Jon Voight, Dennis Miller and Norm Macdonald aren't the only entertainers who voiced support of John McCain for president. Eduardo Verastegui, the producer and lead actor of the award- winning film Bella, announced his endorsement at a Colorado McCain-Palin rally on October 15.  Photo: Eduardo Verastegui with Sen. John McCain and his wife, Cindy. (Photo courtesy of Nilda R. Pedrosa.) Reaching out to Latino voters, Verastegui says, "I am endorsing John McCain for president because of his commitments to end abortion, protect traditional marriage and reform immigration fairly." Verastegui joined Senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman and Mel Martinez, as well as former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Governor Charlie Crist, at the Miami McCain-Palin rally on October 17. He reminded the crowd that more than 45 million babies have been killed by abortion in America since the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. Verastegui said, "We need to put an end to abortion and political candidates play a very important role in this matter. More than 200,000 Latino babies are killed by abortion each year in the USA. This holocaust must end.   Read On

It's been a year since Stacy Peterson disappeared from her suburban Chicago home. And while the rest of her family searches for closure, her husband — named a suspect in her disappearance — says through his publicist that the anniversary is "just another day of her being away." The 23-year-old mother from Bolingbrook, Ill., vanished on Oct. 28 last year, after failing to keep an appointment with her sister. In the months following her disappearance, police named her husband, Drew, as a suspect, and they exhumed the body of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, who initially had been thought to have drowned when her body was found in the family's empty bathtub. A new autopsy concluded that Savio died from a homicide and not, as initially believed, by accidental drowning. Click here for photos. "I have consistently and steadfastly maintained that I had nothing to do with Stacy's disappearance and the death of Kathy Savio, my third wife," A year later, still no answers in Peterson case

John McCain and his supporters are hammering Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama for saying in a 2001 interview on Chicago Public Radio that wealth redistribution is a necessary form of "economic justice." The McCain campaign and other critics of Barack Obama are seizing on newly uncovered audio from an interview Obama did with WBEZ in Chicago while he was an Illinois state senator and University of Chicago law professor. In the interview, Obama suggested that it was a "tragedy" the U.S. Supreme Court, under Chief Justice Earl Warren, did not pursue "redistribution of wealth" for black Americans. "Because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power through which you bring about redistributive change," said the state senator. "And in some ways we still suffer from that."

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