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Burger guy's bath
A video posted on Myspace.com shows an employee of a Burger King in Xenia, Ohio, pickings a bath in a kitchen sink as other employees front on or continue working. "It's my birthday and I'm pickings a bath in the sink at Burger King," the riant, tattooed worker tells the camera. "Somebody bring me a beer!" Greene County Health Commissioner Mark McDonnell is not amused. "It's a sophomoric, childish stunt," McDonnell said Tuesday. Burger King spokeswoman Denise Wilson said, "All employees associated with the video no longer work with the company."
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A isle of Man suspected of posing as a constabulary detective in Longmont, Colo., and apprisal an adult novelty stag to give him relinquish X-rated videos so he could match for underage performers was arrested Tuesday, authorities said.
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Hayes had stroke
Soul singer Isaac Hayes, 65, apparently died of a stroke, officials with the Memphis, Tenn., Sheriff's Department said Tuesday. No autopsy was performed, but paperwork filed by Hayes' fellowship physician, Dr. David Kraus, lists the cause of death as a stroke, a sheriff's spokesman aforementioned. Kraus said he had been treating Hayes for high blood pressure.
Passages
Lee Young, 94, brother of notable tenor saxophonist Lester Young and a jazz drummer who served as Nat King Cole's musical theater director for well-nigh a tenner and skint barriers as one of the first black musicians hired for a staff position with a Hollywood studio orchestra, died July 31 at his home in Los Angeles.
Today in History
1521: Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez captured Tenochtitlan, present-day Mexico City, from the Aztecs.
1846: The American flag was elevated for the first time in Los Angeles.
1889: William Gray of Hartford, Conn., received a patent for a coin-operated telephone.
1960: The showtime two-way phone conversation by satellite took place with the help of Echo 1.
1961: Berlin was divided as East Germany sealed off the border between the city's eastern and western sectors and began building a wall in holy Order to stop the flight of refugees.
Today's Birthdays
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro, 82. Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, 75. Opera singer Kathleen Battle, 60. Actor Danny Bonaduce, 49. Actress Dawnn Lewis, 47. Actor John Slattery, 46.
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