What a wonderful coincidence.I truly LOVE these kinds of stories.
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Pick Up Truck Rams Body Shop
WPVI | September 28, 2009
NEWARK, Del. – A pickup truck crashed into a building in Newark, Delaware Monday morning.
It happened on the 2900 block of Pulaski Highway around 9:00.
The 2002 Chevrolet Tahoe, operated by Ms. Terry Vaughn, 47, of Elkton, Maryland, was stopped at a red light on southbound Pleasant Valley Road at Route 40.
The light turned green and the Tahoe proceeded forward. As it entered the intersection, it collided with a 2009 Chevrolet Silverado, being driven 63-year-old Joseph Barben of Elkton, Maryland.
The impact sent the Silverado onto the property of the Glasgow Auto Body. The Silverado then struck a parked 2002 Chevrolet Venture and the Venture was forced into a parked 2003 Chevrolet Silverado. The parked vehicles were not occupied at the time of the crash.
The 2009 Silverado continued then ran into the Glasgow Auto Body main structure causing significant damage. Although the building was occupied at the time of the crash, no one inside reported being injured.
Barben was transported to Christiana Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. He was cited with Disregarding a Red Light.
Upon reading this article I wonder if the attack were as much related to the LANGUAGE the woman sang as the quality of her voice. Generally speaking, as bad a Karaoke is, doing it in a language other the one spoken by the prevailing community is doubly un-endurable. Great mug shots, the defendants match each other very well with all the solid colors.
6 Women Attack Woman Over Karaoke Performance
www.knx1070.com | 26 September 2009
STAMFORD, Conn. (CBS) — Six women were arrested and charged with assault for allegedly attacking another woman due to her poor karaoke performance, according to officials at the Stamford Police Department.
The suspects, ranging in age from 19-20, were arrested Sept. 23 after fleeing Bobby Valentine’s Sports Gallery Cafe in Stamford, Connecticut, where they are said to have attacked the woman.
The alleged victim, 25-year-old Leidy Alcantara, was singing “A Dios Le Pido” by Colombian singer Juanes when the suspects started accosting her.
“I was singing the song in Spanish, and some girl said I was very annoying,” Alcantara told the New York Daily News.
The victim shot back something to the effect of, ‘If you don’t like it, you can leave,’ which the girls took exception to, Stamford police spokesman Lt. Sean Cooney told the Stamford Times.
The altercation occurred after the exchange of comments, according to Cooney. Read more…
I have no proof at all, but I suspect (shamefully I say hope) a lil old lady with a recently diminished retirement nest egg gave him just a weeeeee push. The other equally likely option was that it was entirely an accident, and Mr Vellanti tripped over his enormous bulging wallet.
Apologies for negative editorializing. The staff here holds financial gurus in low regard and considers them greedy opportunists, carpetbaggers and con men in fine tailored suits. Perhaps the religion of Islam was on to something when it made MONEY LENDING a sin.
Hedge fund CEO dies in fall off escalator
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J | AP | September 28, 2009
Atlantic City police are investigating how a hedge fund executive fell to his death from an escalator.
James Vellanti is the second man in two years to plunge from an escalator at The Pier Shops at Caesars.
Police were called to the mall, which is connected to the casino by a sky bridge, at 12:01 a.m. Sunday.
Vellanti lived in Clinton and was chief operating officer for the hedge fund JNF Asset Management LLC in New York. His age was not available.
Frank Gilbert Jr. fell about 40 feet after witnesses said the 25-year-old sat on the escalator’s handrail on Aug. 9, 2008. He died of head injuries.
The depth and breadth of this costume collection presented by “Eternally boyish” Gene London is impressive, from Clara Bow to Mira Sorvino.How amazing to be able to see these costumes in person, get a feeling for the actual human scale of cinema giants and legends like Garbo, West (who was apparently BARELY 5 feet tall in heels) and Bergman. Equally outstanding is the chance to see the amazingly well crafted garments designed by legend Elsa Schiaparelli. Lastly to watch the shape of beauty and women’sd bodies change is always both refreshing and shocking. This exhibit is a real draw for the Reading Museum.
The eternally boyish Gene London
Gene London will present his costume collection at the Reading Museum.
Dress worn by Mira Sorvino, as Marilyn Monroe in Norma Jean & Marilyn (HBO, 1996), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes gown, Designer: Gene London Original Fashion exhibit at Reading Museum.
Recreation of dress worn by Audrey Hepburn, as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (Warner Brothers, 1964), Designer: Academy Award-Winner Cecil Beaton. From Gene London fashion exhibit at Reading Museum.
