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MUCH TO HER dismay, West Philly native Eve, is the star of the Internet's newest celebrity sex video. The 30-second clip, dated Nov. 20, 1999, shows a man using a sex toy on the naked Martin Luther King High graduate while he pleasures himself. The man has been identified by the New York Daily News as Bad Boy Entertainment producer Stevie J. A spokeswoman for Eve, formally Eve Jihan Jeffers, told the New York tab that the tape was made "years ago with her boyfriend of over two years.

RE CHRISTINE Flowers' op-ed on the New Jersey gay-marriage decision: Her article was right on. I wonder how many people, when they go to vote, actually take the time to do background checks on the judges they vote for? The liberal-left judicial branch of federal, state and even local jurisdictions is attempting to force their interpretations and agendas on all of us - whether we like it or not. As an ex-public official, I've lived this. Unfortunately, people are too stupid or lazy to realize that it's happening.

Q: I've had a fungus infection of the large toes for at least 14 years. All efforts, topical and internal, have failed to kill it. My doctor says he can only slow the infection down, but cannot cure it. Any advice? A: Try griseofulvin (Fulvicin), a prescription oral anti-fungus remedy. You would have to take it for several months to eradicate the yeast, particularly in the nailbed. As an alternative, buy herbal La-Pacho tea (in health food stores or supermarkets), steep it and soak your feet in it twice a day. Q: What cause nocturnal leg cramps, and what can be done for them?

A township employee who had just been fired by his foreman took out his frustration by clubbing another worker over the head with a wooden board, police reported. Keane Daniels, 20, of the 500 block of Haverford Court, Ardmore, fled the township garage on Kromer Road after the incident Monday morning, Radnor police said. Police then issued a warrant for his arrest on charges of aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment and terroristic threats. Rich Sonier, the public works employee who was struck twice in the head with the board, was treated at Bryn Mawr Hospital, said Township Manager Robert M. Crofford.

The cops who stopped a van in Montgomery County in January 1987 got a surprise when they opened a 55-gallon drum and found a body stuffed inside. The body was that of German Arrango Vargas, 32, who had made the mistake of annoying a gang of North Philadelphia drug peddlers, police said. Vargas' end was not pleasant, according to testimony yesterday by Ramon Santiago, a gang member who is cooperating with authorities. On Jan. 9, 1987, the day before the murder, Santiago said, Vargas, whom the gang members suspected of cheating them, was tied up and left next to nine bulldogs on the second floor of a garage on Marshall Street near Cambria.

Fred Wilson, 31, made a hit recording in 1995, but he didn't get to hear it until he got to a courtroom. That's because it was a secret tape recording made by a police informant in which Wilson admits he sent two hit men to the West Oak Lane home of a building contractor to rob and kill him on Oct. 4, 1996, said Assistant District Attorney Edward McCann. On the tape, Wilson calls the slayers of Benjamin Milla, 40, of Fayette Street near Washington Lane, "cold-blooded killers," men who "make sure" they finish off their victims, because "that's the way they work.

NEW YORK - Chris Walton has been working on her fingernails for 18 years. And it's finally paying off. Guinness World Records yesterday named Walton the woman with the longest fingernails, introducing "The Dutchess" and her nails at an event in New York City. The Las Vegas woman helped kick off the 2012 edition of the Guinness World Records book, on sale later this month. Walton's nails measure 10-feet-2-inches on her left hand and 9-feet-7-inches on her right hand.

If you had asked Jade Starling what "The Beautyworx" was five years ago, she probably would have shrugged her shoulders. But today, the lead singer of the local pop band Pretty Poison will tell you that that it's the only place she'll go to have her trademark nails done. That, said Starling, 28, is because the only person she trusts to do the elaborate airbrush artwork on her nails is Lois Burak, owner of the Beautyworx. It's a perfect match - a musician who wanted to be a beautician seeking out a beautician who wanted to be a musician.

Cutting a pet's nails is a task detested by even the most experienced animal owners. Dogs and cats will fight like tigers to avoid it, but it is a necessary task. Neglected nails can grow painfully into the pet's footpad. They can also ruin your carpets, furniture and curtains. Train the pet to accept nail-clipping as you would brushing. Put it on your lap or lying close to you. Stroke it and then, casually, touch its feet. Do not try to clip. Handle the pet, with increasing attention to the feet, for a week before attempting to clip.

Riverton Country Club's Dorothy Porter made the third hole in one of her illustrious career to highlight the first day of the Jane McCullough Hamilton Invitational tournament yesterday at Huntingdon Valley. Porter, a former U.S. Women's Amateur and U.S. Women's Senior Amateur champion, teamed with partner Maryann Hajduk for a better-ball score of 75 and a share of second place. Green Valley's Jan Albert and Philmont's Bonnie George will take a 4-shot lead into today's second of four rounds after posting a 71. Phila.

