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June 2009
Mario Lopez coming to town for pre- Fourth of July dance contest
He’s known best these days as the dimple-faced host of TV’s “Extra” and “Randy Jackson Presents: America’s Best Dance Crew,” but back in the day Mario Lopez ruled the halls of Bayside High as Zack Morris’ curly-haired best frenemy.
By Friday, July 3, he’ll rule HammerJax, 111 E. Fourth St., Dayton.
Watch Mario Lopez promo his upcoming appearance.
That’s right Miami Valley, Mario “I use to play A.C. Slater on Saved By the Bell” Lopez is heading to town.
The muy delicioso dancing jock who once rocked a mean mullet will make his way to the club by 9:30 p.m. to host IndepenDance, which includes a dance competition.
Admission is $10 for those ages 18 to 20 and $7 for those age 21 and up.
If we are lucky, Lopez, the runner-up on the third edition of the reality show hit “Dancing with the Stars,” will show up in stone washed blue jeans, a headband and a sleeveless tank.
More info: Call (937) 641-1114 or visit www.myspace.com/hammerjax.
Indeed, it’s alright cause I am saved by the bell.
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No more iPorn, Apple plunks ‘Hottest’ app
For a short time, a software designer granted nearly every iPhone-addicted teenage boy’s dream - porn in the palm of their hand for $1.99.
But not to be out foxed, Apple on Friday, June 26, announced it had pulled Allan Leung’s iPhone application “Hottest Girls,” according to PC Magazine.
Apple determined the app dubbed iPorn contained “inappropriate content,” the magazine’s website says.
Leung apparently got extra smutty, changing an approved version of the app to one with topless women. (Naughty developer.)
Before the switch, the app contained 2,000 “sexy bikini babes and lingerie models.”
PC World says the app was pulled Thursday from the iTune store.
Man cave, she-den and really big chair coming to town
From Madeline Bush, Staff Writer
If there’s one way to say “I’m the boss,” it would be sitting atop a 15 foot tall chair to conquer and, of course, pose for pictures.
More “dominance” and home entertainment ideas are promised when the Lane Home Entertainment Tour rolls into town noon to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 27 and 28, at Morris Home Furnishings, 5695 Wilmington Pike, Centerville.
A 1,000 square foot, 18-wheeler mobile promises to showcase the ultimate “man cave” and “she-den,” - perfect room for a man and for a woman.
The rooms combine to create the “wow room.”
Games, prizes and contests will be held offering $2,000 worth of furniture. For more information, visit click here or call (937) 433-0500.
Police: naked french fry thief wanted dead or alive (OK alive)
If I’ve learned anything in life it is this: being naked doesn’t give you the right to steal french fries.
Cops in Canada are searching for a naked french fry bandit, according to CTV British Columbia.
The fiend, who was on foot, made off with a Wendy’s Restaurant customer’s fries as she was picking them up at a drive-thru window in Langley, B.C. Saturday, June 20, according to reports.
The ‘fry-napping’ beast then jumped into a van that quickly sped away, the CTV article says.
Surprisingly (or not), neither the customer nor the Wendy’s cashier got a good look at the man’s face.
Let’s just hope the Canadians figure this one out before it crosses the border. May our fries be forever free of such torment.
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EU to Europe: ‘don’t eat your horse’
Now here is something that would please Black Beauty and Silver.
The EU is asking horse owners in continental Europe not to eat their horses, according to the Telegraph.
The Horse Identification Regulations is meant to stop horse drugs from getting into human diet.
Anyone who doesn’t sign up to the regulation, which goes into effect July 1, will could be very, very sorry.
They could face an unlimited fine or prison time, Telegraph said.
Horses will be issued “passport” and be implanted with microchips, according to the regulation.
Ranchers and horse people call the suggestion that they eat horsemeat outrageous.
Still more horse are turned into meals than you might expect. Europeans eat about 2 million horses a year, according to the Telegraph article.
Either horsehide is delicious or the members of the European Union commission have too much time on their hands.
What do you think?
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Beavercreek teen to host party for autistic youth
From Natalie Knoth, Staff Writer
Who says teens can’t get involved?
Incoming Beavercreek High School senior Tony Seim is throwing a party for children with autism and their families 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. 6-9:30 p.m. Saturday, June 27, at 1300 Shorthill Drive.
