A 7-year-old llama named Scooter was tasered this weekend after a run-in with police.

The llama escaped from a home in Tallahassee and was on the run from police on late Friday night. Officers finally found the animal on Saturday morning but the arrest capture didn’t go as expected. The llama refused to cooperate with officers and tried to fight his way to freedom.

And that’s when the llama got tasered.

According to the Daily Mail, officers in Florida shut down Bannerman Road because they were afraid that the animal would get hit by a car. Once the problem of traffic was solved, the officers slowly closed in on the animal and tried to get the animal into a trailer.

Deputy Tony Drzewiecki said: “Our main concern was that he was going to get hit by a car and either get hurt or injure someone else.”

The officers tried to get the llama into a trailer but Scooter was not cooperating. The llama spit in Drzewiecki’s face and then proceeded to trample the officer.

Drzewiecki said: “I’ve been doing this 20 years and they said there is going to be a lot of excitement in this job, but no one ever told me I would get spit in the face by a llama and trampled by one.”

The llama was then tasered by the other cops.

Sgt. Dawn Dennis said: “It was apparent that he was going to cause an accident. We had to tase it. If it’s a hazard – which it was – we try our best to capture it until the owner can come and get it.”

The Tallahassee Democrat notes that the animal was not injured by the taser. The llama was reportedly snacking on biscuits shortly after his arrest capture.

Do you think the police officers made the right choice to taser the llama? And more importantly, do you think Scooter will ever get a job as a therapy llama?

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A man married to an actress who plays a zombie on The Walking Dead is now accusing his wife of sending letters laced with ricin to politicians.

On Friday, the FBI questioned 37-year-old Nathaniel Richardson, an Army veteran, as a person of interest in connection with ricin-laced letters sent to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and President Obama last week. A third letter was also sent to Mayor Bloomberg’s Washington-based gun control group. Richardson reportedly works as a defense deportment employee at the Red River Army Depot, a maintenance support facility, in Texarkana.

Richardson’s wife, 36-year-old actress Shannon Rogers Guess, tipped off police that her husband was responsible for the letters after she found a Tupperware container full of castor beans, which are used to make ricin, in their refrigerator. Guess also said that she found Internet searches related to the president and Mayor Bloomberg, as well as instructions on making ricin. However, a source told ABC News that the ricin “may not have been correctly and made” and said it was “clearly amateur hour.”

During Richardson’s FBI interview, he accused Guess of sending the letters. However, the beans were purchased with a credit card, and Richardson said he doesn’t use credit cards and, according to CBS News, Guess “knows specific details” about the letters. The couple are currently going through a divorce, although Guess is currently pregnant with her sixth child, her first with Richardson.

All three letters were postmarked May 20 from Shreveport, Louisiana, about an hour-and-a-half drive from New Boston, where Richardson and Guess reside.

Both Guess and Richardson are suspects in the case, and the FBI has set up a tent on their lawn. Both are taking polygraph tests.

Ricin is capable of killing within 36 hours. Anyone who touches the poison will suffer a non-fatal rash, but inhaling the poison is lethal.

[Photo credit: Shannon Rogers Guess / Facebook]

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According to official Eurostat numbers published Friday, unemployment among those in the euro zone – an estimated 17 countries – continues to climb, hitting yet another record high due in part to a prolonged recession stemming over six quarters, and an absence of a resolution by regional policy makers.

The jobless rate, for those who utilize the euro, has risen to 12.2 percent, increasing from 12.1 percent in the previous month – equating to roughly 19.4 million people without jobs, reports the New York Times. Concerned analysts foresee the potential for 20 million to be unemployed by the end of the year if the current trend continues.

Regardless, these same analysts do not anticipate the European Central Bank to cut interest rates again or attempt to stimulate growth in response. Instead, inflation in the euro zone has risen to 1.4 percent, from 1.2 – the rate of increase attributed to the rising cost of provisions, alcohol, and tobacco.

The youth numbers – those job-seekers 16 to 25 – are especially alarming, as nearly a quarter of them are unemployed. In Greece, 62.5 percent of youths were jobless in April; 56.4 percent in Spain; Italy up over 40 percent. Germany remained around 7.5 percent.

