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70-year-old bank robber caught holding up bank day after his release from jail heads back to prison
Scott Shifrel
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, March 24th 2011, 6:10 PM
John Stolarz, 70, who has spent the better part of his adult life behind bars, will likely spend the better part of his golden years there as well.
Stolarz pleaded guilty to the top count of bank robbery, according to court papers made public yesterday.
The career criminal was shot in the leg just after his brazen attempt to hold up a Chase branch near Madison Square Garden on Oct. 14 - a day after finishing a 22-year-stint in a federal prison.
Banks were the favorite target of Stolarz, known as "Johnny Shades" for the slick tinted sunglasses he donned for a heist.
He once admitted to the FBI he had robbed so many in one three-month stretch he lost count.
On Wednesday, Stolarz pleaded guilty before Federal Magistrate James Francis.
He is slated to be sentenced in June
Calif principal sells shoe collection to save jobs
The Associated Press
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Worried about possible layoffs, school principal Michele Miller spotted a potential solution in her own home.
She is selling 285 pairs — which fill a room in her apartment — to help close a district budget gap of up to $2.2 million. She's asking for a donation of $1,000 a pair to help save the jobs of 17 teachers, three vice principals, library technicians and others.
Miller felt the urge to act after leaving a late-night school board meeting March 8, when she learned the district faces a budget deficit of no less than $1.4 million, and possibly much higher.
"I came out of that meeting in a state of shock," Miller told The Associated Press. "I kept thinking, 'What do I have that I can sell?'"
She stayed up until 1 a.m. working out logistics to sell most of her 350 pairs of shoes.
Volunteers are uploading photos of the size 7-7½ high-tops, cowboy boots, leopard-print rain boots, sandals, platforms and high heels to a website, www.shoestotherescue.com, which went live earlier this week. For some of the shoes, Miller will post stories on her website about the memories she attaches to them.
The site also contains two videos in which Miller appeals to viewers to "adopt" her shoes.
"They're my art form, but they're functional art," she told the AP.
Miller described her shoes to The Sacramento Bee as gently used and relatively inexpensive.
"They're not Jimmy Choos or Prada or Gucci or something like that," she said.
Miller said she has not received any orders for her shoes yet but is taking donations from those who want to help but don't need additional footwear.
The website accepts tax-deductible donations through PayPal, which funnels the money to a district account set up for the eight-week fundraiser. Any money collected is designated specifically to help preserve at-risk jobs in the Rescue Union School District.
Miller said she will pay for shipping herself, but might ask a local mail center to pitch in if orders take off.
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Altercation at council meeting sends mayor of Central Florida's Windermere to hospital
Orlando Sentinel
Updated: 9:06 a.m. Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Posted: 9:03 a.m. Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Windermere Mayor Gary Bruhn was taken to a hospital Tuesday night after a confrontation with the husband of the town manager that ended with the mayor crashing into a table and falling to the floor, where he lay apparently unconscious.
Bruhn had just finished lambasting Town Manager Cecilia Bernier’s management abilities during a Town Council meeting. He blamed her for a police scandal that has rocked the town.
After Bruhn called for Bernier to be fired, her husband, Roland Bernier, came to the podium and made accusations about Bruhn’s private life. The mayor then walked over to where Roland Bernier had taken a seat.
The next thing most of the audience saw was Bruhn lying on the floor motionless on his back. Someone screamed. An ambulance arrived quickly and took him to Health Central in Ocoee. It was not clear whether Bruhn fell or was pushed.
The new police chief, Mike McCoy, later said Bruhn was awake and able to speak to paramedics.
“I think tempers got out of control,” McCoy said. “The push, of course, was out of control.”
Officers escorted Roland Bernier from Town Hall. McCoy said that police would take statements from Bernier and witnesses and forward the information to the Orange-Osceola State Attorney’s Office for possible prosecution.
Bernier was not arrested.
McCoy was sitting at the table but was facing another direction when the altercation began. One witness told McCoy that Bruhn crouched in front of Bernier and got “in his face.” Another said Bernier attacked the mayor.
The Town Council meeting was terminated abruptly, and dozens of residents waited outside, peering through the windows. More people than usual were present, presumably to hear a presentation on the ongoing Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigation of former police Chief Daniel Saylor and the Windermere Police Department. The council never got to that item.
McCoy spoke to residents afterward, assuring them that Bruhn was conscious and that Bernier would be held accountable.