The free event is intended for autistic children grades sixth through 12th, who will each be paired with an adolescent volunteer and will participate in stations of activities including basketball, Frisbee, arts and crafts, and Nintendo Wii, amongst others.
Food will be provided.
Although the social gathering counts as Seim’s final project for Eagle Scouts, he also planned the event for a more personal reason: his younger brother, Nick, has autism.
“I thought it would be a good way to help autistic children in the community make friends and build social skills,” Seim said.
For more information, call (937) 626-1017.
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Times so bad you have to laugh
Facebook friend Tiffany McConnell of Dayton recently forwarded a list of signs Dayton is having a tough time.
Here are the best three:
1) NCR now stands for ‘Not Committed to the Region.’
2) The highest-paying job in Montgomery County is jury duty.
3) People in … a particularly wealthy suburb have to lay off their nannies and learn their children’s names.
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Free smoothies at shop today in honor of National Flip-Flop Day
This is something to flip about.
Tropical Smoothie Cafe locations are offering free smoothies to flip-flop wearing patrons today, June 19, in honor of its third annual National Flip-Flop Day celebration.
Area Tropical Smoothie locations are participating in the effort.
The first 500 folks in flip-flops at each location will receive a free 24 oz. Jetty Punch Smoothie.
Tropical Smoothie’s National Flip Flop Day festivities are partly a fundraiser for Camp Sunshine, a retreat for children with life-threatening illnesses and their families.
Customers can support Camp Sunshine by purchasing $1 paper flip flops.
What do you think?
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Teen: I wanted three star tattoos on my face, not 56
Typically customers are happy when a business gives them something extra.
Not 18-year-old Kimberley Vlaeminck.
The Belgian teenager is suing Romanian tattoo artist Rouslan Toumaniantz, claiming he put 53 extra star tattoos on her face after she fell asleep.
Talk about being ungrateful. Kids these days.
Vlaeminck claims she went into Toumaniantz’s shop for three tattoos and ended up with 56.
“I closed my eyes and didn’t feel any pain,” Vlaeminck said in a Sky News segment aired by FOX News. “I fell asleep and was woken up from the pain on my nose when he was busy applying a big star.”
Vlaeminck is seeking 10,000 Euro (about $13,931 in U.S. currency) to have the constellations removed.
You can almost make out the Big Dipper.
Toumaniantz of course has a different version of the story.
He claims Vlaeminck was all for the stars, adding that he has a witness to prove it.
Trouble came when Vlaeminck’s angry father showed up.
“From that moment it was bad for her,” he says in the video. ” Before she was just doing what she wanted to do.”
But not wanting an unhappy customer, Toumaniantz has agreed to split the cost to have Vlaeminck’s tats removed, the New York Daily News reports.
What do you think? Comment below.
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PETA: Obama’s super sweet fly killing skills inhumane
Karate chop a giant fly and face the wrath of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
PETA thinks President Obama missed an opportunity to be compassionate when he slaughtered a gross housefly during a White House interview Tuesday, June 16, with CNBC’s John Harwood.
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The animal protection organization is shipping the fly swatter in chief a Katcha Bug Humane Bug Catcher. The device allows users to trap a housefly and then release it outside, according to the Associated Press.
“We support compassion even for the most curious, smallest and least sympathetic animals,” PETA spokesman Bruce Friedrich said Wednesday. “We believe that people, where they can be compassionate, should be, for all animals.”
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but the fly was sort of a jerk.
Despite being warned by the president to “get out of here,” the doomed fly buzzed on.
Harwood called the pest the most “persistent fly” he’d ever seen.
A murderous slap was soon seen and heard.
“Nice,” Harwood and at least one other man said of Obama’s super sweet fly killing skills.
“That was pretty impressive,” Obama said. “I got the sucka.”
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Company offers hunks, foxes to move your junk
Who would you rather move the junk stored in your trunk, some fat guy in jean shorts or some young, strapping piece of man yum?
That of course is a decision you’ll have to make on your own.
College Hunks Hauling Junk has clean-cut collegian types declutter homes and offices, according to a press release.
The beefcakes (If they are in fact beefcakes. Hotness is not a prerequisite to employment.) move junk from trunks, closets, basements, storage rooms, etc.