Cyprus reflected the sharpest change in unemployment rates among euro zone countries, which saw its jobless rate rise to 15.6 percent from 14.5 percent – becoming the fifth distressed country to seek financial assistance in March.

In contrast, the jobs market in the US has started to improve, with the unemployment rate falling to 7.5 percent in April. Overall, these stagnant euro zone numbers could translate to a slower or near non-existent rate of sustainable growth in the future.

European Union leaders should make a decision soon regarding whether or not they will allowed these countries more time to trim their governmental budgets.

Have you been unemployed? If so, how long did it take before you were able to find work? Is the work within your field of degree or interest, or were you forced to take something as a simple means to making a living?

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The unrest in Turkey grows, as a widespread Turkish protest movement that the government describes as riots moves into its third day. According to a BBC report, the protest began quietly, when people gathered to object to plans to build a shopping center at the site of Istanbul’s Gezi Park near the city’s modern heart, Taksim Square.

The protestors had originally come together to stop the park’s trees from being uprooted.

When police broke up the protest with tear gas and water cannons, tens of thousands of people took to the streets — not just in Istanbul but in Turkey’s capital, Ankara, and as many as 67 other Turkish towns.

An estimated 10,000 people gathered in Taksim Square on Sunday, calling for Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to resign.

Instead, Erdogan has taken a hardline. The protestors were again moved with tear gas and water cannons, and he still insists that Gezi Park will be demolished.

A Bloomberg Businessweek report said that Erdogan blames social media for the uprising, rather than his plan to remove one of the few green spaces near Taksim Square:

“There is now a menace which is called Twitter. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.”

With an invitation like that, how you can resist heading over to that menace called Twitter to check it out? But be warned. The images coming from Turkey are heart-breaking.

BEFORE & AFTER THE POLICE!!! SHARE PLEASE!!! #Turkey twitter.com/MhmtGunsur_Fan…

— Anonymous(@AnonOpsMob) June 2, 2013

And there’s something else. Anonymous has now declared #OpTurkey on Twitter in support of the anti-government protests. Their “hacktivists” said that they have taken down some municipal and pro-government websites.

There’s a whole lot more information on that activity…guess where. Yeah, it’s Twitter.

As rumors spread that Prime Minister Erdogan will limit internet access, Anonymous is now spreading passwords to free VPN networks in Turkey. A Virtual Private Network is the equivalent of a private network whose nodes are connected together over the public internet using encryption to protect their communications.

The more I look into it, the more I can see why PM Erdogan isn’t crazy about the menace called Twitter. Maybe he should think twice about the so-called Turkish rioters and just let the trees live?

Anonymous has said that they plan “to attack every Internet and communications asset of the Turkish government.”

[Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan photo by Nilgun Gulcan via Wikimedia Commons]

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A 22-year-old DJ from the Bronx was electrocuted and struck by a train after dropping his iPhone on the subway tracks early Saturday morning.

Francisco Diego, Jr., who went by the name “Tech Trackz,” told a toll booth clerk at the Wakefield-241st Street station that he dropped his phone on the tracks shortly after 1:10 am. The clerk told him to wait while she helped him get it. Diego didn’t wait for the clerk and tried to grab the phone off the tracks himself. A 2 train arriving entered the station, and Diego went between two of the cars to try and get the phone, but ended up electrocuting himself on the third rail. The train then started moving and Diego was knocked onto the tracks. He was then struck by the train.

Diego, who lived in the Foxhurst section of the Bronx, was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center in Morris Park, but he didn’t make it.

A makeshift memorial was erected outside of Diego’s Fox St. home, and friends and family reminisced about the young DJ who had just worked a Memorial Day party at Maximo’s Place, a nightclub where he often hosted parties.

One friend, Kevin Atterbury, said Diego wasn’t the type to jump onto the tracks. “He would just get a new one. That’s why this is so shocking.”

However, family members said this wasn’t the first time he tried to retrieve his phone after dropping it.

“He’s done it before, which is why he tried to do it again,” Diego’s sister, Nandy, said. “But this time it wasn’t successful. I feel like my heart has been ripped out.”

