Randy Quaid and wife due back in California court

Randy Quaid and wife due back in California court
Santa Barbara, CALIF. — Randy Quaid and his wife are scheduled to appear in court Tuesday for an arraignment on felony Vandalism charges, although it remains to be seen whether the couple will return from Canada for the hearing. The couple have been staying in Vancouver in recent weeks and have sought asylum there from a mysterious group they have dubbed "Hollywood star whackers." With a string of missed court appearances on a previous criminal case, the couple had to post $1 million ba...

'Where are the Quaids?' become familiar question at Calif. court as Randy, wife miss hearing
Santa Barbara, CALIF. — "Where are the Quaids?" It's been a familiar question for more than a year at the Santa Barbara Courthouse where judges, prosecutors and even Randy and Evi Quaid's own attorney have worked overtime to try to get the couple to appear for two felony Court Cases. Last year, the search centered on Texas, but in recent weeks the focus on the Quaids' whereabouts has shifted to Canada, where they are seeking asylum from a mysterious syndicate they've dubbed "Hollywood s...

Randy Quaid and wife due back in California court
SANTA Barbara, Calif. (AP) - Randy Quaid and his wife are due back in a Santa Barbara courtroom for an arraignment on felony Vandalism charges, but it remains unclear whether the couple will return from Canada for the hearing. The Quaids have been staying in Vancouver and in recent weeks have publicly claimed their lives are in danger. They posted $1 million bail to guarantee their appearance Tuesday. Randy and Evi Quaid have a history of missing court appearances, which led a judge last month...

Quaids say people want to 'whack' them
Published: Nov. 1, 2010 at 9:01 PM NYP2003051460 - NEW YORK, May 14 (UPI) -- Randy Quaid of "The Brotherhood of Poland, N.H." poses for pictures at the CBS Network Up-Fronts for Fall 2003 at Tavern on the Green in New York on May 14, 2003. lc/Laura Cavanaugh UPI Los Angeles, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Hollywood actor Randy Quaid and his wife Evi say a group of shadowy figures they called "star whackers" want to ruin his career and kill them both. The couple have been in the news for more than a y...

In ABC Interview, Quaids Lay Out Chilling Evidence for Star Wacker
Watch the interview: The couple have accused a mysterious Hollywood cult they call the “Star Whackers” of attempting to kill them for their money. They also attribute the deaths of celebrities such as Heath Ledger, David Carradine and Chris Penn to the “Star Whackers” and said the listed causes of death — drug Overdose for Ledger and accidental Asphyxiation for Carradine — were “flat out Fraud.” “They follow us, they tail us,” Randy Q...

Wait continues for Randy Quaid, wife at court
Santa Barbara, CALIF. — A judge in California has agreed to delay an arraignment for Randy and Evi Quaid until late Tuesday morning. The Quaids' attorney appeared briefly in a Santa Barbara court around 9:40 a.m. and told the judge he needed another hour. The couple have not been spotted at the Courthouse, and attorney Robert Sanger did not definitively state they would show. Randy and Evi Quaid face felony Vandalism charges and are free on $1 million bail. They were arrested in Septemb...

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Cops: Cook Board candidate Peraica vandalized opponent's signs
Just three days before the Nov. 2 election, Cook County Commissioner Tony Peraica was arrested Saturday on Misdemeanor Vandalism charges in west suburban McCook, where his re-election opponent is the mayor. The two-term Republican was arrested Saturday night in the village of about 250 people and charged with criminal damage to property for allegedly destroying a campaign sign of his Democratic challenger, Mayor Jeff Tobolski, according to McCook Police Chief Frank Wolfe. Peraica today said he...

Peraica accused of damaging rival's campaign signs
Just three days before the Nov. 2 election, Cook County Commissioner Tony Peraica was arrested Saturday on Misdemeanor Vandalism charges in west suburban McCook, where his re-election opponent is the mayor. The two-term Republican was arrested Saturday night in the village of about 250 people and charged with criminal damage to property for allegedly destroying a campaign sign of his Democratic challenger, Mayor Jeff Tobolski, according to McCook Police Chief Frank Wolfe. Peraica said Sunday t...

