Mother-in-Law of McCain's Veep pick undecided: Senator John McCain made a historic selection by picking a mother of 5, Sarah Palin, to be his running mate. But some voters have reservations when it comes to the first-term Alaska governor, including her own mother-in-law. Faye Palin says she is a fan of Barack Obama and still hasn't decided who she'll vote for and strongly disagrees with her daughter-in-law's anti-abortion rights platform. Wow, guess it's not just our own mothers-in-law who don't support us, huh?

Mandatory evacuation ordered for New Orleans: Residents in New Orleans were ordered to evacuate immediately due to the imminent threat of hurricane Gustav. Just three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf-coast region, Gustav is building strength and is currently a category-3 storm, but forecasters fear it could build strength and reach a category-5 before coming ashore on Monday. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered the mandatory, immediate evacuation of the city saying this was not a test and calling Gustav the, "storm of the century."

Gas prices even getting to Diddy: The rising gas prices are having an effect on rapper and mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs. The Hip-Hop star, who usually flies a private jet from New York to Los Angeles for $200,000, says gas prices are getting too high and he's flying commercial. Diddy had a message to everyone out there: tell whoever the next President is we need to bring gas prices down." Forget feeding your families, people--Diddy has to fly commercial... now it's just gone too far.

Girl kicked off football team: Fourteen-year-old Kacy Stuart was one of the star players on her public school's football team, but after moving to a private school, was kicked off the team--guess why. While taking team pictures, Kacy was told by the executive board chairman of the Georgia Football League that she would not be allowed to play because she was a girl. Kacy's mom plans to file an injunction

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