News Flash : MJ rushed to Hospital…

Michael Jackson has been hospitalized in Las Vegas with pneumonia,

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The Osmonds – Crazy Horses

Maybe he had trouble sleeping….

An American who kept 77 sheep in his suburban home faces 30 charges of animal cruelty.

Some had been found grazing on artificial flowers at the town’s cemetery.

Some were walking on their knees because their hooves had never been trimmed, causing infections, said veterinarian Kelli Ferris, who examined the flock.

David Watts, 47, was being held at the Wake County jail in Apex, North Carolina, in lieu of $US12,000 ($A14,900) bail following a court appearance.

A judge denied a request to release him pending trial.

Watts surrendered the flock to animal control officers on Monday after police found some sheep grazing on artificial flowers in the town cemetery in Apex, a suburb of Raleigh.

Thirty of the sheep were euthanised because of various health problems. In addition, sheep bones and carcasses were found in Watts’ yard.

Watts kept some of the younger sheep on the ground floor of his house and kept the others in pens in the yard, authorities said.

Watts denies abusing the animals. He told The News & Observer of Raleigh that he was overwhelmed by the number of lambs born this year.

Watts, who said he has raised sheep for a decade, called the animals “relaxing to be around”.

“It’s like in Florida, you can swim with the dolphins. If you can get sheep to follow you, it might be a similar experience.”

Divorcee’s Sex Change Won’t Stop Alimony

A woman’s sex change operation does not free her ex-husband from his alimony obligation, a judge said Wednesday.

Attorneys for Lawrence Roach, 48, had argued his 55-year-old ex-wife’s decision to switch genders and change her name from Julia to Julio Roberto Silverwolf voided their 2004 divorce agreement.

“It’s illegal for a man to marry a man and it should likewise be illegal for a man to pay alimony to a man,” said John McGuire, one of Roach’s attorneys.

Circuit Judge Jack R. St. Arnold, however, ruled that in the eyes of the law, nothing changed significantly enough to free Roach from his $1,250-a-month obligation.

The judge said since Florida courts have ruled sex-change surgery cannot legally change a person’s birth gender, Roach technically is not paying alimony to a man.

Gender definitions are “a question that raises issues of public policy that should be addressed by the Legislature, not the Florida courts,” St. Arnold wrote.

Silverwolf’s lawyer, Gregory Nevins, said the language of the divorce decree is clear — Roach agreed to pay alimony until his ex-wife dies or remarries.

Nevins said he and his client were pleased with the ruling although they disagree with Florida’s refusal to legally recognize gender reassignment surgery.

Roach, a utility worker who has since remarried, said he will press his fight to end the payments.

“We’re going to try everything we can,” he said. “I can’t rest until I get satisfaction.”

The case is the second transsexual rights showdown in Pinellas County in less than a week. On Friday, city commissioners voted 5-2 to fire Largo’s city manager, Steve Stanton, after he announced he was a transsexual.

An Ohio appeals court ruled in September 2004 that a Montgomery County man must continue to pay alimony to his transsexual ex-wife because her sex change wasn’t reason enough to violate the agreement.

Infuriated soccer fans bite off ears of pub owner in Greece

A man in Crete unwillingly sacrificed both of his ears trying to stop a fight between soccer fans in his pub, Greek television said Wednesday.

The fight erupted in a pub owned by Dimitris Tsibibakis following Greece’s 4:1 humiliating defeat by Turkey in the 2008 Euro-Cup qualifier.

The Greek television said Bulgarian expatriates began chanting support for the Turkish team in the pub after another goal was scored, and pub locals retaliated, sparking the fight. The pub owner tried to prevent the brawl and was immediately thrown to the floor.

“One of them dug his teeth onto my ear, and another began chewing the other ear,” Tsibibakis said, adding he managed to keep the ears and now requires plastic surgery.

Police have arrested three of the fighters and are looking for the fourth.

The Greek soccer team could face sanctions from international soccer authorities following the behavior of Greek fans who threw objects and flares at the Turkish players and referee during the Athens game.

Turkish fans were more ingenuous and crashed the Web site of the Hellenic Football Federation prior to kickoff.

Victoria Beckhams got a boob issue…

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