Posts Tagged ‘local-news’
Reporting: New diet rules curb Meals on Wheels
Cross-posted from msnbc.com, where it originally appeared.
Federal guidelines meant to help Americans eat healthier foods are straining Meals on Wheels and other nonprofits already laboring to make sure the elderly get enough to eat at all.
Lanakila Meals on Wheels in Honolulu, Hawaii, already has a waiting list of 90 people, most of them elderly, who have asked for food the organization can’t afford to provide.
The program can always use more volunteers, but what it really needs now is money. Read the rest of this entry »
Police Blotter of the Day: Man breaks into Sox GM’s home, defrosts lobster
A Chicago man was arrested Monday for allegedly breaking into Chicago White Sox general manager Kenny Williams’ house. …
[Wayne L.] Field apparently made himself at home. Police found him wearing Williams’ clothes and the GM’s 2005 World Series ring. He also apparently defrosted a lobster. …
Williams confirmed the incident and said the man drank his beer, ate frozen pizza, surfed the internet and kicked his shoes off on the bed.
Full story (WMAQ-TV of Chicago)
Police Blotter of the Day: This is how to pose for a mug shot
Police mug via thesmokinggun.com
Meet Michelle Watson.
The 24-year-old motorist had an eventful Thursday evening, according to cops in Prescott, Arizona.
(According to the charges, Watson was driving intoxicated, hit several curbs, cursed one officer, shoved another and kneed one in the groin.)
Despite all this, Watson was beaming and flashing two thumbs up when she posed for the above booking photo at the Yavapai County Jail (her blood alcohol content was measured at nearly three times the legal limit).
Full story (The Smoking Gun)
Police Blotter of the Day: Man wearing ‘I’m A Drunk’ T-shirt hits cop car, arrested for DWI
WNBC-TV
A man wearing a T-shirt reading “I’m A Drunk” crashed into a police car early Thursday on Long Island and is being charged with driving while intoxicated, police said.
Kevin Daly, of Coram, N.Y., was driving a 2000 Saturn on County Road 83 at about 1:45 a.m. when he hit the patrol car.
The entire message on his T-shirt reads “I’m Not An Alcoholic, I’m A Drunk. Alcoholics Go to Meetings.”
(The police officer wasn’t hurt.)
Full story (AP via WNBC-TV of New York)
Police Blotter of the Day: Bay Area man accused of skinning, eating bobcat
Where I come from, that verb would be “applauded for.”
Investigators said the bobcat made five of Henry Arnibal’s 50 roosters into a tasty meal.
Arnibal was not pleased with the bobcat eating his roosters, so the Morgan Hill man shot the big cat with a .22-caliber rifle and turned the tables, Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney Steve Lowney said.
Prosecutors said Arnibal used tools to skin the bobcat before eating it.
Eating a bobcat is not illegal, but it is against the law to kill one, Lowney said.
Prosecutors said Arnibal was high on methamphetamine when he killed and ate the bobcat.
Full story (KCRA-TV of Sacramento, Calif.)
Police Blotter of the Day: Woman kept crack pipe in Bible, cops say
… Tonya Levette Sutton, 42, was arrested late Sunday on narcotics possession and public consumption after she was spotted walking on a public street with an open container of Colt .45 malt liquor, according to an arrest report obtained by TCPalm.com.
Sutton was approached by officers and taken into custody, but when police searched her purse they made an unholy discovery.
Inside a small bible was a crack cocaine pipe that appeared used and had drug residue, the report said. …
Full story (WTVJ-TV of Miami)
Police Blotter of the Day: Credit card thief spends $717 at Burger King
Since Aug. 25, the thief used the card up to several times a day but at just one place: the Burger King at 175 N. Federal Highway in Boca Raton, near Mizner Park. That averages about $14 a day spent at the restaurant. …
In February, the Broward Sheriff’s Office was searching for a credit card thief with different cravings. That thief, nicknamed the “Marlboro man,” had been breaking into cars since 2008 to steal credit cards, which he then used to buy cartons of cigarettes.
Full story (South Florida Sun Sentinel)
Police Blotter of the Day: Woman calls in bomb threat so relatives won’t fly before 9/11
Federal prosecutors have charged a Long Island woman for calling in a fake bomb threat to a Southwest Airlines flight because she didn’t want her mother and brother to fly close to the 10th anniversary of 9/11. …
Purcell was charged Tuesday in Central Islip with a federal offense of making a false bomb threat over the phone. She was released on $200,000 bond. Coincidentally, it was her mother and brother who signed the bond — the same family members she was allegedly trying to keep grounded in Arizona.
Full story (NBC New York)
Right: Mary Purcell (Chris Glorioso/NBC New York)
Unfortunate Food Headline of the Day
Don’t think too hard about how that might be pronounced.
Why I Love Local News: Thousands of panties turn up along Ohio road
Berne Township officials were trying to figure out who abandoned about 3,000 pairs of panties along a road on Wednesday.
The panties were dumped near the intersection of Crawfis and Savage Hill roads, located southeast of Lancaster, 10TV’s Ashliegh Barry reported.
There were four dumping locations along a one mile stretch of Crawfis Road. …
“I came up and looked for myself and after I got here I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” said Jim Carmichael, Berne Township Trustee.
Full story (WBNS-TV of Columbus, Ohio)
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