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Fire Prevention Week (Redlands Daily Facts)

As a part of National Fire Prevention Week, the Redlands Fire Department put on a demonstration at Market Night on Thursday. Firefighters set up two phony living rooms — complete with couches and television sets — and set them on fire. The demonstration was meant to show how quickly fire can spread through a home.

South Africa: Late-Night Talk With Matsunyane (AllAfrica.com)

South Africa has been lacking a late-night adult talk show since Phat Joe and Felicia folded away their couches, but Late Night With Kgomotso is set to make Saturdays stay-at-home nights and provide juicy talking points for days afterwards.

Davenport couches missing (Yale Daily News)

Someone went furniture shopping in the Davenport College common room last Friday, according to Davenport Master Richard Schottenfeld.

Rain at Lowe's delays driver's Cup debut until Martinsville (Nascar)

CONCORD, N.C. -- The place comes complete with hostesses in black dresses and high leather boots, a beefy security guard in a cowboy hat, plush red couches and a DJ spinning records after dark.

Hail to the chief celebrity? That's politics mixed with entertainment (USA Today)

Sometimes you have to wonder if the presidential candidates are running to be First Celebrity or maybe Entertainer of the Year. Watching the campaign, you can just about imagine that come Jan. 20, Ryan Seacrest will be on the steps of the Capitol swearing in either John McCain orBarack Obama as the next American Idol.