Today's Mega News Bits by Patrick Dentler and Rebecca Onion Asian markets fall; the Fed is really, really worried. Not convinced Giuliani's a dangerous, power-mad nutcase? Read this. The Great iPhone Heist! Tom Brady limps through the streets of New York with a walking boot on his foot. (The question is, what the hell was he doing in enemy territory in the first place?) Unhappy news for pregnant ladies, those who must inhabit the......

Tarleton State University students are making national headlines for recent pictures they posted on Facebook.com after hosting an MLK Day Party, where guests wore gang apparel, drank malt liquor, carried handguns and ate fried chicken. One girl even dressed as Aunt Jemima. The Smoking Gun has the pictures. Donald Ray Elder, leader of the NAACP at the Stephenville, Texas university, found the pictures while browsing Facebook and sent an e-mail to party-thrower Jeremy Pelz.......

Hope your MLK Day has at least been relaxing.......

The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day, taking place this year on Saturday, January 13th, was created to honor the memory of the civil rights hero and encourage the public to carry on his legacy of volunteerism through community service projects. Locally, what began as a grassroots effort by State Rep. Dawnna Dukes (D-Austin) to clean up East MLK Jr. Boulevard in 2000 has blossomed into the citywide MLK Day of Service. The 2007 clean......

On April 4, 1968, less than twenty-four hours after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assasinated, James Brown was scheduled to perform a concert at the Boston Garden. He arrived at the airport and was told that the mayor had serious concerns about Brown playing during a time of intense anxiety and anger over the murder of one of the greatest civil rights leaders in American history. The Godfather would not hear of it.......

The timing could have been better. The good news is that scattered thunderstorms are predicted this afternoon, so hopefully conditions will hold throughout the morning's MLK Day celebration. The bad news is that scattered thunderstorms are predicted this afternoon, spoiling any plans to make yet another mid-winter stop by Barton Springs (where the above picture was taken using a Christmas present). The next 10 days look nice, though, with highs staying in the sixties.......

Happy Birthday (observed), Dr. King. To celebrate the national MLK Day holiday, the Heritage Council is sponsoring the 2006 Community March. The March celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy while uplifting diversity and multi-culturalism in Austin. The Community March kicks off at 9 a.m. with a short program at the MLK Statue on the University of Texas campus. The march will then move to the south steps of the Capitol for a brief......