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Texas Legislator offers would-be moms cash to stop abortions
2007-03-24 20:57:00
Republican State Sen. Dan Patrick, who also is a conservative radio talk show host, said on Friday the money might convince the women to go ahead and have babies, then give them up for adoption. He said during a legislative conference in New Braunfels, 45 miles south of Austin, there were 75,000 abortions in Texas last year. "If this incentive would give pause and change the mind of 5 percent of those woman, that's 3,000 lives. That's almost as many people as we've lost in Iraq," Patrick said. Patrick has filed legislation to make the payment state law, but the legislature has not yet voted on it. His proposal calls for giving any woman going to an abortion clinic the $500 option, to be paid no more than 30 days after the baby is born and given up for adoption. Critics say the proposal would violate Texas and federal laws against buying babies, which Patrick rejected as "the typical ridiculous criticism."Goosey's Gabbings...Now, let's REALLY think about this a bit; if a mother,...
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"Pimp of the Year" may soon be turning tricks in prison
2007-03-24 17:06:00
(AP) TRENTON, N.J. A man who touted himself as "Pimp of the Year" was sentenced Friday to more than 23 years in federal prison.Matthew "Knowledge" Thompkins pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy to transport minors to engage in prostitution and conspiracy to engage in money laundering.Authorities said that the Bronx, N.Y., man had prostitutes working for him in New York; Atlantic City; Las Vegas; Philadelphia; Youngstown, Ohio, and other cities.When he was arrested in December 2005, authorities found two huge trophies in his home proclaiming him "Pimp of the Year."In a letter to U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson asking for leniency, Thompkins, 37, wrote that at times he and the prostitutes who worked for him -- some of them as young as 14 -- "bonded as a family."Wolfson was unmoved. She gave him nearly the maximum sentence."You wouldn't send your sister or your daughter out to do that," she said. "That's no family."One former prostitute, Melissa Smith, spoke at the sentencing, ...
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Bus Driver fired over Duct taping six year old girl
2007-03-24 17:00:00
MONMOUTH - No charges will be filed against a bus driver accused of putting duct tape over the mouth of a 6-year-old girl last week on a bus trip between United High School near Monmouth and the elementary school in Alexis. Warren County State's Attorney Chip Algren said he spoke Wednesday with the girl and her mother, identified as Deanna Trout. He said Deanna Trout called him early Thursday afternoon and said she would not pursue charges. "I'm not intending on filing (charges), but that's based on the wishes of the family," Algren said in a telephone interview. Had he pursued a charge against bus driver Sara Taylor, he said, it would have been one of battery, which probably would have resulted in a fine. "The odds of seeing any jail time are about zero," he said. Taylor has been fired from her job at Cavanaugh Bus Service in Monmouth, Algren said. He said he might have decided differently about charges if she remained on the job and working near children. He also said the li...
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Heavy Metal a "comfort" for bright children; Stephen Hawking seen wearing A
2007-03-23 16:13:00
Intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research.The results of a study of more than 1,000 of the brightest five per cent of young people will come as relief to parents whose offspring, usually long-haired, are devotees of Iron Maiden, AC/DC and their musical descendants.Researchers found that, far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent "metalheads" are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders.Stuart Cadwallader, a psychologist at the University of Warwick, will present the findings at the British Psychological Society conference in York today.He said: "There is a perception of gifted and talented students as being into classical music and spending a lot of time reading. I think that is an inaccurate stereotype. There is literature that links heavy metal to poor academic performan...
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RIAA demands IP records; University of Nebraska demands payment
2007-03-23 16:05:00
Lately, the RIAA has been on a high-profile campaign to get college students that the RIAA believes have been involved in illegal file trading to settle lawsuits against them at a "discount". As part of this strategy, the company has tried to enlist universities to help them identify and turn over the names of offending students. But it's heartening to see that some universities aren't spinelessly acquiescing to the RIAA's demands. The University of Wisconsin has told the RIAA that it has no obligation to rat its students out unless it's compelled to do so by a subpoena. Meanwhile, the University of Nebraska has told the RIAA that it can't help them identify many of the students accused of file trading. The school's system changes a computer's IP address each time its turned on, and it only keeps this information for month. After that month, the school has no way of associating an IP address with a computer or its user. The RIAA is angry about this, and a spokesman for the g...
