Wednesday, January 14, 2004

 

In other news ...

Pizza deliveryman foils Midtown kidnappers

Some wiseguy wannabes proved not so wise early Tuesday.

According to Anchorage police, three young men ripped off another young man delivering pizza in Midtown, telling him to obey them because they were "from the Bronx." Alas, these guys were short a little juice.

The 20-year-old victim managed to give the robbers the slip, then turned the tables on them, following their car in his, with cell phone in hand, police said. Officers later arrested the three at an all-night convenience store.

MIA probe splits police, feds

Disagreement over a critical corruption investigation at Miami International Airport has prompted the Miami-Dade Police Department to cease working with the U.S. attorney's office, signaling the possible demise of a potent partnership that has sent several public figures to prison in recent years.

The case at the center of the fallout is a probe into the airport's food and beverage concessions. For three years, a task force of police and federal agents has been investigating whether the prime contractor, HMS Host, used minority-owned front companies to channel money to political friends of Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas and county commissioners.

School to ex-NFL star: Where are you - and your $50,000?


Mayor John Hickenlooper's pledge to help Cole Middle School students go to college has stirred some painful memories for parents at another Denver school of a promise not kept.

There was Green Bay Packers lineman Reggie White on a Monday Night Football broadcast in 1998, during halftime in a game with the Denver Broncos, handing a large cardboard check to the Rev. Leon Kelly.

The letters on the mock check were large enough that she could make out the name of her school and the amount: $50,000. The money was to create a tuition fund for a class of 85 first-graders at the northeast Denver school, if they graduated from high school with a C average or better.

Today, the kids are sixth-graders in various middle schools and the school district has seen nothing of either White or the money.

posted by Anne 1/14/2004 07:16:00 AM