Francisco Diego, Jr. is the second person to be struck by a train in a 24-hour time period. A man who was trying to cross the tracks at the E. 174th St. station was hit by a northbound 2 train around 2:15 am Friday. The man was pinned between the train and the platform, and was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx. Unfortunately, he couldn’t be saved.

[Photo credit: R.I.P Tech Trackz / Facebook]

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A Virginia school board member may lose his job after sending several emails attacking Michelle Obama.

School board members in Isle of Wight county voted 4 to 1 to call for Herb DeGroft’s resignation after he used his board account to send disparaging emails about the first lady. DeGroft was the only one to vote against the proposal.

One of DeGroft’s emails contained a picture of bare-breasted, African female warriors. Underneath the photo was the caption, “Michelle Obama’s high school reunion.” Another email claimed that National Geographic paid Mrs. Obama $50 to model in the magazine.

Some school board members said DeGroft has been sending similar emails since January 2012, but DeGroft claimed that the emails were meant to be political and not racial.

“There was no intention or motivation on my part to be inappropriate or to be discriminatory against in forwarding some e-mails of hundreds I receive,” DeGroft wrote in an apology to Isle of Wight residents. So far, DeGroft has not stepped down from his position.

Some of the emails were also forwarded by Board of Supervisors Vice Chairman Byron “Buzz” Bailey to other board members and county employees. Bailey came under fire last month for saying “Save the Confederate money, the south will rise again,” during a meeting. Both incidents led to the resignation of Division Superintendent Katrise Perera, but the Board of Supervisors voted to keep Bailey in his current position.

Earlier this year, an Alabama teacher was suspended for referring to the first lady as “fat butt Michelle Obama.”

High school psychology teacher Bob Grisham was suspended for 10 days without pay for his rant, which also included derogatory comments about gay people. A student recorded the rant and gave it to school authorities.

Last August, Spanish magazine Fuera de Serie depicted Mrs. Obama as a nude slave on its cover. The first lady’s head was Photoshopped onto the painting Portrait d’une négresse by Marie-Guillemine Benoist. The painting is generally seen as supportive of women’s rights, but not everyone felt the cover was intended as a compliment.

Do you think Herb DeGroft should resign from the school board?

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A 111-year-old Yankees fan who was born the same year as the franchise itself and once met Babe Ruth had what he called the “greatest day” of his life this weekend when he got to go onto Yankee Stadium field and meet Derek Jeter.

Bernardo LaPallo said meeting Yankees manager Joe Girardi and captain Jeter on the field before Saturday’s game against the Red Sox was the “greatest day” of his life. Despite his advanced age, the 111-year-old fan still keeps up on the game and talked to Jeter about his recovery.

LaPallo, born in Brazil in 1901, has lived in New York for the last 90 years, and has had quite a full life. He studied culinary arts at the Sarbonne, fought in World War II, lived in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance, and wrote a book  at age 107 called Age Less Live More. His second book, Beyond 100 — How to Live Well into Your Second Century, will be released on Aug. 17, the day LaPallo turns 112.

Bernardo LaPallo said he doesn’t feel one bit of his age.

“Being old and shaking in a wheelchair, that’s no good. That’s hell,” LaPallo said. “I’ll get up every morning and I’ll take my walk, come back, I can shave, I can bathe, I can do everything you can do.”

The 111-year-old fan has an almost encyclopedic knowledge of the team. He remembers watching games at Hilltop Park, the Yankees first home, when he was 9 or 10 years old, and went to the first Yankee Stadium when it opened in 1923.

When Babe Ruth first came to New York 93 years ago, LaPallo met him.

“I shook his hand and he said, ‘My greatest admirer, my youngest admirer,’ ” LaPallo recalled. “I remember that like yesterday.”

The 111-year-old fan said he hoped to see Yankees closer Mariano Rivera pitch, adding that he hates to think about Rivera retiring after this year. But LaPallo acknowledged that “time takes it away.”

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Kim Kardashian found out the sex of her baby with Kanye West on the season eight premiere of Keeping Up with the Kardashians.

Yet another girl will be joining the Kardashian Klan. The 32-year-old mom-to-be, along with sisters Khloe and Kourtney, and “momager” Kris, found out that the couple were expecting a daughter during a visit to the family doctor. At the time of the ultrasound, Kardashian was 19 weeks pregnant.

