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New York Tow Truck Driver Crashes Into Pool

January 15, 2012 by · Comments Off on New York Tow Truck Driver Crashes Into Pool 

New York Tow Truck Driver Crashes Into Pool, Police said a Buffalo-area tow truck driver was texting on one cell phone while talking on another when he slammed into a car and crashed into a swimming pool.

Niagara County sheriff’s deputies said 25-year-old Nicholas Sparks of Burt admitted he was texting and talking when his flatbed truck hit the car Wednesday morning in Lockport.

The truck then crashed through a fence and sideswiped a house before rolling front-end first into an in-ground pool.

The 68-year-old woman driving the car suffered head injuries and was in good condition. Her 8-year-old niece suffered minor injuries.

Sparks was charged with reckless driving, talking on a cell phone and following too closely. It couldn’t be determined Thursday morning if he has a lawyer.

Oprah’s Half Sister Patricia

January 25, 2011 by · Comments Off on Oprah’s Half Sister Patricia 

Oprah’s Half Sister Patricia, (UKPA) – Oprah Winfrey has discovered a secret half-sister. The talk show host told viewers that a Milwaukee woman named Patricia had found out that the two were related. After years of searching for the identity of the mother who gave her up for adoption in the 1960s, Patricia learned in 2007 that Oprah was her half-sister. On The Oprah Winfrey Show the presenter revealed she learned about Patricia last November and met her on Thanksgiving Day.

An emotional Oprah described the discovery as “the miracle of all miracles” and said one of the most impressive things was that her half-sister never tried to profit from her.

“She never once thought to sell the story,” Oprah said, describing how she felt betrayed by other relatives who sought publicity or money.

“Family business should be handled by family,” Patricia said on the show. “It couldn’t be handled by anyone else. That’s not fair. It wouldn’t be fair to you.”

Oprah – who is ending the successful chat show at the end of the season after 25 years at the helm – had previously told viewers that she would have a reunion of her own on the show.

Oprah said she was nine years old and living with her father when her mother had the daughter and gave her up for adoption. The host never even knew her mother was pregnant.

She was born to unmarried teenagers, Vernon Winfrey and Vernita Lee, and raised at various times by a grandmother, her mother, and her father and stepmother in Mississippi, Wisconsin and Tennessee, according to the star and various biographies.

However, Kitty Kelley’s unauthorised 2010 biography alleges that Vernon Winfrey isn’t Oprah’s biological father.

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Oprah Sister

January 25, 2011 by · Comments Off on Oprah Sister 

Oprah Sister, (AP) – Oprah Winfrey has learned she has a half-sister she did not know. Winfrey announced on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” that aired Monday, a woman from Milwaukee, Patricia discovered that the two were half-sisters.

The woman said she had searched for years for the identity of the mother who gave her the adoption in 1963. She says she learned in 2007 that Winfrey is her half-sister. On her program, Winfrey said she learned about Patricia last November.

Winfrey said she was 9 years old and living with her father when her mother was the daughter and gave her up for adoption. She said she did not even know that her mother was pregnant.

Oprah Winfrey has a half-sister and did not know until a few months ago, while Roger Ebert has a new prosthesis to slip after suffering a grueling battle with jaw cancer. Now the two celebrities share the life changing events with the world whose curiosity is insatiable sometimes.

First there is Oprah Winfrey is used to millions with her surprising and candid interviews to discover the truth behind the facades stronger. Oprah was at the receiving end of a surprise when in October 2010, she learned she has a half-sister.

Patricia was born in 1963 in Oprah Winfrey’s mother, Vernita Lee, and was given up for adoption. Oprah’s half-sister endured a difficult life to have lived in several foster homes until age 7, but even after adoption, the unmarried mother of Milwaukee said that her childhood was difficult. ”

Roger diseases and the fight against cancer that began at the age of 64 years has been well documented and it has been devastating for millions to see the film critic suffer the loss of the lower half of her face.

However, over the past two years during a long and arduous process, Ebert has a new unit and will carry him on her new show.

Ebert has talked with people saying: “I’ll wear the prosthesis on the new television -. This does not fool anyone, because my appearance is well known, it will be a reminder of the nice person I was for 64 years “

Oprah Sister

January 25, 2011 by · Comments Off on Oprah Sister 

Oprah Sister, (AFP) – U.S. talk diva Oprah Winfrey has revealed to viewers of her program telecasts a family secret she was keeping under her hat for months: she has a sister.

“Over the past 25 years, Oprah has met many people. I thought I had seen everything, but the miracle of miracles,” said Winfrey in a trailer for the show Monday, which would together to the tune of half-sister of her mother, gave up for adoption 50 years ago.

Winfrey said she was “literally shattered” when she learned last year that she had a sister.

The two women were reunited with their mother’s house on Thanksgiving Day, the celebration of the United States in November, when families traditionally gather.

Sister named Patricia was born in 1963 in the midwestern state of Wisconsin. Winfrey was eight years old and living with her father in Tennessee at the time.

Patricia was given up for adoption by Winfrey’s mother and lived in foster care until she was seven, when she was finally adopted.

She became a mother for the first time in 17 years, and six years later had a second child. Patricia, whose name was not given, was a single mother worked two jobs to support her children.

Patricia discovered two years ago she and Winfrey are sisters, but the TV presenter presenter only learned the news late last year.

Oprah was due to reveal her secret family on Monday on her show, which airs in 145 countries around the world.

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Oprah’s Secret

January 24, 2011 by · Comments Off on Oprah’s Secret 

Oprah’s Secret, People just buzzing on internet since yesterday about Oprah’s family secret, There are many stories about this like AP Posted, (AP) – Oprah Winfrey’s announcement that it will stage a meeting of surprise on her talk show Monday has prompted speculation about the identity of the person. Could it be an unknown brother? Maybe even a biological parent who has been in the shadows?

Based on the past of “The Oprah Winfrey Show” reunion for the stars and average folk, the episode could serve as a catharsis for the tears Winfrey and her guest, and – just maybe – program evaluations and enhance attention on its new channel.

“I have no idea what she has in mind,” Vernon Winfrey, her father said Sunday in Tennessee.

It can be alone. Winfrey biographer Kitty Kelley says that the meeting on the camera can be a sister Oprah has ever known. Perez Hilton quotes the parent theory on her blog.

Harpo, Winfrey’s production company, declined to provide details about the show.

Winfrey has not commented publicly Kelley biography of 2010, which includes the allegation that Vernon Winfrey is not her biological father. This statement raises speculation online that Hilton may be reunited with a father born mystery.

Winfrey, 57, and various biographies say she was born to unmarried teenagers Vernon Winfrey and Vernita Lee, and grew up at different times by a grandmother, mother, father and stepmother in Mississippi, Wisconsin and Tennessee. Winfrey two siblings, a brother and sister both died.

Whatever the answer Monday Winfrey promised to viewers in a promotional spot Thursday that he is a “miracle.”

“I was given news that literally shook me to my heart. This time, I am the only being met, “she said. “I kept a family secret for months, and Monday you’ll hear directly from me.”

A clip in the promotion, probably taken from the episode taped, we see the back of a shadowy figure walking on stage.

Winfrey shared and painful elements of her private life before, voluntarily or not. Her revelation that she had given birth to adolescence to a son who died shortly after came after a relative sold the story to a tabloid in 1990. Winfrey also spoke about her childhood molestation.

The Chicago syndicated “Oprah Winfrey Show” is now in its 25th season and last. The Oprah Winfrey Network, OWN, launched in January.

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