Militants seized the city council headquarters in the Iraqi city of Samarra and took employees hostage on Tuesday, officials said, the second such attack in recent months.
A possible Republican candidate for ex-San Diego Mayor Bob Filner's office must first explain why multiple people report seeing him masturbating at urinals in the City Council's men's room. According to the San Diego Reader, Republican Carl DeMaio was accused of the lascivious acts in 2009 and never answered the charges, but rather had the matter hushed up.