Mark Curran, a 7-year-old boy from Massachusetts is being accused of harassment after he punched another student in the groin while he was being choked, according to the boy’s mother.
Mark Curran says he was riding his elementary school bus home when a bully stole his new gloves and choked him, prompting him to act in self defense.
The boy’s mother, Tasha Lynch, told the Boston Globe:
Mark Curran says he was riding his elementary school bus home when a bully stole his new gloves and choked him, prompting him to act in self defense
Mark Curran now faces suspension or transfer to another school if he is found guilty of the attack, according to a letter from Tynan Elementary school.
Boston school spokesman Matthew Wilder told The Globe: “Any kind of inappropriate touching would fall under that category.
“The school administration is conducting a full investigation that has not concluded yet. Certainly, once that investigation is through, we’ll then make a final conclusion as to who will be disciplined and how.”
Tasha Lynch said her son was visibly upset when she greeted him at the bus stop on November 22nd.
Asking him what was wrong, the boy explained what had happened, in time for her to question his bus driver.
“He just smiled and shrugged,” Tasha Lynch recalled.
With his school’s office not returning her calls Tasha Lynch says she asked her older son to escort Mark Curran to the principal’s office and report what had happened.
“I just thought they were going to call the parents, tell us both to come in and make the boys shake hands,” Mark Curran’s mother said.
But instead, Tasha Lynch says they began questioning her son on the incident and to his recollection.
“They didn’t believe me,” Mark Curran told The Globe on Thursday.
“I didn’t get my gloves back,” the boy added.
According to his mother, the school principal told her: “It doesn’t matter who hit who first.”
“He said he hit him in the testicles,” Tasha Lynch recalled of the principal, “That’s assault. That’s sexual assault.”
In which Tasha Lynch says she replied: “The kid choked my son first and that’s called attempted murder. He said he couldn’t breath.”
On Monday, Mark Curran’s mother says a hearing regarding the incident is scheduled which could include witnesses including the two boys.
Since this news Tasha Lynch says she has been trying to find a lawyer or an advocate who will help assist her defense.
The mother says her son feels “totally alone”.
“Nobody believed him. Nobody was there for him,” Tasha Lynch said.
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali has been taken to hospital after falling unconscious at home just days after his frail appearance at a funeral for Joe Frazier.
A spokesman for Muhammad Ali said he was only hospitalized for treatment of dehydration and that “early reports were blown out of proportion”.
Muhammad Ali, 69, was last seen in public at a Philadelphia service for his fellow boxing legend on November 14, but a woman called 911 for him five days later.
The 911 call came from the 6,000 sq ft estate Muhammad Ali shares with wife Yolanda in Paradise Valley, Arizona, reported Star magazine and RadarOnline.
Boxing legend Muhammad Ali has been taken to hospital after falling unconscious at home just days after his frail appearance at a funeral for Joe Frazier
The boxing legend has suffered from Parkinson’s disease for 27 years and was taken to Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center.
A Paradise Valley Police spokesman told Star:
“The victim started to pass out in the car and when they got him into the house he fell unconscious.”
“The 911 tape was filled with details of prescriptions and medical details about the victim who was suffering from an on-going medical condition.”
Spokesman Craig Bankey said in statement Muhammad Ali was resting at his home and recovering from the hospital stay.
Muhammad Ali spent the Thanksgiving weekend across the other side of the U.S. in Las Vegas, Nevada, with his family, reported Star.
A source close to former boxer told Star he has had various medical specialists in Phoenix so the family must have “really been scared” to have called 911.
Fears were raised about Muhammad Ali’s health after he appeared very frail at Joe Frazier’s two-hour service at the Enon Tabernacle Baptist Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, last month.
According to RadarOnline, friends fear that Muhammad Ali may not live long into next year.
Reverend Jesse Jackson asked mourners to rise and clap for the former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier, who handed Muhammad Ali his first loss in 1971.
A weak and trembling Muhammad Ali, wearing a dark suit and sunglasses, rose from his seat at the service and energetically applauded his rival “Smokin’ Joe”.
Muhammad Ali’s relatives and friends have told Star he may only have months left to live, but still enjoys spending time with his grandchildren.
However, Jeanie Kahnke, a spokeswoman for the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, says she spoke with his wife, Lonnie, by phone Friday morning and that “he was right next to her asking for breakfast and that he was doing good”.
Widely-seen as the best sportsman of all time, Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. in Louisville, Kentucky, and won an Olympic gold in 1960.
Muhammad Ali married his fourth wife and childhood friend Yolanda in 1986 and they have had one son, Asaad. In total, Muhammad Ali has seven daughters and two sons.
Vitabiotics Pregnacare-Conception, a 60 cents multi-vitamin pill could more than double a woman’s chance of having a baby, according to a study carried out at University College London.
The study found that 60% of those taking the supplements while undergoing IVF became pregnant compared to just a quarter who did not take them.
Researchers say the pills contain nutrients that may boost fertility such as vitamins A, C and E, zinc and selenium, that are often absent from our diets.
The study involved 56 women aged 18 to 40, who had all tried unsuccessfully to fall pregnant using IVF for at least a year.
Half of the women were given a multi-nutrient pill to take every day and the other half given folic acid pills to take daily.
The micronutrient pill also contained folic acid which prevents birth defects and has also been shown to help boost fertility.
Vitabiotics Pregnacare-Conception, a 60 cents multi-vitamin pill could more than double a woman’s chance of having a baby, according to a study carried out at University College London
Researchers found that 60% of women taking the multi-nutrients fell pregnant, and did not miscarry in the first three months when it is most common.
This compared to 25% of women in the group taking folic acid who were still pregnant after three months.
The University College London study published in the journal Reproductive Biomedicine also found that women taking the micronutrients needed far fewer attempts to become pregnant.
Of those who fell pregnant, 75% conceived in the first course of IVF.
By comparison just 18% of those on folic acid who became pregnant did so after the first IVF course.
The particular pill, Vitabiotics Pregnacare-Conception, contains folic acid, vitamin B, vitamin E, vitamin A, vitamin C, zinc, selenium and some antioxidants.
Vitabiotics Pregnacare-Conception costs just over $15 over the counter for a month’s supply.
Lead researcher Dr. Rina Agrawal said: “The implications of this study are far reaching as they suggest that prenatal micronutrient supplementation in women undergoing ovulation induction improve pregnancy rates.
“There is a large body of evidence establishing the relationship between placental development, foetal growth, pregnancy outcomes and adequate nutrition, particularly vitamin intake.”
But other scientists pointed out that the study was very small so the results should not be taken too seriously.
Dr. Allan Pacey who specializes in fertility at the University of Sheffield said: “The influence of nutrition on our fertility is of general interest to the public and professionals, but there are relatively few studies which have examined this systematically and few which have shown direct benefits of taking supplements to enhance things.
“Therefore, on the face of it, this study is interesting but we should acknowledge that this is a relatively small number of patients and the study would need to be repeated in a larger trial before we could be certain of the results.”
A woman’s fertility is known to be affected by a number of factors including her age, weight, alcohol consumption, whether she smokes.
High levels of stress and even drinking too much coffee have also been shown to reduce the chances of falling pregnant.
17 Strongbow-sponsored surfers took to the water for the largest ever glow-in-the-dark surf attempt in front of hundreds of fans who lined Bondi Beach in Australia.
Donning luminous-lined wetsuits and fluorescent-edged surfboards, they bottom turned and carved against the beautiful backdrop of the beach.
17 Strongbow-sponsored surfers took to the water for the largest ever glow-in-the-dark surf attempt in front of hundreds of fans who lined Bondi Beach in Australia
It was all caught on camera – from the air, land and sea – by legendary surfing filmakers and photographers Jack McCoy, Bali Strickland and Eugene Tan.
