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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) — Since Tony Alamo’s start as a California street preacher more than 40 years ago, the self-styled evangelist’s story has been colorful and checkered.

Evangelist Tony Alamo claimed his late wife, Susan, would be resurrected and kept her body on display.

When his wife died of cancer, Alamo claimed that she would be resurrected and kept her body on display for six months while their followers prayed. It would be 16 years before her body was returned to her family.

For a time, his elaborately painted denim jackets were a must-have in Hollywood, but sales contributed to tax problems that landed him in prison for four years in the 1990s.

Alamo was charged but not convicted of other crimes, including child abuse. Now the 74-year-old is accused by former church members of abusing children and running an organization in which girls who just reached puberty can marry. Agents raided his southwest Arkansas compound Saturday and placed six girls in state custody.

On Monday, Alamo spoke of the allegations with a mix of denial and defiance, saying that he never promoted sexual abuse but that he believes there’s a mandate from the Bible for young girls to marry.

"In the Bible, it happened. But girls today, I don’t marry ‘em if they want to at 14, 15 years old. Because we won’t do it, even though I believe it’s OK," Alamo said.

On Saturday, he had said that for girls having sex, "consent is puberty."

On Monday, he bristled at descriptions of his organization as a cult, saying enemies want to cast him as a "weirdo for preaching what the Bible says."

People who have left Alamo’s organization say they have witnessed older men marrying girls who just reached puberty.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said in an e-mail that was inadvertently sent to media last week that agents expected to find children ages 12 to 14 who had been abused and that they expected to file charges. The e-mail said agents believed that child pornography was being produced at the compound in Fouke.

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Alamo also denied creating any pornography.

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Government agents "have got six of our girls in custody. Little girls. They probably disrobed them. I mean, it’s the most filthy bunch of devils that I’ve ever heard of," Alamo said.

As for former followers making the allegations, Alamo said, "I’ve kicked a lot of people out of the church, and they’ll say anything to get back at me."

He suggested that efforts to gather evidence against him will only bring more people to his ministry, noting that daily traffic on his Web site has grown more than 10-fold, to more than 1 million hits, since the raid.

"They’re really making us famous," he said with a laugh.

Alamo, who now lives in California, said he still preaches daily. He bought land in Arkansas in 1975 for a complex near Alma and from th

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Come October, the Boston Red Sox Won’t Be Playing For Long

I’m a huge Boston Red Sox fan.

I love them, I always will, and I hope them the best in the playoffs. I say this, but guess what? They aren’t making it.

If all plays out in the American League East and the Tampa Bay Rays win th division, with the Red Sox winning the Wild Card, things will be rough for Boston.

The Wild Card would mean playing the best pitching rotation in all of baseball. With pitchers like John Lackey, Ervin Santana, and Joe Saunders starting games for the Los Angeles Angels, and Francisco “K-Rod” Rodriguez closing them, the pitching has been brilliant.

All four of those pitchers could have been in the All-Star Game and all four are reliable in every game. No team can have a bad year when their closer is being nominated to be Cy Young and MVP. Though I believe the closer is overrated in this time of age you still have to give him a nod for the way he plays.

Then there is the Angels’ hitting. Mark Teixeira and Torii Hunter have been the nice pickups by the Angels GM, both good in the field and quick with the bat. Garrett Anderson is back on the map with 15 homers and 84 RBI. Vlad Guerrero has had another good season with 24 homers and a .299 average.

The Angels are known for their speed and they have the home runs. They are ready for the postseason because they’ve been there before, having been swept by the Red Sox last year in the first round. They look good.

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Meanwhile the Sox look good, too, but not as good.

With Manny Ramirez long gone, the team is a settled club now. David Ortiz is hitting home runs now that we’re here at the end of the season. Justin Pedroia, Jason Bay, Kevin Youkilis, and the young shortstop Jed Lowrie are all giving good run support as well.

Sadly, Mike Lowell is paying less attention to now and more attention to his surgery coming on his ankle at the end of the year. J.D Drew is slowly getting back after being a maybe on the roster for about a week. They aren’t looking bad, but are they looking that good?

Then there’s pitching.

While Wakefield is good one game and bad the next, Josh Beckett isn’t that guy who ruled the mound last year. He is 12-9 at this point.

Jon Lester has been doing well ever since his no-hitter and has gone a amazing 15-6 with a 3.26 ERA.

Meanwhile, the most under looked Cy Young candidate is Mr. Dice-K Matsuzaka. In only his second year in the U.S he is 18-2 with a 2.80 ERA.

With the Dice-K/Lester/Beckett combo going, the Red Sox have their own three guys who can pitch. Plus, Jonathan Papelbon is in the bullpen. He is being hit more lately, but he knows the playoffs well.

The Red Sox look good, but when I look at those Los Angeles Angels all I can think is “wow.” They are here to contend, and I see them passing the Sox.

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A Pot Psychology Summer: Looking Back At The Things You Never Saw [Pot Psychology]

summer will officially be over in a few days. so suitable this installment of pot having bats in one’s belfry, the “advice” column in which we attempt to solve everyone’s problems with an herbal nostrum, rich and i take a look burdening someone at our favorite things you on no occasion saw, and answer some questions that were rather stupid. got a burning question? send it to potpsych@jezebel.com. (please hold back them short; they’re verrrry hard to read when stoned.)

