Woman pulls into gas station, finds man's body under car
LINCOLN PARK, Mich. - A woman who pulled into a gas station because she was having trouble steering her car found a man's body wedged under the vehicle, police say.
Dominique Page, 19, discovered the body about 1 a.m. Thursday, Lincoln Park police Lt. Robert Steele told the Detroit Free Press.
Page apparently did not know that she had run over the man as he lay in a street in Detroit, about two miles from where she stopped, Steele said. advertisement
"The young woman was the not first person to hit him," said Detroit police Sgt. Eren Stephens Bell. "He apparently was already a hit-and-run victim when she ran over him."
The Detroit News identified the victim as Edison Fowler, 43.
Detroit police were seeking clues about the hit-and-run driver. No charges were expected against Page.
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STATESBORO, Ga., (AP) - A 21-year-old Georgia man was arrested after trying to buy drinks with a checkbook he found at a bar. Unfortunately for Jody Brian Minor of McRae, the checkbook's owner was the bartender serving him.
Minor was arrested on theft and forgery charges early Saturday morning, Statesboro Police Detective Terry Briley said.
He was "extraordinarily intoxicated," Briley said. Minor is out on bond, and his case will go before a grand jury in August, Briley said.
Minor was at Dingus Magee's bar when he found a checkbook and began paying his tab with it, Briley said. One of the bar's employees realized the checks belonged to a fellow bartender Hubble Beasley, who called police.
Briley said Minor's father has paid the delinquent $129 bar tab.
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NANUET, N.Y. (AP) - It's no surprise, in the New York suburbs, to see a deer dart across the road. An opossum hanging by a rope from an overpass, however, is a rarity.
Several motorists reported Monday that their cars had banged into the carcasses of a possum and a crow that had been tied up and then lowered over the Palisades Interstate Parkway in Nanuet, police said.
Three 16-year-olds were arrested. Their names were not made public. Clarkstown police, who cover Nanuet, said the teens apparently scraped the carcasses off Route 304 before hanging them above the parkway, just low enough to be hit by passing cars. At least one vehicle was damaged, police said.
The youths were charged with criminal mischief, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.
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Cheeseburger purists: Cringe now.
The cheeseburger is flipping off the grill this summer. It's being stuffed into egg rolls and plopped atop salads at Bennigan's; layered on pizzas at Uno Chicago Grill; and - for the strong of stomach - crammed between Krispy Kreme doughnut halves at one stadium.
All in the name of making the nation's most popular entree seem new, again. Burgers have been the top entree order for 28 years, says Harry Balzer, trends watcher at NPD Group.
So, why not fuse 'em with other favorites? "If you can mix two favorites, the combination is more pleasurable than any one - as long as it's not grotesque," says Steven Witherly, a food scientist.
Recent cheeseburger pairings:
- Cheeseburger egg rolls. A promotion by Bennigan's Grill & Tavern of this $6.99 appetizer sizzled, so it gets a permanent menu slot in July, says Clay Dover, vice president of marketing. It is stuffed with ground beef, cheese, pickles, onions and mustard, and deep fried.
- Cheeseburger pizza. Uno Chicago Grill recently launched a Bacon Cheeseburger Deep Dish Pizza, topped with 6 ounces of grilled ground beef, pickles, mustard and ketchup. It's selling about 30 a day - "an unbelievable number for a new item," says CEO Frank Guidara.
- Cheeseburger doughnuts. The Gateway Grizzlies, an independent baseball league team in Sauget, Ill., started selling "Baseball's Best Burger" this month: a $4.50 cheeseburger with two strips of bacon grilled between a sliced Krispy Kreme doughnut. (The glazed sides are flipped to the inside for less mess.)
It comes to the plate with 1,000 calories and 45 grams of fat, but the Grizzlies are selling 150 a game, says team spokesman Jeff O'Neill. "People ask us what to put on it," says O'Neill. "We like to think it doesn't need anything."
- Cheeseburger tacos. Five kinds of $6.99 Cheeseburger Tacos are sold at Tin Star, a Dallas chain that has copyrighted the name, founder Rich Hicks says.
- Cheeseburger fingers. These deep-fried cheeseburger sticks, sold as appetizers in bars, restaurants and supermarkets, were created by Advance Food Company.
- Cheeseburger salad. Bennigan's tried a $7.99 cheeseburger salad, but it didn't make the cut. "Maybe it was a little 'out there' to sell a salad with a cheeseburger on top," says Dover.
An idea so "out there" it died in Bennigan's test kitchen: Cheeseburger Cones.
