Houston Chronicle
By Richard Stewart
Otherwise, everything went just as planned, proving Winter’s boast that “just because you’re an amputee it doesn’t mean you can’t do things.
“I didn’t do this for the thrill of it,” he added. “I did it to inspire other people who have lost limbs.”
The Indianapolis Star
First lady Cheri Daniels apparently is one heck of a spitter.
And she’s got the blue ribbon to prove it.
The first lady took top honors in a watermelon-seed-spitting contest at this year’s Indiana State Fair. In fact, she won two blue ribbons this year, including one for milking a cow.
“After coming in second in the cow-milking contest last year, I vowed to take home first this year,” said Daniels, obviously a scrappy competitor. “I practiced several times throughout the fair and the hard work paid off.”
Her prowess at spitting watermelon seeds she credits to her upbringing.
The Houston Chronicle
By JOHN MacCORMACK
San Antonio Express-News
The promoter may be charged after rowdy event
Describing the four-day event that ended Sunday as a bloated bacchanal of disorder, drunkenness and debauchery, Henderson County officials say they might charge the promoter under a state crowd control law.
“There was a lot of nudity, rowdiness, intoxication, people running wild on their four-wheelers and underage drinking,” said Lt. Pat McWilliams of the county Sheriff’s Department. “There was also fights and assaults, and some serious injuries.”
The Commercial Appeal
By Ansley Haman
Scripps Howard News Service
Excitement lurks along an 11-mile stretch of U.S. 129 that ties Tennessee to North Carolina
DEALS GAP, N.C — Kevin Tillinghast lifted the remains of his rearview mirror from beneath the scratched, red sport bike.
The broken metal became the Indiana man’s offering to the “Dragon,” a spiny section of Southern road named for its resemblance to the back of the mythical monster.
By Christina Siderius
Seattle Times
The three men were among 57 others participating in Seattle’s World Naked Bike Ride, a clothes-optional annual event that debuted in the city in 2004.
Daniel Johnson, the Seattle organizer for the event that he calls a “rolling party,” said the three riders weren’t doing anything particular to get arrested, except for being naked.
KVAL.com
By Meghan Kalkstein
With focused precision Ross Hayden has been fixing teeth for 13 years. A passion that started as a family business. “I grew up in that environment with my father as a dentist a traveling missionary dentist,” says Hayden.
Hayden is not only an expert dentist but he’s also an experienced climber. He’s summitted 7 of the worlds highest peaks, and on his last trip he was able to bring his practice to new heights.
East Valley Tribune
Associated Press
COTTONWOOD - A 2-year-old boy went for a wild ride when the parked pickup he was in rolled out of a driveway, across a road and down several embankments, taking out a gas line, trees, and eventually the porch of a home and a chain link fence.
The toddler wasn’t hurt, said officials with the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office.
Orlando Sentinel
by Willoughby Mariano
A Magic Kingdom patron alerted park management about 4:45 p.m. Saturday after spotting the girl in a stroller parked in the sun, according to a report released Monday by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.
The Enquirer
Associated Press
Thomas Kowalczk, an amateur shipwreck prospector, used sonar on his boat to discover the General Anthony Wayne in 50 feet of water, about eight miles north of this northeast Ohio city, the Great Lakes Historical Society announced Wednesday.
The side-wheel steamship, named in honor of Revolutionary War hero Gen. “Mad” Anthony Wayne, sank in April 1850 while en route from the Toledo area to Buffalo, N.Y., killing 38 of 93 passengers and crew on board. Cargo included wine and cattle.
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Discovery News
AFP
Their spaceship will comprise a series of interlocked modules in a research institute in Moscow, and once the doors are closed tight, the volunteers will be cut off from all contact with the outside world except by a delayed radio link.
They will face simulated emergencies, daily work routines and experiments, as well as boredom and, no doubt, personal friction from confinement in just 19,250 cubic feet, the equivalent of nine truck containers.
jacksonville.com
The Times-Union
By David Hunt
Booty from the sunken ship off Key West is estimated at $1 million.
Jacksonville native is at the helm of a treasure-hunting group that returned to shore Thursday in Key West with an estimated $1 million in 400-year-old Spanish artifacts.
“I’m still pinching myself because people have been hunting their whole lives and never found anything like this,” said Keith Webb, 52, president of Blue Water Ventures Key West.
Webb is a 1973 Englewood High School graduate who has homes in the Keys and in Eagle Harbor in Clay County. His professional background is in finance and development. He said he turned treasure-hunting from a hobby into a 15-employee business several years ago.
