Saturday, May 31, 2008

Man opens 58,000 fake brokerage accounts using cartoon names


A California man was arraigned this week in federal court in Sacramento on multiple counts of computer fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud for allegedly opening 58,000 fake brokerage accounts. Michael Largent, 22, of Plumas Lake, Calif., was charged with using false Social Security numbers, drivers license numbers, and names - even the names of cartoon and comic book characters - to open the accounts. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Popcorn Factory

Prince William to be sent on dangerous mission - To patrol Caribbean with Royal Navy


LONDON - Prince William is heading to the azure waters of the Caribbean as part of a two-month deployment in the Royal Navy despite his request to be as close as possible to conflict. The assignment beginning Monday will see the second in line to the throne spending much of his time trolling the West Indies aboard the HMS Iron Duke, a frigate on hurricane relief duty and counter-narcotics patrol. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Keg Works

Mom pleads guilty in starving death of girl after taking out $15,000 insurance policy on her


Arizona - A west Phoenix woman has admitted responsibility in the starving death of her 2-year-old daughter, authorities said. Eboni Latoya Perri, 26, who was accused of trying to profit from the girl's death, pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge of attempted child abuse. She will face a maximum 15-year prison term when she is sentenced July 15 in Maricopa County Superior Court. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Hallmark

Transportation Security Administration stealing your stuff - TSA has fired 200 employees accused of stealing


Taking. Something. Always. That's what TSA means to airline passengers like Edward Fleiss, a sales manager from Huntington, N.Y. When screeners inspected his wife's carry-on bag at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport recently, he claims her designer eyeglasses were swiped. "Great sleight of hand," he says. "We didn't even know they were gone until we got to Los Angeles." More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Dreamtime Baby

Man Posing As Woman Accused Of Fondling Elderly Women At Church


OCALA, Florida - A man who police said presented himself as a woman is accused of grabbing the breasts of a 73-year-old woman and inappropriately touching other elderly women at a Central Florida church. Robin Forbes, 58, faces one count of lewd and lascivious molestation of an elderly person. According to Ocala police, Forbes placed his hand on the woman's breast and squeezed it three times during choir practice at First United Methodist Church. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Current Catalog

Dumb Crooks: Stolen soda machine's tracks lead back to owner - Crooks left stolen machine in their front yard


HUGHES, Arkansas - Police didn't have to look too hard to figure out the source of a soda vending machine found in a front yard - they just followed the tracks. Deputies from the St. Francis County sheriff's office spotted a Pepsi machine on Thursday in the yard of a home in Hughes. A set of dolly tracks in front of the machine led back to a liquor store less than a mile away that had reported it missing. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Buckle

Annulment of Muslim Marriage Over False Virginity Claim Sparks Outrage


France - The wedding night party was still under way at the family’s home in Roubaix when the groom came down from the bedroom complaining that his bride was not a virgin. He could not display the blood-stained sheet that is traditionally exhibited as proof of the bride’s “purity.” The husband went to court the following morning and was granted an annulment on the grounds that his bride had deceived him on “one of the essential elements” of the marriage. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - CARIBBEAN Travel Deals

Taxi driver banned for bad grammar


UK - Barmy council chiefs banned cabbie Laurence Kirk from working – because he can’t use apostrophes. The married dad of two, 50, failed a grammar exam he had to take before he could apply for a private hire licence. It is meant to weed out foreign drivers who can’t speak English. Those who pass then take a BTEC taxi exam. Laurence, whose cabbie licence from six years ago had expired, was quizzed about apostrophes in a story on football. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Boflex

Confederate group plans giant Confederate flag near the junction of Interstate 75 and Interstate 4


TAMPA, Florida - Next year, a giant Confederate flag may tower above the tree line near the junction of Interstate 75 and Interstate 4. The Sons of Confederate Veterans wants drivers in the Tampa area to see the massive flag — 30 feet high and 50 feet long — atop a 139-foot pole, the highest the Federal Aviation Authority would allow. It would be lit at night. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Caribou Coffee Company

Wisconsin police collect $6 on 1987 parking ticket


KENOSHA, Wisconsin - Someone from Texas apparently felt guilty. The police department in Kenosha, Wisconsin, says that a parking violator from Texas finally decided to pay up — 21 years later. On Thursday, officers found a $6 payment for the Jan. 20, 1987 ticket in its parking-ticket drop box. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Bailey Banks & Biddle

