Woman has two year old kid tumble out of car as she’s driving down the road and she didn’t even notice.

A Merritt Island mother was arrested Wednesday after her 2-year-old fell out of her car as she was driving — and didn’t know it, deputies said. Laway K. Meharie faces charges of felony child neglect for failing to properly restrain a child and failing to properly install car safety locks, according to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office.

Hill takes a spill and fractures her elbow.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fractured her right elbow Wednesday during a fall, State Department officials said. Clinton fell Wednesday afternoon on her way to the White House and was taken to George Washington University Hospital.

Continental Airlines pilot passes away while plane in flight en route from Brussels to Newark, N.J.

The captain of a Continental Airlines flight en route from Brussels, Belgium, to Newark, N.J., died during the trip, FOX News confirmed. The pilot died Thursday aboard Continental Flight 61, and the co-pilot took over the aircraft’s controls, FAA spokesman Les Dorr told FOX. The plane was scheduled to make an emergency landing at Newark Liberty International Airport at about noon EDT. It left Brussels at 9:45 a.m. local time, CBS News reported.

Detroit police dummying up murder stats leading to speculation as to whether they are investigating all killings.

The Detroit Police Department is systematically undercounting homicides, leading to a falsely low murder rate in a city that regularly ranks among the nation’s deadliest, a Detroit News review of police and medical examiner records shows. The police incorrectly reclassified 22 of its 368 slayings last year as “justifiable” and did not report them as homicides to the FBI as required by federal guidelines.

Heads up Hawaii, North Korea is feeling froggy…may launch missile your way in a few weeks.

North Korea may fire a long-range ballistic missile toward Hawaii in early July, a Japanese newspaper said Thursday, amid escalating tensions between the communist country and the United States over Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs. The missile, believed to be a long-range Taepodong-2 with a range of up to 4,000 miles (6,500 kilometers), would be launched from North Korea’s Dongchang-ni site on the northwestern coast, said the Yomiuri daily, Japan’s top-selling newspaper.

Political correctness continues to run amok in the U.K. Whites stopped and searched merely to balance out the statistics.

Police are making unjustified and ‘almost certainly’ illegal searches of white people to provide ‘racial balance’ to Government figures. Lord Carlile, the independent reviewer of terror laws, said he knew of cases where suspects were stopped by officers even though there was no evidence against them.

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58 year old substitute teacher facing charges after fight with 11 year old kid during dodgeball game.

A substitute gym teacher turned into a schoolyard bully after he got into a fight with an 11-year-old Westchester student over a dodgeball game, called him a “crybaby,” and put him in a chokehold, New Rochelle police said. Daniel Sanabria, 58, of New Rochelle, denied putting the boy in a chokehold and said he didn’t call him any names.

A gold dispensing vending machine? Get outta here!

Vending machines that dispense bars of gold have been unveiled by a German company keen to sell the precious metal at airports across Europe. TG-Gold-Super-Markt, based near Stuttgart, developed the idea after interest in gold investment increased.

The IRS walks back on taxing work provided cell phones.

The Internal Revenue Service is backing away from proposals to more uniformly enforce a law that taxes personal use of employer-provided cellphones. IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman on Tuesday asked Congress to repeal the 20-year-old law to ensure that neither companies nor workers will be subject to taxes for employees’ personal use of work cellphones. The request is a turnabout from last week, when the IRS proposed measures to improve enforcement of the law, which is now widely ignored by employers and employees.

Over half the kids in this Chicago school won’t be able to move on from the eighth grade this year. Looks like yet another new batch of future Democrat voters on the way.

A startling number of children are falling through the cracks at one Chicago Public School. More than half of the kids didn’t even pass the eighth grade. As CBS 2’s Jim Williams reports there is fierce debate about who’s to blame. It is a debate that has gone on for years in poor communities: do you blame the schools for the students’ poor performance or do you blame their parents?

Gay activists decide to skip out of Democrat party fundraiser saying Obama screwed (well maybe not figuratively) them with his support of the Defense of Marriage act.

Two prominent gay figures, activist David Mixner and widely read blogger Andy Towle, have pulled out of a Democratic National Committee fundraiser later this month amid growing calls to confront the administration at what was supposed to be its first large scale opportunity to bring in gay cash. “I will not attend a fundraiser for the National Democratic Party in Washington next week when the current administration is responsible for these kind of actions,” Mixner wrote of a motion to dismiss a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act that drew a parallel between same-sex marriage to incestuous marriage.

Obama, desperate to throw a bone to the gay lobby, to give benefits to same sex partners of federal employees.

President Barack Obama, whose gay and lesbian supporters have grown frustrated with his slow movement on their priorities, is extending benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees, a White House official said. Obama planned to announce his decision Wednesday in the Oval Office, the official said. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because Obama had not signed a presidential memorandum putting his plan into place. The decision is a political nod to a reliably Democratic voting bloc that has become impatient with the White House in recent weeks.

