Archive for May 4th, 2008

4 May

Wife’s YouTube rants banned from apartment

NEW YORK (UPI) – A New York judge has barred a woman from filming rant-filled YouTube videos about her divorce in her apartment.

The judge said Tricia Walsh-Smith has the right to post videos saying whatever she wants to online, but he ordered her not to film the rants in the Park Avenue apartment she formerly shared with her husband, the New York Post reported Tuesday.

Lawyers for her estranged husband, Philip Smith, sought the order after Walsh-Smith posted two videos on the Web site discussing her divorce and saying she never had sex with her husband, who is more than 25 years older then her, during their nine-year marriage.

Smith’s lawyer, David Aronson, said Walsh-Smith filming the videos in the apartment invaded his client’s privacy.

“She had a film crew in the apartment. She showed family pictures, his daughter,” Aronson said in court.

Smith has sued his wife for divorce, claiming her behavior toward him has been cruel and inhuman, the Post said.


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4 May

Gator attacks golf ball diver

TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) – Employees of a Tampa, Fla., country club said a golf ball diver was attacked by an alligator while retrieving balls from a lake near the club’s 13th hole.

Matt Johnson, a golf cart attendant at the Tampa Palms Golf and Country Club, said diver Dwight Monreal, 62, had donned his scuba gear and waded into the water Saturday when the alligator popped out of the water and latched on to Monreal’s arm, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times reported.

“We rushed toward the water and the gator let go of him,” Johnson said. “I like to think we scared him.”

Johnson told the newspaper he and a club member took Monreal to the clubhouse where he was met by police and an ambulance, which took him to St. Joseph’s Hospital for treatment.

Police said Monreal suffered a dislocated left shoulder and puncture wounds to his left arm in the attack. He was discharged from the hospital Saturday night.

Officials at the country club said the 13th hole will be closed until the alligator is captured and killed, the Times reported.


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4 May

Woman, 83, graduates from university

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (UPI) – An 83-year-old woman who set out after retirement to earn a college degree has graduated from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Mich.

Ruth Stoeffler said she began her college career in 1995, shortly after the death of her husband, and took a wide variety of classes during the ensuing 13 years until she earned a bachelor’s degree in social science studies, the Detroit Free Press reported.

“I was by myself and had to do something,” she said. “I wanted something interesting and challenging and fun … I thought, ‘I’m going to get myself a diploma from a university.’”

Stoeffler, who walked down the aisle with classmates at the university’s graduation ceremony during the weekend, told the Free Press she doesn’t intend to use her degree to start a new career but she said she would like to parlay her knowledge and experience into volunteer work.


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4 May

Man found drunk in port-a-potty arrested

CINCINNATI (UPI) — Cincinnati police said they arrested a man who was found passed out in a port-a-potty after he was repeatedly warned for public drunkenness.

Police said Gil Duff, 45, was arrested early Monday morning after he was found sleeping in the same portable lavatory in Bechtold Park that an officer discovered him sleeping in — with a beer by his side — six days earlier, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported.

The arrest report from Monday said Duff was “found passed out and extremely intoxicated.” It said he had been warned “countless times” to stop visiting the park while drunk, the Enquirer said.

Duff was charged with disorderly conduct while intoxicated.

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4 May

Mr. Vegas - Mus Come A Road (Feat. Barrington Levy)

4 May

Busta Rhymes - We Made It (Feat. Linkin Park)

4 May

Boyce Avenue - “Youtube Sessions: Vol. 1″ release promo video

4 May

Sean Kingston - Take You There (acoustic)

4 May

Karina- 16 @ War (Def Jam) (Official Video)