February 23, 2020:     Things you would never know if you did not
browse the tabloids while waiting for your wife at the counter in
the supermarket –“ this week's headlines
:


China virus will kill 65 million (Enquirrer); Loretta Lynn, 87, marriage from hell, drunken beatings, he slept with her brother's wife, she hunted animals for food (Examiner); William confronts Harry & Meghan, 'You're dead to me'* (Globe); Harry & Meghasn: Their fresh start (People); Meghan tells all to Ellen (Star); Harry & Meghan blow lid off royals' money secrets, Windsors must pay $1 trillion in back taxes (Enquirer)
China virus will kill 65 million (Enquirrer); Loretta Lynn, 87, marriage from hell, drunken beatings, he slept with her brother's wife, she hunted animals for food (Examiner); William confronts Harry & Meghan, 'You're dead to me'* (Globe); Harry & Meghasn: Their fresh start (People); Meghan tells all to Ellen (Star); Harry & Meghan blow lid off royals' money secrets, Windsors must pay $1 trillion in back taxes (Enquirer)
'Meghan & Harry, replaced by princess sisters, Eugenie, 29, Beatrice, 31 (OK Weekly); Prince Andrew going to jail (Globe)
Meghan & Harry, replaced by princess sisters, Eugenie, 29, Beatrice, 31 (OK Weekly); Prince Andrew going to jail (Globe)

LETTERS to the EDITOR:
"Hollywood Dave" surteesdn@aol.com wrote Sun 2/16/20 @08:27 PST:
Welcome back.

Stephen Yates wrote Sun 2/16/20 @10:13 CST

"Betty White turns 98" rhymes  in Cockney.

Dumb news from Indiana:
A chihuahua-dachshund puppy was nursing two baby kittens at an
animal friendly home in Chrisney (yes, Jan, there's video). . . .

The former Parke County  poor  house  in Rockport was on sale
for $200,000. . . .

frohwerk.jpg South Bend's most wanted: David Frohwerk, WM, 5'11", 150 lbs, robbery, auto theft; Treshawn Bailey, BM, 5'9", 125 lbs, robbery; Andrew Abbott, WM, 5'7", 190 lbs, resisting; Tyler Fennessee, BM, 5'6", 140 lbs, burglary (Michiana Crime Stoppers)
frohwerk.jpg South Bend's most wanted: David Frohwerk, WM, 5'11", 150 lbs, robbery, auto theft; Treshawn Bailey, BM, 5'9", 125 lbs, robbery; Andrew Abbott, WM, 5'7", 190 lbs, resisting; Tyler Fennessee, BM, 5'6", 140 lbs, burglary (Michiana Crime Stoppers)

A Ball State University professor who called police when a black
student refused to change seats was suspended for the rest  of  the
semester.
                                                          [courtesy Columbus Republic]

Dumb news from Kentucky
:

The state transportation cabinet was ordered to pay $150,000 for the
attorney fees of a motorist who won the right to keep "IM GOD" on
his license plate. . . .

A horse rescued from the shootings in Pike County has been restored
to health and is ready for adoptions.
                        
                                                           [courtesy LEX18]

colinhrt.jpg Lexington's most wanted (courtesy Bluegrass Crime Stoppers): Colin Hurt, WM, 39, 5'10", 150 lbs, theft; Ecclessiastes Gunn, BF, a/k/a Ecclesiasted Fischer, BF, 43, 5'9", 150 lbs, coke; Joshua Vinson, WM, 39, 5' 11", 200 lbs, fleeing police
colinhrt.jpg Lexington's most wanted (courtesy Bluegrass Crime Stoppers): Colin Hurt, WM, 39, 5'10", 150 lbs, theft; Ecclessiastes Gunn, BF, a/k/a Ecclesiasted Fischer, BF, 43, 5'9", 150 lbs, coke; Joshua Vinson, WM, 39, 5' 11", 200 lbs, fleeing police
   paristom.jpg Perps in Paducah: Paris J. Thomas, 29, probation violatioon (assault, threatening); Tiffany P. Lumbley, a/k/a Holmes, 29, prob. viol.; Lexie Jay Robinson, 42, probation violation (McCracken County Sheriff)
paristom.jpg Perps in Paducah: Paris J. Thomas, 29, probation violatioon (assault, threatening); Tiffany P. Lumbley, a/k/a Holmes, 29, prob. viol.; Lexie Jay Robinson, 42, probation violation (McCracken County Sheriff)

