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Anger Rises In Truckee After MTV Stunt

TRUCKEE, Calif. (CBS13) ― A shoot for an MTV show stunned the town of Truckee after residents witnessed costumed men dancing around a giant snow sculpture shaped as a phallus, according to residents.
The Sierra Sun, a Truckee-based newspaper, said authorities began fielding calls from shocked locals after an MTV production crew constructed a snow penis [...]

 

Tuesday March 16th, 2010 | 2 Comments »


Father abandons baby near Universal Studios to look for drunken mother

www.orlandosentinel.com – A 4-month-old baby girl is in the custody of the state Department of Children and Families after her father left her alone in her stroller for about two hours Saturday night at Universal Studios, Orlando Police said.
The girl’s father, 29-year-old Charles Gohde, bonded out of the Orange County Jail after he was charged [...]

 

Tuesday March 16th, 2010 | 3 Comments »


Leavitt suing South Florida over firing

TAMPA, Fla. (AP)Former University of South Florida football coach Jim Leavitt has sued the university over his firing.
Leavitt, who was fired in January over claims he grabbed a player by the throat and struck him in the face, filed the complaint Monday against the USF board of trustees and athletic foundation. Leavitt denied the accusations [...]

 

Tuesday March 16th, 2010 | No comments »


Standoff at south Tampa apartment complex

TAMPA (myfoxtampabay) – An hours-long standoff at a south Tampa apartment complex ended with a man in custody, and no one hurt.
Residents of the Madison Soho complex along South Howard Avenue got automated phone calls around 7 a.m. advising them to stay in their apartments until the situation was over.
It all started around 3 a.m. [...]

 

Tuesday March 16th, 2010 | No comments »


USPS worker caught delivering more than mail

ORLANDO, Florida (NBC) — A Kissimmee, Florida postal worker has been arrested after investigators said he made special drug deliveries on his route.
Federal agents say Juan Fonseca was routing drug deliveries to several vacant homes in the area just down the street from where Fonseca used to live.
The Kissimmee postal inspector first became suspicious of [...]

 

Tuesday March 16th, 2010 | 1 Comment »


Police: Wisconsin woman who lost fingers to zoo bear was drunk

www.twincities.com – Manitowoc police say a woman whose fingers were bitten off by an Asiatic black bear at Lincoln Park Zoo last week was drunk.
Police Capt. Scott Luchterhand said Thursday that tests taken several hours after Friday’s incident show 47-year-old Tracy Weiler had a blood-alcohol content of 0.16 percent. That’s twice the legal limit for [...]

 

Monday March 15th, 2010 | 1 Comment »


Casey Anthony: Woman claims affair with George Anthony, says Caylee died accidentally

www.examiner.com – George Anthony, the father of accused murderer, Casey Anthony, reportedly had a year-long extramarital affair with a woman, to whom he disclosed his grandaughter Caylee Anthony’s death was an accident.
Hal Boedeker with the Orlando Sentinel reports that the woman’s sister, Skye Benhaida, was the source for a WFTV story on Friday. Benhaida told [...]

 

Monday March 15th, 2010 | 2 Comments »


Rosa Mankos, lawyer crushed by subway train, ‘had a helping personality’

www.nydailynews.com – A woman crushed by a subway train on the upper East Side was a lawyer and former state employee who lived with her three cats.
Rosa Mankos, 48, was a graduate of New York University Law School and passed the bar in 2001. She worked until two years ago as a court analyst for [...]

 

Monday March 15th, 2010 | No comments »


Mother Rejects Negative Feedback Of The Teacher

www.buzztab.com – A school teacher in North Carolina is in hot waters due to his inappropriate conduct with her student. Rex Roland is a teacher at Enka Middle School in Candler. The mother of the kid felt offended on the teacher’s castigating style of teaching and told that her child was bullied by the teacher [...]

 

Monday March 15th, 2010 | No comments »


Waurika man sets wife on fire

WAURIKA, OK — An Oklahoma man is behind bars after he admitted to pouring gasoline on his wife’s head and then setting her on fire.
Crime tape still hangs around the house and the porch light was still on Tuesday afternoon – a grim reminder of what happened late Thursday night.
“I responded to a call of [...]

 

Monday March 15th, 2010 | No comments »