Japanese mob boss gave $100,000 to UCLA soon after liver transplant - 186 patients died waiting for livers


LOS ANGELES, California - A Japanese gang boss and another alleged gangster who had liver transplants at UCLA Medical Center each donated $100,000 to the hospital soon after their surgeries, according to a published report. The donations came from two of four Japanese gang figures who received liver transplants at a time when several hundred Los Angeles-area patients died while awaiting transplants, according to the Los Angeles Times. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - 1-800-PetMeds

Man throws $10,000 from airplane


JAKARTA, Indonesia - An Indonesian businessman will throw 100 million rupiah ($10,740) from an airplane on Sunday as part of a marketing ploy for his second book, organizers said. Tung Desem Waringin, author and motivational speaker whose first book was a bestseller, is known for his unorthodox marketing methods. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Musicnotes

Nurse Arrested For Injecting Bleach Into Dialysis Patients


Lufkin, Texas - Kimberly Clark Saenz, formerly employed as a License Vocational Nurse with DaVita was arrested Friday afternoon on warrants charging her with two counts of Aggravated Assault, a second degree felony. Saenz is a 34 year old Angelina County resident. The warrants were obtained after an investigation revealed that Saenz had intentionally harmed two patients while working at Lufkin's DaVita Dialysis in April by injecting the patients with bleach. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - My Wines Direct

Friday, May 30, 2008

Teen blames kiss for her drunken driving arrest


Manhasset - Gianna Vigliotti, who was pulled over by police as she swerved in and out of her lane on Northern Boulevard in Manhasset Friday night, said that's exactly what happened to her, according to court documents. After the 17-year-old from Glen Cove recorded a .15 percent blood-alcohol level in a portable breath test - nearly the twice the legal limit of .08 percent - she told the officer who pulled her over, "I didn't drink! I was kissing a boy who was drunk," according to the police report. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Northern Reflections

Broken bat hits woman in the mouth - Injury should force bat policy change


The wire came out of Susan Rhodes’ mouth this week. Doctors replaced it with rubber bands, so now people can understand her when she tells the story of how a maple baseball bat shattered her jaw. “Your whole life changes,” Rhodes says over the phone, and she’s not looking for sympathy. Just an explanation as to how Major League Baseball continues to allow maple bats when their danger becomes more obvious by the injurious incident. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Office Depot

Woman Burned When Trail Collapses In Yellowstone


Yellowstone National Park - A Utah woman was burned Thursday in Yellowstone National Park when her foot broke through a thin crust of dirt into a pool of hot water. It happened in the Artists' Paintpots area. Park Rangers have closed the area until they can determine if the area is safe for visitors. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Shop ABC TV

Drug smugglers make Jesus statue out of cocaine


NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico - U.S. customs officials have seized a statue of Jesus Christ made from plaster mixed with cocaine, the latest sophisticated attempt to smuggle drugs from Mexico. Sniffer dogs at the border crossing in Laredo, Texas, alerted officials to the smell of narcotics in the 6.6 pound (3 kilo) statue, which was in the trunk of a car being driven by a Mexican woman into the United States last week. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Wayside Gardens

Want To Kill an Alligator - Hunting permits go on sale for $1,021.50


Florida - The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) will begin selling approximately 4,500 alligator harvest permits on a first-come, first-served basis at 10 a.m. (EDT) June 3 and will continue through 11:59 p.m. (EDT) June 9. The cost for a resident alligator trapping license and hide-validation tag is $271.50, and non-residents pay $1,021.50. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Smart Bargains

Major Crime: Man, 79, jailed for 10 hours - Forgot to pay for pie


LAKE WORTH, Florida - An elderly Palm Beach County man says he forgot to pay for the pie that sent him to jail for 10 hours. Authorities say 79-year-old George Schwartz didn't pay for a $5.29 apple pie at a Publix near Lake Worth in April. He was taken to jail and charged with retail theft, a misdemeanor punishable by 60 days in jail. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Great Expectations - Thompson Cigar

Teacher wanted to be boy's sex slave


Australia - A female teacher who allegedly told a 15-year-old male student to treat her like a sex slave has been charged with sexually penetrating a child. Nazira Rafei, 25, a Melbourne high school teacher, is charged with one count of sexually penetrating a child under 16 and four counts of an indecent act with a child under 16. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - The Occasions Group

