I would have thought if a local story leads the national news, it would also be the lead story on the local news, but that didn’t happen on CBS yesterday. ‘The CBS Evening News’ lead with the shooting of the 15-year-old black male by a police officer, but the local news which aired immediately afterward, lead with the paramedic who was shot.
When this appeared on the news, WifeGeeding informed me her sorority got in trouble her senior year for a similar themed party, though she claims she didn’t attend. The fundraiser party event had a “Run to the Border” theme (that was the Taco Bell slogan at the time) and students dressed similarly to what’s described in the article.
A Mets fan named Tom McDonald was best friends with fellow Mets fan Roy Riegel. Riegel died nine years ago and McDonald was charged by Riegel’s family with disposing of his ashes in an appropriate manner. At first McDonald scattered some at ballparks and notable places, but then he realized it’d just be easier to flush him down the toilet at ballparks around the country:
“The game has to be in progress — that’s a rule of mine,” Mr. McDonald said one recent weeknight before entering a Citi Field bathroom, holding a little plastic bottle containing a scoopful of Mr. Riegel’s cremains . . . “I took care of Roy, and I had to use the facilities myself,” Mr. McDonald said, emerging from the stall with the empty container. “So I figure, you know, kill two birds . . I always flush in between, though,” he added. “That’s another rule of mine.”
