Five year old feral girl, supposedly brought up by dogs and cats, rescued from dilapidated home in Siberian city of Chita. Police have opened an investigation into her family members for child abuse. Gee ya think?

A feral girl who has spent her entire life shut up in a flat in the company of cats and dogs has been taken into care by police in Siberia. The child, 5, was unable to speak and acted like a dog when officers discovered her locked in a squalid, unheated flat in the city of Chita. “For five years, the girl was ’brought up’ by several dogs and cats and had never been outside,” police said in a statement.

Chinese woman suffering from severe headaches decides to go the hospital. Doctors discover she has an embedded bullet in her face that has been there for decades.

Huo Guoying complained to doctors about an on-going agonising headache and was taken into a local hospital for an X-ray. The images revealed a 3.3cm long bullet had become lodged in the side of her face next to her ear. When doctors showed the 65-year-old the pictures she told them she had no idea how the bullet could have got there.

Crooks listen up. Powerful cancer drug causes interesting side effects including loss of fingerprints.

When a cancer patient from Singapore traveled to the United States last year, he discovered an unusual side effect of his medication: missing fingerprints. The 62-year-old man was taking capecitabine, or Xeloda, to treat head and neck cancer. Upon arriving in the U.S., immigration officials asked him for his fingerprints. But the drug had caused so much redness and peeling to his fingers that the patient, identified only as Mr. S., had none.

Pennsylvania mother, 9 year old daughter missing after traffic collision. Her 911 call claimed they were abducted by two black men and were being held in trunk of car. This one smells to high heaven…ain’t buying it for a second.

Police say they’ve found the silver SUV of a Pennsylvania woman and her young daughter who were allegedly kidnapped in broad daylight and called 911 from the trunk of a car. There was still no sign of Bonnie Sweeten, 38, of Feasterville, Pa., or 9-year-old Julia Rakoczy Wednesday morning after the discovery of their vehicle in the Center City section of Philadelphia. A massive manhunt was under way.

Hospital offers new hires free boob jobs and other surgical procedures if they promise to stay on the job for at least three years.

A HOSPITAL is so desperate for new staff its offering out free BOOB JOBS in return for filled vacancies. Plastic surgeons in Prague will perform enhancing operations if qualified nurses and doctors put their names to a three year contract.

London police discover woman’s body that had been in a freezer for 20 years.

London police have discovered a woman’s corpse in a home freezer 20 years after her death and have been questioning her 83-year-old daughter, Britain’s Press Association reports. Police searched the home of Daulat Irani 10 days after a neighbour reported there might be a body in the garage, the agency said. Police believe the dead woman, Gulbai Freedoon Murzdan, died 20 years ago.

PETA lunatics up to some more of their ridiculous antics.

Two animal-rights activists are scheduled to shower nude in public today at noon in downtown Orlando in order to draw attention to vegetarianism, the group said today. The two women from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals will shower behind a banner at the corner of S. Orange Avenue and E. Church Street. The banner will read: “Clean Your Conscience: Go Vegetarian! 1 lb. of Meat = 6 Months of Showers.” The group has already had one shower event this week in Gainesville, and will have another in West Palm Beach later in the week, according to Ashley Byrne, a senior campaigner who works in PETA’s Norfolk, Va., headquarters. One of the two women participating in the Orlando event is from the Orlando area, and the other is from Tampa, she said.

Snooping through law enforcement databases for information on a man he suspected was fooling around with his wife costs police officer his career.

A crumbling marriage ultimately cost a Goodyear police veteran his badge. Richard Beck has relinquished his badge in the wake of accusations that he illegally accessed law-enforcement databases to look up information about a man he believed was having an affair with his estranged wife, and later lied about it. The agreement reached between Beck, 35, and the Arizona Peace Officer Standards and Training Board last week permanently strips him of his ability to work as a police officer in Arizona.

Would you spend a thousand bucks for an outdoor dog toilet? And I thought the $10 I spent on the last pooper scooper I bought was steep.