Jack McCoy said it was a “no-brainer” to take part in the start of summer event.
The filmmaker said: “When I heard about this crazy idea, I knew I had to be involved.
“I’ve never filmed anything like this in my 30 year career and it’s thanks to Strongbow that we had this great opportunity to mark summer in such an amazing, unique way.
“The surfers were so pumped about getting out there that the energy was electric. It’s one of those sights you have to see to believe and really evokes that summer feeling.”
The glow-in-the-dark surf attempt was part of the cider company Strongbow’s “Welcome to Summer” campaign.
After Demi Moore announced her intention to divorce her husband of six years Ashton Kutcher just last month, it appears that she is eager to move on, with a little help from her friends.
Demi Moore, 49, has been linked to CEO of BORBA skin care products, Scott-Vincent Borba, according to Radar Online.
Scott-Vincent Borba, 39, is said to have been a pillar of support for Demi Moore during her marriage breakdown.
A source told RadarOnline.com:
“They have known each other a long time and he’s really been there for her by her side through the whole Ashton thing.”
Demi Moore, 49, has been linked to CEO of BORBA skin care products, Scott-Vincent Borba, according to Radar Online
While RadarOnline.com reported that Demi Moore and Scott-Vincent Borba were now “dating” and that the beauty guru was “smitten” with the actress, other sources say that they are just “platonic friends”.
Scott-Vincent Borba counts many Hollywood stars as his friends, and his products are used by the likes of Twilight starlet Ashley Greene and 90210’s AnnaLynne McCord.
When approached for a comment about the nature of his relationship with Demi Moore, Scott-Vincent Borba simply told RadarOnline.com: “I do not comment on my personal life.”
Scott-Vincent Borba was born on June 23rd 1973 in Visalia, California, the youngest child of Evelyn Ann and Robert Anthony Borba. Scott-Vincent has 4 siblings. He went to High School in Visalia and then got her major in psychology from the University Of Santa Clara.
This gorgeous guy couldn’t go unnoticed for modeling agents and so he became a model for Ford Models, but as the guy of many talents he also experimented with his dancing, singing and acting skills, so pretty much one thing led to another and he ended up moving to Los Angeles.
Scott-Vincent Borba, 39, is said to have been a pillar of support for Demi Moore during her marriage breakdown
Once In L.A beauty knock on his door well that and science which is why he then became a licensed Esthetician and nutraceutical specialist, got himself a very important spot around major beauty companies like Sebastian, Neutrogena, Hard Candy, Wella, Shiseido, Murad and Joico, this got him enough experience to launch his own brand e.l.f. Cosmetics (eyes Lips face) in 2004 with Joseph Shamah and of course BORBA and the rest is history these days Scott-Vincent Borba founder and CEO of BORBA is one of the biggest name is skin and beauty care, he and his products are constantly feature in top fashion and entertainment magazines Vogue, W Magazine, People, Self, Marie Claire, InStyle, Redbook Times (who once referred to Borba as genius), Los Angeles Times and other newspapers. Scott-Vincent Borba has been a guest in many television shows like Extra, Good Morning America, CNN and ABC.
Meanwhile Demi Moore’s estranged husband, Ashton Kutcher, seems to be enjoying life as a single man.
Ashton Kutcher, 33, was spotted living it up during a visit to his hometown over Thanksgiving.
He is said to have been “swarmed” by girls during a night out in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Visiting local sports bars such as Bo James and Sports Column, Ashton Kutcher allegedly lapped up the attention lavished upon him by the local women, according to American magazine, Us Weekly.
“He was drinking beer, and girls kept coming up to him,” a source told Us Weekly.
“He loved the attention. Girls were hugging him and shaking his hand.”
However, clearly learning from past mistakes, Ashton Kutcher somewhat remained contained.
After a three hour drinking session with old friends at yet another watering hole by the name of Summit, Ashton Kutcher turned down an invite from a group of women to visit a strip club.
“He was swarmed by girls,” a source told Us weekly.
“A few tried to convince him to go to a strip club… but he declined!”
Despite partying it up in the Mid-West state, it also seems Ashton Kutcher is indulging in some soul searching.
Earlier this week Ashton Kutcher tweeted a picture of himself standing in a field, with a cow in the distance, and posted a short simple message: “Country Giving”.
Dominick Chilcott, the British ambassador in Iran claims the ruling regime at Tehran is likely to have supported an attack on the UK’s embassy in the country.
Dominick Chilcott told the BBC Iran is a country in which such action is only taken “with the acquiescence and the support of the state”.
Hundreds of protesters attacked the UK embassy in Tehran on Tuesday.
Diplomats working at the Iranian embassy in London have left Britain after being expelled.
Dominick Chilcott, the British ambassador in Iran claims the ruling regime at Tehran is likely to have supported an attack on the UK's embassy in the country
The Iranian diplomats expelled from the UK flew out of Heathrow on a chartered Iran Air flight on Friday afternoon.
The Iranian diplomats’ expulsion was ordered by Foreign Secretary William Hague after the British embassy in Tehran was stormed on Tuesday.
Iran said it regretted the incident, which it described as “unacceptable behaviour by a small number of protesters”.
Dominick Chilcott, the newly appointed British ambassador to Iran, said the attack was likely to have had state backing.
“Iran is not the sort of country where spontaneously a demonstration congregates and then attacks a foreign embassy. That sort of activity is only done with the acquiescence and the support of the state.
“And there are a number of reasons why, with the benefit of hindsight, it’s very clear that this was a state-supported activity.”
Dominick Chilcott also said some within Iran’s ruling regime may have underestimated the British response.
“The risk is that certain people in the regime who liked the idea of confrontation, because they felt it would rally people to the flag, miscalculated how strong the response would be,” he said.
“They probably didn’t expect us to send home the Iranian embassy in London and, reading between the lines, you can see in the way they have responded to that move, some remorse in having provoked it. I think that might apply more generally too.”
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said the UK’s relationship with Iran had “taken a very serious knock”.
“Something really bad happened when the Iranian authorities allowed those people to overrun our embassy compounds, and it is quite right that we have been very clear in our response – as have many other European countries who have withdrawn their ambassadors for consultations.
“It doesn’t mean we’re cutting off all diplomatic relations with Iran. It doesn’t mean we are in any way lessening our determination to try to find a diplomatic solution to the nuclear question, which is immensely important to Europe and the whole world, and we will continue to work tirelessly to find a negotiated solution.”
On Wednesday, Foreign Secretary William Hague told MPs: “If any country makes it impossible for us to operate on their soil, they cannot expect to have a functioning embassy here.”
He said there had been “some degree of regime consent” in the attacks on the embassy and on another UK diplomatic compound in Tehran.
William Hague also said all UK diplomatic staff in Tehran had been evacuated and the embassy closed.
He said relations between the UK and Iran were now at their lowest level, but the UK was not severing relations with Tehran entirely.
Iran’s foreign ministry described the British move as “hasty” and said Iran would take “further appropriate action”, Reuters news agency quoted state TV as saying.
Germany, France and the Netherlands announced on Wednesday that they were recalling their ambassadors to Tehran for consultation, and Norway said it was temporarily closing its embassy there as a precaution.
Hundreds of protesters – whom Iran described as “students” – massed outside the embassy compound on Tuesday afternoon before scaling the walls and the gates, burning British flags and a car.
Another UK diplomatic compound in northern Tehran, known locally as Qolhak Garden, was also overrun and damaged.
William Hague said the majority of those taking part had been members of a regime-backed Basij militia group.
