Grandma's House

A cat stuck in a wall at a house under construction initiated his rescue when he caught the attention of a prospective buyer by meowing and waving his paw out a small hole.

Lisa - Because of You - a couple of sour notes here and there. It was good, but nothing really spectacular here. Ho hum.

Kellie - Suds In The Bucket - typical for Kellie. No real challenge to her voice or her style. I didn't like it.

Ace - Drops of Jupiter - Half of the time he sounds like he's singing through his nose. The rest of the time he sounds like he's running out of air before the end of the line. He ruined this song.

(Note to Paula: Don't worry about Ace's scar. Leave it for the pillow talk.)

Taylor (nice leather jacket, dude)- Trouble - Best song so far tonight. He really makes you feel the song. Very nice.

Mandisa - Wanna Praise You - It was hard to get into the song. I couldn't really get the beat at first. I didn't like Paula's comment about "the church of Mandisa", though. Pretty good, but not as good as usual.

Chris - What If - Oh, Chris. What a letdown. No real range to that song at all. What was it, five or six notes? And it just sounded like a lot of screaming to me. Not up to his usual abilities at all.

Katherine - The Voice Within - She should have left it within. Yikes! How many flat notes can one person hit in a song and still be considered a singer?

Bucky - Real Good Man - Bucky sounded good tonight. No please, don't throw things. I don't like country music that much any more, but considering the competition tonight, this was pretty good.

Paris - Work It Out - Not bad. She kinda reminded me of Chaka Khan from the old days. Not her best work by far, but good for tonight's competition.

Elliott - (why can't I hear his name without hearing E.T. say it?) - I Don't Want To Be - Cannot compare to Bo Bice's version. I don't know why he even tried. Time to phone home, Elliott. Ask for a ride.

NEW DELHI - Village elders ordered a Muslim man in eastern India to leave his wife after he accidentally divorced her in his sleep, a news report said Tuesday.

Talent: Voted in favor of our going into Iraq. Sen. Talent stands behind that vote. He feels removing Saddam from office was the right thing to do, and worth the price we've had to pay. He feels we should withdraw from Iraq when the Iraqi people can defend themselves.

McCaskill: Feels that we're not any safer now than we were before the war began. She stated she would not have voted to go to war, but she won't criticize those who did. She felt they did the best they could do with the information they had to work with. She does not feel withdrawal should be immediate, but is hopeful that we can start bringing the troops home by election day.

"Dad forgot baby was in the car, parked the car, got on the Metro," said Lucille Baur, a spokeswoman for the Montgomery County, Md., Police Department.

"I don't know exactly when he got the memory flash, but he was in D.C. when it was the horrible defining moment, 'Oh my goodness, I think I've left my child back in my car,'" Baur said.

When Lori Pachelli heard someone knocking at the door of her home in a gated community in this southwest Florida community earlier this week, she looked out to see an unwelcome visitor on her front stoop: an 8-foot alligator.

The bull gator, which had wandered up from the pond behind the house, had a bloody lip from banging its head against the door.

On the island of Okinawa, he carried 75 wounded soldiers through a fire-swept area to the edge of a 400-foot cliff and lowered them to safety, according to his citation.

Later, the medic braved enemy shelling to treat an artillery officer. He also crawled to a wounded soldier who had fallen 25 feet from the enemy's position, rendered aid and carried the man 100 yards to safety while exposed to shooting.

During a night attack, he was seriously wounded in the legs by a grenade, his citation said. Five hours later, others began carrying him to safety, but he saw a more critically injured man and crawled off his stretcher, directing the medics to aid the other wounded man.

While awaiting their return, he was struck again. He bound a rifle stock to his shattered arm as a splint and crawled 300 yards to an aid station, the citation said.

My husband, being unhappy with my mood swings, bought me a mood ring the other day so he would be able to monitor my moods.

We've discovered that when I'm in a good mood, it turns green. When I'm in a bad mood, it leaves a big red mark on his forehead.

Maybe next time he'll buy me a diamond.

A 2004 study found prescription and over-the-counter drug abuse on par with illicit drug use in the U.S.

The study found 1 in 5 teens has abused pain medicine, 1 in 10 has abused stimulants and 1 in 11 has abused cough medicine, 10News reported.

Police had received reports of a bull running along a freeway, but the animal eventually made its way into Fire Station 23. The crew helped round up the big critter, which had ambled through the open fire station garage door.