Necessity might be the mother of invention, but nastiness also played a big role in Curt Fournier’s creation. Fournier, 34, developed the Powerloo and formed GreenDog LLC with fiancee Victoria Januszewski. It’s an outdoor, handsfree flushable toilet for dog waste. The Powerloo sits just below ground level and taps into sewer lines. It’s designed to be an environmentally safe and convenient way to dispose of dog poop. Fournier, who said he spent two years on research, said it’s preferable to taking up space in a landfill or remaining on the ground. Federal environmental and disease experts said dog waste can infect humans or other animals, and contaminate water sources.

Seattle area marijuana grower gets popped by “law enforcement” twice. First by fake FBI agents, the second time by the real deal.

A Wallingford resident who operates a medical-marijuana-growing site for himself and other ill patients saw his crop of drugs raided twice Tuesday — once by police. Mark Spohn, 48, called police after four men dressed like FBI agents burst into his home around 11 a.m., according to his attorney Douglas Hiatt.

FBI to investigate Minnesota Metro Gang Strike Force law enforcement coalition.

The FBI is the latest agency now investigating the Metro Gang Strike Force, a law-enforcement coalition that has come under fire amid allegations of mishandling money and property, destroying documents and disconnecting computers. State Department of Public Safety Commissioner Michael Campion, along with making the request, also has asked the strike force’s advisory board to halt the unit’s daily operations to allow Campion’s department to implement more than two dozen recommendations made by the state Office of the Legislative Auditor.

Man does the right thing by not driving while drunk. He does the wrong thing by allowing his 12 year old son to attempt to drive him home.

Tampa Police have arrested a man they say sat drunk in the passenger seat of his SUV while he let his 12-year-old son drive. Authorities say the boy hit a pregnant woman’s car while making a turn. Both vehicles had minor damage Saturday. No injuries were reported, but the woman asked to be taken to a hospital as a precaution. She was eight months pregnant.

Study shows which vehicles happen to be driven by people who get ticketed for the most moving violations.

Is the car you drive on a list of models that get the most tickets? [Note to author, cars don’t “get tickets” the people behind the wheel do…ed] KMBC’s Maria Antonia took a look at a study of the makes and models that attract the most traffic tickets. The study was conducted by Quality Planning Corporation, which specializes in gathering information for the insurance industry – information that is often used to set policy prices.

Quote of the day.

Joe Biden has had his finger in every tawdry hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee in my memory. He has lowered the standard of debate. He has politicized the confirmation process. He has used his position to defame a number of nominees, including Bob Bork and Clarence Thomas, and there’s no road too low that he won’t travel.

-Mark R. Levin discusses how Biden treated conservative SCOTUS nominees in this article.

French cop has enough of his wife’s fooling around, tracks down bedroom rival and lops off the guy’s willy with a box cutter. Ouch.

A French policeman has been charged with “a barbarous act of torture and mutilation” after he lopped off his wife’s lover’s genitals with a box cutter, Strasbourg prosecutors said on Monday. The 43-year-old father-of-five faces a maximum of 30 years in jail and is on suicide watch after handing himself in to his colleagues following Saturday’s attack, according to officials involved in the inquiry.

Woman takes a swing at security personnel with a two month old baby in a car seat when she is approached about shoplifting at Wal Mart. Oh and the baby’s mom is in trouble too.

A Memphis woman accused of throwing a 2-month-old boy at a Wal-Mart security guard who suspected her of shoplifting faces child abuse and assault charges, police said Monday. Camilla Fields, 26, is charged with one felony count of child abuse and neglect and one count of assault. She reportedly swung a car seat holding an infant at a security guard last Wednesday, after he accused her of stealing from the Wal-Mart at 3950 Austin Peay.

Mike Tyson’s little daughter in critical condition and on life support after being found at home with a cord around her neck.

The 4-year-old daughter of legendary boxer Mike Tyson is in critical condition after a family member found her hanging from a cord. Monday around 10:30 a.m., Phoenix Police and paramedics were called out to Tyson’s home in the 6100 block of 10th Ave in Phoenix on reports of an unresponsive child.

Couple playing some idiotic “stripping” game arrested for throwing rocks at vehicles from overhead bridge.

State troopers have arrested two people suspected of damaging at least 14 vehicles by throwing baseball-sized rocks onto them from a railroad trestle over Interstate 5 as a part of a stripping game. Washington State Patrol Trooper Guy Gill said 23-year-old Joshua N. Sizemore and 18-year-old Amanda L. Madison were tossing large rocks from the trestle near Bridgeport way about midnight.

