LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is pregnant,  claims French news. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (photos below) has yet to comment about pregnancy reports published in British and French publications this weekend. “Closer”, a French news publication, this week has the headline “Pregnant at last” while British news are suggesting the same.

Bruni, 43, has yet to comment about the news reports while senior French officials have also declined comment on the family’s personal life.

If true, this would be Carla Bruni’s first child with Nicolas Sarkozy . Bruni has one child, Aurelien, with Raphael Enthoven. Sarkozy has two sons, Pierre, 26, and Jean, 24, with Marie-Dominique Culioli, and son Louis, 14, with Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz.

The Daily Mail discounts the Closer report by claiming the publication has been inaccurate about other recent pregnancy reports. But the Mail claims that Bruni’s pregnancy is being reported also by other French news publications Le Journal du Dimanche, Le Parisien and Le Figaro.

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Bruni has previously told news she wants to have a child with her husband. “I hope to, if I am young enough. It would be a dream.”

In 2008, however, the couple battled the same reports that proved to be false. Bruni is the Italian model turned French pop singer that married French President Nicolas Sarkozy three months after they met. That same year, LALATE reported that Bruni’s album “Comme si de rien n’etait” was even outselling “Viva la Vida” by Coldplay.

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But despite her success musically, Bruni has said she would not tour while her husband is in office. In 2008, Bruni told news “What is going to change is that I won’t be performing on stage. For as long as my husband is president of the republic.”

She added “But it’s not as if I was a stage animal like Janis Joplin or the Rolling Stones! And look, Madonna is about to start a tour at her age. I’ve still got time.”

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ST LOUIS (LALATE) – Following the St Louis tornado last weekend, Poplar Bluff is under evacuation at the Black River levee. As St Louis Lambert International Airport proceeds with cleanup today, Poplar Bluff Police Department tells news and residents that southern Poplar Bluff is under mandatory evacuation today.

The Black River levee near Butler County Road 607 is compromised, reports local police. Failure of the levy is imminent. The region has received five to ten inches of rain since last week. Many local rivers in the region are near their banks.

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Elsewhere, St Louis’ Mayor Slay told news today “We received calls and tweets from across the country. Thanks for your offers, thoughts, prayers.” Locally in St Louis “all MetroLink and MetroBus are running scheduled service and routes this morning. All storm reroutes cancelled.”

Also in St Louis, MoDOT crews have closed sections of westbound Interstate 70 at St. Charles Rock Road.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Have the X Factor judges been decided by Simon Cowell already? No, says Cowell’s rep. A blog report published Sunday claimed that Cowell, first hand, had made up his decision on all the judges. But today, Cowell’s rep said any claim that he has made his decision on his X Factor judges is false.

On Sunday, a report here entitled “My Exclusive Interview; He Reveals America’s ‘The X Factor’ Judges” claimed that Cowell “made it clear to me he has finally decided on his judging panel.”

Who are the alleged judges? The report on Sunday claimed “Cowell tells me that in addition to himself and Antonio “L.A.” Reid… he has made up his mind to bring back Paula Abdul beside him and to add … Cheryl Cole.”

Not so says Cowell’s rep. Without referencing the report by name, Cowell’s rep issued a statement to the Hollywood Reporter today saying any assertion that he has picked his judges already is false.

“It’s still playing out” said Cowell’s rep in a news statement. “Nothing is set, and Paula is one of many people Simon is talking to.”

Cowell’s rep said that there are simply no new developments in the judges casting, despite assertions online. Cowell’s rep added that Simon has “said the same thing many times, including on the radio last week. There’s nothing new.”

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CORAL GABLES (LALATE) – The current 2011 PlayStation Network outage is now blamed on PS3 Network “rebuilding”. Sony says in a news statement Sunday that its PlayStation Network outage will be longer than anticipated due to a need to rebuild the P3 infrastructure. Sony’s Network went down on Wednesday. While Sony initially told news that an “external intrusion” was to blame, in a news statement from PlayStation communications chief Patrick Seybold, Sony now states that infrastructure issues are causing the further delay.

“We sincerely regret that PlayStation Network and Qriocity services have been suspended, and we are working around the clock to bring them both back online,” Seybold tells news.

“Our efforts to resolve this matter involve re-building our system to further strengthen our network infrastructure” adds Seybold. “Though this task is time-consuming, we decided it was worth the time necessary to provide the system with additional security.”

Sony has not been swift in explaining the issues to news, suggesting infrastructure tasks are unresolved but without much detail.

“We are currently investigating to determine the cause of this outage and are working to restore and maintain the services. Since this is an overall security related issue, we will not be providing further commentary for this case” said the company in a news briefing this weekend.

“We thank you for your patience to date and ask for a little more while we move towards completion of this project. We will continue to give you updates as they become available.”

When sought for comment, SCEA PR Rep Eric Levine had no further details.

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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Revok of MSK (Mad Society Kings), the famed graffiti artist whose works are the subject of a MOCA art exhibition this month, has been arrested. Revok (Jason Williams) was arrested boarding a flight at LAX this weekend, report investigators.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department tells news that Revok was arrested for an outstanding warrant concerning failure to repay victims in a previous vandalism offense. Revok as of Sunday was being held in Los Angeles County Jail on $320,000 bail.

Revok’s arrest comes as his works are the subject of a stunning exhibition at MoCA called Art In The Streets. Revok had told news recently that he was “honored to be a part of this cool collection LEVI’S put together with STUDIO ONE and MOCA for the “Art in the streets” show.” Other artists in the exhibition included Crash, Shepard Fairey, Lady Pink, Chaz and Keith Haring.

Revok was the subject of several run-ins in 2009. In 2009, Revok was giving parole for a felony vandalism matter in Indio.

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