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New Sex Education bill back in Congress
2007-03-23 14:29:00
Members of Congress reintroduced a bill Thursday that would provide grants for comprehensive and age-appropriate sex education, replacing the abstinence-only, straight-only education authorized under the former Republican leadership. Currently, the federal government is slated to spend more than $1 billion in abstinence-only educationthrough 2008. Federal funding is denied institutions that provide facts about homosexuality, same-sex marriage or birth control. The Responsible Education About Life Act was presented by Reps. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., and Christopher Shays, R-Conn., and Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey, and would grant $206 million per year to states for comprehensive sexuality education. Of the 19 million cases of sexually transmitted disease annually in the United States, nearly half strike young people ages 15 to 24, Lee and the other lawmakers said in a written statement. "We need to get real about sex education," Lee said in the statement. "We should absolutely b...
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Thieves snatch 12,000 in underwear
2007-03-23 14:18:00
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three brazen New Jersey shoplifters made off with nearly $12,000 in women's underwear by stuffing the goods into bags designed to foil anti-theft equipment at a Victoria's Secret store while the shop was open for business, police said.Surveillance cameras captured two men and one woman jamming undergarments into large bags and walking past customers and staff into the Newport Center Mall in Jersey City. Police said the thieves took over $6,900 in panties and more than $4,900 in bras. Victoria's Secret bras retail from $30 to over $50. Panties cost between $5 and $20, according to the company's website. No arrests have been made since the crime was reported Tuesday night, said Lt. Edgar Martinez, spokesman for the Jersey City police department. "This isn't something we've seen before. It's a lot of underwear to take," said Martinez.Goosey's Gabbings...This definitely gives new meaning to the phrase "panty raid". Once again, this isn't like a teenager get...
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Rent-a-cop tries to bribe teen shoplifter with sex
2007-03-23 05:30:00
Authorities have charged a department store loss prevention officer with seeking sex from a 16-year-old girl after he found her shoplifting, according to court documents. Ryan Keith Johnson, 26, is charged with indecency with a child, a second-degree felony, and faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted. An arrest affidavit said Johnson told the girl that she had enough merchandise to be charged with a felony and that, "If you have sex with me right now, your record will be clean" during the March 7 incident at Kohl's on U.S. 290 in Sunset Valley. The girl then performed a sex act on Johnson in the loss prevention office, the document said. Investigators said in the affidavit that they later interviewed Johnson, who told conflicting stories about his encounter with the girl. Authorities said witness interviews gave them enough evidence to charge Johnson.
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Michigan school bans Myspace accounts for students--even at home
2007-03-23 05:20:00
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. -- One Bloomfield Hills school is enforcing a new policy that will end the use of a popular Web site on the premises.St. Hugo of the Hills Catholic School students were informed recently that under a new school policy, Think First, Stay Safe, the use of MySpace .com will be prohibited at school and at home.The policy states that students enrolled in the school can't have a MySpace.com account or any similar type of personal site, according to a news release."The Internet can be wonderful for educational material, but it also can be unsafe," principal Sr. Margaret Van Velzen said.At the beginning of each school year, students and parents will be required to sign an Internet policy.School officials felt it necessary to apply the new policy after recent cases of adults, some in authoritative positions, posed as minors to converse or meet with young boys and girls.Van Velzen said the decision was made with full support from the school's parents' organization."N...
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School paper Under fire for allowing story on "Friends with benefits" [Digg
2007-03-23 05:19:00
Freedom of speech issue with allowing story over students who have sex with others but without any relationship ties draws fire to school
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Thief tries to steal Monkey; Monkey says "no soup for you!"
2007-03-23 05:12:00
A bunch of animals made a monkey out of a thief when they scratched and bit him as he stole a primate from a zoo, a court heard yesterday. The creatures were said to have gone wild as a gang, including Marlon Brown, broke into an enclosure to steal Bolivian squirrel monkey Spongebob. Brown bled from his wounds, allowing police to identify him through his DNA, it was alleged. Spongebob is valued at $2,000 on the black market. He was found in the street a few days later and returned to his home ? only to be spurned by his fellow monkeys. He had to be moved to another zoo.Goosey's Gabbings...So would this be classified as "de-evolution"?
