City police officer. KYW released her from her contract in 2008, saying “it would be impossible for Alycia to continue to report the news as she, herself, has become the focus of so many news stories.”

She subsequently sued CBS and Mendte for defamation. Both cases were eventually dismissed.

That goes a little easy on the whole Lane-Mendtke brouhaha. After their affair, he broke into her emails and sent some around. He pleaded guilty to a charge growing out of the hacking in 2008, and later began working for Tribune during the worst of the Sam Zell horrors. In a 2011 Philadelphia Magazine story about his life after the fall, Mendte wrote, "I, like many other people, wish I never met Alycia Lane." The TV Spy story also understates the1959.
Per Wikipedia:

A rogue planet, populated by strange machines known as Pyramids, has stolen the Earth from the Solar system, taking it off into interstellar space. The moon has been 'ignited' by alien technology to serve as a miniature sun around which both planets orbit. This new sun is rekindled every 5 years, though as the book opens, the rekindling is nearly overdue and there is fear among the populace that it may never happen again.
The global population has crashed to a hundred million, due largely to the radical climate changes that followed the arrival of the alien planet. Most of the surviving humans are 'Citizens,' passive people living lives bound up with elaborate social rituals, various styles of meditation, and carefully prescribed selflessness. This constraining lifestyle frequently causes