Man who killed a Fresno cross dresser will spend four
years in prison.

In a related story Fresno Cross Dressers will now tell
EVERYONE interested that they are really dudes in a
dress.

$249,000 dollars worth of marijuana is off the streets
after a raid in Coarsegold, and a 52 year old man is
in jail.

Agents from the Madera County Narcotic Enforcement
Team (MADNET) served a search warrant for a house that
had a fully equipped indoor grow capable of growing
marijuana all year long. Plants, some as tall as 8
feet had been moved from inside the home to an outdoor
garden where agents ripped out 83 plants.

In addition to the plants, agents confiscated a large
trash bag filled with processed pot, several rifles,
shotguns, handguns, and an illegal assault rifle.

The 52 year old Coarsegold man, who says he is a self
employed landscaper, has been arrested and booked into
the Madera County Jail. His bail is set at $75,000.

A La Habra family has been facing angry backlash after
their house was wrongly identified as the home of a
terrorist on Fox News.

Well, that's Fair and Balanced, yet wrong for ya!

Ex-members of Guns N' Roses has a federal case.

Duff McKagan and Slash filed a lawsuit in U.S.
District Court against Axl Rose, accusing their former
frontman of trying to cheat them out of royalties to
the song catalog.

Hurricane Katrina, which intensified throughout the
day, shut down MTV's Video Music Awards extravaganza,
forcing the cancellation of dozens of outdoor
concerts, poolside cocktail parties and promo events.

Sean Astin, who starred in the "Lord of the Rings"
trilogy, is joining the cast of Fox's real-time drama
"24," which will again kick off its season with four
episodes screening on two consecutive nights.

Astin will portray a new addition to the Counter
Terrorist Unit in the drama series, which stars Kiefer
Sutherland as agent Jack Bauer.

Season 5 will pick up 18 months after the fourth
season ended, with Jack presumably dead but actually
living a new life with Diane and her son Derek.

Too late for me to even start watching this show.

Enraged parents beat up an Indian headmaster who
threatened teenage girls with a cane to force them to
strip and then photographed them.

After taking the girls' photos on his digital camera,
he sent them to pornographic websites, as well as
storing them on his computer.

After being beaten, he was garlanded with slippers –
an insult – by several parents and taken to a police
station where he was arrested.

"To escape from being penalised by the cane of the
headmaster, girl students went up to his room and
posed for his digital camera," said police assistant
commissioner.

He said he had bullied 16 girls into stripping.

Police in North Carolina have arrested two people who
allegedly castrated a man and also cut off his ears.

Authorities said the man was mutilated after he got
into a fight with another man who was supposed to give
him a bad tattoo. They said his attackers used a
butcher knife to slice off his ears and slash his
genitals.

The attackers then put a bandage around his head, put
him in his car and told him to leave. The victim drove
to a home and asked the residents to call police.

Police have charged a 29-year-old man and an
18-year-old woman in the attack. They were charged
with malicious castration assault with a deadly weapon
inflicting serious injury, kidnapping and maiming of
body parts.

The man who was mutilated is listed in stable
condition in a Winston-Salem hospital.

A postal worker has been charged with putting urine in
the coffee of co-workers who set up a video camera in
their break room after they became suspicious,
authorities said.

A vehicle mechanic for the U.S. Postal Service, was
charged with two misdemeanor counts of adulteration of
food or placing harmful objects in food.

Prosecutors said workers believed he poured urine into
a coffee pot in a break room two different times.
Suspecting a problem, cause good coffee doesn't taste
like wiz, workers started their own investigation.