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Inland Empire Weekly, based in Corona, Calif., released its first issue Friday, the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin reports. Publisher Jeremy Zachary and Managing Editor Rich Kane are both former employees of OC Weekly. (The Daily Bulletin erroneously states that the weekly was launched by "the publishers of the free alternative newspapers LA Weekly and OC Weekly.") Inland Empire Weekly is available online at ieweekly.com.

Bill Hobbs, a popular conservative blogger and a former reporter for the Tennessean, posted a crude cartoon of Muhammad holding a bomb in late February, during the height of the Danish cartoon controversy. Reporter John Spragens targeted the post in an April 13 Nashville Scene article, calling it "sophomoric," "misguided" and "better suited for the Duke lacrosse team than the modern Republican Party." The local blogosphere quickly lit up with attacks and counterattacks, most notably former Scene contributor Roger Abramson calling Spragens' article "a singularly nasty piece of writing" that is "more suited to a blog than a respectable newspaper." On Friday, Hobbs announced he was resigning from his day job at Belmont University's marketing and communications department in "an amicable and mutual parting of the ways," the AP reports.