AUGUSTA, Ga. - It took nearly eight decades, but a Bubba finally won the South's indelible gift to golf. So maybe they'll have to hold next year's Masters Champions dinner for Bubba Watson over at the Sticky Fingers off Bobby Jones Parkway. On another brilliant afternoon at Augusta National, Watson, an emotional, 33-year-old former Georgia Bulldog, shot 4-under par on the final nine holes of regulation Sunday, including four consecutive birdies, then beat 2010 British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen on the second hole of a sudden-death playoff with a 2-putt par at No. 10. It was his fourth professional win, his first major, and - of course - green jacket, which seemed to go well with that all-white ensemble he wore for the fourth straight time.

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Kamani Jordan oozes a love for basketball. He's always energetic. Mostly makes the right plays. Constantly encourages teammates. But in the 2010-11 academic year, he was attending a school that didn't even offer the sport. How does that happen? "I was at Germantown in the 10th grade," Jordan said, "and I got into some trouble. They sent me to a school called Delaware Valley, up on Ridge Avenue, and they didn't even have a team. We just did, like, workout stuff and I tried to get better from that.

SAN FERNANDO, CALIF. - Disgraced ex-Phillies outfielder Lenny Dykstra was sentenced yesterday to three years in a California state prison after pleading no contest to grand-theft auto and providing a false financial statement. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Cynthia Ulfig sentenced Dykstra after refusing to allow him to withdraw his plea and said the scam to lease high-end automobiles from dealerships by providing fraudulent information and by claiming credit through a phony business showed sophistication and extensive planning.

NORFOLK, Va. - Bruiser Flint was not equipped to win a battle of attrition. Seven deep at full strength, his Drexel team was playing a man down because of the suspension of starter Derrick Thomas. So as the fouls piled up Saturday in Drexel's 73-72 win over Old Dominion, the Drexel coach, already wearing a groove in the floor in front of his bench, paced even more. Big man Darryl McCoy had just picked up his fourth foul, and there were more than 10 minutes to play.

The State of the Union address is a political exercise in the best of times. But when a president is running for reelection and Congress is dominated by his most bitter opponents, there's even less pretense than usual. The State of the Union address that President Obama delivered this week was, in a sense, the first formal speech of his reelection campaign. It was his chance to wedge himself into the noise of the Republican primary campaign for 66 minutes of uninterrupted television time, and he took advantage of it. It was a blue-collar speech, aimed largely at the swing voters the president needs to woo most - the middle- and low-income workers still struggling in the recession's wake.

After more than eight years of trying and two of the most closely contested elections in Philadelphia history, Republican David Oh on Tuesday won a seat on City Council. When he takes the job in January, Oh will become the first Asian-American to serve on Council. "I think it's a point of pride for Asian-Americans in Philadelphia," Oh said. "At the end of the day, we're all Philadelphians, and it's important that we all come together to improve our city. " Oh declared victory for an at-large Republican spot on Philadelphia's 17-member legislative body over Al Taubenberger, who bounced back from a weak showing in the May primary to lose to Oh by just 171 votes.

L ENNY DYKSTRA did not fight Jose Canseco Saturday night. That's all that we know for sure. As for why the former Phillies star did not take part in the Battle of the Baseball Bad Boys, during Alki David 's "Celebrity Fight Night" in Hollywood, we got a different story from all sides involved. Damon Feldman , the Broomall-based Celebrity Boxing promoter, who is no longer allowed to legally promote fights in Pennsylvania after pleading to charges of promoting without a license and fight-fixing, initially said that he and David, a Nigeria- born Internet mogul, paid Dykstra $5,000 cash on Thursday to fight Saturday but that Dykstra alerted promoters just hours before the fight that he would not be participating.

HARRISBURG - Disgraced former House Speaker John Perzel testified yesterday that a former state representative must have been aware that the House Republican caucus was illegally spending taxpayers' money on technology designed to bolster GOP election campaigns. Perzel, testifying for the prosecution under a plea-bargain agreement, said that former Rep. Brett Feese, the House Republican Campaign Committee chairman from 2003 to 2006, "would have to have known" because the activity was common knowledge among top caucus officials.

NEW YORK - Chris Walton has been working on her fingernails for 18 years. And it's finally paying off. Guinness World Records yesterday named Walton the woman with the longest fingernails, introducing "The Dutchess" and her nails at an event in New York City. The Las Vegas woman helped kick off the 2012 edition of the Guinness World Records book, on sale later this month. Walton's nails measure 10-feet-2-inches on her left hand and 9-feet-7-inches on her right hand.

NEW YORK - To gauge how politically weakened President Obama has become, look to the Ninth Congressional District in New York City, where voters unhappy with Obama might elect a Republican for the first time. Tuesday's special election to replace Democratic former Rep. Anthony Weiner has become too close to call, with polls showing a slight edge for Republican Bob Turner, a retired media executive with no political experience. Democrats have poured cash into the race and sent in their stars to try to save the party's candidate, State Assemblyman David Weprin.