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A veteran worker at the Denver Zoo suffered a hand puncture yesterday when a hippopotamus chomped down during routine dental training. The woman keeper was bitten in the outdoor hippo exhibit as she and colleagues were doing desensitizing training on Mahali, a five-year-old male, to make dental work more comfortable for the hippo. Zoo spokeswoman Ana Bowie says, "Mahali was doing this training where we ask him to hold his mouth open and while he holds his mouth open another keeper will tap on the teeth or do something to kind of desensitize the animal...For unknown reasons, Mahali decided to close his mouth while one of our keepers had her left hand in his mouth." Fortunately a smaller tooth -- not a large tusk -- inflicted the injury, because the keeper's hand was in front of Mahali's mouth. Bowie said zoo officials will review the accident to see if there's a way to improve procedures.
While Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are fielding offers for the first photos of their twins, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban have reportedly turned down millions of dollars for the first snapshots of baby Sunday. According to Australia's Sydney Morning Herald, the couple will eventually release an official photo of their daughter for the low, low price of free! A source tells Nic's hometown paper, "They don't think it's appropriate to make deals."
Andy Griggs outlasted all but one Doyle's Room pro during the 2008 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas last week. Andy finished in the top 12-percent of players in the tournament. Not only did Andy lend his poker prowess to the event, he also sang the national anthem and performed his new single "It's All About the Money" during the tournament.
Lee Ann Womack will release her Call Me Crazy this fall -- her first C-D in three years. The "I Hope You Dance" singer took some time off to be with her two daughters, but was also struggling with where her music was going. She tells Nashville's Tennessean, "It gets frustrating sometimes. I think about so many things -- about providing for the family and wanting to make everybody happy. I want to make everybody at the label happy and have success, and I want to make myself happy and play lots of real hardcore country music. Sometimes I start thinking about things too much." Call Me Crazy includes her new single, "Last Call." Lee Ann is also doing a limited number of shows including a handful with pal Alan Jackson.
Lady Antebellum has been hitting the road pretty hard this summer -- they have 25 dates on the books for July alone. In between gigs, they've been working on a concept video for their latest single, "Lookin' for a Good Time.' According to their online journal, the video will be reminiscent of The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Taylor Swift has a new limited-edition C-D in Wal-Mart stores today, but she wants fans to know that this isn't really a new studio C-D. She says, "This is not my new album that I've been working on all year. It's a two-disc set, one C-D and one D-V-D. The C-D has two previously unreleased songs, "Beautiful Eyes" and "I Heart." The C-D also has an alternate version of "Should've Said No" and an acoustic version of "Teardrops on My Guitar" while the D-V-D features all of her music videos, plus her A-C-M performance of "Should've Said No" and exclusive footage of her 18th birthday party. The project was created after Taylor received so many E-mails requesting new music. Her new album is scheduled to be released in the fall.
In a bid to improve air quality and ease traffic on Beijing’s congested roads during the Olympics,
officials will ban cars on alternate days starting July 20th, depending on whether their license plates end in odd or even numbers. To make sure drivers obey the law, more than 10,000 “smart” devices, including cameras and other high-tech gadgets, have been installed on major roads and other Olympic routes. Cars caught by the surveillance network will be fined 100 yuan ($15). With more than 1,000 new cars hitting the street every day, Beijing is becoming one of the world’s most congested cities.
Former Minnesota governor and pro wrestler Jesse Ventura announced last night on Larry King’s CNN show that he will not run for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota this year. Ventura, an independent who served as governor from 1999 to 2003, said, “It was a difficult decision but it came down to almost this – surfing versus the Senate, and I found surfing to be much more honorable than the Senate. The ocean doesn’t lie to you. The waves don’t lie to you. My government does lie to me.” The deadline for entering the Minnesota Senate race is 5 p.m. today. Ventura said it would take “an act of God” to make him change his mind.
Miley Cyrus has been caught up in yet another photo scandal after a hacker accessed her cell
phone’s memory and found a series of sexy snaps. The new pictures show the singer posing
seductively in the shower wearing only a wet T-shirt, as well as a photo of her showing off her
stomach.
Two months after her split from husband Robert “Mutt” Lange, Shania Twain has found strength in the two things that mean the most to her – her 6-year-old son and her music. “She’s spending as much time with Eja as possible and hasn’t put down her guitar since the split,” a source close to the singer tells People magazine. “The songs are pouring out of her.” Twain announced her separation from Lange in May after she found out about his alleged affair with one of her best friends.
Wynonna Judd will include a cover of Merle Haggard’s “Are the Good Times Really Over (I Wish a Buck Was Still Silver)” on her upcoming album, scheduled to be released this fall. Haggard’s version reached No. 2 in 1982.
