Legislators Watch Fights as Homework at Des Moines Bar
In Des Moines a group of six lawmakers plus spectators watched amateur one on one no holds barred fights at Toad Holler Night Club. They debated banning extreme fighting as media coverage drew 650 attendees and highlighted safety concerns amid an unregulated scene. Fighter Toby Herrera trains with Team Tap, holding a 15-3 record in six months using submission wrestling.
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Toad Holler Night
Betty Soukup
New Hampton
Soukup
Sens
Mary Lou Freeman
R-Alta
Johnie Hammond
D-Ames
Sandra Greiner
R-Keota
Patricia Harper
D-Waterloo
James van Fossen
R-Davenport
Freeman
Toad Holler
Lou McCormick
Toby Herrera
Tap
Center
Iowa
Leno provoke Korea with joke about Olympic skater
Agence France Presse reports Jay Leno mocked Kim Dong-Sung after his 1500m disqualification on the Tonight Show. Kim Jong-pil condemns the joke as ignorant and disrespectful to national feelings amid Ohno gold medal win.
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Knight Ridder
Jay Leno
Agence France-Press
Leno
Kim Dong-Sung
U.S
Anton Ohno
Kim Jong- Pil
United Liberal Democrats
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Dave Matthews completes a 5.3 million deal to buy 1261 of 7379 acres donated to the University of Virginia Foundation. Coran Capshaw says the purchase preserves agriculture and forests on five adjoining farms north of Scottsville in Albemarle County. The lands include homes barns silos equipment and grain sheds.
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Associated Press
Dave Matthews
John W. Kluge
University of Virginia Foundation
Coran Capshaw
University
Charlottesville
Matthews
Scottsville
Albemarle County
Boxing showdown set for Fox Celebrity Boxing special
Tonya Harding and Amy Fisher prepare to box on Fox's Celebrity Boxing airing March 13 billed as the battle of the bad girls. Barry Williams faces Danny Bonaduce, with three round bouts. Harding rose to notoriety after the 1994 Kerrigan plot and Fisher served seven years for the 1992 shooting.
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Associated Press
Tonya Harding
Amy Fisher
Fox
Barry Williams
Danny Bonaduce
Harding
Nancy Kerrigan
Long Island
Joey Buttafuoco
Fisher
Chelsea shines at London premiere of The Shipping News
Chelsea Clinton, 22, attended a charity screening in Mayfair for The Shipping News with her boyfriend Ian Klause. She signed autographs outside the cinema as Judi Dench and Kevin Spacey starred in the film.
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Ian Klause
Mayfair Cinema
Judi Dench
Kevin Spacey
Clinton
LeAnn Rimes Aims High After Olympic Open, Wedding
LeAnn Rimes, 19, headlines a busy period with an Olympic opening performance, a legal settlement with her father Wilbur Rimes over alleged $7 million misdeal, and a Dallas wedding to dancer Dean Sheremet at Perkins Chapel.
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Knight Ridder
LeAnn Rimes
Dean Sheremet
Entertainment Weekly
Perkins Chapel
Dallas
Wilbur Rimes
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