| Jurors see chilling photos of dead baby
After hearing the district attorney paint a grim picture of Iyonna Brown's short, poverty-filled life, a jury Tuesday morning saw graphic photo after graphic photo of the 10-month-old after she died. Some images showed the baby's cherub face - chubby cheeks, thick, dark hair, eyes closed as though she were asleep. Her right eye appeared swollen and bruised. Another bruise had settled in above her left eye, and her chin was scraped and bruised. Some photos showed a single leg, badly burned, the skin sloughed off. One showed her blistered and reddened genital area. Another, showed one of her eyes held open with a medical device, a spot of blood in the white of her eye. It was a jarring start to the trial of the baby's alleged killer, Akeem Whitfield, 24, who is charged with second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter.
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The couple were spotted at a very non-Hollywood place, Ye Coach & Horses in LA, trying to fly under the radar. A spy for the Los Angeles Times described their interaction as "canoodling." Last we saw Christina she was making out with her ex-husband, Jonathon Schaech. Guess that reunion didn't go over well. Anyway, we think Zach is super cute -- back in September we picked him as one of our Sexy Guys of Fall TV. I guess Christina agrees. .
Baseball Charities set to top $500,000 at Sunday's fundraiser
This Sunday at Scottsdale Stadium, not only will some of the players on the baseball cards your mother might have thrown away decades ago come to life, but a local nonprofit organization is set to mark a milestone. Scottsdale-based Baseball Charities, donor of thousands of dollars to Little League teams throughout Arizona, is set to surpass $500,000 in funding so young players can get in the game by building a baseball field or by simply buying equipment. After Sunday's 16th annual Celebrity Baseball Game, $37,000 that has been raised during the last year will be distributed among 40 Little League teams, including $5,000 for one team, $2,500 apiece for two teams and $1,000 each for five teams, according to Buddy Schultz, the organization's executive director and a Scottsdale resident.
Transient found a home on Main Street
Michele Turner, the owner of the Main Street institution, would charge her a buck or two so as not to offend her. They'd talk a bit, maybe about the old days in New York, maybe about Mary's son or daughter. Mary's great fear was men the ones in her head were always trying to get at her or her cart. But she did fall for a surfer boy once. "You know, she wasn't that crazy over men, but she had a crush on my one son Ryan because he used to call her Maria," Turner said. "She'd get a red face whenever people asked her if she had a crush on him." Anna Wright, a hair stylist who can pair pinstripe shorts with vintage cowboy boots and pull it off, enjoyed Mary's compliments and her interest in fashion. She also liked having an extra set of eyes on the salon.
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Everyone was interested to see how he held up at the combine, particularly how fast he could go. This will certainly help, though Bowman still could be a late-round guy due to his injury past. Bowman recently wrote a draft diary for NFLplayers.com. Here's some of it: I always told myself that I wouldn't go to Nebraska, but I had a change of heart on the airplane when I landed. It was a fun time there. I met my fiancée there and football-wise had a really good first year there. I didn't play my second year at Nebraska due to a knee injury. My third year, I played, but we didn't have quite as successful of a season as we all wanted to. It is what it is though and I learned from it. I had some ups and downs while I was at Nebraska, but I got through it. After the 2006 season I considered entering the NFL Draft, but in the end I decided to come back for another year at Nebraska.
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