Suspect not new to car ramming officials say
Six people sent to hospital; charges filed for aggravated assault


By JIMMY ISAAC

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Four months after Texas highway patrolmen arrested Jessica Medford on charges that she rammed her then-husband's vehicle on Interstate 20, Rusk County deputies say she went after his new girlfriend the same way. As a result, six people are hospitalized � four seriously, with one in intensive care.

Medford, 22, and 18-year-old Brittanie Annett Taylor remained in the Rusk County Jail on Friday on $225,000 bond each, charged with six counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

Rusk investigators Amber Rogers and William Brown say the Longview pair chased Brittny Keith across two counties before ramming Medford's Toyota Avalon into Keith's Cadillac, pushing Keith into a tree off U.S. 259 about 8 miles south of Kilgore.

Keith and five other passengers � Dawson Foster and four juveniles � suffered injuries, but investigators have not said where they are hospitalized or their ages.


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Woman Found Dead In Tanning Bed
Tannng Bed Not On At Time Of Discovery

FORT WORTH, Texas - Police are investigating after an unidentified woman was found dead in a tanning bed inside a Fort Worth apartment complex.

MSNBC link

Hmm. Looks suspiciously like the work of the Lizard Man.

I thought the Lizard Man was innocent?

So we've been told. So we've been told.

The Lizard Man was innocent. The DNA test showed the culprit was a dog. Unfortunately, the story link is now dead.

I don't know . . . DNA isn't supposed to be reliable anymore. Just ask the L.A. Times.

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Freeport prisoner faces assault charge after licking officer

By RICHARD STEWART

Freeport police Sgt. Jay Newton took a licking from a drunken suspect and now he's taking a lot of joking from his fellow officers.

It really was just that - a licking.

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Settlement will reduce carcinogens in potato chips
By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON, Associated Press Writer
Sat Aug 2, 1:23 AM ET

Snack lovers, rejoice: Munching on potato chips just got a little healthier.

Four food manufacturers agreed to reduce levels of a cancer-causing chemical in their potato chips and french fries under a settlement announced Friday by the state attorney general's office.

California sued H.J. Heinz Co., Frito-Lay, Kettle Foods Inc., and Lance Inc. in 2005, alleging they violated a state requirement that companies post warning labels on products with carcinogens.


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A grand jury indicted a nearly half-ton, bedridden woman Thursday in the death of her 2-year-old nephew. Mayra Lizbeth Rosales, 27, was indicted on one count of first-degree murder and on one count of injury to a child in the death of Eliseo Gonzalez Jr. Rosales previously had been charged with capital murder.

The grand jury indicted her after a full autopsy confirmed investigators' suspicions that the child died March 18 because he had been struck. Investigators believe the toddler was struck at least twice, crushing his head.


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Suspected car burglar gets a dirty dumping

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A 22-year-old suspected truck burglar made a dirty mistake after he tried to hide inside a portable toilet on Saturday. Tampa police said the man broke into two pickup trucks at a parking lot and the owner of the second truck fought the suspect and chased him to a nearby construction site.

The suspect tried to hide in the Port-O-Let, but the victim found him and turned it over, covering him in huge amounts of human waste.

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Officials: Burglar wakes men with spice rub, sausage whack

FRESNO, California (AP) -- Authorities say they've arrested a man who broke into the home of two California farmworkers, stole money, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before fleeing.

Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Ian Burrimond says 22-year-old Antonio Vasquez was found hiding in a field wearing only a T-shirt, boxers and socks after the Saturday morning attack.

As Paul Harvey might say, here's the rest of the story.

That dude is such a weiner!

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Authorities say they've arrested a man who broke into the home of two California farmworkers, stole money, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before fleeing.

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WTF? Which, come to think of it, was also their response.

I wonder if the reporter had ever had the opportunity to use the phrase "slathered in spice" in reference to a crime before.

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...rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before fleeing.

Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Ian Burrimond says 22-year-old Antonio Vasquez was found hiding in a field wearing only a T-shirt, boxers and socks after the Saturday morning attack.

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His attire, and the rubbing of the spice rub, is sorta creepy.

It sounds like the opening of a Howard Stern stunt.

"So this guy's hiding in the weeds with an 8 inch sausage after whacking a man in the face with it and rubbing spices in the eyes of another."

Okay, you get the spice rub . . . BUT YOU get the sausage.

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His attire, and the rubbing of the spice rub, is sorta creepy.

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Sorta?

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Originally posted by Gordon LeMaire:

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His attire, and the rubbing of the spice rub, is sorta creepy.

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Sorta?

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It would be more creepy if he had used crab boil.