KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s opposition Islamist party wants U.S. pop star Beyonce to cancel a planned concert in this Southeast Asian country, two years after it prevented the singer from performing, citing moral issues.
Foreign acts often draw protests by the Pan Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), whose youth wing succeeded in forcing Beyonce to cancel a 2007 concert and sought last year to prevent Canadian singer Avril Lavigne from performing in this mainly Muslim country of 27 million people. Continue reading →
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Tagged: Beyonce Knowles · Islamist Party · Malaysia · Malaysian Islamic Party
BRONSON, Fla. – Authorities believe a man stole his 28-year-old son’s car and took money from his grandson’s piggy bank. According to a Levy County Sheriff’s Office news release, Ronald Joyner was arrested Monday and charged with grand theft auto and petty theft. Jail records indicate that Joyner was being held on $6,000 bond Tuesday.
Joyner’s son told a deputy that his 2002 silver Kia and his 46-year-old father were both gone when he woke up early Monday morning. The man’s son also said that $50 in change was taken from a piggy bank that belonged to J
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Tagged: Bronson · car theft · Florida · Levy County · piggy bank
ROSELLE, N.J. – Police said a New Jersey man who told a cab driver to stop at a bank so he could take out some money failed to mention that he was going to rob it. Michael Restaino Jr. was arrested shortly afterward Monday when a police officer stopped the cab he was riding in several blocks from the Roselle Savings Bank. Police say the taxi driver was apparently unaware of what his passenger had done. Continue reading →
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Tagged: cab driver
Aug 26th, 2009
by PilotVertolet.
LINCOLN, Rhode Island – A Rhode Island state trooper responding to a call of a medical emergency on a highway has helped deliver a baby in a pickup truck. Police say trooper Matthew Salisbury arrived early Wednesday on Route 146 in Lincoln, a small town ranked among Money magazine’s 100 Best Places to Live.
Salisbury saw a man standing outside his pickup truck and yelling that a woman in the passenger seat was having a baby. The trooper helped turn the infant while the mother pushed a final time. Then he removed the umbilical cord from the baby’s neck and helped the baby to breathe. The mother and baby are healthy and resting comfortably at a hospital.
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Tagged: baby · Highway Patrol · Rhode Island
RIO DE JANEIRO – You’ve got mail — and possibly an STD. The Brazilian Health Ministry has created a Web site to let people inform partners they’ve got a sexually transmitted disease via an e-mailed virtual postcard. The official in charge of the ministry’s STD and AIDs programs notes that many people have a hard time telling partners they’re infected. Continue reading →
Posted in: Health & Wellness.
Tagged: Brazil · Rio De Janeiro · STD
MELBOURNE, Fla. – A Florida woman was duped into changing diapers and providing care for a man she met through Craigslist who feigned disabilities. Turns out the man who hired Janet Schulte to look after an adult brother with diminished mental capacity was the same guy she bottle-fed and treated like a child for 3 months.
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Posted in: Health & Wellness.
Tagged: disabled · mental illness
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The owner of an Albuquerque driving school has been charged with driving while intoxicated after crashing his car. Police said the man was arrested Aug. 6 after he crashed his car in Rio Rancho. Police spokesman John Francis said when officers responded, the man had “an odor of intoxication on his breath; bloodshot, red watery eyes; slurred speech.” Continue reading →
Posted in: Education & Training.
Tagged: driving school · New Mexico
