Your Local News?

Thought it would be interesting if we each posted a link to a little news tid-bit that is of interest where we live as we come from all over the world.....there is much going on here but I've been following pretty close the efforts to get a grounded shrimp boat off the beach. Keeping my fingers crossed they can get it moved without the remaining fuel dumping. Video footage can also be found on page if'n you're interested.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/star17abby/shrimpboat.jpg

 

On the same line as mcadam's thread:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4534064.stm

Head calls for Little Britain ban
David Walliams in Little Britain
Parents have been asked for help in respecting the TV watershed
A head teacher has asked parents to ban children from watching TV comedy Little Britain, after sketches from the show were repeated in the playground.

 

Not local to me but....different!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nottinghamshire/4534538.stm

 

This story has probably settled down in much of the nation, but we still hear about it here on at least a weekly basis. My wife and I live about 10 miles from the neighborhood in which Natalie Holloway's family lives.

Natalee Holloway, 18, went missing in Aruba on May 30.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3896/1200/1600/missing_natalee.jpg

 

Wow! Would love to see that up close and personal when it's done...bet it's gonna be an awesome site to see!

Now...kind sir...can you find something local to you to post about?

 

We still hear about it regularly here too. We had a whole slew of divers and underwater equipment from our area down there...I wish they would find her so the family can get at least some type of closure and then hang the b*st*rds that did by their you know whats.

 

'Bout all that was interesting here of late was a real big meteor landing around W.A. somewhere (4th Dec '05).

http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,17455789%5E2761,00.html

Some local kid reckoned he ran and hid behind a car, and then found a chunk. Yeah, riiight.

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/10/1060454067379.html

 

Christmas miracle: Turtle gets braces
WATERTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Hermie the Turtle's little defective beak made meal time a struggle. Unable to close his mouth completely, the tiny 20-gram reptile's very existence was at stake

http://www.syracuse.com/newsflash/n...onal-5/113474996369060.xml&storylist=national

 

Ahhh....I sense some doubt about the meteorites authenticity Barry...LOL If the object was actually sent to be tested I would be interested to know the outcome...will you keep us updated as to the findings?

 

Awww....now that is the sweetest story. I so enjoy hearing about people doing things like this to help out. Thanks for sharing such a heartwarming story Renate.

 

Well, the local propaganda (aka the Free Local newspaper*) seems to be very concerned with feeding things to dogs. There were at least 3 articles that I noticed while scanning about dogs eating chocolate (then dying), dogs eating chair legs (!!?!) and dogs eating leftover food and getting sick.

So ... populus of Wycombe, don't feed your dogs.







... Hang on, that's not right....
* there is no reason for this newspaper to be, other than to program the local public. Every resident gets it, it comes through every door. You can hardly help but see at least the front cover. I'm certain that those sorts of publications contribute a lot to emissions, and the local authority paper recycling service was implemented purely due to this ruddy newspaper. </rant>

 

I figured everyone could see the 12 inches of snow we got on the news... oy

 

Follow up to Wenchie's article.

Hermie, a turtle in Watertown, died
Updated: 12/16/2005 8:27 AM
By: News 10 Now Staff

http://www.news10now.com/content/top_stories/?SecID=1&ArID=55648

 

I edited my post to include a link to the news story, which I kinda forgot (Oops!)

Well, put it this way if a meteorite was going to hit him, I don't think he would even have time to say "ouch!", much less duck and run behind a car and just happen to find a big chunk.

Probably one of the famous local beach rocks with the water 'craters' on it.

 

NO, Hermie has just stopped by to use our bathroom. But she's taken a rather long time - too much Kelp deserts ya know.

 

Yes,
The Oil Refinery blew up, that's local to me

I'll get some when I find some hows that sound?

