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(July 15) -- The cast of characters in a bizarre murder case keeps getting larger. Seven men are charged with killing Byrd and Melanie Billings -- a crime that made orphans of the Beulah, Fla., couple's 13 adopted children. Now police have tracked down Pamela Long, a real estate agent they call a "person of interest" who could have "significant and substantial information."

Ashley Markham -- one of four other Billings children from previous marriages -- has become the family's public face. On 'Good Morning America' today, she said the family is focusing on plans for funerals and is determined to keep the children together. Watch Video.

The suspected ringleader of the group that invaded the Billings home has also spoken out. During a court appearance Tuesday, Leonard Gonzalez Jr. insisted he's innocent and noted that a civic group just presented him with a "Service to Mankind" award for teaching free self-defense classes for women and children.

Recession's End in Sight?
Well ... it all depends on how you read the signs.

Newsweek's Daniel Gross likes what he sees and declares "the recession is really, most probably over."

For True/Slant's Caitlin Kelly, it's not what she's seeing -- it's what she's hearing. Salvation Army Bells ringing in July. It's not a cheery sound.

In Tampa, the economic indicator is a hand-lettered sign at a roadside stand that reads: Grandma
Struggling
raising 4 teens
Ice cold water $1.00

The St. Petersburg Times has more about what one 58-year-old disabled woman is doing to make ends meet.

The Daily Palin
After Gov. Sarah Palin's op-ed piece opposing President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan ran in the Washington Post, Sen. John Kerry is firing back in the Huffington Post. The failed Democratic presidential nominee says the failed Republican vice presidential nominee left out a lot of important details.

Continuing the cycle, the Say Anything blog is ripping Kerry's op-ed for suggesting the Alaska governor has no authority to write an op-ed.

Remember the uproar over Kerry being for Iraq war funding before he was against it? Wonkette has a blast from the past that indicates Palin was for cap-and-trade before she was against it.

"If political figures stand for ideas, victimization is what Ms. Palin is all about," writes Thomas Frank at WSJ.com. Instead of brushing off attacks, her strategy is to develop a thinner skin, he says. The result is to amplify "voices that are ordinarily ignored, relishing every blogger's sneer, every celebrity's slight, every crazy Internet rumor."

In light of all this, Andrew Sullivan asks in our Hot Seat poll: Should we ignore Sarah Palin?

Flesh-Eating Battlebots
This is one of those stories that's too good to check out. Because what fun would it be if this turned out not to be true?

Fox News reports the Pentagon has a deal with a Maryland company that's building a steam-powered robot that would "fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies."

Its official name is Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot. But since the military is involved, there's an acronym ... EATR.

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Littlefieldjb

07:30 PMJul 15 2009

So our tax dollars are being used for something is that is useless what a waste of our hard earned money. Sounds like obummer maybe it was his idea.

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Calcontractor10

06:58 PMJul 15 2009

Hope this is not part of the new world order, If you make under $250,000 will they have the robot eat you?

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Gunwriter

06:56 PMJul 15 2009

The EATR has actually been around since 2003, funded by a little known (or supervised) branch of the DOD.

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Gunwriter

06:53 PMJul 15 2009

As usual FOX news breaks the story in the mainstream about our surreptitious government, while the others fawn over Obama.

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Mn8

06:50 PMJul 15 2009

The generations before us had enough respect to bury the dead. It's what made us a great nation, dignity, moral values. They don't care for anybody anymore.

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DTERRAMAN

06:21 PMJul 15 2009

they are called politicians...not satisfied with our wealth, or our blood, they will now eat us

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Billchoske

06:09 PMJul 15 2009

Flesh Eating ROBOTS?: Where can I get one?

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DavidoffM

05:39 PMJul 15 2009

A 1 is great , but i prefer Duck sauce on children

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JGPutnam

05:30 PMJul 15 2009

just add AI and voila, horror film

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DavidoffM

05:24 PMJul 15 2009

I have a Melanie Griffith sex bot and a Jessica Biel Sex bot My problem is My Barbarella (Jane Fonda) sex bot keeps using up Melanie Griffith sex bot and a Jessica Biel Sex bots' batteries

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