Michael Berry, a conservative talk radio host in Houston who once said he hopes somebody blows up the controversial mosque in Manhattan, has been accused of ramming a car in the parking lot outside a gay nightclub in the city on Jan. 31. T.C.'s Show bouncer Tuderia Bennett said he saw Berry drive 70 feet in reverse and hit his car before driving away. Reached for comment, Berry told the Houston Press, "Wish I could, but cannot."
A Texas jury has awarded $20 million to a rape victim who sued her Houston apartment complex for failing to notify residents an attempted rape took place a few weeks earlier next door. The victim, raped for 10 hours in February 2009 at her The Promenade Cullen Park apartment, was awarded $7 million for physical pain and mental anguish, $5 million for future mental anguish and $8 million for conduct forbidden by Texas law. "The apartment complex issued a notice that an apartment had been broken into -- the same warning that they would send out if a bicycle was stolen off a balcony or a TV was stolen out of an apartment," said the woman's attorney, Troy Chandler.
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Joseph Kennedy III, the son of former Rep. Joseph Kennedy II (D-Mass.) and grandson of the late Robert F. Kennedy, has entered the race for the seat held by retiring Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) as a Democrat. "I believe this country was founded on a simple idea: that every person deserves to be treated fairly, by each other and by their government, but that's not happening in America anymore," said Kennedy, a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School who has worked as a prosecutor.
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But isn't the Mitt Romney a little too beefy?