Friday, June 23, 2006
One Hit News
[A] Spring Lake Park high school band director [Michael William Schleicher is] charged with having sex with a former student spoke for the first time in court on Thursday, saying he was scared and intimidated when authorities showed up en masse to search his Ham Lake home.
"I was scared," Schleicher said. "Having that many officers in my home with weapons was intimidating."
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** Wife sentenced to life in prison for killing husband with shotgun during an erotic dance:
A wife who claimed to have blasted her husband to death while performing an erotic dance with a shotgun has been jailed for life.
Linda West admitted killing her husband Gregory - but she insisted the gun had gone off accidentally as she danced to a Shania Twain song during a sex game nine weeks into their marriage.
West claimed the double-barrel weapon went off when she slammed it on to the floor while taking a bow as she danced to her husband's favourite song 'Man! I Feel Like A Woman'.
Sentencing West, Judge Guy Boney QC, told her: "Your account of a happy domestic evening cannot be true."
** 17-Year Old sentenced to life in prison for stabbing medical student to death:
Michael Lynch - a father of two - was just 16 when he killed medical student Darren Pollen.
He was jailed for life with a minimum term of 15 years.
Lynch admitted stabbing 20-year-old Mr Pollen after a night out in Romford last year.
** Cadbury chocolate bars recalled; May contain salmonella:
The contamination was detected at Cadbury's Marlbrook plant, near Leominster in Herefordshire.
"It was due to a leaking pipe," the spokesman said. "It has now been fixed."
** One of Andy Warhol's famous silver wigs sells for $10,800:
The wig, complete with three strips of toupee tape inside, was worn by Warhol during the early 1980s. Warhol began wearing the hairpieces in the early 1960s, and they eventually turned into fashion accessories more than a cover-up for his baldness.
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