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Alleged Tiger Woods mistress

 arrested in LA area

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – A woman who said she had an affair with Tiger Woods was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of driving on a suspended license in West Hollywood, authorities said.

Jaimee Grubbs was taken into custody after a random license plate check of her 2004 Ford Mustang showed she had three outstanding warrants for driving on a suspended license, Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Jeff Gordon said.

Grubbs was issued a new citation after it was determined she was still driving on a suspended license, Gordon said.

Grubbs was being held at the West Hollywood sheriff's station on $30,309 bail. She's scheduled to appear at the Beverly Hills courthouse Thursday morning on the outstanding warrants.

Grubbs, a Los Angeles cocktail waitress, told Us Weekly she had a 31-month affair with Woods and had the text messages and a voice mail to prove it. She also provided the magazine with a voice mail she said came from Woods.

The Woods' scandal erupted following a Thanksgiving weekend car crash and allegations that he had trysts with multiple women.

Palin's Daughter Haunted by Would be

Heckler and College Student bent for Glory.

By BILL POOVEY KNOXVILLE, TN (AP)

Bristol Palin said she received countless phone calls and hundreds of text messages when her cell number was posted online after her mother's e-mail account was hacked. Only one really scared her.

Palin testified Wednesday that she was 17 and pregnant in 2008 when her mother Sarah Palin's Yahoo! account was invaded after the former Alaska governor was picked as the Republican vice presidential candidate. Bristol Palin said she worried when a bunch of boys called, claiming they were at her front door and wanted in.

"We live in the middle of nowhere in Alaska ... in the middle of the woods," Palin said during the trial of a 22-year-old former college student accused of hacking the account. The trial continues Thursday and could last more than a week. Sarah Palin also was subpoenaed to testify but it was unclear if and when she would.

Bristol Palin said her number was included with a photo she snapped of her brother Trigg taking his first bite of solid food and e-mailed to her parents while they were away during the 2008 presidential campaign.

"I saw a screen shot on the TV," she said.

"I think it was Fox News," she said of the station for which her mother is a paid political analyst.

David Kernell was an economics major at the University of Tennessee when he was accused of hacking the account. He is on trial on charges of identity theft, wire fraud, intentionally accessing Palin's e-mail account without authorization and obstructing an FBI investigation. If convicted, he could be sent to prison for up to 50 years.

Kernell has not been accused of the harassing calls, e-mails and text messages that Bristol Palin and a former aide described to jurors. Kernell's attorney Wade Davies claims the e-mail intrusion was just a prank and has attempted to show the account was accessible to other people, was sometimes used for political and official messages and was not just private.

Testimony with Tennessee ties was given by Sarah Palin's aide. Frank Bailey of Anchorage, Alaska, a former Palin campaign aide who also worked in her state administration, testified he set up the e-mail account for Palin just after she was picked to be the running mate of Republican presidential nominee John McCain.

Bailey said after being notified about someone breaking in Palin's e-mail in September 2008, he had to act quickly to block further intruders. Bailey testified that he acted on a suggestion by his wife that he build a new password out of Peyton Colts.

"Just like Peyton Manning?" Assistant U.S. Attorney Greg Weddle jokingly asked Bailey.

Bailey said his wife is more a sports fan than he is and he at the time didn't realize any connection between Manning and the state where the Indianapolis Colts quarterback remains beloved since his years as a star at the University of Tennessee.

"I'm embarrassed to say I did not," Bailey said.

Authorities say Kernell answered personal security questions about Palin, such as her having met her husband, Todd, in Wasilla, Alaska. Kernell is accused of resetting the e-mail account password, making screenshots of contents and posting some information on public websites.

Bristol Palin testified that she had to turn her phone over to investigators and went without cell phone service for weeks because she couldn't sign a new contract as a 17-year-old.

She said her number "wouldn't have been posted if it hadn't been hacked into."

After court ended for the day, Kernell was asked by WMC-TV of Memphis what he thought of Bristol Palin.

He replied, "She's not my type."

Ivy Frye, a longtime friend of the Palin family in Wasilla, Alaska, and former special assistant to Palin when she was governor, testified that the posting of the screen shots led to numerous "vile" and "vulgar" e-mails being sent to the accounts of Palin's children and other relatives and friends. Frye said all their e-mail addresses were exposed.

Jurors also have heard from a records manager with Yahoo! and from Kernell's former University of Tennessee roommate, who said Kernell was politically opposed to Palin, but never said anything about wanting to hurt her and her running mate, Sen. John McCain.

PALIN CONTRACT SPARKS CONTROVERSY

University president

 says Palin contract stolen

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A California university president said Wednesday a portion of a contract between a school foundation and Sarah Palin for an upcoming speech was stolen from a campus administrator's office last week.

California State University, Stanislaus president Hamid Shirvani said the five-page document was taken from a recycling bin inside the office of Susana Gajic-Bruyea, vice president for university advancement.

"Susana threw the pages into her recycling bin in her office some time ago," Shirvani said in a phone interview. "Somebody either broke into her office to get them or it was somebody who had access to her office."

Shirvani has asked police in the Central Valley city of Turlock to investigate the matter.

The contract is at the center of an escalating controversy at CSU Stanislaus.

The state attorney general's office announced Tuesday it would investigate the university and its foundation for their handling of the contract related to the June 25 speech by Palin. Authorities said the investigation has nothing to do with Palin herself.

The investigation sparked a new round of calls for greater transparency and financial accountability in organizations embedded within California's public universities, particularly given the size of their assets.

"Prudent financial stewardship is crucial at a time in which universities face vastly decreased state funding and increased student fees," Attorney General Jerry Brown said while announcing his investigation. 

The university told state Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, it did not have any documents related to the speech and said it had referred the matter to Matt Swanson, board president of the California State University, Stanislaus Foundation.

Swanson sent letters to Yee and The Associated Press stating that Palin's contract had a nondisclosure clause. He also said university foundations and other auxiliary organizations were not subject to the same public records requirements as the university itself.

Swanson has not responded to requests for comment on the investigation. He has said the Palin event would be funded entirely by private donations.

The investigation was launched after two students said they had found pages of the contract in a campus trash bin.

Ashli Briggs, 23, one of the students, called Shirvani's theft allegation completely unfounded.

"It's a sad day when the university is accusing its own employees, it's own students of committing a crime," she said.

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