Teasers for the premiere showed Kardashian asking the doctor if he saw a “pee pee” on the ultrasound. The doctor said he was 99 percent sure there wasn’t one.

Even though the announcement wasn’t made officially until the reality series’ premiere on June 2, a source told Hollywood Life back in January that Kardashian and West were expecting a girl.

“Kim has always dreamed of having a little girl and now she has her wish,” a source told Hollywood Life. “She and Kanye talked about not finding out but they were too excited. Kim has always wanted a little girl and everyone is so excited. Now it’s pink, pink, pink!”

Another source said that, if the couple did end up having a daughter, West wanted to name her “Donda” after his mother, who passed away on November 10, 2007, at the age of 58.

Prior to the season premiere, Kardashian celebrated her baby shower with friends, family, and West, whose family was also in attendance.

“Kanye’s whole family – all the women from his mom’s side and dad’s side – attended the shower,” a source told People magazine. “Kanye was so excited to have his family be there to join in the celebration with Kim’s friends and family.” The source added that Kardashian and West — who hasn’t been seen much during his girlfriend’s pregnancy — “were so cute — he rubbed her belly.”

Celebrity guests at the baby shower included Kelly Osbourne, Maria Menounos, and NeNe Leakes.

Kim Kardashian is due to give birth next month.

What do you think of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West having a baby girl? Do you think they should name her Donda after West’s mother?

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Fans of Arrested Development noticed that the character Lindsey Bluth looked a little different in the new episodes. Rumors started circulating that Portia De Rossi had undergone plastic surgery but a source close to the actress said that the rumors aren’t true.

A source close to the actress told E! Online that it was the character’s wig that made her appear different and not the actress’s face.

The source said:

“She’s absolutely not had plastic surgery. Her character is clearly wearing a wig, which ended up altering her entire look.”

Portia De Rossi addressed her image, but not necessarily plastic surgery, recently in an interview with People Magazine. The actress said that she, as well as all women, felt pressure to look young despite getting older.

De Rossi said: “As women we’re so conditioned to think that beauty and age are very important – that you stay kind of youthful in order to be beautiful … I don’t think it’s fair for people to think that women are just vain because they’re worried about getting older. It’s actually really linked in with a lot of very primitive stuff for women.”

De Rossi hasn’t commented directly on the rumors yet but many speculate that Lindsey’s new look may have been a creative choice by show creator Mich Hurwitz. Lindsey is a very self-absorbed character and a bit of plastic surgery definitely fits the show. So Lindsey Bluth may have had plastic surgery but not necessarily Portia De Rossi.

What do you think? Did Portia De Rossi have plastic surgery?

Here’s a photo of the actress from the premiere of the fourth season of Arrested Development.

Here’s a look at how her character has evolved on the show.

Portia’s character has definitely changed between the third and fourth seasons but it doesn’t look like Portia has had any work down herself.

What do you think?

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The winner of a record Powerball jackpot has yet to come forward two weeks after the numbers matching his or her ticket were drawn.

The $590 million jackpot ticket was sold in Zephyrhills, Florida, a small town where most people know each other. It wasn’t a surprise that it took a few days for the winner to come forward, by now many are wondering if that person will ever claim the massive jackpot.

Curious residents of Zephyrhills initially decided that the Powerball winner would need a few days to realize the scope of their winnings and prepare for the inevitable media onslaught.

But after a week passed, officials encouraged those who purchased tickets from the supermarket to check their numbers again, just in case. Now that two weeks have passed, residents are getting anxious to find out who in their town of 13,337 became a multi millionaire overnight.

Dave Walters, a longtime reporter for the community’s newspaper, Zephyrhills News, stated of the anticipation:

“Being in a small town, everybody knows everybody and in some cases, everybody’s business. It’s hard to keep a secret in this town, but this is one of the biggest mysteries we’re had in a long, long time.”

There are several possibilities for why the Powerball winner has yet to come forward, such as the winner hasn’t looked at the ticket (unlikely), read the numbers wrong, biding their time until the media circus calms down, or even that the winner lost his or her ticket.

