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Never mix a 200-pound python and a pit bull. A California guy did this and the former ate the latter. For safety reasons, officials could not corral the python...
...someone unfamiliar with the Wesley Willis canon, it may seem strange that this 350-plus pound, paranoid schizophrenic who sings such timeless classics as “I Whupped Batman’s Ass,” “Rock and Roll McDonalds” and “Cut That Mullet” easily sold out T.T. the Bear’s on Friday, Sept. 14. Willis is, by any reasonable measure of musical talent, completely talentless. The songs—all of approximately the same length and same musical infrastructure, consist of strung-together expletives and choruses...
Davis, who was also arrested in the incident and was present at the station, echoes his friend’s claims. From his vantage point inside the station—a nearby handrail where he was cuffed—Davis said he saw inside the room where 160-pound Trombly was allegedly attacked by the significantly larger Byrne while at least two other officers were present...
Besides his eagerness to pound the pavement, Murphy has timing on his side. He is running on the slate of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the local activist liberal party, in the same season that both four-term CCA veteran Councillor Kathleen L. Born and one-term CCA Councillor Jim Braude announced that they wouldn’t seek reelection...
Kennecott Utah Copper, the mine's operator since 1903 and owner of some 40,000 developable acres in the western valley, has passed its golden age, when the pit was bottomless and facilities could pump and dump waste with abandon. Times have changed. A pound of copper sells for about half what it did five years ago, and cleaning up the environment absorbs many of the resulting pennies. So K.U.C. was pleased to stumble onto an asset that doesn't appear on the balance sheet of its corporate parent, Anglo-Australian mining behemoth Rio Tinto: its own backyard. There...