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snip ...Frodo Baggins hit fence 5, the Flower Basket, at high speed and had a rotational fall. The course was held for an hour and a half while Ashker was stabilized, and she was airlifted to the University of Kentucky Hospital. She has sustained injuries but is conscious and able to move her extremities. She is being cared for by the emergency and trauma services at UK. Vets attended to Frodo Baggins for some time, and he was transported off the course to Hagyard Equine Medical Institute just across Ironworks Pike from the Kentucky Horse Park [later euthanized] snip Heidi...

O.J. Simpson is getting his fake Rolex watch back. The timepiece, seized earlier this week by attorneys for Fred Goldman, was ordered returned to the former football star after it was determined to be a knockoff made in China. Goldman lawyer David Cook said his client will comply with Friday‘s order by Superior Court Judge Gerald Rosenberg. Cook had hoped the watch might be worth as much as $22,000, but an appraisal from San Francisco jeweler Shreve & Co. concluded it was worth only about $100. Simpson had told his lawyer, Ronald Slates, he paid $125 for it. Had he...

Getting some measure of justice is proving difficult -- yet again -- for Fred Goldman. The Goldman's lawyers seized a watch from O.J. (after seeing it on TMZ) to pay off the $33.5 million wrongful death judgment against him. But it isn't a Rolex like they hoped -- it's a knock-off from China, worth about $100. If the watch were a genuine Rolex, it would have been worth as much as $22,000. But now they have to return the watch to Simpson, since it falls under an exemption in the judgment -- for jewelry worth less than $6,075. Goldman recently...

Anna Nicole Smith collapsed in her hotel room at the Hard Rock Cafe and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., and was rushed to a hospital on Thursday. A Hollywood, Fla., fire department spokesman told MSNBC TV that the actress was unresponsive when the rescue unit arrived on the scene. Sources confirmed to Access Hollywood that Smith was transported to Memorial Regional Hospital shortly after 2 p.m. EST on Thursday. Access Hollywood also is reporting that Smith was intubated at the scene. Officials told the Miami Herald, "it does not look good."

Prosecutors eye Rolex to show a pattern of payoffs. Just when it seemed John Ford's legal troubles couldn't get worse, enter a $40,000 wristwatch of questionable origin. Federal prosecutors alleged Wednesday that Ford received the watch -- a diamond-studded Rolex Masterpiece -- in 2004 from prominent Memphis developer Rusty Hyneman. Ford once asserted he got the watch free of charge after using his influence to try to reduce state pollution fines levied against Hyneman, prosecutors said. Neither Hyneman nor Ford has been charged in connection with the watch transaction, yet prosecutors plan to use it as evidence that Ford, who...

Catholic Priest Accused of Swindling Elderly Parishioner By Lisa Colagrossi(Upper East Side-WABC, July 13, 2004) — A Manhattan priest is facing a major lawsuit today. He is accused of using his spiritual influence to swindle an elderly parishioner out of nearly half a million dollars.     From the AP: The News in Photographs Add News Headlines to Your Web Page or Corporate Intranet Eighty-eight year old Rose Pale was a devoted parishioner. She attended mass every day. The lawsuit says the monsignor at Saint John The Martyr Church on the Upper East Side betrayed her trust.  The lawsuit says that Monsignor...

'Sins' of the Msgr. on trial BY BARBARA ROSS DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER  Msgr. John Woolsey leaves court yesterday, charged with looting more than $800,000 from East Side church. A Manhattan Monsignor with a weakness for Rolex watches, fine dining, expensive clothes and golfing vacations in sunny Spain was charged yesterday with looting more than $800,000 from his upper East Side parish. Msgr. John Woolsey, 67, could spend 15 of his golden years in prison if he's convicted of filching from the collection plate at St. John the Martyr Church to pay for his luxurious lifestyle, prosecutors said. Woolsey...

Subject: Torricelli's Illegal Contributions Detailed in Chang's Sentencing Memo - - Chang is NOT the liar Torricelli says he is Prosecutors Say Chang Advanced Torricelli Probe Newly Released Document Outlines Illegal Contributions POSTED: 4:44 p.m. EDT September 26, 2002 UPDATED: 7:19 p.m. EDT September 26, 2002 NEWARK, N.J. -- A federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled Thursday that a sentencing memo describing illegal gifts to U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli must be made public immediately. RELATED INFO:5K Letter: Read Excerpts5K Letter: Read It All FeedRoom Court Releases Torricelli Memo The document outlines businessman David Chang's cooperation with the federal prosecutors....

MIDI - BATTLE HYMN - scroll under Marches If you want to bribe a senator and you've looked high and low Rest assured that there is one who's guaranteed to take the dough He's done it all before, that's something that you need to know The Torch awaits your call Pass the loot to Torricelli…pass the loot to Torricelli…pass the loot to Torricelli The Torch awaits your call

CAVEAT: this is a parody song. I am not accusing Torricelli of being a senator who has been bought by the Jersey mob. He may very well never have taken illegal money from anyone. Somewhere he probably has the receipts for the watches and Italian suits. He could have put them away in the junk drawer and can't find them right now. The guy in jail could very well be fabricating a story about the funny money. Hey, the honorable senator is probably as innocent as the Clintons who were hunted and set up by the VRWC. He said he...