Charles Djou

For the winner, it's just the beginning. Work will start soon in Washington, and he'll have to run for the seat again in November.

It's been 19 years since a Republican held a Hawaii congressional seat. The last one to do so spoke at winner Charles Djou's victory party Saturday night.

"I remember many, many years ago when I won this seat, now it belongs to Charles," said Pat Saiki, a former U.S. Congresswoman.

It's a win that won't go unnoticed from the president's home state with a traditionally solidly Democratic base.

"We have sent a message to the United States Congress, we have sent a message to the ex-governors, we have sent a message to the national Democrats, we have sent a message to the machine," said Djou.

Democrats say the win isn't a message. With second- and third-place Democratic competitors garnering a combined vote much bigger than Djou's count, they say Djou's win is a fluke of a winner-take-all special race that won't have the same dynamics in November after a primary puts just one strong Democrat on the ticket. Republicans disagree.

"Charles won by 10 points, I mean that's a large victory, and we didn't think that if we were to win that we'd come out that far, so we're excited about that so I think it just shows the momentum is in Charles' favor and the momentum going into November," said Jonah Kaauwai with the Hawaii Republican Committee.

Republicans also doubt that those who voted for the second and third place candidates this time around will vote the same way in the fall.

"A lot of the Ed Case supporters are people who would vote for Charles, there are also a lot of people who didn't even vote in the special election who you would work to get out in the general election," said Governor Linda Lingle.

It was an unprecedented race cost-wise in which Djou and Hanabusa each spent in excess of a million dollars. Ramping up that kind of fundraising again and maybe more for the general election lies ahead.

"This is such big national news for the Republican party. I think Charles will get help from people all across the country, both Independents and Republicans, even some Democrats who realize we've got to slow down the spending that's going on in Congress," said Lingle.

The new congressman heads to Washington soon with work to do not only there but at home, all with an eye on keeping the seat beyond this 8-month duty.

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Stephanie Lazarus

It wasn't just any cop. Stephanie Lazarus was a well respected, highly decorated female detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. And it wasn't just a minor crime. She was charged with the murder of Sherri Rasmussen, a young nurse, 23 years after the killing.

"A Los Angeles police officer arrested for murder is just - it's a bombshell! I mean, you just don't get those kinda cases!" says Andrew Blankstein. "People were really stunned by this."

Blankstein and Joel Rubin cover the police beat for the Los Angeles Times and are consultants to "48 Hours."

"Nobody saw this coming. Nobody says she was a cop that they saw on the edge," Rubin says. "As far as we can tell, people in the department saw her as, you know, a cop's cop, a good cop."

"She's been a longtime patrol detective," Blankstein adds. "She was with the art theft detail in commercial crimes… which is theft of high-end art in L.A .And in doing those kind of investigations… it gets a lot of press, a lot of attention… If the police and prosecutors are going to be believed, she's harboring a secret about murder for 23 years!"

At first glance, Stephanie Lazarus has no obvious connection to the victim in this murder case - Sherri Rasmussen, a highly regarded nursing administrator.

Sherri came from a very close-knit family. Her parents, Nels and Loretta Rasmussen, adored their three daughters and their growing family.

"…Sherri was the glue that held the family together all the time…..and made everything that much better," says Sherri's younger sister, Teresa, tells "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Maureen Maher.

But in February 1986, Sherri would be attacked, beaten and shot to death in her Los Angeles home.

"We were an ordinary family, you know... You never think something like this is gonna happen to you," says Teresa. She says she never could have anticipated that only just now - more than 20 years after her sister's murder - there's been arrest.

"It doesn’t make the pain any less," she says. "You start the grieving process all over again, one more time."

The pain is most obvious when the family visits Sherri's grave.

"I don't believe that you can understand the grief… a part of your life has just been taken away forever," Nels Rasmussen tells Maher in an exclusive interview.

Her parents say Sherri excelled at everything she did. She became a nurse when she was only 20. At age 27, she was named director of critical care nursing at Glendale Adventist Medical Center, where she sometimes lectured.

"She liked taking care of people and making sure things were done right, that people were cared for properly," says Loretta Rasmussen.

"She said, 'I'm gonna elevate the stature of nursing in the nation,'" Nels recalls. "And she was on her way."

On top of a successful career, in early 1986, Sherri was extraordinarily happy, having just married the man she loved. Her new husband was John Ruetten, a young engineer she'd met in 1984.

As it would turn out, John was the single link to the woman accused of murdering his new bride.

That is because Stephanie Lazarus was Ruetten's ex-girlfriend. And according to Sherri's friends and family, Stephanie was not willing to give up the man she'd first met in college several years before the murder.

"Sherri was competition," Teresa says. "If she could get Sherri outta the way, then possibly John would be free to be with her again."

John is the one who discovered his wife's body.

"He was in a daze," Teresa explains. "He was sort of the deer in the headlights look, you know?"

John Ruetten has had little to say publicly since his wife's murder in 1986.

