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· Judge allegedly napped, made bailiff rub her feet.  Elizabeth Halverson is a judge. But the way courthouse staffers see it, she expects to be treated like a queen. Her former bailiff, for example, says Halverson made him feel like a "houseboy." He says the judge - who is obese and uses a motorized scooter to get around - made him put her shoes on her feet, massage her back, cover her with a blanket for naps and make sure her oxygen tank was filled. Another time, she allegedly had her husband sworn in so that she could ask him under oath if he had completed chores at home. 

· Danica Patrick hits another team's crew member.  Danica Patrick hit a member of Dale Coyne's crew on pit road Friday afternoon. A witness said Charles Buckman was looking for another IndyCar driver when Patrick ran into him. 

· 3 jr. high kids suspended for sitting during pledge.  Three Minnesota eighth-graders were suspended for not standing at the start of the school day Thursday for the Pledge of Allegiance. 

· Bernie Ward admits to child porn in plea deal.  Bernie Ward, the most prominent liberal voice on Bay Area talk radio for more than two decades, admitted Thursday to distribution of child pornography by e-mail in a plea deal that will send him to federal prison for at least five years.  Ward, 57, was a former Roman Catholic priest who hosted "God Talk," and also served as legislative assistant for Rep. Barbara Boxer. 

· UN blasts Myanmar for visa policy on aid workers.  The United Nations blasted Myanmar's military government Friday, saying its refusal to let in foreign aid workers to help victims of a devastating cyclone was "unprecedented" in the history of humanitarian work, as more than 1 million homeless people waited for food, shelter, and medicine. 

      » U.N. halts Myanmar flights after aid 'seized.'  Authorities in cyclone-ravaged Myanmar have seized United Nations aid intended for victims of the disaster, prompting the organization to halt future relief flights, a U.N. World Food Program official said.  The organization, which insists on distributing its own relief supplies, says two aircraft-loads of food, medicine and equipment, were seized by the army in Myanmar's main city Yangon. 

· City attorney: "poop happens."  A New York woman has filed a $100 claim against Norwalk saying a family outing to the Maritime Aquarium was ruined by dog feces. The woman claims her child's shoes, along with the entire outing, were ruined when her 1-year-old stepped in dog feces outside the Maritime Garage.  City attorney M. Jeffry Spahr said the official response is that her claim is denied and in his words, "poop happens." 

· Mexican farms employ kids illegally, U.N. says.  Adriana Salgado, 10, spends her days in a field in northwestern Mexico, picking spinach, cabbage and other vegetables that fill American salad bowls.  Salgado attends school for one hour a day, and she doesn't know how to read. Her 15-year-old sister, who works with her, can't read either. Salgado had an 8-year-old brother, too, until he was crushed by a tractor while working in a tomato field last year. 

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Pervasive [per·va·sive] adj.  Having the quality or tendency to pervade or permeate: "the pervasive odor of garlic." 

· Boy Hasn't Slept In 3 Years.  A 3-year-old Florida boy with a rare condition has not slept in three years. Doctors said Rhett Lamb of St. Petersburg apparently has a condition called chiari malformation that puts pressure on his brain. Rhett has never taken a nap or gone to sleep at night, forcing his parents to keep watch day and night. 

· Fla. Teacher Had Sex With At Least Four Boys.  Documents obtained by a Tampa television station reveal many new details in the case against a school teacher accused of having sex with multiple teenage students.  A tape-recorded telephone conversation suggested that Ragusa knew what she was doing was illegal when she told one of her alleged victims that "it would be all over the news and everything." 

· Katrina victim claims $97 million lottery prize.  A construction company owner who lost two homes in Hurricane Katrina claimed a $97 million Powerball prize, a jackpot won off a ticket he bought at a convenience store where he stopped to buy his wife a gallon of milk. When he turned in the winning ticket, Carl Hunter became the largest Powerball winner in Louisiana's history. 

