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Cops: Angry Wife Poured Boiling Water On Hubby's Genitals

SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, N.Y. (WPIX) - A Queens woman became so bitter when she discovered her husband was cheating on her that she poured boiling water on his genitals as he slept, police said.

Authorities say Oyinda Ojofeitimi, 67, a registered nurse, walked in to her bedroom and poured scalding water on her sleeping husband in an act of revenge. Mrs. Ojofeitimi was so incensed at her husband's infidelity that she wanted to stop him from ever doing it again, police said.

Mrs. Ojofeitimi apparently had regrets after scorching her husband's privates so she called 911, police said. She was treating him for his burns with cold compresses when paramedics arrived to the scene. He was rushed to the burn unit at Nassau University Hospital.

Emmanuel "Ojo" Ojofeitimi, 67, sustained second and third degree burns over 30% of his body. His wife told police she was motivated by the discovery that her husband of 20 years had been unfaithful.

Mrs. Ojofeitimi was arrested and charged with assault and harassment; her lawyer maintains that Mr.Ojofeitimi "had a history of abusing her both physically and psychologically."

Thursday, July 30, 2009
Lochte breaks Phelps' record

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ESPN.com news services

ROME -- With Michael Phelps cheering from the stands, Ryan Lochte of the United States set a world record in the 200-meter individual medley at the world championships.

 

Lochte won in 1 minute, 54.10 seconds on Thursday for the 23rd world record of these championships. He broke Phelps' gold-medal time of 1:54.23 from the Beijing Olympics. Phelps skipped this event at the worlds, but he was in the stands with the rest of the American team.

 

 

Laszlo Cseh of the Hungary took the silver in 1:55.24, and American Eric Shanteau captured his first major international medal with a bronze in 1:55.36.

 

Shanteau competed at last year's Olympics after being diagnosed with testicular cancer.

 

Also Thursday, Brazil's Cesar Cielo became the first swimmer to break 47 seconds in the 100-meter freestyle, setting another world record and holding off France's Alain Bernard.

 

Cielo won the furious down-and-back race in 46.91 seconds, eclipsing Eamon Sullivan's mark of 47.05 set during the semifinals of the Beijing Olympics.

 

Bernard won the Olympic gold when he beat Sullivan in the final. He had to settle for silver in Rome at 47.12. Fellow Frenchman Fred Bousquet pushed the pace over the first 50 and held on for bronze in 47.25.

 

Cielo's record was the 25th of these championships, matching the total from last summer's Olympics with three days still to go.

 

American backstroke specialist Aaron Peirsol was also scheduled to race on Thrusday. Three days after the Olympic champion failed to qualify for the 100-meter backstroke final, he has a new strategy for Thursday's semifinals in the 200 back.

 

"It's my only individual swim now. I'll be gunning for it absolutely -- probably more so than usual," Peirsol said after qualifying second in morning heats. "It will be much safer, much safer."

 

Ryosuke Irie of Japan led the heats in 1 minute, 55.20 seconds and Peirsol clocked 1:55.88 -- well off his world record of 1:53.08 set at the U.S. championships in Indianapolis earlier this month but right up there with the other contenders.

 

"I've been waiting to get my heart rate up for a while now, so it feels good," Peirsol said.

 

Lochte qualified third in 1:55.97. Lochte and Peirsol finished 1-2 in this event at last year's Olympics.

 

Peirsol has one of the new suits from Arena but he made an elementary miscalculation and finished ninth in the 100 back semis, one spot too low to make the final, which he watched from the stands at the Foro Italico.

 

Peirsol could have taken some consolation from the fact that the winner, Juny Koga of Japan, did not come close to breaking his world record.

 

"It was hard to swallow, but at the same time I had already moved on, I was already ready for [the 200]," Peirsol said. "I've just never seen a 100 back from the stands at world championships, so I thought it would be good to watch."

 

Phelps had the day off, his only full day of rest of the championships.