The business, launched three years ago by high school buddies, has 20 franchises, including a location at 1110 E Main St., Lebanon.
College Hunks plans to have 100 franchises by 2011, the press release says.
The cleverly-named business has been featured in SmartCEO Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Reader’s Digest and on Oprah.com.
Incidentally, it recently launched a sister firm called College Foxes Packing Boxes.
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Ohio teen drops F-bomb in high school yearbook cover design
Students at an Ohio high school finished the year with an “F” as in F$@%.
A Shaker Heights High School senior carefully concealed the F-bomb in the artwork he designed for the 2009 yearbook cover, The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
Shocked and horrified school administrators snatched up copies of the yearbook not already distributed and did their best to block out the artist’s farewell message.
Some students apparently preferred the F-word cover and plan to cherish it.
“Thirty years down the road it’s kind of funny to flip it upside down and say ‘oh, look what’s hidden’,”a girl told Fox 8.
Pranks and high school seem to go hand in hand.
Remember the flip-flop prank that saw several area kids suspended from high school.
What do you think?
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Area man gets surreal, places in international contest
Being surreal has paid off for a Trotwood artist.
Perry Edwards grabbed fifth place in the international NVArt 4 Surreal Competition for his work “Lost in a Good Book,” according the School of Advertising Art in Kettering.
The SAA computer graphics instructor was the only American to place in the digital design competition that challenged participants to create 3D renderings in the style of master surrealist Jacek Yerka.
The contest, a partnership between CGSociety and NVIDIA, received 400 entries from 65 countries, SAA said.
CGSociety is an international organization for creative digital artists. NVIDIA is a global leader in visual computing technologies.
During his 20-year career, Edwards has received seven international awards for his 3D work. His creations have been featured on Nicktoons Network and the Independent Film Channel.
What do you think?
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New Paris natives create Man Day, get 275,000 men to ‘man up’
This entry was updated Tuesday, June 16, at 2:42 p.m.
Thousands of beer cans were undoubtedly crushed during National Man Day, Monday, June 15.
The brainchild of three New Paris natives - 19-year-old Joel Longanecker of Celestine, Ind., and his brothers Aaron, 27, of Indianapolis, and Josh, 28, of St. Louis - the day apparently gave men folk license to watch “Rocky” movies and scratch themselves (that’s what the Facebook page advocated).
“This day is the day for all men to stand up and say, “Yes, I am a Man.” And “Yes, I will step up and do manly things and whatever I want to do on this glorious day,” Man Day Facebook page says.
“You aren’t some Nancy that likes to frolic in the fields, unless it’s a field of mines and you have an AK47 and a hand full of grenades… Then you really are a man!”
Joel Longanecker, a youth pastor in Huntingburg, Ind., said the day was about fun and manning up.
“It is about taking responsibility,” he said.
Between now and Man Day 2010, the brothers plan to do volunteer work involving veterans’ issues and prostate cancer awareness.
The brothers talked up Man Day for months, eventually gaining 275,000 revelers.
The day garnered much press. The Day was mentioned on several TV stations and in newspapers including the Chicago Tribute.
Joel Longanecker said he and his brothers spent Man Day camping.
Ironically Man Day fell on a much more gentle day, Sneak a Kiss Day.
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Calvin Klein’s ‘foursome’ billboard causing stir
Well, no one can say Calvin Klein is afraid of a lot of controversy.
A naughty new Calvin Klein billboard in New York’s SoHo is shaking heads and wagging tongues.
“It’s borderline pornographic,” Lisa Marchese, 36, told the New York Daily News. “They all look so young, particularly the girl. And to portray them in a threesome - it’s just taking it too far.”
The clothing designer’s ad features a youthful-looking female lying bare-chested on top of one shirtless dude while making out with another.
A third guy is on the floor with his hands near his zipper.
A Calvin Klein spokesperson told the Daily News that the intention of the ad was to “create a very sexy campaign that speaks to our targeted demographic.”
This of course is not the first time a Calvin Klein ad has raised eyebrows.
The brand has been crossing eyes since 1981 when a then 15-year-old Brooke Shield said “You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins, nothing.”
What do you think? Does the ad cross the line?
