Australian Pokes Shark in Eye to Survive Mauling
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An Australian swimmer says he survived a mauling by a 16-foot shark by wrestling with the beast, finally getting free by poking it in the eye.
The shark, believed to be a great white, seized Jason Cull by the left leg as he was swimming at Middleton Beach in southwestern Australia on Saturday.
From his hospital bed where he was treated for deep lacerations, Cull, 37, told reporters Sunday he saw a shadow moving in the water just before the attack and mistook it for a dolphin.
"I just remember being dragged backwards underwater. I felt along it, I found its eye and I poked it in the eye, and that's when it let go."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/12/ap/strange/main4086807.shtml
Paul McCartney and Heather Mills: It's Finally Over
5/13 10:18:21 AM EST, 0 clicks, submitted by frackster98
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In contrast to the media circus that surrounded previous hearings, the four-year divorce of Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills finally ended today with a quick, uncontested pronouncement by a High Court judge.
Neither the millionaire singer nor the former glamour model were in court to hear Mr Justice Bennett pronounce a decree nisi on the grounds that the couple have been separated for two years.
The long and public divorce fight ended on March 17 when Mr Justice Bennett awarded Ms Mills £24.3 million of Sir Paul's estimated £450 million fortune.
The judge released his ruling the following day despite a last-minute attempt by Ms Mills to stop its publication.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article3916135.ece
Iowa Student Charged in M&Ms Assault on Police Officer
5/13 9:06:49 AM EST, 3 clicks, submitted by frackster98
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A 20-year-old Des Moines man has been charged with assaulting a police officer — with candy.
Sean McGuire, a student at Drake University, was arrested early Sunday at a convenience store, officials said. He allegedly threw several M&Ms at a Des Moines police officer, who was investigating a hit-and-run accident involving an intoxicated man.
Drake security guards on the scene noticed M&M candies falling on the ground around the officer, according to police reports. When the officer turned around, one of the candies hit his shoulder.
McGuire claimed he threw the candy because he was "sticking up for his friend," who apparently was the man suspected in the accident.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,355071,00.html
Nagging Via Text Messages to Help Teens Remember Meds
5/13 7:33:47 AM EST, 3 clicks, submitted by frackster98
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4gt yr meds? Getting kids to remember their medicine may be a text message away. Cincinnati doctors are experimenting with texting to tackle a big problem: Tweens and teens too often do a lousy job of controlling chronic illnesses like asthma, diabetes or kidney disease.
It's a problem long recognized in adults, particularly for illnesses that can simmer without obvious symptoms until it's too late. But only now are doctors realizing how tricky a time adolescence is for skipping meds, too.
Of necessity, parents start turning over more health responsibilities to their children at this age.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iskj5pOi_DB45Jbi6PMe9YVaNI5AD90K9L0...
Fisherman, Fiancee Vanish off SoCal Coast
5/13 5:20:53 AM EST, 5 clicks, submitted by frackster98
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The Coast Guard's search for a fisherman and his fiancee last seen leaving a Southern California marina last Thursday ended this weekend after American officials learned that their abandoned boat had washed ashore on a Mexican beach.
Josh Hartman, 28, a commercial fisherman described as a skilled sea captain, and his fiancee, Mexican native Ana Martin, 30, were reported missing last week when they failed to return from a fishing trip aboard Hartman's 32-foot boat Pelican. They left the marina in Oceanside, Calif., at 7:30 a.m. Thursday with a scheduled 3 p.m. return.
Hartman's father and brother reported the pair missing around 8 p.m. Thursday after the Pelican failed to return to port and calls to their cell phones went unanswered.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4837201&page=1
NBC Installing Fallon on 'Late Night'
5/13 3:15:34 AM EST, 7 clicks, submitted by JustJu
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Jimmy Fallon's kindergarten yearbook at St. Mary of the Snow in Saugerties, New York, listed him as "most likely to take over for David Letterman." Letterman's going nowhere, but close enough: Fallon is succeeding Conan O'Brien as the host of NBC's "Late Night" sometime in the middle of next year. NBC on Monday made official a plan that's been talked about since 2003, when a network executive first broached the idea of doing a talk show with the former "Saturday Night Live" star.
