The Reign Continues: First Donna Rice. Then...

The Reign Continues: First Donna Rice. Then Marla Maples. Now comes word that Monica Seles will be hawking No Excuses jeans. Seles made headlines earlier this year when she dropped out of Wimbeldon and was fined for not supplying a valid excuse. While recuperating, Seles, 17, stayed at the Florida mansion of developer Donald Trump, who is engaged to fellow No Excuser Maples.

But, Officer . . .: When Eileen Maslowski went out to the parking lot of her church in Elm Grove, Wis., she noticed that the seat of her white Mustang convertible had been moved back. She dismissed it and drove home. Later, when Mary Rhomberg noticed the coffee cup and the newspaper in her white Mustang convertible, she knew it wasn’t hers--that, plus the fact the car was the wrong year, the top was the wrong color and the key didn’t fit. So she called the cops and tracked down Maslowski. Ford spokesman Mike Moran said the company hears from time to time of similar coincidences.

Honored Hoosiers: Ryan White, Ken Kercheval, Jim Davis of “Garfield” fame and Birch Bayh are the newest names in the Walk of Legends at the Indiana State Fair. Kercheval, Davis and Bayh signed their names into wet concrete outside the Fairgrounds Coliseum. White, who died last year of AIDS, was represented by his mother, Jeanne White. For those of you with a map: Kercheval was born in Wolcottville; Davis is a native of Fairmount; former Indiana Sen. Bayh (and daddy of Gov. Evan Bayh) was born in Terre Haute; and White was from Kokomo.

Trial Begins: The trial of Wanda Webb Holloway, charged with trying to arrange a murder to help her daughter make the high school cheerleading squad, began Monday in Houston with the prosecution producing a tape in which Holloway allegedly said: Kill a rival’s mother or have her sold into slavery. But a lawyer for Holloway, described by police as the “ultimate stage mother,” said his client was set up by her ex-brother-in-law. Prosecutors allege Holloway tried to hire a hit man to kidnap or kill Verna Heath, whose daughter, Amber, was the chief rival of Holloway’s 13-year-old daughter, Shanna Harper, for a spot on the cheerleading squad.