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School paper Under fire for allowing story on "Friends with benefits" [Digg
2007-03-23 04:19:00
Freedom of speech issue with allowing story over students who have sex with others but without any relationship ties draws fire to school
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Student brings pot to school for show and tell
2007-03-21 21:35:00
St. Paul A St. Paul third grader has been suspended after he brought a small bag of marijuana to school and showed it to his friends, police and school officials said Tuesday.The boy, a student at Benjamin E. Mays Magnet for Communication Arts and Leadership, was found with the drugs on Monday.A school official called police just before noon, after another student said the boy had been showing the pot to friends, the police report said.The boy said he found the marijuana at his home. His mother said someone must have left it there, said police spokesman Tom Walsh.The case was reported to Ramsey County child protection services, Walsh said. There were no signs of negligence, nor a history of negligence, at the home, he said.School district officials said they could not disclose the length of the boy's suspension.Goosey's Gabbings...I suppose when they asked the woman for identification, she told them "my dog ate it" as well. Whatever.......................
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Flight forced to land after Passenger gets into fight
2007-03-21 21:28:00
CALCUTTA, India (AP) - An Indian Airlines flight from Bangkok to New Delhi made an emergency landing in Calcutta in eastern India on Wednesday after a passenger said he had a bomb in his bag after a scuffle with another passenger, an airline spokesman said. The passenger, identified as a Mexican man, was drunk and became involved in fight with another passenger, said airline spokesman Pulak Mukherjee. When the crew tried to subdue him he shouted that he had a bomb in his bag, Mukherjee said. The crew informed the pilot who decided to make an emergency landing. The passenger was arrested and the plane was being searched by police, Mukherjee said. Calcutta Inspector General of Police Raj Kanojia said police were investigating the case.Goosey's Gabbings...It's not often that you see the trifecta with air travel: too drunk, gets in fight, claims bomb. This guy definitely is going to the hall of shame for his antics. Just like in Tommy Boy "He's just a big dumb animal, folks..."
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BBC Sign Language takes on new meaning
2007-03-21 18:24:00
I said what?A BBC children's TV presenter has been accused of getting his sign language embarrassingly wrong. CBeebies character Mr Tumble - aka presenter Justin Fletcher - aims to greet hard-of-hearing tots by signing: "I'm happy to see you." But angry parents say the BBC is mixing up its signals and broadcasting something much more offensive. Jamie Miller, who works for the Royal National Institute for the Deaf, says he was stunned when he watched Something Special with daughter Kate, five. Mr Miller, 32, from Northallerton, North Yorkshire, said: "The signs for 'happy' and 'f***ing' are quite similar but it was an awful mistake to make. "Katie, who is learning sign language, asked what the gesture meant. I didn't know what to tell her." The BBC denied making a mistake and said they were using Makaton signals which are different to British Sign Language . But RNID spokeswoman Kate Sidwell said: "Makaton is used more for children with learning difficultie...
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Veteran Police officer fired for Nude Video--AGAIN
2007-03-21 15:49:00
PUNTA GORDA, Fla. -- A nude appearance in an "Girls Gone Wild"-style adult video sold on the Internet has cost a veteran police officer her job -- again. The graphic video shows former police officer Gina Wiseley dancing nude at Key West's decadent Fantasy Fest in 2001. She resigned from her job as a Lee County sheriff's deputy in 2005 after a local TV station reported on her appearance in the tape, triggering an internal investigation. Punta Gorda police fired Wiseley on Feb. 27 after another internal investigation into allegations that she showed the video to a detective while on duty. The investigation found no proof of the charge. But Wiseley was fired for violating agency policy when she contacted the detective who made the allegation during the internal investigation, according to an internal affairs report. In a statement to investigators, Wiseley, who had worked at the department since October, said she called the detective "because I wanted to know why he's lying ... I d...