"I've been doing a monologue in my living room the last three years and it was embarrassing," Fallon joked at a news conference.
However, he said, "my wife seemed to like it."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/TV/05/12/tv.nbc.fallon.ap/index.html
'Sex and the City' Premieres in London
5/13 1:36:11 AM EST, 4 clicks, submitted by AEchik13
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The "Sex and the City" stars lit up London's Leicester Square for the world premiere of the cinematic sequel to their New York adventures, delighting fans with glamorous — and sometimes quirky — outfits that helped make the show an international hit. Sarah Jessica Parker, who plays columnist Carrie Bradshaw, stole the show with her soaring Philip Treacy hat. She was joined by co-stars Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis, known on screen as Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte. "Professionally it's been the best 10 years of my life. I wouldn't have wanted to have done it any differently with any different women or any different men," Parker said. "So it's been glorious."
<respond> Will you go see the movie in theaters?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080513/ap_en_mo/people_sex_and_the_city_l...
NY Man Sues Airline Over Flight Spent in Toilet
5/13 12:22:47 AM EST, 12 clicks, submitted by AEchik13
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A New York man who says he was denied a seat on a five-hour jetBlue flight and was instead told to "hang out" in the plane's bathroom has sued the airline for $2 million, saying he suffered "extreme humiliation." When Gokhan Mutlu arrived to check in for a jetBlue flight from San Diego to New York in February he was told the flight was full, according to the lawsuit filed in New York State Supreme Court.
But Mutlu was allowed to board after a jetBlue flight attendant agreed to give up her seat and travel in an airline employee "jump seat." It was not clear in the lawsuit whether the flight attendant was working.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/usa_airline_toilet_dc
Southwest: Airline Passenger Refuses To Hang Up Cell Phone During Flight
5/12 11:22:03 PM EST, 13 clicks, submitted by AEchik13
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Dallas police met a Southwest Airlines plane at Dallas Love Field on Monday after flight staff reported that a passenger refused to stop using his mobile phone during the flight.
Joe David Jones, 50, was cited for disorderly conduct, Dallas police said.
The incident occurred during a Southwest flight from Austin to Dallas. “After multiple requests, the flight attendants were not successful in getting the passenger to get off the phone,” said Southwest spokeswoman Brandy King. According to a Dallas police report, flight attendants had asked Mr. Jones to turn off his cell phone and he responded with, "Kiss my ---." When asked again, he stated, "Kiss my ---. Not happening," the report said. He remained on the phone for about 20 minutes.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/051308dnmetpas...
Sharks Fire Coach Ron Wilson After Another Ouster
5/12 10:21:17 PM EST, 5 clicks, submitted by JustJu
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The San Jose Sharks fired coach Ron Wilson on Monday after his club followed another outstanding regular season with yet another early exit from the Stanley Cup playoffs.
The Sharks won the Pacific Division title and compiled the NHL's second-best record with 49 wins and 108 points, but the Dallas Stars knocked them out of the second round in six games on May 4. San Jose has ended its past three seasons with six-game losses in the second round, and general manager Doug Wilson decided his coach would take the fall for his talented playoff underachievers.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g8GsTmSGwEJyBYgrbMp_gER2ru-wD90KELQ...
Scott Weiland Checks Into Jail
5/12 9:06:13 PM EST, 4 clicks, submitted by JustJu
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Former Velvet Revolver singer Scott Weiland checked into a Van Nuys, Calif., jail on Monday to serve eight days for a second DUI conviction.
Weiland surrendered at 8:55 a.m., according to the sheriff's inmate Web site.
