Seinfeld producer/creator Larry David has often claimed that the character of George Costanza, the abrasive, neurotic, spectacularly luckless Seinfeld supporting player so brilliantly played by Jason Alexander, was based on David himself...

"Sorry to bother you," I said, like an English person...

NEW YORK mdash; It was a balmy spring evening in Manhattan. Rockefeller Park teemed with joggers, dog walkers, picnickers, Frisbee throwers mdash; and six women sweating through jumping jacks and park bench push-ups...

Moving inmates around crowded Nevada County Courthouse hallways is "irresponsible," expensive, and a potential threat to the public, according to a grand jury report issued Wednesday...

The cost of government in Nevada County is growing at a faster rate than the revenue it is generating, reconfirming a worrisome trend, according to a new report on the area's economy...

ANTIOCH FOLKS in pursuit of life, liberty and the right to park their motorhomes and boats in their driveways hit a serious speed bump last week...

• JOHN Spencer has taken over as principal of Inverness College. Spencer, who was a previous vice-principal of Sutton Coldfield College, succeeds Donald Leitch, who has been the college's acting principal since Professor John Little left last year...

This 2007 photo supplied by NBC shows Alana de la Garza and Sam Waterston, who plays Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy, in a scene from an episode of the "Law Order" police television drama that will air on NBC Friday May 18, 2007...

1. and the tmz drama continues... 2. Andy had to be high to do that...his timing sucked and for that matter so does he and his humor which was funny about a decade ago...