He said the private quarters of staff and the ambassador had been ransacked, the main embassy office set on fire and personal possessions belonging to UK diplomats stolen.
The US, EU and UN Security Council also condemned the attacks.
Last week, the US, Canada and the UK announced new sanctions against Iran, including measures to restrict the activities of the Iranian central bank.
The UK said then it was severing all financial ties with Iran.
The move followed a report by the UN’s nuclear watchdog that said Iran had carried out tests “relevant to the development of a nuclear device”.
Iran denies the accusations, saying its nuclear programme is solely for peaceful purposes.
On Sunday, Iran’s parliament voted by a large majority to downgrade diplomatic relations with the UK in response to the recent action.
Stephen Schultz, a young fisherman from Marietta, Georgia, cheated death after a 600lb black marlin leapt out the water and speared him in the mouth with its sharp spear-like bill.
Stephen Schultz had been fishing off the coast of Pinas Bay, Panama, with his sister and father and was trying to reel in the monster catch when he was horrifically wounded.
The boy was sat on the edge of the boat and had hooked the thrashing marlin on to his line as his family watched.
Stephen Schultz, a young fisherman from Marietta, Georgia, cheated death after a 600lb black marlin leapt out the water and speared him in the mouth with its sharp spear-like bill
Few seconds after watching the giant fish leap into the air, the marlin is pulled towards the vessel and lunges towards Stephen Schultz, impaling him in the mouth with its giant sharp bill.
Stephen Schultz’s father can be heard shouting, “Oh my God”, as the huge fish falls off the side of the boat and back into the water.
The boy’s mouth was impaled during the accident, with the marlin’s sword piercing his cheek and nasal cavity.
Stephen Schultz was rushed to hospital after the horrific incident, as his family sailed back to Panama before he was flown 100 miles north to National Hospital in Panama City.
Amazingly, Stephen Schultz escaped the horrendous incident in 2008 without any scarring.
Stephen Schultz’s mouth was impaled during the accident, with the marlin's sword piercing his cheek and nasal cavity
Describing the moment he was impaled by the fish, Stephen Schultz said he had been wrestling with the marlin for 25 minutes before he was speared.
“He jumped once, facing away from the boat and turned around in mid-air; he was about 15 feet away; went back into the water, made one more jump toward the back of the boat and his bill struck me on the left side of the face and knocked me onto the ground.”
Stephen Schultz’ sister Alison, who filmed the accident, said: “I wasn’t too sure what happens when you go deep sea fishing.
“I wasn’t sure if they were supposed to be that close. So I was like, I’ll get this on film. Then it was in the boat. Before I could react, it was already at us. So I just kept rolling.”
Stephen Schultz’s father Robert added: “I’ve heard of people having marlins come up. Usually, they’re in control and they can jump in a vertical type of situation.
“It won’t be where they take a run at you. We thought we were safe.”
Nelson Novaes Neto, a Brazilian security expert has worked out a way to “friend” anyone using social network Facebook.
Nelson Novaes Neto showed at the Silver Bullet information security conference in Sao Paulo how he managed to convince a target – another web security expert called “SecGirl” – to add the fake profile he set up as a friend.
Being “friended” on Facebook not only leaves you open to spam – but often reveals details that could be used in identity theft attacks.
The expert’s research found that up to 80% of people would freely hand over crucial information such as a mother’s maiden name to “friends” on Facebook.
How this could happen? Creating another “cloned” Facebook account of someone that the security expert already knew on Facebook.
Many people have “culls” of friends every so often, so the idea that someone might be asking again isn’t so implausible.
Nelson Novaes Neto, a Brazilian security expert has worked out a way to “friend” anyone using social network Facebook
Nelson Novaes Neto created a fake account in the name of a manager of his target – an unnamed security expert.
He began by creating a fake Facebook profile of someone that his intended target “SecGirl” trusted – in this instance, her boss.
Nelson Novaes Neto then sent her a friend request and set about making the fake profile look legitimate.
Firstly, he sent friend requests to friends of friends of the boss from the cloned account – 432 in total.
Within one hour, 24 requests were accepted – even though almost all of them had the boss already added as a friend.
Nelson Novaes Neto then sent friend requests to 436 direct friends of the boss – he was accepted by a further 14 people within an hour.
After just seven hours, his cloned account’s friend request was accepted by the person he originally wanted to have access to, SecGirl.
The target was also conned into accepting a friend request of someone she was already friends with.
The implications of this manipulation of web privacy are huge.
“Once you have made friends with someone on Facebook,” Nelson Novaes Neto said, “it is possible to take over their account, by using the <<three trusted friends>> password recovery feature.”
One this is achieved, all it takes to have complete control of a Facebook account is changing the password and contact email address.
Nelson Novaes Neto said his experiment showed how criminals could use creativity on the web to hack accounts for illegal activity.
Nelson Novaes Neto told Brazilian newspaper UOL Noticias: “Social networks can be fantastic, but people make mistakes. Privacy is a matter of social responsibility.”
A Facebook spokesman told arstechnica.com that the experiment was a violation of the social network’s privacy policies.
Residents of the wealthy Upper West Side of Manhattan are outraged that their streets are being taken over multiple times each day for the 45-minute service as 200 Muslim cabbies are illegally parked outside a Mosque during a prayer service.
The Muslim taxi drivers are double and triple parking in a huge line that forces traffic into the oncoming lane.
The situation has flared up and on one occasion a cop telling a taxi driver to move on was swarmed by other hacks – and had to call for reinforcements.
When several other police cars arrived the taxi driver was handcuffed and led away.
Muslims have been parking illegally at the Islamic Cultural Centre for four years but the row has blown up because a road that connects to it that has been closed for the whole time has now reopened.
Muslim prayers take place five times a day but the busiest is on Fridays at lunchtime when up to 300 worshippers – and 200 taxi drivers – are in attendance.
Most of the taxi drivers appear unrepentant with one claiming: “I have to pray. I have no choice but to break the rules.”
Cabbie Abdoulaye Diallo, a 30-year-old immigrant from Guinea, told DNA info that he had got several $75 fines for parking illegally outside the mosque but he did not care.
“For me, my prayer is more important, because that’s what I’m going to take with me the day I die.”
Muslims have been parking illegally at the Islamic Cultural Centre for four years but the row has blown up because a road that connects to it that has been closed for the whole time has now reopened
Upper West Side residents however are increasingly anxious that they cannot cross the road safely.
“It’s an accident waiting to happen,” said James Beale, the resident manager at a Trump tower block that is next to the mosque.
“It’s a very dangerous situation. It’s like all the rules of the road are thrown aside,” James Beale told DNA info.
Abdur Rahman, an assistant imam at the mosque, said it had told worshippers to respect the parking rules but they had failed to do so.
But Abdur Rahman also claimed that the parking rules should be more flexible to accommodate worshippers’ needs.
US President Barack Obama got into the holiday spirit last night as the First Family lit up the new National Christmas Tree at White House.
President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters Sasha and Malia took the stage next to Santa Claus and Kermit the Frog and officially marked the start of the Christmas season with some carolling before they flipped the switch.
The 26ft Colorado blue spruce was planted in March on the Ellipse, a park that lies between the White House and the National Mall.
Strong winds in February toppled the previous tree, which stood in the park since 1978.
President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters Sasha and Malia took the stage next to Santa Claus and Kermit the Frog and officially marked the start of the Christmas season
In remarks delivered during the tree-lighting ceremony, attended by hundreds, Barack Obama briefly retold the story of the birth of Jesus Christ and linked the religious leader to his own faith.
“And He grew up to become a leader with a servant’s heart who taught us a message as simple as it is powerful: that we should love God, and love our neighbour as ourselves.