 

I sure wish I could post some good news from my area, but that's not likely to happen. For the last week or so, our news consisted of:
1. Person\persons unknown broke into the "Make A Wish" Foundation and helped themselves to all the donated gifts that were to be for terminally ill childern.
2. State execution of murderer. Oldest man ever put to death.
3. Man gets 124 years for the murder of his girlfriend and wounding of her 2 brothers.
4. Man stabs wife 14 times...she survives.
5. Escaped murderer caught in Flowood.
6. Mississippi ranked unhealthest state.
Here's a link to one of our local television stations and see for yourself http://www.thejacksonchannel.com/index.html Also, here's another one http://www.wlbt.com/ Sure, there are some good stories, but the bad outweigh the good.

 

LOL. My local news is a lot like Stubby's

Memphis city and county governments are way in the red.
Gun fired in a classroom.
Cops indicted for misbehavior.
Investigation into a crooked election where dead people voted.
Various murders, robberies, and scams.

One little tidbit presented as "local news", although it's not, is that Uncle Sam has been collecting a 3% tax on cellphones that's illegal.
http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=8BC74A8C-9EED-42F8-BEDB-2A5834173277

 

Last Saturday me and my brother had a few drinks and decided to get a chinese and dvd 10 minutes before the DVD store closed,as we were entering the DVD store a guy was staring at us and acting all agitated is the best way to describe it,there was girl with him who seemed to be calming him down,we thought nothing of got a DVD American pie band camp 'not as good as the others but quite funny'

Anyways we went into the chinese ordered and waited for our food,next minute police come running into the chinese and demanded the cctv tape,as we were walking home we saw someone who had just come from near the DVD store and asked what was going on,the store had been held up at knife point by a lone guy he'd got away with around £140,no one was hurt.

We both looked at each other and said 'I bet it was that guy' ,sure enough half way though band camp there was a knock at the door and there stood two cops,they had found out my address from my DVD store account I was the last one to get a DVD that night,so we went down to the station 'It'll only take half an hour lads' 2 hours later we emerged from the copshop after both giving a description of the guy and girl waiting outside

Our descriptions have matched the girls who was held at knifepoint so turns out it was that guy and he was carrying a knife,good job we didnt keep staring at him eh?

I cant find anything on the web about it and it only got a 2 x 3 box on page 8in the local paper,a bit frightening really

Interesting night all in all



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I was looking to see if anything caught my eye. Some of them are very important with some very strange ones too. Here's my contribution. Enjoy!

Ice Shuts Down Highways; Causes Fatal Wreck <the BIG news >:
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/5550186/detail.html

DOT's New Traffic Plan Could Mean Toll For You
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/5552249/detail.html

Waffle House Cook Faces Charges After Giving Man Toxic Drink:
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/5551834/detail.html

Peach Dropped, Bowl Gets New Name:
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/5551377/detail.html

 

snow on mauna kea
man caught downloading porn on the police headquarters computer. investigaters found thousands of porn of porn pics after comploaint by another worker. the matter is 'under investigation'.
high surf advisory for north shores

 

Do you have a link to your local news station? Please. Pretty Please? I just bet it would lead to some purty pics of the area along with some local info of interest.

 

i dont know how to do that. if you can give STEP BY STEP instructions, i would gladly post a link. aloha

 

Judge releases boy accused of stabbing girl, 17

We've been voted one of the most dangerous cities in the country. Much smaller than Los Angeles, yet we have a much higher crime rate. Of colurse, we have a city within a city, thats 1 square mile, and has its own separate police department.


Good thing I live outside Tucson.

 

WooHoo! Piece of cake Laurie. Open the web page for your news station...left click your mouse in the address bar (It will highlight the URL and you'll get a fly out menu) choose copy from the fly out menu, then come back to the thread and left click in your reply and choose paste. Voilà!

 

http://www.khon.com/khon/display.cfm?storyID=9709&sid=1154

is the web addy.

 

oh, that was easy...just copy and paste. lol

 

LOL..I know....the simplest things can have you scratching your head until you actually do it yourself...been there done that more times than I care to admit! *blush*

Thanks Laurie..looking forward to perusing the site.

 

Oh wait, you want very local news?