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Dayton native gets shoutout in ‘Rolling Stone’
From Bob Underwood, Staff Writer
A band with Dayton ties gets a glowing blurb in the “Fricke’s Picks’ section of the June 11 issue of “Rolling Stone.”
Music writer David Fricke celebrates “out there” sounds, and he turned an ear to Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber, a huge, unpredictable band conducted/led by guitarist Greg Tate — who was born in Dayton and moved to Washington, D.C., when he was 13.
Cleveland native Jared Michael Nickerson began playing bass at Dayton high schools and in area talent shows.
Based in New York City, Burnt Sugar’s latest release “Making Love to the Dark Ages” is out on LiveWired Records.
The band formed in 1999 and in 2006 played the University of Dayton’s Boll Theater to conclude a week-long residency at UD and Stivers School for the Arts.
Fricke calls the band “a fleet-footed big band, sliding and swaggering through galactic R&B, brawny jazz and electric funk like a Sun Ra-size spin on Miles Davis’ On the Corner band.”
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Local oil hitting road with Dave Matthews Band
From Ben Sutherly, Dayton Daily News Staff Writer
Oil used by local chefs will help a rock band get to an Ohio gig.
Miamisburg-based JatroDiesel uses local restaurants’ used cooking oil to make biodisel.
The company now collects used cooking oil from 133 restaurants in the Dayton and Cincinnati areas, according to Raj Mosali, the company’s CEO.
It will be supplying biodiesel to the Dave Matthews Band when it rolls into Cincinnati on Tuesday, June 16, to perform at Riverbend.
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Square One Salon featured on national show
Putting the needs of its customers first recently landed a Dayton salon national attention.
Square One Salon and Spa was featured in a June 7 segment on MSNBC’s Your Biz.
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Owners Brent Johnson, Doug Henderson and Josh Stucky discussed the importance of good customer service and creating a sanctuary for clients.
“You’re not just a person in here paying for a service, you are here for an experience,” Henderson says. “We want you to experience every good thing that we have.”
The salon opened 10 years ago with a staff of eight. It now employees about 70 people at locations in downtowns Dayton and Centerville.
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Price of Centerville’s ‘torso auction’ drops to free
Now you can get into a ‘torso’ auction free of charge.
Heart of Centerville organizers have dropped the $35 admission price to the “Bodies in the Heart” silent auction.
The event featuring drink, food and music 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, June 20, is now free.
It will be held at Miami Valley South Health Center., 2400 Miami Valley Dr., Centerville.
Proceeds will benefit Premier Health Network.
Centerville businesses and artists decorated and designed female torso replicas for the Heart of Centerville’s May 15th summer kick off.
Bodies in the Heart sculptures are on display at Visceral Gallery, 65. W. Franklin Street, another Centerville businesses.
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Think your house is small? Man lives in a closet
Think you live in tight quarters? This dude lives in the closet.
Sergio Santos of Delray Beach, Fla. grew tired of expensive rent and moved into a 77 square feet “apartment,” according to WPTV Channel 5 in West Palm Beach.
Santos pays $150 for the apartment equipped with a small microwave and mini- refrigerator.
Santos is happy with his closet now, but admitted that in the past, he questioned his decision.
Much of the apartment is made of recycled materials.
This “is all about saving; it’s about recycling; it’s about optimizing my time,” Santos told the TV station.
What do you think?
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Dayton TV station named top affiliate in the nation
A local TV station three-peated its award winning ways and was given a shout out on a national morning show.
WBDT-TV was named the number one CW affiliate in the nation at a recent reception in New York.
It bested 208 other CW affiliates and was the highest rated station in each of 11 demographics the network measures.
The Daily Buzz’s Orlando-based crew congratulated the local station for its accomplishments.
See videos below:
The Daily Buzz has strong connections to Dayton. It launched here in 2002 when WBDT-TV was an WB affiliate.
The CW is a joint merger between CBS and Warner Brothers.
The Dayton station has been the CW’s number one affiliate each of the three years since the network was launched.
WBDT-TV also received the network’s Model For Success award given to the the ideal station as it concerns branding, programming, community partnerships and promotion.
What do you think?
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English adds millionth word, “Web 2.0” beats “Financial Tsunami”
The English language has a lot to say.
