ARLINGTON, Va., July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Trucking Associations' Supply Chain Security & Loss Prevention Council presented its 2009 Excellence in Security Award to ABF Freight System Inc., its Leadership Award to Director of Security Geoff Stephany of Old Dominion Freight Line Inc., and its Cargo Theft Prevention Distinguished Service Award to Det.

Carrie Prejean's attorney said he will sue the Miss California USA pageant's executive director if he doesn't retract remarks he made about Prejean. Pageant boss Keith Lewis said Prejean was stripped of her Miss California title last week because she was uncooperative, violated her contract and missed some public appearances. Lewis told CNN's Larry King it was clear Prejean didn't want input from pageant officials and she was not interested in upholding the title or the responsibilities that accompany it. Prejean's lawyer, Charles LiMandri, sent a letter Thursday to Lewis's attorney accusing Lewis of sullying Prejean's reputation and causing her severe emotional distress, CNN said. LiMandri reportedly also referred to Lewis as a gay activist and accused him of pushing for Prejean's firing because she opposes same-sex marriage. Carrie Prejean's good name has been tarnished by your client's false and defamatory accusations, CNN quoted LiMandri's letter to Lewis's lawyer as saying.

Miss USA California Carrie Prejean violated the contract she signed to enter the Miss USA competition, pageant officials said Monday. At a news conference in Beverly Hills, Calif., Miss California USA Co-executive Director Keith Lewis said Prejean did not comply with full disclosure agreements because she did not inform organizers of lingerie photos she had posed for.

By NEIL COOPER and MICHAEL TUMELTY Theatre JIDARIYYA, ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE 4/5 NEIL COOPER "ONE day I will become what I want." So begins the defining statement of the man about to enter the hospital ward as he comes to terms with his own mortality in this re-imagining of Mahmoud Darwish's epic lifeand-death poem, itself penned as Darwish recovered from openheart surgery a decade ago.