Word: ortiz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...state where a lot of public attention is being paid to texting while driving is New York. After several fatal accidents there involving text messaging, State Assemblyman Felix Ortiz says constituents began calling his office to demand action. He is now sponsoring a text message ban in the state assembly; the state senate has already passed a similar bill...
...Ortiz admits he tried texting while driving once - just to see what it was like. As he expected, his car swerved as he attempted to type and drive. "Let me tell you, I will not do it again," he says...
...years, Telma Ortiz lived and worked in the Philippines, and the tabloids had to content themselves with only occasional glimpses of what Hola magazine dubbed "one of the most eligible women in Spain." But a boyfriend and a pregnancy brought her home in January, and with that return came such illuminating features as "Telma on a Motorcycle," and "Telma Knows How to Keep Her Skin from Getting Shiny...
...Apparently, it was all too much, especially once she gave birth to a daughter at the end of March. On April 1, Ortiz filed suit in a Toledo court, requesting a restraining order against 57 magazines, websites, and television shows. "The permanent siege that Telma Ortiz and her partner suffer 24 hours a day is unbearable," said her lawyer Fernando Garrido earlier this week. "We can't go along with the fact that Telma has to live her postpartum in hiding, in a hell like she is living now, just to avoid being photographed...
...Ortiz will be forced to pay the defense's legal expenses, and she's likely to suffer in other ways as well. "This will have a boomerang effect," adds Peñafiel. "She's going to get exactly what she didn't want, which is to become more famous." Perhaps anticipating that effect, Ortiz and her partner have already put in a request with the Red Cross to return them to jobs in Asia, far from the Spanish paparazzi. Or at least that is what the pink press is reporting...