The language hit the millionth word mark at 5:22 a.m. today, Wednesday, June 10, according to Global Language Monitor, a website that tracks word usage and word choices.
A new English word is created every 98 minutes, the Austin, Texas website says.
English includes more words than any other language, but the website’s findings are controversial.
Some linguists say the because languages constantly change, it is impossible to have an exact word count, , according to CNN.
That said, “Web 2.0” edged out “Financial Tsunami,” word 1,000,001, according to the site.
Web 2.0 refers to the next generation of World Wide Web products and services.
We all know to well the definition of Financial Tsunami.
What do you think?
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Video: 72-year-old great-grandmother dares cop, gets tasered
Great great-grandma’s can say the darnedest things.
A 72-year-old great-grandmother got the shock of a lifetime when she told a cop with a taser “I dare you.”
A cruiser camera captured a rather heated exchange between Travis County (Texas) Deputy Chris Bieze and 72-year-old Kathryn Winkfein. The pair squared off after Bieze stopped Winkfein for allegedly speeding May 11 just outside Austin, Texas.
The hot and bothered granny refused to sign the ticket and the heat was on.
The video shows the deputy shove a charging Winkfein a way.
“Oh, you’re going to shove me?,” the firecracker granny roars. “You’re going to shove a seventy-two year old woman?”
Winkfein dares Bieze after he tells her to step back or be tasered.
After a few more warnings, he delivers on his promise. A howling Winkfein falls to the ground.
Read Associated Press story. See raw video below.
Travis County Constable’s Office said that the officer acted properly, but what do you think?
Did granny deserve to be tasered? Would you have pulled the trigger?
Dayton gets spotlight in suspense thriller
From staff writer Jordan Pridemore
Ever wonder what would happen if anarchists started taking over different cities in the United States?
Former Dayton resident Jim Rath answers just that in his newly released novel, “American Anarchy” (Cornerstone Book, $24.95).
The suspense thriller featuring unlikely heroes and unlikely settings includes a scene that takes place at the Dayton International Airport.
“I was stationed at Wright-Patt, I met my wife at Affair on the Square, and started my first company in the area. How could I not include Dayton in the book?” said Rath.
Rath now lives in Kona, Hawaii, but annually visits his grandchildren in the Miami Valley.
The book is available at amazon.com and Barnes and Noble.
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Church picnic checklist - potato salad, hot dogs, GUNS
Egg salad and bratwursts won’t be the only things packed for a picnic hosted by a new Louisville area church.
The pastor of New Bethel Church in Kentucky is encouraging his flock to pack heat, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported Wednesday, June 3.
The church will have an “Open Carry Church Service” June 27.
Pastor Ken Pagano, a conceal carry weapons instructor, wants people to wear unloaded, holstered guns.
A handgun will be raffled for $1 during the picnic.
The church began planning for the picnic a year ago. Pagano said it was galvanized by the November election.
“We needed to do something kind of pro,” he says in a video posted on the courier-journal.com. “There are level-headed, educated, God-fearing, community-minded people who are also gun owners and shoot. And it is as much a sport as anything else.”
He says there is no reason a church should not have such an event.
“Without a deep-seated belief in God and firearms this country wouldn’t be here,” the pastor say.
What do you think?
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Bar offers discounted martini parties for limited time
Adult beverage lovers hasten your step, but be careful not to stumble.
Time maybe running out for Bar Louie Tavern and Grill’s Martini Party deal, a sales manager said Friday, June 5.
The bar located at The Greene may discontinue the special by summer’s end. It began about 8 months ago, the sales manager said.
The deal is for groups of 10 or more. Each person pays $8 and receives two drink tickets for martinis, cosmos, house wine or beer.
Drinks normally range from $7 to $9.
The group also receives an appetizer medley platter for each five people.
Reservations are required.
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Ick, your thong and skinny jeans can make you sick
Fashion may not necessary kill, but some doctors are reminding women that it can definitely make your sick in most unappetizing ways.
Fashionista and rocker boys who wear skinny jeans maybe putting themselves at risk of meralgia paresthetica, a gross sounding nerve affliction also known as “tingling thigh syndrome.”
Too-tight skinny jeans can compress a nerve that runs through the thigh, causing meralgia paresthetica, doctors say.