Man Stabbed Woman to Death for Calling Him Smelly


PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania - A man fatally stabbed a neighbor woman because she treated him "like dirt" and told him he smelled, Pittsburgh police said. Terrence Andrews, 38, is charged with criminal homicide in the Thursday night death of 19-year-old Lisa Maas. Andrews told them Maas insulted him that morning and he waited all day for her to return to her apartment, before attacking her with scissors, police said. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Sky Mall

Teacher Beat, Killed Blind Boy for Not Learning Koran


Pakistan - A blind seven-year-old student at an Islamic school in eastern Pakistan has died after his teacher punished him for not learning the Koran, police said today. Muhammad Atif was hung upside down from a ceiling fan and severely beaten by his teacher, Qari Ziauddin, at the seminary or madrassa in Vihari, near Lahore on Thursday, they said. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Vitamin World

Boy buys school lunch with Counterfeit Money - Mom Arrested


NATOMAS ― Authorities say a local woman's home was essentially a money factory, filled with credit cards and counterfeit money. They say she was finally caught when her son tried to spend the fake money at school. The feds say behind what is now a padlocked door was a secret criminal operation of counterfeiting, stolen credit cards and mail theft. It says that 35-year-old Priscilla Carlisle confessed to being the ring leader. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Own Your Own Internet Store - FREE

Deodorant spray on school bus prompts police search


McKinney, Texas - Police searched a school bus that stopped during its route Wednesday afternoon after two kids sprayed a substance that turned out to be deodorant. The bus came to a stop at approximately 3:30 p.m. at the intersection of Jordan Road and Virginia Parkway and police detained the children on the bus so they could search for the source of the spray, according to McKinney dispatch reports. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - The Jewel Site

'Elephant Man' Refuses to Hide From Facial Deformity


KIRKLAND, Washington - It will take thousands of dollars and several surgeries to reconstruct a local man's face. James O'Neal compares himself to the Elephant Man. A genetic disease left his face horribly disfigured, but that could soon change. O'Neal knows his deformity shocks people. He knows others with the same genetic disorder would rather hide than work, but for 7 years James has proudly worked the registers at the Kingsgate Safeway on 124th Avenue NE in Kirkland. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Size Appeal

Villagers burn woman accused of being witch


BHUBANESWAR, India - An Indian woman accused of witchcraft was beaten, gagged and burnt to death in a remote eastern village, police said on Friday. The woman was dragged out of her home, her hands and legs tied and taken to a crematorium where she was set on fire in front of the village which ignored her screams for help. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Palm Beach Jewelry

Homeless woman lived undetected in a man's closet for a year


A homeless woman who lived undetected in a man's closet for a year has been arrested in Japan. The unnamed man whose wardrobe she had been inhabiting became suspicious after food mysteriously kept disappearing over several months. He set up security cameras that transmitted images to his mobile phone to track the strange disappearances from his kitchen. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Motorcycle Superstore

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Teacher Accused Of Raping Student - And two of his cousins while she was on medical leave


New York - A Queens high school teacher was arrested today on charges of statutory rape, after officials say she had sex with a teenaged student. Special Commissioner of Investigation Richard Condon says Janmattie Singh, 22, is also facing charges of endangering the welfare of a child. Singh is an English teacher at Richmond Hill High School. Investigators say she had sex with a 15-year-old male student, and two of his family members. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - International Wine Accessories

Town's Mayor, A Dog, Dies At Age 12 - Rabbit Hash, Kentucky Put Labrador Retriever In Charge


RABBIT HASH, Kentucky - The dog mayor of Rabbit Hash has passed away. The Rabbit Hash General Store confirmed Thursday that Junior Cochran died two days before his 13th birthday, Cincinnati television station WLWT reported. Junior Cochran was elected mayor with more than 3,000 votes in November 2004. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - New Health

City offers to trade cemetery plots for overtime pay


DADE CITY, Florida - A Bay area city has come up with a new way to save taxpayer dollars: letting employees trade overtime for a cemetery plot. City workers in Dade City now have the option to trade their comp time in for a plot at the Dade City Cemetery. A city employee came up with the idea, which the city commission approved by a unanimous vote. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Great Expectations - Dating Service