He briefly addressed mourners at a hospital memorial service for Sherri, telling them, "I just want to thank you all for coming and I want you to know that Sherri was the best professional in the world - she was the best wife that anybody could ever have."

"To me, he's kind of a central character that we really know the least about," says Blankstein.

"There's a lot of questions left unanswered," adds Rubin.

Questions like: what did John Ruetten know? Or suspect? He says that early on, he told detectives to talk to his ex-girlfriend - an L.A.P.D. cop.

"John is really the only person that has this connection to both women that can tell us what was going on to some extent?" Maher asks Rubin. "You would think, yeah," he replies.

But police were off chasing other leads, and Sherri's friend, Jayne Goldberg, says that Ruetten just quietly faded out of sight, leaving her quite angry.

"I would have expected that John would have been much more involved in the investigation… and demand answers," she says.

Especially, as months - and then years - went by with no resolution to the case.

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Ssc Results 2010 Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (APBSE) delcared the examination result of AP SSC (10th Class) and OSSC Intermediate March 2010 result published through official website on Sunday at 11:30 AM. Most of the students are waiting for the results. Andhra Pradesh Minister for Secondary Education D Manikya Vara Prasada Rao announced the results, BSNL users can dial 1255225 for knowing markwise results.

Ama Motocross

Defending champion Chad Reed of Australia opened his AMA Motocross season with a victory in the 450 class on Saturday night.

Eli Tomac of Cortez, Colo., won the 250 class in his professional debut.

Reed won the first moto but had to work his way through the field after a poor start in the second moto, finally passing fellow Australian Brett Metcalfe for third.

Mike Alessi of Victorville, Calif., finished second and Davi Millsaps of Murrieta, Calif., finished third.

Five-time champion Jessica Patterson of Tallahassee, Fla., swept both motos to win the women's race. Ashley Fiolek of St. Augustine, Fla., was second and Troy Lee of Winter Garden, Fla., was third.

Danica Patrick

Danica Patrick (Andretti Autoport) has made a name for herself being different from what is expected in a NASCAR driver – most notably, female, but did she may have gone from eccentric to downright inappropriate after her poor qualifying run this morning at the Indianapolis 500. Claiming her car was “loose” (a feeling that the car may spin out) she went on to spew some frustration around, seemingly blaming her pit crew by saying “It’s not my fault”. Patrick also told the Pole Day crowd, “This is the worse car I’ve ever had” and claimed that she was “still shaking”. Her remarks played over the loudspeakers, caused a normally pro-Danica crowd to boo heartily, maybe being taken as whining or blaming the pit crew for her poor performance.

Patrick may be a good driver, and certainly has never been afraid to speak her mind or put herself out there, but the old axiom that it’s a poor workman who blames his tools still applies. A pit crew has to feel as confident in their driver’s respect as the driver has to feel confident in the car. While Number 7 car may have been loose, Patrick may have lost fan support by speaking out this time. As a Go Daddy spokeswoman, more is riding on her public image that just cheering fans; when a driver loses face, they can lose endorsements as well.

Patrick still qualified for the 500, squeaking in at 23rd, right below the cut-off at 24th. I hope that if she doesn’t do as well in the race, she at least doesn’t throw anyone else under the race car!

Matador Gored By Bull

[The horn] went though the tongue and penetrated the roof of the mouth, fracturing the jawbone," one of the medics who worked on Aparicio told AFP news in Madrid.

The Seville native, a member of a well-known family of matadors, was in grave condition last night but expected to survive.

"We don't have a reason to fear for his life, although he will have a very slow recuperation," Dr. Maximo Garcia Padros told El Pais newspaper.


Aparicio fell during the part of the match where the matador uses his cape and sword to entertain the crowd before delivering the death blow.

If you have the stomach for it, you can look at the video here.

No word on what happened to the bull.

Wayne Newton

On Saturday’s Huckabee show on FNC, as the show was broadcast from Las Vegas, singer Wayne Newton appeared as a guest to discuss the economic situation in the city, and, when asked by host Mike Huckabee his reaction to President Obama’s remarks from last year attacking businesses for indulging in trips to Las Vegas, Newton did not mince words: "I think that it was the most irresponsible, arrogant thing I have ever heard a President of the United States say."

Fellow guest and Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons related that hundreds of conventions were canceled after the President’s words, costing the city a fortune in lost business: "There's no doubt that the people of Las Vegas, the city of Las Vegas were severely hurt by the President's remarks. About 400 conventions, business meetings, and that were canceled because of his remarks; $100 million was lost by the community at that remark. People lost their jobs. This city took a real blow when the President made that remark. He was wrong then, and then he said it again, and I don't understand why he keeps picking on Las Vegas."

Newton jumped in again and suggested that the President has been hypocritical in holding political fundraisers in Las Vegas: "He was not so incensed with Las Vegas, that he then decided to come here and do two fundraisers."

Below is a transcript of the relevant portion of the Saturday, May 22, Huckabee on FNC:

August Rush

Normally I love listening to music while I run because it helps me to run longer, and, well, I'm kind of in love with music.