Thursday, May 8, 2008

· 10-year-old gives birth in Idaho; Suspected illegal immigrant charged with rape.  A 37-year-old man is charged with raping a 10-year-old girl who gave birth last month in Idaho. KIDK-TV says Guadalupe Gutierrez-Juarez, a suspected illegal immigrant, is being held at the Fremont County Jail. 

· Cindy McCain says she'll never release her tax returns.  Cindy McCain says she will never make her tax returns public even if her husband wins the White House and she becomes the first lady.  "You know, my husband and I have been married 28 years and we have filed separate tax returns for 28 years. This is a privacy issue," Cindy McCain said. 

· New York Congressman admits he has love child.  Rep. Vito Fossella today admitted he fathered a love child in a longtime secret affair with the woman who rescued him from the drunk tank. Fossella, who is married and has three children in New York, did not say if he would step down or seek re-election. 

· Topless Protester Awarded $15K.  A 45-year-old woman who has shown her breasts publicly many times in recent years in protest of Daytona's public nudity ordinance was awarded $15,000 for claims of damage due to her arrests. 

· Conservatives are happier than liberals.  Individuals with conservative ideologies are happier than liberal-leaners, and a new study funded by the National Science Foundation pinpoints the reason: Conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities.  Regardless of marital status, income or church attendance, right-wing individuals reported greater life satisfaction and well-being than left-wingers, the new study found. Conservatives also scored highest on measures of rationalization. 

· Star Jones blasts Walters for contents of memoir.  Nearly two years after Star Jones left "The View" on rocky terms, the 46-year-old TV personality has criticized former boss Barbara Walters for writing about her.  In Walters' new memoir, "Audition," she discusses how Jones wouldn't acknowledge her gastric bypass surgery on the air. She also writes about Jones' lavish wedding, which wound up alienating viewers as Jones accepted gifts in return for promotion.  "It is a sad day when an icon like Barbara Walters, in the sunset of her life, is reduced to publicly branding herself as an adulterer, humiliating an innocent family with accounts of her illicit affair. 

· Dan Rather resubmits lawsuit against CBS.  Dan Rather fired off a new lawsuit against his former network Tuesday, charging that CBS News labeled the anchor "too hot to handle" and prevented him from being hired by other networks after his acrimonious departure.  Rather was rebuffed in an earlier lawsuit, when many of his claims were knocked down by a New York state judge. 

· Idaho student says teacher tossed his Mexican flag in trash.  A high school student says he may file a lawsuit against a physical education teacher who took a Mexican flag he had brought for Cinco de Mayo and put it in the garbage.  "I said, 'What's the problem?'" Froylan Camelo, speaking in Spanish, told The Times-News of Twin Falls. "He said, 'The problem is that we are in the United States and not in Mexico.' He grabbed it from me. He threw the flag in the garbage can." 

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Ambivalence [am·biv·a·lence] n.  1. Uncertainty or indecisiveness as to which course to follow.  2. The coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings, such as love and hate, toward a person, object, or idea.

· Country music legend Eddy Arnold dies.  Country music star Eddy Arnold has died at the age of 89. Arnold, the Tennessee Plowboy, sold more than 85 million records, with 37 singles charting on the pop charts and many more impacting the country charts. 

· Hillary, Barack, want my vote? Just $20 million, please.  What will it take for a Democratic presidential candidate to win the support of California superdelegate Steven Ybarra? Say, $20 million. The Democratic National Committee member doesn't parse his words when it comes to what he wants from Barack Obama or Hillary Rodham Clinton - an ironclad promise to spend that heady amount to register Mexican-American voters and get them to the polls in November. 

· Illegal-immigrant crackdowns have Arizona churches on edge.  A camper recently complained that a spiritual retreat group was making too much noise. Yavapai County sheriff's deputies arrived, questioned the church members about their citizenship and called federal immigration officials. Nine church members, including the pastor, Maldonado, were detained; seven were later deported to Mexico. The deportations have sent a shock wave through the large and fast-growing network of Latino evangelical churches in Arizona and across the nation, many of which are filled with undocumented immigrants. 