A man who neighbors say was devoted to his meticulously kept lawn was charged with murder in the shooting of a 15-year-old boy who apparently walked across his yard.

Charles Martin called 911 on Sunday afternoon, saying calmly: "I just killed a kid."

By a 58% to 42% margin they voted to make the ownership of a handgun illegal in San Francisco, and to require that every resident of San Francisco who owns a handgun to turn it in to the government by April 1st. April 1st, by the way, is more commonly known as "April Fool's Day." Even voters in San Francisco should be bright enough to figure out that law-abiding citizens will be the ones to turn over their guns, while the lawless, the criminal element, will not. The number of guns in the hands of law abiding citizens will go down. The number of guns in the hands of criminals will not.

Mike Herchenbach was sure he would get a fine. He’d pay a couple hundred dollars, like his roommates, and go on with his life, even though he wasn’t at the party that got out of hand at his rental house. After all, his name was on the lease.

But what he didn’t expect, and hardly believed, was what Lancaster County Court Judge Gale Pokorny had in mind as his punishment for maintaining a disorderly house last Oct. 2.

Herchenbach remembered his attorney from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reaching for a work-release form, which would get him out of jail so he could work while serving his sentence.

He didn’t need it. It’s only a weekend, he remembered saying.

But Pokorny didn’t say three days in jail. He said 30.

A lightning strike last Sunday smoldered for three days before becoming a two-alarm fire in the attic of the Southwest Campus Housing complex under construction at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

The lightning strike penetrated the building, generating heat in the wooden roof trusses, which began to smolder until conditions allowed more air to reach the attic, feeding the fire and creating flames. Damage estimates to the 659-bed housing complex were not available.

Chris Graber didn't know what his family's future would be Sunday night when he saw a "dark spot" come barreling over a hill and take dead aim for his modest home in eastern Webster County.

"I never thought we'd be rebuilding the next day. I thought we'd be getting ready for a funeral," he said late Tuesday afternoon.

The Grabers escaped unharmed from the tornado that plowed through Webster County.
Not so their home. It was torn apart by the twister's fury.

But in less than 15 hours, the Grabers were back in a new home rebuilt on the same spot — a peaceful valley south of Missouri 38 about 10 miles east of Marshfield — by more than 100 men and boys from neighboring Amish homesteads near the Grabers.

"By 2 p.m., we were mopping the floors," he said.

"If you can't stand behind our troops, please feel free to stand in front of them."

A Wood County sheriff's deputy who is a firearms instructor accidentally shot himself in the leg during a live firearms exercise at a police firing range.

The Wood County Sheriff's Department is investigating the incident, which occurred Tuesday night at the firing range near the Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport.

Deputy Jeff Hamric was returning his gun to its holster after firing it when the weapon discharged, Sheriff Ken Merritt said.

The Rachel Corrie Memorial Committee of Victoria Invites you to a pancake breakfast at Denny’s Restaurant Sunday March 12 , 2006 10 am.

A fight over a bag of potato chips led to a stabbing at a military academy in Lexington, officials said.

A 25-year-old woman climbed past barriers and into an elephant's zoo exhibit, then crawled out with minor injuries after the 6,000-pound animal smacked her with its trunk.

After saying she wanted to play with the elephant, the woman climbed over a 3-feet-high wood-and-wire fence, scaled an 8-foot-tall artificial rock structure and bypassed an electric wire before jumping into the exhibit Thursday afternoon, Fleshman said. A moat extends around most of the exhibit.

A Colombian man has been sentenced to four years' house arrest for slapping a woman's bottom as he rode by her on his bicycle, sparking debate on whether the punishment fit the crime.

A Scottish distillery said Monday it was reviving a centuries-old recipe for whisky so strong that one 17th-century writer feared more than two spoonfuls could be lethal.

The Bruichladdich distillery on the Isle of Islay, off Scotland's west coast, is producing the quadruple-distilled 184-proof — or 92 percent alcohol — spirit "purely for fun," managing director Mark Reynier said.

While his statistics during a long career as a player and player/manager were not the greatest, he won two Negro League batting titles, had a successful career as a player/manager with the Kansas City Monarchs and become the first black coach in the major leagues.

Most importantly, everyone thought, were the contributions he's made traveling the country keeping the legacy of black baseball alive.

He has been the face, voice and inspiration behind Kansas City's Negro Leagues Museum.