A 38 year old police officer driving drunk crashes police cruiser into tree. For some reason he had three 18 year old girls inside the vehicle at the time.

Police say a City of Elkhart police officer was arrested for operating a vehicle while intoxicated after he was involved in an accident late Sunday along County Line Road. Officer Benjamin Kruszynski, 38, crashed an Elkhart City squad car into a tree near the intersection of Brummitt and Ash roads about 11:10 p.m. There were four passengers in the car at the time — a 43-year-old male and three 18-year-old females, according to police.

British couple celebrate 81 years of marriage.

They credit a little arguing and a happy outlook, but whatever the secret is to a long-lasting marriage Frank and Anita Milford must be doing something right as they celebrate their 81st wedding anniversary today. Devoted Frank Milford, 101, and wife Anita, 100, tied the knot on May 26, 1928, after meeting at a YMCA dance. The pair already hold the record for the UK’s longest living marriage and say their secret is ‘a little argument every day’.

Bee swarm traps people inside New York store.

Thousands of bees swarmed outside a New York City game store, trapping employees inside for hours. Worried employees looked out the window of the Manhattan store while talking on the phone as the bees clustered Saturday afternoon. A sign in the window warned: “Look! … closed due to bee infestation.”

Break dancing 73 year old vying for big money on Britain’s Got Talent show has been collecting disability payments for bum leg.

A 73-YEAR-OLD breakdancer looming as a genuine threat to Susan Boyle’s Britain’s Got Talent hopes has come under fire for claiming disability handouts. Fred Bowers has wowed millions of viewers by spinning, flipping and rolling himself into contention for the £100,000 ($204,000) top prize, with top judge Simon Cowell sending the “absolutely brilliant” retiree through to the semi-final.

Street racing at 100 mph costs future Air Force Academy recruit his life.

A Conroe High School football player was killed less than a week shy of graduation in a crash police said may have resulted from street racing and in which a teammate was driving. Jordan Wilson, 17, who had been accepted into the U.S. Air Force Academy, was a passenger in a car that was traveling more than 100 mph when it crashed on the shoulder of a dark, curving road, Conroe Police Lt. Robert Yetter said Monday.

Former steroid using major league baseball player Jose Conseco gets his ass handed to him in his first mixed martial arts contest.

Jose Canseco came out swinging but didn’t last long in his debut in mixed martial arts. The former Oakland Athletics slugger was defeated by South Korean super heavyweight Hong Man Choi by a knockout just 1 minute, 17 seconds into the first round at Yokohama Arena. The referee stopped the fight when the 7-foot-2, 330-pound Choi knocked Canseco to the mat and started punching his head.

Microsoft going after Google with revamped search engine code named ‘Bing.’ I prefer ‘Scroogle’ myself.

Microsoft is hoping “Bing” will put some zing into its languishing search engine. The software giant is set to unveil a broad revamp of its Live Search engine at an industry gathering that starts today in San Diego, and the name that Microsoft is expected go with for the new service is Bing.

CA Supreme Court upholds Proposition 8, marriage is between a man and a woman, but allows all “gay marriages” performed prior to the passing of the law. There is NO doubt the gay people will be back next year in an attempt to unravel this Proposition, and it will probably work.

The California Supreme Court has upheld a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, but it also decided that the estimated 18,000 gay couples who tied the knot before the law took effect will stay wed. The decision Tuesday rejected an argument by gay rights activists that the ban revised the California constitution’s equal protection clause to such a dramatic degree that it first needed the Legislature’s approval.

Smoke from huge tire fire envelops east Texas town.

Officials are meeting in Hawkins this morning to put a plan of action into motion following the outbreak of a huge tire fire that has blanketed much of the city in thick smoke. The mayor of Hawkins has warned residents with breathing problems, to leave. Hawkins schools are canceled. People are urged to go inside and keep their windows closed. A dump that contains an estimated 300,000 tires caught on fire last night and is blanketing much of the town with thick smoke.

Three year old girl awakens from coma singing “Mamma Mia.” She was so sick her mother had already kissed her goodbye.

A girl of three who fell into a coma after getting meningitis stunned her mum when she came round – singing Abba hit Mamma Mia. Layla Towsey was so ill after getting the brain bug she had been put on a life support machine and her mum had kissed her goodbye.