Customs Officials Protect America from Wealthy Canadian Who Wanted to Spend Money Here
Canadian poker pro Terrence Chan has twice been turned away at the U.S. border by customs officials. He describes the first time, a week ago Thursday. After an hour of waiting, I made it to the front, where I was asked the usual questions. Where do I live? What do I do for work? What is the purpose of my trip? How long will I be there? I answered every question with what would turn out to be the worst possible answer -- the truth. I told them that I am a professional poker player with rental pr...

Capitol West Building Could Become Housing - HartfordInfo.org
For years, the building at the Asylum Street exit off I-84 west has been one of the city's worst blights, its eye socket-like cutout a curiosity for passing motorists. But that odd-looking space could become home to a fitness center if the building is converted to apartments or Condominiums, as a developer has proposed. Developer Joshua Guttman of Brooklyn, N.Y., has submitted plans to convert the decaying office building into 97 mostly one-bedroom residential units. Sounds encouraging, but is t...

Peraica accused of damaging rival's signs
Source: Chicago Tribune Just three days before the Nov. 2 election, Cook County Commissioner Tony Peraica was arrested Saturday on Misdemeanor Vandalism charges in west suburban McCook, where his re-election opponent is the mayor. The two-term Republican was arrested Saturday night in the village of about 250 people and charged with criminal damage to property for allegedly destroying a campaign sign of his Democratic challenger, Mayor Jeff Tobolski, according to McCook police Chief Frank Wolfe....

The Brian Kieran Report: Campbell loses a gatekeeper, hires a savvy pro
All that celebrating in Victoria? It has very little to do with Premier Gordon Campbell’s new Botox-injected cabinet and so much to do with the fact that he was somehow convinced to move Martyn Brown out to the West Wing. Do not for a second think that a “lateral arabesque” from Chief of Staff to Deputy Minister Tourism constitutes the Golden Parachute Brown had envisioned for himself after more than a decade of single-minded gatekeeping for Gord. Farewell Martyn, your retirem...

Irons praised as one of surfing's greats
AAP Andy Irons has been praised for changing the face of surfing, after news on Tuesday that the triple World title winner had been found dead in his Dallas Hotel Room. After debuting on the ASP World tour in 1998, Irons became known as an innovator and after a decade of excellence he was inducted into the surfers' walk of fame in California in 2008. The Hawaiian competed in an era when Kelly Slater was conquering all, and the fact Irons was able to win three consecutive World Championships b...

Who Is This "John Galt"?
And why won't he deliver his durum? The [Canadian Wheat Board] is scrambling for high quality durum right now. Partly because of the late fall and partly because of the poor quality crop. [...] These struggles are showing up in Vancouver. On a vessel that the CWB shared with Cargill, the CWB loaded 10,800 tonnes of durum and Cargill loaded 14,700 tonnes of canola. Cargill loaded the canola in about two days and the CWB took another 21 days to load the durum.... ...

George Soros: Small Caps His Fund's Been Buying - MarketBeat - WSJ
Yahoo! Buzz Famed investor George Soros’ Soros Fund Management disclosed a couple updates to positions Monday. After a flurry of stock activity on Oct. 22, the fund disclosed holdings of 15.5 million shares, or a 9.7% stake, in Platinum Group Metals Ltd., a mining firm based in Vancouver, Canada and Johannesburg, South Africa. According to FactSet Lionshares, Soros had a 1.5 million-share stake in the firm at the end of June. Also, after a bit of buying on Oct. 21, the fund reported a 1.3 ...

How Did Global Warming Fare on Election Day?
In spite of all the concerns about The Economy, Election Day seems to have turned out well for the environment. California voters have apparently rejected a proposition to suspend the Golden State's Global-warming law, which requires the state to scale back Carbon Emissions 25% to 1990 levels by 2020. With 24% of precincts reporting, the proposition was failing 58.4% to 41.6%. The "No on 23" campaign -- including California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger -- has already started celebrating the pres...

