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Her husband's trying to toss her out of the house, they don't have sex, family members are "evil" and she probably shouldn't have signed that pre-nup.

Sounds like the outtakes from Desperate Housewives but Tricia Walsh-Smith is very real, thank you.

Her YouTube rant against the husband who is suing her for divorce, Broadway bigwig Philip Smith, is a relationship train wreck and perhaps signals the next wave of divorce tactics.

He's not a superdelegate, but he probably packs more punch.

Bruce Springsteen has endorsed Barack Obama.

In a letter addressed to friends and fans posted his Web site, Springsteen said he believes Obama is the best candidate to undo "the terrible damage done over the past eight years."

"He has the depth, the reflectiveness, and the resilience to be our next president," the letter said. "He speaks to the America I've envisioned in my music for the past 35 years, a generous nation with a citizenry willing to tackle nuanced and complex problems, a country that's interested in its collective destiny and in the potential of its gathered spirit. A place where '...nobody crowds you, and nobody goes it alone.' "

The bard of New Jersey is known for his lyrics about the struggles of working-class Americans, particularly in the economically ravaged factory towns of the Northeast.

Springsteen and his E Street band were part of the Vote or Change tour, a coalition of musicians opposed to the re-election of President Bush in 2004. He wrote the anti-war ballad "Devils and Dust" about Iraq.

After some deep tissue massage, a good tape job and an injection everybody swears was nothing but B-12, the Rocky's blogs seem to be back to what passes for normal.

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The 7-year-old girl had bruises and told a case worker her older sister beat her up. Their mother used methamphetamine. The case worker said the case was "inconclusive for abuse."

That's one of the startling stories in a study released by the Department of Human Services concluding that at least some of the 13 children who died in 2007 after visits from social workers might still be alive if social services had done a better job, reports Sara Burnett.

In another case, social workers had at least 15 referrals about a Lincoln County boy before he died at age 11.

"I certainly looked at (these cases) in terms of, 'Are there things that could have been done that might have prevented this child's death?' " DHS director Karen Beye said. "In several of those cases, the answer for me was yes."

It included dozens of recommendations for change, including better training for staff - some of whom are assessing cases without having completed the state's basic training program - and better communication between social workers in different counties, so families that move a lot may be tracked.

But the report did not outline what went wrong in each fatality, and Beye said she didn't think "any one thing" was the cause.

"In some cases, looking back, it was, if we had thought to do X, Y, Z, if we had been more thorough . . . would that have helped?" Beye said. "And the answer was yes."

In a move that would cost the government an estimated $10 billion in taxes, Sen. John McCain has proposed suspending the federal gas tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

Timed for the day millions of Americans filed their tax returns, McCain offered some immediate steps as well as long-term proposals in a broad economic speech. The nation's financial woes have replaced the Iraq war as the top concern for voters, and McCain, who has said economics is not his strongest suit, felt compelled to address the problems as he looks ahead to the November general election.

"In so many ways, we need to make a clean break from the worst excesses of both political parties," McCain told an audience at Carnegie Mellon University. "Somewhere along the way, too many Republicans in Congress became indistinguishable from the big-spending Democrats they used to oppose."

Oprah Winfrey is a national icon who can sell thousands of books and launch social movements from the pulpit of her syndicated national TV show but her endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for president may come at a cost..

The Los Angeles Times reports:

In one 1999 survey of the most admired and respected 20th century women, Oprah (26%) came in second only to Mother Teresa (33%). Fourteen months ago, a Gallup/USA Today poll found 74% of Americans had a favorable view of her.

Then on May 1 last year, Oprah announced during CNN's "Larry King Live" that she was for the first time going to throw her considerable popularity behind a political candidate -- Obama. King's suspenders nearly snapped.

"I think," she said, "that my value to him, my support of him, is probably worth more than any check."

House Speaker Andrew Romanoff is preparing to wrestle with the hulking behemoth named TABOR he believes has a hammerlock on Colorado government.

Chris Barge reports:

Legislation the Denver Democrat plans to introduce this week also would create a constitutionally protected savings account for public education.

Lawmakers discussed the need to revamp the state's 131-year-old founding document before the current session began in January, saying various amendments have tied their hands to the point where they no longer have the necessary discretion to craft a sound state budget.

More high school students are declaring their homosexuality at an earlier age. If they're poential college students, the University of Colorado wants to assure them it's a friendly campus.

CU, which participates in about 65 national, springtime college-admissions fairs -- included one for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students on this year's schedule.