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These stars were all born on Feb. 7
Country singer Wilma Lee Cooper is 87.

Actor Miguel Ferrer is 53.

Saxophonist Brian Travers of UB40 is 49.

Actor James Spader is 48.

Country singer Garth Brooks is 46.

Keyboardist David Bryan of Bon Jovi is 46.

Comedian Chris Rock is 43.

Actor Jason Gedrick (Windfall,Boomtown ) is 41.

Actor Ashton Kutcher (That 70's Show ) is 30.

Actress Tina Majorino (Napoleon Dynamite,Veronica Mars ) is 23.

Man Charged in Break-In, Counterfeiting
Posted: 2008-02-06 16:56:39
GOLDONNA, La. (AP) - A man was arrested for allegedly breaking into a home and trying to use the computer there to make counterfeit money.

Charles Chase Nobles, 28, was booked Tuesday into the Natchitoches Parish Detention Center on one count each of counterfeiting, unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling and probation violation, according to a press release from Natchitoches Parish Sheriff Victor Jones Jr.

Goldonna Police Chief Kenneth Martin and Natchitoches sheriff's deputies made the arrest after getting a call at about 1 p.m. Tuesday from a citizen who reported seeing a suspicious vehicle parked in woods behind a Goldonna residence.

Martin and the deputies found Nobles inside. The computer was seized as a part of the ongoing investigation

Groundhog sees shadow, predicts more winter
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Punxsutawney Phil was pulled from his stump by members of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Inner Circle, including official Groundhog Handler John Griffiths.





?PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Brace yourself for more wintry weather.
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Saturday, leading the groundhog to forecast six more weeks of winter.

The rodent was pulled from his stump by members of the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club Inner Circle, top-hat- and tuxedo-wearing businessmen who carry out the tradition.

Each Feb. 2, thousands of people descend on Punxsutawney, a town of about 6,100 people some 65 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, to celebrate what had essentially been a German superstition.

The belief is that if a hibernating animal cast a shadow on Feb. 2 — the Christian holiday of Candlemas — winter would last another six weeks. If no shadow was seen, legend said spring would come early.

NASA Launching Beatles Tune Into Space

Posted: 2008-02-01 11:07:21
WASHINGTON (AP)- The Beatles are about to become radio stars in a whole new way.

NASA on Monday will broadcast the Beatles' song "Across the Universe" across the galaxy to Polaris, the North Star.

This first-ever beaming of a radio song by the space agency directly into deep space is nostalgia-driven. It celebrates the 40th anniversary of the song, the 45th anniversary of NASA's Deep Space Network, which communicates with its distant probes, and the 50th anniversary of NASA.

"Send my love to the aliens," Paul McCartney told NASA through a Beatles historian. "All the best, Paul."

The song, written by McCartney and John Lennon, may have a ticket to ride and will be flying at the speed of light. But it will take 431 years along a long and winding road to reach its final destination. That's because Polaris is 2.5 quadrillion miles away.

NASA loaded an MP3 of the song, just under four minutes in its original version, and will transmit it digitally at 7 p.m. EST Monday from its giant antenna in Madrid, Spain. But if you wanted to hear it on Polaris, you would need an antenna and a receiver to convert it back to music, the same way people receive satellite television.

The idea came from Martin Lewis, a Los Angeles-based Beatles historian, who then got permission from McCartney, Yoko Ono and the two companies that own the rights to Beatles' music. One of those companies, Apple, was happy to approve the idea because is "always looking for new markets," Lewis said.

Perhaps coincidentally, the song's launching comes a day before the release of the DVD of the Julie Taymor movie named after the Beatles hit.

Tornado Victim Billed for Cable Devices
WHEATLAND, Wis. (AP) - Having a tornado demolish her home was bad enough. But when Ann Beam received a $2,000 cable bill a few weeks later, she was floored. "I just couldn't believe it," Beam said. "I was like, 'What are they thinking?"'

Time Warner Cable billed a number of Wheatland residents for equipment destroyed in the Jan. 7 twister that struck the southeast corner of the state. Beam's bill covered five cable boxes and five remote controls.

She immediately called the cable company, but a man who identified himself as a manager said there was nothing the company could do.

"They said I would have to take the bill and turn it in to my insurance company," Beam said.

But her cable equipment was nine years old, and the insurance company would pay only a depreciated value that wouldn't cover her bill, she said.

Time Warner Cable spokeswoman Celeste Flynn said many customers got charged for unreturned equipment because they canceled or transferred their service without mentioning their requests were tornado-related.

"We understand this is an unusual situation," Flynn said Wednesday. "All they will need to do is call and we will take the equipment off their account."

A message left for the cable company by The Associated Press early Thursday afternoon was not immediately returned.

Rare winter tornadoes that destroyed more than two dozen homes and damaged nearly 80 others in Kenosha County on Jan. 7. The damage was estimated at $18 million.

Gloria Steinem:
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

Hospital serves up mouse head on plate Sat Jan 26, 3:58 PM ET



HELSINKI (Reuters) - A hospital patient in Finland found a mouse head among the steamed vegetables on his plate.



"Understandably, he lost his appetite," said Sakari Kela, chief administrator at the Northern Karelia Central Hospital.

The health of the patient in Joensuu, eastern Finland, had not been compromised by the dead rodent, Kela said on Saturday.

The severed head most likely originated in a bag of Belgian vegetables. The body has not been found and being "a Belgian mouse, the rest of it could be anywhere in Europe", Kela said.

Men on Motorcycle Steal Woman's Hair

Thursday, January 24, 2008

PST RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) --


Two men on a motorcycle grabbed a woman as she walked to church, pulled out a machete and cut off the waist-length hair she had been growing for two decades, police in Brazil said Thursday.


