Presumably, the Vatican will be pleased because the Barcelona couple plan to
get married before their baby arrives, but on the other hand, the lead mommy is in the middle of gender-reassignment (to become "Ruben") and has one-upped American Thomas Beattie by expecting twins.
Daily Telegraph
Great Art! "Seats of Power" by Californian Beth Grossman, consisting of upholstered chair seats of the local
city council members' butt imprints (to "humanize public involvement in city affairs").
Los Angeles Times
The Nuclear Family's Not What It Used to Be: A Kansas City, Mo., man shot his adult daughter in the ass because she had poured out perfectly good gin. And a 15-yr-old F State boy choked and beat the snot out of his father, twice, threatening to kill him and bury him in the yard, for selling the favorite truck that the kid had been driving around.
KCTV (Kansas City)
/// Star-Banner (Ocala)
Only in California:
Lipstick Bail Bonds, where two ex-LAPD women and their band of hoochies use feminine distractions to do what Dog Chapman accomplishes by force.
Orange County Register
One of the
biggest, quickest downfalls in history: Marcus Einfeld was a superstar human-rights lawyer and all-around
mensch in Australia for 30 yrs (including being formally named a "national living treasure"), but then came a A$77 speeding ticket that he tried to get out of by lying, and then lying again, and then lying again, and then lying again, which in turn invited scrutiny of his backstory, which wasn't all that, and now he's just an all-around
shlemiel.
The Australian
Your Daily Jury Duty
["In America, a person is presumed innocent until the mug shot is released"]
Cory Dodson, 25, Hamlin, N.Y., charged with aggravated telephone harassment (and try not to hold it against him that the harassees were cops who [CORRECTION: whom] Cory allegedly told weren't smart enough to trace his calls).
Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester)
Today's Newsrangers: Karl Olson, Scott Langill, Lee Hasiuk, Paul Music, Jerry Whittle
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