Quote of the day.

The Court of Appeals is where policy is made and I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don’t make law. i know, I know….

-Sonia Sotomayor, Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.

Police captain forced to shoot his own son, a former standout football player at San Diego State, when he attacks his mother.

A captain with the Oceanside Police Department shot and wounded his 25-year-old son, a former San Diego State University football player, shortly after midnight when the young man attacked his mother, authorities said Saturday. Capt. Reginald Grigsby, who was off-duty at the time, called sheriff’s deputies to report the shooting at his Fallbrook home. Grigsby told investigators that his son, Reginald “Reggie” Grigsby Jr., who reportedly has a history of mental illness, came to the couple’s home and got into an argument with his mother, said sheriff’s Lt. Dennis Brugos. The argument quickly turned violent. The captain tried to come to the aid of his wife, but was unable to stop the attack, Brugos said. At that point, the captain grabbed a handgun and shot his son.

More Detroit shenanigans as council member pays only $68 in property taxes on her home last year. City records have listed her home as a vacant lot for last decade.

A Detroit city council member paid only $68 in property taxes this year because city records showed her home doesn’t exist. JoAnn Watson, 58, said she was unaware of a city records discrepancy that has, for the past decade, listed her house as an empty lot even though the brick Tudor-style home has been occupying the plot since 1926, according to a story Sunday in the Detroit Free Press.

Housing market collapse, internet brokers causing real estate agents to bail out of the business.

Marco Huerta and Youngmin Bae bought their Burbank home without ever meeting their real estate agent. Instead, they scoured listings for their favorite neighborhoods, haggled over prices and even wrote their offer using Marco’s cellphone. There was no housewarming plant on the porch when they moved in, but the couple aren’t complaining: They received a $10,000 check as a “rebate” from their agent’s 3% commission.

Man glad he didn’t have his cancer ridden dog euthanized as her persistent barking early one morning probably saved his life.

Scott Seymour’s decision not to euthanize his cancer-filled dog loomed large Saturday when the 9-year-old American bulldog awakened him to escape his burning house. “Brittney might whine a little when she has to go out, but she never, ever barks when I’m sleeping,” said Seymour, 39, who has had the dog since she was 6 weeks old. “She was demanding that I get up. “And it saved my life.”

Yet another flaky pro sports guy mired in legal and personal troubles.

Former NBA star Jayson Williams was arrested early Monday after authorities say he punched someone in the face outside a Raleigh nightclub, the latest legal tribulation for the All-Star who has spent years in the courtroom since an injury ended his basketball career. Some type of dispute led Williams, 41, to hit the other person shortly before 2 a.m., Raleigh police said. Williams was charged with one count of simple assault and released on $1,000 bond.

Canadian woman claims she was raped inside the home of New York Jets football player.

New Jersey cops are investigating a woman’s claim that she was raped at the home of star Jets defensive back Kerry Rhodes after meeting him and another man at a Manhattan nightclub, The Post has learned. The woman, a Canadian tourist, told NYPD cops that two men raped her late Friday or early Saturday in Morristown, NJ, where the 26-year-old Jet safety has a town house, New York law-enforcement sources said.

Oregon woman in custody on suspicion of killing her son, attempting to kill his sister.

The mother of a 4-year-old boy whose body was pulled from the Willamette River hours before daybreak on Saturday was arrested later that morning and charged with aggravated murder and attempted aggravated murder. According to police, 31-year-old Amanda Jo Stott-Smith was taken into custody at a downtown Portland parking garage. Police said when they approached her, she tried to jump off the top floor of the parking garage but they were able to talk her down.

Homeowners turn to real estate “swap sites” in order to move their properties.

Diane Peek needed to move from Georgia to central Florida, but for six months no one even showed interest in the house she and her husband built outside Atlanta. In suburban Orlando, Andrew Bou needed to sell his family home to move to Atlanta, but also no luck. Peek and Bou each joined a Web site that matches people willing to trade their homes. They punched in their needs, their likes and dislikes and like two singles finding love on a dating site, they became a match. About seven months later, they swapped homes. Peek and Bou are part of a small but growing number of homeowners who are turning to the Internet to swap properties. The sites — there are about a dozen — allow interested homeowners to browse potential swaps narrowed by giving preferences like price range, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, and city of choice. The homeowner also creates an account with the same information for others to browse.

