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Leading Off (10/19/2012)

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Woman Kidnapped at NorthPark, Found in Nacogdoches. It seems that Tommy Simmons and his alleged accomplice, Michelle Tortura, took the victim’s van and forced her to ride along in the back, all the way to Nacogdoches. Simmons had just hours before been released from prison.

The CDC Recommended Spraying Earlier. Hey, remember a couple of months ago how we were all, “Oh no! Death spray all over everything!” and then the CDC was all, “Chill, man, if you’ve had head lice you’ve had a bigger dose of this stuff dumped all over your noggin anyway?” Well, now the CDC is saying that it told Dallas County to conduct aerial spraying earlier than it actually did.

Allen Pays $700,000 for Median Beautification. Some say that’s an awful lot of money for something people whiz right past. Others say it’s pretty. In this story it seems that mostly the people who think it’s pretty work for the city. Everyone else is like, “Holy crap that’s a lot of money for a median.”

Texas Billionaires Love Them Some Romney. Three of the candidate’s top five donors live in Texas – including Harold Simmons of Dallas, who is Romney’s second largest donor behind casino mogul Sheldon Anderson, and Robert Rowling of TRT Holdings, also of Dallas.

Saginaw Middle School Science Experiment Goes Awry. Nobody was hurt, but the class was trying to create a small explosion by dropping chlorine tablets in alcohol. Once time in junior high we stole the results of an experiment meant to make a material glow in the dark, and wrote, “NKTOB 4 EVER” on a bank of lockers. Wait. Can we pretend we wrote “MEGADETH 4 EVER?”

 

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