Ingrid Bergman, original evening gown from publicity tour promoting the film Casablanca, 1942. From Gene London fashion exhibit at Reading Museum.
Outfit worn by Clara Bow, Silent Era original sequined coat with fur collar, c. 1920s. (My fave!!!)
Dress from Joan Crawford, personal wardrobe, Designer: Elsa Schiaparelli. YES, PERSONAL collection and THAT Elsa.
Dress worn by Mae West, as Peaches O'Day in Every Day's a Holiday, (Paramount Pictures, 1938), Designer: Elsa Schiaparelli
Dress worn by Greta Garbo as Russian spy in Mysterious Lady, (MGM, 1928), Designer: Adrian
Audrey Hepburn, as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (Paramount Pictures, 1961), Designer: Givenchy
What a GREAT headline!
Gene London shows off costumes, tells tales
By Kathy Lauer-Williams | September 27, 2009 | themorningcall.com
Anyone of a certain age who grew up in the greater Philadelphia area probably remembers the children’s television show, ”Cartoon Corners General Store,” and its eternally boyish star, Gene London.
Now London, who became a fashion designer after his variety show ended in 1977, brings more than 100 costumes worn by film and television stars from his personal collection to the Reading Public Museum.
”The Magic of Hollywood: The Gene London Costume Collection,” opening Saturday, features costumes worn by stars from Mae West to Sean Connery to Madonna and created by some of the film industry’s greatest designers, including Edith Head, Elsa Schiaparelli, Halston and Bob Mackie. London, who is co-curator, also will display a vintage prince outfit worn by Michael Jackson for a photo shoot in 1985.
London still conveys a child-like fascination with the Hollywood mystique.
”Hollywood has always been magic for me,” London says. ”Fantasy is my reality.”
London says as a child growing up in a poor immigrant family during the Great Depression movies offered an alternative to reality.
What a great kid! To avoid this sort of thing from happening in the future, women and especially mothers of 6 children should avoid cleaning.
In fresearching images for this story I have stumbled upon a trend I do not like. News content is being dominated by un-embedable videos at links that may or may not last. This trend prevents archiving information. Grrr.
Boy Saves Mom After Lightning Strike
A Bolt of Electricity Struck Kimberly Krone as She Cleaned Her Kitchen
By IMAEYEN IBANGA | ABC News | July 9, 2009
What began as a typical morning meal turned into a life-altering event when a bolt of lightning struck a mother of six inside her Texas home as she cleared the breakfast table.
What saved Kimberly Krone’s life was the quick action of her 9-year-old son Tristan Coxwell, who called 911 for help.
“When I was little she got me a little play phone and stuff and I played with it. She taught me how to call 911,” Tristan told “Good Morning America” today. “In this equation, I just remembered to call 911 in an emergency.”
Krone, whose children range in age from 6 months to 9 years, was cleaning up from breakfast with her kids on June 11 and had just grabbed a dirty pan when she heard two loud booms.
That sound was quickly followed by an electrical bolt which made its way through recessed lighting in her ceiling, before bouncing off the pan and plunging into her chest.
The 29-year-old from Forney, Texas said she tried to drop the pan but couldn’t and the current shot out of her little toe.
Krone, who had watched the weather warnings in her area before being struck, said she felt like she was on fire when the current passed through her body.
Tristan, who already was on his way into the kitchen to warn his mother because he had seen a bolt hit the thermostat, watched as Krone collapsed to her knees.
That is one spunky 73 year old lady. Glad to hear this is an “alls well that ends well” story.
Woman injured in cow rollover
LEONIE JOHNSON | www.townsvillebulletin.com.au | July 9th, 2009
An elderly woman was crushed beneath a labouring cow that rolled on her while she helped it give birth at a Giru farm.
The 73-year-old woman had a compound fracture to her ankle and a broken sternum after the freak accident at a property near the Bruce Highway about 6pm Tuesday.
With her bone sticking through her skin, she managed to drag herself from under the heifer and struggled back to the farm house to call for help.
Giru Ambulance Station officer-in-charge Liam Steger said the woman’s efforts to reach the house were valiant.
”There was a cow having a baby and the thing rolled on her somehow,” he said.
”She managed to get out of the pen and back to the house to phone for help which was a feat in itself.
”She had a badly fractured right ankle and I transported her to Townsville Hospital.”
The woman has undergone surgery to her ankle and was listed in a stable condition yesterday.
