: "Wed Jun 25, 8:35 AM ET
RAVENNA, Ohio - A husband thinks he should be prosecuted for his wife's failure to stop driving while she breastfed their baby on the Ohio Turnpike.
Catherine Nicole Donkers, 29, of suburban Pittsburgh, is to go on trial Aug. 6 on misdemeanor charges of child endangering, failure to comply with the order of a police officer and several other driving infractions.
Her husband, Brad L. Barnhill, said he wants to be tried instead, citing religious beliefs.
'I'm responsible for what she does, and no one can punish her except me,' said Barnhill, 46, a minister in the First Christian Fellowship for Eternal Sovereignty, an organization founded by Christopher Hansen of Henderson, Nev., in the late 1990s.
'That's a fantasy,' prosecutor Victor V. Vigluicci said Tuesday. 'I've never heard such a thing.'
The couple has not yet hired an attorney, according to court records.
A truck driver called 911 on May 8 to report that he had seen a woman driving her car with a baby in her lap.
Asked why his wife did not stop to nurse the child, Barnhill said she didn't want to turn 'a five-hour trip to Michigan into a seven-hour trip.'
A conviction for misdemeanor child endangering carries maximum penalties of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. "
10:36 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Eminem Dangles Doll in Jackson Imitation: "Strange News - AP
Eminem Dangles Doll in Jackson Imitation
Wed Jun 25,11:26 AM ET
LONDON - The real Slim Shady stood up and made fun of Michael Jackson by dangling a baby doll over a hotel balcony.
Rapper Eminem also wore a surgical mask over his face Tuesday in an obvious swipe at Jackson, who dangled his baby, Prince Michael II, over a balcony railing in Berlin in November.
Eminem, who was staying at the Art House Hotel in Glasgow, went further than Jackson by tossing the doll into the air and catching it.
'Empersonator,' said a headline in the Daily Mirror tabloid, which published three photos. The New York Post's front page blared: 'Oh baby! Eminem does his best Jacko.'
Scotland's Daily Record tabloid said the incident occurred as fans and photographers gathered outside the hotel before Eminem's concert in the city Tuesday.
Eminem, whose nickname is Slim Shady, is on a British tour but has kept a low-profile between shows.
The Daily Record said he took over 50 rooms at the hotel for his entourage."
10:32 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Man Killed by Wife Over Paint Argument, Police Say: "Thu Jun 26, 8:23 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - The color of your home's walls can be a matter of life and death, as a German man found out when he was fatally stabbed by his wife after they had an argument about what color to paint them, police said Wednesday.
The dispute flared as the 53-year-old man and his Polish wife of 30 years were redecorating their house. Angered and frustrated by the escalating feud, the man got a kitchen knife and suggested to his wife she use it on him, police said.
The 50-year-old woman then grabbed the knife and plunged it into his heart. Rescue services were unable to save the man. Both had been drinking alcohol, according to police.
'It's a tragic story,' said Christiane Leven, a spokeswoman for police in the western city of Hamburg.
Police arrested the woman, who now faces prosecution. Police could not say what colors the couple were arguing over. "
10:27 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Bus Shelters Placed Where No Buses Run: "Fri Jun 27, 8:40 AM ET
MESA, Ariz. - City officials in Mesa have mistakenly installed two bus shelters where no buses run.
The installation cost $32,000 at a time when the city is cutting its public transit budget to save money.
Both are on Broadway Road and were installed as part of a $7.7 million improvement project finished about a year ago.
Although there is bus service on part of the road, buses turn before reaching the shelters.
'It slipped through all of us and didn't get caught until after the fact,' said Jeff Kramer, Mesa's deputy engineer for design.
Kramer told the East Valley Tribune that the shelter locations weren't reviewed in advance by the transportation department because they were a small part of a complex road project.
And although the shelters have signs posted saying no buses pass by, people still wait.
'We see people there daily waiting for a bus until they notice the sign is there and they realize it's not a working bus stop,' said Rene Scharber. "
10:22 Posted by David
Yahoo! News - Cellphone Gives Adulterers Away: "Thu Jun 26,11:45 AM ET
HELSINKI (Reuters) - An adulterous Finn pressed all the wrong buttons as he made love in a car -- unknowingly prompting his mobile phone to call home just in time for his wife to hear his mistress moan 'I love you.'
The wife, doubly enraged after recognizing her own friend's voice, has been convicted of assault after going to her rival's flat and striking her in the face and later attacking her husband at home with an axe, though he fended off the blow.
A court official told Reuters Thursday she received a 14-month suspended sentence for the attacks which did not result in serious injury.
The woman told the court this week in Lahti, 60 miles north of Helsinki, that she was temporarily in shock and had only tried to scare her husband.
They have since divorced, a regional paper reported. "
10:58 Posted by David
KTVU.com - News - Fisherman Catches Hundreds Of Used Condoms Fisherman Catches Hundreds Of Used Condoms
POSTED: 8:23 a.m. EDT June 17, 2003
MILWAUKEE -- It's not the sort of catch a fisherman likes to boast about -- hundreds of used condoms floating in the Milwaukee harbor.
Officials at the Jones Island Wastewater Treatment Plant say an angler made the rather disgusting discovery.
Some suspect a new $8.5 million filtration system isn't up to the task.
But officials say there's no proof of just where the condoms came from. The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District says it will install additional filters.
Workers will also be used to scoop condoms out of the wastewater stream with fish nets.
