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In Barteswille, Oklahoma, an unfortunate incident occurred. It happened that a mother, Lindsey Fiddler, when she was washing somehow put her ten-day-old baby into the washing machine with the clothes. The baby went through an
entire spin cycle.

A relative of her discovered the case who was called in. Unfortunately the baby was died already on arrival at hospital. For this the mother is charged with second degree manslaughter. Fiddler was arrested on drug charges before.

Police are continuing their investigation on this unfortunate case.

Teacher dies in fall from Palmer House stairwell – Chicago Breaking News.

Megan Duskey was looking forward to a Halloween night out in Chicago with some of her best friends.

The Chicago schoolteacher and a group of girlfriends she had known most of her life had scored tickets to a sold-out Haunted Hotel Ball at the Palmer House Hilton, and Duskey was going as glamorous superhero Silk Spectre from the movie “Watchmen.”

Duskey, 23, and her friends were there half an hour Saturday night when she playfully attempted to slide down a banister rail and fell four stories to her death, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

“We had just gotten there,” said Ellie Pessetto, a friend of Duskey’s from childhood who had stepped away from the stairwell moments before Duskey fell. When Pessetto returned to the stairs, she saw two of her friends crumpled to the floor, in hysterics.

“I couldn’t even understand what they were saying,” Pessetto said. “Then someone said (Megan) fell.”

A cousin of Duskey’s had raced down the stairs and was holding Duskey’s body when firefighters arrived, Pessetto said. Later, they noticed a mark on the cousin’s arm where firefighters had had to pull her away from Duskey.

“(The cousin) just said, ‘She’s gone.’ She knew she was gone,” Pessetto said.

The medical examiner said Duskey died instantly of head trauma. Alcohol was not a factor in the accident, police said.

The fall took place at 10:30 p.m., bringing an end to the ball just hours after it had begun. The party, which had been set to run until 2 a.m. with more than 2,000 guests, included reserved tables that cost more than $1,000 apiece. Duskey and her group, which included a cousin, a college roommate and other close friends, got tickets from a friend whose company had paid for a table, Pessetto said.

A 24-year-old Coleman man accused of stealing money from a police-owned doughnut shop in mid-Michigan has been sentenced to spend the next five weekends in jail.

WNEM-TV says Brent Kenyon was sentenced Wednesday to 10 days in jail and will serve two days at a time. Kenyon pleaded guilty in September to a misdemeanor charge of larceny of less than $1,000.

Police said Kenyon was a nightshift employee at the Cops and Doughnuts Bakery in Clare, about 130 miles northwest of Detroit, when the theft happened. They say surveillance cameras caught him breaking into the office area overnight and stealing cash.

Kenyon also was ordered pay back nearly $800 in restitution to the shop.

via Man sentenced in cop-owned doughnut shop theft | freep.com | Detroit Free Press.

PORTLAND, Ore. — A 3-month-old child was taken to a hospital in critical condition after his mother attempted to circumcise him at home, police said.

Portland police Sgt. Pete Simpson said officers arrived at a home at Northeast 127th Avenue and Burnside Street at about 2 a.m. Sunday to assist medics after a call of an injured child.

Police said they learned the mother had attempted to perform a medical procedure on the infant.

The child was taken to a hospital, Simpson said, and is expected to survive.

Detectives from the police bureau’s child abuse team and state officials are investigating.

No arrests have been made at this point, Simpson said.

via Baby Injured During At-Home Circumcision – Portland News Story – KPTV Portland.

Woman smashes into salon, then stays to get her hair cut – WMBFNews.com | Myrtle Beach/Florence, SC | News, Weather, Sports.

(NBC) – A Grand Rapids, MI, hair salon had a hair-raising Saturday afternoon.

According to police, 82-year-old Marion Zock stepped on the accelerator pedal instead of the brake as she was attempting to park outside of the shop.

“It didn’t take any length of time at all, and all I kept thinking was, ‘Where’s the brake?’ I thought the store would stop me but it didn’t,” Zock said.

