| Baby-faced burglar locked up
A BABY-FACED burglar who raided an elderly neighbours home is behind bars after a judge told him: "I cant send you back next door to this lady." Teenager Thomas Oliver was locked up for 20 months after he told the judge his time on remand awaiting sentence had done him good. Oliver and his pals sneaked into the 75-year-old womans home on Teesside after a session of taking drugs and drinking vodka. .
Men bond at conference
Men from all ages, social statuses, races and nationalities came together at Englewood Baptist Church, 2239 N. Highland Ave., to learn how to be godly men and righteous leaders. Ted Bondurant, executive director of the Memphis-based Ministry to Men Foundation Inc., the group that organizes the two-day event, said he was pleased by the turnout of men to the biannual interdenominational conference and was grateful to Englewood Baptist Church for allowing the group to hold the conference there. "This church has been gracious to let us use their facilities (for the last four conferences)," said Bondurant, 66, of Memphis. "There were over 90 churches represented at the conference. We have these conferences because men need to be encouraged. The sessions and seminars we had were to encourage them in their relationship with God, with their family, in their communities and in their career." Bondurant said the general session speakers and seminar leaders came from across the nation: Tennessee, Texas, Michigan, Florida, South Carolina and Georgia.
Teaching children through song and dance
About 2,000 prekindergarten and kindergarten students sang and danced at two concerts by The Learning Station in Shreveport on Wednesday.
Learning Station presenter Don Monopoli has been teaching children about letters, colors, numbers, body parts and safety since 1985. Monopoli mixes songs and physical comedy with audience participation routines. His wife, Laurie Monopoli, developed the songs based on her experience as a teacher. The program mixes reworked childhood classics with original compositions.
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Smith leaves legal tangle and baby who may, may not be an heiress
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Lawyers for two men contesting the paternity of Anna Nicole Smith's five-month-old daughter Dannielynn will be at an emergency hearing planned for today in Los Angeles.
Smith died yesterday after collapsing at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.
Experts say the custody decision could determine the child's inheritance.
But it's just one of the major legal quandries that the former Playboy Playmate and reality show star left behind.
Her battle over her late husband J. Howard Marshall II's oil fortune with the family of his son grinds on in Texas.
And there is a pending class action suit seeking unspecified damages against Smith and TrimSpa, alleging the company and spokesomwn Smith misled consumers with its marketing of a weight-loss pill.
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