Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 22.3.9
Caption: Weird Honeymoon Suite
Print ShareThisHOUSTON — A woman who claims she was humiliated on her wedding night because she had to spend it in jail in her wedding gown has filed a complaint with Texas authorities.
Jade Puckett, 26, filed the complaint midweek over a picture taken while she was in a courtroom in her wedding dress.
"It had turned the best day of my life into my greatest nightmare," she said in the complaint.
She and Billy Puckett, also 26, were arrested following their March 14 reception as part of a Harris County sweep targeting drunken drivers.
Billy Puckett was charged with driving while intoxicated. Officers said his new wife was charged with public intoxication after she became belligerent.
She said she was then kept in a cell overnight — still in her wedding dress — with 15 or 20 other arrested women. She said male deputies at least three times opened the cell door to point her out to other jailers.
"The male guards seemed to be enjoying themselves," she said.
Headline: Teen's Body in Morgue a Month as Family Searched
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 22.3.9
Caption: Sad!!
NEW YORK — A 16-year-old girl whose misidentified body languished in a morgue for a month, while her family searched for her, died from an asthma attack she suffered as she was restrained and raped, officials said Friday.
Tiana Rice was reported missing Dec. 30, when she didn't return to her Bronx home after going to Brooklyn to meet someone she had gotten to know online, police said.
Police responded that night to a call of an unconscious woman at an abandoned Brooklyn home, and EMS pronounced the girl dead. It was Tiana, but she was mistakenly identified via the driver's license of a previous resident of the home, who is still alive.
The 911 call came from a pay phone not far from where Tiana's body was found, clad only in socks, police said. It was unclear whether she had meant to go to the abandoned home.
An anthropologist later realized Tiana's body didn't match the age of the person on the driver's license. The body was identified a month later, after the anthropologist pored over missing-person records.
Headline: Man lays off dad -- twice
Origin of Clip: CNN.com 21.3.9
Caption: You're Sacked Dad
ORANGE PARK, Fla. -- The economy has been hard on many families across the country, but for one Orange Park man and his father it has been especially difficult. Greg Holloway says tough economic times have forced him to fire his father. Greg Holloway, owner of Orange Park Drywall, said he knows firsthand about how the bad economy has affected businesses. He has had to lay off his father, twice..
"When the market really started getting bad, I had to let him go," Holloway said.
The first time was when Holloway was a supervisor at a company for which both he and his dad worked. Holloway later left that drywall company and formed his own. In 2007, he hired his father, 70-year-old Mitch Holloway as an adviser
Headline: Tour Bus Boarding ... to Baghdad?
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 21.3.9
Caption: Iraq Now Open
Iraq receives first group of Western tourists since 2003, in the latest indication of improved security..
Headline: Robot Fish to Monitor Pollution in Spanish Port
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 21.3.9
Caption: Wonder How They Taste Fried in Oil
LONDON — A school of mechanical, battery-powered robots in the shape of fish will be released into a Spanish port to help monitor pollution there, scientists said Friday.
The 5-foot-long (1.5-meter-long) robots work by mimicking the swishing movements of a fish's tail, according to University of Essex robotics expert Huosheng Hu, whose team is manufacturing the machines.
He said the robo-fish would be equipped with sensors to monitor oxygen levels in the water, detect oil slicks spilled from ships or contaminants pumped into the water from underground pipes.
Headline: Hairy Problem Solved: N.J. Scraps Plan to Ban Waxing
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 20.3.9
Caption: You Can Wax Those Pubes
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey is smoothing out differences over a plan to ban bare-it-all bikini waxing.
The state on Friday decided to reverse course on the proposal after angry salon owners complained about losing business ahead of swimsuit season.
"It was an unnecessary issue," said spa owner Linda Orsuto. "In New Jersey especially, where the government has been picking our pockets for so long, it was like, 'Just stay out of our pants, will you?"'
The state Cosmetology and Hairstyling Board proposed banning so-called "Brazilian" bikini waxing after two women were hospitalized for infections following the procedure.
On Friday, Consumer Affairs Director David Szuchman effectively killed the plan. In a letter to the board, Szuchman says he won't support the ban, and since his office oversees the board, the ban would never be approved.
Headline: Clorox Offers $5K To Wipe Out SF 'toilet Torcher'
Origin of Clip: CBSnews.com 20.3.9
Caption: Potty Burner
The Clorox Company is offering a $5,000 reward and a year's supply of toilet cleaning products for tips leading to the arrest of San Francisco's notorious portable potty pyromaniac.
The Oakland-based chemical company deployed a "potty patrol" team in the city Friday to make residents aware of its offer marrying marketing and community service.
Since November, more than two dozen construction site toilets have been set on fire in the city, causing an estimated $50,000 in property damage
Headline: 'Deadliest' Spider Found in Grocer Aisle
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 20.3.9
Caption: Itsy Bitsy Spider
One of the most deadly spiders in the world was found in the produce section of an upscale Oklahoma grocery store.
Or was it?
An employee of Whole Foods Market in Tulsa discovered what an expert said was a Brazilian wandering spider in a bunch of bananas from Honduras on Sunday and managed to catch it in a container.
The spider was given to University of Tulsa animal facilities director Terry Childs, who identified the arachnid and said that type of spider is one of the most lethal in the world.
Childs said a bite will kill a person in about 25 minutes, and while there is an antidote, he doesn't know of any in the Tulsa area.
But a Tulsa Zoo official disputed the findings, saying his analysis through video and photos he'd seen led him to believe that it was a Huntsman spider — which is harmless to humans.
Headline: Monty Python prop causes bomb scare
Origin of Clip: telegraph.co.uk 20.3.9
Caption: A Bang of a Laugh
Bomb disposal teams were called in and buildings evacuated after workmen mistook a Monty Python film prop for a hand grenade.
Water company engineers spotted the object when they lifted up a fire hydrant cover during work on a street in Shoreditch, east London. ....But after nearly an hour of analysis bomb experts realised that the cause of the scare was in fact a copy of the "Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch" used by Eric Idle to slaughter a killer rabbit in the 1975 film Monty Python And The Holy Grail.
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