London to honor Ronald Reagan with statue.

Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan is being honored with a statue in central London. Westminster City Council says it has changed the usual rules to allow the memorial to be erected outside the current U.S. embassy in downtown London. Normally, the council only permits statues in honor of people who have been dead for more than 10 years. Reagan died in 2004.

Japanese horror writer has his scary stories about evil spirits roaming around inside the commode printed on rolls of toilet paper.

Horror writer Koji Suzuki has teamed up with a Japanese paper manufacturer to have his latest stomach-churning novella published in a very convenient form – on toilet paper. The nine-chapter tale is appropriately titled “Drop,” and is the alarming story of an evil spirit that inhabits a toilet bowl, according to Takaki Hayashi, vice president of Hayashi Paper Corp. “I’ve read the story and it’s very scary,” he said.

British diver, exploring the wreck of Titanic’s sister ship, succumbs to “the bends ” after diving on the Britannic.

One of Britain’s top divers has died while exploring a shipwreck off the Greek coast. Carl Spencer, 37, had been leading a 17-man National Geographic expedition to explore and film the Britannic, sister ship of the Titanic, off the Greek island of Kea, when he suffered a severe attack of decompression sickness (DCS). Known colloquially as “the bends”, DCs occurs when divers surface too quickly. The Britannic, larger than the Titanic and deemed equally “unsinkable”, sank in 57 minutes after hitting a mine in 1916 while serving as a First World War hospital ship.

Bomb outside New York Starbucks shop goes BOOM!

A small bomb set off outside an apartment building early this morning rattled residents on the Upper East Side. Placed under a bench outside a Starbucks on E. 92nd Street near Third Avenue, the bomb went off at 3:25 a.m., blowing a hole in the bench and shattering two windows, police said.

The next generation of televisions are coming. Just 3 millimeters thick!

It is the thinnest TV screen created – about the same width as a coin at its narrowest point – and Sony believes it could signal a home technology revolution. The simple beauty of its slim appearance has wowed the world’s techno-geeks, given the evidence of early reactions to images on gadget websites. The new generation of Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) TVs also boasts technological advances which mean the image is far superior to LCD and plasma screens.

For this Memorial Day, Map The Fallen.org.

This Memorial Day I would like to share with you a personal project of mine that uses Google Earth to honor the more than 5,700 American and Coalition servicemen and women that have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. I have created a map for Google Earth that will connect you with each of their stories—you can see photos, learn about how they died, visit memorial websites with comments from friends and families, and explore the places they called home and where they died.

Quote of the day.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

-Winston Churchill

Cops have to be called in to calm down a bunch of unruly nutjobs when crowd goes gonzo over $1 flip flops at Old Navy store.

Shoppers pushed, shoved and screamed at each other as they fought over $1 flip-flops Saturday morning at the Mishawaka Old Navy store, customers and police say. “It was insane, worse than the day after Thanksgiving,” said Renee Becker, of Osceola, as she stood in the parking lot with 20 new pairs of sandals in bags at her feet. Their squad cars parked in front of the store, Mishawaka police officers were called to calm the several hundred shoppers who had lined up outside and rushed the store at its 9:30 a.m. opening for the sale.

Man just released from prison for rape, right back in jail for the same crime. Maybe this time the state will lock this violent criminal up and throw away the key.

Less than a month after the end of Travis June Gillis’ prison term for raping a woman near Chavis Park, police say, he roamed the same neighborhood again, luring prostitutes into his grasp to rape and brutalize them. Gillis, 43, is charged with raping, kidnapping and assaulting three women since the beginning of March, according to warrants. In each case, Gillis posed as a potential customer before forcing himself on the women in abandoned buildings and wooded areas. He strangled one woman with a phone cord; he sliced another’s face and neck with a glass shard, according to warrants and police.

Bakersfield CA real estate agents are pumped, think this will be a booming summer for home sales.

With the real estate industry bouncing back after a few tough years, this summer should be the highlight of the industry’s comeback, several local agents predict. “(Nationally) the real estate industry is beginning to turn around,” said Nance Fillmore, president of the Bakersfield Association of Realtors. “We’re feeling it locally as well.” Summer traditionally is the busiest time in real estate.

