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Waukesha, WI - Marissa Arndt had only a few weeks this summer to work with Lucy, her Jersey cow, before the Waukesha County Fair started. Marissa Arndt, 17, shares a laugh with friend Evan Bremberger, 17, who has helped her prepare to show her cow at the Waukesha County Fair. It’s been a busy summer for the Arrowhead senior, with camp and a one-month trip to New Jersey to train with her new Seeing Eye dog, Fray. Arndt, 17, was diagnosed at age 3 with retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disorder that has destroyed her peripheral vision. She is legally blind....

Sad story. Many "helpful" tips for the parentally challenged when leaving children in vehicles in hot weather, such as, "Keep your wallet or something you need in the back seat next to your child to remind you not to leave without them." and "Put a Post-it note on the dashboard to remind you that your child is in the back seat, especially when your routine has changed."

Handcuffed and shackled, Randal Rushing blew the awaiting media a kiss as he was led from a Wilkes-Barre apartment Thursday afternoon. Handcuffed and shackled, Randal Rushing blew the awaiting media a kiss as he was led from a Wilkes-Barre apartment Thursday afternoon. “I had fun,” the man accused of a triple homicide in Scranton said when asked whether he had killed three people. Ten hours after a grizzly discovery at his residence on South Irving Avenue — three people so badly bludgeoned that the manner of death was difficult to determine — Rushing, 25, was taken into custody just after...

LEXINGTON — Drive down Main Street on a sunny summer day and brightly colored pig statues smile at you from every corner — fat pink pigs in wild costumes, standing tall and waving welcome. Roll down your window and you’ll know why Lexington is, for many, the barbecue capital of the world. You can smell the pulled pork, spice and vinegar for miles. It’s the smell of Southern tradition — secret family recipes, waitresses who smile and call you “sugar.” But these days, in many of the city’s most popular restaurants, customers say the air is sweeter for what you...

the first steps have been taken to file a lawsuit against Ontario County and its district attorney. It stems from a case involving a Greece engineer who was acquitted of putting in faulty septic systems and Walter Casper, who is now serving time for his wife's murder. “I know the DA's office in Ontario County didn't present all the information that was out there and available.” Defense attorney Mark Young has piles and piles of paperwork from that case. His client, engineer Dave Simpson of Greece, was charged with six counts of filing a false instrument. Young was determined to...

She's wanted - Dead or Alive. Her gamer tag is "Mystik" and she is a top-ranked player battling for world domination in the video gaming industry. Katherine Gunn, a 2006 Quartz Hill High graduate, is a professional "Dead or Alive 4" gamer who won a playoff spot in the Championship Gaming Series tournament this month at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. "Dead or Alive 4 (DOA4)" is the fourth game in Team Ninja's "Dead or Alive" series. It is an interactive fighting game based on avatars combining the skill of martial arts with assorted weapons to assassinate enemies. The...

How Gilroy turned a potent Italian bulb into a culinary staple and the country's biggest and smelliest food festivalTHIRTY YEARS AGO, a group of American food writers trooped into a packing shed at Gilroy's Christopher Ranch off Highway 101. Greeted by the pungent aroma of millions of garlic cloves being processed in the building, the journalists sat down for a garlic-laced lunch that included scampi, calamari, pasta and pepper steak. Together with the Fresh Garlic Producers Association, an industry trade group, Christopher Ranch founder and former president Don Christopher hosted the journalists to showcase Gilroy garlic. Gilroy was then the...

LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 17 (UPI) -- An 11-year-old Kentucky boy who became fed up with speeding motorists on his block has taken it upon himself to brandish his toy radar gun at the roadside. Residents in the boy's subdivision have lodged numerous complaints about motorists driving as fast as 55 mph on the 25 mph road. But Landon Wilburn, 11, took matters into his own hands, The Courier-Journal newspaper in Louisville, Ky., reported Thursday. Neighbors said the boy can often be seen at the roadside holding his Hot Wheels toy radar gun -- which actually measures the speeds of the...

Clues in Saratoga pot bust suggest link to Mexican drug cartel From the bags of beans and rice found in the camp to the type of fertilizer used on the plants, the large marijuana farm in the Saratoga hills that was the scene of a deadly shooting last week has all of the marks of a Mexican drug cartel, law enforcement officials said Tuesday. The farm is part of a growing trend dating back to the 1980s, when increased security at the U.S.-Mexico border prompted drug trafficking organizations and cartels to move part of their business to California - and...