“That teaching has come to encircle the globe. It has endured for generations and today it lies at the heart of my Christian faith and that of millions of Americans,” President Obama said.
Barack Obama urged the crowd to be generous and to help others in need during the holidays.
“In this season of hope, let’s help those who need it most: the homeless, the hungry, the sick and shut-in,” Barack Obama said.
“In this season of plenty, let’s reach out to those who struggle to find work or provide for their families.”
President Barack Obama welcomed troops returning home in time for the holiday, and asked Americans to express their gratitude to service members.
“In this season of generosity, let’s give thanks and honour to our troops and our veterans and their families who’ve sacrificed so much for us,” he said.
Barack Obama was joined at the ceremony by his wife, Michelle; daughters Sasha and Malia; and mother-in-law Marian Robinson.
Before the ladies hit the switch, President Obama said: “This is the new tree. I know it’s not quite as big as the old tree. But it’s going to take time to grow. But we’re going to fill it up with some spirit and start a new tradition right now.”
Michelle Obama also took the stage to read Clement Clarke Moore’s poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas” with Muppet star Kermit the Frog and Santa Claus, as children gathered around.
The lighting ceremony, hosted by television’s Carson Daly, included performances of Christmas carols and tunes by pop group Big Time Rush, English singer Ellie Goulding, pop band OneRepublic, country singer Rodney Atkins, soul songstress Marsha Ambrosius and the Airmen of Note, a jazz ensemble of the United States Air Force.
The new National Christmas Tree was planted in March in a New Jersey nursery.
The ceremony marks the 89th holiday tree lighting.
The tradition began with President Calvin Coolidge in 1923.
One person was killed in just one of the 55 collisions in a chain-reaction crash after a small car ploughed into the back of a U.S. Mail truck on a fogbound highway near Nashville, Tennessee on Thursday.
It appeared the car struck stopped traffic during the morning commute, said Ray McLaughlin, a district chief with the Hendersonville Fire Department.
As the fog lifted, damaged vehicles could be seen along a mile of Vietnam Veterans Parkway in Hendersonville.
“I would compare it to a racetrack when there’s been a pileup,” Ray McLaughlin said.
“Everyone started bouncing off one another.”
One person was killed in just one of the 55 collisions in a chain-reaction crash after a small car ploughed into the back of a U.S. Mail truck on a fogbound highway near Nashville, Tennessee on Thursday
Ray McLaughlin said emergency workers counted 179 vehicles stopped at the crash scene, 55 of which had collided.
The dead man was Paul Warren, 28, of Hendersonville, according to Shawna Zodi, a spokeswoman for the Hendersonville Medical Centre.
Shawna Zodi said eight people were released after treatment for minor injuries.
Other than the one death, most of the injuries were neck and back complaints, Ray McLaughlin said.
Jim Carr, 41, of Hendersonville, said the curved overpass section of the highway had a thin layer of ice on it and the fog hindered people from stopping in time to avoid cars in front of them.
“Once you had contact, you just looked in your rear view mirror and held on tight,” Jim Carr said of the cars crashing into one another.
Jim Carr said after the wrecks, people got out of their cars and started checking other vehicles for injured passengers or drivers. He got out and tried to walk to the beginning of the pileup.
“The fog was so thick, I walked for a while but I didn’t see the end,” Jim Carr said.
Tom Johnstone, a forecaster with the National Weather Service office in Nashville, said the temperature in the region dropped to 25 degrees around the time of the crash occurred.
There were reports to the weather service of freezing fog and a raised section of the highway where the crash occurred had become slick.
Diana Denney, 57, was on her way to work in a café with her apron on when she saw the cars stopped in front of her. She pumped her brakes and came to a stop, but then her SUV was hit by other vehicles.
“I started hearing all this banging behind me,” Diana Denney said of the sound of the crashing vehicles.
“I have never been involved in a wreck like this.”
Jim Carr said he’s going to take more precaution next time.
“I think I’ll just go in late next time on a foggy day.”
Joe Amendola, the former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer, said yesterday that he would consider “possible alternatives” if more sexual abuse charges were filed against his client.
Joe Amendola said he had not discussed pleading guilty with Jerry Sandusky and that he still maintained he was innocent of charges against him.
Jerry Sandusky has been accused of 40 criminal accounts of abusing eight boys, some on the university campus, over 15 years.
Joe Amendola, the former Penn State assistant coach Jerry Sandusky's lawyer, said yesterday that he would consider “possible alternatives” if more sexual abuse charges were filed against his client
Joe Amendola said that Jerry Sandusky has never considered a plea in his case.
Jerry Sandusky, 67, is awaiting a preliminary hearing on the charges.
Joe Amendola said the topic of a guilty plea came up as a “what-if” question about potential additional charges – and that if more charges were filed, Jerry Sandusky would only then discuss the possibility of a plea.
Earlier this week, Jerry Sandusky was accused of sexually abusing a young boy more than 100 times after meeting him through his charity The Second Mile in the 1970s.
The 29-year-old new accuser, who is not part of the criminal case, said in a lawsuit that Jerry Sandusky threatened to harm his family to keep him quiet.
The accuser, identified only as John Doe, claimed he had never told anyone about the abuse until Jerry Sandusky was charged last month.
The alleged victim felt “tormented” after learning others were said to have been abused after him, according to a statement read out by his lawyer Jeff Anderson.
“I am hurting and have been for a long time because of what happened, but feel now even more tormented that I have learned of so many other kids were abused after me,” the man said.
The alleged victim became the first plaintiff to file suit in the Penn State child sex abuse scandal.
The lawsuit claimed Jerry Sandusky abused the boy in encounters at the coach’s home, in a Penn State locker room and on football game trips.
Jerry Sandusky has acknowledged that he showered with boys but denied molesting them.
Judy Lewis – the secret love child of Clark Gable and Loretta Young – has died of cancer aged 76.
Judy Lewis sensationally revealed in her 1994 memoir Uncommon Knowledge that she was conceived in 1935 when Loretta Young, 22, and the married Clark Gable, 34, were shooting the classic movie Call of the Wild.
Loretta Young, a single Catholic woman, concealed her pregnancy and placed her daughter in an orphanage at eight months. The actress brought her daughter into public view at 19 months, saying the girl was her adopted child.
Judy Lewis - the secret love child of Clark Gable and Loretta Young - has died of cancer aged 76
Terrified her secret would come out, Loretta Young did all she could to cover up clues about her daughter’s origins. There are no photographs of Judy Lewis up to two. Up to seven the photos show her wearing a bonnet.
Judy Lewis recalled: “My ears stuck out, just like my father’s did. So I had plastic surgery when I was seven. My surgeon had told my mother that an operation of this nature was extremely painful.
“He suggested it should wait until I was older. But she insisted.”
Judy Lewis saw her father, Clark Gable, who died in 1960, only once, when she was 15.
She said of the encounter: “As he left, he gave me a kiss on my forehead, but I didn’t know he was my father. I cry when I watch his films. Why didn’t he ride up on a white horse and rescue me?”
There is a Gone With The Wind scene where Clark Gable plays affectionately with his fictional daughter. “I like to imagine that he was thinking of me when he was playing those scenes,” Judy Lewis said.
She added that perhaps the famous “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” was a truer reflection of his feelings towards her.
“At the time, what Loretta Young did was completely successful,” said Leonard Maltin, a film critic and Hollywood historian.
“The general public never had any inkling that she had done this. It protected her stardom and her image as a wholesome young woman.”
