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Al Gore III Returns to Rehab

Ex-VP asks for privacy after son's arrest on drug charges

By Caroline Zimmerman, Newser User

Posted Jul 5, 2007 5:05 PM CDT

(Newser) – Al Gore III has posted bail and returned to rehab. A day after the ex-VP's son was busted for drugs, the 24-year-old magazine publisher "is getting treatment," his father said today. In his first public reaction, he appeared on the "Today" show... Read full story »

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