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Woman held for punching paramedic, spitting at nurse
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Chicago, Illinois - A Southeast Side woman who sought medical attention after ingesting illegal drugs was arrested Friday after she punched a paramedic who tried to help her and spat on a nurse at the hospital where she was taken, Chicago police said this morning. As Jones was being interviewed by a 33-year-old male paramedic, she punched him in the face for no apparent reason, police alleged. They said she was then restrained and taken to South Shore Hospital, where she continued her combative behavior, and even spat in the face of a 38-year-old male nurse. More…
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CASEYVILLE, Missouri - Authorities in St. Clair County have filed child endangerment charges against a Columbia, Mo., couple who allegedly fell asleep in a Caseyville motel room after leaving an infant and toddler in a running van outside. Police later got a call about two unattended children in a van. The parents were found in their motel room. Officers say Atkins appeared confused and said he thought the children were in the room with them. 
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Swedish police say they’ve cleared a man who was arrested for allegedly murdering his wife after deciding the culprit was most likely a moose. Police spokesman Ulf Karlsson says “the improbable has become probable” in the puzzling death last year of 63-year old Agneta Westlund. She was found dead after an evening stroll in the forest. According to news reports, the victim’s husband, Ingemar Westlund, was jailed for 10 days. The case against him was dropped in January. 
CORONA, California - For more than 20 years, Mike Nolan was known to radio listeners as the “eye in the sky.” He flew over Southern California freeways in his single-engine plane, reporting on the nation’s worst traffic. These days, he broadcasts about traffic snarls and lurking gridlock without leaving the ground - without even leaving his home in this Los Angeles suburb. Sitting in a chair behind computer monitors and a television, Nolan gathers traffic data and broadcasts live on two radio stations a day. “What I’m best suited to do is look out the airplane window and tell people what I see,” Nolan, 60, said. “When I was grounded, that world changed considerably so I had to reinvent myself.” 
ABC has booked Rihanna-beater Chris Brown for an interview and a performance on “Good Morning America” — right after the network canceled guy-kisser Adam Lambert. Brown will do a taped tell-all with Robin Roberts, followed by a performance of songs from his new album. But TV insiders say the appearance, slated to air the week after next, has outraged feminists and gay activists who wonder why a convicted girlfriend abuser is more palatable to the network than an openly gay man who broke no laws with his raunchy performance on the “American Music Awards.” 
Florida - Tiger Woods, bolting his Florida mansion after a reported Friday-night fight with his wife, was found dazed and bleeding Friday after plowing his SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree. The world’s No. 1 golfer was pulling out of his driveway at 2:25 a.m. when he double-bogeyed the getaway in his 2009 Cadillac Escalade, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Wife Elin Nordegren heard the crash from inside the couple’s $2.4 million home and went to her spouse’s aid, police said. The crash came on the heels of reports in the National Enquirer and Star magazines that Woods had an affair with a New York nightclub hostess - who denied it Friday night to the Daily News. 
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UK - You can now buy MICHAEL JACKSON perfume made using DNA samples from the late singer’s hair. A company called My DNA Fragrance claim to engineer scents from human genetic codes. They recently teamed up with a fella named John Reznikoff, who has the world’s largest collection of historical hair - including some of Jacko’s. According to their website: “DNA can be extracted from hair shafts with or without the follicle in tact. “My DNA Fragrance has analysed Reznikoff’s private collection of celebrity hair and is now engineering exclusive fragrances of each celebrity.” 
SPANISH FORK, Utah - The Utah cave where a 26-year-old medical student died earlier in the week will be closed permanently and his body will not be removed. State and county officials made the announcement Friday afternoon, saying it was simply too dangerous to try to recover John Jones’ body. Jones died late Wednesday about 28 hours after getting wedged into a tight, unmapped passage of Nutty Putty Cave. 
HAMPSHIRE - A dad has escaped death twice in a week after falling trees crushed first his car and then the roof of his home. Within the space of a few days, two huge branches plummeted 40ft to wreck Wayne Underwood’s Skoda Octavia estate and then a 60ft birch tree caved in the roof of his third floor flat. Today the 51-year-old dad-of-one said the cruel irony of his name almost made the ordeal funny - if it wasn’t for the fact that he could have been badly hurt. 
BOSTON, Massachusetts - A man who served 30 years in a state prison before a judge threw out his conviction has tentatively settled his federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Boston. A lawyer for Laurence Adams and the city announced the tentatively settlement Wednesday but declined to give details. William Sinnott, the city’s corporation counsel, said the deal could be finalized next week. Adams was sentenced to die in the electric chair in 1974 after he was found guilty of fatally bludgeoning an MBTA porter, James Corry. 
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Authorities in Ohio say a turkey fryer caused a house to catch fire as the homeowner was preparing a Thanksgiving meal. Columbus firefighters say no one was injured in the fire Thursday. They contained it to the back of the two-story house. The turkey fryer was set up outside near the back door. Capt. Mike Zuber said a propane tank had a worn hose that caused a gas leak, sparking the blaze.