Two people were injured, an employee who returned to work after being treated, and a young girl who suffered a bruised arm.

Zock, who said she hasn’t had a ticket in 60 years, is a regular customer at the salon and stayed to go through with her appointment.

“I sat there with my face in my hands because I was so embarrassed,” Zock said.

Another vehicle crashed through the same storefront about eight years ago.

“When you’re behind the wheel of a car, you pay attention and you’re focused on your driving task,” Kent County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Kevin Kelley said.

“Quite often in cases like this, it is the result of inattentiveness,” said Kelley. 

Zock had cataract surgery not too long ago, but said her vision is fine and not at issue.  She will likely receive a ticket for reckless driving, a four-point citation.

Zock’s family still has confidence in her driving skills and isn’t encouraging her to give up her license, she said.

Classic Hair Design remained open as the car was removed.

Illinois: 29-year-old Carly Houston has been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, theft of labor or services, and criminal trespass to land after she became aggressive and abusive toward a taxi driver who asked her for specific directions.

The taxi driver pulled over at a petrol station with his passenger flipping the bird with both hands, screaming, and threatening him. Alarmed bystanders called police who arrested Houston when she wouldn´t pay for her ride.

Not content with her earlier efforts, Houston opted to make her permitted phone call from jail to call 911, telling the operator that she was “trapped inside the detention facility”. Unimpressed police added a charge of making a false 911 report.

via Arrested Woman Calls 911 to Report She´s Trapped in a Dentention Facility.

Time Warner Cable in North Carolina accidentally beamed previews of adult shows from the Playboy Channel onto kids programming, according to The Charlotte Observer.

Due to an equipment malfunction between 6:14 and 8:15 a.m. Tuesday, some children´s channels had previews of the Playboy Channel in the right corner of their television sets.

The cable operator only learned of the problem when parents called to report the switch, but it wasn´t known if they waited the full two hours before calling.

via Playboy Channel Accidentally Shown on Kids TV.

California: A teacher who was laid off by the school district has drawn the ire of parents after quipping to students that she would need to sell her eggs and become a stripper in order to live.  The comment came after students inquired about what would happen to her.  Forty teachers at the school have been given lay-off notices in the past week.

Officials have indicated that the matter has been ´resolved´ but have not elaborated.

Megan Gowans, Executive Director for the Modesto Teachers Association, acknowledged that the English teacher´s choice of words was poor but noted that, “It´s difficult to put your emotions aside when you´re future is uncertain.”

via Laid Off Teacher Tells Students She´ll Have to Sell Her Eggs and Become a Stripper, Parents Not Impressed.

LOS ANGELES – Peter Graves, whose calm and intelligent demeanor was a good fit to the intrigue of “Mission Impossible” as well as the satire of the “Airplane” films, has died.

Graves passed away Sunday just a few days before his 84th birthday outside his home in Los Angeles, publicist Sandy Brokaw said. Graves was returning from brunch with his wife of nearly 60 years and his family when he had what Graves’ doctor believed was a heart attack, Brokaw said.

Graves first gained attention of many baby boomers with the 1950s TV series “Fury,” but remained best known for the role of Jim Phelps, leader of a gang of special agents who battled evil conspirators in TV’s “Mission: Impossible.”

He also masterfully lampooned his straight-arrow image when he portrayed bumbling airline pilot Clarence Oveur in the 1980 disaster movie spoof “Airplane!”

via ‘Mission: Impossible’ star Peter Graves dies in LA – Yahoo! News.

Republican State Senator Roy Ashburn of California was arrested after failing a roadside sobriety test by California State Patrol Officers. He was pulled over after weaving in the lane.

Senator Ashburn was driving a state vehicle and had an unidentified male in the vehicle with him. They had just left a well-known gay bar called Faces. Senator Ashburn has voted against every gay rights measure in the Senate since taking office.

The self-proclaimed heterosexual senator has issued an apology to his constituents, wife, family, friends and colleagues. He has been released on $1,400 bond. His male partner was not arrested.

via Republican Anti-Gay Rights Senator Arrested on DUI After Leaving Gay Bar.