British helicopter pilot spots man from 200 feet up in the air stealing stuff from his home, chases him for two hours before the guy finally gets arrested. Judge give thief slap on the wrist.

When millionaire businessman Jeremy Taylor spotted a petty thief raiding his yard he was in the perfect place to do something about it…hovering right above the crook in his helicopter. Mr Taylor, 38, had just taken off from his helipad on a business trip when he looked down and saw a suspicious white van at his timber yard and realised he was being burgled. And in a scene straight out of an action-packed police drama, he embarked on a 21⁄2-hour chase in his £1.9million helicopter as the thief tried to escape with his property down country roads.

South Carolina mom who fled the state with her 555 lb 14 year old son nabbed in Baltimore. She’s in jail he’s a ward of the state.

A mother and her 555-pound son who fled South Carolina after the state planned to take the 14-year-old boy into protective custody were found hundreds of miles from their home. Police told WBAL-TV 11 News that they found Alexander Draper and his mother, Jerri Gray, just after 4:30 p.m. at a Woodlawn Laundromat in the 6600 block of Security Boulevard after getting a tip. Alexander was checked at the scene by emergency medical services and was turned over to the Maryland Department of Social Services. Investigators will work with them to have him returned to the Department of Social Services in South Carolina.

Man faced with eviction from his home shoots, wounds officer. Later found dead inside house.

A suburban Detroit man refused to be served with an eviction notice and shot a police officer Friday, starting a tense hours-long standoff in which dozens of shots were fired before the man was found dead of a gunshot wound, authorities said. The officer was in stable condition with injuries that were not considered life-threatening, Oakwood Hospital spokeswoman Paula Rivera-Kerr said.

Chicago police officer charged with DUI, hit and run, reckless homicide after mowing down 13 year old boy.

A veteran Chicago police officer was charged Saturday in the fatal hit-and-run that killed a 13-year-old boy who had sneaked outside to ride his bike with friends on the South Side Friday. Richard Bolling, 39, of the 8600 block of South Wolcott Avenue was charged Saturday with aggravated driving under the influence, leaving the scene of a wreck where a death or injury occurred, and reckless homicide in the death of Trenton Booker, said Sally Daly, spokeswoman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.

Convict who skipped out on sentencing hearing 10 years ago has a brain malfunction and returns to same court to face his fate.

A man who ran from a sentencing hearing and spent 10 years in Missouri returned to a Illinois courtroom on Friday to face the same judge. The judge gave him three years in prison and a scolding. Authorities say Napoleon Williams, now 54 years old, made audio tapes of two people and broadcast their words without their consent on an independent radio station. In 1998, a jury found him guilty of felony eavesdropping.

Man, dying of cancer, has one last wish to see his home granted.

A Hamilton man had a simple wish — to go home before he died. Drivers transporting him from Mercy Hospital Fairfield to Hospice of Hamilton granted him that wish Monday, May 18. With special permission from their boss, TriHealth, Bethesda North, Good Samaritan Patient Transport Service employees Jeff Toms and Jamie Trimpe took a slight detour on the way back to Hospice, stopping at the Cleveland Avenue home of Ed Ballard for a few minutes. It was a complete surprise for his wife, Rita, to see him come home, if only for a short while.

D.A.R.E “role model” convicted on cocaine charges.

Despite the t-shirt proclaiming him to be a “D.A.R.E. Role Model,” a man was anything but as he posed for his booking photo on drug possession charges. Derrick Morton was convicted of possessing cocaine after he pleaded guilty to the charge in Kenton County Circuit Court Monday.

Inmates assist jailers in preventing man from hanging himself.

Inmates and guards at county jails often have a difficult relationship, but in one county jail this week, guards and inmates teamed up, to save a life. Deputy Don Sinz was called into work at the Pepin County Jail on Tuesday, for what he says was a busy day.
The jail had five inmates going to court and the jail had to get ready for a state inspection the next day, but two hours into his shift, he along with two inmates saved a man’s life. Tuesday turned inmates and officers from foes to friends, Officer Sinz says around one in the afternoon he and two inmates, Dave Kuesel and Mitch Randel, found another inmate trying to hang himself in the maximum security section of the jail.