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GALVESTON, Texas – Officials were stung by an ill-fated attempt to let residents and business owners “look and leave” their hurricane-battered city, which only created frustrating traffic jams for two days. Now, their message is clear: Stay away from Galveston.

There is talk of opening the island in pieces, but that plan is not yet ready. An attempt to let evacuees return home all at once quickly devolved into a logistical nightmare that left traffic backed up for 20 miles. That only added to the evidence that Galveston Island is far from ready to return to everyday life.

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“We could not accommodate that many people at one time,” city manager Steve LeBlanc said. “We were hoping to have more of a trickle of cars than a tidal wave.”

It took only an hour for LeBlanc and others to realize that Tuesday’s decision to reopen the island was a mistake. Traffic started to back up almost immediately as residents all over the state headed for the coast and clogged Interstate 45 — already teeming with critically needed utility workers, repair crews and police.

But the word that “look and leave” had ended almost as soon as it began didn’t spread. After spending hours fuming in gridlocked traffic, hundreds were turned away Wednesday once they finally arrived at the only bridge onto the island.

Carlos Azucena, 47, tried three different times on Tuesday and Wednesday to get on the island, waiting in line for three hours before his final rejection. He didn’t understand why utility workers and contractors could enter the island while he repeatedly was denied.

“I need to check out the house and need to clean it,” he said. “Nobody helps — stupid police.”

As Galveston persisted in trying to keep evacuated residents out, the city pressed the thousands who have been hunkered down since the storm hit to leave. There is a growing threat of disease, with the state health commissioner reporting cases of respiratory illnesses, minor traumas such as burns and falls, as well as stress and fatigue.

The University of Texas Medical Branch hospital won’t be able to take patients for a month or more, forcing doctors to send the seriously injured by air to Houston or elsewhere for treatment.

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The Importance of Google’s Business Listings

As a sign that it’s growing up and is getting ready to kick you in the throat for spamming, Google Maps has officially created the Local Business Center Guidelines to put it in writing what is and what is not allowed in your Google Local Business Listing. Because Google has true faith in your ability to hold to the law, they’ve also gone ahead and created a reinclusion request form for when you inevitably get kicked out for being the slimy spammer that you are.

The new guidelines include:

Blumenthals doesn’t seem completely satisfied with the guidelines set out by Google because they leave too much wiggle room. As he states, there’s no mention of whether or not businesses can list affiliate phone numbers in their listing or if that’s considered spam. He’s right in that there really could be a lot more explanation to what Google will and will not allow, but it’s a start. And really, when has Google ever given you the degree of information you secretly hoped for? Maybe one day that’ll change, but today it’s still Google’s world.

I’m just glad that some semblance of rule has been put into place over there. Watching spammy local search results pop up makes my skin crawl. I need local search to be as spam-free and relevant as it can be, because that’s the search I go to when I don’t have time to play around and I need answers now.

Take yesterday, for example. If you follow me on Twitter you know I took my two devil-spawn cats to the vet. At the same time. By myself. (I clearly have self-hate issues.)

Once I had the cats all strapped in and was driving on my merry way, I realized that I had no idea where the heck I was going. The only time I had been to this particular vet was well over a year ago when Jack ate a dead bird (he’s disgusting but he’s mine). All I remembered was that I had to turn by the train tracks. I forgot just how many pairs of train tracks run through Simi Valley. After three wrong turns, I realized I had no clue where I was going.

I didn’t have the phone number on me so instead I pulled out my BlackBerry (um, after pulling over and coming to a complete stop, of course) and hit up Google Maps. I typed in [simi valley vet] and was relieved when my vet’s name was the first listed on the Map, with a phone number right next to it so that I could call and ask for directions. If that listing had been overtaken by spammers, it wouldn’t have only been my two cats that were crying and howling in the backseat. I would have been right there with them. Luckily, it was still highly relevant.

But I got lucky. Because as awesome as the American Veterinary Hospital is at taking care of my cats, their local search engine optimization kind of sucks. The reason Google had their information was because they found it elsewhere. American Veterinary Hospital had never claimed their business. They didn’t go out of their way to make sure that Google had the current address and phone number. They just left it to chance. You can’t do that. Or at least, you can’t do that without risking that you’re leaving targeted customers who want to convert on the table because of your own laziness.

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I can’t stress how important it is to have your business listed in Google’s Local Business Listings. It’s your gateway to users who are looking for you right now. Who want what you offer at this very moment. If you’re not there for them, they’re going to go somewhere else. Probably to your competitor down the street.

It’s also important to claim your business to protect yourself against fraud and inaccurate information. Because my vet hasn’t claimed their listing, I can click on Edit Details and put whatever I want in there.

If I was an ill-intentioned competitor, I could put in the wrong phone number, I could get rid of the Web site information, change the name so it doesn’t show up when people search for it. You want to make sure you that you claim your business and make sure that you’re providing as much accurate information as you can. It only takes a few minutes to verify that you’re the owner of that

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Brewers fire Yost, promote 3B coach Sveum as interim manager

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the milwaukee brewers fired manager ned yost on monday in the midst of a late-season trough that has jeopardized the team’s chances of making the playoffs for the first time since 1982.

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