Quotations of the Wheat (Simon said):

      "
I brake for lawsuits."
                                                
– Leonard Simon


Quotation of the week:
                                         "Talk is cheap, except in Congress."
                                                                                                         – Cullen Hightower


autumnth.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green        County, Texas, Sheeriff): Terry Vincent, 58, Secoyah Ramsey, 26, endang. child; Demetria Rodriguez, 23, joy ride; Pamela Ramirez, 18, assault; Autumn Thrower, 19, marijuana; Britney Castillo, 30, controlled substances; Dana Arrredondo, 34, mobery
autumnth.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas, Sheeriff): Terry Vincent, 58, Secoyah Ramsey, 26, endang. child; Demetria Rodriguez, 23, joy ride; Pamela Ramirez, 18, assault; Autumn Thrower, 19, marijuana; Britney Castillo, 30, controlled substances; Dana Arrredondo, 34, mobery
Birthdays:
                    February 17:  Paris Hilton, 39
                                           Tuesday Knight, 59
                                           Jim Brown, 84

                    February 18:  Molly Ringwald, 52
                                           Cybill Shepherd, 70
                                           Yoko Ono, 87
                    February 19:  Hana Mandlikova, 58

                    February 20
Buffy Sainte-Marie, 79
                                           Sidney Poitier, 93
                                           Walter Becker (1950-2017)
                    February 21:  Mary Chapin Carpenter, 62
                                           Kurt Cobain (1967-1994)
                    February 22:  Julius Erving, 70
                                           Marni Nixon (1929-2016)
                                           [NOT George Washington (Feb. 11, 1732,
                                                                                        Julian, to Dec. 14, 1799, Gregorian)]
                    February 23:  Dakota Fanning, 26
                                          
Ed "Too Tall" Jones, 70
Deaths:
              Nikita Waligwa, 15
              Tony Fernandez, 57
              Smokey Robinson, 80
             
Ruth Betty Burnside Buffington Baker, 95
             
Dorothy Joan Celebrezze Rolfes Duckworth, 86
              LaShonate "Tae" Davidson, 42
             
Patricia Ann "Dutsy Brown" Sanders, 66
             
Raleigh Stonecypher, 92
             
Supenny Uraiklang, 67
                                                                                      [Louisville Courier-Journal]


ashantil.jpg Wichita Falls Criminal Cathedral Choir (Wichita Falls (Texas, not Wichita, Kas.) Crime Stoppers): Frederick Williams, BM, 22, 5'6", 140 lbs, baritone,choir leader, probation violation (tampering with evidence); Ashanti Lanell Walker, BF, 30, 5'5", 140 lbs, contralto, theft; Heather Dawn Langford, WF, 36, 6', 130 lbs, soprano, child abandonment; Pedro Anthony Chapa, HM, 52, 6'0", 175 lbs, bass, drugs; David Wayne Hendershot, WM, 35, 6'2", 222 lbs, tenor, drugs
ashantil.jpg Wichita Falls Criminal Cathedral Choir (Wichita Falls (Texas, not Wichita, Kas.) Crime Stoppers): Frederick Williams, BM, 22, 5'6", 140 lbs, baritone,choir leader, probation violation (tampering with evidence); Ashanti Lanell Walker, BF, 30, 5'5", 140 lbs, contralto, theft; Heather Dawn Langford, WF, 36, 6', 130 lbs, soprano, child abandonment; Pedro Anthony Chapa, HM, 52, 6'0", 175 lbs, bass, drugs; David Wayne Hendershot, WM, 35, 6'2", 222 lbs, tenor, drugs

