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‘Chicken’ interrupts council meeting

durangoherald.com – Entering the third hour of a dry City Council meeting, a person in a chicken costume surprised Durango’s five councilors with an unscheduled visit Tuesday, before heading back out under the lights of East Second Avenue and into a frosty November night.
And one day later, officials at City Hall were no closer to [...]

Chaz Bono: Gender Is Between Your Ears, Not Between Your Legs

AP NEW YORK - Chaz Bono says beginning the sex-change process to turn him from a woman to a man is “the best decision I’ve ever made.”
The 40-year-old writer, activist and reality-TV star, who was born a girl to Sonny Bono and Cher, says he’s eight months into the years-long transformation and says he feels [...]

Father shoots son over sexual abuse of toddler

www.examiner.com – A father in Michigan is accused of forcing his son to strip at gunpoint, marching him to a vacant lot, and shooting him to death after learning the 15-year-old had inappropriate sexual contact with a 3-year-old girl.
The boy’s mother, Lazette Cherry, said her son had told her about the sexual contact. “I [...]

Martha Stewart Says Prison Cost Her $1 Billion

www.businessinsider.com – Martha Stewart tells ABC’s “Nightline” that her past jail sentence might have cost her namesake company more than $1 billion.
“I was pissed. OK. Pissed that something could actually affect that. The company had nothing to do with anything. But yet, because I am the face and the brand, my person — it certainly [...]

Florida Family of 3 Blindfolded, Held Captive for 3 Days

www.foxnews.com – A family of three was bound, blindfolded and held hostage for three days by armed intruders wanting money before the mother was able to jump from a second story window and escape.
Three men have been arrested, and authorities are seeking a fourth suspect, a woman.
Police said four people knocked on the family’s door [...]

2-Year-Old Helps Mom Deliver Baby

www.foxnews.com – When emergency services personnel didn’t arrive in time to help Bobbye Favazza deliver her baby, Favazza’s 2-year-old son Jeremiha Taylor stepped in, The Commercial Appeal reported.
Favazza, 27, of Olive Branch, Tenn., was scheduled to deliver her fourth child in the hospital — via C-section — on Dec. 6, but baby Kamron had other [...]

Oprah ending talk show in 2011

(CNN) – Oprah Winfrey will announce on Friday’s “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that she will end her talk show, said a spokesman for Winfrey’s Harpo Productions.
“Oprah will be ending her talk show,” Harpo spokesman Don Halcombe said Thursday. “She will be speaking about it on tomorrow’s live show.”
The show will air live from its Chicago, [...]

Computer glitch causes flight delays

www.news.com – A COMPUTER glitch that caused flight delays and cancellations across the US overnight has been fixed, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said.
The failure in computer systems that guide air traffic from FAA offices in Atlanta and Salt Lake City happened just after 5am local time and was resolved about five hours later.
An FAA [...]

Tampa City Council passes antidiscrimination rules for transgender people

TAMPA (tampabay) -— Men who live as women, women living as men, clergy members, mothers and grandparents packed the Tampa City Council chambers Thursday to debate a new ordinance that would protect transgender people from discrimination.
Some argued that it’s good business policy and simply the right thing to do. Others invoked religion and contended that [...]

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