Despite her injuries, the woman’s help assisted the cow in a safe delivery.
The mother and calf were understood to be healthy and well.
I predict these will be a huge hit! Usually I don’t reference other blogs but this a story about food and not odd but hard news.
The Tornado Potato Touches Down in the U.S.
Posted by Adam Kuban | www.seriouseats.com | June 27, 2009
Remember the tornado potato? That strange spiral-cut potato that’s skewered and deep-fried? The street-food treat found in Seoul, South Korea? It did a whirlwind tour of the web in 2007, when the blog Superlocal posted a photo of it. (And, yes, we blogged it, too.)
It looks like the tornado potato has finally made it Stateside. It’ll be available at the Minnesota State Fair this year (August 27 through Labor Day), but I caught sight of one this week on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey, which is basically all state-fair food all the time (at least during the summer tourist season).
The back story is that petite 16 year old Cammie was part of a 5 person team. If a Nantucket Sleigh Ride was what you took after you harpooned a whale that towed your tiny boat thru the water, I guess Cammie and company took a Sparkleberry Swamp Sleigh Ride.
Many people think hunting is unethical. However, rampant development nationwide has offset nature’s delicate balance and depending on where you live, coyotes, bears, deers or alligators may show up in your yard about the time Fluffy disappears.
White Knoll cheerleader bags ‘gator
JOHN MONK – jmonk@thestate.com | www.thestate.com | Thursday, Sep. 17, 2009
Cammie Colin is a typical high school student in many ways – cheerleader, softball player, enjoys algebra, loves to dance, likes singers Freddie Gomez and Lil Wayne.
Oh, and the White Knoll High 10th grader hunts alligators, too.
With a crossbow.
In the middle of the night.
Over the weekend, she became perhaps the youngest female ever to bag an alligator in South Carolina.
“Don’t be afraid, and just go at it,” she gave as her advice for young people who might want to hunt alligators or do some other unusual thing.
Colin, 16, said she’s still excited about the hunt, which took place about 3 a.m. Sunday in the dark headwaters of Lake Marion just south of Sparkleberry Swamp.
She is 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighs 120 pounds. The alligator she shot was 10 feet 5 inches long and weighed 353 pounds.
School is back in session, autumn’s nip is in the air and a criminally insane killer is on the loose, or was.
Mr Paul is the Platonic Ideal of an insane killer, if it weren’t true I’d suspect it was an urban legend. An undiagnosed schizophrenic, in 1989 he killed an elderly woman he was convinced was an evil witch. He soaked her lifeless body in gasoline to throw off search dogs and buried her in her own flower garden.
Hospitalized for years he escapes in 1991, and is recaptured. During booking Paul knocks an officer unconscious.
In September 2009, knowing he was allowed to go on a supervised outing to the Spokane State Fair he packed a back pack full of clothes and his guitar to bring with him, obviously planning an escape. For days Paul evaded capture while a man hunt was mobilized. He was captured while hitch hiking. The same officer Paul knocked out in 1991 picked Paul up and brought him inm to justice. What a story!
Mr Paul
Old poster for the Spokane Fair.
Insane killer caught in Goldendale, Wash., area
By TIM KLASS | AP | 9-21-09
SEATTLE — An insane killer who slipped away from the staff of a mental institution at the Spokane County International Fair has been recaptured without injury in the in Goldendale in south-central Washington.
Spokane County sheriff’s Capt. Dave Reagan says 47-year-old Phillip Arnold Paul was nabbed by Deputy Roger Knight — the same deputy who arrested Paul and was injured by him after an escape in 1991.
Reagan says Paul was trying to elude a search helicopter and walked to a road to try to hitch a ride just as Knight arrived at the scene.
Every one knows five buttons are WAY more distracting than three buttons. Talk about re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. The school’s Principal, Oscar Torres, is a tool and has caved on his ridiculous nit-picking. Click here to visit the school site and download a pdf of the new REVISED dress code.
Hey Principal Torres that tie better be covering no more than 3 buttons!
Atlantic City High School has suspended 150 students per day over dress code
pressofatlanticcity.com | ERIC SCOTT CAMPBELL | September 15, 2009
ATLANTIC CITY – Parents and students are complaining the high school’s uniform policy has become exactly what it was installed to prevent: a distraction from education.
Violations of the recently amended policy have landed as many as 150 of the school’s 2,300 students in in-school suspension, rather than classes, on each of the first five school days, Principal Oscar Torres said at Monday night’s school board meeting.
