Lamar Odom was in car crash days before being busted for DUI and other eye-catching headlines
Turns out that days before he was arrested on suspicion of DUI, Lamar Odom was involved in a three-car accident on the same freeway where he got busted. Not only that, but one of the drivers involved is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times.
Today is the final day in office for San Diego mayor Bob Filner. A special election to replace him will be held on November 19th. If no candidate in that election wins 50% of the vote, there will be a runoff between the two highest finishers. City Council president Todd Gloria will serve as interim mayor until a successor is elected and sworn in.
A woman walked into her Manhattan Beach home and found two men robbing the place. They tied her up and held her at gunpoint for several hours.
Aayan Gries finally got evicted from the house on "Big Brother" (even if I'd wanted to watch, which I didn't, my cable provider doesn't air CBS stations these days) and tried to defend her numerous racists remarks by saying she's from Texas and "...we say things that...sometimes we joke and don't mean it." She will continue to be isolated from the outside world and has no idea she's lost her modeling gig.
Meanwhile, you can call CBS the home of "Big Brother" and the home of the double standard, as several of their sit-coms use racist jokes and the network won't even address those.
Shellie Zimmerman, wife of George Zimmerman says their marriage is "on shaky ground." It couldn't be he was afraid to risk his life by visiting her in jail, she got only probation and community service for perjuring herself during his bail hearing.
Fast food chains Carl's Jr., Little Caesar's and Jack in the Box were rated as the least desirable places to work by their employees in a recent survey. One of the employee complaints was "Little Caesar's pay card deducts money with every swipe."
The state of Ohio is seeking to have a lawsuit filed by family members of a woman who was supposed to get one of her brother's kidneys, but a part-time nurse threw away the healthy kidney after it had been removed.
The late Albert "Cubby" Broccoli offered the role of James Bond to Dick Van Dyke back in the 1960s, but then withdrew the offer after remembering how awful Van Dyke's English accent from "Mary Poppins" was.
British tennis professional Dan Evans called a medical time-out while playing the U.S. Open, because of a bad case of nipple chafing. Reporter's note: I have sympathy for the man. When I ran the 1994 America's Finest City Half-Marathon, my nipples got chafed so badly that they actually bled and ruined my favorite racing t-shirt.
ABC's Phoenix affiliate, ABC 15 has performed a major public service to recently wedded couples. Upon learning that a local company that shot wedding videos had gone out of business, their reporter set out to locate those who'd shot the videos, get them back and then match them up with their rightful owners. So far, 24 of the 170 videos they recovered have been "reunited" with the happy couples who thought they'd never see them again.
North Korea has withdrawn an invitation to the U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights to travel there to seek a pardon for an American sentenced to 15 years at hard labor.
A Vietnamese man who tried to smuggle fish into New Zealand from Australia faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $78,000. He was caught at the airport when officials noticed water leaking from his trouser pockets.
Kate Middleton is drawing oohs and ahhs from the lightning fast return of her trim figure post-pregnancy.
Freddie Laker is the name of a man who has raised $1.5 million for a start-up that features dogs and cats reading the news. It's not the same man who was a pioneer in the low-cost airfare industry.
A soldier who had just returned from four years of service overseas surprised his family at a minor league baseball game. His wife and kids were invited to the game by his sister and they were at home plate when three people in hot dog costumes raced toward them. One of them removed the head of the costume and it was the soldier himself.
A Colorado woman and her daughter will spend a good stretch in the "gray-bar hotel" for their roles in a scam that bilked 374 victims in 40 countries out of money that wound up in Nigeria. Karen Vasseur and her daughter Tracy Vasseur convinced their mostly female victims that they were wiring money to U.S. soldiers assigned duty in Afghanistan.
One of the way that FEMA will be tracking the danger level of approaching hurricanes is something they refer to as the "Waffle House Index".
Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio is going to have his operations overseen by a monitor appointed by a federal judge.