Whatever the reason is, Walters explained that rumors are still running rampant through Zephyrhills for who purchased the jackpot ticket at Publix market. He added:

“Anybody who did not show up for work on that Monday was considered to be the lottery winner. If you had the flu and didn’t show up for work, everyone thought you were the lottery winner. If you took a personal day or a sick day, they thought you had won the lottery.”

But those suspects have denied owning the winning ticket. The Powerball winner has 60 days from the date of the drawing to claim the record prize as a lump sum and 180 days to claim it in lifetime payments. If that date passes, the funds will go to the state, leaving the residents of Zephyrhills to wonder who the winner was.

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Pia Zadora has been arrested on suspicion of domestic battery after an incident at her Las Vegas home.

The 61-year-old singer/actress was booked Saturday into the Clark County Detention Center, but was released after posting $4,000 bond.

Police were called to her home at close to 5 am on Saturday after a call of a disturbance. There were few other details about Pia Zadora’s arrest. Police did not release the name of the victim or other details about the incident, but said they will release more information on Monday.

Born Pia Alfreda Schipani, she got an early start in show business, appearing as a Martian girl in the 1964 movie Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. Pia got her breakthrough close to two decades later, when she starred in the 1982 film Butterfly.

The role earned Pia Zadora the Golden Globe Award for Best New Star of the Year, but there were accusations that her husband bought off the award with a marketing campaign. Other critics panned the role, and Pia Zadora would also win Razzies for Worst New Star and Worst Actress for the same performance.

Pia Zadora found little more success in acting, appearing in a number of other movies but earning scorn from critics. She was able to carve out a semi-successful career in singing. however, scoring several hit singles throughout the world. In 1984 Pia earned a Grammy nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for the song “Rock It Out.” She also scored a US Top 40 hit with a cover of the Shirley Ellis hit “The Clapping Song” in 1983.

Pia Zadora, who also faces a coercion charge, has been married to her third husband, Mike Jeffries, since 2005. Jeffries is a detective with the Las Vegas police department, and met Zadora when she came in to report a stalker.

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A group of female Israeli soldiers were disciplined for racy photos they posted to Facebook, according to an announcement by the Israeli military on Sunday.

The female soldiers apparently posted pictures of themselves in underwear and combat gear on the social media site. The incident is just the latest in a series where young Israeli soldiers have been reprimanded for their actions on social media sites.

An Israeli news site reported that the women reprimanded were new recruits stationed on a base in southern Israel.

The military released a statement about the incident, saying that the young women acted in a way that showed “unbecoming behavior” for Israeli soldiers. The statement added, “The commanding officers disciplined the soldiers as they saw fitting.”

The female Israeli soldiers posted one photo where the removed their fatigue uniforms to expose their underwear and back sides. Five female soldiers also posed in another photo dressed in helmets and some combat equipment, but nothing else. The faces of the soldiers, who appeared to be in a barracks room, were blurred out.

The Israeli military has punished soldiers several times in recent years for what they call improper postings on social media sites. A video was posted to YouTube in 2010 showing a male Israeli soldier dancing suggestively in front of a blindfolded Palestinian woman. Another incident showed a female Israeli soldier posing for a photo in front of Palestinian prisoners.

The two incidents resulted in the Israeli military banning soldiers from using social media sites while they were on base. It is not clear if that ban is still in effect.

Another Israeli soldier was punished earlier this year for writing and-Palestinian tweets and posting pictures to several social media sites showing himself posing naked with a gun.

It is unclear what the punishments were for the female Israeli soldiers who posted inappropriate pictures to Facebook.

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Sophia Grace may be cute in her appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, but that’s not stopping critics from blasting the 10-year-old British rapper’s latest music video as “disturbing.”

The young star recently released a song “Girls Just Gotta Have Fun,” and the video on YouTube has close to 1.3 million views in the first two days. It features Sophia Grace rolling in on a mini pink SUV, dancing with her friends at a party, and flirting with a boy. The video was still a bit of a departure for Sophia Grace, who has mostly done cover songs to date.

With a heavy dose of autotune, the pint-sized rapper spits verses about going to the mall to buy clothes and name drops Ellen DeGeneres and Nicki Minaj. For those who don’t know the history, it was Minaj that helped launch Sophia Grace’s career, with a cover of the song “Super Bass” by Nicki Minaj along with her younger cousin, Rosie.