Fox News employee sues over bedbugs - Another employee was bringing the bugs to work from his home


New York - A Fox News employee has sued the landlord of her company's office building, saying she got bedbug bites at work. Jane Clark, a satellite feed coordinator, says in a lawsuit filed Thursday in Manhattan's state Supreme Court that she picked up the bugs in the mid-Manhattan tower that houses the New York Post and the Fox News Channel. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Booty Parlor

101-Year-Old Woman Gets Driver's License Renewed Until 2011


TALLAHASSEE, Florida - A Florida woman who is considered to be the world's oldest driver got her license renewed until 2011. Lillian Cox, 101, said she has been driving since 1915 and continues to travel around Tallahassee in her 1984 sedan. "They're surprised that I'd get a driver's license at 101," Cox said. "But I have four more years." More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Costume Craze

Would-be thieves leave nasty note when couldn't open safe - (Expletive) you and your safe


West Des Moines, Iowa - The note the burglars left behind was nothing fancy. It had large letters scribbled in ink on a plain white piece of copy paper. It had no doodles or stickers or punctuation. But its message was clear: “(Expletive) you and your safe”. “Apparently, they were upset that they couldn’t gain access to the safe,” West Des Moines Police Lt. Jeff Miller said. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Fig Leaves

Northwestern University grads say Mayor of Chicago too small to speak at their graduation


Northwestern University - Mayor Richard Daley may be a political powerhouse in Chicago, but just over the city line in Evanston, some seniors at Northwestern University think he's too, well, parochial to be their commencement speaker. Students say they feel let down because the choice, announced this week, doesn't carry the cachet of recent speakers, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain, or even last year's speaker, Julia Louis-Dreyfus of "Seinfeld."Some were hoping for the Dalai Lama. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - GoDaddy

Young woman gets talk show - Qualified because she spent 8 1/2 years in an underground cell


VIENNA, Austria - Television was once her only window on the world. Now Natascha Kampusch - still adjusting to life after spending 8 1/2 years in an underground cell - is starting an improbable new career as a TV talk show host. But Kampusch, 20, is the first to acknowledge she's an unlikely talk show host. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Prisoner Pen Pal

26-year-old chimp headed to court - To classify him as a person


Strasbourg, France - Animal rights activist and teacher Paula Stibbe, along with the Vienna-based Association Against Animal Factories (AAAF), says she wants the chimpanzee, named Matthew Hiasl Pan, declared a person. That way, Stibbe says she can become the primate's legal guardian if the bankrupt animal sanctuary where Matthew lives closes. (Under Austrian law, only humans are entitled to have guardians.) More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Own Your Own Internet Store - FREE

Two-year-olds diagnosed with ADHD - Drugged - Mother knew there could be long-term effects but worth the risks


Australia - Toddlers as young as two are being diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed drugs including Ritalin. Figures obtained by The Daily Telegraph reveal 311 children in NSW aged five and under depend on controversial medication, including 58 four-year-olds and 13 three-year-olds. Health Department figures show that, nationally, doctors have prescribed ADHD drugs to five toddlers aged only two, despite possible side effects. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Things Remembered

City Council votes up to $150,000 to defend no-beard policy for police


Houston, Texas - Despite the unanimous vote, council members spent more than an hour discussing the policy and questioning whether it discriminated against men who cannot shave because of medical or religious reasons. "The lawsuit is pending and we have to defend ourselves," Councilman Ron Green said. "But we're basically saying we want new police officers, but we don't want police officers with beards. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Travelocity

Too Fat - Air ambulances asking hospitals to fill out a special form when requesting transport for anyone weighing more than 250 pounds


Washington - Bigger backboards, sturdier gurneys, ambulances with a wider entrance - the growing girth of the American public translates to a bigger patient for medical service providers. Now, Airlift Northwest is the latest such agency to announce new policies to deal with obese patients.
"There's been a real increase in the size and girth of some of the patients we've been asked to transport," said Mardie Rhodes, a spokeswoman for the nonprofit air ambulance service. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Shop 4 Tech