kimonapo.jpg Wanted in Waco: Kimona Porgia, BF, 38, 5'7", 190 lbs, theft; Arrested in Abilene, Kori Shane Herring, WM, 37, 5'3", 130 lbs, meth; Cortney Paige Stiles, WF, 21, 5'4", 135 lbs, injury to a child; Glen Edward Glass, WM, 38, 5'7", 180 lbs, failure to reg.; Vicky Renata Cheairs, BM, 54, 5'10", 165 lbs, deadly conduct (city of Waco, Abilene Crime Stoppers)
kimonapo.jpg Wanted in Waco: Kimona Porgia, BF, 38, 5'7", 190 lbs, theft; Arrested in Abilene, Kori Shane Herring, WM, 37, 5'3", 130 lbs, meth; Cortney Paige Stiles, WF, 21, 5'4", 135 lbs, injury to a child; Glen Edward Glass, WM, 38, 5'7", 180 lbs, failure to reg.; Vicky Renata Cheairs, BM, 54, 5'10", 165 lbs, deadly conduct (city of Waco, Abilene Crime Stoppers)
Borf 's weekly BONUS:     
New research was used to argue that Generation X women are more sleep-
deprived than other groups. . . . The Boy Scouts of America,  claiming  to
be overwhelmed by sex abuse litigation,  filed  for  bankruptcy. .  .  . John
Schnatter, ousted founder of Papa John's Pizza, admitted exaggeration in
a claim to have eaten 40 pizzas in 30 days. . . . Maesaiah  Thabane,  First
Lady of Lesotho
, was charged with murdering the previous First Lady. . . .
Antarctica experienced a new high temperature of 69° F. . . . There  were
nine pending patent applications for variations of the phrase "OK, Boom-
er
." . . . A traveler's carry-on bag of "moose nuggets" triggered an inquest
at Juneau International Airport in Alaska, but they passed; later the same
day the Anchorage Daily News reported that a man was seen at the state
capitol handing out moose turds to legislators. . . . Right-wing eastern Or-
egonians
petitioned to merge with Idaho. .  .  .  New  York  prohibited  de-
clawing cats,  and Michigan  may. . . . A woman was struck and killed by
a float  in  the  Krewe of Nyx  pre - Mardi Gras  parade  in  New  Orleans
(Mardi Gras is next Tuesday,  folks).
                                                                  [courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

Riddle of the week:  Which is worser, da Scouts or da Church?


derekmic.jpg
Wanted in Wichita*:
Derek  Mich-
ael Johnson, WM, 24, 6' 5",
155 lbs.: Pro-
bation   viola-
tion (burglary);
Angela    Ni-
domnickr.jpg
 cole Sipult, WF,  a/k/a Olivia Lee,  WF,  29, 5' 4", 130 lbs., tattoos, rosary of
 thorns
on left leg, stars on right forearm:  Probation violation (attempted pos-
 session of a firearm by a felon; Rigoberto Acosta Jr., HM, 42, 5' 5", 155 lbs,
 tattoo on neck: Aggravated indecent liberties with a child;  Ronnie  E.  Dom-
 nick
,  WM,  49, 6' 1", 185 lbs.: Narcotics;  Na'Quela Shampain Cheeks, BF,
 28, 5' 4", 145 lbs.: Aggravated escape.      * Kansas, not Wichita Falls, Texas
 
[courtesy Sedgwick County Sheriff].

Dear Abby:
                            I have been communicating with this woman I work
                            with.  She's been with this guy about four years. We
                            have a clear connection  and  primal  attraction,  and
                            we've discussed our  feelings  with  each  other.  We
                            communicate by texting. There is no communication
                            through phone calls,  for  obvious  reasons.  Her man
                            works for the same company we do but in a different
                            building than we do. It's clear to me that he isn't good
                            enough for her  and doesn't know how to elevate him-
                            self to her level.

                            I let her know that if they were to break up I'd want to
                            give it a try, and she said the same.   She  contacts  me
                            when she wants and flirts, but it's always at her conve-
                            nience and not mine.  We have "known" each other for
                            about a year-and-a-half now,  and she claims she cares
                            for me.  My question to you is, how should I move this
                            situation forward?
                                                               Three's a Crowd in New York
Dear Crowd:
                            Try to control your libido and allow me to offer a little
                            insight:  This woman likes things just the way they are.


People who invited us to be their "friends" on Clutterbook Facebook in the last week included
       
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lifeairg.jpg "Do you have to play air guitar every time we sing?" Life Saver Dude: Birds are known show-offs

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February  16,  2020:  Things you would never know if you did not
browse  the  tabloids  while waiting for your wife at the counter in
the supermarket –“ this week's headlines
(your editor/publisher had
a stroke-like experience the week of January 10 and apologizes for
the four missing intervening issues):


Betty White turns 98 (Examiner - that would be a clever headline,            if her name were Betty Waite; but White does not rhyme with eight, except in German); Kim & Kanye divorce turns nasty, he thinks he owns her, she changes locks (Life & Style); Celine Dion vows to find love again, four years after death orf husband (Examiner); Andrew & Fergie's daughter royal wedding canceled, furious showdown with shamed dad (OK); Christmas at Kate's (US Weekly)
Betty White turns 98 (Examiner - that would be a clever headline,            if her name were Betty Waite; but White does not rhyme with eight, except in German); Kim & Kanye divorce turns nasty, he thinks he owns her, she changes locks (Life & Style); Celine Dion vows to find love again, four years after death orf husband (Examiner); Andrew & Fergie's daughter royal wedding canceled, furious showdown with shamed dad (OK); Christmas at Kate's (US Weekly)