The Santa Fe Southern Railway says state government's Rail Runner commuter train route is being built across a piece of land the state doesn't own. Santa Fe Southern, which operates a tourist train along the rail route through Santa Fe that is being converted for use by the Rail Runner, has filed suit against the state Department of Transportation saying the department intends to put Rail Runner tracks across a tract still owned by Santa Fe Southern. Santa Fe Southern sold its 18 miles of tracks and railroad right of way between downtown Santa Fe and Lamy to the state...

Neurologist disputes state’s attorney’s office description. A neurologist who treated Zach Sowers following his brutal attack in a street robbery last summer has challenged statements by a high-ranking official in the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s office regarding Sowers’ medical condition. Dr. Marek Mirski, director of the Neuroscience Critical Care Division and vice chairman of anesthesia and critical care medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, said in a July 7 letter to Margaret T. Burns, chief of communications and governmental affairs in the state’s attorney’s office, that Burns’ comments reported in the June issue of Exhibit A, contained “gross inaccuracies.” In...

Thomas Hickman drove through New Mexico, police say, until his Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo ran out of gas. Then the 55-year-old North Richland Hills man walked into a field, tied helium balloons to a gun, covered his mouth with duct tape, and shot himself in the back of the head, according to New Mexico State Police. That determination is a far leap from what authorities first suspected when Mr. Hickman's body was discovered March 15 near Santa Rosa, N.M., about 100 miles east of Albuquerque. Authorities initially thought the Red Lobster executive had been kidnapped and slain. Thomas Hickman But...

DACULA - As the famous twang of Hank Williams Jr. blasted from an SUV stereo Friday afternoon, about 30 folks socialized, sipped soda and puffed on cigarettes. No, this wasn't a Fourth of July backyard barbecue. It was the run-up to a wedding. In a Waffle House parking lot. The lucky couple, George "Bubba" Mathis and Pamela Christian - both 23 and employees at the Dacula diner located at the Ga. Highway 316/U.S. Highway 29 interchange - wouldn't have it any other way. "I don't know, it's something different," Mathis said while fixing his tie prior to the ceremony. For...

Bobby Murcer called it a “God moment.” The Zimolzaks are the parents of Seth Zimolzak, who died of cancer in 1999, a couple months after he graduated from high school. Seth was a Make-A-Wish kid. He was an amazing young man who battled the terrible disease for four years before it finally got the best of him. I still have the orange suede shoes Seth wore to his graduation at Northwest Area High School. I wear them in tribute to Seth for all he meant to more people than you can imagine. My fondest memory of Seth was during a...

Do you think Denver is trying to hide the homeless during the Democratic National Convention? Yes No

Obnoxious cats laughed at us when dog leash law fever spread throughout this country’s cities, but now we canines are the ones chuckling as the first kitty leash law shot comes across the bow. If it passes, cats can say goodbye to freelance pooping and hello to being watched while doing their business. (Howard Feiner is so annoyed with the cat droppings in his yard, he has logged the kitties’ leavings and put flags up to mark the spots. He has done this for a couple of reasons. He’s in court with his neighbor...

Chattanooga Chosen For $1 Billion Volkswagen Plant Plant At Enterprise South To Have 2,000 Jobs posted July 15, 2008 Volkswagen AG has chosen Chattanooga for its new $1 billion U.S. plant, the European carmaker announced today.

The father of a 12-year-old girl who tried to keep a young man from groping his daughter at a popular Shakopee amusement park was seriously hurt late on July 4 after he was allegedly kicked and stomped by a group of men in an attack police called "brutal." The attack on the unnamed man, which happened just outside Valleyfair Amusement Park, resulted in charges against at least six Twin Cities-area men. They were among several people the initial attacker called on his cell phone to summon them to join the assault. The group beat up the father as his wife...

Back in the fabled '60s, when Nancy Pelosi was wearing tie-dyed T-shirts and floral headdresses — and long before she could imagine single digit congressional approval ratings — there was a marketing phenomenon that mated, perfectly, with the San Francisco zeitgeist. Called the “Mood Ring,” it provided Haight-Ashbury sidewalk sitters a sort of love-the-one-you're-with radar: Finagle it onto your date's finger, and the ring would illuminate the path to her G-spot like a Garmin GPS. “At your next possible opportunity, make a U-turn.” Today's liberals have flocked to a human Mood Ring, and he's got built-in thermotropic antennae that measure...