A judge has ordered a long-term hold be placed on Amanda Bynes, with her mother's conservatorship to continue. The hold is for up to one year, but it is only expected to last for a few months.
Today is the final day in office for San Diego mayor Bob Filner. A special election to replace him will be held on November 19th. If no candidate in that election wins 50% of the vote, there will be a runoff between the two highest finishers. City Council president Todd Gloria will serve as interim mayor until a successor is elected and sworn in.
A woman walked into her Manhattan Beach home and found two men robbing the place. They tied her up and held her at gunpoint for several hours.
Aayan Gries finally got evicted from the house on "Big Brother" (even if I'd wanted to watch, which I didn't, my cable provider doesn't air CBS stations these days) and tried to defend her numerous racists remarks by saying she's from Texas and "...we say things that...sometimes we joke and don't mean it." She will continue to be isolated from the outside world and has no idea she's lost her modeling gig.
Meanwhile, you can call CBS the home of "Big Brother" and the home of the double standard, as several of their sit-coms use racist jokes and the network won't even address those.
Shellie Zimmerman, wife of George Zimmerman says their marriage is "on shaky ground." It couldn't be he was afraid to risk his life by visiting her in jail, she got only probation and community service for perjuring herself during his bail hearing.
Fast food chains Carl's Jr., Little Caesar's and Jack in the Box were rated as the least desirable places to work by their employees in a recent survey. One of the employee complaints was "Little Caesar's pay card deducts money with every swipe."
The state of Ohio is seeking to have a lawsuit filed by family members of a woman who was supposed to get one of her brother's kidneys, but a part-time nurse threw away the healthy kidney after it had been removed.
The late Albert "Cubby" Broccoli offered the role of James Bond to Dick Van Dyke back in the 1960s, but then withdrew the offer after remembering how awful Van Dyke's English accent from "Mary Poppins" was.
British tennis professional Dan Evans called a medical time-out while playing the U.S. Open, because of a bad case of nipple chafing. Reporter's note: I have sympathy for the man. When I ran the 1994 America's Finest City Half-Marathon, my nipples got chafed so badly that they actually bled and ruined my favorite racing t-shirt.
ABC's Phoenix affiliate, ABC 15 has performed a major public service to recently wedded couples. Upon learning that a local company that shot wedding videos had gone out of business, their reporter set out to locate those who'd shot the videos, get them back and then match them up with their rightful owners. So far, 24 of the 170 videos they recovered have been "reunited" with the happy couples who thought they'd never see them again.
North Korea has withdrawn an invitation to the U.S. special envoy for North Korean human rights to travel there to seek a pardon for an American sentenced to 15 years at hard labor.
A Vietnamese man who tried to smuggle fish into New Zealand from Australia faces up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $78,000. He was caught at the airport when officials noticed water leaking from his trouser pockets.
Kate Middleton is drawing oohs and ahhs from the lightning fast return of her trim figure post-pregnancy.
Freddie Laker is the name of a man who has raised $1.5 million for a start-up that features dogs and cats reading the news. It's not the same man who was a pioneer in the low-cost airfare industry.
A soldier who had just returned from four years of service overseas surprised his family at a minor league baseball game. His wife and kids were invited to the game by his sister and they were at home plate when three people in hot dog costumes raced toward them. One of them removed the head of the costume and it was the soldier himself.
A Colorado woman and her daughter will spend a good stretch in the "gray-bar hotel" for their roles in a scam that bilked 374 victims in 40 countries out of money that wound up in Nigeria. Karen Vasseur and her daughter Tracy Vasseur convinced their mostly female victims that they were wiring money to U.S. soldiers assigned duty in Afghanistan.
One of the way that FEMA will be tracking the danger level of approaching hurricanes is something they refer to as the "Waffle House Index".
Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio is going to have his operations overseen by a monitor appointed by a federal judge.
A judge has ordered a long-term hold be placed on Amanda Bynes, with her mother's conservatorship to continue. The hold is for up to one year, but it is only expected to last for a few months.
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