Portions of Interstate 4 were shut down Tuesday evening after a half-dozen cars hit a bear in Seminole County, Florida Highway Patrol trooper Sgt. Kim Montes said. Troopers were called to the scene at about 9:20 p.m. The bear, which was crossing the road, did not survive. One person was transported from the scene with minor injuries, Montes said.Two of the cars were so severely damaged they had to be towed away. The bear was estimated to be 300 lbs.
JUST ANOTHER BLACK BIGOTTo his eventual embarrassment, he wrote in his Yale application:
"As always, whitey now sits in judgment of me, preparing to cast my fate. It is your decision either to let me blow with the wind as a nonentity or to encourage the development of self. Allow me to prove myself."
At Harvard, Gates is credited with turning the school's African American studies program into a "hub" for intellectual history,
Hey folks , I've been on vacation for over a week, and I'll tell ya, I did not seek out any news whatsoever (except for River Flow data).The reason vitamin D might be able to fight the flu isn't known, but the prevailing hypothesis is that the nutrient is able to strengthen the immune system, allowing those infected to better fight off their illness. Vitamin D has been found, for instance, to offer some protection against tuberculosis.
“The evidence is almost overwhelming that vitamin D appears to be making the immune system attack foreign entities better,” said Reinhold Vieth, a professor in the department of nutritional sciences at the University of Toronto.
BOOZIN 66 YEAR OLD ARRESTED AFTER HUSBAND COMPLAINS ABOUT COOKING NAPLES, Fla. - A southwest Florida woman was arrested after deputies said she assaulted her 71-year-old common-law husband after he complained about her cooking. A Lee County Sheriff's Office arrest report shows 66-year-old Meredith Hart Mulcahy was charged with battery on an elderly person Tuesday night.Deputies said the man got into an argument with her about undercooked potatoes and burnt bread. He went to the bedroom and began eating, and authorities said the woman then threw a phone at him. Deputies said Mulcahy became belligerent in the back seat of the patrol car and told them that she "burned the bread she was cooking because she was so intoxicated." She was in the Lee County Jail on Wednesday pending a $1,500 bond.
CAMDEN, N.J. - Authorities say a man died after falling into a vat of melted chocolate in a New Jersey processing plant.The Camden County prosecutor's office identified the victim as 29-year-old Vincent Smith II of Camden. He was a temporary worker at the Cocoa Services Inc. plant.The accident happened Wednesday morning as Smith was loading chocolate into a vat where it's melted and mixed before being shipped elsewhere to be made into candy.Prosecutor's spokesman Jason Laughlin says a co-worker tried to shut off the machine and two others tried to pull Smith out of the 8-foot-deep vat. He was hit and fatally injured by the agitator that mixes the chocolate.Cocoa Services hires a second company , Lyons and Sons , to do the mixing.
EUCLID, Ohio - An Ohio woman who found a fawn in her flower garden has been accused of beating it to death with a shovel. Dorothy Richardson, 75, was charged in a warrant with animal cruelty at her Euclid home near the Cleveland Metroparks Euclid Creek Reservation, a wooded park where deer, foxes and other wildlife roam. Animal control officer Ann Mills requested the warrant. She said "everybody's very upset" about the fawn's June 15 death. Richardson hasn't appeared in court. She told Cleveland's WKYC-TV she was afraid of the fawn and used a shovel to try to make it move. She said after it died she put it in a box and took it to the curb on trash day. Euclid's cruelty to animals charge is punishable by up to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.Misspellings continued to plague the Obama administration on Thursday, after two more releases containing errors were sent to reporters in the last 24 hours. After misspelling the president's name as "Barak Obama" yesterday on an official document sent to reporters, the General Services Administration messed up another message when announcing it had awarded an $18 million contract to redesign the website keeping track of spent stimulus dollars. "Recvoery.gov Version 2.0 $18 Million Contract Awarded," the release's subject line read. ("Recovery" was spelled correctly in the body of the email.)
At the G8 summit in Italy, he was snapped apparently checking out the perfect curves of a young lady.And French President Nicolas Sarkozy (54) was looking on in amusement…........................................... Oh là là , Monsieur le Président! Her name is Mayora Tavares, she is 16 and she comes from Brazil. Mayora was at the G8 summit in Italy as part of the J8 – a group of 53 people aged between 14 and 17 who have been meeting in Rome since the start of the week. The group were there to discuss how the lives of young people around the world can be improved.
The number of Britons who have died after contracting swine flu has almost doubled in two days to 14, officials said yesterday.London is days away from an epidemic with the West Midlands not far behind. Britain has the third highest number of confirmed cases of the virus in the world, just behind Mexico - where the outbreak began.
"WHERE YOUR WHITE WOMAN AT?"..............
Is that "Ice Tee" or "Ice Cube" with her?
AT LEAST HE DIDN'T BOW TO HIM
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — The foreign relations minister in Honduras' interim government says he has sent a letter to Barack Obama apologizing for a racial comment he made about the U.S. president.Enrique Ortez says the letter expresses "his most profound apologies" for "an unfortunate comment."In a TV interview, Ortez said Obama "is a little black man who doesn't know where Tegucigalpa is located."
ROTTEN LUCK
Gaffney S.C. - 15 Year old Abby Tyler becomes latest victim.
(READ THIS SNAKE STORY BELOW AND TELL ME IF IT CREEPS YOU OUT)
SUMTER COUNTY, FL -- A python strangled a 2-year-old girl to death in Sumter County Wednesday morning.The incident occurred in a home in the 1500 block of County Road 466 near Oxford, a rural community west of Lady Lake.The snake's owner, who is the boyfriend of the girl's mother, told deputies he put the snake, a family pet, in a cage Tuesday night. When he woke up Wednesday morning around 9:30, he found the snake in the bed on top of the girl, according to authorities.
A woman is pulled from near the Center Street dam by construction worker Jason Oglesbee on Tuesday. A man who was with the unidentified woman died in the Des Moines River. A rescue team from the Des Moines Fire Department tried several times to rescue the woman but could not get close enough to her. (Andrea Melendez/The Register)