"Every city has a contract with their (waste) hauler and it depends on the revenue-sharing agreement," said Braicovich, adding that he would support the bill. Scavenging through other people's garbage and recycling bins is illegal in many Inland cities and existing state law already requires identification from anyone selling recyclables valued at $100 or more, said Don Drysdale, a spokesman for the CALIFORNIA Department of Conservation. There is also a limit of 500 pounds of aluminum cans that a person can sell per day. "That's a heck of a lot of cans," said Danny Frankel, president of Riverside Recycling.

Man bitten by Walmart rattlesnake From correspondents in Miami July 08, 2008 09:33amA POSIONOUS rattlesnake hidden among leafy plants in the garden section of a Walmart store in Florida sprang out and bit a man who was shopping there. The man was taken to hospital after the 30cm pygmy rattlesnake bit him in the right hand while he was looking at the plants at the store in Pembroke Pines, Florida, about 50km north of Miami. "This is an isolated incident and we're taking precautions to make sure that it doesn't happen again," said Walmart spokeswoman Ashley Hardie. "To ensure the...

An animal tracker hired by city officials was heading into Foothills Park in Palo Alto tonight to hunt down and kill a mountain lion that attacked a man over the weekend, authorities said. Foothills Park and the adjacent Pearson-Arastradero Preserve were closed today after officials learned of the incident, the first known mountain lion attack in Palo Alto, said Palo Alto Police Agent Dan Ryan. The 50-year-old hiker was uninjured but narrowly escaped with his life after the cat leaped onto him from behind about 4 p.m. Saturday, sending man and beast tumbling down an embankment, Ryan said. The Portola...

Second sad story about abused dogs in the state.

It is a sport folks.As seen on ESPN the World Hot Dog eating Champ Joey from San Jose California kept this years title in the USA. Well today he at over 8 pounds of rib meat. King Vanity had a blast watching the panal of grown men compete for this years Smoking At the Ocean rib eating Championship Belt. He visited with all the contestants post contest and enjoyed their grunting in abdominal pain. Other contestants were World Champs in eating Jalepenos, Captain Crunch, fried Asparugus and much more. Can you imagine downing jars of Mayonnaise? It is true.

Coffee giant Starbucks Corp. has released its first list of store closures since it announced a major downsizing July 1, and five of the eight California locations to be shuttered are in the Inland area.

Over 40 dogs were seized from within the residence.Investigators tell NEWSCHANNEL 3 that the homeowner would cover her back yard in newspapers, then shovel them into piles once the dog feces was a half foot deep.We spoke with Sheldon's niece and she said, "[Helen] doesn't realize how bad it is. All this stuff you see around here, this has been this way for a long time." Sheldon's niece added that her aunt suffers from a mental illness.

Three people drowned in two separate incidents in the waters off Atlantic City and Wildwood Saturday, after getting pulled by strong rip currents from the effects of Hurricane Bertha, officials said. Bertha is now a tropical storm in the Atlantic Ocean approaching Bermuda. But meteorologists at the National Weather Service in Mount Holly said the rip currents are expected to remain a danger into the early part of this week. This morning, the Coast Guard shifted its search effort for a missing Wildwood swimmer from a rescue mission to a recovery operation. The swimmer was identified as 28-year-old Juan Moore...

Authorities say they found charred remains Sunday in Snead's Ferry. More on WRAL.com and WRAL News at 11 pm.

Beware the bear. The Department of Natural Resources is getting reports of black bears being sighted this summer in southwest Wisconsin, including Dane, Sauk, Richland and Iowa counties. DNR wildlife biologist Becky Roth said there's little cause for alarm because the bears are normally timid and try to avoid contact with people, but they could cause problems if scavenging for food around homes or campsites. The local sightings were near Blue Mounds in western Dane County, near Barneveld in Iowa County, near Richland Center in Richland County and near Lake Delton in Sauk County, all during the past three weeks....

WING, N.D. - Mike Goos likens the prairie potholes of North Dakota to suburbia. Ducks born in the prairie potholes mature while on "spring break" in the south, returning north to find a home and raise their young, he said. "You're a pair that likes 3 inches of water, we've got a place for you. You're a pair that likes 4 feet of water, we've got a place for you," Mr. Goos, a Fish and Wildlife Service wetlands manager, said on a June 23 wetlands tour. But as with humans, suburban life for ducks isn't free of troubles. As the...