Judy Lewis sensationally revealed in her 1994 memoir Uncommon Knowledge that she was conceived in 1935 when Loretta Young, 22, and the married Clark Gable, 34, were shooting the classic movie Call of the Wild
In 1940, Loretta Young married Thomas Lewis, and Judy Lewis took his surname – but she was never formally adopted by her stepfather.
“It was very difficult for me as a little girl not to be accepted … by my mother, who to this day will not publicly acknowledge that I am her biological child,” Judy Lewis said in 1994.
Loretta Young’s parenthood was an open secret in Hollywood but Judy Lewis’s friends had been instructed not to tell her.
It wasn’t until Judy Lewis’ wedding that her groom Joseph Tinney finally told her that Clark Gable was her father. She was 23.
Judy Lewis explained: “I grew up surrounded by rumours that Clark Gable was my father. Everyone knew who my parents were, even my closest friends, but no one dared tell me.
“It wasn’t until the night before I was to get married that my future husband told me who my father was. I had told him my suspicions about my mother being my real mother and that I didn’t know who my father was.
“He then said: <<I know everything. It’s common knowledge, Judy. Your father is Clark Gable>>.”
“Twenty-three years of my life had passed and everyone in the world knew about me – but me. I cried then. And I have been crying for most of my life,” said Judy Lewis, who had years of therapy.
Judy Lewis was born in Venice, California, and went on to perform on Broadway and TV in her own career.
She also produced the soap opera “Texas”, a spinoff of “Another World”. In the 1980s, Judy Lewis earned psychology degrees, advocating for children’s rights and counselling teenagers.
Judy Lewis later became a psychotherapist in Los Angeles, something she pursued until her illness. In 1994, she wrote “Uncommon Knowledge”, acknowledging her parentage publicly for the first time.
“The situation in which they found themselves in 1935 would not have posed such a problem in the Hollywood of today,” Judy Lewis wrote in the book.
Before Judy Lewis’ memoir was published, the identity of her parents had long been rumoured.
However, Leonard Maltin said the truth was never truly public until the memoir, in which Judy Lewis describes her mother telling her the truth in 1966.
In the book, Judy Lewis said Loretta Young told her then: “Well, he was your father. He was darling. Sweet and very gentle.
“He was married, so when I discovered I was pregnant with you, I was frantic and terrified. It would have ruined both our careers, a scandal like that.”
Loretta Young, one of Hollywood’s most glamorous screen goddesses of the Thirties and Forties, died in 2000 aged 87. Gable died in 1960 aged 59.
Judy Lewis, a psychotherapist and actress, of Palm Springs, California, died in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, on Friday. Her survivors include her daughter, three half-brothers and her partner, Steve Rowland.
Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church, an all-white church in Kentucky, has voted to ban interracial couples from joining.
Members of the Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church voted for the resolution after their Sunday service, which says the church “does not condone interracial marriage”.
The church member who crafted the resolution, Melvin Thompson, claims he is not racist and called the matter an “internal affair”.
“I am not racist. I will tell you that. I am not prejudiced against any race of people, have never in my lifetime spoke evil about a race,” said Melvin Thompson, the church’s former pastor who stepped down earlier this year.
“That’s what this is being portrayed as, but it is not.”
Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church, an all-white church in Kentucky, has voted to ban interracial couples from joining
Gulnare Free Will Baptist Church secretary Dean Harville disagrees, saying the resolution came after his daughter visited the church this summer with her boyfriend from Africa.
Stella Harville and Ticha Chikuni – now her fiance – visited the church in June and the man sang a song for the congregation. The two had visited the church before.
Stella Harville’s father said he was counting the church offering after a service in early August when he was approached by Melvin Thompson, who told him his daughter and her boyfriend were no longer allowed to sing at the church.
“If he’s not racist, what is this?” he said.
The vote by members last Sunday was 9-6, the father said. It was taken after the service, which about 35 to 40 people attended. The man said many people left or declined to vote.
The resolution says anyone is welcome to attend services, but interracial couples could not become members or be “used in worship services or other church functions”.
Stella Harville, 24, a graduate student at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana, called the vote “hurtful”.
“I think part of me is still in shock and trying to process what’s been going on the past few days,” Stella Harville said.
“I really hope they overturn this.”
Last night the church’s pastor, Stacy Stepp, said that he was against the resolution. Stacy Stepp said the denomination’s regional conference will begin working on resolving the issue this weekend.
The National Association of Free Will Baptists in Tennessee has no official position on interracial marriage for its 2,400 churches worldwide, executive secretary Keith Burden said.
The denomination believes the Bible is inerrant and local churches have autonomy over decision-making.
“It’s been a non-issue with us,” Keith Burden said, adding that many interracial couples attend Free Will Baptist churches.
Keith Burden said the Pike County church acted on its own. He said the association can move to strip the local church of its affiliation with the national denomination if it’s not resolved.
“Hopefully it is corrected quickly,” Keith Burden said.
Mark Moffett, a nature-lover has revealed how he spent two days tracking down a giant insect, weta, on a remote New Zealand island – and got it to eat a carrot out of his hand.
Mark Moffett, 53, from Colorado, found that giant weta, genus Deinacrida of the family Anostostomatidae, is the world’s biggest insect in terms of weight. The insect weighs 71g and is heavier than a sparrow and three times that of a mouse.
The former park ranger discovered the giant weta up a tree and his real life Bug’s Bunny has now been declared the largest ever found.
Mark Moffett came across the cricket-like creature, which has a wing span of 7 inches, after two days of searching on a tiny island.
Giant weta, genus Deinacrida of the family Anostostomatidae, is the world's biggest insect in terms of weight
Giant weta is only found on Little Barrier Island, in New Zealand, although there are 70 other types of smaller weta found throughout the country.
The giants of the species were wiped off the mainland by rats accidentally introduced by Europeans.
After Mark Moffett found the female giant weta he fed it the carrot before putting it back where he found her.
He said: “Three of us walked the trails of this small island for two nights scanning the vegetation for a giant weta.
“We spent many hours with no luck finding any at all, before we saw her up in a tree.
“The giant weta is the largest insect in the world, and this is the biggest one ever found, she weighs the equivalent to three mice.
“She enjoyed the carrot so much she seemed to ignore the fact she was resting on our hands and carried on munching away.
“She would have finished the carrot very quickly, but this is an extremely endangered species and we didn’t want to risk indigestion.
“After she had chewed a little I took this picture and we put her right back where we found her.”
“We bug lovers hear a lot of people who think insects are inferior in some way because of their size, so it was great to see such a big insect.
“This became all the more amazing when we realized that this was the largest insect recorded.”
Giant weta is usually less social and more passive than other weta.
The insect’s diet consists of plants, other small insects and fruit.
Giant weta’ size is an example of island gigantism, which is a biological phenomenon leading to a larger size than their mainland relatives because of their isolation and lack of large predators.
Santa was embarrassed when his beard and hair got stuck in rope while repelling into Palm Beach Gardens Mall, Florida, while horrified children watch.
A man dressed as jolly old St Nicholas was supposed to make a grand entrance at Palm Beach Gardens Mall, Florida.
Instead, the man managed to get his beard tangled in the rope, losing the beard -and his hat – entirely.
It was trouble from the get-go when Santa hesitated and fumbled before clumsily going over the ledge.
An elf helper tried to get Santa off to a good start.
Santa was embarrassed when his beard and hair got stuck in rope while repelling into Palm Beach Gardens Mall, Florida, while horrified children watch
What followed was nearly three minutes of Santa – still suspended in mid-air – trying to descend down to the stage after his beard got tangled in the rappelling equipment.
Santa bounced around and at one point scissor-kicked to try and loosen the stubborn rope.
The elf looked on, helpless at Santa’s plight.
