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MIAMI - The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet.

Ashley Dupre voluntarily dismissed the $10 million federal lawsuit, according to court documents filed Thursday. She said she was only 17 when she signed a binding contract giving permission to appear in the "Girls Gone Wild" video.

Telephone calls and e-mails to Dupre's lawyer and publicist were not immediately returned Friday.

Francis said in a statement issued late Friday night that "the truth invariably comes out, as I knew it would in this case.
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BUTTE, Mont. - Now that they're allies, Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton will help each other raise money in a series of fundraisers in New York next week.

Obama campaign spokesman Jen Psaki said the Democratic nominee-in-waiting and Clinton will hold three fundraisers. Two events are scheduled for Wednesday night ? one to raise money for his general election campaign and one to help pay off debts from her primary campaign. A third fundraiser, for Obama, is a breakfast Thursday morning with women donors that Clinton, a New York senator, will attend.

The fundraisers will be the first joint appearances by the former foes since their lovefest in Unity, N.H.
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NORMAN- A ban on smoking and chewing tobacco has taken effect at Oklahoma State University, but that doesn't necessarily mean the state's other major university will be following suit.

State law bans smoking inside buildings at the University of Oklahoma, and spokeswoman Catherine Bishop said it's also prohibited within 25 feet of all building entrances. So far, though, there hasn't been grassroots support for banning the practice everywhere else on campus.

The issue was brought up this spring in a Student Congress after Oklahoma State approved its policy last year, which went into effect Tuesday.
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Tulsa homicide detectives are looking for a suspect in the city's 20th homicide of 2008.

As we celebrated our freedom,  Broken Arrow celebrated those who protect it. 

Chris Owens said he was handcuffed, thrown into the back of a police car and harassed for taking pictures of a car crash scene Monday evening.

Brandon Brixey has been charged with two counts of first-degree rape and single counts of lewd molestation, kidnapping, robbery and eluding a police officer.

Police say a 19-year-old female and a 24-year-old male were found outside the Windsong Apartments.