Man Charged With Severing Wife's Arm With Ski Boat Propeller


SPOKANE, Washington - A man driving a 20-foot ski boat on Newman Lake ran over his wife after she was thrown into the water Wednesday and the boat propeller severed her left arm, a Spokane County sheriff's deputy said. The woman was taken to a nearby hospital and was expected to survive. The floor of the boat was "littered with empty beer and wine" containers. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Netflix

Yearbook photos alarm parents - Lesbian couple, students with tattoos and piercings


Arizona - Queen Creek Unified School District officials are reviewing policies and guidelines regarding student publications after several parents complained about the high school yearbook earlier this month. The Queen Creek High School yearbook shows pictures of a lesbian couple, students with tattoos and piercings, and teens named "best partiers" holding red plastic cups. Parents have called the school and attended a district school board meeting to complain about the images, which they say are age inappropriate. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Paul Fredrick Men Style

Student with top grades won't be valedictorian - Finished high school in three years


Texas - Grapevine High School senior Anjali Datta holds the highest grade-point average of the 471 students graduating from Grapevine High School this year. In fact, Grapevine-Colleyville ISD officials believe her GPA of 5.898 may be the highest in the high school's history. It's still not enough to make her the valedictorian, which brings a one-year college scholarship from the state because Anjali rocketed through high school in only three years. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Wine

Town refuses occupancy permit for unmarried couple


BLACK JACK, Missouri - Another unmarried couple is being told by a suburban St. Louis town they’re not welcome. A man, his girlfriend and her three children recently bought a house in Black Jack in north St. Louis County. But because Toi Pruitt and Joe Pulliam and the children don’t meet the town’s definition of a family, they couldn’t get an occupancy permit. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - The Baby Outlet

Teens tape $10,000 vandalism spree in hopes of getting on MTV


Florida - A group of Florida teens are facing charges after taping a vandalism spree at their high school in hopes of getting on MTV. The students are accused of vandalizing Estero High School and causing $10,000 in damage. Estero High Principal George Clover says one 19-year-old senior claimed the vandalism was nothing personal, he just considered it a prank. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Prep Sportswear

Retrofitted truck used to steal diesel fuel from gas station


Pennsylvania - Talk about a gas guzzler. Police believe an Ohio asphalt contractor used a retrofitted pickup truck and trailer to steal thousands of gallons of diesel fuel from a Mercer County gas station. Hermitage Deputy Police Chief Edward Holiga said yesterday that the truck and trailer were used in three thefts dating to last year. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Hudson Reed

Man's dog and wedding couple's dog get into fight - Four people shot


Arkansas - A shooting at an outdoor wedding ended in chaos as a man sped off to find help for the three victims loaded into the back of his pickup. Arriving Pope County sheriff’s deputies found a woman lying in the truck’s bed with a gunshot wound to the head. A man next to her had blood pumping down over his body from a wound his neck. Another man sat in the back, suffering from a chest wound. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - National Jean Company

Firefighters free woman after getting her finger trapped in her fold-up bed


UK - A woman had to be rescued by firefighters after getting her finger trapped in her fold-up bed. The owner of the home on Garstang Road in Barton, near Preston, had got caught in the mechanism as she went to fold the bed away 11.21am on Tuesday. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Magic Cabin

Twins dumped at hospital because they're girls


UK - A British couple abandoned their newborn IVF girl twins at a hospital – because they wanted boys. The mum aged 59 and dad, 72, conceived in India with fertility treatment and returned to England for the birth. They told horrified medics they did not want the “wrong sex” babies immediately after the Caesarean section in Wolverhampton. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - K B Toys

Spanish is becoming the primary language in Miami


MIAMI, Florida - Melissa Green's mother spoke Spanish, but she never learned - her father forbid it. Today, that's a frequent problem in this city where the English-speaking population is outnumbered. The 49-year-old flower shop owner and Miami native said her inability to speak "espanol" makes it difficult to conduct business, seek help at stores and even ask directions. She finds it "frustrating." More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Health and Beauty Superstore

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

6 Lions Eat Game Farm Worker in South Africa


JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Police say six caged lions left only fingers and intestines after eating a worker giving them water. The lions attacked the 49-year-old man Tuesday after he went inside their cage to deliver water, police said Wednesday. The man had been working at the Uitspan game farm in northwest South Africa for at least two years, police said. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions - Discount Cigarettes & Tobacco - Nutty News Marketplace - Catherines Plus Sizes