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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — A 36-year-old man flipped a hot dog stand in the middle of a crowded Broadway during an argument with the vendor, an arrest report alleges. Metro police responded Sunday morning to a report of a “disorderly individual” at Fifth Avenue South and Broadway. A hot dog vendor told officers that a man, identified in court documents as Patrick Bratcher, became aggressive and flipped over the man’s hot dog stand. No injuries were reported. As police interviewed the vendor, they said Bratcher continued to be “aggressive” and was “cursing loudly and creating a hazardous environment.” Officers revealed...

Only four mourners attended his funeral in Baltimore, along with an Episcopal minister, the gravedigger and the sexton. The minister, a distant relation of the deceased, decided not to deliver a sermon to such a small gathering. The grave itself sat unmarked for 25 years. As if fate itself conspired to accentuate the void in the death of Edgar Allan Poe, 15 years after the burial, a train derailed into a quarry and destroyed the stone that was finally being constructed for the grave. The tablet read Hic Tandem Felicis Conduntur, "Here At Last He Is Happy". Edgar Poe (the...

It's hard to imagine that Patrick Kennedy would have gotten elected to Congress a dozen years ago without his last name. It's equally hard to imagine that the media would be going wild about his late-night car crash and prescription drug addiction if he weren't a Kennedy. The only lingering mystery is why national news organizations didn't pounce earlier on the Rhode Island Democrat's long history of alcohol and drug abuse, depression and a series of downright embarrassing incidents.

During the President's speech, which lasted approximately 1 hour, the Sr. Senator from Massachusetts, Edward "Ted" Kennedy demonstrated once again the old adage that "a picture is worth a thousand words". The speech by President Bush contained just under 5,500 words and itwould appear that at least several of them caused Senator Kennedy great psychic pain... (see photos: http://www.x234.com/teddyk/teddyk.html)