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Station Fires Worker in Porn Newscast Case
2007-03-21 15:41:00
MESA, Ariz. (AP) - A Phoenix television station fired an employee suspected of inserting pornography into a broadcast of a news show featuring former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw. The unnamed worker for ION Media Networks' KPPX-TV "was immediately terminated and faces further legal action" after an investigation determined who was responsible for the March 12 incident, spokeswoman Leslie Monreal said in a statement. Palm Beach, Fla.-based ION Media Networks, which offers family-friendly programs, called the incident "an intolerable act of human sabotage" and apologized to viewers. About 30 seconds of porn was inserted into the broadcast. Monreal said in a statement released late last week that the images of sex acts only appeared in the Phoenix market. The images prompted a flood of calls to local news media outlets and the cable television provider.Goosey's Gabbings...Most of them wanted to know if the footage was of Brokaw. Some didn't even think it really was all that bad consid...
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"Bleeding" Jesus Portrait in India
2007-03-21 15:11:00
PORT BLAIR, India (Reuters) - Thousands of people are flocking to a policeman's house in India's remote Andaman Islands to pray in front of two portraits of Jesus Christ, which are said to have been "bleeding" for the past two weeks, police and witnesses said. Eric Nathaniel, a police radio operator, found red fluid trickling down a portrait of Jesus in his house two weeks ago which he believed was blood. "We lit candles and prayed all night and a little later the blood dried but it soon started trickling down from the hands and heart of another portrait in the house," Nathaniel told Reuters in the islands' capital Port Blair on Wednesday. Officials said red paint used in the portraits could be melting in the extreme humidity, but islanders and priests were coming in boats from remote parts of the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago to pray. "This is indeed a miracle and shows that Jesus was in pain because of our sins," said John Chrysostom, a priest at the Anglican Church of Po...
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Teen Sex Book Stirring up Controversy
2007-03-21 14:02:00
WASHINGTON, March 20 (UPI) -- A book that teaches teenage girls some of the intricacies of charting is stirring debate among parents and educators. The book "Cycle Savvy: The Smart Teen's Guide to the Mysteries of Her Body," was written by Toni Weschler, author of the bestseller "Taking Charge of Your Fertility." She says she wrote the teen book after receiving hundreds of letters from women who read her "Taking Charge" book and wished they had had such information earlier, The Washington Post reported. The Post said the new book has sparked controversy with both abstinence-only supporters and comprehensive sex education advocates who fear the information may lead teens to have unprotected sex. While the book tells teens how to determine their most fertile days, it doesn't spell out how to chart fertility for birth control, the newspaper said. Research published by the journal Human Reproduction found that fertility-awareness charting, if done correctly, is only slightly les...
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Pill created to stop cow farts...still no cure for cancer
2007-03-21 01:54:00
German scientists have developed a pill that stops cattle breaking wind. Methane emissions from cattle are responsible for 4% of harmful greenhouse gas emissions, and any reduction would be a major contribution to reducing global warming. Scientists at the University of Hohenheim in Germany say they have now tested a pill which in combination with a special diet and strict feeding times should make cattle less harmful to the climate. The pill, which is still being tested, breaks down the methane in the cows' stomachs, and also has health benefits for the cattle. Winfried Drocher, head of the faculty for animal nutrition at the university, said: "It will make this energy available for the cows' metabolism. The cattle can use the methane to produce glucose instead of just passing it out and it will enable them to produce more milk." The only problem at the moment is that the pill is about the size of a fist, which is hard to persuade the cows to swallow. "It needs ...
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Student facing expulsion for putting Urine in Teacher's Coffee
2007-03-21 01:42:00
MUNCIE, Ind. - A Muncie eighth-grader has been suspended from school and faces expulsion after admitting that he put urine in a teacher's coffee pot.The Wilson Middle School teacher noticed that the coffee had an unusual odor Friday and reported it to the principal. A student overheard other students discussing the incident and reported it to school officials. School officials say the found urine in the eighth-grader's locker. They say the student admitted placing the urine in the teacher's coffee pot. In a letter to parents, school officials say such behavior will not be tolerated.Goosey's Gabbings...First of all, could this report be any more robotic? Second of all, how in the world did the student GET to the coffee pot in order to put the urine in there? Ancient Chinese Secret, evidently. Oh, I get it...Me Chinese, Me play joke....me go pee pee in your...coffee...or something.
