Megan McAllister’s is standing by her man Phillip Markoff, the man being charged as the “Craigslist Killer.”

“To me and my family, he is a loving and caring person and in the eyes of the law and the constitution, he is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt,” she said in a statement Monday. “I just can only hope that the criminal justice system will not be overwhelmed and persuaded by what is being put forth in the media.”

The statement was read by family attorney Robert A. Honecker Jr. outside the McAllister home in Little Silver, N.J. Markoff, 23, has been charged with the murder of a woman and the assault of another, both in Boston hotels. In a new twist, there’s an allegation he used Craigslist to seek out men as well as women for sexual activities.

The August 14 wedding on the Jersey shore between accused Craigslist killer Philip Markoff and his fiancée Megan McAllister has been called off for now, according to the leader of their wedding band.

“A family member of Megan’s told me there is no possibility of this wedding taking place this August,” William Forte, founder and keyboardist for the B-Street band, tells People Magazine exclusively.

Jim McAllister, father of the bride-to-be, said, “We know nothing right now, no comment.” Markoff’s parents have not returned calls for comment.

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Famed mother of octuplets Nadya Suleman said she will do a documentary series following her babies until they are 18 years old and is also looking to trademark her widely used nickname - Octomom.
 
Suleman, who gave birth to six boys and two girls in Los Angeles on January 26, said she would allow a television crew to film her family six times a year. The series will be made by the British arm of independent production company Eyeworks.
 
"It is official. I'm going to be doing a show, but it's not a reality show," Suleman told Life & Style magazine.
 
"What I'm doing with this TV show is basically creating documentaries about the lives of my children. It's going to be an ongoing thing, and it will follow them from now until they are 18," she said.
 
Meanwhile, the 33-year-old mother has also filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last Friday seal the trademark "Octomom." She plans to use the name to sell "disposable diapers, dresses, pants, shirts and textile diapers," according to legal documents posted on TheSmokingGun.com.
 
 

The votes for Nickelodeons' Kids Choice Awards are still open today previous to the ceremony to be held at 8 p.m. EST at Pauley Pavilion at UCLA.

 

Nickelodeon's 22nd Annual Kids' Choice Awards  will feature host Dwayne Johnson and honor kids' favorites from the worlds of film, music, sports and television in a star-studded live telecast. There will be an special award named the "Big Green Help Award" for American actor Leonardo DiCaprio.

 

Voters can go to Nickelodeon's website and make their choice.

 

This year's categories are:

Favorite Reality Show

Favorite TV Actor

Favorite Cartoon

Favorite Female Athlete

Favorite Book

Favorite Movie

Favorite Movie Actor

Favorite Movie Actress

Favorite Animated Movie

Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie

Favorite Male Singer

Favorite Female Singer

Favorite Song

Favorite TV Show

Favorite Music Group

Favorite TV Actress

Favorite Male Athlete

Favorite Video Game

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The weather for the second landing of NASA's space shuttle at Kennedy Space Center in Florida was looking more favorable and given the "go," the NASA reported by 1:20 p.m.

The first landing was delayed due to weather conditions and the Discovery was sent back around the globe.

The Mission Control in NASA ordered the seven astronauts to skip their first landing opportunity at 1:39 p.m. EST until the weather conditions - clouds and wind- improve in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

 

The new landing schedule was settled by 3:13 p.m. EST Saturday, only if conditions improve. However there are remaining worries since the weather forecast for tomorrow is worse.

For updated information check the NASA website.

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Walt Disney Co. is in negotiations to take an equity stake in Hulu in exchange for providing the video portal with ABC programming.

 

The talks between the two companies are "serious," but a final deal has not been reached, according to two of PaidContent's sources.

 

Hulu has managed to amass traffic in the video-streaming space, second only to YouTube as joint venture of News Corp., parent company of Fox and NBC Universal.

U.S. flag flies from crane over Ground Zero site during ceremony commemorating seventh anniversary of September 11 attacks, in New York (Reuters)

The building that replaces the World Trade Center towers, destroyed in the September 11 attacks, will no longer be called the "Freedom Tower," as originally planned.

 

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is promoting the place as One World Trade Center, its legal address.

 

"As we market the building, we will ensure that the building is presented in the best possible way," Port Authority Chairman Anthony Coscia told reporters on Thursday.

 

The building's first commercial tenant signed Thursday, Vantone Industiral Co Ltd rented several floors for a new China Center.

Oakland Police funeral. (Photo:Reuters)

The four Oakland policemen that died as a result of a violent rampage on March 21 caused by a 26-year old man were honored in a massive funeral Friday.

At the funeral, thousands of police officers accompanied the family of their fellow workers, the officers Mark Dunakin, John Hege, Ervin Romans and Daniel Sakai.

Among those speaking at the service Friday were Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, as well as state Attorney General Jerry Brown.

Hege and Dunakin were shot on March 21 when they pulled over the parolee during a traffic stop as a normal routine, authorities said. The other two officers, Romans, Sakai died later that day in a shootout when they stormed an apartment where the parolee was hiding. The man also died.

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An M.T.A. construction truck knocked over a road sign on the Whitestone Bridge Friday afternoon in the Bronx, hurting two people and causing the bridge to close to vehicle circulation.

The two people injured were reportedly the ones inside the truck. Both are in a Queens, New York hospital.

The truck belongs to the Alpha Painting and Construction Company, which was hired to paint the bridge's towers.

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Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox. (Photo:Reuters)

21-year-old Amanda Knox a.k.a. "Foxy Knoxy" and former Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito, 24 are back in court in Rome, Italy on Friday, regarding the assassination of the student Meredith Kercher, a crime that earned an unprecedented international coverage.

 

Knox and Sollecito are charged with murdering and sexually assaulting Kercher, one of Knox's roommates on Nov 1, 2007. Prosecutors allege Kercher was killed for not wanting to participate in a sex game with them.  The victim was found with her throat cut. Both have pleaded not guilty.

 

It is hard to predict weather she will be found guilty. The girl is called a "devil with an angel's face" by the Italian media. It was reported today that witnesses testified in court they heard a loud shout coming from the house where Kercher was found.

 

Knox, originally from Seattle, U.S. was in the spotlight of media and tabloids. She even became "the person of the year," in 2008 in Italy, according to a poll posted on an Italian TV website.

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