Serious toll violators and other eye-catching Friday headlines
A Texas couple has a big bill for unpaid tolls on the state's toll roads. Over $236,000. The state is seeking payment and is willing to work out a payment plan. They claim the couple's car has driven past toll points more than 14,000 times without paying.
Airline passengers are already complaining about the new, narrower seats on some airlines.
On the day that retailer J.C. Penney announced they would open at 8:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving, their stock hit a 33 year low, closing at $7.01 per share.
A woman in Federal Way, WA plans to continue her fight to keep her pet pygmy goat. The City Council voted 6-1 to deny a motion to revise the city code in order for Ava Anissipour to be able to keep the pet.
Ogunquit, ME passed an ordinance banning "chain" restaurants. Now it is considering whether or not the planned El Rodeo Mexican restaurant is a chain. There are currently 26 other locations but they are family-owned and do not "take orders from a corporation."
A police officer in Derry, NH is claiming that a worker at McDonald's deliberately served him a raw hamburger because he is a cop.
If you're going to be in Minneapolis this weekend and can't sleep, head over to Prince's Paisley Park for a concert at 2 a.m. on Saturday morning.
Credit a hyperbaric chamber for playing a key role in the recovery of a badly burned beagle mix in Fort Pierce, FL.
Video showing a high school football coach in Fort Meyers, FL shoving a player from the opposing team when the player went out of bounds. The coach has been suspended pending an investigation.
Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens recently underwent treatment at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University for cataracts and macular degeneration. Now he's announced that he will donate $20 million to Wilmer to establish a scholar's program to allow clinicians to pursue innovative research ideas.
Linda Kozlowski met Paul Hogan over a quarter-century ago and they married in 1990 after he finally divorced his first wife. Now she has filed for divorce from her "Crocodile Dundee" co-star, citing irreconcilable differences.
The Bay Area firefighter who accidentally ran over a survivor from the Asiana Airlines crash at San Francisco International will not face criminal charges.
A male survivor of breast cancer who went through a second round of chemotherapy after the cancer spread to his lymph nodes managed to beat his radiation oncologist in a half-marathon in Rhode Island.
NBC has cancelled the new drama "Ironsides" early in its run. A "Chicago Fire" spinoff will take over that timeslot in January of next year.
Tesla Motors owner Elon Musk was the anonymous buyer who purchased the actual submarine/car prop from the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me", for $1 million. Now he plans to spend even more money to make it into a real, working car that can become a submarine.
Megan Fox compared Michael Bay to Hitler when he's on-set. I've spoken with more than one person who worked on one of Bay's projects and the comparison, while not all that far off, isn't that inaccurate either. All called him either "dictatorial" or a "tyrant".
Donald Trump took time from toupee adjusting to tell David Letterman that he might have encountered a mobster or two in his business dealings but that he generally tries to stay away from such people.
Kate Middleton gave birth just three months ago but you couldn't tell when she flashed her tight, firm abs on a volleyball court this week.
Airline passengers are already complaining about the new, narrower seats on some airlines.
On the day that retailer J.C. Penney announced they would open at 8:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving, their stock hit a 33 year low, closing at $7.01 per share.
A woman in Federal Way, WA plans to continue her fight to keep her pet pygmy goat. The City Council voted 6-1 to deny a motion to revise the city code in order for Ava Anissipour to be able to keep the pet.
Ogunquit, ME passed an ordinance banning "chain" restaurants. Now it is considering whether or not the planned El Rodeo Mexican restaurant is a chain. There are currently 26 other locations but they are family-owned and do not "take orders from a corporation."
A police officer in Derry, NH is claiming that a worker at McDonald's deliberately served him a raw hamburger because he is a cop.
If you're going to be in Minneapolis this weekend and can't sleep, head over to Prince's Paisley Park for a concert at 2 a.m. on Saturday morning.
Credit a hyperbaric chamber for playing a key role in the recovery of a badly burned beagle mix in Fort Pierce, FL.
Video showing a high school football coach in Fort Meyers, FL shoving a player from the opposing team when the player went out of bounds. The coach has been suspended pending an investigation.
Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens recently underwent treatment at the Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins University for cataracts and macular degeneration. Now he's announced that he will donate $20 million to Wilmer to establish a scholar's program to allow clinicians to pursue innovative research ideas.
Linda Kozlowski met Paul Hogan over a quarter-century ago and they married in 1990 after he finally divorced his first wife. Now she has filed for divorce from her "Crocodile Dundee" co-star, citing irreconcilable differences.
The Bay Area firefighter who accidentally ran over a survivor from the Asiana Airlines crash at San Francisco International will not face criminal charges.
A male survivor of breast cancer who went through a second round of chemotherapy after the cancer spread to his lymph nodes managed to beat his radiation oncologist in a half-marathon in Rhode Island.
NBC has cancelled the new drama "Ironsides" early in its run. A "Chicago Fire" spinoff will take over that timeslot in January of next year.
Tesla Motors owner Elon Musk was the anonymous buyer who purchased the actual submarine/car prop from the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me", for $1 million. Now he plans to spend even more money to make it into a real, working car that can become a submarine.
Megan Fox compared Michael Bay to Hitler when he's on-set. I've spoken with more than one person who worked on one of Bay's projects and the comparison, while not all that far off, isn't that inaccurate either. All called him either "dictatorial" or a "tyrant".
Donald Trump took time from toupee adjusting to tell David Letterman that he might have encountered a mobster or two in his business dealings but that he generally tries to stay away from such people.
Kate Middleton gave birth just three months ago but you couldn't tell when she flashed her tight, firm abs on a volleyball court this week.
posted by me at 3:18 PM
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