After spending two months on Aruba following the disappearance of her daughter, the mother of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway has returned home to Birmingham indefinitely.

Beth Holloway Twitty will return to the island if there are any developments in Holloway's case.

Meanwhile, a search of an Aruban pond has ended with no sign of the missing teen, said the lead investigator on the case.

"The search at the pond is over," Roy Trump told CNN. "It's unfortunate, of course, but there was nothing there. We're finished at the pond."

[Source: CNN]

Veteran comedian Pat McCormick, whose wacky appearances on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" are TV legends, has died at age 78.

McCormick died Friday at the Motion Picture & Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif., where he had been since a stroke in 1998, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.

His longtime friend and fellow comic Shelley Berman told the Times Friday: "Few, very few, will ever be able to craft a joke as beautifully as Pat."

McCormick wrote the classic Carson one-liner: "Due to today's earthquake, the God is Dead rally has been canceled."

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McCormick is survived by his son, Ben McCormick, and a grandson.

Rest In Peace, Pat.

A convicted sex offender was arrested and the 8-year-old Nevada girl he is suspected of kidnapping was found in "good shape" at a shelter in Ensenada, police said Friday.
Fernando Aguero, 47, was arrested in the afternoon and was being moved to Tijuana where police planned an evening news conference, authorities said.

Aguero is suspected of kidnapping Lydia Bethany-Rose Rupp, 8, from her home July 22 in Fernley, Nev., near Reno.

"She is saying that she is fine," said Rodolfo Luna, a liaison officer with Mexico's State Preventive Police. "She appears to be in good shape, with no complaints."

[Source: Sign On San Diego]

When it comes to confirmation hearings regarding Supreme Court nominees, I agree wholeheartedly with the following statement:

"We have to respect that any nominee to the Supreme Court would have to defer any comments on any matters, which are either before the court or very likely to be before the court. This has been a procedure which has been followed in the past and is one which I think is based upon sound legal precedent."

Edward "Fat Teddy" Kennedy made that statement (and vocally supported that standard) in 1967. I know it will be difficult, but let's hold him, and all of the Democrats, to this standard during the Roberts confirmation process.

Of course it would be nearly impossible to hold Kennedy to this standard since he has made a philosophical (aka: it's not a Democratic President's nominee) U-turn. Maybe Fat Teddy should have learned to make U-turns in 1969 before he attempted to cross that bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, rather than waiting for 38 years to shove his own foot in his mouth during the confirmation process of a nothing but honorable Supreme Court nominee.

[Hat Tip: Neal Boortz]

The children who live on Longview Court enjoy playing together, but Thursday it's under closer watch than usual. Laughter is laced with fear after a man attempted to lure two young girls inside his pickup truck.

Eyewitness, Tina Wrublewski, says, "He kept looking at me and he motioned me to come [to him] and I told him no I wasn't going to. The kids ran inside because I guess he was trying to get them to get inside the truck with him."

Instinctively, the children did what they were taught to do when approached by strangers; but as it turns out, this stalker isn't new to the neighborhood. He's been riding up and down this street for weeks, watching and attempting to talk with children.

If people know that a creepy stranger had been riding up and down the street for weeks, watching and attempting to talk with children, why didn't anyone called the authorities? Why didn't anyone do something?

Witnesses describe the suspect as a white male in his fifties, driving a gray Chevy truck with Autauga County plates.

Montgomery Police are investigating the complaints. Lieutenant Huey Thornton says,"We feel like we have a pretty good idea of who this person is."

Meanwhile, parents are urging all who live in the area to be on the lookout.

Apparently keeping people "on the lookout" does not seem to be the problem, since everyone seems to have known he was in the area. Maybe asking people to "do something" the next time they see him may have been better advice.