A lone child hopefully cried out: “Santa!”
Two announcers commenting on the event didn’t help the awkward entrance.
“Everybody cheer, everybody cheer Santa on!” the female announcer said to the crowd.
“I think if you guys sing nice and loud, you can help Santa come down!”
The announcer also told the horrified children: “Magic can happen!”
She also encouraged children to sing along with a rendition of “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.”
The hilarious video has over 35,000 hits on YouTube.
The European Union has agreed on new sanctions on 180 Iranian officials and firms over Tehran’s controversial nuclear programme.
EU ministers meeting in Brussels also agreed to work on other measures that could target Iran’s energy sector.
The new sanctions follow a UN report linking Iran to the development of a nuclear weapon. Iran denies the claims.
The EU measures also come two days after hundreds of Iranian protesters stormed the UK embassy in Tehran.
Britain announced on Wednesday it was expelling all Iranian diplomats from London, after pulling its own out of Tehran.
The European Union has agreed on new sanctions on 180 Iranian officials and firms over Tehran's controversial nuclear programme
A spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said that the new sanctions would target 39 people and 141 companies and would include the freezing of assets and travel bans.
EU ministers said in a statement: “The council agreed to broaden existing sanctions by examining, in close co-ordination with international partners, additional measures including measures aimed at severely affecting the Iranian financial system, in the transport sector, in the energy sector.”
Foreign ministers failed to agree on an oil embargo against Iran because some EU countries are dependent on Iranian oil.
Ministers said a decision on future measures would be taken no later than January.
EU officials say the latest sanctions are not linked to the storming of the British Embassy in Tehran on Tuesday.
However, ministers denounced the attack and said the EU would take “appropriate measures in response”.
The EU statement did not specify what those would be.
Ahead of the Brussels talks, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said he wanted “an intensification of the economic pressure”, particularly the isolation of Iran’s financial sector.
Last week the US, Canada and the UK announced new sanctions against Iran in the wake of the report from the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), that said Iran had carried out tests related to “development of a nuclear device”.
Iran insists that its nuclear programme is solely for peaceful purposes.
The 27-member EU has already frozen the assets of hundreds of Iranian companies and has adopted measures to prevent new investment and technological assistance to Iran’s gas producing and refining industry.
The EU is yet to release details about the 180 officials and entities targeted by the sanctions.
Despite the IAEA report, Iran was not referred to the UN Security Council because Russia and China were opposed to the move.
Iran expressed regret for the attack on the UK embassy – and another UK diplomatic compound in Tehran – and said a number of protesters had been arrested.
However, the semi-official Fars news agency said on Thursday that police had freed 11 people held over the attacks. There was no explanation for their release.
Valeska Paris, a former Scientologist has claimed she was imprisoned by Church of Scientology for 12 years on board a cruise liner after her family denounced the religion.
Valeska Paris says she was held against her will aboard the church’s luxury “cathedral” ship The Freewinds from the age of 18.
The woman, who now lives in Australia, alleges she was forced into hard labour and was never allowed to leave the ship without an escort.
Valeska Paris, a former Scientologist has claimed she was imprisoned by Church of Scientology for 12 years on board a cruise liner after her family denounced the religion
In an interview with the ABC News Lateline program, Valeska Paris claims Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige sent her to the ship to stop her family from pulling her out of the organization.
“I was basically hauled in and told that my mum had attacked the church and that I needed to disconnect from her because she was suppressive,” Valeska Paris said.
“He decided the ship, and I found out two hours before my plane left, I was woken up in the morning and I was sent to the ship for <<two weeks>.”
Instead of the promised two week stay, Valeska Paris said she was forced into work on the lower levels of the ship for 12 years.
“It’s hot, it’s extremely loud, it’s smelly, it’s not nice. I was sent down there at first for 48 hours straight on almost no sleep and I had to work by myself,” Valeska Paris said.
“I did not want to be there, I made it clear I did not want to be there and that was considered bad ethics, meaning it was considered not right.
“They take your passport when you go on the ship and you’re in the middle of an island. So it’s a bit hard [to escape] and by that time I was 18, I’d been in Scientology my whole life, it’s not like I knew how to escape,” Valeska Paris said.
Valeska Paris was born into a Scientology family in Switzerland, and at the age of six she moved to Scientology’s UK headquarters in East Grinstead, where she was placed in its then youth wing.
At 14 Valeska Paris joined the Church’s elite Sea Organization, signing a contract binding her for a billion years, a commitment that would override her bond with her own family.
Valeska Paris’ mother had denounced Scientology on French TV after her ex-husband Albert Jaquier committed suicide.
A self-made millionaire, Albert Jaquier’s last days were spent in poverty, and in a diary he kept he blamed the Church of Scientology for fleecing him of his fortune.
Valeska Paris says the church was so worried her mother would take her away that David Miscavige intervened, ordering she be taken to the church’s cruise ship.
Valeska Paris described David Miscavige as a psychopath and says he should be put on trial.
“It’s not right for someone to be running the church and basically take advantage of a church and hiding behind religion to live like a king and abuse people around him. That man doesn’t like anyone, he’s a psychopath,” Valeska Paris said.
The Freewinds is used as a base to deliver Scientology’s highest level counseling course known as Operating Thetan Level VIII.
It cruises around the Caribbean docking at small islands. The Church says ships have religious significance to Scientologists because its founder L Ron Hubbard, had researched and ministered the first Operating Thetan levels aboard a ship.
A Scientology promotional video says the ship “stands at the forefront of a growing worldwide movement towards spiritual advancement transporting Scientologists to new realms of freedom”.
In a statement, the Church of Scientology denied Valeska Paris’ claims.
The church said: “She certainly wasn’t <<forced>> to be there. She was also never forced to perform labour in the engine room.
“The Freewinds is a wonderful place, as even Valeska said on numerous occasions. Her allegation that she could only leave the ship with an escort is totally false.”
The Church of Scientology is famous for attracting a celebrity following, particularly among Hollywood’s elite.
Among Church of Scientology’s devotees are Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes and John Travolta.
American First Lady Michelle Obama revealed White House Christmas decorations for this holiday season.
American First Dog Bo is upstaging the Christmas decorations at the White House in 2011.
This year, the Obamas’ Portuguese water dog is in almost every room of the ground and State floors, ranging from a miniature licorice and marshmallow version to a felt design four-and-a-half feet tall.
Michelle Obama welcomed military families to the first viewing of the decorations.
American First Lady Michelle Obama revealed White House Christmas decorations for this holiday season
“Shine, Give, Share” is the theme for the Obama family’s third Christmas in the mansion.
The theme translates throughout the public viewing space from gold foil leaf trimming to shiny quartz ornaments.
First Dog Bo made a special appearance in the State Dining Room as military children created holiday ornaments and decorated cookies.
Several decorations honour military families including a Gold Star Families Tree with ceramic gold ornaments carrying personalized messages by families. Tour visitors can also create handwritten notes for the troops.
The usual masterpiece of Christmas at the White House is the official tree, an 18-and-a-half-foot tall balsam fir in the Blue Room. The Christmas tree at White House is decorated with holiday cards created by military children, medals, badges and patches from all the military branches.
“I want to thank all of the troops, all of our veterans and all of our military families,” Michelle Obama said at the unveiling.
“Your service and sacrifice inspire us all.”
The Red Room of White House features fruit, foliage and flowers set in pepperberry- and cranberry-covered vases and a nine-and-a-half-inch tall Bo replica made of buttons.
Denver caterer and event planner David Bondarchuck, who designed the Green Room decorations, said he wanted to enhance the “simple beauty” of the room. “I didn’t want to overdo it,” David Bondarchuck said.