Windermere Mayor Gary Bruhn is loaded into an ambulance.
Westboro Baptist Church plans to protest Elizabeth Taylor's funeral
Larry Mcshane
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, March 24th 2011, 10:15 AM
In another in a series of increasingly nasty posts, Phelps - daughter of church pastor Fred Phelps - described the late Hollywood icon as a "serial-adulterous f-- hag."
It's unclear how the group plans to target the funeral, since it was expected to be a private family affair.
Westboro Baptist made headlines by protesting at the funeral of a Marine killed in Iraq, waving signs that read "God Hates F---" and "America Is Doomed."
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that the demonstrations were free speech protected by the First Amendment.
Jarrett Barrios, president of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, quickly denounced the announcement.
"Fred Phelps and his vitriolic anti-gay followers are simply trying to exploit their so-called 'faith' by spreading messages of hate at a time when Americans are grieving the loss of an extraordinary woman, actress and advocate," Barrios told E! News
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Pole Dancing for Jesus
Updated: Wednesday, 16 Mar 2011, 10:25 PM CDT
Published : Wednesday, 16 Mar 2011, 10:25 PM CDT
KRISTIN KANE
Reporter
HOUSTON - Pole dancing as a workout is nothing new. Over the past few years, independent studios have popped up all over the country, but there is a very unique type of pole dancing class here in our area.
It’s called Pole Fitness for Jesus.
You’re probably thinking: “How on Earth can you mix pole dancing with Jesus?”
According to one studio in Spring, you can definitely mix the two.
“I was actually a dancer for 3 years, probably 7 years ago or so. I did it for awhile, it’s not something I felt very rewarded with, but to each his own and it was just something I decided I didn’t want to do anymore so I decided to take the part that I liked about that and bring it here but it’s so much fitness, I don’t teach women to be strippers,” said owner/instructor of Best Shape of Your Life Crystal Deans.
Every 2md Sunday of the month, Crystal Deans invites female church-goers into her pole dancing studio.
“On Sundays, we do pole fitness for Jesus. We do the upbeat contemporary Christian music because people have to bring their church program to get into the class, so we basically are just continuing the whole worship thing here.”
Don't let the name of the class fool you though. There's no prayer beforehand and there's no crosses hanging in her studio,
“Just to get past the whole stigma of the whole thing, I’m very Christian. I go to church every Sunday and I pray. I talk to God things like that I think there’s nothing wrong with what I do. I teach women to feel good about themselves, to feel empowered and we get in really good shape. God is the only person that judges so anybody who wants to judge me, feel free to but I’m good with God, so that’s what’s important to me and I really don’t care what people think.”
And neither does newcomer, Tiffany Booth.
“I think it’s a fabulous thing. I was raised around religion. My parents were very religious and it’s a great way you get the stigma off. It’s not just dancing on a pole. You have music and you have girls together working out and it’s a different kind of workout. There’s tons of different kinds of workouts, this just happens to be one,” said Tiffany.
“I mean it does the legs. That’s why we wear the shoes. The shoes are good for the legs and the glutes, but it’s a lot of upper body and a lot of core,” said Crystal.
LINK TO VIDEO:
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/110316-pole-dancing-for-jesus
DC incident spurs look at airport tower staffing
JOAN LOWY
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Air traffic safety is under increased scrutiny by federal authorities following an incident in which two passenger jets landed without controller assistance at Reagan National Airport because no one could be reached in the airport tower.
Peter Knudson, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday that the pilots of the two planes were in contact with controllers at a regional Federal Aviation Administration facility about 40 miles away in Warrenton, Va.
He said that after pilots were unable to raise the airport tower at Reagan by radio, they asked controllers in Warrenton to call the tower. Repeated calls from the regional facility to the tower went unanswered, Knudson added.
Responding to the incident, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement that he has directed FAA to put two air traffic controllers on the midnight shift at Reagan National.
"It is not acceptable to have just one controller in the tower managing air traffic in this critical air space," LaHood said. Reagan National is located in Northern Virginia just across the Potomac River from Washington.
LaHood also said he has directed FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt to study tower staffing at other airports around the country.
NTSB is gathering information on the occurrence to decide whether to open a formal investigation, Knudson said.
Regional air traffic facilities handle aircraft within roughly a 50 mile radius of an airport, but landings, takeoffs and planes within about three miles of an airport are handled by controllers in the airport tower.