Sophia and Rosie have made many appearances together on Ellen, though it is Sophia who has stepped into the spotlight. In fact, Rosie only makes a brief, non-speaking appearance in “Girls Just Gotta Have Fun.”

Though Sophia is just 10, critics aren’t holding back in their assessment of her music video. Toofab described it as “quite possibly the most disturbing thing you’ll watch today.”

“It’s one thing to have a guest gig on Ellen, but this feels a bit exploitative to us,” the review read.

It’s not as if the video is thrown together by Sophia or her parents, either. It was was directed in the music video by Matt Alonzo, who’s also made videos for Soulja Boy, Ice Cube, Pitbull, and the Far East Movement.

While some critics don’t like the video, it has also drawn out plenty of Sophia Grace supporters who loved the video and seemed to think it was a little harsh to judge a 10-year-old’s rapping ability.

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Disneyland and Disney World are experiencing a price hike just in time for the summer season.

If you had already worked out the cost of a Disney-oriented vacation, then you’ll may need to bring a little extra cash. It’s now going to run families more to visit the happiest place on earth.

Those folks visiting Disney World in Orlando, Florida will see the price of a one-day adult pass jump by around $6. Getting inside will now run you $95 per person. Children under the age of ten won’t have to pay nearly as much; their ticket will cost $89.

Although Disneyland didn’t go up as much as its Florida-based counterpart, you’ll still see a price hike this summer. A one-day pass at the Anaheim park will cost vacationers $92 for adults and $86 for children. Large families will easily drop hundreds of dollars before they even start looking at food, hotel, trinkets, and parking.

Reports indicate that those who prefer to buy the annual passes will also be affected by the increase in rates. Depending on which pass you decide to pursue, Disney fans can expect to drop upwards of $20 per ticket.

Why are the Disney theme parks experiencing a price hike this summer? According to the company, a “number of factors” are forcing families to part with more money.

“A ticket to our theme parks represents a great value, particularly when you look at the breadth and quality of attractions and entertainment we offer and the special moments guests experience with our cast,” spokesman Bryan Malenius recently explained.

In short, Disney wants you pay a few extra dollars per day to hang out with them because they feel the experience is worth more this year than last. Since there’s nothing quite like a Disney theme park, chances are the increase isn’t going to stop too many people from dropping in.

What do you think about the Disneyland and Disney World price hike?

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A new Dunkin Donuts sandwich provides a breakfast-twist on the so-awful-you-have-to-try-it doughnut burger. Listen up, arteries: the new Dunkin Donuts sandwich is a fried egg and two slices of bacon between a halved glazed doughnut.

Though the pressure is on for most fast food chains to start offering healthier menu choices if they want to stay in business, Dunkin Donuts is seemingly going the other way with their new egg-bacon-doughnut sandwich, set to debut nationwide on June 7.

June 7, which is also “National Donut Day,” will see the new sandwich become a permanent staple on the menu. It was first tested in select stores in Massachusetts, but will go nationwide after it generated considerable buzz online.

It’s called the ”Glazed Donut Breakfast Sandwich” and it clocks in at 360 calories. You’d think it’d be more.

In any event, the new sandwich debuts at a time when many competing restaurants are trying to offer healthier, low calorie options on their menus. A report from the Hudson Institute earlier this year found that low-cal options were a huge factor in how restaurants grew between 2006 and 2011.

Chains which offered more health-conscious options saw their customer traffic go up by 11 percent. Those that didn’t comply with market demand saw their traffic fall by 15 percent.

Conversely, some restaurants seem to be getting away with more hedonistic options depending on their appeal. For instance, the Doritos taco at Taco Bell was the most successful menu item of all time for the chain, with earnings increasing by around 8 percent.

Stan Frankenthaler, executive chef and vice president of product innovation at Dunkin’ Donuts, said that the new sandwich is part of an effort to offer as much variety to their customers as possible.

What do you think? Are you tempted to try the new Dunkin Donuts sandwich?

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Channing Tatum sure is a busy man. The new father returned to work three days after the birth of his daughter, to film the sci fi action film Jupiter Ascending. Currently Tatum is filming in London with Mila Kunis, and because of his busy schedule, he and wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum decided to make a home while the actor films.