· Papa John's raking in the dough online.  In the past seven years, Louisville-based Papa John's International Inc. has made a lot of dough from online ordering - over $1 billion to be exact. 

· R. Kelly child sex tape trial looms.  Six years after R. Kelly was slapped with child pornography charges over a homemade sex tape, the rhythm and blues superstar's long-delayed trial is set to begin Friday.  The scandal over accusations that Kelly filmed himself having sex with a girl as young as 13 seems to have little impact on the Grammy-award winning artist's popularity. 

· Sharpton Arrested In Citywide 'Slowdown' Protests.  The Rev. Al Sharpton and more than 200 others were arrested Wednesday amid a series of protests throughout the city, part of a response to the acquittals of three New York City undercover detectives in the 50-shot killing of Sean Bell. 

· DMX arrested for speeding, reckless driving.  DMX was arrested after speed-enforcement cameras captured him in his bright yellow 1966 Chevrolet going 114 mph on a suburban Phoenix freeway.  The rapper/actor was taken into custody Tuesday at his north Phoenix home without incident. 

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

· D.C. sniper: 'Murder this innocent Black man.'  John Allen Muhammad, who is on Virginia's death row in connection with the 2002 Washington-area sniper spree, has written to Virginia prosecutors saying he wants to waive all rights to appeal.  In the letter dated April 23, Muhammad professes his innocence, but says he wants to waive appeals so the state "can murder this innocent Black man." 

· 100,000 may have died in cyclone.  The death toll from the cyclone that ravaged the Irrawaddy delta in Myanmar may exceed 100,000, the senior U.S. diplomat in the military-ruled country said Wednesday. 

· Feds arrest illegal immigrants who are trying to leave USA.  The government has a new approach to border enforcement. Instead of just focusing on people who are entering the country illegally, the Los Angeles Times says federal agents are also arresting undocumented foreigners who are trying to leave the U.S. 

· Incest dad upset at media 'monster' image.  The man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years, fathering her children and keeping them locked in a cellar agreed Wednesday to further questioning, prosecutors said.  His lawyer said Josef Fritzl was bothered by the fact that he was being made out to be a monster. He said Fritzl told him: "I'm only being portrayed as a monster and not as someone who committed monstrous acts." 

· Teen With Blood-Alcohol Content of 0.578 Survives After Weekend Party.  Rohnert Park, California police say the 15-year-old girl's blood-alcohol content was 0.578 — seven times the level for drunken driving — when she was hospitalized last weekend. 

· Philly officers taken off street after videotaped beating.  More than a dozen police officers will be taken off the street as authorities investigate a video showing three suspects being kicked, punched and beaten after they were pulled out of a car during a traffic stop, the mayor's office said. 

· Police chief shoots self during firearms safety meeting.  It's unclear exactly how Riverdale Police Chief Dave Hansen handled a loaded gun while teaching a firearms safety course - accidentally shooting himself in the ankle. 

· Weather Channel In Sex Storm.  As The Weather Channel's owner negotiates a multibillion-dollar sale of the cable outlet, the network's lawyers are angling to keep secret the details of a blistering arbitration ruling in favor of a former anchorwoman who charges that she was subjected to unrelenting sexual harassment by her male co-anchor, who was "romantically obsessed" with her and frequently made crude remarks like, "Will you lick my swizzle stick?" 

· More Parents Arrested For School Absences.  Parents of more than a dozen Florida children authorities describe as habitually truant were arrested Tuesday by deputies in Duval, Clay and Nassau counties.  Every child whose parent was arrested in this sweep had at least 20 unexcused absences from school this school year. 