The death of Ashley Smith: Prisons can’t handle the mentally ill
Suffering from Bipolar Disorder, Ms. Trudeau acted out by having ill-advised affairs. Ashley Smith, dealing with her own untreated Mental Health Issues, did so by throwing apples, stealing CDs, and resisting the indignity of a Strip Search. Initially taken into Custody at the age of 15 for breaching Probation, Ms. Smith’s subsequent inability to contain her feelings of fury – at being tasered, gassed, shackled, drugged and isolated – resulted in additional sentences and increas...

Vandalism blamed for rash of streetlight outages
Chicago aldermen demanding to know why streetlights are out in so many neighborhoods have gotten some surprising news about who turned them out: vandals and thieves who thrive under cover of darkness. On the hot seat at City Council Budget hearings, Transportation Commissioner Bobby Ware identified streetlight Vandalism as a growing and troubling phenomenon that has kept streetlights out for too long on too many Chicago streets. » Click to enlarge image Since Aug. 1, the City's 311 non-e...

Was Vandalism Of Perriello Campaign Office An Attempt To Suppress Student Vote?
Rep. Tom Perriello's Charlottesville, Va., office was vandalized last night - and the vandal posted a sign for the Democrat's opponent, Republican Robert Hurt, outside the building. The office was unoccupied early in the morning, between the hours of 2 a.m. and about 5:30 a.m., Perriello spokeswoman Jessica Barba told Politico. The intruder bent a screen and stole a box of door hangers that had been prepared for volunteers, who were to leave them for voters to direct them to the correct polling ...

Eight Great Years
[Image Description: A billboard put on display in Wyoming, Minn. last February, with a picture of former president George W. Bush asking, "Miss me yet?" which was later vandalized to add "No" beneath the question (as well as to give Bush a mustache).] This is probably not so the worst thing you'll read all day, but it's gonna be up there: The Bush Rehab Begins, by Bryan Curtis. You know how I feel about that. What's interesting to me about this piece is that "Bush himself has long disdained gran...

Tony Peraica busted for alleged yard sign vandalism - Stickney cops will be crucial
* Cook County Commissioner Tony Peraica was arrested last night for allegedly vandalizing yard signs of his Democratic opponent, McCook Mayor Jeff Tobolski. The coppers’ story… [McCook Police Chief Frank Wolfe] said that an officer about 11:15 p.m. Saturday spotted a white van leaving the home of an 83-year-old woman, who doesn’t drive, on the 8400 block of Joliet Road. When it failed to use a turn signal, it was stopped, he said. The officer noticed a Tobolski sign at the wo...

6-foot menorah vandalized on Northwestern campus
Evanston police are looking for the person or group responsible for vandalizing a 6-foot menorah Saturday evening outside the Tannenbaum Chabad House on Northwestern University's campus. The menorah, which has stood outside the Jewish center for 25 years, had its light sockets pulled out and one of its arms broken, said Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, director of the center. Chicago-area synagogues were on edge over the weekend after reports of a possible plot to send explosives to two Chicago Jewish ...

Perriello office vandalized
Rep. Tom Perriello’s Charlottesville, Va., office was vandalized last night — and the vandal posted a sign for the Democrat's opponent, Republican Robert Hurt, outside the building. The office was unoccupied early in the morning, between the hours of 2 a.m. and about 5:30 a.m., Perriello spokeswoman Jessica Barba told Politico. The intruder bent a screen and stole a box of door hangers that had been prepared for volunteers, who were to leave them for voters to direct them to the co...

Perriello office vandalized
Source: Politico Rep. Tom Perriello’s Charlottesville, Va., office was vandalized last night — and the vandal posted a sign for the Democrat's opponent, Republican Robert Hurt, outside the building. The office was unoccupied early in the morning, between the hours of 2 a.m. and about 5:30 a.m., Perriello spokeswoman Jessica Barba told Politico. The intruder bent a screen and stole a box of door hangers that had been prepared for volunteers, who were to leave them for voters to direct them to the..