As reported, the big day finally arrived and the two welcomed a baby girl. While Tatum’s daughter’s name isn’t revealed just yet, we can reveal that he’s not taking any time off, and neither is his wife.  Of their busy schedule, Tatum told Ryan Seacrest’s radio show: “We’re going to actually have the baby in London while I’m shooting, and then there will be no downtime whatsoever after that.”

Tatum stayed true to his word as the actor was seen today filming in London at a  power station. While Tatum is busy shooting his next big budget film, Dewan-Tatum is taking a brief rest at their $8.8 million London apartment along with their two dogs and their newborn daughter.

Shortly after, it’s been reported that Jenna Dewan-Tatum has no intentions on halting her career now that she’s a new mother. In fact, the actress, starts production on her Lifetime series Witches of East End in Vancouver in July. It’s around that time that Tatum’s production will move from London to Chicago.

Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan-Tatum met and subsequently fell in love on the set of their 2006 film Step Up. Back then Dewan was a back up dancer for Justin Timberlake, and Tatum was a model just starting to break into the acting world. The two were wed on July 2009 after they became engaged in September of 2008.

Their new daughter is the first child for both actors.

Jupiter Ascending is slated for a July 2014 release.

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Mookie Blaylock has been charged with second-degree vehicular manslaughter for causing a fatal crash last weekend that killed a 40-year-old woman.

According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, he was also charged with several misdemeanors for the crash.

The former NBA player was charged with driving on a suspended license, driving on the wrong side of the road, making an improper lane change, and crossing a median.

Sports Illustrated reports that officers have not informed Blaylock of the charges yet. The former NBA star is still in the hospital and will be informed of the charges as soon as he is well enough to meet with police officers.

Investigators will determine if Blaylock is to face any other charges after the interview.

The former NBA star was driving an SUV on Friday when he allegedly crossed over the median and crashed into a van. A 43-year-old woman in the van was killed during the crash.

Blaylock played 13 years in the NBA with the New Jersey Nets, the Atlanta Hawks, and the Golden State Warriors. He was named to the All-Star team in 1994.

Here’s a video report about Mookie Blaylock’s car accident.

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In a 5-to-4 vote Monday, the Supreme Court narrowly upheld a Maryland law permitting law enforcement to collect DNA samples from arrestees as a routine part of the booking process – as common as fingerprinting – without the necessity of a warrant.

The federal government and 28 states authorize the practice and find it to be a valuable tool when investigating unsolved crimes. This recent decision means if you are ever arrested, guilty or not, your DNA can be taken and entered into a national database, reports the Washington Post. Therefore, if you are not convicted of a serious crime, your DNA can be swabbed and kept on file.

Justice Anthony Kennedy defined an oral buccal swab as a minor intrusion, supporting the argument for DNA sampling. According to ABC News, Kennedy was quoted, stating, “When officers make an arrest supported by probable cause to hold for a serious offense and they bring the suspect to the station to be detained in custody, taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee’s DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.”

Kennedy reinforced support for the decision, finding DNA proves more accurate identification of individuals – as we take mugshots and record tattoos and fingerprints in the same vain. Ultimately, DNA samples would insure dangerous criminals would not be easily released on bail, and unsolved crimes would potentially be linked to recidivistic detainees, who based on genetic evidence, likely committed them – allowing for investigations to continue in otherwise cold cases.

The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights. This measure guards against unreasonable searches and seizures, along with requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. It is applied by way of the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment.

Investigative scopes regarding search and seizure, including arrest, are meant to be restricted to specific information legally supplied for use in court – applied as a means of limiting potential abuse.

Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Clarence Thomas, Stephen Breyer and Samuel Alito sided with Kennedy’s view on the matter and voted in favor. Justices Antonin Scalia, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg voted against the measure.

The decision overturned a ruling by Maryland’s highest court that felt the law skimmed the line of unlawful searches of those arrested, used to see whether they could be connected to unsolved crimes. The challenge to the Maryland law was initially brought by Alonzo Jay King Jr. His DNA was taken after a 2009 arrest for assault and used to connect him to an unsolved rape, completely unrelated to the crime he was being detained for.

