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Body Of Woman Missing For 12 Years Found in Lake 100 Yards From Her Front Door

From FoxNews.com

Gail Schoening--RIP.

The body of a Florida woman who vanished on her way to the airport 12 years ago has been found at the bottom of a lake near her home, police said Friday.

Gail Schoening of Broward County was a month shy of her 36th birthday when she disappeared in April 1997 on her way to catch a flight for a job interview, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported.

Schoening’s body was found inside her car only about 100 yards from her front door, Plantation detectives said Friday.  (Read more.)

Parade Organizers Ban Mrs. Claus

RALEIGH, N.C.  (AP)—  Santa Claus is fine at a North Carolina Christmas parade. But Mrs. Claus has to stay away.

Organizers of the Raleigh parade told The News & Observer of Raleigh that they are just following policy and children would be confused if there were two people in the Saturday parade in Santa suits.

John Odom says organizers even discourage parade watchers from wearing Santa hats so everyone’s attention is on the real St. Nick.

Mrs. Claus isn’t happy. Debra Goldman says she was allowed to don her gray wig and long red dress last year as she walked with the sheriff.

Odom says organizers didn’t know Goldman was dressing as Mrs. Claus last year. This year, she sent out a press release.

Goldman says she still might wear a Santa hat as she walks.

"This political correctness is silly...I'm going to talk it over with Nick and next year we may consider boycotting this event!"

Smuggler Arrested At LAX With 15 Lizards Strapped To His Chest

From the Los Angeles Times  (Pic added by B.S. Report)

By Catherine Saillant

Los Angeles–In an apparently cold-blooded attempt at smuggling, a Lomita man was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport this week with more than a dozen wriggling lizards strapped to his chest.

Michael Plank, 40, was detained by U.S. Customs agents after they discovered 15 live lizards stuffed into his money belt, officials with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service said Friday.

Plank was returning from Australia on Tuesday when agents found two geckos, 11 skinks and two monitor lizards in his possession. Australian reptiles are strictly regulated, and Plank didn’t have a required export permit, officials said.

The lizards are valued at $8,500.

Smuggling wildlife into the U.S. is a felony punishable by a $250,000 fine and up to 20 years in prison. Plank has been released on a $10,000 bond and will be arraigned Dec. 21 in a Los Angeles federal court, authorities said.

"It was frightful--he just scooped me up and shoved me in his money belt."

Boy, 2, Pulls Baby Girl From House Fire

PHOENIX (AP) —  A 2-year-old boy dragged a 1-year-old Arizona girl Friday from a house fire that killed her mother and injured two other adults, authorities said.

Fire crews responding to the fire in the Pinal County community of Maricopa south of Phoenix found the girl’s mother, 22-year-old Michelle Mariano, lying near a doorway of the mobile home, Maricopa Fire Department spokesman Brad Pitassi said. She was identified by Sheriff’s spokeswoman Lt. Tamatha Villar.

Villar said officials believe the boy is the girl’s brother but haven’t confirmed that.  (Read more.)

Newspaper Circulation Figures Misleading; May Be Worse Than Shown

From MyWayNews (Pics added by B.S. Report)

By Michael Liedtke

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – While U.S. newspapers are losing subscribers at a staggering rate, a few dailies stand out because their circulation is rising. But they aren’t necessarily selling more copies.

Here’s why: Since April 1, new auditing rules have made it easier for newspapers to count a reader as a paying customer.

These looser standards are especially helpful to a newspaper if it sells an “electronic edition.” That can include a subscriber-only Web site, such as what The Wall Street Journal has, or it can be a digital replica of a newspaper’s printed product. Several dozen publications, including USA Today, sell access to these daily “e-editions” that show how the news was laid out in print.

Under the new auditing standards, if a newspaper sells a “bundled” subscription to both the print and electronic editions, the publication is often allowed to count that subscriber twice.  (Read more.)

Is The Honeymoon Finally Over? SNL Skit Makes Fun Of Obama Policies

Thieves Kill 5 For Wheel Rims And Televisions

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) —  Thieves shot to death five Arkansas family members and burned their bodies for the meager bounty of a set of wheel rims and some flat-screen televisions, court documents said Friday.

Samuel Conway and Jeremy Pickney, both 23, pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of capital murder, aggravated residential burglary and arson, Garland County court documents showed.

Police fatally shot a third suspect, 22-year-old Marvin Lamar Stringer, in a nighttime raid at a motel Thursday.

Firefighters had discovered four bodies in a torched mobile home after the Nov. 12 attack in the small town of Pearcy: 56-year-old Edward “Eddie” Earl Gentry Jr.; his 52-year-old wife Pam; their 24-year-old son Jeremy and his 19-year-old girlfriend Kristyn N. Warneke.

Police found the body of Eddie’s 80-year-old father, Edward Earl Gentry Sr., in a home next door.

In documents filed to the court, police said a confidential informant told them that Conway showed him a gun and Pickney offered the stolen wheel rims and televisions for sale the day after the killings.

Garland County Sheriff’s Lt. James Martin declined to answer questions after the hearing saying investigations were ongoing.

B.S. Report–It doesn’t matter what is stolen–it’s the act that matters.  That a few people will murder for any reason is a given–it’s not all that surprising that a murderer will kill for $10,000,000 just as another may kill for a TV set.  The question is one of personal values and a lack of conscience–not the risk to reward ratio.  Most people will not murder regardless of the reward involved.

Rasmussen Poll: Support For Health Care Plan Hits New Low

Just 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% now oppose the plan.  (Read more.)