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Posted: 4:54 a.m. Thursday, July 29, 2010

KRMG Morning News "Stack of Stuff" and Notes 7/29/2010 

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By Joe Kelley, Host of the KRMG Morning News

  • KOTV: Mayor Dewey Bartlett's attorney has asked the City Council's Attorney to resign, claiming his position violates the city charter, and his advice conflicts with a letter of recusal from the City Attorney's office. Attorney Joel Wohlgemuth, representing Bartlett, sent a letter asking for the resignation to Attorney Drew Rees. The letter was sent Wednesday, one day after Rees lost a primary race for Tulsa County Commissioner. Wohlgemuth argues in his letter that the position in which Rees is serving was never created in the city charter, and since the City Attorney's office recused itself from a case against the Mayor and Council, Rees, as an attorney under that office, should be recused as well. Rees serves as attorney for the council as a whole. The individual councilors have private representation defending them in a lawsuit over a possible open meetings act violation. Thursday afternoon, the City Council plans to discuss possible action against Bartlett and Terry Simonson, his Chief of Staff, as a result of an investigation into whether the Mayor's office intentionally mislead the Council about a federal grant for the police department.
  • Thanks for the invitation but I am already committed to working on some city things. Dewey
  • A judge on Wednesday blocked key parts of Arizona's tough new immigration law hours before it was to take effect, handing a victory to the Obama administration as it tries to take control of the issue. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said she would file an appeal to reinstate the provisions, which had popular support but were opposed by President Barack Obama and immigration and human rights groups. The provisions blocked by U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton included one requiring a police officer to determine the immigration status of a person detained or arrested if the officer believed the person was not in the country legally. Bolton also halted provisions requiring immigrants to carry their papers at all times and making it illegal for people without proper documents to tout for work in public places.
  • SACRAMENTO: In the second bizarre incident at the State Fair in a week, Cal Expo  police shot an agitated, pregnant dairy cow that twice escaped her confines and knocked over an officer as she bolted through the fairgrounds Tuesday morning. Neither the cow nor her calf survived the shooting, which occurred an hour before gates opened to the public. Ultimately, the roughly 1,200-pound cow became a threat to thousands of employees already abuzz in the fairgrounds, police and veterinary officials said. They agreed she had to be put down after a 1 1/2-hour chase.
  • Avis Budget Group offered $1.33 billion to buy Tulsa-based Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Wednesday, according to Reuters.  That tops rival Hertz bid of $1.2 billion.
  • FROM ME: I don't mind all the road construction projects around Green Country, except for the abandoned projects. Ave A in Jenks has been under construction for MONTHS, but there are never any workers on the site. It just sits.
  • Bob Barker regrets coming down so hard on his "Price Is Right" replacement Drew Carey. On Tuesday, the retired game show host, 86, suggested to TMZ that Carey was a rather boring host, sniffing: "I tried to make the show really exciting, and he doesn't do that. He just plays the games." But later that same day, he backtracked. "I would not criticize Drew Carey. I would not criticize this show," he told Entertainment Weekly. Barker has good motivation to play nice: "I have a sizable royalty that I am paid every year this show is on, and it's going on for years. I would be an absolute fool."
  • The new report was released after U.S. Senate Democrats delayed any possible legislation to curb climate change until September at the earliest. Prospects for U.S. climate change legislation this year are considered slim. Released by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as "The 2009 State of the Climate Report," the new report draws on the work of 303 scientists from 48 countries, including data from last year. The 10 key planet-wide indicators of a warming climate identified by the report are: -- Higher temperatures over land, Higher temperatures over oceans, Higher ocean heat content, Higher near-surface air temperatures, Higher humidity, Higher sea surface temperatures, Higher sea levels, Less sea ice, Less snow cover, Shrinking glaciers.
  • RACIST DRUGS: Congress passed a bill Wednesday that would narrow the disparity between mandatory sentences for crack and powder cocaine possession, changing a 24-year-old law that critics said unfairly subjected blacks to longer prison terms than whites. The measure was approved by voice vote in the House and sent to President Obama, who is expected to sign it into law, The Associated Press reported. The bill made it through the Senate in March. The legislation would overhaul a 1986 law that mandated a person convicted of crack cocaine possession get the same mandatory prison term as someone with 100 times the same amount of cocaine in powder form. The bill passed Wednesday reduces that ratio to about 18-1, the AP said. The original law was passed at the height of the crack epidemic, when it was assumed that rock cocaine was more dangerous than the regular form. Because crack was more prevalent in inner cities, blacks convicted of cocaine possession got much longer sentences than whites, who tended to prefer the powder.
  • The Justice Department is investigating whether hundreds of FBI agents cheated on a test of new rules allowing the bureau to conduct surveillance and open cases without evidence that a crime has been committed. In some instances, agents took the open-book test together, violating rules that they take it alone. Others finished the lengthy exam unusually quickly, current and former officials said.
  • A lawyer in a lawsuit over strip searches at the women's county jail facilities has filed a motion to determine if Lindsay Lohan received special treatment in the form of being able to skip the invasive search that all female inmates must endure. Attorney Colleen Flynn wants to know if the 24-year-old star was subject to a full-nude search, including a possible visual body cavity probe, in the parking lot outside the jail.
  • Mobile phones are covered with up to 18 times more living bacteria than the flush handle on a men's lavatory, research suggests. Swabs and analysis of 30 mobile handsets found that seven had high or warning levels of environmental bacteria, according to consumer group Which? One contained such an intense concentration of bacteria, including fecal coliforms, that anyone using it could have faced a serious stomach upset.
  • SAN DIEGO - A BB gun-toting 71-year-old man in a wheelchair was arrested about five minutes after he allegedly robbed a downtown bank. The holdup at the Chase Bank branch office in the 700 block of Broadway in the Core-Columbia district of San Diego was reported shortly after 10:30 a.m. The thief, a balding white-haired man, fled to the south and was followed by a witness. Police officials said Peter Barry Lawrence told them he robbed the bank in order to return to federal prison for health reasons.
  • MEMPHIS, Tennessee - A serial rapist who pleaded guilty to multiple counts of rape, kidnapping and robbery charges is trying to overturn his conviction by accusing interrogators of using junk food to coerce a confession. Bruce Tuck, also known as the "Big-Bellied Rapist," filed a 10-page petition on his own behalf. Among other things, the 275 pound man said jailers fed him only lettuce. When they offered him chips and soda, he was quick to confess to 19 felony charges that led to a 60 year sentence.
  • A New Hampshire teenager was arrested after allegedly spiking her mother's Kool-Aid with Lysol and burning her throat with the tainted drink. Police say 17-year-old Brittany Merrill poisoned the drink to get back at her mother for an argument they had at home two days before. Merrill was charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct.
  • Leonardo DiCaprio is withdrawing from a Mel Gibson-directed flick about vikings in the wake of the domestic abuse scandal, RadarOnline.com has exclusively confirmed. "Not a chance," said a source, close to the Inception star, when asked if he was still planning to star in Gibson's next project. The decision is a major setback for the Oscar-winning actor/director, who is facing allegations of domestic abuse and child endangerment.
  • Despite the fact that popular smartphones such as the iPhone and Android already have great web browsers, Opera's Java ME-based mobile browser Opera Mini is constantly growing. According to Opera, on July 25th it served one billion page views. 
 
 

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