LETTERS to the EDITOR:
Stephen Yates wrote Sun 1/12/19 @10:12 AM re
last week's birthdays:
How awesome that  Joan  Baez  and Joan of
Arc had birthdays in the same week! Jeanne
d'Arc was the sainte patrone of bull dykes....
Henry Velenosi wrote Sun 1/19/20 @08:58 PST:
To be sure that my subscription to Tabloid Headlines continues my new e-mail address is hankvelenosi@gmail.comAlso I have not received today’s edition.
hankvelenosi@gmail.com wrote Sun 1/26/20 @07:45 PST:

This is the second week that I have not received my copy.  Any problems?
Dumb news from Indiana:
More than 2,400 sets of fetal remains found last year in the Illinois
garage and car of a South Bend,  Indiana,  abortion doctor after he
died were buried Wednesday in a northern Indiana cemetery.


                                                         [courtesy Columbus Republic]

issakama.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Issaka Mamah, BM, 5'6", 165 lbs, auto theft; Sara Swoape, WF, 5'10", 240 lbs (Yorkshire hog), theft; Abujaish Khalil, race unknown, 6'0", 220 lbs, child molesting (Michiana Crime Stoppers)
issakama.jpg South Bend's most wanted: Issaka Mamah, BM, 5'6", 165 lbs, auto theft; Sara Swoape, WF, 5'10", 240 lbs (Yorkshire hog), theft; Abujaish Khalil, race unknown, 6'0", 220 lbs, child molesting (Michiana Crime Stoppers)

Dumb news from Kentucky
:

Two General Motors employees were arrested for racing their Cor-
vettes
at speeds up to 120 m.p.h. on a street n Bowling Green'

                    
                                                           [courtesy LEX18]
charronm.jpg Bryan Tipton, WM, 40, 6'1", 175 lbs, dirty D.J.; Charron Mays Jr., BM, 23, 6'0", 135 lbs, not quite ready to face the music; Samantha "Not Quite So" Swift, WF, 36, 5'6", 135 lbs, music theft; Jantz Richaardson, WM, 31, 6'0", 170 lbs, fake music; Thomas Cuadro, WM, 37, 5'10", 220 lbs, impersonating musician (pulled kicking and screaming from the Herald-Leader)
charronm.jpg Bryan Tipton, WM, 40, 6'1", 175 lbs, dirty D.J.; Charron Mays Jr., BM, 23, 6'0", 135 lbs, not quite ready to face the music; Samantha "Not Quite So" Swift, WF, 36, 5'6", 135 lbs, music theft; Jantz Richaardson, WM, 31, 6'0", 170 lbs, fake music; Thomas Cuadro, WM, 37, 5'10", 220 lbs, impersonating musician (pulled kicking and screaming from the Herald-Leader)

morganon.jpg Morgan & Morgan there's only one OK, but Morgan, or Morgan?
morgan'n.jpg Morgan & Morgan there's only one OK, but Morgan, or Morgan?

Quotations of the week:
                                       "If  'con' is the opposite of 'pro,' then isn't Congress the opposite of
                                         progress?"
                                                             – Jon Stewart

        "
They’re saying, ‘OK, how’s this going to look?'  Thirty-seven-year-old gay guy kissing
          his husband on stage, next to Mr. Man, Donald Trump."
                                                                                                        – Rush Limbaugh

Riddle of the week:  What kind of people walk out into gusty weather?


