Bratz Dressup Game

Davidson County District Attorney Torry Johnson recommended against establishing an additional statewide set of legally binding guidelines for when state prosecutors can seek the death penalty. Johnson is the only known District Attorney in the state who has written guidelines spelled out for when his office would push for capital punishment in a first-degree murder trial.Although he has written criteria, Johnson sided with some of his fellow prosecutors Tuesday in testimony to the Death Penalty Study Committee, saying establishing similar guidelines and putting them into state law would open up a “cottage industry" of appeals from defense attorneys. “I'm very happy with my guidelines," Johnson told the committee. “But I might be less happy if every case I was going to have to go into court and go into some excruciating detail about how we made a decision.

Isn't She Stunning

Everyone in this world thought the same way, except liberals, and they were only cartoon characters, to be defeated as though in a video game. In the real world, my friend was unemployed and had been staying with me, rent-free, for two months. But inside the headphones, he could laugh about welfare bums instead of pounding the pavement.

Wife of Spears' Paparazzo Pal Separates

In recent weeks, Ghalib has been seen accompanying Spears on shopping excursions, restaurant outings and trips to the courthouse in her custody case with ex-husband Kevin Federline. Ghalib is said to work for the photo agency FinalPixx. An after-hours call to the agency wasn't answered Tuesday.

Ghalib told the syndicated television magazine show "The Insider" on Tuesday that he had photographed Spears for several years before they grew closer in late December. He said their relationship blossomed after Spears was released from a hospital following a standoff in her home when she refused to return her two sons to Federline's bodyguard.

"We managed to spend a long time together, away from the media," Ghalib said.

In another interview with the TV show "Entertainment Tonight," Ghalib denied accusations that he was profiting from his relationship with the 26-year-old pop star.

North Montgomery star Byrd emulates Larry Legend

CRAWFORDSVILLE | A few years ago D.J. Byrd and his grandmother stopped at a gas station in Indianapolis. Grandma wanted to buy a cup of coffee before taking the lad to a basketball tournament. The station manager exclaimed to his regular customer, "You just missed Larry Bird. He was just in here."D.J.'s head went down. He wanted to meet his idol, the "Hick from French Lick" who changed the game of basketball at Indiana State and then with the Boston Celtics."Larry was like me," said Byrd, who is a 6-foot-5 junior at North Montgomery. "He was a small-town kid who worked hard on his game and became the best player in the NBA. That's one of my goals. And, most importantly, he could flat-out shoot the ball."If Byrd had a dollar for every time someone at an AAU tournament abroad asked him if he was Larry's son, he wouldn't need the scholarship to Purdue that he has.

Tobe Takes Charge in Net

First, it was Dov Grumet-Morris '05. Then John Daigneau '06. And this season, rookie Kyle Richter. Year after year, goaltender Justin Tobe has found himself backing up a teammate. It hasn't always been for the entirety of the schedule—Harvard coach Ted Donato '91 has started the past two seasons with a platoon in net—but sooner or later, Tobe has found himself sitting on the bench. “My junior year, my second year here [after transferring from Michigan State], was a bit of a disappointment in terms of not playing a lot," he recalls. “And this year's been a little bit more frustrating because I think I played pretty well when I played at the beginning of the year." The senior started out the season in a rotation with Richter, the newcomer who Donato declared would challenge for the starting job.