Fri May 8, 12:05 pm ET

FINDLAY, Ohio – A student at a fundamentalist Baptist school that forbids dancing, rock music, hand-holding and kissing will be suspended if he takes his girlfriend to her public high school prom, his principal said.

Despite the warning, 17-year-old Tyler Frost, who has never been to a dance before, said he plans to attend Findlay High School's prom Saturday.

Frost, a senior at Heritage Christian School in northwest Ohio, agreed to the school's rules when he signed a statement of cooperation at the beginning of the year, principal Tim England said.

Mia Farrow in DarfurOn Day 12 of her hunger strike, Mia Farrow's health has severly deteriorated. Her doctor has asked her to stop fasting immediately. Sir Richard Branson was asked by Mia to take over this coming Monday after Mother's Day, but he has now asked her to stop.

"I'm honoured to be taking over the fast for the next three days from Mia Farrow in her courageous stance to support the people of Darfur."

Sir Branson has already begun his three-day water-only fast to continue to ask world leaders to take immediate action and demand that international aid is restored.

Democracy Now Headlines 4/16/09

* Report: Under CIA Pressure, Obama to Withhold Parts of Torture Memos * Gitmo Prisoner: Torture Has Worsened Under Obama * Survey: More Pay Rises than Cuts for US CEOs * DHS Links Right-Wing Extremism to Recession * Iran Begins Secret Trial for Jailed Iranian American Journalist * Haiti Appeals for International Aid * Bolivian Lawmakers Approve Electoral Reform * Germany Bans Monsanto Crop * Study: Worst of Global Warming Can Be Avoided * Tax Resisters to Hold Day of Protest

Congressman Ron Paul speaks the eloquent truth about the drug war:

1. Montezuma's Revenge in Reverse

2. California Droughting

3. Coke Crude

4. New School student beat down

5. London PoPo G20 murder

Bruce TimmA Legend in Animation
by Saab Lofton

Bruce Timm is the Emmy-Award winning producer, director and designer of Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond and Justice League (if you missed any of their initial runs on Cartoon Network, check them out on DVD). I was blessed to have recently met the man at the 7th annual Emerald City ComiCon in Seattle. Busy as he is, I'm glad Timm took the time to grant yours truly this interview.

One week after Iraqi government forces arrested an Awakening Group (commonly referred to as Sons of Iraq, al-Sahwa) leader, Adil al-Mashhadani, head of a patrol unit in central Baghdad’s Fadhil neighborhood in Baghdad, sparking gun battles that raged for hours between US-backed Iraqi forces and US-allied Sunni militiamen that killed three people, militiamen have once again been detained, widening concerns that sectarian violence may once more engulf Baghdad. There are 50,000 Sahwa fighters in Baghdad alone.