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Woman tells husband they’re having a boy after taking baby gender test. Joins others suing company because she wound up having daughter and is now divorced. Lame.

Congratulations — it’s a boy! Or a girl! A group of New York moms has filed suit against the makers of a “99.9-percent accurate” baby-gender test, claiming the results they got were 100 percent wrong.

Flickr and Getty Images looking to buy your photographs.

One of the biggest photo libraries in the world is hoping the work of amateur photographers can reinvigorate its collection and help to create an edgier persona. Getty Images, the world’s largest distributor of still imagery, has teamed up with Flickr, the photo-sharing website, to allow keen photographers around the world the chance to make some money out of their regular, everyday snaps.

School superintendent withholds diploma from graduating student because he took a bow, blew a kiss to his mom on the way up to the stage.

Justin Denney’s family watched as he ascended the Cumberland County Civic Center stage during graduation Friday night to accept his diploma, but the superintendent told him to return to his seat. The Bonny Eagle High School senior’s mother said she can’t believe her son’s taking a bow and blowing a kiss on stage led was grounds for the superintendent to withhold his diploma. Mary Denney wants an apology, and her son wants his diploma, reported WMTW-TV in Portland, Maine.

Parolee, working at McDonalds, sitting in jail suspected of spitting on police officer’s McMuffin sandwich.

A policeman who took a bite out of a sandwich that had allegedly been spit on at a McDonald’s restaurant will have to undergo testing for about a year for possible diseases, Berrien Springs Police Chief Milt Agay said Friday. Meanwhile Jacob Skipworth, 32, of Berrien Springs, sits in the Berrien County Jail on a $10,000 bond, charged with a felony food law violation for allegedly adulterating food. Skipworth was on parole, having served 14 years in an Indiana prison for a violent home invasion as a juvenile that left an elderly couple injured, according to police.

Escaped gorilla referred to as Michelle Obama’s ancestor by Republican activist. Gorillas everywhere mad as hell.

A state Republican activist has admitted to and apologized for calling a gorilla that escaped from the Riverbanks Zoo Friday an “ancestor” of First Lady Michelle Obama. A screen capture of the comment, made on the Internet site Facebook, was obtained by FITSNews, the website of South Carolina politico Will Folks.

Hey lady, are those a bunch of Blu-Ray discs in your pocket or are you just really happy to see me?

Police arrested a woman at a Target store in Oklahoma City after an employee said he saw her stuff nearly $1,000 worth of Blu-ray discs in her pants. Lisa Roshelle Myles, 40, remained at the Oklahoma County jail this morning in lieu of $4,000 bail, jail records show.

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Blogger making big bucks off his BuckyBalls.

A Brooklyn blogger is toying with everyone from MIT eggheads to business executives — and raking in thousands doing it. Jake Bronstein, 30, is the brains behind BuckyBalls, a new toy that consists of a jar of 21, tiny, magnetic balls that link into geometric shapes.

L.A. Lakers make it 15 championships after beating the Orlando Magic 4 games to one in the NBA finals. Idiotic Laker fans riot.

Hundreds celebrated in the streets outside Staples Center after the Los Angeles Lakers’ NBA title win Sunday night, with some revelers damaging police cruisers, throwing rocks and bottles at officers and setting bonfires in the street, authorities said. About 25 people were arrested, most part of a rowdy crowd that split off on to surrounding streets after police declared the gathering an unlawful assembly, officer Karen Rayner said.

Weird stuff from China…ghost brides.

The suspects included a grieving father who allegedly paid his four accomplices around £2,700 pounds to find a female to be his son’s companion in the afterlife. The men were caught after unearthing the remains of a teenage girl who had poisoned herself after failing her university entrance exams last year, a newspaper in Xianyang in China’s Shaanxi province reported.

Maryland hospital fined for not reporting death, several serious incidents involving mistakes by medical staff.

Maryland health officials say Doctors Community Hospital has been fined after failing to report that a patient died and at least seven others suffered serious harm as a result of mistakes by the medical staff. The 185-bed medical surgical hospital in Lanham paid the $30,000 fine last month for violating a Maryland law that requires hospitals to report serious medical errors.

Police officer arrested for domestic violence when he tried to prevent daughter from joining gang.

Springfield police arrested one of their own Friday afternoon after the officer got into altercation at home with his 19-year-old daughter, Sgt. John M. Delaney said. Officer Jose Diaz, 45, had been attempting to stop his daughter from joining a gang, Delaney said.

The very first lottery ticket sold in America is now up for sale at auction.

“We expect (the sweepstakes) will be proven at some future time to have been a tragic mistake,” the Union & Rockingham Gazette predicted in August 1963. Four months earlier, the New Hampshire Legislature had passed a bill making the state the first in the nation to have a legal lottery. The entire nation was watching the day the first ticket was sold on March 12, 1964 to then-Gov. John W. King.

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