CA Supreme Court expected to uphold constitutional amendment that marriage is between a man and a woman. The battle is far from over however.

Odds are that gay marriage will continue to be banned in the state – except for the 18,000 gay couples that tied the knot before voters approved Proposition 8 in November, according to legal experts anticipating the state Supreme Court’s upcoming ruling Tuesday. But the next ballot measure you see on the issue will seek to reverse the ban – possibly as early as next year.

Off duty Boston police officer tries to help woman getting her butt kicked by her boyfriend. Woman getting beaten and the guy working her over both turn on the cop and knock the crap out of her.

An off-duty Boston police officer was viciously punished for her good deed when she responded to a beaten woman’s cries for help only to be attacked by the woman and her boyfriend, police said yesterday. The officer was walking through the Back Bay about 11 p.m. Friday when she heard a woman calling for help, police said. The officer followed the cries to a basement stairwell at the First Baptist Church near Commonwealth Avenue and Clarendon Street, where she saw the couple fighting, identified herself as a police officer and ordered them to stop.

Quote of the day.

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

-Albert Einstein

Former South Korean President commits suicide by jumping off a hill behind his house. Yeah, sure he did….you bet.

Former South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun committed suicide Saturday by leaping to his death from a hill behind his house, the South Korean government announced. He was 62. Roh, who was president from 2003 to 2008, had gone hiking near his home with an aide around 6:30 a.m. Saturday (5:30 p.m. ET Friday), the state-run Yonhap news agency said. He was found later with head injuries, and died at 9:30 a.m. after being taken to a hospital in Busan, police said.

Six year old boy grabs the wheel of pickup truck after father passes out. Keeps vehicle from crashing.

A 6-year-old boy grabbed the wheel of his family’s pickup truck when his father passed out from low blood sugar, keeping the vehicle from crashing until an officer could bring it to a halt, police said. Tustin Mains was in the back seat with his 3-year-old brother Sunday when his father, Phillip Mains, slumped over at the wheel, the boy told police. The family had been driving home from a restaurant.

Consumers getting screwed at those BBQ propane tank exchange stations.

Backyard grillers may get a little steamed this holiday weekend when buying refilled propane tanks: They will be getting less fuel for their money than last Memorial Day. When oil prices soared in 2008, propane suppliers quietly reduced by two pounds the amount of gas pumped into each 20-pound tank, saying they wanted to avoid raising prices. Since then, propane prices have been cut in half as the price of oil has dropped. But smaller refills are still being sold nationwide by many dealers, and most buyers are unaware because the tank is the same size.

The Brits really starting to get it when it comes to Obama.

Watching Obama lose his screen on screen duel with Dick Cheney yesterday I was reminded of some lines from Paradise Lost. “Thus Belial with words clothed in reason’s garb Counselled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth, not peace.”

But while the silver-tongued minor devil Belial would no doubt have approved the President’s new surrender-monkey “realist” approach to the war on terror, I doubt he would have been so impressed with his oratorical skills. Never mind the bizarre reputation Obama has acquired as a great public speaker: his speeches are fast beginning to sound almost as excruciating as anything in his predecessor’s “enhanced interrogation program.”

Washington State’s first assisted suicide case is a 66 year old woman with terminal cancer.

Linda Fleming was diagnosed with terminal cancer and feared her last days would be filled with pain and ever-stronger doses of medication that would erode her mind. The 66-year-old woman with late-stage pancreatic cancer wanted to be clear-headed at death, so she became the first person to kill herself under Washington state’s new assisted suicide law, known as “death with dignity.” “I am a very spiritual person, and it was very important to me to be conscious, clear-minded and alert at the time of my death,” Fleming said in a statement released Friday. “The powerful pain medications were making it difficult to maintain the state of mind I wanted to have at my death. And I knew I would have to increase them.”

Obama calls out CodePink, MoveOn.org and other left wingers on their hatred of our military. Really, he did. He must have been talking about these people in this little speech.

On Memorial Day weekend, President Obama paid tribute to the country’s troops in his weekly radio address.