On April 28, the singer was sentenced to the jail term after he pleaded no contest to DUI following a Nov. 11 arrest. He was also ordered to complete an 18-month alcohol education class and pay nearly $2,000 in fines.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20199397,00.html
Twin Daughters for Brangelina
5/12 7:42:13 PM EST, 33 clicks, submitted by AEchik13
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are thrilled to be adding two more daughters to their rainbow brood. But serious medical problems — and a frightening collapse — are casting a dark cloud over their baby joy.
Angelina and Brad will be adding two more girls to their growing family when Angie gives birth in July, Star has learned exclusively. And they are ecstatic at the news that they are having twin daughters. "Brad can't wait — he absolutely adores little girls," says a family insider. "And Angelina just loves seeing him and the other kids so excited and happy."
http://www.starmagazine.com/news/14158
Next Up for Spielberg: Lincoln Biopic
5/12 7:05:48 PM EST, 3 clicks, submitted by AEchik13
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Steven Spielberg's long-rumored Abraham Lincoln biopic may well go into production in 2009. It would be the director's next project after "Tintin," which is expected to go into production in September.
"I want to start 'Lincoln' in early 2009, because it's Lincoln's 200th anniversary," Spielberg told the German magazine Focus. Marvin Levy, Spielberg's spokesman, confirmed the director's production plans Sunday.
Liam Neeson, who was in talks to play the 16th U.S. president based on an adaptation of "Team of Rivals," a biography by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, is still associated with the project, Levy confirmed.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-lincoln12-2008may12,0,49359...
53 Illegal Immigrants Held Hostage in Phoenix
5/12 6:02:19 PM EST, 4 clicks, submitted by AEchik13
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Fifty-three illegal immigrants found Sunday had been held against their will in a fortified home by suspected smugglers demanding more money, authorities said.
The group of rescued immigrants included two 13-year-old girls, three women and a mentally disabled man. The rest were men, Department of Public Safety spokesman Harold Sanders said.
Authorities began investigating Saturday after getting a tip that immigrants were being held captive. Sanders said the smugglers wanted an average of $2,500 for each person's release.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24570941/
Woman Who Saved Kids from Holocaust Dies
5/12 4:39:49 PM EST, 10 clicks, submitted by AEchik13
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Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who helped save some 2,500 Jewish children from the Nazis by smuggling them out of the Warsaw Ghetto and giving them false identities, has died. She was 98.
Sendler died at a Warsaw hospital on Monday morning, her daughter, Janina Zgrzembska, told The Associated Press. She had been hospitalized since last month with pneumonia.
Born in Warsaw, Sendler served as a social worker with the city's welfare department, masterminding the risky rescue operations of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during Nazi Germany's brutal World War II occupation.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24574531/
China Says Massive Quake Has Killed Thousands
5/12 2:35:05 PM EST, 9 clicks, submitted by AEchik13
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A massive earthquake struck central China on Monday, killing more than 7,000 people in one province alone and trapping nearly 900 students under the rubble of their school, raising fears the overall death toll could increase sharply.
The official Xinhua News Agency said 80 percent of the buildings had collapsed in Beichuan county and that another 10,000 people were believed hurt there.
The epicenter of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake was in Sichuan, striking 57 miles northwest of the provincial capital of Chengdu. It hit in the middle of the afternoon — when classes and offices were full.
Xinhua, citing a provincial official, said the quake killed 7,651 people in Sichuan alone.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24573168/
Charges Dropped Against Anne Hathaway's Boyfriend
5/12 12:30:07 PM EST, 16 clicks, submitted by AEchik13
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Anne Hathaway's boyfriend is in the clear: The Manhattan District Attorney's office has declined to prosecute Raffaello Follieri, who was arrested in April for allegedly writing a $215,000 bad check.
Manhattan DA spokeswoman Tracy Golden tells PEOPLE that Follieri was cleared because he fully reimbursed John Morrongiello for the $215,000 check Follieri wrote him, and Morrongiello, of Colts Neck, N.J., no longer wishes to pursue the case.
http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20199241,00.html