 

Another American, Amanda Weir, led the women's 100 freestyle heats in 53.20 seconds, while Olympic champion Britta Steffen of Germany was fourth.

 

Steffen set a new world record of 52.22 seconds on Sunday in the first leg of the 400 freestyle relay.

 

Championship records were set in both the men's and women's 200 breaststroke heats.

 

Shanteau, who put off cancer treatment to compete in Beijing, clocked 2:08.55 to eclipse Kosuke Kitajima's six-year-old mark from the 2003 worlds in Barcelona.

 

Kitajima, who has won this event at the last two Olympics, is taking this year off.

 

Olympic bronze medalist Hugues Duboscq of France qualified in 11th and Beijing silver medalist Brenton Rickard of Australia barely made it in 16th -- the final qualifying spot.

 

In the women's heats, Annamay Pierse of Canada touched in 2:21.68, shaving four hundredths off Australian Leisel Jones' mark from the 2005 worlds in Montreal.

 

Olympic champion and world record holder Rebecca Soni of the United States qualified second in 2:22.09.

 

The bronze medalist from last year's Beijing Games, Sara Nordenstam of Norway, failed to qualify, finishing nearly six seconds behind Pierse in 22nd.

 

A third championship record in the session was set by Britain in the women's 800 freestyle relay.

 

Caitlin McClatchey, Jazmin Carlin, Hannah Miley and Rebecca Adlington posted a time of 7:49.04, improving the Americans' time in Melbourne by about a second.

 

The United States, which swam in the same heat as Britain, qualified second, while world record-holder and Beijing champion Australia was fifth. Italy, led by freshly crowned 200 and 400 free individual champion Federica Pellegrini in the anchor position, just made it to the final in eighth.

Brazil police rule Gatti's death suicide

RIO DE JANEIRO – A Brazilian police investigation has determined that the death of boxer Arturo Gatti was a suicide and a court has ordered the release of his wife, who was once suspected of killing him.

Lead investigator Paulo Alberes told The Associated Press on Thursday that police concluded Gatti killed himself on July 11 in a seaside resort in northeastern Brazil.

A day after Gatti was found dead, police said they thought his 23-year-old Brazilian wife, Amanda Rodrigues, had strangled him with her purse strap while he slept.

But police began to back off after a coroner's report said that Gatti may have killed himself.

State court judge Ildete Verissimo de Lima in the city of Recife ordered that Rodrigues be immediately released. Her lawyer, Celio Avelino, said Rodrigues would walk out of jail Thursday afternoon.

Gatti was found dead in the apartment he was renting with Rodrigues in the seaside resort of Porto de Galinhas in Brazil's northeast.

The pair, who had a tumultuous marriage, had arrived there a few days before Gatti's death for a second honeymoon. The couple brought their 10-month-old son, who was unhurt and is in the care of Rodrigues' family in Brazil.

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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Driver tells Conn. police snakes led to SUV crash

HARTFORD, Conn. – Police say a driver blamed a car crash in Hartford, Conn., on two pet baby snakes that he said escaped from his pants pockets as he was driving.

Hartford police Sgt. Christene Mertes says Angel Rolon, of New Britain, claimed he lost control of his SUV on Monday when the snakes slithered near the gas and brake pedals and he and a passenger tried to catch them. The SUV veered into some parked cars and overturned.

Mertes says animal control officers never found the snakes and police have been unable to confirm his story.

Rolon was treated at a hospital for unknown injuries. Police say they gave him a summons for reckless driving and other charges.

There is no public telephone listing for Rolon and it was unclear if he has a lawyer.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Coach threatens to pull Phelps

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Associated Press

ROME -- Michael Phelps sure looked out of place.

 After bending over to accept a medal he wanted no part of, then listening to another swimmer's national anthem, Phelps tried to make his getaway. Not so fast -- there were still pictures to take.

 So he straggled back to the top step of the awards stand, the place he knows so well. This time, it was already occupied. Phelps stood off to the side while Paul Biedermann was the center of attention and photographers snapped away.