The room was decorated with various hues of green with a bit of “sparkle and shine” including pine cones, twigs, and clear and silver ornaments, David Bondarchuck said.
Bo made a special appearance in the State Dining Room as military children created holiday ornaments and decorated cookies with the White House chefs Cristeta Comerford and Bill Yosses, and White House florist Laura Dowling.
Michelle Obama drew a laugh from the crowd when she said Bo, “the most famous member of the Obama family,” has been a little confused walking around the house and seeing himself in “gigantic form”.
A total of 37 Christmas trees and a 400lb White House made of gingerbread, white chocolate and marzipan also decorate the executive mansion. Some of the handcrafted decorations are made of paper, felt and recycled cans.
Approximately 85,000 visitors are expected to tour the Christmas decorations this December, the White House said.
Nearly 100 holiday volunteers from across the country assisted with the decorations, transforming 16 distinct spaces into works of art.
Tomorrow, the Black Eyed Peas and Kermit the Frog will join the festivies, and the lineup of performers who will help light the National Christmas Tree near the White House.
Carson Daly will host the lighting ceremony, introducing performers including Big Time Rush, Ellie Goulding, the band OneRepublic, country star Rodney Atkins and singer Marsha Ambrosius.
President Barack Obama and his family will officially light the tree.
This will be the 89th year for the holiday tree lighting. The tradition began with President Calvin Coolidge in 1923.
This is the first lighting of a new National Christmas Tree that was planted in March.
It’s a 26-foot-tall Colorado blue spruce from a New Jersey tree nursery. Strong winds in February toppled the last tree that had stood on the Ellipse since 1978.
George Loader from Arizona has been accused of killing and chopping up a man he suspected of molesting his daughter.
George Loader, 34, is alleged to have scattered the dismembered body parts in the desert after first trying to dispose of them by burning them.
Police found the victim’s head and limbs in separate bags which had dumped on a dirt road in rural Kingman in Arizona.
When police searched George Loader’s home they found a bag of human hair, a box of blood-soaked towels, multiple knives, and a shotgun.
The grisly killing is alleged to have been carried out at the home George Loader shared with girlfriend and three year old daughter and three other children.
A family member tipped off police George Loader had allegedly killed a man called “John” who was staying at his home.
George Loader from Arizona has been accused of killing and chopping up a man he suspected of molesting his daughter
The relative told police George Loader “lost it” when his three-year-old daughter told him that John had touched her in a sexual manner.
George Loader is alleged to have killed the man, who police believe was recently released from prison, in the garage by blasting him at close range with a shotgun.
The victim’s remains were burnt before being placed in trash sacks and dumped.
“The remains were badly burned, and the victim had been decapitated and had limbs removed from his torso,” court documents stated.
Police spokeswoman Trish Carter said the sheriff’s office was withholding the victim’s identity until the medical examiner’s office could positively identify the remains.
George Loader has been charged with first degree murder.
The children living with George Loader have been taken into care by social workers.
Kris Humphries wants to annul his 72-day marriage to Kim Kardashian, as being a fraud.
NBA star Kris Humphries, 26, is seeking to erase marriage to reality star Kim Kardashian, 31, on the grounds of fraud, and filed the papers yesterday.
According to People, Kris Humphries’ Superior Court filing has the box reading “nullity of voidable marriage” marked and checks as the basis the box saying “fraud”.
According to California law, a nullity is granted if the court finds that no valid marriage ever took place.
Along with fraud, grounds for an annulment include bigamy, incest, force or if the couple are under the age of consent.
Kris Humphries’s papers say that if he’s not granted an annulment then he wants a legal separation and not a divorce under any circumstances.
Kris Humphries agrees on the date of separation, however, which he also lists as October 31.
Kris Humphries wants to annul his 72-day marriage to Kim Kardashian, as being a fraud
Annulments can be difficult to obtain, with a legal expert telling the publication that Kris Humphries will likely have to prove that fraud was actually committed.
But Kim Kardashian is telling her friends that she absolutely loved Kris Humphries and the marriage just fell apart, according to TMZ, so she’s unlikely to agree with this assessment.
Kardashian family lawyer Scott Weston, who is not dealing with the celebrity couple, said Kim Kardashian will probably fight the matter “unless she’s willing to agree that she defrauded him”.
It could mean Kris Humphries and Kim Kardashian will end up in a bitter court battle.
“[Kris] is sensitive to marriage both emotionally and religiously,” a source told People, adding that the move is “symbolic” rather than financially motivated.
“He went into it in good faith and never expected things to turn out this way,” says the source.
Kim Kardashian filed for divorce from Kris Humphries on October 31, citing irreconcilable differences.
Their troubles seemed to start immediately after their wedding and were on display in the season premiere of Kourtney & Kim Take New York.
Kim Kardashian had made no secret of her wedding dreams long before she’d even met Kris Humphries, but now feels that she has to be more realistic when it comes to men.
In an interview with US Glamour magazine, Kim Kardashian said: “I’ll always be a hopeless romantic. It means that I believe and love and the dream of having a perfect relationship, but my idea of it has changed.
“I think I need to not live in a fairytale like that. I think I maybe need to just snap out of it and be a little more realistic. What I want isn’t possible.”
While her sister Kourtney Kardashian has just announced she is pregnant with her second child, Kim fears she may never become a mother.
Kim Kardashian said: “I always wanted what my parents had. And at first I was like, I want six kids. Then I went down to four, then I was down to three, and now I’m just like, maybe I won’t have any. Maybe I’ll just be a good aunt.
“At this moment in my life, I feel like maybe I’m not supposed to have kids and all that. That’s how I feel. Maybe my fairytale has a different ending than I dreamed it would, but that’s OK.”
NBC news presenter Brian Williams proved a more-than-steady anchor for the station Tuesday night when he calmly continued his live broadcast through a fire alarm.
Brian Williams barely batted an eyelid when a siren went off in the channel’s 30 Rock studio in New York moments into the Nightly News show.
The newsreader had just started a report about American Airlines filing for bankruptcy when he was interrupted by a drone followed by an automated voice announcement.
But Brian Williams maintained his composure, only once or twice flicking his eyes upwards, as he carried on with the segment.
At one point, as the noise continued, Brian Williams offered an easy chuckle and reassured viewers he was in no danger before reading on.
Brian Williams said: “Forgive us. We have a fire alarm announcement going on here in the studio.”
Brian Williams barely batted an eyelid when a siren went off in the channel's 30 Rock studio in New York moments into the Nightly News show
Very quickly, viewers began reacting on Twitter, asking why someone couldn’t turn off the alarm quicker, while others praised Brian Williams’ cool-headedness.
David Loughran said: “Brian Williams is rewriting the definition of professionalism tonight.”
Brian Williams eventually handed over to his colleague Tom Costello in the channel’s Washington office in the hope the now-high-pitched siren would be fixed in the meantime.
But the alarm buzzed on, through the Herman Cain story and through the lead-in to a story about the siege at the British Embassy in Iran.
Brian Williams took a commercial break, but when he came back so did the alarm.
Each time, Brian Williams kept his cool, reminding viewers everything was fine, even as his voice was again overwhelmed by the sound as he introduced a piece on Mexican drug wars.
Finally, three-quarters of the way through the program, the alarm fell silent.
As for the cause, NBC’s PR spokeswoman Erika Masonhall tweeted an explanation: “This is the first fire alarm in our new NBC Nightly News studio.
“System should have been shut off – but clearly still working out the kinks.”
As he closed the program, Brian Williams said: “With thanks for your co-operation. We hope to get all quiet and see you here tomorrow night.”
