Posted: 5:06 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010
Anti-Gay Funeral Protests Free Speech?; Man Shoots Teen Over Pants On The Ground; Obama Seal Falls Off Podium (VIDEO)
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October 1, 2010
By Veronica Waters
- The FBI says DeKalb County Police may have helped bring an end to a hair-raising series of bank robberies attributed to the so-called Wig Wearing Bandits. Cops had been staking out likely bank targets in case the crooks hit. They chased three men in a black Cadillac Monday after an attempted holdup at a Chase branch in Lithonia, nabbing the trio and a MAC-11 assault pistol. That's the same gun used in a late September robbery. The suspects may be tied to at least seven metro Atlanta bank robberies.
- The Supreme Court today hears arguments on whether hecklers may be banned from funerals, or whether their protests are protected free speech. A fundamentalist church in Kansas has members who often show up at high-profile funerals, especially of soldiers, with signs saying "God hates ****" (expletive for gays) and "Thank God for dead soldiers." The dad of a Marine who died in Iraq wants the court to reinstate a $5 million verdict against the church who picketed his son's funeral. This same church is the one who picketed the funeral of Coretta Scott King.
- The presidential seal fell off President Barack Obama's lectern and clattered to the stage as he delivered a speech to a women's conference in Washington. It happened about halfway through the president's remarks to Fortune magazine's "Most Powerful Women Summit'' Tuesday night at Carnegie Mellon Auditorium. He quickly quipped, "That's all right. All of you know who I am." The crowd laughed.
- An Obama/Clinton ticket in 2012? The Washington Post's Bob Woodward says it could happen. He tells CNN people see a future president in Hillary Clinton, and that the president can use more of the women, retiree and Latino voters who supported her in 2008. So what happens to Vice President Biden if she runs on the ticket for VP? Woodward suggests a swap--Biden becoming Secretary of State. So, what does Clinton say about it all? "I have absolutely no interest and no reason for doing anything other than just dismissing these stories and moving on because we have no time. There is so much to do and I think both of us are very happy doing what we're doing,'' she said at a women's conference this week.
- A Memphis man shot a teen boy in the butt--after yelling at him to pull up his pants! The 45-year-old Kenneth Bonds got into an argument with two teens when they refused to get their pants off the ground--and police say he fired several shots at the pair as they ran away. Bonds faces aggravated assault charges.
- Frito-Lay plans to quiet complaints about its noisy SunChips bags. They'll be swapping out the biodegradable bags--which are louder because the plant material making them has a different molecular structure--for the old plastic bags in all but one of their six flavors--the original plain flavor, which is the highest seller behind Harvest Cheddar.
- An aggressive dog may be to blame for the accidental death of a Henry County teenager. Eyewitnesses say 14-year-old Miracle Parham backing away from the menacing dog on Jonesboro Road at McDonough Square when she edged into the street--and was struck and killed by a car Tuesday morning.
- A Michael Jackson impersonator near Detroit has been sentenced in the molestation of an 11-year-old boy. Ricardo West will serve between 13 and 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to incidents that took place in the spring at a metro-Detroit home.
- Lilburn Police identify the accused groper of a 14-year-old girl at a Wal-Mart. Now, they have to find out where 26-year-old David Berusch is. Cops were flooded with tips after releasing the description of a short, pudgy white man named David who is said to have felt up the teen at the store's cosmetics counter before taking off.
- A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Lincoln and bought by Robert F. Kennedy, who drew inspiration from the document as he enforced civil rights legislation in the 1960s, is going up for auction and could fetch as much as $1.5 million in a December event at Sotheby's. There is also a copy of the Proclamation at the Atlanta History Center's Lincoln exhibition through November 7.
- The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: sunny breezy high of 73.
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