update 10-22-05
Corpse Involved in Mexico Motorcycle Crash
Friday, October 21, 2005 10:32 PM EDT
The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) Police discovered on Friday that a passenger on a motorcycle involved in an accident in the rough Mexican border city of Tijuana was in fact a corpse which the driver had been carrying through the city strapped to his back.
The motorcycle driver lost control and skidded in the downtown area and when a policeman approached to investigate the mishap, the driver fled.
The police officer checked the passenger, who had been seated behind the driver, and found it was the corpse of a man who had died some time before.
Man Found With 342 Victoria's Secret Bras
Friday, October 21, 2005 7:43 PM EDT
The Associated Press
GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) Two off-duty Greenwich police officers thought something was amiss when they saw a New York man hiding behind parked cars and carrying a J.C. Penney bag.
There's no J.C. Penney store near upscale Greenwich, so the officers stopped Ricardo Salazar and searched his van, where they found 342 bras that had allegedly been stolen from Victoria's Secret.
The bras, worth $14,135, were different colors and sizes and cost between $32 and $50 each. Police say Salazar, 25, of Elmhurst, N.Y., is also accused of stealing $856 worth of sleepwear from Victoria's Secret and more than $5,000 worth of shoes from Shoes-n-More.
"I've never heard of anything like this," said Police Lt. Richard Cochran.
Cochran said he's unsure how someone could take so many items from a store without being noticed. Victoria's Secret, citing corporate policy, declined comment.
Police said an employee told them she had seen a couple acting strangely. The woman went through the checkout and left, but the employee did not see the man leave with her.
A store manager at Shoes-n-More said the store's security system did not alert employees that shoes had been taken.
"None of us in the store saw it," the manager said. Thieves "know what they are doing. They are very good about it. You have to be very careful."
Police said Salazar had a device to remove anti-shoplifting tags from items, a misdemeanor.
Salazar told police he was in town to see a friend and go disco dancing. He had no identification and said it had recently been stolen.
He faces first-degree larceny charges and was held on $50,000 bond.
Cochran commended off-duty officers Chris and Christy Girard, who are married, for noticing the J.C. Penney bag and Salazar's odd behavior.
LAFAYETTE, Calif. (AP) The wife of prominent defense attorney and TV legal analyst Daniel Horowitz was found slain in the entryway of the couple's San Francisco Bay area home, authorities said Sunday.
Horowitz, currently leading the defense in a sensational murder trial, called 911 Saturday evening to report that he found his wife, Pamela Vitale, dead in their home, police said.
Contra Costa County sheriff's deputies said Sunday that the death was being investigated as a homicide. An autopsy was planned Monday to determine how she was killed.
"We talked to a number of people last night, but there's nobody in custody. We're still trying to establish a motive," said spokesman Jimmy Lee.
About 20 officers and investigators from the Lafayette Police Department and the county sheriff's department were at the home Sunday morning. A deputy was posted at the bottom of a steep driveway leading to the home and a canopy of trees blocked views of the property, located on a sprawling hillside estate about 20 miles east of San Francisco.
Horowitz did not answer calls Sunday by The Associated Press. He told the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday that he couldn't talk.
"It's beyond words," he said.
Vitale, 52, a former high-tech marketing executive, worked at her husband's law practice, creating and managing databases.
Horowitz, 50, is a regular television legal analyst who appears frequently on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News and was a frequent commentator during the Laci Peterson murder trial. He is also a successful criminal defense attorney known for handling high-profile cases.
Horowitz was the lawyer for former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko in a multicount money-laundering and fraud trial. In May, a judge threw out half of the convictions against Lazarenko, who is under house arrest at an undisclosed location in the Bay Area.
Currently, he is defending Susan Polk, accused of murder in the 2002 stabbing death of her psychologist husband in the pool house of their Orinda home, a trial that has gained national media attention. Polk's husband was her therapist when she was a teenager, and she claims she killed him in self-defense.
Horowitz also represented Steve Williams, the man who snagged Barry Bonds' 700th home run ball, in a lawsuit to determine who could keep the ball.
and then there is this ....... unbelievable!!
LOVELAND, Ohio (AP) A woman who hasn't paid a $1.16 income tax bill to this Cincinnati suburb faces up to 18 months in jail and $4,000 in fines.
City officials say Deborah Combs hasn't filed city income tax returns for five years.
Combs says she has been mostly unemployed since 2000 and didn't realize she had to file the returns until the city notified her in February about the violation.
By that time, Combs owed $200 in late fees $50 for each year she didn't file a return.
"I don't know how they could charge me the fees if I didn't owe anything," Combs said.
Loveland officials say everyone is required to file an annual return, regardless of income level.
"This is a flagrant offender," said City Manager Frederick Enderle. "She's been given ample opportunity and ample warning to file those returns and she chose to ignore them."
Combs has filed returns for 2001-2004, but not 2000. She agreed with a tax liability for $1.16 for 2003, but she hasn't been able to pay the late fees, she said. She said she figured she could pay it off later.
But Combs was charged with four first-degree misdemeanors for failing to file the tax returns and has an Oct. 20 hearing in Loveland Mayor's Court.
