BOZEMAN - A Montana woman whose drunken-driving spree ended with a sit-down Bozeman coffee bar turned into an improv drive-through must pay $127,300 to cover property damage but got a six-year deferred sentence that lets her avoid prison.
Muriel Lynn Day of Cut Bank said she takes "full responsibility" for the July 13 incident, in which she drove her husband's Ford pickup into the Rockford Coffee outlet on Main Street.
The 35-year-old said in a written statement to District Judge Holly Brown, "Yes, I was intoxicated. I have no excuses."
Day's deferred sentence means she will be able to petition to have her record wiped clean if she stays out of trouble for six years.
She was also sentenced to six months in jail with all but 78 days suspended - time she has already served.
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Bond was set at $30,000 Monday in District Court for a Pryor man charged with felony DUI, his seventh drunken-driving offense.
Earl Leo Rock, 51, appeared for arraignment before Judge G. Todd Baugh. Rock pleaded not guilty to the DUI charge, a second felony criminal endangerment and misdemeanor counts of driving with a suspended license and having an open alcohol container in a vehicle.
Baugh set the bond amount after Deputy County Attorney Ingrid Rosenquist said Rock has previous DUI convictions in 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997 and two in 2001. In the most recent case, Rock is alleged to have been driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.306 percent, nearly four times the state legal limit of 0.08 percent.
According to court records, Rock was arrested Dec. 16 when two motorists reported a drunken driver in Lockwood at about 6:30 p.m. A Montana Highway Patrol trooper said the motorists had blocked the suspected drunken-driver from continuing to drive a pickup truck near the Lockwood School. The motorists said the driver of the pickup had nearly run them off the road.
The trooper said Rock was identified as the driver and appeared severely intoxicated. Several open containers of al-cohol were found in the pickup, and Rock's speech was so slurred the trooper at times could not understand him. Rock did tell the trooper he is an insulin-dependent diabetic and had not taken his insulin that day or eaten any food. YEAH, Right!!!
It really does exist! Maybe! The famed chupacabra has apparently been found, and it's a Texan.
Or at least it was. The beast is now dead, but news of its capture near Blanco, Texas, inspired Bigfoot-sized searches. Lookups on "chupacabra" surged a whopping 571%, and related queries on "what does chupacabra mean" also roared. (For the record, its rough translation is "goat sucker.") The find also inspired renewed interest in the equally notorious Montauk Monster.
Jerry Ayer, owner of Blanco Taxidermy School, has possession of the mythical beast's body. According to CNN, the animal was discovered by one of Ayer's students. The student had "placed poison...to catch an unidentified animal that had gotten into a family member's barn." Little did the student know the animal in question was (maybe) the chupacabra.
In the video from CNN (which is pretty gross, so beware), Ayer shows off some of the unusual features of the animal, including abnormally long legs and teeth. It looks a bit like the world's ugliest (and meanest) dog.
Of course, this is hardly the first time someone has claimed to have captured the chupacabra. In years past, brave souls have spotted it in places ranging from Russia to Maine to the Philippines. Often the animal is spotted by folks who conveniently forget to snap a photo.
Not so this time. Ayer says he plans to preserve the animal and then donate it to a local museum so it can be enjoyed by others. As the taxidermist puts it, the beast is "a tremendous conversation piece." Sort of like the Mona Lisa or a really stellar collection of garden gnomes.
Inland audiences will get a taste of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band's upcoming CD in their concert Wednesday at Soboba Casino.
Founding member Jeff Hanna said in a phone interview that the band would include songs from "Speed of Life" in its set. The album will be released Sept. 22 by Sugar Hill Records.
Hanna describes it as recorded live in studio over two five-day periods with a minimum of overdubs.
He said most of his favorite tracks are in the live show.
"There's a song called 'The Resurrection,' really cool tune. It's the story of a small town that's gone through some hard times and is struggling to come back. Another song, 'Speed of Life, by our friend Gary Scruggs wrote, is about paying attention, as much as you can -- living in the moment because it all goes by so quickly."
Hanna said the band, which has seen many changes in its 40-year-plus history, his in touch with its roots without ignoring the decades that followed.
"We've kind of shifted the set around in the last couple of years. It's more like the music we played in the early '70s than in was in the '80s and '90s, with a bit more emphasis on the rootsier stuff, which
The 20th Annual Mariachi USA Festival comes to the Hollywood Bowl. It's five nonstop hours of the world's finest Mariachi music with beautiful folkloric ballet and a fabulous finale with spectacular fireworks.
Five hours of nonstop Mariachi magic featuring the finest Mariachis with beautiful ballet folklorico and spectacular fireworks finale.
FEATURING Mariachi Internacional Guadalajara Mariachi Campanas de America Mariachi Los Arrieros del Valle Mariachi Mujer 2000 Mariachi Monumental de America Mariachi Imperial de Mexico The MARIACHI USA All Starz
As one of the oldest houses in California, the Workman House survives as a unique testament to the changing architectural styles and domestic tastes of the nineteenth century.