 The unheralded German pulled off one of swimming's greatest upsets when he beat Phelps in the 200-meter freestyle at the world championships Tuesday, also snatching his world record.

 

But no one thought this was a fair fight. In yet another twist to the never-ending saga over high-tech swimsuits, Biedermann acknowledged that his polyurethane version gave him an edge over Phelps, who stuck with his once-revolutionary LZR Racer. Phelps' coach even threatened to pull his star from future international meets unless the governing body acts with more urgency to get rid of suits that have rendered the record book obsolete.

 "The suits make a difference," Biedermann said. "I hope there will be a time when I can beat Michael Phelps without these suits. I hope next year. I hope it's really soon."

 Phelps can't wait.

 "It's going to be fun next year," he said, "when swimming is back to swimming."

 Phelps took his first major individual loss in four years, doled out by a swimmer barely known outside his country until he got to Rome. In the space of three days, the 22-year-old German wiped Ian Thorpe's name out of the record book in the 400 free, then he took down the winningest Olympian with a time of 1 minute, 42.00 seconds, nearly a second faster than Phelps' 1:42.96 at Beijing.

 

"Biedermann just took off," Phelps said. "He took it to a new level in that race."

 

But how much was the man? How much was the suit?

 

Biedermann wore an Arena X-Glide, which has taken its place alongside the Jaked suit as the fastest thing on water. Yes, even faster than Speedo's once-heralded suit, which battered the record book in 2008 but was surpassed by attire that's even more buoyant, allowing the swimmer to glide along the top of the water with less resistance.

 

Shortly before the race, FINA confirmed that a ban on bodysuits will go into effect next year, making this the last major competition where such suits are allowed. It will take effect by May 2010.

 

Not soon enough for Phelps' coach.

 

"We've lost all the history of the sport. Does a 10-year-old boy in Baltimore want to break Paul Biedermann's record?" Bob Bowman said after the race. "The sport is in shambles right now and they better do something or they're going to lose their guy who fills these suits."

 Biedermann acknowledged after his 400 free win that the suit made him two seconds faster, but Phelps passed on the chance to wear one of the latest-generation suits. He's been sponsored by Speedo since he was a teenager and wasn't about to abandon the company that paid him a $1 million bonus after he won eight gold medals in Beijing.

 A business decision that had nothing to do with Biedermann. He just went out in the best suit he could find, then beat the best.

 

"It's not my problem," Biedermann said. "It's the problem of FINA. They should handle it really fast."

 

Phelps was ahead off the blocks, but Biedermann surged into the lead by the first flip and steadily extended his advantage. By the finish, he was a full body length ahead of Phelps.

 

While Biedermann hung on the lane rope, thrusting his right hand in the air, Phelps stared at the scoreboard for a few seconds before heading off in the opposite direction, not even bothering to shake hands with the swimmer who had just handed him his first big individual loss since July 30, 2005.

 

That night, Ian Crocker beat Phelps in the 100 butterfly at the world championships in Montreal. Bouncing back from that disappointment, Phelps went 5-for-5 in his individual events at the 2007 worlds in Melbourne, then duplicated the feat at Beijing, where three relay wins gave him an iconic sporting achievement.

 

"Theoretically, that was a pretty good swim for me, three-tenths off my best time after taking six months off," said Phelps, referring to his layoff after the Olympics. "I mean, I'm not happy, but I mean I know I didn't train much this year. For right now, I'll take it.

 

"But I'm not pleased."

 

That was obvious from the awards ceremony, where Phelps went through some forced poses with Biedermann and bronze medalist Danila Izotov of Russia. When the three of them headed off around the pool deck together, the winner danced for the German fans, while Phelps managed a few weak smiles.

 

Finally, Phelps climbed toward the stands to drop off a stuffed mascot with his mother, Debbie, who leaned over to give him a consoling hug. Before her son even left the pool deck, he pulled off his silver medal, as if he wanted no part of a consolation prize.