Torres said the policy had improved discipline. He predicted that, “once the dust settles … two weeks from now, we won’t be talking about the dress code.”
Judging from the comments from others attending the meeting, that may depend on the school relaxing its approach.
“I’m not buying any more clothes,” said Doreen Nicholson, whose daughter Monica earned a suspension for wearing a shirt with five buttons down the middle. The new maximum is three.
“I can’t afford it,” said Nicholson, standing with her husband, Ted Nicholson. “We’re bartenders and waitresses at a casino – we’re not doing well.”
Besides the button restriction, the new policy bans logos – small insignia were allowed last year – and khaki pants, reducing the choices to black and navy blue.
The board passed its final amendment in mid-August, and several parents said they learned about it well after their back-to-school shopping.
“I cannot keep affording buying new uniforms every year,” parent Tina Watson said. “If y’all going to make a policy like this, y’all need to provide students with uniforms.”
“It’s like going to Catholic school,” said another parent, Earlene Williams. “It’s too much.”
New to the USA “Cop Cams” have been in use in the UK for many years. One wonders what credentials the “monitor monitors” must have?
In this photo taken Tuesday, Aug., 18, 2009, in Lancaster, Pa., a security camera is mounted to a utility pole overlooking Penn Square. Horses drawing buggies regularly clop down the roads approaching Lancaster, a peaceful city in the heart of Amish country that had only three murders last year and relatively low crime. But if the community sounds reminiscent of the past, it also has some distinctly modern technology: 165 surveillance cameras that will keep watch over thousands of residents around the clock. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Pa. city blankets streets with security cameras
(AP) | By PATRICK WALTERS | Sep 9, 2009
LANCASTER, Pa. — Horses drawing buggies regularly clop down the roads approaching Lancaster, a peaceful city in the heart of Amish country that had only three murders last year and relatively low crime.
But if the community sounds reminiscent of the past, it also has some distinctly modern technology: 165 surveillance cameras that will keep watch over thousands of residents around the clock.
When it is complete, the surveillance system will be bigger than those in large cities such as Philadelphia, San Francisco and Boston. And the fact that it will be monitored by ordinary citizens has raised privacy concerns.
“They are using fear to sell the cameras as much as possible,” said Charlie Crystle, a member of a fledgling citizens group that opposes the cameras and is trying to raise public awareness about them. “There’s just a huge potential for personal and political abuse.”
Officials in the city of 54,000 say the cameras have deterred crimes and helped solve them.
The white, domed cameras sit atop utility poles in public spaces, business districts and some residential areas. They are monitored 18 to 24 hours a day by employees of the Lancaster Community Safety Coalition, a nonprofit board with workers who report suspected crimes to police.
Mr Dunne lead a full life. He was an astute observer and critic of those who seem to live beyond reproach. His passing leaves a void. Condolences to his family.
"I'm not going to cover any more murder trials," Dominick Dunne told The Times in the late 1990s. (Los Angeles Times) He was notorious for his skewering accounts of the trials of celebrities including Claus von Bulow, the Menendez brothers and O.J. Simpson. He was diagnosed with bladder cancer last year.
Dominick Dunne dies at 83; author and former Hollywood producer
www.latimes.com | By Elaine Woo | August 27, 2009
Dominick Dunne, the bestselling novelist and Vanity Fair writer who chronicled the misdeeds of the rich and famous with wicked glee — most memorably in his highly personal accounts of the trials of Claus von Bulow, the Menendez brothers and O.J. Simpson — died Wednesday at his home in New York City. He was 83.
The cause was bladder cancer, according to the Vanity Fair website, where his death was announced.
Dunne had recovered from prostate cancer in 2001 but was diagnosed with bladder cancer last year. Although ill, he covered Simpson’s recent armed robbery trial in Las Vegas, which resulted in a pronouncement of guilt — a verdict that Dunne awaited for more than a decade.
Covering the last Simpson trial capped an extraordinary career that had bloomed from tragedy. Dunne was a television and film producer for two decades until drugs and alcohol ruined him. He had started life over as a writer when his daughter, Dominique, was slain in 1982.
Dunne wrote an article for Vanity Fair magazine that raged at the injustice of the crime and the leniency of the killer’s punishment. The story propelled its author into a new career reporting from the intersection of celebrity, society and scandal. He filled the niche with panache, becoming, according to the Cambridge History of Law in America, “one of the nation’s premier popular chroniclers of notorious criminal trials and lawsuits involving celebrities.”