Corpse Involved in Mexico Motorcycle Crash
Friday, October 21, 2005 10:32 PM EDT
The Associated Press
MEXICO CITY (AP) Police discovered on Friday that a passenger on a motorcycle involved in an accident in the rough Mexican border city of Tijuana was in fact a corpse which the driver had been carrying through the city strapped to his back.
The motorcycle driver lost control and skidded in the downtown area and when a policeman approached to investigate the mishap, the driver fled.
The police officer checked the passenger, who had been seated behind the driver, and found it was the corpse of a man who had died some time before.
Man Found With 342 Victoria's Secret Bras
Friday, October 21, 2005 7:43 PM EDT
The Associated Press
GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) Two off-duty Greenwich police officers thought something was amiss when they saw a New York man hiding behind parked cars and carrying a J.C. Penney bag.
There's no J.C. Penney store near upscale Greenwich, so the officers stopped Ricardo Salazar and searched his van, where they found 342 bras that had allegedly been stolen from Victoria's Secret.
The bras, worth $14,135, were different colors and sizes and cost between $32 and $50 each. Police say Salazar, 25, of Elmhurst, N.Y., is also accused of stealing $856 worth of sleepwear from Victoria's Secret and more than $5,000 worth of shoes from Shoes-n-More.
"I've never heard of anything like this," said Police Lt. Richard Cochran.
Cochran said he's unsure how someone could take so many items from a store without being noticed. Victoria's Secret, citing corporate policy, declined comment.
Police said an employee told them she had seen a couple acting strangely. The woman went through the checkout and left, but the employee did not see the man leave with her.
A store manager at Shoes-n-More said the store's security system did not alert employees that shoes had been taken.
"None of us in the store saw it," the manager said. Thieves "know what they are doing. They are very good about it. You have to be very careful."
Police said Salazar had a device to remove anti-shoplifting tags from items, a misdemeanor.
Salazar told police he was in town to see a friend and go disco dancing. He had no identification and said it had recently been stolen.
He faces first-degree larceny charges and was held on $50,000 bond.
Cochran commended off-duty officers Chris and Christy Girard, who are married, for noticing the J.C. Penney bag and Salazar's odd behavior.
LAFAYETTE, Calif. (AP) The wife of prominent defense attorney and TV legal analyst Daniel Horowitz was found slain in the entryway of the couple's San Francisco Bay area home, authorities said Sunday.
Horowitz, currently leading the defense in a sensational murder trial, called 911 Saturday evening to report that he found his wife, Pamela Vitale, dead in their home, police said.
Contra Costa County sheriff's deputies said Sunday that the death was being investigated as a homicide. An autopsy was planned Monday to determine how she was killed.
"We talked to a number of people last night, but there's nobody in custody. We're still trying to establish a motive," said spokesman Jimmy Lee.
About 20 officers and investigators from the Lafayette Police Department and the county sheriff's department were at the home Sunday morning. A deputy was posted at the bottom of a steep driveway leading to the home and a canopy of trees blocked views of the property, located on a sprawling hillside estate about 20 miles east of San Francisco.
Horowitz did not answer calls Sunday by The Associated Press. He told the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday that he couldn't talk.
"It's beyond words," he said.
Vitale, 52, a former high-tech marketing executive, worked at her husband's law practice, creating and managing databases.
Horowitz, 50, is a regular television legal analyst who appears frequently on CNN, MSNBC and Fox News and was a frequent commentator during the Laci Peterson murder trial. He is also a successful criminal defense attorney known for handling high-profile cases.
Horowitz was the lawyer for former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Lazarenko in a multicount money-laundering and fraud trial. In May, a judge threw out half of the convictions against Lazarenko, who is under house arrest at an undisclosed location in the Bay Area.
Currently, he is defending Susan Polk, accused of murder in the 2002 stabbing death of her psychologist husband in the pool house of their Orinda home, a trial that has gained national media attention. Polk's husband was her therapist when she was a teenager, and she claims she killed him in self-defense.
Horowitz also represented Steve Williams, the man who snagged Barry Bonds' 700th home run ball, in a lawsuit to determine who could keep the ball.
and then there is this ....... unbelievable!!
LOVELAND, Ohio (AP) A woman who hasn't paid a $1.16 income tax bill to this Cincinnati suburb faces up to 18 months in jail and $4,000 in fines.
City officials say Deborah Combs hasn't filed city income tax returns for five years.
Combs says she has been mostly unemployed since 2000 and didn't realize she had to file the returns until the city notified her in February about the violation.
By that time, Combs owed $200 in late fees $50 for each year she didn't file a return.
"I don't know how they could charge me the fees if I didn't owe anything," Combs said.
Loveland officials say everyone is required to file an annual return, regardless of income level.
"This is a flagrant offender," said City Manager Frederick Enderle. "She's been given ample opportunity and ample warning to file those returns and she chose to ignore them."
Combs has filed returns for 2001-2004, but not 2000. She agreed with a tax liability for $1.16 for 2003, but she hasn't been able to pay the late fees, she said. She said she figured she could pay it off later.
But Combs was charged with four first-degree misdemeanors for failing to file the tax returns and has an Oct. 20 hearing in Loveland Mayor's Court.
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the only problem we have (still) is that we still need to fix our transmission
-ape
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