The planes involved were American Airlines flight 1012, a Boeing 737 with 91 passengers and 6 crew members on board, and United Airlines flight 628T, an Airbus A320 with 63 passengers and five crew members.
"The NTSB is conducting an investigation and we are doing our own review," United spokesman Charles Hobart said in an email.
FAA spokeswoman Laura Brown said the agency "is looking into staffing issues and whether existing procedures were followed appropriately."
It's unlikely the safety of the planes was at risk since the pilots would have used a radio frequency for the airport tower to advise nearby aircraft of their intention to land and to make sure that no other planes also intended to land at that time, aviation safety experts said. At that time of night, air traffic would have been light, they said.
Also, controllers at the regional facility, using radar, would have been able to advise the pilots of other nearby planes, experts said.
The primary risk would have been if there was equipment on the runway when the planes landed, they said.
But the incident raises serious questions about controller fatigue, a longstanding safety concern, said John Goglia, a former NTSB board member.
"You have to watch your schedules to make sure (controllers) have adequate rest," Goglia said. "It's worse when nothing is going on. When it's busy, you have to stay engaged. When it's quiet, all they have to be is a little bit tired and they'll fall asleep."
Cops: Man Robbed Store, Mom Was Getaway Driver
Posted: 3:29 pm EDT March 23, 2011 Updated: 3:53 pm EDT March 23, 2011
Police said that 20-year-old Angelo Palmieri walked into the store on 13th Street Tuesday, implied he had a gun and demanded money from the clerk. The clerk handed over the cash and Palmieri ran out of the store and got into his mother's car, said police.
The clerk called 911 and shortly afterward, Palmieri and his mother, 47-year-old Cindy Willson, were caught and arrested, investigators said.
NASA still ordered to waste $1.4 million a day
Mark K. Matthews
Orlando Sentinel
Washington Bureau
6:47 PM EDT, March 23, 2011
WASHINGTON — Congress has again failed to rid a temporary spending bill of language forcing NASA to waste $1.4 million a day on its defunct Constellation moon program.
Though Congress passed a new stopgap spending bill last week, the measure retained a leftover provision from the 2010 budget that bars the agency from shutting down Constellation, which Congress and the White House agreed to cancel last October.
This so-called "Shelby provision" — named for U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, who inserted it into the 2010 budget — is expected to cost NASA roughly $29 million during the three-week budget extension through April 8. It has already cost the agency nearly $250 million since Oct. 1.
Equally galling to budget hawks is that Congress has known about the mistake for months and has done nothing to correct it.
"It's like a dripping faucet, eventually it will fill up the sink," said Steve Ellis, vice president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a non-partisan spending watchdog. "This is just a case of congressional inertia failing to take care of the problem — at a cost to taxpayers."
It all started last summer, when Congress failed to pass a budget for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1. Instead, it approved a continuation of the 2010 budget — and has kept extending it while struggling to reach agreement on a spending plan for the rest of this fiscal year.
In January, NASA Inspector General Paul Martin urged "immediate action" to stop the spending on Constellation, much of which goes to Utah-based solid-rocket manufacturer ATK. Martin said it would cost an estimated $215 million through the end of February.
Since then, though, Congress has passed two "continuing resolutions" — each with the Shelby language.
More than two months ago, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., vowed to cut the language: "Given that every dime counts in our space program right now, we can't afford to be wasting money," Nelson said Jan. 13. He repeated the promise during a NASA hearing last week.
But the language is still there. Asked why, a Nelson spokesman blamed "partisan politics."
"There's no reason for the spending provision that's putting NASA in a jam, other than partisan politics over a broader government spending measure," said Bryan Gulley. "And there's no real opposition to Sen. Nelson's proposal to remove the language in question, except that lawmakers aren't able to agree on longer-term budget cuts. Still, Sen. Nelson is convinced the problem will be fixed, and soon."
Industry and congressional sources attributed the failure to the fact that the amount of money involved simply wasn't enough to attract the attention of congressional leaders.
"Maybe $1 million a day isn't a big deal when you have a $1.6 trillion [federal] deficit," said Thomas Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, a non-partisan budgetary watchdog. But, he added, that's "not the kind of decision any normal organization would make."
At recent congressional hearings, NASA officials have said they were doing their best to steer the Constellation money toward the agency's next big project: a heavy-lift rocket that one day could take astronauts to the moon and beyond.
When pressed, however, Doug Cooke, the agency's head of exploration systems, said NASA "would be happy and less constrained without the restrictions."
