Posted: 10:24 a.m. Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Gwinnett Woman Stole Almost 6,000 Identities; Truck Goes Into Pool; Miami Defeats Dallas--Says The Ad
- A Gwinnett County woman pleads guilty to her part in a nationwide identity theft scam. Annette Ford struck a deal with the feds to tell who her accomplices are; she's admitted stealing the IDs of nearly 6,000 people. Ford is accused of filing false tax returns and cashing people's tax refund and Social Security checks before they were ever delivered to their intended recipients. Her lawyer says someone else stole the checks--and the conspirator apparently works for the Post Office. The feds say the 47-year-old Suwanee woman is a mid-level player in the nationwide scheme, but raked in some $2.5 million.
- An off-duty DeKalb County policeman has undergone surgery for a gunshot to the buttocks after a Monday-night robbery. The 32-year-old officer said he was robbed of his wallet by a couple of black men at the Landmark at Mountain Park Apartments on Green Bark Circle shortly before 9:00 p.m. He was shot when he fought back.
- AT&T is trying to determine how a problem with its cell phone towers caused 911 calls from metro Atlanta to be rerouted to an emergency call center in Savannah. Dozens of emergency calls from January to April were misdirected, delaying emergency responses. All the misdirected calls were from cell phones. Savannah police say one call was about a burglary in progress.
- Kansas City Chiefs tight end Leonard Pope is being called a hero for what he did in his hometown of Americus, Georgia over the weekend. The former UGA star jumped into the water at a pool party to save a friend's six-year-old son who had gone under the water and was in danger of drowning. Pope came running out of the house when he heard the Bryson Moore's mother screaming for help, and dove into the pool--she says he didn't even bother to take his cell phone out of his pocket. Seems at this pool party, Pope was the only adult there who knew how to swim. Anne Moore told an Americus newspaper that of 10 or 12 people standing around the pool, no one responded to her cry for help.
- It was a frighteningly close call, but no one was hurt Monday afternoon when an AT&T work truck plunged into a swimming pool in the Bridgestone Farms subdivision of Johns Creek--narrowly missing 12 swimmers. Investigators believe the driver lost control after he suffered a diabetic seizure. One boy, 13-year-old Brandon Smith, says he saw his life flash before his eyes.
- In a not-so-subtle move, President Barack Obama has ratcheted up the pressure on Congressman Anthony Weiner to quit. Asked about the Weiner's sexting scandal, the president replied, "Ultimately, there's going to be a decision for him and his constituents. I can tell you that if it was me, I would resign." Mr. Obama called the sexually charged photos and online messages to several women "highly inappropriate.''
- An action-figure Anthony Weiner: Connecticut company HeroBuilders.com is now out with a doll of the New York congressman, in two versions. One is an anatomically correct, adults-only version selling for $49.95. The second, censored one goes for 10 dollars less. Both are dressed in a gym shirt and shorts with a label that reads "Tweet This.''
- After a disappointing May, the 89-year-old radio preacher who wrongly predicted the Rapture last month has now had a stroke. Harold Camping is said to be recuperating in a California hospital. After the faulty prediction, Camping recalculated and said the actual Rapture is coming in October.
- Delta now waives all fees for soldiers' checked bags, but the rest of us had better pack light. Those baggage fees you grumble about when flying accounted for a whopping $3.4 Billion in profits for the airlines last year; Delta led the industry with a massive $952 million in luggage revenue. Reservation and change fees accounted for another $2.3 billion for the industry, and analysts believe without those fees, the airlines would be losing money.
- Someone should've stopped the presses on this one. Already glum about the Miami Heat losing the NBA title to the Dallas Mavericks, fans then had to look at an ad in the Miami Herald that mistakenly congratulated the Heat for their championship. It reads "Congratulations" next to photos of Heat championship shirts and hats from Macy's. The ad ran right below a story about the Heat's loss.
Even odder, even if Miami had won Sunday's game, the series would have been tied at three games apiece, and gone to a deciding Game 7. The Mavericks beat the Heat, 105-95, to take the NBA Championship. - The KISS 104.1 weather forecast: sunny, hot high of 92.
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