But today I decided to just listen to the music already outside -- the water flowing in the creek (I'm in Montana at the moment), the rushing wind, the bored-to-death neighbor's dogs that bark at everything, the rhythm of my feet hitting the soft dirt road.



It was so refreshing. It reminded me how important it is to take out my earphones every so often and just enjoy the music of God's creation.

I love the beginning of "August Rush," where August says: "The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen."

But what if our earphones are always on and that's all we can hear?

Putting away the earphones once in a while allows us to hear different kinds of music.

Don't get me wrong. I love how music can help us relax or pump us up.

But recently as I've contemplated different kinds of music beside the music on our iPods, I've come to the realization that balance in our lives is essential -- even when it comes to music, one of my favorite things in the entire world.

Allow me to think outside the box for a moment.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines music as "an aesthetically pleasing or harmonious sound or combination of sounds." So, can't music be any sound we find beautiful? Maybe even the sound of a familiar friend's voice, or a kind hello from a stranger acknowledging our existence?

My freshman year of college, I loved my iPod a little too much. I listened to it every chance I got. But now it's become a personal rule to not have my earphones on when I'm walking somewhere. It helps me be aware of my surroundings and the people around me.

I've met so many amazing strangers by taking off my earphones and starting up a simple conversation while waiting to cross the street. Sometimes I never see that person again. But sometimes I end up seeing them over and over and we become friends. It is so nice to get to know different people. Those interactions are music to my soul. President Thomas S. Monson said, "Often we live side by side but do not communicate heart to heart."

Communicating heart to heart is music to me -- it renews and energizes my soul, just as music does.

As much as I value music, there is a time and place.

So, take your earphones out every once in a while and start up a conversation with a stranger. Heart-to-heart interactions are music in their own way -- the music that is all around us -- if we'll just listen.

Indy 500 Qualifying

In a day of qualifying for next weekend's Indianapolis 500 race, Helio Castroneves of Brazil qualifed for the pole for his fourth time. Danica Patrick took the 23rd of 24 spots.

Mr. Castroneves's 4-lap average, according to ESPN.com, was 227.970 mph, faster than any run in practice. With his fourth pole, the Brazilian ties A. J. Foyt and Rex Mays for second behind Rick Mears, who has won six.

Will Power from Australia will start second, and Dario Franchitti from Scotland will start third.

Other women qualifying besides Ms. Patrick include Ana Beatriz at 21st and Simona de Silvestro at 22nd.

Crashes during qualifying on Saturday included Tony Kanaan and Mario Moraes, both of Brazil. Japan's Takuma Sota crashed during a practice run Saturday morning.

This year will mark the 94th running of the auto race, often called "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing." Between the number of seats the speedway holds (over 250,000) and those who stand around the track, some estimates place the number of fans at close to 400,000 who show up on race day. The Speedway, according to the Speedway Hall of Fame Museum website, is the "largest spectator sporting facility in the world."

If you are a young person (or slightly older than young) visiting the Indianapolis area, you might be interested to know that the Speedway Hall of Fame Museum is open during races and beyond and features discounted tickets for those up to age 15. Consult the website for further information.

Other YA Pop Culture readers may recognize Helio Castroneves from another popular venue outside of sports - in 2007, Mr. Castroneves won the televised dancing competition Dancing With the Stars with professional partner, Julianne Hough.

The Indy 500 will be broadcast live from Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana on ABC Sunday, May 30, 2010 starting at noon ET.

Hunchback Of Notre Dame

A New Hope: In the 1977 science-fiction classic a rebel battle against a totalitarian galactic regime reaches an isolated farm boy (Mark Hamill), whose connection to the struggle turns out more personal than he ever imagined. Carrie Fisher, Harrison Ford and Peter Cushing co-star (12:55 p.m. Spike). The 1980 sequel "Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back" follows at 4 and the third film of the original trilogy
The Hunchback of Notre Dame: As Quasimodo, Charles Laughton has clock-stopping looks in this 1939 adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic. Cedric Hardwicke and Maureen O'Hara also star (5 p.m. TCM).

Troy: The Trojan War story is retold without the gods and goddesses of Homer's original in this 2004 adventure. Brad Pitt stars as Achilles, Orlando Bloom plays Paris and Diane Kruger is cast as Helen. Brian Cox, Brendan Gleeson and Peter O'Toole also star (8 p.m. AMC).

Witchville: Luke Goss and Ed Speleers star in this new, supernatural TV thriller (9 p.m. Syfy).

SPORTS

IndyCar Racing: Indianapolis 500, Qualifying (8 a.m. VS).

College Softball: NCAA regionals (9 and 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. ESPN)

Baseball: The Angels visit the St. Louis Cardinals (11 a.m. FSN); the Detroit Tigers visit the Dodgers (4 p.m. Fox).

UEFA Champions League Soccer: Final: Bayern Munich vs. Inter Milan