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Criminal charges against five Indiana Pacers players and Detroit fans they brawled with at last month’s game against the Detroit Pistons. Sports anchor Jim Bell has the latest live.
--- Jim, it happened on November 19th. An on-court shoving match turned into a brawl in the stands. It started when Indianas’ Ron Artest was hit by a beer cup thrown by a fan and charged into the seats to exact a measure of revenge. Some teammates followed. After viewing videotapes and interviewing witnesses, police requested charges be filed against five Pacers, and the local prosecutor is in agreement. Artest, Stephen Jackson, David Harrison and Anthony Johnson have all been charged with one count of assault and battery. That could result in up to three months in jail. Jermaine O’Neal’s facing two counts of assault and battery, Tim.
Sports anchor Jim Bell with us live.
Three people dead, one in critical condition after a commuter van carrying workers to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs plunged off a road on a mountainside in Los Angeles County this morning. Fire Department inspector John Mancha.
--- The pool van had 10 patients. Three unfortunately were DOA. One of the victims was able to get himself out of the van, climb up to the, up the hill to the top of the ridge and get help from local authorities.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says new cars and trucks need to have both shoulder and lap belts in the rear center seat of the vehicle starting in 2007.
Doctors say a new drug shows better results in preventing the return of breast cancer than tamoxifen, a more traditional drug. They say the drug, Arimidex, should be the first choice of treatment for most women who have had the disease. Research shows it could prevent 70-80% of the most common type of tumors that occur in women after menopause.
Assault charges filed against a man for allegedly going after a Rochester, New Hampshire store clerk with a steaming hamburger. Police say Tony Carr got angry last week when the clerk at a convenience store said he couldn’t pay for the burger as it was heating in the microwave. Clerk telling Carr to bring the burger to the counter to pay for it. That’s when Carr arrived at the counter and allegedly shoved the piping hot burger into the clerk’s face.
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Cat Barnard and her husband are living in a tent, in the front yard of their Deltona, Florida home.
--- We moved out of the house for the front driveway into a small domed tent that accommodates a double, like, sized air mattress, and sleep bags, and have a little hasset(?) out here and a charcoal grill.
Couple moved out of the house and have gone on strike in an effort to get their 17-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter to lift a finger and do some housework. Cat says there are cracks showing in the children’s resolve. Her daughter has figured out how to do the laundry.
In about an hour, officials with Martha Stewart’s company, NBC, and reality show producer Mark Burnett will be holding a news conference in New York. Word is Stewart is to come out with a new television show when she’s released from a federal prison in West Virginia. Burnett has gained fame as the creator of the series “Survivor.” Stewart serving five months. She’s expected to be released in March.