What's the news across the nation, we have got the information....
As long as I'm borrowing the subject from the old theme for the news on "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In", I might as well supply a clip or two.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ8Vrvy0VeE
Lindsay Lohan is supposed to be in rehab. She apparently isn't at this hour, and may wind up doing her 90 days in a gray-bar hotel run by L.A. County.
The brush fire in Camarillo has now consumed more than 6,500 acres and the South Coast Air Quality Management District has declared the air in and around the fire to be "unsafe".
She's known as Joanne Chesimard and Assata Shakur, and she's been on the run since escaping from prison in 1979. She was serving a life sentence following her conviction on a charge of murder, in a case where her supporters say she was standing with her hands in the air. The reason she's in the headlines today is because the FBI has added her to the most wanted terrorist list and doubled the reward for her capture to $2,000,000. Shakur has been living in Cuba since being granted asylum there in 1984.
The Better Business Bureau's Los Angeles area chapter was expelled from the national organization, and now they (the national people) are running a "virtual" BBB here in Southern California, while the former management of the local chapter has set up a 'clone' version of a BBB. Only time will tell if either can overcome the tainting of the brand caused by their pay for play ratings scandal from last year.
A rookie NFL player drafted by the 49ers showed up in San Francisco, having bought his own ticket to get there. And he was promptly sent home, because if he'd shown up at their training facility, he would have made himself ineligible to attend a rookie mini-camp that starts next week. But the team likes his initiative.
A substitute teacher in Oklahoma is in hot water after using serial killer Ted Bundy and "Creepy John" the peeping Tom as part of geometry questions on a quiz. The school where he was substituting won't let him return there, and his future with the school district is unclear.
Lancome makes a foundation make-up that is supposed to last 24 hours. It's even called 24 Hour Foundation. Now they're being sued by an Orthodox Jewish woman who claims it doesn't last the full 24 hours and that was the only reason she had purchased it. She wanted to look good for the duration of the Sabbath, during which religious law prohibits her from applying make-up. She says the foundation "faded significantly" overnight. Lancome says the lawsuit is without merit.
A few excerpts from a judge's ruling in a lawsuit over a city's ordinance requiring "dancers" to wear bikini tops while "dancing":
"An ordinance dealing with semi-nude dancers has once again fallen into the city's lap"
"The City of San Antonio ("City") wants exotic dancers employed by Plantiffs to wear larger pieces of fabric to cover more of the female breast. Thus, the age old question before the Court, now with constitutional implications, is: Does size matter?"
"Plaintiffs clothe themselves in the First Amendment seeking to provide cover against another alleged naked grab of unconstitutional power."
"Plaintiffs, and by extension their customers, seek an erection of a constitutional wall separating themselves from the regulatory power of City government."
You can read the entire ruling here: www.scribd.com/doc/139072525/Judge-s-Entertaining-Order-in-Strip-Club-Case
Jeff Hanneman, founding guitarist of Slayer has died at age 49.
Next week, there will be an event designed to publicize an exception to the Fair Labor Standards Act that allows agencies that employ home healthcare workers to pay sub-minimum wages and to avoid having to comply with federal law concerning overtime pay. President Obama pledged to close this loophole in 2011, but has done nothing to achieve that aim. A Department of Labor spokesman declined a request for an interview.
The man that a new documentary film claims is a long-lost American Green Beret who was thought to have died in Vietnam is apparently an impostor. That's the word from Defense Department's POW/Missing Personnel Office.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ8Vrvy0VeE
Lindsay Lohan is supposed to be in rehab. She apparently isn't at this hour, and may wind up doing her 90 days in a gray-bar hotel run by L.A. County.
The brush fire in Camarillo has now consumed more than 6,500 acres and the South Coast Air Quality Management District has declared the air in and around the fire to be "unsafe".
She's known as Joanne Chesimard and Assata Shakur, and she's been on the run since escaping from prison in 1979. She was serving a life sentence following her conviction on a charge of murder, in a case where her supporters say she was standing with her hands in the air. The reason she's in the headlines today is because the FBI has added her to the most wanted terrorist list and doubled the reward for her capture to $2,000,000. Shakur has been living in Cuba since being granted asylum there in 1984.
The Better Business Bureau's Los Angeles area chapter was expelled from the national organization, and now they (the national people) are running a "virtual" BBB here in Southern California, while the former management of the local chapter has set up a 'clone' version of a BBB. Only time will tell if either can overcome the tainting of the brand caused by their pay for play ratings scandal from last year.
A rookie NFL player drafted by the 49ers showed up in San Francisco, having bought his own ticket to get there. And he was promptly sent home, because if he'd shown up at their training facility, he would have made himself ineligible to attend a rookie mini-camp that starts next week. But the team likes his initiative.
A substitute teacher in Oklahoma is in hot water after using serial killer Ted Bundy and "Creepy John" the peeping Tom as part of geometry questions on a quiz. The school where he was substituting won't let him return there, and his future with the school district is unclear.
Lancome makes a foundation make-up that is supposed to last 24 hours. It's even called 24 Hour Foundation. Now they're being sued by an Orthodox Jewish woman who claims it doesn't last the full 24 hours and that was the only reason she had purchased it. She wanted to look good for the duration of the Sabbath, during which religious law prohibits her from applying make-up. She says the foundation "faded significantly" overnight. Lancome says the lawsuit is without merit.
A few excerpts from a judge's ruling in a lawsuit over a city's ordinance requiring "dancers" to wear bikini tops while "dancing":
"An ordinance dealing with semi-nude dancers has once again fallen into the city's lap"
"The City of San Antonio ("City") wants exotic dancers employed by Plantiffs to wear larger pieces of fabric to cover more of the female breast. Thus, the age old question before the Court, now with constitutional implications, is: Does size matter?"
"Plaintiffs clothe themselves in the First Amendment seeking to provide cover against another alleged naked grab of unconstitutional power."
"Plaintiffs, and by extension their customers, seek an erection of a constitutional wall separating themselves from the regulatory power of City government."
You can read the entire ruling here: www.scribd.com/doc/139072525/Judge-s-Entertaining-Order-in-Strip-Club-Case
Jeff Hanneman, founding guitarist of Slayer has died at age 49.
Next week, there will be an event designed to publicize an exception to the Fair Labor Standards Act that allows agencies that employ home healthcare workers to pay sub-minimum wages and to avoid having to comply with federal law concerning overtime pay. President Obama pledged to close this loophole in 2011, but has done nothing to achieve that aim. A Department of Labor spokesman declined a request for an interview.
The man that a new documentary film claims is a long-lost American Green Beret who was thought to have died in Vietnam is apparently an impostor. That's the word from Defense Department's POW/Missing Personnel Office.
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