“Our fighting men and women – and the military families who love them – embody what is best in America,” Obama said . “And we have a responsibility to serve all of them as well as they serve all of us.” Obama said that the public often does not live up to that responsibility. “We have failed to give them the support they need or pay them the respect they deserve,” the president said. “That is a betrayal of the sacred trust that America has with all who wear – and all who have worn – the proud uniform of our country.”

Man who threatened suicide by jumping off bridge pushed over the edge by passing motorist. “Pusher” said people like this are just selfish attention grabbers.

A passerby pushed a would-be suicide jumper off a bridge in southern China because he was angry at the jumper’s “selfish activity,” Chinese media reported Saturday. It happened Thursday in the city of Guangzhou as Chen Fuchao threatened to jump off Haizhu Bridge, China’s Xinhua news agency reported. The bridge has gained a “macabre” reputation with 11 jumpers having thrown themselves off the bridge since the start of April, Xinhua said.

NYPD officer hands gun to janitor, who has never held a gun in his life, while attempting arrest on bad guy. Tells the mop pusher to cover suspect while he slaps the cuffs on him.

Struggling to subdue a crazed suspect, an NYPD cop broke a cardinal rule of law enforcement and handed his gun to a Manhattan janitor, telling his stunned new deputy, “I need some help here,” The Post has learned. Even though his idea of backup usually involves clogged drains, Placido Contreras, 51, said he took hold of the weapon and pointed it at the floor after the cop told him, “Keep your eyes on him and shoot him if you have to.”

The natives are competing with immigrants for dwindling number of available jobs. It gets a little testy in the employment line.

Hard times recently drew scores of locals and immigrants to a cold sidewalk in this town, where they spent an anxious night waiting to compete for jobs in a slaughterhouse. Burmese refugee Cho Aye traveled 60 miles from Nashville on a Thursday morning in late March to take a place at the head of the line outside Shelbyville’s state employment office. The next day, the office was to take applications for $9.35-an-hour jobs processing chicken at the local Tyson Foods plant. Directly behind Ms. Aye, sitting on blankets atop the concrete, were 16 more Burmese refugees who had come from as far away as Idaho and Florida.

An Oklahoma sheriff, undersheriff charged with stealing “more than $1,000” from detained motorist.

The sheriff and undersheriff of McIntosh County were charged in federal court Friday in connection with the alleged embezzlement of a large sum of cash that was confiscated from a detained motorist. Sheriff Terry Alan Jones, 36, and Undersheriff Mykol Travis Brookshire, 38, both of Eufaula, are charged in U.S. District Court with depriving Adan Sandival of his civil rights during a traffic stop on Thursday, said Sheldon Sperling, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Oklahoma in Muskogee.

FBI, U.S. Marshall computer networks infected with “mystery” virus.

Law enforcement computers were struck by a Mystery computer virus Thursday, forcing the FBI and the U.S. Marshals to shut down part of their networks as a precaution. The U.S. Marshals confirmed it disconnected from the Justice Department’s computers as a protective measure after being hit by the virus; an FBI official said only that that agency was experiencing similar issues and was working on the problem.

DOH! SWAT team kicks in man’s door just as he arrives home. Good thing the poor guy wasn’t inside at the time! Oh, it turns out they were at the wrong house.

A rural northern Indiana couple was shaken when they arrived home to find a police SWAT team breaking down the door to their house, only to learn the officers were at the wrong address. Harvey Bontrager of Goshen says he had just pulled into the driveway Thursday evening when a vehicle blocked him in and officers began bashing in his door. Bontrager asked an officer what was going on. That’s when an officer asked Bontrager for his address.

Left wing administrators see to it that Wake County North Carolina schools are session on Memorial Day. County GOP representatives say parents should pull kids out of school so they can honor those who gave their all for this country.

Year-round students who skip school Monday have a new excuse — the Wake County Republican Party told me to. The county GOP took the unusual step Friday of encouraging families to keep their children out of school Monday to protest the Wake school system’s decision to have year-round schools open on Memorial Day. Claude Pope Jr., chairman of the Wake GOP, said it’s more important to honor the nation’s war dead Monday than to show up for classes.

[Say I wonder if these kids get Martin Luther King’s birthday off? I’ll have to look into that…..ed]

Quote of the day.

But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.

-Al Franken

[And this delusional idiot is one step away from a U.S. Senate seat….ed]