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Tech wipes out 38 Billion fund from data; redefines "Having a Bad Day"
2007-03-20 21:14:00
JUNEAU, Alaska - Perhaps you know that sinking feeling when a single keystroke accidentally destroys hours of work. Now imagine wiping out a disk drive containing an account worth $38 billion.That?s what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant information for an oil-funded account ? one of Alaska residents? biggest perks ? and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well.There was still hope, until the department discovered its third line of defense, backup tapes, were unreadable.?Nobody panicked, but we instantly went into planning for the worst-case scenario,? said Permanent Fun d Dividend Division Director Amy Skow. The computer foul-up last July would end up costing the department more than $200,000.Over the next few days, as the department, the division and consultants from Microsoft Corp. and Dell Inc. labored to retrieve the data, it ...
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Candidate Checks Wrong Box, Forced out of Primary
2007-03-20 21:03:00
Carmel, IN -- A candidate for the City Council was booted from the Republican Party's May primary ballot because he checked the wrong box about his voting history on an election formThe Hamilton County Election Board voted 2-1 to remove Larry A. Fritz, leaving incumbent Councilman Rick Sharp unopposed in the GOP primary for City Council District 1.Sarann Klain Warner is unopposed in the Democratic Party primary, so she would run against Sharp in the November election.Fritz, who turns 58 today, made the error on his declaration of candidacy form. He may attempt to refile later as an independent to run in November."This was an honest mistake. My name is correct on the form, and I live where it says I live. We didn't set out to deceive anybody," Fritz said.Semi-retired computer consultant Phillip Polivka triggered the Election Board's ruling by filing a challenge about Fritz's voting record. Polivka said he couldn't say who first suggested an error might have been made on Fritz's...
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Want to teach your kids about sex? Don't do it in front of them
2007-03-20 20:49:00
PROVIDENCE, R.I. ? A mother and her boyfriend were sentenced to three years probation on Monday for having intercourse in front of the woman's 9-year-old daughter to teach the girl about sex. Chief Family Court Judge Jeremiah S. Jeremiah Jr. sentenced Rebecca Arnold of Woonsocket, and her boyfriend, David Prata, to probation and a three-year suspended sentence after they pleaded no contest to a felony child neglect charge. The judge said he wanted to spare the young girl, now 11, from testifying, according to Michael Healey, a spokesman for Attorney General Patrick Lynch. During an investigation by the state child welfare authorities, Prata, 33, said he and Arnold, 36, had sex "all the time" in front of the child and that "we don't believe in hiding anything." He told an investigator that they did not force the girl to watch. The allegations surfaced in December 2004 after the girl went to live with her father in North Adams, Massachusetts, after spending the summer with her mothe...
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Would be Truck Thief chased down by owner in his underwear
2007-03-20 20:45:00
EASTVALE, Calif. ? The owner of a stolen pickup truck, wearing only his underwear, used his wife's van to chase down the thief. The 29-year-old man was sipping coffee in his garage before dawn Sunday when his Ford Ranger suddenly started up and roared off. The man, whose name was withheld, then jumped into his wife's van and, wearing only his underwear, gave chase. Inside the floor-installer's pickup were his tools. "He said 'I just couldn't let my truck go because it's my livelihood,'" said Kirk Durbin of the California Highway Patrol. The man pursued his pickup at speeds up to 80 mph in the unincorporated Riverside County community before ramming the Ford Ranger with his wife's van. The pickup struck a concrete barrier and the thief ran into a field and got into a Chevrolet S-10 pickup and fled, the CHP said. The Ford Ranger had moderate damage to the front and back, and the van had major damage in the front, Durbin said. By the time investigators arrived, the man had call...