Jessica Simpson will release her debut country album, “Do You Know?” on September 9th. Simpson co-wrote all but three of the tracks on the disc, including her current single, “Come On Over.” Dolly Parton wrote the title track and lends her vocals to the song. Simpson will be giving country fans a preview of her new music as she hits the road this summer.
Gretchen Wilson’s version of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” has been voted the best rendition in a contest sponsored by ESPN. Coming in at No. 3 was a version by the Punch Brothers, a band that includes Nickel Creek’s Chris Thile.
Police in Fort Pierce, Florida, arrested an 18-year-old woman after she allegedly hit her boyfriend with a toilet seat. The woman told police that she found her boyfriend smoking cocaine in their bathroom and turned on the shower to try and wash away the drugs. An argument broke out when he refused to give up the drugs. The boyfriend was charged with cocaine possession while the woman faces a battery charge.
A 77-year-old grandmother is recovering after she pinned down a rabid fox that bit her and held it until help arrived. Avis Blakeslee was attacked as she tended to her petunias outside her home in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. She pushed the animal to the ground after it bit her and held its jaws shut with one arm as she flagged down a passing driver with the other. Blakeslee’s son shot the fox. Blakeslee underwent surgery to clean out her wounds. Tests confirmed the fox was rabid.
Georgia Wildlife officials are trying to figure out how a pile of dead sharks wound up on a rural
Spalding County road. Drivers spotted the six sharks Sunday afternoon on the side of the road.
Wildlife officials said it appears the sharks had died recently. Authorities said hunting sharks is a
crime in Georgia, and could bring the hunter as much as $100,000 in fines. Each of the sharks had all of their teeth removed.
It's no wonder Batman doesn't exist in real life -- it would cost too much to don the cape. "Batman Unauthorized" author Darren Hudson Hick tells the "New York Post" that living the life of "Batman" would run a person more than 300-million-dollars. That includes the price of a Bat Suit, Bat Cave, Batmobile, Batarangs, and Bat Computer; karate, judo, and boxing lessons; and a DNA-analyzing machine. Hudson says to afford to be "Batman," a person would likely, quote, "need to be on the 'Forbes' list of richest people in the world." The next film in the "Batman" franchise, "The Dark Knight," arrives in theaters nationwide this Friday. It stars Christian Bale as "Batman" and late actor Heath Ledger as "The Joker."
Dodgeball isn't the only classic children's game to feel the wrath of safety-conscious adults. According to the "Daily Mail," some school officials in the UK have banned the three-legged race and the sack race from an upcoming sports day. One higher-up said they've decided to instead have kids "hopping and running" because, quote, "there was less chance of them falling over." Critics say the move is "over the top," noting that kids will "fall over doing any event." Dodgeball has been banned from schools across the U.S. because critics believe it promotes bullying.
Police are having a hard time figuring out why a Louisiana man broke into a house and began acting strange. New Orleans radio station WWL reports 25-year-old Jason Crowe entered the residence in the early-morning hours on Saturday. He first began ripping things down. Then, cops say he cornered a woman and her child in a bedroom and started growling at them. Police note that Crowe admitted to drinking prior to the incident. But one cop noted, quote, "His behavior was a little more bizarre than alcohol could account for." Crowe reportedly told police that he thought someone was "after him." He now faces charges of unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling, criminal damage to property and disturbing the peace.
A New York man is accused of robbing an apartment and then returning to the crime scene a short time later to ask for his wallet back that he accidentally left behind. According to the "New York Post," Victor Marin allegedly broke into Yaakov Kanelsky's Brooklyn apartment last Thursday night and took 200 dollars from a bedroom dresser. Kanelsky he had just gotten back home when he heard someone knocking on an apartment window and it was Marin. Marin told Kalensky he had used the bathroom there earlier in the day and left his wallet behind. Kalensky realized he had been robbed and called the cops while Marin kept pleading for his wallet as well as slipping the stolen money under the front door. It didn't get him off the hook as police arrived to take him into custody. Marin is charged with a slew of counts, including burglary and possession of stolen property.
A very bizarre case being reported out of California, where a woman lost her life after allegedly going after police officers with a crochet hook. Salinas Police officers were called to a home over the weekend and say they found 45-year-old Maria Dela Torre sitting in a minivan in the driveway repeatedly stabbing herself in the neck with the tool. Police say she got out of the van and lunged at them with the long, sharp object. Police felt threatened as they thought it was either a knife or ice pick. She was tasered by one officer and shot twice by the second. The 45-year-old died from the incident.
A Florida father-to-be is trading the naming rights of his soon-to-be-born son for gasoline. It started when a radio station offered a 100 dollar gas card to the person who offered the most interesting thing in return and that turned out to be David Partin of Orlando. Radio hosts Richard Dixon and J. Willoughby accepted Partin's trade and the baby will be named "Dixon and Willoughby Partin." The baby's mother is fine with the idea as well. She says it will give them a good story to tell as how they named their child.
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