Classic rock pounded from the sound system and kids broke into spontaneous dance moves. A quartet of robots took center stage in a tiny makeshift arena, preparing to test their metal in a game of skill. The competition culminated a weeklong engineering workshop sponsored by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Lancaster High School Eagle Robotics Team and the AERO Institute at Palmdale's civic center. More than 40 middle school students attended the workshop, at which they learned about mechanics, engineering and electronics from Lancaster High's robotics team members. Organizers divided each day into two parts - mornings in the classroom...

Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, Ariz., gets ready for a ride in the pace car before the IndyCar Series Firestone Indy 200 auto race in Gladeville, Tenn., Saturday, July 12, 2008. GLADEVILLE, Tenn. -- Cindy McCain spent her Saturday getting up close and personal with the IndyRacing League at the series' stop at the Nashville Superspeedway, taking a spin around the track in the pace car with Johnny Rutherford and checking out Danica Patrick's car in the garage. "It was great," McCain said of her laps around the 1.33-mile concrete oval with Rutherford driving. "Oh...

A shark can be seen jumping out of the water to the left of the surfer.

Mom faces fireworks injury charges By Harry Harris Oakland Tribune Article Last Updated: 07/12/2008 08:44:49 AM PDT OAKLAND — A mother was charged Friday with felony child endangerment after her 4-year-old son, who was at home alone, set off a giant firecracker Thursday afternoon, blowing off part of his hand and leaving him blind in one eye. The boy, whose name was not released, lost the thumb and three fingers on his right hand, shattered an eardrum and was blinded in his right eye in the 2 p.m. explosion at a housing project in the 1100 block of 65th Avenue...

An Ocoee police sergeant was arrested today after allegations that he pulled down a Seminole County woman's pants and spanked her with a belt at a party Monday night. Sgt. Thomas Maroney, an eight-year veteran, was charged with sexual battery, false imprisonment and battery, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office. He is being held at the Orange County Jail. . . The woman told deputies she was attending a party in an apartment with Maroney and other police officers when she left the apartment to speak with Maroney, said Sam Filler, the woman's attorney. At some point, Maroney threw...

VICTORVILLE — A former Victorville sheriff’s deputy is suing his department, alleging he was retaliated against after arresting a fellow officer for driving under the influence of alcohol. Kenneth Holtz had worked for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department since 1986. In 2006 he had “reasonable and probable cause” for believing that an off-duty deputy was driving under the influence and arrested the deputy, states the complaint filed in San Bernardino County Superior Court. The complaint alleges that Holtz’s co-workers — all identified with fictitious names — then retaliated against him for the arrest by putting his name tag above...

Run with it, roll with itNew York's centuries-old history as the gateway to America's melting pot has given it a certain multicultural cachet, but the fact that New Orleans culture is built on a melange of cultural flavors is often overlooked. In addition to the French architecture and language, Cajun food and the endless cultural festivals that fill the calendar, New Orleans now brings you a little taste of Spain, too.NOLA Bulls, the organization behind San Fermin in Nueva Orleans, a tip of the hat to the bull run in Pamplona, Spain, is the brainchild of Mickey "El Padrino" Hanning....

Two men were arrested Wednesday after they allegedly stood by laughing as their pit bull ate a live kitten. Jeremy Johnson, 17, and Travis Johnson, 23, were arrested in a vacant lot in the 4900 block of Bradley Street after 911 dispatchers received an anonymous tip about the pair, a Baton Rouge police arrest affidavit says. When police and animal control officers arrived at 11:20 a.m., they saw Jeremy Johnson holding his pet pit bull’s leash while the dog consumed a kitten, according to police spokesman Cpl. L’Jean McKneely and the affidavit.

What you will also see is the taxpayer funded Pima County Legal Defender and Derechos Humanos Co-Chair Isabel Garcia joyfully holding a likeness of the severed head of Joe Arpaio calling 104.1 The Truth vicious. They also chanted "Jon Justice go home, we don't want you here!" This is a Pima County Legal Defender gladly displaying the likeness of a beheaded Arizona Law Enforcement agent, and others beating the likeness of an elected member of Arizona Law Enforcement.