Arthur Morgan III from Ocean Township, New Jersey, was arrested in San Diego, California, on suspicion of murdering his two-year-old daughter by tossing her into a creek still strapped into her car seat.
Arthur Morgan III was captured a week after he allegedly murdered Tierra Morgan-Glover in a New Jersey park while on a court-approved visit.
New Jersey prosecutors today said they will move quickly to extradite Arthur Morgan, who had sparked a nationwide manhunt after fleeing the state.
The father was being held early today in California, but it was not clear when an extradition hearing would be scheduled.
Arthur Morgan III was captured a week after he allegedly murdered Tierra Morgan-Glover in a New Jersey park while on a court-approved visit
Arthur Morgan’s arrest came just hours after his daughter’s funeral at the Cathedral International in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
The man had been due to take his daughter to see the animated film Happy Feet Two on Monday, November 21.
Arthur Morgan was legally-obliged to return Tierra by 9:00 p.m., but when he did not come back her mother, Imani Benton, called the police.
Imani Benton learned of his arrest when she arrived at a friend’s home yesterday evening and heard people cheering.
Tierra Morgan-Glover was found face down in a stream, still strapped in her car seat, at Shark River in Wall, New Jersey.
An autopsy revealed the little girl was alive when she was tossed into the water.
On Tuesday, three people carried Tierra Morgan-Glover’s tiny coffin into the cathedral while a minister followed with a large stuffed teddy bear.
Tierra Morgan-Glover was found face down in a stream, still strapped in her car seat, at Shark River in Wall, New Jersey
During a videotaped eulogy, Bishop Donald Hilliard Jr. tried to comfort mourners.
“As she was placed into that creek, an angel caught her,” Bishop Donald Hilliard Jr. said.
“She did not suffer at all.”
The mother was helped into the church, supported on either side by relatives.
Imani Benton clutched a bouquet of purple and white roses, which were later placed on the child’s three-foot-long white casket.
Tierra Morgan-Glover was wearing a white dress and had several gold bracelets on her wrist.
Arthur Morgan, who has since been charged with his daughter murder, met Imani Benton, 24, at a supermarket to take the girl out for the rest of the day, it was reported.
A 15-year-old boy was one of three teenagers who saw Tierra Morgan-Glover’s hand sticking out of the creek and realized it was that of a child. Park rangers then called police.
The creek, about 20 miles north of where Tierra Morgan-Glover lived, is up to 7 feet deep in the area where the body was found, near an overpass 15 feet above the creek.
Around 100 neighbours and friends gathered outside Tierra Morgan-Glover’s home last Wednesday for a candlelight vigil in memory of the little girl.
A visibly distressed Imani Benton cried out repeatedly: “She was my baby girl.”
Speaking through tears, Tierra Morgan-Glover’s grandmother, Michelle Simmons, told mourners last week: “I appreciate all the neighbours,” it was reported on patch.com.
Michelle Simmons added: “I hope that he is caught and justice is served.”
Sanford Ziff, a Miami millionaire philanthropist and the founder of Sunglass Hut is hoping to scrape his recently-deceased wife’s name off of the city’s Ballet Opera house in order to make room for the name of his new younger wife.
Sanford Ziff, 86, and he and his wife of 15 years, Dolores, were well-known for their charitable giving throughout Miami.
Just months after Dolores died this January, Sanford Ziff married his new girlfriend Baroness Beatrice Clancy, 68.
In the months following their July nuptials, Sanford Ziff publicly expressed his desire to change the name of the city’s Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House in the Arsht Center for performing arts.
“I’m considering name changes, especially at the Arsht Center,” Sanford Ziff told The Miami Herald.
“I haven’t quite decided yet. I still have to confer with the board.”
Sanford Ziff, 86, married Baroness Beatrice Clancy, 68
Calls to the Arsht Center went unreturned, and there is no word yet whether the name change has been approved, but Sanford Ziff seems to think it won’t be a problem.
“I gave $10million to the Arsht Center, so I don’t expect it to be a problem. My friends have been wonderful about me getting married.”
Before Dolores Ziff’s death of pneumonia on January 11, she was widely lauded as one of the city’s best-known members of high-society, recognized for her charitable giving to the arts and education.
Little is known of Baroness Beatrice Clancy- including what region of the world she claims her title from- but the blonde was known for her role in an unidentified 80’s sit-com.
The one thing that is certain is that Beatrice Clancy’s love life has earned her some harsh headlines in the past.
In October, Beatrice Clancy was named in a lawsuit disputing the proper distribution of the will of Bernard Schoninger, a deceased millionaire developer, with his lawyers claiming she swindled the dying man out of millions.
The suit over Bernard Schoninger’s money, which has lasted since he died of lung cancer in 2003, said that Beatrice Clancy “abused Schoninger’s trust… coerced him into conveying millions of dollars to her… with his credit cards, department store charge cards and bank accounts”.
That hasn’t put a damper on Sanford Ziff’s love for her, as he denied any knowledge of any wrong doing.
“I don’t know anything about the lawsuit. But I know that my wife is the most generous, caring and giving person I ever met,” Sanford Ziff said at the time.
The move is being viewed as callous and insensitive of Sanford Ziff, and many local journalists and bloggers have written out against the move.
There has been no official comment from the former-couple’s son, one of Dolores Ziff’ three other sons from previous relationships did speak out.
Dolores Ziff’ son Barr Keator told The Miami Herald said he was “shocked and offended he’d [Ziff] even consider this. My mother moved him to supporting the Arsht project. She had the society connections”.
If the board eventually does approve, the name-changes may not end there. The former couple also leant their name to the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Family College of education at Florida International University.
Richard Garritson, a San Diego County runner described the terrifying moment he was savaged by a pack of pit bulls as he jogged on a trail.
Richard Garritson, 21, and his 20-year-old brother, John, were attacked by the dogs about a mile from their home.
The man said he was running ahead of his sisters, Meagan Garritson, 18, and Shelby Garritson, 15, and his nine-year-old niece, when at least six dogs attacked. One bit his leg and a second grabbed his other leg, knocking him down.
Richard Garritson yelled for his sister to run as he tried to fight off the dogs which surrounded him. They snapped at his legs and arms. One bit him under his armpit.
Richard Garritson, a San Diego County runner described the terrifying moment he was savaged by a pack of pit bulls as he jogged on a trail
He told the San Diego Union-Tribune: “I was dripping blood from all over – my shirt, socks, shoes.”
“I was terrified,” Richard Garritson said.
“I thought I was going to die. They just kept biting at my legs and thighs.”
Richard Garritson, who already had run three miles, was running out of energy and yelled for his brother, who grabbed a stick and tried to fend off the dogs.
His brother also was attacked as the dogs kept rushing between the two brothers, Richard Garritson said.
He said the brothers knew where the dogs lived and they yelled for the owner, who managed to get all but three dogs into the house.
The dog’s owner finally put a leash on one of the larger dogs and the others broke off the attack, Richard Garritson said.
The brothers walked to a neighbour’s house and a woman there called county sheriff’s deputies.
“We could barely hold ourselves up,” Richard Garritson said.
Richard Garritson, who comes from a family of competitive runners, said his doctor told him that he probably will be able to run again even though he lost chunks from his lower legs.
His brother, John Garritson, suffered less serious bites to his legs. Their two sisters and young niece were not attacked.
Four dogs, all seven-month-old pit bull mixes, were destroyed at the owner’s request, county animal control Lieutenant Dan DeSousa said.
As CBS8 reports, the other two dogs were not destroyed, with authorities citing an early investigation.
The department continues to investigate and will decide whether to pursue charges against the owner, who has not been named Dan DeSousa said.