Super high stilettos can make things even worse.
More women are developing the condition.
Thongs especially when paired with skinny jeans can cause a nasty bacterial or fungal bladder or urinary tract infections.
Thongs are risky because lady parts are so close together.
Friction can move bacteria from the anus to the vagina and to the urethra, Dr. Elizabeth Steiner of at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, told ABC News.
To reduce problems, do not wearing thongs and skinny jeans all the time and eating a cup of non-fat yogurt with probiotic culture every day, Steiner recommended in the ABC News story.
File this one under “G” for grody.
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‘Pedicabs’ now at The Greene
Now there is no need to walk around the Greene to get your shop on.
Starting today, Thursday, June 4, TrykeCabs operated by the nonprofit HK Tryke will offer rides anywhere within the 72 acre mixed-use complex, Steiner + Associates, The Greene’s developer, announced Wednesday, June 3.
The service will be free, but gratuity-supported so plan on chipping in.
According to its website, HK Tryke’s tricycle parks and related services “generate revenue to fund nationally accredited childcare programs and facilities to children in areas that may not have access.”
Mob called heroes after capturing “person of interest ” in child rape case
Members of an angry mob in Philly are being called heroes after they captured and beat a man wanted for questioning in the rape of an 11-year-old girl, the Associated Press said.
Philadelphia police said about a dozen people spotted a 26-year-old man, chased him, and kicked the smack out of him Tuesday, June 2.
A surveillance video ( see raw tape below) shows Jose Carrasquillo being pounded with a big wooden stick, the AP said.
He was also punched and kicked several times before police arrived.
Police had described Carrasquillo as a “person of interest” in the rape of the girl. His photo was distributed.
The girl was walking to school Monday, June 1, when viciously attacked by a man, police said. She was in critical condition Wednesday, June 3.
Carrasquillo was arrested on unrelated warrant, but has not been charged with rape, the AP said.
What do you think of the mob’s actions? Are they heroes?
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Miley Cyrus and Max Azria team up for Walmart clothing line
Miley Cyrus and a top American designer are heading to Walmart but it is not a shopping trip.
A new clothing line by the pop princess and Max Azria will hit Walmart shelves in August, the company announced Wednesday, June 3.
Everything in the collections influenced by Cyrus’ …er, em “rock-and-roll roots” will cost under $20.
The line by Cyrus and Max Azria of apparel house BCBGMAXAZRIAGROUP will include tops, pants, graphic tees, shoes and accessories.
Walmart absolutely loves, loves, loves Cyrus, who wore a Max Azria dress to the 2009 Grammys.
She is among the retailer’s top selling artists.
Walmart will be the title sponsor of the Cyrus’ upcoming North American concert tour.
Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. June 13 at ticketmaster.com/mileycyrus or by calling (800)745-3000.
The “Best of Both Worlds” singer is set to appear Oct. 7 at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Nov. 15 at Quickens Loan Arena in Cleveland and Nov. 16 at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.
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Rolling Stone: Eminem knew Bruno’s backside was coming
There should be no buts about it, Eminem knew Sacha Baron Cohen’s em… butt was going to hit him in the face Sunday, May 31.
See video of the soft landing below.
In a blog post that has since been removed, Scott Aukerman, Andy Samberg’s head writer for the MTV Movie Awards, said Eminem knew Cohen was going to land in his face, Rolling Stone’s Rock Daily reports.
“Yes, the Bruno/Eminem incident was staged,” Aukerman wrote according to the website. “That’s all anyone wants to talk about, so let’s get it out of the way. They rehearsed it at dress and yes, it went as far as it did on the live show then.”
Slim Shady and his entourage seemingly stormed off after a winged Sacha Baron Cohen dressed as the character ‘Bruno’ landed in the most hilariously unorthodox manner.
Sacha Baron Cohen is best known as the character Borat, but he has also long played Bruno, a gay fashion interviewer for a fictional Austrian TV station.
What do you think?
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Reports: China blocks freedom of the Tweet
Like the free exchange of ideas on the Internet?
Celebrate that you don’t call China home.
Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, China blocked Twitter and other social media sites on Tuesday, June 2, according to Chinese media site Danwei.
Flickr, Bing, Hotmail and Windows Live were also blocked, according to Reuters New Service.