keyshawn.jpg Wichita Falls' criminal cathedral choir (Wichita      Falls (Texas, not Wichita, Kansas) Crime Stoppers): Keyshawn Carroll, bm, 24, 6'0",  150 lbs, bass, leader of the choir, probation viol. (c.s.); Victoria Corrales, HF, 29, 5'4", 156 lbs, alto, probation violation (controlled substances); Joeangel Esoparza, HM, 24, 5'5", 136 lbs, tenor, probation viol. (tampering with evidence); Danequa Sedberry, BF, 26, 5'0" 240 lbs (Yorkshire hog), soprano, assault; Damon Bret Masrtin, WM, 50, 6'0", 200 lbs, oratorio soloist, food stamp fraud (Texoma's most wanted fugitives of the week)
keyshawn.jpg Wichita Falls' criminal cathedral choir (Wichita      Falls (Texas, not Wichita, Kansas) Crime Stoppers): Keyshawn Carroll, bm, 24, 6'0",  150 lbs, bass, leader of the choir, probation viol. (c.s.); Victoria Corrales, HF, 29, 5'4", 156 lbs, alto, probation violation (controlled substances); Joeangel Esoparza, HM, 24, 5'5", 136 lbs, tenor, probation viol. (tampering with evidence); Danequa Sedberry, BF, 26, 5'0" 240 lbs (Yorkshire hog), soprano, assault; Damon Bret Masrtin, WM, 50, 6'0", 200 lbs, oratorio soloist, food stamp fraud (Texoma's most wanted fugitives of the week)


Birthdays:
                    January 13:  Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 59
                    January 14:  Dave Grohl, 53
                                         Mike Trump, 59
                                         Jack Jones, 81
                    January 15:  Margaret O'Brien, 83
                                         Maria Baeza ("Charo"), 69 (she says; actually 79)
                                         Martin Luther King (really; 1929-1968 – and not born on a Monday)
                    January 16: 
A. J. Foyt, 85
                                         Norman Podhoretz, 90
                    January 17:  Michelle Obama, 56
                                         Steve Earle, 65
                                         Ezekiel Montanez ("Chris Montez"), 77
                                         Betty White, 98
                                         Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
                    January 18:  Bobby Goldsboro, 80
                    January 19:  Pete Buttigieg, 38
                                         Dolly Parton, 74
                                         Janis Joplin (1943-1970)
                                         Phil Everly (1939-2014)
                    January 20:  Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr., 90
                    January 21:  Mac Davis, 78
                                         Placido Domingo, 79
                                        
Jack Nicklaus, 80
                    January 22:  Piper Laurie, 88
                    January 23:  Chita Rivera, 87
                    January 24:  Neil Diamond, 79
                                         Ray Ragsdale ("Stevens"), 81
                    January 25:  Alicia Keys, 39
                    January 26:  Bob Uecker, 86
                                         Huey "Piano" Smith, 86
                    January 27:  Margo Timmins, 59
                    January 28:  Sarah McLachlan, 52
                                         Alan Alda, 84
                                         Mr. Acker Bilk (1929-2014)
                    January 29:  Tom Selleck, 75
                                         Germaine Greer, 81
                    January 30:  Dick Cheney, 79
                                         Gene Hackman, 90
                    January 31:  Philip Glass, 83
                    February 1:  Ronda Rousey, 33
                                         Don Everly, 83

                    February 2:   Tom Smothers, 83
                    February 3:   Morgan Fairchild, 70
                                          Bob Griese, 75
                    February 4:  Vincent Furnier ("Alice Cooper"), 72
                                        
Dan Quayle, 73
                    February 5:  Roger Staubach, 78
                                        Hank Aaron, 86

                   
February 6: 
Fabian Forte, 77
                                       
Joan Lucille Olander ("Mamie Van Doren"), 89
                                        Zsa Zsa Gabor (1916-2016)
                    February 7:  Burt Hooton, 70
                    February 8:  Flo, 50
                    February 9:  Maria "Mia" Farrow, 75
                    February 10:  Robert Wagner, 90
                    February 12:  Ehud Barak, 78
                                           Bill Russell, 86
                    February 13: 
Marilyn Pauline "Kim" Novak, 87
                    February 14: 
Michael Bloomberg, 78
                    February 15:  Susan Brownmiller, 85
                    February 16:  LeVar Burton, 63
Deaths:
             
Mr. Peanut, 104.
              Kirk Douglas, 103
              Mary Higgins Clark, 92
              Orson Bean, 91
              Joseph
Shabalala, 78
             