The woman, a homemaker whose name was not released, told police she was walking to church when she was assaulted late Tuesday, police officer Antonio Williams da Silva said by telephone from the northeastern city of Aracaju.


Da Silva said the woman told authorities she hadn't cut her hair for 20 years.


"It must have been nearly a meter and half (more than four feet) long," da Silva said.


The robbers cut the woman's hair above her shoulders, he said, apparently with the idea of selling it to be fashioned into a wig.


"A hairpiece that size could cost you as much" as $550, da Silva said.


The woman was not injured, but her assailants could be charged with battery if caught.


Da Silva said it was the second recent case of hair robbery in Aracaju.


Similar attacks have occurred in other Brazilian cities, where the demand for human hair is high.

Sweet And Sour Chicken Wings Recipe




24 chicken wings
1 Cup sugar
1 Cup water
1 Cup Soy Sauce
1/4 cup oil
1/4 cup unsweetened pineapple juice
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp ginger

Cut off wing tips and cut each wing in half. Mix above ingredients and pour over wings - Marinate overnight. Bake in pan at 350°F for 50-60 minutes.

On this day in history ..

1813 - Americans capture Frenchtown Canada
1840 - New Zealand settled by British
1850 - Alta California becomes a daily paper 1st such in Calif
1905 - Bloody Sunday; Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
1939 - Aquatic Park dedicated
1943 - Battle of Anzio Allies stopped on the beach
1947 - 1st coml TV station west of Mississippi opens Hollywood Ca
1949 - Chinatown telephone exchange closed
1968 - Apollo 5 launched to moon Unmanned lunar module tests made
1973 - Supreme Court approves abortions
1975 - Lansat 2 an Earth Resources Technology Satellite is launched
1981 - 40th Islander shut-out opponent - 3-0 vs Red Wings-Billy Smith 15th

Schools are closed due to snow this morning.I hate driving in this snow! I hope all of you are having nice weather today!Take care and have a great day!!

Strange way to show the love

NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A man who mailed a bloody cow’s head to his wife’s lover has been sentenced to probation and community service.

Jason Michael Fife “understands that in a civilized society a person cannot send a severed cow’s head to anybody,” said his defense lawyer, Henry Hilles.

Authorities in Lower Pottsgrove, northwest of Philadelphia, arrested Fife and charged him with stalking, terroristic threats, disorderly conduct and harassment after he allegedly sent threatening messages and pictures to the victim between May and September 2006.

The victim received a package containing a cow’s head with a puncture wound in its skull on June 1, 2006.

Police said Fife, 31, got the cow’s head from a butcher’s shop, claiming he wanted the dried skull for decoration. Instead, he mailed the head frozen, so as not to alert parcel carriers to the contents, police said. The box became bloody after sitting on the victim’s doorstep on a warm day.

Police were able to trace the package and threatening e-mails to Fife, court documents indicate.

“My client did step over the line here, but one can certainly understand his frustration, given that the victim was carrying on an affair with my client’s wife,” Hilles said.

Fife, of Hunker, southeast of Pittsburgh, was sentenced Friday to a program for first-time offenders in which he must complete two years of probation and 50 hours of community service. If he successfully finishes the program, his record will be cleared.

Burglar finds corpse and calls police Thu Jan 17


BERLIN (Reuters) - A Berlin burglar's break-in took an unexpected turn when he stumbled upon a corpse and felt compelled to call the police.


"He called to say he'd just broken into a flat and found a dead body," said a spokeswoman for Berlin police Thursday. "He gave the address of the place and then hung up."

Officers discovered the 64-year-old resident of the flat dead in his bedroom. The man had passed away about two weeks ago, and authorities are not treating the death as suspicious.

The burglar has not been heard of since. Local media said he fled the apartment empty-handed, but police could not confirm this.

Ind. robber mistakenly shoots self in groin



, Ind. (AP) — A man accidentally shot himself in the groin as he was robbing a convenience store Tuesday, police said.
A clerk told police a man carrying a semiautomatic handgun entered the Village Pantry demanding cash and a pack of cigarettes. The clerk put the cash in a bag and as she turned to get the cigarettes, she heard the gun discharge.

Police say surveillance video shows the man shooting himself as he placed the gun in the waistband of his pants. The clerk wasn't injured.

A short time later, police found 25-year-old Derrick Kosch at a home with a gunshot wound to his right testicle and lower left leg.

Kosch was released from the hospital Tuesday and booked into the Howard County jail on a charge of armed robbery, criminal recklessness and battery. He is being held on a $100,000 cash bail. A jail official did not know if he had retained an attorney Wednesday.

Been Home All Night


A man goes to a party and has too much to drink. His friends plead with him to let them take him home. He says no -- he lives only a mile away. About five blocks from the party, the police pull him over for weaving and tell him to get out of the car and "walk the line."

Just as he starts, the police radio blares out a notice of a robbery taking place just a few houses away. The police tell the "party animal" to stay put -- they'll be right back, and then they ran down the street to where the robbery took place.

The guy waits and waits for the police, but since they haven't returned, he decides to drive himself home. When he gets there, he tells his wife he is going to bed, and to tell anyone who might come looking for him that he has the flu and has been in bed all day.

A few hours later the police knock on the door. They ask if Mr. X lives there and his wife says yes. They ask to see him and she replies that he is in bed with the flu and has been so all day. The police have his driver's license in hand. Next they ask to see his car -- and she asks why? They insist on seeing his car, so she takes them to the garage and opens the door where they find: a police car, lights still flashing.