Ironically he proved he was right in feeling unlucky.
C'mon you guys chip in and give him a million bucks.
Worker skips office Mega pool, loses share of $319M
By PERRY CHIARAMONTE in Albany and BOB FREDERICKS in New York - NY Post
He didn't think Lady Luck was on his side -- and now he's out millions.
A hapless state information-technology worker who usually joined his office lottery pool took a pass last week -- only to learn that seven positive-thinking pals nailed a whopping $319 million Mega Millions jackpot, said a deli owner who knows the winners.
"The word is that when they were going around the office asking who wanted in on the pool, one guy said no, that he wasn't feeling lucky," said Jill Cook, who with husband Tom owns Cook's Deli in Albany, where the winners are lunchtime regulars.
After being stabbed 10 times, including once in the throat, Alonzo De La Garza wasn't able to say much to police officers who had followed a trail of blood to his South Side apartment.
But he was able to point out his killer, prosecutors said Wednesday as testimony began in the murder trial of neighbor Anthony Deleon.
“Tony cut me,” De La Garza, 55, struggled to say three times as he gurgled and choked on his own blood, officer Juan Marines told jurors in the 175th state District Court.
Well, if I ever have a house torn down by the city I'm going to Tyler Rutherford to represent me.
Jury finds city wrongly demolished house, awards $27,500
Jury says city violated his rights by razing house without warning. By Guillermo Contreras - Express-News
A federal jury Wednesday awarded $27,500 to a real estate investor after determining the city of San Antonio violated his constitutional rights by demolishing one of his houses without warning.
The verdict for Realtor Steven Gragg was another blow to the city over its dangerous structures ordinance and the way it handles emergency demolitions.
In September, another jury awarded $52,000 to homeowner Paul Chance Kinnison after U.S. District Judge Xavier Rodriguez determined the city violated his procedural due process rights and had conducted an unreasonable seizure of his property.
Sorry, I just couldn't resist re-writing the headline! Wait!
Are you happy to see me or is that a shrimp in your pants??
Ha Ha, I crack myself up sometimes! LOL
The picture is of a 3-year old Sarah Palin holding some live shrimp.
Police: Pa. man put shrimp in pants, struck guard Associated Press -
DOVER, Pa. (AP) — A central Pennsylvania man faces robbery and assault charges after he allegedly stuffed a bag of frozen shrimp down his pants and attacked a grocery store security guard.
Northern York County Regional Police say 37-year-old Brian McDaniel was spotted hiding the shrimp in his pants and struck a security guard who tried to stop him inside a grocery store Thursday in Dover Township. The guard sustained minor injuries.
McDaniel was caught in the store's parking lot by the security guard and a bystander. He is being held on $10,000 bail. It was not immediately clear if McDaniel had an attorney.
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N.J. (AP) — There was nothing innocent about coloring book pages with the words "To Daddy" scribbled on top and mailed to a New Jersey jail, authorities said.
Five people are facing charges after the prescription drug Suboxone, which is used to treat opioid addiction, was turned into a paste and the paste was drawn on the pages, Cape May County Sheriff Gary Schaffer said.
"In my 38 years of law enforcement, I've never seen anything like this," Schaffer told The Press of Atlantic City.
FREEPORT, Texas (AP) — It's the catch of a lifetime, but it's not clear whether a Texas fisherman landed an 8-foot shark or it landed him.
Jason Kresse, 29, of Freeport, and two crew members had been fishing for red snapper about 50 miles into the Gulf of Mexico and were dumping fish guts into the water about 3:45 a.m. Monday when they heard two big splashes in the distance.
"All of a sudden something hit the side of the boat," Kresse told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "He ends up landing on the back of the boat."
I don't know what the jury may do. I'm leaning towards they find him guilty.
Jury told of signs cop was intoxicated
Prosecutors say he refused to cooperate on sobriety tests. By Craig Kapitan - Express-News
Soon after running into a highway median and flipping his unmarked San Antonio Police Department vehicle, officer Winder Amedalio Morales showed signs he was intoxicated — including an unwillingness to cooperate — prosecutors said Tuesday as his drunken driving trial began.
“You're going to see the defendant is incredibly evasive,” Assistant District Attorney Katie Magee told jurors in County Court-at-Law No. 9, explaining that Morales refused field sobriety and breath tests. “The defendant doesn't even look the officer in the eye.”
Morales, 34, resigned from the department in January 2010, two months after the one-vehicle, early morning wreck on U.S. 90 West near South Gen. McMullen Drive.
I've been out West in Calgary, Canmore and Edmonton on vacation the past few days...I'm really lucky as this trip is a gift from Dale :)
Because of the two hour time difference between Toronto (my home city) and here (Calgary), I'm waking up earlier - and caught a beautiful sunrise this morning
This was the view of the sunrise looking out Dale's backyard - it's absolutely gorgeous isn't it?
Well, I guess he won't be asking again; now will he?
Murdered for Sexual Harassment
The Times of India - Dharmalingam, 40, a mason, was murdered for allegedly demanding sexual favours from a worker.
