Saunders:You know the best thing about the day after Christmas?

Kim Brummell can't decide whether to report on bad guys or lock them up. So for now, she's studying to do both.

Saunders:You know how they say you can't get rid of a bad penny, that it comes back every time?

Saunders:Oh please oh please oh please. Let this just be courtroom hyperbole, a last-ditch, desperation attempt by a lawyer seeking to mitigate his client's crime -- and not the point to which some of us have sunk.

Saunders:"Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable, and the one thing of which I have never, ever been guilty of."

Saunders:German fighter pilots trying to blast them from the sky weren't the only enemy the Tuskegee Airmen faced during World War II.

Saunders:If you've ever seen Jaisun McMillian onstage -- singing in exotic locales with the Platters and Martha and the Vandellas or as a solo act in one of Raleigh's jazz clubs -- you know that she is a picture of refinement and grace.

There are two ways to know a neighborhood is about to be destroyed: You hear a low, whistling sound overhead -- followed by a KABOOM! -- or you see a sign on a vacant building that says "Opening soon: The Gap."

Saunders:There I go again, not reading the fine print.

Saunders:The Rev. Duane Beck was impressed with the construction work at Linda Riggins' home in Raleigh, but he appeared much more impressed with an even more extreme makeover: one on the home's matriarch.

Saunders:Say, homes. That's only for people who just got here, right? Americans are asking that question after reports that the government is toughening up a test for prospective citizens that purports to show whether someone is citizen-worthy.

Saunders:Let me be the first to say "thank you" to Michael Richards.