· Feds raid gun store tied to Mexican drug cartels.  Federal agents swooped down on a north Phoenix gun store Tuesday in the biggest weapons bust in years, highlighting Arizona's major role as an arms conduit to violent drug cartels in Mexico.  Authorities said the store was a source for at least 650 high-powered weapons, including 250 AK-47 automatic weapons, smuggled to drug cartels for use in the escalating Mexican drug war. That war left 2,500 dead last year, and Arizona weapons were used to assassinate police and battle army squads near the border, authorities said. 

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Garish [gar·ish] adj.  1. Marked by strident color or excessive ornamentation; gaudy.  2. Loud and flashy: garish makeup. 

· Britney all smiles after custody hearing.  Britney Spears has won the right to spend more time with her two children, according to her ex-husband's lawyer.  The singer, 26, left Los Angeles Superior Court on Tuesday without commenting following a closed hearing where her lawyers were believed to have asked for increased visitation with her sons, Sean Preston and Jayden James.  

· Federal Agents Raid Office of Special Counsel.  Nearly two dozen federal agents yesterday raided the Washington headquarters of the agency that protects government whistle-blowers, as part of an intensifying criminal investigation of its leader, who is fighting allegations of improper political bias and obstruction of justice. 

· Business-Suit Wearing Women Stealing Gas In Central Florida.  Women dressed in suits are stealing gas in Central Florida in the latest example of criminals finding creative ways to target gas stations.  Citgo owner Maurice Noujaum said thieves who have hit his gas station in Orange County are not stereotypical criminals. 

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

· 12-Year-Old, Man Found Naked In Tent.  A 21-year-old man was arrested after he was found sharing a tent in some Florida woods with a 12-year-old girl reported missing more than a week ago, police said.  According to police, Daniel Rollins admitted to having sex with the girl at least three times and knowing that she was 12. 

· Girl, 15, In Amber Alert, Boyfriend Charged With First-Degree Murder.  North Florida authorities charged a 15-year-old girl, who was the subject of an Amber Alert, and her boyfriend with fatally beating, stabbing and suffocating an older man. 

· Drug bust nets 96 at San Diego State University.  Authorities have arrested nearly 100 people and seized guns and drugs in a sting operation at San Diego State University in California, the Drug Enforcement Administration said Tuesday.  Among those arrested were 75 students, some of them working toward criminal justice or homeland security degrees. One criminal justice major was charged with possession of guns and cocaine, authorities said.  One student sent a mass text message offering a "sale" on cocaine, the DEA said in a news release. 

· Judge Closes Doors Of McGreevey Divorce Trial.  After a separation lasting more than three years now sparked by former Gov. James McGreevey's admission on national television that he was a gay American, he and his estranged wife, Dina Matos McGreevey, arrived for divorce proceedings Tuesday.  The former governor claims she knew of his sexual orientation during their marriage, and even participated in three-way sexual encounters with his former driver, Teddy Pederson. 

· Burglary Suspect Trapped Over Restaurant Grill Nearly Cooks Self.  A human leg spotted dangling over a Florida restaurant's grill led to a burglary suspect trapped in an air vent and about to fall into hot oil. 

· Priest gets 4 years for sex with inmates.  A Roman Catholic priest was sentenced Monday to four years in prison for having sex with two inmates while a chaplain at a women's prison.  Vincent Inametti, 48, worked at Federal Medical Center Carswell in Fort Worth for seven years until last fall. He pleaded guilty in November to two counts of sexual abuse. 

· Judge Who Filed $54 Million Lawsuit Over Pants Now Suing for Job.  A former judge who lost a $54 million law suit against a dry cleaners over a missing pair of pants is suing to get his job back and at least $1 million in damages. 

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Prolific [pro·lif·ic] adj.  Productive: Producing abundant works or results: "a prolific artist." 

· Lindsay Lohan's mother, Dina, named a "Top Mom."  Let's face it - if a group can score Dina Lohan at an event, chances are celebrity-crazed Long Islanders will attend just for the chance to see her.  Such is the case with Mingling Moms, an organization that has named the 45-year-old Merrick resident and mother of actress Lindsay Lohan a "Top Mom." 