Be prepared for this one, its a doozy:

http://www.gvnews.com/

Madera Canyon hiking trails open

Madera Canyon’s popular hiking trails are now open to the public again after being off-limits for nearly six months.

 

There's a special place in hell for people like that.

 

Here we go again... AbbySue --->http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v173/star17abby/nutkick.gif<--- Adrynalyne Did you read the thread title and the content..."link to a little news tid-bit that is of interest where we live"...hmmm??? J/K! J/K! I just like to use that smiley so I figured you could take a turn being on the receiving end of the kick seeing as how star isn't here right now to defend himself

Ehemmm...back to our regularly scheduled program...errr...links

 

Tucson is only 15 minutes away though. As well, I dont know if living in Green Valley is actually referred to as, living.

This place isn't hickville, but the only big thing that ever happens here is when I get mistaken for an employee at the local Walmart.

 

Agreed.

Anyway, heres the headlines from the local Wexford paper:
Festival to Survive
The Wexford Opera Festival gets a new (temporary) home.

Stabbing tore family apart
Stuff like this is still (fortunately) a fairly big deal in Ireland, so this story has been in the local press for quite some time.

Change the law say crash victim’s parents
There are far too many deaths on Irish roads, mainly due to alot of our rural roads being in a terrible state and the fact that we are a nation of drunks. Even despite Road Safety ads that are VERY graphic, people just don't think.

 

Wow. Eventful for Yorkshire like' lads' n' lass's

News

 

Let's see...what is interesting today... (we have entirely too many local news stations, by the way)

More snow showers blanket West Michigan
http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4254221

Sam's Club employee helps police nab child pornography suspect
http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4251925&nav=menu44_2

Coast Guard temporarily relieves captain of icebreaker's command
http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4250742&nav=menu44_2

Governor signs law to let bars stay open after 2 a.m.
http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=48140

State Unemployment Rate Rises in November
http://www.wzzm13.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=48065

Governor Signs Bill Allowing Direct Wine Shipment To Customers
http://fox17.trb.com/121505-wxmi-wine,0,876463.story?coll=wxmi-home-2

South Haven meth lab is 249th bust this year
http://www.wwmt.com/engine.pl?station=wwmt&id=21862&template=breakout_local.html

 

I agree 100% with you Publius, but in this case Hell is TOO good for him\her! They do, however, have a picture of the person that they think did it via the buildings security cameras and have asked the public's help in finding this person. And yes, if I would happen to see this person, I would turn him\her in to the police, but not until this person 'slipped on a bar of soap!' No, I'm not a violent person, but there is NO earthly reason why someone would have to steal from children, terminally ill or not!! But being that they are terminally ill and possibly this may be their last Christmas makes this crime even more horrendous and unforgivable!

 

PHP:

Investigators say Richard Rapozo downloaded 60,000 images and 3,000 pornographic movies. 

Thats alot of porn , more than likely thats the whole departments and he's the scapegoat if not the guy needs help not a new assignment

EDIT-Whoooaaa something weird and wonderful has happened to my quote lol

 

i cant see what there is to 'investigate'. he should just be sacked and that is that!!

 

Totally agree,hes looking at it on paid time and not doing his job,filling the POLICE computers with spyware and trojans that could possibly reveal witness identity's or other sensitive info,I dont wanna guess what he's doing with his free hand and all in the police office..

The guys got a problem,I'd go as far as to say he could be a danger to women he's so desperate,a guy like that has no right in a place of authority

 

to be fair, i have to point out that the police are not as overloaded here as they are in other places, so he probably had a lot of spare time on his hands (lol. no pun intended!)

 

The long arm of the law hard at work Laurie I could go all night hehe

 

As close as we are to Ft Stewart, GA, we get a lot of soldier news.

http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/121505/3496874.shtml

 

I know of a couple of website/busniess owners who often frequent Waffle House at unearthly hours. I'm sure they'd be interested in that story

 

i thought yall might like this its from my area (not from same town tho) they been after C. Jack Ellis for over a year now.

http://www.13wmaz.com/news/top_stories.aspx?storyid=20959