Could someone please explain a headline and other eye-catching news
The headline for the story read "Substitute teacher, 72, arrested for furiously masturbating in high school hallway." In a Connecticut suburb, Michael Luecke was spotted by a "school paraprofessional" with his hand down his pants, manipulating his penis. My questions are why the use of furiously in the headline and nowhere else in the story, and why use paraprofessional when aide is so much more easily understood?
Would it surprise you to learn that the retired former NFL star whose done the best financially in their life after football is Roger Staubach? He was the top ranked NFL star on the Forbes list of best paid retired athletes last year, at $12 million. Seems he invested in real estate as his career wound down, and pocketed over $100 million from the sale of his real estate company in 2008.
A man in his 60s who was fired for stealing a bell pepper has been awarded $26 million by a jury in an age discrimination lawsuit against Staples. His lawsuit alleged that he was a victim of a plan to replace older, better-paid workers with younger, less expensive employees. Staples will almost certainly appeal.
A McDonald's in Pacoima is being sued for $1.5 million by a man who claims he was refused additional napkins. He's also claiming that there was racism involved.
Leah Rehmini says she left Scientology because she didn't want her daughter to have to undergo "auditing."
If you're going to give in and order a pizza, order the big one. It's the best bargain. There's a graph at this link that proves this: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/02/26/282132576/74-476-reasons-you-should-always-get-the-bigger-pizza.
Turns out that of those 70 recruits who were chosen to attend the L. A. City Fire Department academy, 16 are related to current firefighters. Reporter's note: Just how did those applications get into the group that were received within the first sixty seconds of the submission period, without some kind of intervention?
Mt. Gox, that giant exchange for bitcoins that appeared to collapse on Monday has now filed for bankruptcy. There are 850,000 bitcoins missing. The good news is that at the rate the value of the bitcoin is falling, the thief's take from this heist may soon have no value.
The man in the above screen-capture is accused of stealing a tip jar from a group of Girl Scouts who were selling cookies outside an Escondido supermarket. The tips were to fund a program to send the cookies to U. S. military personnel overseas.
A professional gambler who was on a trip and had nearly $100,000 wrongfully seized by a cop working temporarily for the DEA, must re-file her lawsuit in Georgia. The U. S. Supreme Court ruled the lawsuit must take place there because the incident happened there. Reporter's note: It took seven months for the DEA to offer to return the money and it wanted a promise she wouldn't sue. Disgusting.
Turns out the Jobs Bank CEO in Cleveland who wrote that scathing email to a young woman trying to connect with her on LinkedIn had done it before. Someone who'd been on her 7,300 person jobs bank list wrote to Kelly Blazek asking to be re-added to the list. She responded with ""I suggest you join the other Job Bank in town. Oh -- guess what. There isn't one." Then she signed off with "Done with this conversation, and you."
Longtime host of TV's "The Dating Game" Jim Lange has died at the age of 81. Here's one of my favorite episodes of the show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2OqtR9Jfmk
Many of the Oscar nominees will go home from Sunday's show without a gold statuette. However, the swag bag worth more than $80,000 may assuage their feelings of loss. Those bags include his and her Mace guns, a five night stay in a villa on Kauai and much, much more.
Among those Philadelphia cops who are now members of the SWAT unit is a 47 year old grandmother.
A San Diego State University running back walked away from the NFL "combine", saying God had told him he would be playing for the Seahawks.
Would it surprise you to learn that the retired former NFL star whose done the best financially in their life after football is Roger Staubach? He was the top ranked NFL star on the Forbes list of best paid retired athletes last year, at $12 million. Seems he invested in real estate as his career wound down, and pocketed over $100 million from the sale of his real estate company in 2008.
A man in his 60s who was fired for stealing a bell pepper has been awarded $26 million by a jury in an age discrimination lawsuit against Staples. His lawsuit alleged that he was a victim of a plan to replace older, better-paid workers with younger, less expensive employees. Staples will almost certainly appeal.
A McDonald's in Pacoima is being sued for $1.5 million by a man who claims he was refused additional napkins. He's also claiming that there was racism involved.
Leah Rehmini says she left Scientology because she didn't want her daughter to have to undergo "auditing."
If you're going to give in and order a pizza, order the big one. It's the best bargain. There's a graph at this link that proves this: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/02/26/282132576/74-476-reasons-you-should-always-get-the-bigger-pizza.
Turns out that of those 70 recruits who were chosen to attend the L. A. City Fire Department academy, 16 are related to current firefighters. Reporter's note: Just how did those applications get into the group that were received within the first sixty seconds of the submission period, without some kind of intervention?
Mt. Gox, that giant exchange for bitcoins that appeared to collapse on Monday has now filed for bankruptcy. There are 850,000 bitcoins missing. The good news is that at the rate the value of the bitcoin is falling, the thief's take from this heist may soon have no value.
The man in the above screen-capture is accused of stealing a tip jar from a group of Girl Scouts who were selling cookies outside an Escondido supermarket. The tips were to fund a program to send the cookies to U. S. military personnel overseas.
A professional gambler who was on a trip and had nearly $100,000 wrongfully seized by a cop working temporarily for the DEA, must re-file her lawsuit in Georgia. The U. S. Supreme Court ruled the lawsuit must take place there because the incident happened there. Reporter's note: It took seven months for the DEA to offer to return the money and it wanted a promise she wouldn't sue. Disgusting.
Turns out the Jobs Bank CEO in Cleveland who wrote that scathing email to a young woman trying to connect with her on LinkedIn had done it before. Someone who'd been on her 7,300 person jobs bank list wrote to Kelly Blazek asking to be re-added to the list. She responded with ""I suggest you join the other Job Bank in town. Oh -- guess what. There isn't one." Then she signed off with "Done with this conversation, and you."
Longtime host of TV's "The Dating Game" Jim Lange has died at the age of 81. Here's one of my favorite episodes of the show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2OqtR9Jfmk
Many of the Oscar nominees will go home from Sunday's show without a gold statuette. However, the swag bag worth more than $80,000 may assuage their feelings of loss. Those bags include his and her Mace guns, a five night stay in a villa on Kauai and much, much more.
Among those Philadelphia cops who are now members of the SWAT unit is a 47 year old grandmother.
A San Diego State University running back walked away from the NFL "combine", saying God had told him he would be playing for the Seahawks.
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