 

Phelps did come back about an hour later to qualify for the final of the 200 butterfly on what figures to be his toughest day of the meet. He posted the second-fastest time in the semifinals, just 13-hundredths behind Japan's Takeshi Matsuda. The final is Wednesday night, a chance for Phelps to get back on the top step of the podium.

 

Biedermann's upset launched another night of record breaking at the world championships. Four more world standards were bumped from the books, bringing the total to 15 through the first three days of an eight-day meet. That equals the number of records set at the last worlds in Melbourne two years ago, and will soon go right on past the staggering 25 worlds marks set last summer at the Olympics.

 

Britain's Gemma Spofforth went the fastest ever to win the 100 backstroke; Italy's Federica Pellegrini fired up the home crowd with her second world record of the championships in a semifinal heat of the 200 free; and South Africa's Cameron van der Burgh posted his own mark in the semis of the 50 breaststroke, a non-Olympic event.

 

American Rebecca Soni won the 100 breaststroke though she came up just short of her record time in the semifinals. Soni touched in 1:04.93, nine-hundredths off the mark from the previous day. Russia's Yuliya Efimove took silver and American Kasey Carlson was third.

 

Taking advantage of Aaron Peirsol's shocking elimination in the semifinals of the 100 back, Japan's Junya Koga captured the world title in 52.26. Peirsol went faster than that (51.94) in setting a world record this month, but all he could do was watch from the stands as Koga ended his reign as three-time champion. Helge Meeuw of Germany won silver and Spain's Aschwin Grigoriadis claimed the bronze.

 

Italy's Alessia Filippi won the 1,500 free, another event that's not on the Olympic program. Denmark's Lotte Friis won silver and Romania's Camelia Potec took the bronze.

 

Spofforth rallied in the 100 back to win in 58.12, beating the mark of 58.48 set a day earlier by Anastasia Zueva. The Russian also went under her old mark (58.18) but it was only good enough for silver this time. Australia's Emily Seebohm took the bronze.

 

While Phelps still has four more events at these world championships, he's already looking toward another shot at Biedermann.

 

"Hopefully," Phelps said, "next summer we'll be able to really go head-to-head and I'll be in jammers."

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

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'G-Force' beats 'Ugly Truth' and 'Potter' at box office

• Story Highlights
• Disney's family comedy brought in an estimated $32.2 million over the weekend
• The sixth installment of the "Potter" series raked in another $30 million at No. 2
• "The Ugly Truth," starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler, took in $27 million
• Check out the other top earners on this weekend's top 10 list

(Entertainment Weekly) -- Neither the magic of Harry Potter nor the combined star power of Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler was enough to keep a crew of wise-cracking guinea pigs from scurrying to the top of the box office this weekend.

Disney's family comedy "G-Force," produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and featuring the voices of Nicolas Cage, Will Arnett, and Penelope Cruz as a team of world-saving rodents, made an estimated $32.2 million in its debut.

Despite opening hot on the heels of the one-week old "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince," the animation/live action hybrid pic was a hit with young audiences, pulling 55 percent of its viewers from the under-18 crowd.

But Potter's box office magic hasn't worn off just yet: The series' sixth installment landed in the number two spot its second weekend with $30 million, bringing its total to $221.8 million.

After just 12 days in theaters, 'Half-Blood' is already the fifth biggest hit of the year domestically, not to mention overseas, where the powerhouse has raked in an additional $236 million.

There was plenty for adults to enjoy at the box office, too. "The Ugly Truth," a raunchy R-rated rom-com that pits Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler in a battle of the sexes, scored an impressive $27 million bow, a career best for both Heigl and director Robert Luketic ("Legally Blonde").

The weekend's other wide release, Warner Bros' creepy "Orphan" -- starring Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga -- pulled in $12.8 million from an audience that was 55 percent female.

Lower down on the chart, Fox Searchlight's "(500) Days of Summer" (at number 11 with $3 million) is still building momentum. The quirky rom-com posted a hefty $19,176 per-site average and a 95 percent increase over its debut last weekend.