Kobe Bryant, 34             



Borf 's weekly BONUS:     
Eight horses were found shot and killed in Navajo County, Arizona. . . .
Lindsey Lohan's mother was arrested for DUI on Long Island. . . . A dec-
orated veteran of Vietnam and Iraq's  prosthetic  limbs  were  repossessed
from his home in Mississippi after the VA failed to pay for them. .  .  .  A

section of border wall collapsed in high wind,  with debris landing on the
Mexican side. . . .
A man charged with marijuana possession was arrested
in Tennessee for smoking marijuana in open court. . . .
The West Virginia
Senate encouraged neighboring Frederick County of Virginia to join West
Virginia. . . . Orlando Bloom misspelled his son's name  Flynn  (in Morse
Code) "Frynn" in a tattoo on his arm.
                                                                   [
courtesy Harper's, LEX18, AP]

zacarias.jpg Wanted in Waco: Zacarias Molina, WM, 21, 6', 210 lbs, sexual assault; Rikki Ines Starks, BF, 38, 5'5", 110 lbs, tattoo, left arm, domestic battery; Waheeda Rasheed Shabazz, BF, 36, 6', 167 lbs, tattoos, neck, both wrists, aggravated assault; Muhajir ShaffeeAbdul-Aleem JJr., BM, 42, 6', 220 lbs, tattoo, l. wrist, theft (Sedgwick County Sheriff)
zacarias.jpg Wanted in Waco: Zacarias Molina, WM, 21, 6', 210 lbs, sexual assault; Rikki Ines Starks, BF, 38, 5'5", 110 lbs, tattoo, left arm, domestic battery; Waheeda Rasheed Shabazz, BF, 36, 6', 167 lbs, tattoos, neck, both wrists, aggravated assault; Muhajir ShaffeeAbdul-Aleem JJr., BM, 42, 6', 220 lbs, tattoo, l. wrist, theft (Sedgwick County Sheriff)

The sports:
Another horse died at Santa Anita.

Dear Eleanor:

                            My wife and I have been married for 12 years,
                            and I absolutely love her and the kids.    But at
                            family events she tends to get really drunk and
                            mean. Usually I end up taking the lumps of her
                            aggression,  but sometimes it’s someone else. I
                            feel guilty when that happens, because I’m just
                            happy it isn't me.

                            Her family has a lot of issues, and when we get
                            together she gets loud, obnoxious and downright
                            ugly  to whichever poor soul rubs her the wrong
                            way first. She wakes up with a hangover, apolo-
                            gizes when she has to and pretends it never hap-
                            pened.

                            An example: Last weekend her sister was in town
                            (she’s a complete mess, but it’s way too long a sto-
                            ry  to  tell),  and my wife went to visit her at their
                            parents’ house.  I  stayed  home  because of work.
                            My wife and her sister got into a fight that turned
                            physical.   She called me crying around midnight.
                            I tried to talk her down,  but  that  resulted  in her
                            screaming at me over the phone.

                            My wife does not take kindly to suggestions,  espe-
                            cially when she’s intoxicated. A simple ”maybe it’s
                            time to go to bed” will inevitably unleash a vicious
                            monster  that  will  scratch, tear and scream its way
                            through anything that gets in its path.

                            How can I give her a ”last call” when I see that some-
                            thing is about to happen?
                                                                               Concerned  Husband

Dear Hubby:
                            Tell me more about your wife's sister.  We got the
                            space (and it might help me with your wife).

kalebcas.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas, Sheriff): Kaleb Castleberry, 23, mischiev. comm.; April White, 28, mobery; Belinda Mendoza, 48, mob.; Shauna Gilmore, 43, drugs, theft & paraph.; Candice Torres, 26, cont. subs.; Anabel Bruton, 29, arson; Cynthia Robles, 39, theft; Rojelio Luna, 62, family assault
kalebcas.jpg Locked up in San Angelo (by the Tom Green County, Texas, Sheriff): Kaleb Castleberry, 23, mischiev. comm.; April White, 28, mobery; Belinda Mendoza, 48, mob.; Shauna Gilmore, 43, drugs, theft & paraph.; Candice Torres, 26, cont. subs.; Anabel Bruton, 29, arson; Cynthia Robles, 39, theft; Rojelio Luna, 62, family assault
Unopened e-mail in the last four weeks included a message from "Tim Smith <reply-
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        appears that you do NOT have a written OSHA Safety Plan"
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DISCUSSION GROUP:

   Don't forget!  Readers interested in intellectu-
al dissection of important current events  are in-
vited  to attend the Weekly World News Round
Table  at  the  offices  of   Borf   Books  outside
Brownsville,  Kentucky, just  after church every
Sunday. Guest speakers lined up for meetings in
the near future include Rosalìa.
rosalia1.jpg The Spanish sing-
 er /  dancer  and
one or two of her
backups,  in a re-
cent performance
on   Austin   City
Limits
,  wore red
tops   with  holes
cut  out  for arm-
pits.


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