Charlie Rose is playing the other room and it's his repeat of Friday's tribute to New York Socialite Brooke Astor, who died last week. As I'm listening, I was initially reminded of my post from last January about her family and thus far, I haven't heard much of anything about the controversy which was such a large part of her final years and my ( Read more... )

Usually when I'm making a mid-evening run to the grocery store, I quickly flip through my radio presets for something to hear ( Read more... )

From Raleigh's News & Observer
DURHAM - Bound and gagged with dress ties in the back seat of his car, the man looked like he needed help ( Read more... )

I realize that it's nearing the end of a postastic day, but I really can't delay throwing this out, in case it disappears.

By now, I'm sure everyone has heard about the lite-brite guerrilla advertising which shut down Boston today. Reportedly, the city was thrown because the little cartoon creatures were affixed to visible surfaces and because ( Read more... )

According to news reports, Stephen F. Berl was obviously drunk and wandering around a Delaware Country Curtains store, when the clerks contacted police ( Read more... )

The Scene:
Nestled between the West and Connecticut Rivers, Brattleboro is a community of 12,000 which may best be known as a gateway into Vermont from western Massachusetts, but it also has a vibrant arts and alternative scene. FBI statistics show that in 2005, Brattleboro had no murders and 24 violent crimes, 18 of which were assaults. These same ( Read more... )

Excerpted from the Associated Press;
A Walt Disney World employee dressed as the character "Tigger" was accused of hitting a child while posing for a photo, a spokeswoman for the theme park said Saturday ( Read more... )

For the past several days, I've been thinking about writing a book about something closer to home, but if I had the time and the inclination, there's probably another one which could be seeded from the following clips, which I'm putting under a cut.

( A Modern Day Soap )

I ran across this wire story about some of the assorted laws that'll be taking effect on the first. A lot of it is the usual stuff; Seven states are raising their minimum wage; Alaska and South Carolina are going against bullying and a few states are lowering taxes ( Read more... )

November 30, 2006
A man reported that he got drunk at a local bar the night before and remembered some woman helping him to the motel. When he got up in the morning, all of his money and cell phone were gone. The officer was able to identify the suspect as a 32 year-old woman who admitted to helping the man to the hotel. She denied taking the money ( Read more... )