Posted: 9:31 a.m. Friday, Oct. 16, 2009
Balloon Boy Gets Sick On TV; Bible College Cop Flashes Women
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October 13, 2009
By Veronica Waters
- Colorado's balloon boy was never in the balloon, and his family denies it was a publicity stunt. Six-year-old Falcon Heene says he was hiding in a box in the rafters of the garage the whole time, and that he didn't answer when the family called his name because "You said we did this for the show." When his parents were pressed about that later in a couple of TV interviews, Falcon upchucked. His dad Richard Heene explained it was Falcon showing camera crews how he'd climbed into the garage rafters to hide. Authorities have said they don't think it was a hoax. The silver helium balloon traveled 50 miles over two hours, delaying takeoffs from Denver's airport and prompting a frantic rescue effort involving military helicopters.
- An unemployed single mom is behind bars for allegedly driving a getaway car in a half-dozen armed robberies in Gwinnett County. 20-year-old Tiffany Denise Solomon of Decatur, the mother of a one-year-old, is jailed without bond for being the wheelwoman in the month-long spree of stickups targeting Hispanics.
- A campus cop at Carver Bible College in Atlanta flashes three young ladies he pulled over in a traffic stop on Cascade Road. He allegedly told them he had a "Prince Albert" and then exposed himself. Police say they tracked down 28-year-old Steven Turner because he got one girl's number and sexted her some nasty pictures later. Turner is due in court today on indecent exposure charges; he has since resigned from Carver.
- The co-president of a gay group on the Morehouse campus is protesting the school's new dress code, which includes--among other things--no saggy pants, do-rags or baseball caps in campus buildings. But Daniel Edwards of the group Safe Space thinks the provision telling men they can't wear women's clothes is discriminatory. The college president says the school expects its students to be "Renaissance men."
- A Clayton County mother, convicted of child cruelty for nearly starving her twin sons to death, could get up to 70 years in prison when she's sentenced today. Testimony showed Tessa Zelek and the boys' father would go on prescription drug binges and ignore the children, who weighed just nine pounds when they were 13 months old. Zelek's mother has been on trial this week for not reporting the abuse. The boys' father, James McCart, will get less time than Zelek because he testified against her.
- A white Louisiana justice of the peace turns away an interracial couple who came to him to get married. Keith Bardwell says it's his experience that mixed marriages don't last as long, and that kids from interracial marriages suffer too much. The couple went to another JP to get married. The ACLU is asking the state's Judiciary Committee to investigate and sanction the judge.
- Almost 100 dogs have been rescued after cops raid a dogfighting operation in East Dublin. Most of them were pit bulls. Deputies acting on a tip found the malnourished pups on a rural property; many showed signs of infection from brutual fight injuries.
- An animal rights group is planning a protest against Michael Vick Sunday before the Eagles/Raiders game in Oakland. It'll be Vick's first road game since coming back to the NFL; the group In Defense of Animals says Vick hasn't shown proper remorse for fighting dogs.
- The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: a breezy, mostly cloudy and chilly Friday, with a high of 61 and low of 43. Saturday, increasing cloudiness, windy and an unseasonably cold high of 56. Sunday, partly to mostly sunny, with a breezy high of 57.
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