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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Former child star Macaulay Culkin was arrested on drug charges Friday, authorities said.

The 24-year-old actor, best known for his role in the movie, ``Home Alone,'' was taken into custody on complaints of possession of a controlled dangerous substance without a valid prescription and possession of marijuana, according to the Oklahoma County Sheriff's office.

Culkin was jailed Friday on $4,000 bond. A jailer declined to release details of Culkin's arrest, and it was not clear whether he had a lawyer.

It also was not clear why Culkin was in Oklahoma City or whether he was traveling alone.


In Los Angeles, Culkin's publicist, Michelle Bega, declined to comment.

Quote:By Alex Johnson
Reporter
MSNBC
Updated: 5:21 p.m. ET July 23, 2004

Shelton Sanders called his father the night of June 19, 2001, to let him know he was driving home later than usual after helping out with planning for a bachelor party. It was the last his father, an influential county magistrate, ever heard from him.

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Sanders, 25, was on track to earn his degree from the University of South Carolina in December. Although school was out for the summer, he still made the 82-mile round trip each day from his parents’ home in Rembert to Columbia, where he was a systems manager at the USC medical school. But this night, he never made it home. He remains listed by the Sumter and Richland county sheriffs as a missing person, likely the victim of foul play.

Dail Dinwiddie, 23, was preparing to enter graduate school at USC when she vanished the morning of Sept. 24, 1992. The bouncer at a bar was probably the last person to talk to her, at about 1:30 a.m.; she was last seen walking home from one of Columbia’s popular club districts. She remains listed by the Columbia police as a missing person, likely the victim of foul play.

What is known about Shelton John Sanders must be reconstructed from police reports, interviews and articles in his hometown newspaper, The Sumter Item; no other newspaper has ever written about him, except for passing mentions and the occasional brief roundup note.

IMAGE: David Hazinski, University of Georgia journalism professor
University of Georgia
In a case like Laci Peterson’s, ‘people within the media ... have been embarrassed by how they’re covering this story so much,’ said David Hazinski, a University of Georgia journalism professor

Dail Dinwiddie had already been missing for nine years when Sanders disappeared in June 2001; her case was about as cold as cold cases get. But just since that day — never mind the previous nine years — at least six full-length articles examining her disappearance have appeared in South Carolina’s biggest newspapers, one of them 3,200 words long.

During those same three years, her decade-old story has also been retold by newspapers in Michigan, Minnesota, Georgia, Florida and Wisconsin. It was featured in U.S. News & World Report. CNBC and National Public Radio did pieces.

The attention to Dinwiddie “is kind of mind-boggling,” said Chip Chase, managing editor of the Item, which has regularly published updates on the Sanders investigation.

Two bright, ambitious students at the main state university disappear in the same town, under similar circumstances. One of them becomes “an inescapable name and face,” in the words of The Greenville News. The other is largely forgotten. No one can say why with absolute certainty.

But there is one unavoidable difference between the two cases:

Dail Dinwiddie is a white woman. Shelton Sanders is a black man.

Quote:N.J. Governor Resigns, Admits He Is Gay

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - In a stunning declaration, Gov. James E. McGreevey announced his resignation Thursday and acknowledged that he had an extramarital affair with another man. \"My truth is that I am a gay American,\" he said.

\"Shamefully, I engaged in adult consensual affairs with another man, which violates my bonds of matrimony,\" the married father of two said. \"It was wrong, it was foolish, it was inexecusable.\"

The Democrat said his resignation would be effective Nov. 15.

McGreevey said he would step down because his secret - both his sexuality and his affair - leaves the governor's office vulnerable.