KING5 in Seattle is reporting that the county (KING county) has authorized a new program. If you turn in and your info leads to the arrest and conviction of any of the 50 most wanted people in King County, you will receive a $250 gas card! They interviewed two or three people about the program and they all were very enthusiastic. Thoughts? Opinions? Something about this leaves me uneasy... Thay reported they will have a link from the website, I will post a link as soon as it is up.

HOUMA, LA (WAFB) - Houma police officers and Terrebonne Parish sheriff's deputies say an attractive woman named Patches has been arrested after her "calogne samples" made at least two men pass out. One of the incidents prompted a statewide alert to Louisiana law enforcement agencies. The first complaint happened in early June. Police say an 18-year-old man says he was leaving a Houma restaurant at lunchtime when he was approached by a woman who said she was selling cologne. Police say the woman asked the victim is he was interested in buying some cologne she was selling. "The suspect produced...

This could only happen to a cat. A house cat that climbed unnoticed into an open box took a trip he wasn’t expecting. He was shipped 700 kilometers in the parcel across Germany but emerged from the journey unscathed. I guess the German parcel system handles their packages a little more...

The rumor mill in Montgomery is swirling of news of a potential resignation by Republican Attorney General Troy King, amid rumors that he was caught by his wife having sex with a male aide and subsequently banished from his home by his wife. King, a potential GOP frontrunner for Governor in 2010, succeeded Bill Pryor, one of George W. Bush’s most controversial judicial nominees. In addition, King was also an early endorser of John McCain.

Sprinklers ran on rooftops while the Camp Fire blazed only a half mile away from some Ridge residents who packed their vehicles preparing to leave at a moment's notice. Rex Boylan lives on Lunar Lane on the east side of Pentz Road. His home was one of the first to be put under immediate threat evacuation notice. "I'm packed and it's just one of those things we'll wait and see," he said. "We'll leave when we have to or when we're told to." Immediate threat is the strongest word firefighters can say, CAL FIRE public information officers say. And in...

A former Los Angeles Rams football player was arrested this morning on suspicion of drugging and raping a female patron at his popular San Dimas sports bar, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office . Antonio "Tony" Zendejas, 48, faces one felony count each of rape by use of drugs, rape of an unconscious person, sodomy by anesthesia or controlled substance and sodomy of an unconscious victim, according to the felony complaint.

"I believe we are witnessing the beginning of a new race of men" Anonymous British Officer after the Battle of Saratoga, 1777 This comment, made by a soldier now forgotten by history, was more prophetic and more significant than he probably realized at the time Here is the link to the rest Or click The Bulletin link: http://www.thebulletin.us/site/index.cfm?newsid=19842763&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=576361&rfi=8

In the battle of the sexes, women's magazine editor Cynthia Good said this was a skirmish she had to fight. Across Atlanta they stood, orange signs with black letters that read "Men At Work" or "Men Working Ahead." Sometimes, the signs stood next to women working alongside the men. Good demanded Atlanta officials remove the signs and last week, Atlanta Public Works Commissioner Joe Basista agreed. Score one for gender equality, Good said Wednesday. "They get it," Good said about the city in a telephone interview. Public Works officials are replacing 50 "Men Working" with signs that say "Workers Ahead."...

MUNSTER, Ind. (WBBM) - It's not often that a bank returns a deposit to a customer because the deposit is worth more than the customer realized. But that's what happened this week at the American Savings Bank in Munster, Indiana. An unidentified woman brought in two, $1,000 bills to make a deposit. A teller alerted bank officials because she had never seen a $1,000 bill before. After doing some research, officials discovered the rare bills issued in 1934 were probably worth as much as $4,500 each. They contacted the depositor and gave the bills back. The woman says she got...

TAMPA - A Tampa woman bit off another woman's fingertip during an argument at a Tampa meat market. Police say two women were waiting to be served Monday when they began arguing about who was next in line. Customers take a number to order when they enter the market, but another customer who left before ordering had given Pamela Bumpers her number.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin refutes the findings of the latest UNO Quality of Life Study that show his approval rating has declined from 40 percent to 31 percent. "I think UNO needs a little more money in its budget. The sample size was pretty small, as well as, the margin of error was at 10 percent in Orleans Parish, which is unusual for somebody trying to assess the approval rating of a political leader. Nobody does that," said Nagin in an exclusive interview with Rush Radio 99.5 WRNO. According to the UNO poll, 49 percent of black respondents approve...