NEW ORLEANS - A week after the Star-News published an editorial pleading with Wicked Pictures contract star and aspiring United States senator Stormy Daniels to go while the getting was good, a serious of events are conspiring to do what the Baton Rouge-native may have wanted to at least put off a while longer - namely, suspend her exploratory campaign to unseat David Vitter.

Monday, Brian Welsh, a political advisor to Daniels, told a New Orleans TV station that someone had firebombed his car while it was parked unoccupied on the street, and even posted a video of the alleged attack on YouTube. He said he had acquired it from a surveillance camera in the area.

NEW DELHI - It is unclear if CSI will take the case or whether Interpol has sole jurisdiction - or whether the international community will simply look the other way - but a crime has apparently been committeed - toon porn star murder most foul.

"The woman in question is no martyr or public figure. She is India's first online comic porn star, banned by the Department of Telecommunication, Ministry of IT and Telecom, for promoting obscenity," reports the Indian press. "Savita Bhabhi - a curvaceous, sari-clad Indian woman with long, black tresses offset by a line of fiery red vermillion to mark her marriage - was a far cry from the typically prudish Indian housewife, and drew over 60 million users to her online abode every month."

BEVERLY HILLS - The stars may literally align for Hustler's latest spoof of the Nineties TV hit, Saved By The Bell, which is reportedly being cast as we speak.

Jimmy Fallen has been trying to organize a cast reunion, a high-profile move that is sure to add some publicity spice to the planned Fall streeting of the porno version, This Ain’t Saved by the Bell XXX, directed by Axel Braun, who also helmed This Ain't Happy Days XXX and This Ain't Star Trek XXX for Larry Flynt's legendary company.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – After more than three decades behind the lens in adult, AVN Hall of Fame director and producer Roy Karch has joined the sales team at All Boys Distribution, providing the South Paris, Maine-based company with a West Coast presence.

CHATSWORTH, Calif. - AVN Media Network has announced the hiring of Sharan Street as managing editor of its newly-restructured AVN Magazine. Street is a veteran of the Los Angeles scene, having spent several years as managing editor of The L.A. Weekly.

Street, who joins AVN in the middle of a significant realignment of the company's editorial infrastructure and mission, has been tapped specifically to "help with consolidating and streamlining the [publication's] editorial content," according to a statement released Wednesday.

PITTSBURGH - Robert Zicari and his wife, Janet Romano, owners of the now-defunct adult production house Extreme Associates, were sentenced Wednesday to one year plus a day in federal prison after pleading guilty in March to one count each of conspiracy to distribute obscene materials.

Zicari and Romano - aka Rob Black and Lizzy Borden - were originally indicted in 2003 in Pennnsylvania on obscenity charges related to three videos sold through the mail and six video clips distributed online.

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. - A day after county health officials backed away from an earlier claim that 18 adult performers had contracted HIV since 2004, health and safety officials from the state staged a surprise visit Wednesday afternoon to the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation (AIM).

The clinic has been publicly chastised by state and county health officials for being "uncooperative" since announcing last week that a female adult performer had tested positive for HIV and exposed several other performers and one non-performer to the virus before she could be notified.

SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. – Amid growing uproar within and without the San Fernando Valley’s adult entertainment industry, Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation on Monday released new recommendations for health-status interactions between content producers and performers.

“It has come to our attention that adult industry companies are concerned that they may be shooting someone who is on the quarantine list [after testing positive for HIV],” Dr. Sharon Mitchell noted in a special update posted to AIM’s website. “AIM has taken steps to insure that this does not happen.