Dharmalingam, a native of Vellore in Tamil Nadu, was working at a building in Konanakunte under Subramanyapura police limits. Police said Shivu alias Shivashankar, hit Dharmalingam with an iron rod on Sunday around 8.30 pm, as he had demanded sexual favours from Shivu's sister.
Shivu had warned him earlier, and on Sunday, the fight took an ugly turn.
BANGALORE: A 26-year old man was murdered, allegedly by his friend, in a bar in Sampangiram Nagar police limits on Monday afternoon.
The victim, Vijay Kiran, a resident of Sampangiram Nagar, was a cab driver at a travel agency. He visited a bar and restaurant with his friend, Lokesh, around 1 pm. "Both had liquor together and began fighting over paying the bill," police said.
Lokesh reportedly punched Vijay in his face and pushed him, killing him on the spot. Police have arrested Lokesh.
I believe Chinese justice is pretty harsh on scandals involving public officials.
Probe finds 12 officials involved in meat scandal
By Qiu Bo (China Daily)
Beijing - An initial investigation has found that 12 government officials were implicated in a scandal involving tarnished meat products, while another 41 are still being probed.
In an announcement on Monday, the Henan provincial government said law enforcement officers have captured two major suspects and shut down their plants, after they tested 310,000 pigs across the province and confirmed that 134 of them tested positive for clenbuterol, a toxic chemical added to the animal's feed.
The 12 officials have been delivered to judicial departments for further investigation, the government said.
Only 17 and 18 and they made it to the big leagues.
Armed Robbery, Aggravated Kidnapping and the like.
Couple robbed, held at gunpoint in Seguin
Two teenagers' backtracking in Seguin costs them their freedom. By Roy Bragg - Express-News
SEGUIN — A pair of teenagers accused of orchestrating a three-hour, two-county crime spree early Sunday that netted them cash, a computer and tools were arrested after returning to the home of their victims, authorities said.
The teens — identified as James Riojas, 18, and Marissa Diaz, 17 — were being held in the Guadalupe County jail Monday on several charges, including kidnapping and robbing a married couple at knifepoint. Each was being held on $950,000 bond.
Robert Murphy, a Guadalupe County sheriff's investigator, said the female victim told deputies that she was driving north of Seguin at 8 a.m. Sunday when she was flagged down by a teenager, who told her he was having mechanical problems with his truck. That truck, Murphy said, had been stolen earlier that morning in Seguin.
Tara Donna Reid born November 8, 1975 is an American actress. She began her television career with several guest appearances on television shows such as Saved By The Bell: The New Class, Days of our Lives, and California Dreams. She is known for her recurring role as Danni Sullivan on NBC comedy drama series Scrubs. Her screen debut came in A Return to Salem's Lot (1987), followed by the hit films The Big Lebowski (1998), Urban Legend (1998), and American Pie (1999). She has since portrayed supporting as well as lead roles in several films, including Dr. T & the Women (2000), Josie and the Pussycats (2001), National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002), My Boss's Daughter (2003), and Alone in the Dark (2005). * 1 Early life * 2 Career * 3 Personal life * 4 Filmography * 5 References * 6 External links Early life Reid was born and raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey, the daughter of Donna and Tom Reid, both of whom were teachers and day-care center owners. She attended St. Elizabeth's Catholic Elementary, Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School, Ramapo High School, John F. Kennedy High School in Granada Hills and graduated from Barnstable Academy, an alternative high school. She also attended Professional Children's School, in Manhattan, along with fellow actors Christina Ricci, Jerry O'Connell, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Macaulay Culkin. Reid has twin younger siblings Colleen and Patrick and another brother, Tom. Career Reid began acting at age nine, being a regular on the game show Child's Play, and appeared in over 100 commercials including Jell-O, McDonalds, Crayola and Milton Bradley. As a teenager, she was on Saved By The Bell: The New Class and on All My Children. After moving to Hollywood in 1997, Reid transitioned to movies, landing her break out role in 1998's The Big Lebowski, a cult favorite, and her first #1 box office role. She finished the year by appearing in two more box office toppers, Cruel Intentions and Urban Legend. Reid portrayed the role of virginal Vickie in the wildly successful film, American Pie (1999), which grossed over $102,000,000 in United States box office receipts and becoming her fourth #1 in a row. Reid starred in a string of unsuccessful movies, such as Josie and the Pussycats and Dr. T and the Women. In 2001 and 2002, she reclaimed her box office success with American Pie 2 and National Lampoon's Van Wilder, alongside Ryan Reynolds. She returned to the small screen as a re-occurring character on the NBC sitcom, Scrubs, appearing in 11 episodes of Season 3. She appeared alongside Ashton Kutcher in My Boss's Daughter, for which she was nominated for both Worst Supporting Actress and Worst Screen Couple at the 2004 Golden Raspberry Awards. Reid in 2005 She played the main character in the 2005 horror film Alone in the Dark. The film was panned by critics, and Reid received a Razzie Award nomination for Worst Actress. In January 2007, Reid filmed a commercial with Daniel Conn for Dodo, an Australian budget telephone and Internet provider. Reid signed on to host the E! Channel's Wild On Tara Reid (later renamed Taradise), a program that showcased high society vacations and hot spots. The show aired in October 2005 and was cancelled in February 2006, due to poor ratings, with only 8 of the 14 episodes aired. Between 2007 and 2008, she starred in a string of direct-to-video films, including 7-10 Split/Strike, If I Had Known I Was a Genius (which was released at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival), and Clean Break/Unnatural Causes. She also played the main character in the made-for-television horror film Vipers. In 2010, she landed the role of Bonnie in the thriller The Fields, which is scheduled to be released in 2011.
