Posted: 5:10 p.m. Thursday, May 6, 2010
Celeb Chef Headlines Schools Pep Rally; Ex-NFL Star Lawrence Taylor Charged With Rape; Man Grows Weed In TV
By Veronica Waters
- Celebrity chef Marvin Woods headlines an event for Georgia students tonight at Phipps Plaza. The 7:00-8:30 "Learn, Earn and Burn" pep rally wants to fire people up to help battle the financial problems schools are tackling. The more students who come out to the pep rally, the better their chances to win $1,000 for their school.
Chef Woods tells KISS, "It combines two of my favorite loves and passions, education and eating better--and teaching people that there's a lot of options out there for you, and you just have to tap into them."
Woods will cook up a dish with culinary students from Campbell High School as his sous chefs, and says he also got his start in the kitchen at a young age.
"I started cooking with my dad when I was about seven or eight," says Woods. "I just had a love and passion for it. It's my calling. It's what I was meant to do."
Woods says teaching people that eating healthier does not have to be expensive is important to him. He has often campaigned against childhood obesity.
The pep rally is sponsored by Georgia Natural Gas. GNG created TrueBlue Schools to provide an easy way for schools to raise money that directly benefits students and teachers in the classroom. - Ex-NFL star Lawrence Taylor is accused of raping a 16-year-old runaway in New York, and is also facing prostitution charges. Police in Suffern said the girl was reported missing by her family in March and had been staying with a 36-year-old man, Rasheed Davis, in the Bronx for a few weeks. Davis served time for manslaughter and has been on parole since 2008. Early Thursday morning, according to police, Davis beat up the teen, drove her to a Holiday Inn and told her she had to have sex with Taylor. When she refused, Davis handed her over to Taylor, who sexually assaulted her, they said. Cops say then, Taylor paid her $300, which she gave to Davis.
Davis "struck the young girl with his fist, kicked her and brought her to the Holiday Inn against her will,'' NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said.
On the way back from Suffern, the girl sent text messages to her uncle spelling out what had happened, Browne said. The uncle then went to the NYPD. Police say Taylor was cooperative when he was arrested, and his lawyer, Kenneth Gribetz, said, "We're confident his innocence will be proven." - A convicted child molester who finished serving his 15 years is headed back behind bars. After he got out in 2008, Preston Cooper got on the computer at his group home, printed out some child porn, and sent it to a buddy at Telfair State Prison. He hid it inside an Easter card, and the prison intercepted it. Now, Cooper faces up to 40 years when he's sentenced.
- It was already a nasty divorce...now a lawsuit is making it uglier. Dwayne Wade's estranged wife claims the NBA star and actress Gabrielle Union engaged in foreplay in front of the Wades' 8- and 2-year-old sons, causing them emotional distress. Siovaughn Wade also says the boys were hurt when they got medium-sized Christmas gifts when Union got the biggest gift of all.
- A four-story dome is at the site of the blown-out well that is gushing thousands of barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico. It weighs about 100 tons and will be lowered onto the leaking well. It's hoped the contraption will funnel leaking oil to a tanker ship.
- O-M-G! A Johns Creek teenager text messages for help during a break-in at their home on Windbrooke Way. 13-year-old Rhea Sharma dashed to her mother's closet and sent her mom a text at work saying, "OMG SOMEONE IS IN THE HOUSE." Then, another scare: the burglar yanked open the closet door--and both he and the girl screamed! He asked her if she'd called 911, she said no, and he grabbed her phone and left--along with jewelry and electronics.
- The suspect in the attempted bombing in Times Square rehearsed the plot two days earlier. Faisal Shahzad allegedly even dropped off a getaway car blocks from the site. But later, he left the keys to that car and to his home in the bomb-laden Nissan Pathfinder--a blunder which put police on his trail.
- People who install new windows, heaters, refrigerators and other energy-efficient technology in their homes would be eligible for thousands of dollars in federal rebates under legislation the House is taking up this morning. The two-year, $6 billion program is being referred to as Cash for Caulkers.
- A Snellville man's solution to having nothing to watch on TV has landed him in the clink. Gwinnett County deputies discovered pot plants growing out of Warren English's hollowed-out big screen TV. He's jailed on charges of manufacturing marijuana, and is now in the process of being evicted from his Wethersfield Road home.
- The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: sunny high of 87 today; sunny high near 89 Friday.
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