculty positions and increased class sizes, frozen staff salaries and instituted furloughs, cut course offerings and even entire departments, closed down computer labs and cut library services, among other cost-saving actions,? Oliff said.

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In the last year alone, the total ?sticker price? of a four-year public degree has risen a little over 4 percent to $17,860 for in-state students and $30,911 for those from out-of-state, according to the College Board. A private four-year degree, on average, costs nearly $40,000.

Public and private universities have also been hit by cutbacks in state and federal research funding, according to the National Science Board. Research grants now make up about a quarter the average budget among the top 101 public research universities ? down from 38 percent two decades ago.

The recent round of federal budget cuts known as the ?sequester? have only made matters worse. Those cuts ? which took effect March 1 ? sliced some 5 percent from federal research and development spending, taking a $6 billion bite out of federal research spending, according to the American Council on Education.

The sequester is also cutting federal spending on various programs to help students pay the higher costs of a degree.

Because Congress and the White House continue to haggle over the budget cuts, students getting financial aid letters will need to take those numbers with a grain of salt. But unless Congress makes changes, college-bound students can expect to pay higher origination fees on loans and see smaller grants from various programs.

For those most reliant on aid, the sequester could cost as much as $876 a year, according to the Student Aid Alliance. Those cuts include military tuition assistance, federally supported work-study programs and so-called Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants for low-income students. (Pell grants ? which helped roughly a third of all college students in 2011-2012 - were spared this year, but could be cut in the future.)

With costs rising and financial aid drying up, college students and their families are leaning ever more heavily on debt, which now stands at roughly $1 trillion outstanding. Last year, total student borrowing amounted to $113 billion ? up 24 percent from five years ago, according to the College Board.

As the national housing and markets show convincing signs of recovery, higher income and property tax revenues are helping to stabilize state budgets. But Oliff says there is little sign states are reversing cuts to higher education.

?Funding has continued to go down,? he said. ?The rate of decline of has moderated somewhat, but we don?t see any sign that states are re-investing in their higher education systems. And they?re coming out of an enormously deep hole.?

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economywatch/college-students-face-another-round-sticker-shock-1C8954755

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