Reid also has designed a clothing line with Ed Hardy designer, Christian Audigier, entitled Mantra, that hit high end department stores in 2009. Reid appeared in a pictorial in the January/February 2010 issue of Playboy, although earlier reports had indicated she had posed nude for the magazine. Tara Reid will be teaming up with Hollywood PR flack Charmaine Blake to become the spokesperson for Human Trafficking.[citation needed]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — An argument between two armed neighbors over a dog and its feces escalated to a shootout in rural Mississippi, sending one neighbor to the hospital with injuries from shotgun pellets and the other neighbor to jail.
Terry Tenhet, 52, told The Associated Press he was struck Wednesday in both hands, the shoulder, chest and side by the spray of pellets from shotgun blasts fired by his neighbor, Jerry Blasingame, 60. The wounds are not life-threatening.
Washington County Sheriff's Assistant Chief Deputy Billy Barber said Tenhet was angry at Blasingame because he thought Blasingame's mixed-breed dog had defecated in his lawn.
NEW BRAUNFELS — Dan Kelly held forth at an ad hoc conference table consisting of a half-dozen tables pushed together in the middle of the now-closed Aviator Café at the city's airport.
Fifteen other men sat around the table, munching on doughnuts, bananas and breakfast tacos donated by various group members. The guys — all pilots, some local and healthy contingents from towns such as Bulverde and New Berlin — have been gathering like this for years.
This is a shame. That he was killed and that it may have involved drugs.
No matter why it occurred; thank you for your service and rest in peace.
Kendall man found slain in bed
Military retiree was shot to death in his bed. By Zeke MacCormack - Express-News
A Kendall County man was found shot to death early Saturday in bed at his remote home, where authorities also reported finding a variety of illegal drugs.
A friend of Ravis Clark, 55, called authorities at 1:21 a.m. Saturday after driving to the home on East Headwaters Ranch Road because he could not reach Clark by phone, Chief Deputy Matt King said Sunday.
“The killing was the likely result of a drug deal gone bad,” said King, who reported that Clark, a military retiree, had been shot multiple times.
Jessica Ann Simpson born July 10, 1980 is an American singer, actress, television personality and fashion designer whose rise to fame began in 1999. Since that time, Simpson has achieved many recording milestones, starred in several television shows, movies, and commercials, launched a line of hair and beauty products, and designed fragrances, shoes, and handbags for women. She has devoted time to philanthropic efforts including Operation Smile and a USO-hosted tour for troops stationed overseas. She has achieved seven Billboard Top 40 hits, three gold and two Multi- Platinum RIAA certified studio albums, four of which have reached the top 10 on the US Billboard 200.Simpson starred with her then-husband Nick Lachey in the MTV reality show Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica. She ventured into the country music market in 2008 and released Do You Know. She has sold 20 million records worldwide. Simpson has a total of records sales in Australia of more than 426,000 copies and was ranked in the # 113 on the 1000 artists chart of ARIA Music Decade Charts (1980–2010). In 2009, Billboard named Simpson as the 95th overall best Artists of the Decade. Simpson also was ranked at number 86 on Billboard 200 Artists, solely based on album sales. Contents * 1 Early life * 2 Career o 2.1 1999–01: Sweet Kisses and Irresistible o 2.2 2002–05: Newlyweds, In this Skin and film career o 2.3 2006–07: A Public Affair and Employee of the Month o 2.4 2008–09: Move to country and Do You Know o 2.5 2010–present: Return to Reality TV and Happy Christmas * 3 Other projects o 3.1 Cosmetics and clothing o 3.2 Commercials o 3.3 Philanthropy * 4 Criticism and controversy * 5 Personal life o 5.1 Marriage to Nick Lachey o 5.2 Other relationships * 6 Filmography * 7 Discography * 8 Tours * 9 Awards and nominations * 10 References * 11 Further reading * 12 External links Early life Simpson was born in Abilene, Texas, the daughter of Tina Ann (née Drew) and Joe Truett Simpson, who was a minister and psychologist. Her younger sister is singer Ashlee Simpson. As a child, she began singing at her local Baptist church. At age twelve, Simpson unsuccessfully auditioned for The Mickey Mouse Club. While attending J.J. Pearce High School, she signed to Proclaim Records, a minor Gospel music record label. She recorded an album, self-titled, "Jessica", but Proclaim went bankrupt and the album was never officially released except for a small pressing funded by her grandmother. However, this small pressing gained her minor attention and she gave concerts with other acts such as Kirk Franklin, God's Property, and CeCe Winans. Simpson left high school at age sixteen (she later earned her GED), and after Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola heard "Jessica", she was signed to the label.