It originally stood as a simple three-room adobe, built shortly after the Workman family's arrival in November 1841. With the success of their cattle ranch, they continued to remodel the house by adding rooms. By the 1870s, new wealth in vineyards and wheat farming allowed them to completely transform the Mexican-era adobe into a modern American house, building a second floor, adding a variety of decorative details, and finishing the outside to resemble brick and stone. Believed to have been designed by early Los Angeles architect Ezra Kysor, the picturesque country home reflects the architectural tastes that were popular in mid-19th century America.
Today the exterior of the Workman House is restored to its 1870s appearance. The interior retains its appearance from the 1950s and awaits restoration. Visitors can see the house by taking a free guided tour.
The Workman House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a California State Historic Landmark.
Experience life on an early California rancho at the Homestead Museum's Romance of the Ranchos festival.
Visitors will get a taste of what life was like for people living in the Southland during the 1840s and '50s through music, historic house tours, visits with living history characters, adobe-making and blacksmithing demonstrations, food, family activities, and more. Check out the details below, or click here for a flyer.
• Delight in the sounds of early California with Mariachi Monumental de America and Dogtown Filharmonik
• Watch colorful folklorico dance demonstrations
• Visit with living history characters from the past including Pio Pico, the last governor of Mexican California
• Get a feel for rancho life by making an adobe brick and practicing your roping skills
• See blacksmithing, pottery, gold-panning, and woodworking demonstrations
• Enjoy exhibits in the Museum's historic houses
• Learn about Native American culture, the history behind the epic story of Ramona, and the practice of phrenology
• Try your luck at games like Monte, Faro, and Shut the Box
• Make a variety of crafts, visit ranch animals at the petting zoo, and much more!
Romance of the Ranchos
Sunday, May 3
1 to 5 p.m.
Free-but bring spending money for food and shopping.
BullS*** and Brilliance (the difference is a fine line!)
A wealthy old lady decides to go on a photo safari in Africa , taking her faithful aged poodle named Cuddles, along for the company.
One day the poodle starts chasing butterflies and before long, Cuddles discovers that he's lost. Wandering about, he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the intention of having lunch.
The old poodle thinks, ‘Oh, oh! I'm in deep doo-doo now!' Noticing some bones on the ground close by, he immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the leopard is about to leap the old poodle exclaims loudly, ‘Boy, that was one delicious leopard! I wonder if there are any more around here?'
Hearing this, the young leopard halts his attack in mid-strike, a look of terror comes over him and he slinks away into the trees. ‘Whew!' says the leopard, ‘That was close! That old poodle nearly had me!'
Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree, figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the leopard. So off he goes, but the old poodle sees him heading after the leopard with great speed, and figures that something must be up. The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the leopard.
The young leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says, ‘Here, monkey, hop on my back and see what's going to happen to that conniving canine!
Now, the old poodle sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back and thinks, ‘What am I going to do now?', but instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen them yet, and just when they get close enough to hear, the old poodle says.
‘Where's that damn monkey? I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another leopard!
Moral of this story....
Don't mess with old farts .. age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill! Bull*** and brilliance only come with age and experience.
Lucha VaVoom: Spectacular Mexican Wrestling and Burlesque Show at the Grove of Anaheim
Lucha VaVoom, a spectacular hit across Southern California, blends Mexican-style masked lucha libre wrestling and burlesque. It's a wildly theatrical combination of death-defying acrobatics, sensual dancing, hilarious comedy, outrageous characters, and more -- and it's coming to the Grove of Anaheim.
Mexican masked wrestling and burlesque show Lucha VaVoom will return to the Grove of Anaheim. Southern California, prepare for a night of violence, sex, spandex and Spanish.
Lucha: Mexican wrestling. It is acrobatic, it is theatrical, it is Los Crazy Chickens and The Chupacabra and it is absolutely outrageous. Come see girls, midgets, drag queens, wrestlers dressed as chickens and lizards and more riotous personalities competing for the wrestling champ title. Watch as they twist off the ropes and tackle one another, slamming into the sweat-slicked mat with mighty crashes. See what happens when Wrestler Dirty Sanchez gives his opponent a piece of his mind...or a piece of something else!
VaVoom: True burlesque. Lace, fur, props and voluptuous women galore! Audiences will be treated to trapeze artists, hula hoop dancers and sensual, titillating performances from women with gyrating hips and swinging tassels.
Pick up tickets to Lucha VaVoom and get ready to leave your inhibitions at home. It's going to be one wild and crazy night at the Grove!
A man accused of making an illegal U-turn in front of a Billings police officer was arrested for drunken driving.
Thomas David Herman, 41, was arraigned in District Court today and pleaded not guilty to what prosecutors said is his seventh DUI offense. Herman, who appeared by video from the county jail, also pleaded not guilty to a mis-demeanor charge of making an illegal U-turn.
Judge Susan Watters set bond at $50,000 after Chief Deputy County Attorney Mark Murphy described Herman's traffic record as "truly amazing" for a man his age. Herman has previous DUI convictions in 2001, 1999, 1998, 1993 and two in 1992.
According to court records, Herman was arrested Sunday after a police officer saw him make a U-turn across a double yellow line on Underpass Avenue. The officer said Herman did poorly on several field sobriety tests (Uh....yah...ya think !! ) and a breath test showed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.167 percent, more than twice the legal limit.
Apparently this guy hasn't learned his lesson YET !! I want to know why is this guy still on the road ???
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