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Judge in Anna Nicole Smith case cited for smoking pot
2007-03-20 17:19:00
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - A judge who had a secondary role in the recent Anna Nicole Smith proceedings was charged with smoking marijuana in a city park, police said Monday.Lawrence Korda was smoking marijuana while sitting under a tree Sunday, police said. Three officers who were training there saw Korda and field-tested the cigarette, said Capt. Tony Rode, a police spokesman.The judge was not arrested. He was given a misdemeanor citation to appear in court.?Judge Korda was not given special treatment because of his status as a circuit court judge,? Rode said. ?He was provided with a notice to appear. That?s exactly what 99 percent of other offenders would have been given for this type of offense.?Korda later heard brief arguments in a related case, seeking to determine the biological father of the baby. He ruled that a Bahamian court had jurisdiction over the child?s custody.Goosey's Gabbings...It probably should have been known that Judge Korda was a chronic advocate:1)He answered the q...
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School paper Under fire for allowing story on "Friends with benefits"
2007-03-20 15:49:00
MONTROSE, Pa. -- The Montrose Area School District board vowed not to censor its high school newspaper after some district residents complained about the content of an article about having sex with friends.The article appeared in a February edition of the Montrose Area Junior Senior High School paper The Meteor Chronicle and detailed students' choices and thoughts about "friends with benefits" -- in other words, friends who have sex with each other outside a committed relationship.The article appeared in the "Life As We Know It" section of the paper, which is a year-long series devoted to informing teens and the community about some of the issues teens face. Previous issues have addressed dysfunctional families, online dating and the morning-after pill.In the February edition, "Elementary News" appeared a few pages after the controversial story and included four quotes and pictures from district elementary students telling how they spend a snow day.District residents who receive th...
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Woman responds too literally to "Bite Me"
2007-03-20 15:14:00
A Bluffton woman was charged over the weekend for nearly biting the nose off a woman and severely biting a man on the cheek, authorities said. Police say Kellee E. Knight, 34, of 74 Shultz Road was drinking alcohol with her neighbors March 2 and became agitated when a 46-year-old man told her she was sitting on his credit card. She lunged at him and bit him on the cheek so hard that it broke the skin and left distinct upper and bottom teeth marks on him, said Bluffton Police Chief David McAllister. When a 41-year-old woman tried to pull her off, Knight bit her nose, causing enough damage to require plastic surgery, McAllister said. "She basically almost bit this lady's nose off," said McAllister. Knight faces two counts of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. She was charged Saturday and posted a $20,000 bond, according to the jail's online log. She initially was charged with simple assault and battery and was released on bond. After consulting with the sol...
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Singapore Woman Jailed for Online Dating Fraud
2007-03-20 14:03:00
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A married Singapore an woman who met a man in an online chatroom and conned him into giving her about $45,000 after she promised to marry him, was jailed for six months on Monday, court documents showed.Maliha Ramu, 36, used a false name and photographs of Bollywood actress Gayatri Joshi when she began an online relationship with Bharani Indran, an Indian national living in the United States, according to the Straits Times newspaper. After Ramu promised in 2004 to marry Indran, she asked him to send her a total of about $45,000 for her mother's funeral expenses and for a friend's wedding, according to the court documents. Indran eventually grew suspicious of Ramu when she asked for more money and filed a police report in Singapore, the Straits Times said. The paper added that Ramu's husband had no idea she had struck up an online relationship until the police came to their apartment to arrest her in August. "No sensible man will -- without seeing her in perso...
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"Hooters" Jiggling over to---Israel??
2007-03-20 13:54:00
JERUSALEM (Reuters)-U.S Restaurant chain Hooters, known for its waitresses in low-cut blouses and short skirts, will open its first branch in Isra el , this summer in the Mediterranean seaside city of Tel Aviv."I strongly believe that the Hooters concept is something that Israelis are looking for," Ofer Ahiraz, who bought the Hooters franchise for Israel, told Reuters Monday. "Hooters can suit the Israeli entertainment culture." At Hooters, waitresses the company calls Hooters Girls serve spicy chicken wings, sandwiches, seafood and drinks. Ahiraz said a specific location in Tel Aviv, Israel's most cosmopolitan city, had yet to be chosen, but he said it would not open restaurants near large religious populations, and they would not be kosher. He said his plan was to open as many as five Hooters restaurants in the next few years, including one in the southern resort city of Eilat. The Tel Aviv version of Hooters is expected to mimic most of the chain's other 430 restaurants in the Un...
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