Cops say father extorted teacher
22.05.12
Tyrone Price, 38, was served with the secret indictment for two counts of extortion on Friday. The 46-year-old teacher has not yet been charged, but Lorain County sheriff’s Detective Mike Lopez said she will face a misdemeanor count of disseminating matter harmful to juveniles. The Chronicle-Telegram generally does not identify uncharged suspects.
Price’s son was dating the teacher’s daughter and had made comments comparing how the two looked, playing “mind games” with the woman, Lopez said. The teacher allegedly sent the boy, who attended a different school district, photos of herself in a bra and later topless pictures of herself.
Price’s defense attorney, Mike Duff, said the boy was in eighth grade at the time.
Lopez said after Price found the photos on his son’s phone, he contacted the woman’s daughter on Facebook to ask for her mother’s phone number. Price then called the mother and told her he didn’t want her husband or the police to find out about the photos, Lopez said.
Source: Chronicle-Telegram
"Team Christina" makes me look good
22.05.12
My Save the Dates for my second reception went out a couple of weeks ago and I have to tell you for the 45 cents I spent on them, totally worth it!
When you are planning your wedding, it's very easy to get caught up in all of the neat, personalized things you can do.
There are aisle runners with significant dates in your relationship printed on them, dance floor decals with your names and wedding date, colored napkins with your initials -- you can even get a puzzle made featuring your engagement photo. The amount of items that are customizable for your wedding is amazing, and I want every single one.
But I cannot afford everything. So, I got creative. Well, in the case of my Save the Dates, my bridesmaid Trish Hedberg got creative.
When people received them in the mail I wanted them to know what it was right away and to be excited, but I didn't want to spend a fortune getting fancy labels or decorative envelopes.
My Trish came to the rescue and printed me "Soon to be Van Yperen" labels and suggested I get a "Mr. & Mrs." stamp, which she then customized by adding some of my wedding color with a crayon. In addition, she was the one who told me to look at Walmart.com for Save the Date cards.
Source: Morris Daily Herald
The Devils of Newark
22.05.12
In the spring, down in Branch Brook Park, where the water runs in its channel past the cherry trees, hundreds of people still walk among the blossoms. There are more cherry trees in Newark than along the Tidal Basin in Washington. In March and April the trees bloom pink and red and white, and wedding parties and whole families rush to take their pictures here. Everywhere you turn is life and color, and the old couples stroll and young lovers neck beneath the branches and kids run rings around the trees as the petals fall and drift like snow.
Despite this, or because of it, Newark feels like a lost place today. Exhausted. As if something powerful and centrifugal came unweighted here a long time ago, something essential, something more important even than jobs or money or opportunity, and spun away. Sadness has heft, a density. Newark is a vacuum, an absence. Like you can't get enough air.
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At 8 o'clock they open the doors of the Prudential Center and more than a thousand Devils fans file in to watch this last game against the Panthers. Most are wearing souvenir jerseys, and most of those are Martin Brodeur 's 30. A few old-schoolers wear Neal Broten 's 9 or Ken Daneyko 's 3.
Source: ESPN