YouTube, a video sharing site, has been blocked since March when graphic footage of China’s crackdown on Tibetan protesters were posted.
Hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators died in Tiananmen Square in June 4, 1989 after challenging the Chinese government.
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Ripley named top sci-fi heroines. Who is your favorite?
Space chicks have come a long way since Barbarella’s anti-gravity striptease.
Modern sci-fi babes can actually wear clothes - imagine that. And many would give a smack to anyone who called them ‘babe’ or ‘chick.’
Ellen Ripley, Sigourney Weaver’s monster slaying character from the Alien film series, tops the list of “Sci-Fi Woman Of All Time,” according to the website Totalscifionline.com.
The website (check it out here) ranked 25 iconic heroines from TV and film.
Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Buffy Summers from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” was ranked second. She edged out “Battlestar Galactica’s” Starbuck played by Katee Sackhoff.
Jane Fonda’s Barbarella from the classic film “Barbarella” came in 15th place.
See complete list below and let us know who tops your list.
1) ELLEN RIPLEY (Sigourney Weaver, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien Resurrection)
2) BUFFY SUMMERS (Sarah Michelle Gellar, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
3) STARBUCK (Katee Sackhoff, Battlestar Galactica)
4) DANA SCULLY (Gillian Anderson, The X-Files)
5) SARAH CONNOR (Linda Hamilton, Terminator, T2)
6) PRINCESS LEIA ORGANA (Carrie Fisher, Star Wars)
7) ROSE TYLER (Billie Piper, Doctor Who)
8) SAM CARTER (Amanda Tapping, Stargate SG-1)
9) NYOTA UHURA (Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek)
10) LEELOO (Milla Jovovich, The Fifth Element)
11) CLAIRE BENNET (Hayden Panettiere, Heroes)
12) STORM (Halle Berry, X-Men)
13) PRIS (Daryl Hannah, Blade Runner)
14) CATWOMAN (Michelle Pfeiffer, Batman Returns)
15) BARBARELLA (Jane Fonda, Barbarella)
16) SARAH-JANE SMITH (Elisabeth Sladen, The Sarah-Jane Adventures / Doctor Who)
17) MIKAELA BANES (Megan Fox, Transformers)
18) SUSAN IVANOVA (Claudia Christian, Babylon 5)
19) NUMBER SIX (Tricia Helfer, Battlestar Galactica)
20) KATHRYN JANEWAY (Kate Mulgrew, Star Trek: Voyager)
21) WILLOW ROSENBERG (Alyson Hannigan, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
22) WONDER WOMAN (Lynda Carter, Wonder Woman)
23) XENA (Lucy Lawless, Xena: Warrior Princess)
24) SYDNEY BRISTOW (Jennifer Garner, Alias)
25) MARINA (Stingray)
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29-year-old father of 21 ordered to pay child support with minimum-wage salary
The Volunteer State has a baby-making monster on its hands.
Desmond Hatchett, a minimum-wage earner from Knoxville, Tenn., has heard “Desmond you are the father” 21 times.
He appeared in a juvenile court last week for 11 cases involving 15 of his children. Eleven seems to be his lucky number.
Hatchett’s children range in age from 11 years old to 11 months old.
Keith Pope, Hatchett’s attorney, said there is no way Hatchett can support that many children.
“The state of Tennessee has had to step in,” he told KCAL 9.
Some of the Hatchett’s baby mamas only receive $1.98 a month in child support.
For his part, the Hatchett said all of his baby mamas knew what they were getting into.
He said he didn’t intend to have 21 children and has had his fill of reproducing.
“It just happened,” he told KCAL 9.
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Beavercreek encourages residents to buy local, ‘Keep it in the Creek”
Beavercreek residents are being encourage to keep it local, real local.
“Buy Beavercreek,” a grassroots marketing campaign recently launched by The Beavercreek Chamber Commerce’s retail merchants group asks city’s residents to “Keep it in the Creek.”
City residents are encouraged, when possible, to exclusively shop at Beavercreek stores, eat at Beavercreek restaurants and use services from other Beavercreek based businesses.
The campaign comes with a Buy Beavercreek Loyalty Card that can be purchased for $5. Cardholders will receive discounts and free products at participating businesses.
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