Davy Jones Dies

Davy Jones Dies, Davy Jones, the mop-topped leader of 1960s pop band The Monkees, died Wednesday of a massive heart attack. Jones was 66.

Davy Jones, left, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith were The Monkees.

His publicist, Helen Kensick, said the singer died in Indiantown, Fla., where he lived.

With an infectious smile and easy humor, the diminutive Brit played the Paul McCartney role in the Beatles-inspired quartet, which also included Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz and Mike Nesmith.

Jones sang lead on some of the group’s biggest hits, including Daydream Believer, which reached No. 1 on the charts.
Davy Jones continued to stay busy after The Monkees, doing music gigs and attending collectors’ shows. Here he’s at the Hollywood Collectors and Celebrities Show in 2009.

Jones, who like his bandmates had continued to perform, had dates scheduled for March.

Robert Henry Moormann

Robert Henry Moormann, Arizona executed an inmate Wednesday for killing and dismembering his adoptive mother while he was out of prison on furlough for another crime, despite a spate of last-minute appeals over his mental disabilities and how the state has changed and violated its own execution protocol.

The lethal injection given to Robert Henry Moormann, 63, at a state prison was the first Arizona execution using a one-drug method, as opposed to its long-standing three-drug protocol.

The switch was made after corrections officials realized Monday that one of the three drugs had expired. In doing so, they violated their own new written execution protocol by giving Moormann only two days’ notice of how he would be put to death instead of seven days’ notice, as stipulated in the protocol.

Arizona joins Ohio, Texas and several other states that last year made the switch to pentobarbital after the only U.S. manufacturer of execution drug sodium thiopental said it would discontinue production.

In July, the only U.S.-licensed manufacturer of pentobarbital announced that it would put the drug off-limits for executions. And a company that bought the pentobarbital line in December is required to also keep it from use by prisons for executions.

Once states use up their current supplies of pentobarbital, executions could be delayed across the country as officials look for yet another alternative.

Hours after the U.S. Supreme Court turned down a request for a stay, the lethal injection was given to Moormann at 10:23 a.m. and he was pronounced dead at 10:33 a.m.

Chino Bank Robbery

Chino Bank Robbery, Authorities in Southern California say a police officer was shot and wounded by a gunman during a robbery at a Chino bank.

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller says the shooting occurred about 11:15 a.m. Wednesday at California Bank & Trust after an armed man wearing a mask stole an unspecified amount of cash.

No arrests have yet been made.

In a statement, California Bank & Trust Senior Vice President Steven Borg says no employees or customers were injured and that the officer’s injuries are not life-threatening.

Eimiller says federal agents responded to the scene and are assisting Chino police with their investigation. Chino is about 40 miles east of Los Angeles.

T Rex: T. Rex’s Powerful Bite

T Rex: T. Rex’s Powerful Bite, The dinosaur could bring its jaws together with a remarkable force of up to 57,000 Newtons (13,000 lbs) – four times more than previous estimates.

Its performance surpasses that of all animals, both living and extinct, including today’s great white shark, the most terrifying modern day creature which packs a 3,600 pound (1.8 tons) bite.

Musculoskeletal biologist Dr Karl Bates said: “Our results show T Rex had an extremely powerful bite making it one of the most dangerous predators to have roamed our planet.”

His researchers at Liverpool University made computer models of T Rex’s jaw and compared it with similar reconstructions of the skulls of another theropod dinosaur Allosaurus, an alligator and a human.

They found it clamped down on is prey with a crushing force up to almost fifty times more than a large African lion (1,235lbs).

Rodney King: Rodney King & Reckless Driving

Rodney King: Rodney King & Reckless Driving, Rodney King has been sentenced to 20 days of house arrest and fined $500 for misdemeanor reckless driving in Southern California.

King is the black motorist whose beating by white Los Angeles police officers was videotaped in 1991. Four officers were acquitted of charges in state court a year later, leading to rioting in Los Angeles.

The 46-year-old King was arrested in Moreno Valley seven months ago for investigation of drunken driving.

But Riverside County prosecutors say his blood-alcohol reading was 0.06 percent, which is below the 0.08 legal threshold. He also had a trace of marijuana in his system.

The Riverside Press-Enterprise says King, through his attorney, pleaded to a lesser so-called “wet reckless” driving charge on Monday.

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