A Maryland court was one of the first to say that it was illegal for that state to take King’s DNA without approval from a judge, citing King had a reasonable expectation of privacy against warrantless searches under the Fourth Amendment, as the DNA used to make the comparison had been from an unrelated arrest.

The Supreme Court’s ruling negates the prior ruling, and reinstates King’s rape conviction.

Do you feel a cheek swab is an intrusion on your rights? Do you think it is right for an otherwise innocent individual to be subjected to DNA testing as part of their arrest process? You are arrested and not convicted on a first time offense, should your DNA be kept on file or expunged from the system? Should DNA samples be kept indefinitely?

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Geoffrey Miller is a visiting professor currently on loan from the University of New Mexico to New York University, but a horribly body shaming tweet he sent this weekend has probably made both schools ashamed to claim him.

Over on Twitter, Geoffrey Miller tweets under the totally scientifically respectable handle @MatingMind, which we infer means “I use the veneer of science to tell people how to get laid.” The term “evolutionary psychology,” which is Miller’s area of expertise, is one we frequently see bandied about by pick-up artists and seduction “experts,” so perhaps his fat shaming ramblings are not much of a surprise.

Still, the now-deleted tweet in which Miller posted the following statement didn’t sit well with people — not only is he being a jerk to fat people, he’s also suggesting that he considers a person’s looks when he evaluates their work.

“Dear Obese PhD applicants: if you didn’t have the willpower to stop eating carbs, you don’t have the willpower to do a dissertation #truth.”

Geoffrey Miller’s fat tweet was sent on June 2, and the story was picked up today by Jezebel — where reaction was swift and irritated.

Perhaps quite predictably, Miller was not all that assured in his public jerkery — pretty quickly, the mea culpas (or “please don’t fire mes”) began issuing forth from his Twitter feed as well.

Miller’s feed is now locked (which we suspect is totally not alpha male behavior), but before he got scared and ran away, he had this to say for himself:

“My sincere apologies to all for that idiotic, impulsive, and badly judged tweet. It does not reflect my true views, values, or standards.”

Tellingly, he felt compelled to tweet as well:

“Obviously my previous tweet does not represent the selection policies of any university, or my own selection criteria.”

While it’s unclear how this Twitter slipup will affect Geoffrey Miller or the universities with which he is affiliated, it serves again as a reminder that anything you post on Twitter can be preserved with screenshots and quotes, and if you publicly admit to discriminating against people based on appearance, you’re going to have a bad time.

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The Expendables 3 is all set to explode across the big screen next summer.

The next installment of Sylvester Stallone’s franchise is slated to arrive next August. Although filming has yet to begin, Lionsgate seems hopeful that everything will wrapped up by this point.

According to Box Office Mojo, The Expendables 3 should hit theaters on August 15, 2015. The follow-up has the weekend to itself for the time being. However, that could change at any moment.

Stallone is still busy trying to get people to sign on for the project. While certain actors have already committed to the project — Wesley Snipes was approached as soon as he stepped outside of prison — others are still in talks with producers about joining up.

The Inquisitr previously reported that Stallone is seriously pursuing both Nicolas Cage and star Milla Jovovich for roles in the upcoming flick. The Resident Evil star could be the “young Sigourney Weaver” he wrote about in a recent Twitter post.

Stallone is also anxious to get Jackie Chan to participate in the next Expendables. Advanced negotiations are said to be underway, though nothing about their involvement with the project has been confirmed as of this writing. It’s also a mystery is Steven Seagal will find time in his busy schedule to help out with the project.

Patrick Hughes, who spearheaded the amazing Australian thriller Red Hill, will step behind the camera for The Expendables 3. Early reports suggested that Simon West would return for the sequel, but the director is actually busy with his own projects for the time being. West is currently shooting Heat with Jason Statham and Sofia Vergara.

Before all of this goes down, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger will appear together in Shanghai director Mikael Hafstrom’s Escape Plan (formerly The Tomb). The thriller is expected to arrive in theaters on October 18.

Are you looking forward to The Expendables 3? What do you think about all of the action stars Stallone wants for the upcoming sequel?

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