· Fla. Teacher Accused Of Wizardry.  A substitute teacher in Pasco County has lost his job after being accused of wizardry. Teacher Jim Piculas does a magic trick where a toothpick disappears and then reappears. Piculas recently did the 30-second trick in front of a classroom at Rushe Middle School in Land 'O Lakes. Piculas said he then got a call from the supervisor of teachers, saying he'd been accused of wizardry. 

· Chrysler has a deal for buyers: $2.99-a-gallon gas cards.  As presidential candidates spar over how to roll back gasoline prices, Chrysler on Monday said that it has come up with its own plan to bring back $2.99 gas, which it hopes will spur lagging sales.  Chrysler announced a month-long "Let's Refuel America" program that will give buyers of most of its vehicles a card good for purchases of gasoline or diesel fuel that locks in the price at $2.99 a gallon for three years. 

Monday, May 5, 2008

· Medical pot user dies after transplant denied.  A man who was denied a liver transplant largely because he used marijuana with medical approval to ease the symptoms of hepatitis C has died. 

· D.C. Madam: 'There was no way out.'  Convicted "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey railed against what she called a "modern-day lynching" in notes to her mother and sister before hanging herself at her mother's Florida home, police disclosed Monday.  "I cannot live the next 6 to 8 years behind bars for what you and I have both come to regard as this 'modern-day lynching' only to come out of prison in my late 50s a broken, penniless and very much alone woman," she wrote. 

· Injured EMT Sues 84-Year-Old Woman After Emergency Call.  A Lake County emergency medical technician-firefighter has sued an 84-year-old woman for getting injured while responding to her call for help. Jennifer Roland seeks unspecified damages of more than $15,000 in her lawsuit. Roland claims she hurt her back and neck at Elizabeth Baker's home. 

· Barbara Walters puts life on display with book `Audition.'  No one doubts she's hard-driving. But she has never learned to drive, Barbara Walters reveals in her new memoir, "Audition." 

· PETA requests that Eight Belles jockey Gabriel Saez be suspended.  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is seeking the suspension of Eight Belles' jockey after the filly had to be euthanized following her second-place finish in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday. Gabriel Saez was riding Eight Belles when she broke both front ankles while galloping out a quarter of a mile past the wire. She was euthanized on the track. PETA faxed a letter Sunday to Kentucky's racing authority claiming the filly was "doubtlessly injured before the finish" and asked that Saez be suspended while Eight Belles' death is investigated. 

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Haughty [haugh·ty] adj.  Condescending: behaving in a superior, condescending, or arrogant way.  "He always seemed haughty in company meetings." 

· Analysts say BofA may lower Countrywide deal price.  At least two analysts said Bank of America Corp (BAC.N) will likely lower its purchase price for Countrywide Financial Corp (CFC.N), with Friedman, Billings Ramsey analyst saying the bank may bring down its deal price to the $0 to $2 level or completely walk away from the deal. 

· At 107, Livermore lightbulb is still a real live wire.  At 107 years and counting, the low-watt wonder with the curlicue carbon filament has been named the planet's longest continuously burning bulb by both Guinness World Records and Ripley's. 

· Boca police officer under investigation found dead.  A Boca Raton police officer who was being investigated in an alleged sexual battery case has been found dead in his home, authorities said. 

· 'Iron Man' makes $100 million debut.  "Iron Man" was pure gold at the box office.  The Marvel Comics adaptation, starring Robert Downey Jr. as the guy in the metal suit, hauled in $100.7 million over opening weekend. 

· Husband 'murdered wife before killing himself' after she confessed on Facebook she was leaving him.  A husband is believed to have murdered his wife before killing himself after she told friends on Facebook they were splitting up, it emerged yesterday.  Tracey Grinhaff's body was found in a shed in the back garden of the family home she shared with her husband, Gary, and their two young daughters, aged 14 and four. 

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