Mike Beck’s Wake Information

She’s stunning, even in sweats. But Leilani Burkhead’s got her work cut out for her. It’s 9 p.m. on a weeknight, time to hit the stage at Atlanta’s
Magic City strip club.

She slips out of her sweats and half-jokingly mumbles something about getting geared up to work the room.
It’s an about-face from a few years ago [...]

Mentally impaired, the young woman struggled with tasks such as tying her shoes, cooking herself a meal, showering and dressing properly.

Mark Wayne Barnhard, 53, allegedly turned the young woman’s disability against her, coercing the 21-year-old into having sex with him and the girl’s mother in the basement of his Fruitland Township home in 2008, according [...]

(New York Post) – A Long Island school bus driver was fired for taping shut a loud student’s mouth for 10 minutes to keep him quiet, The New York Post reported Sunday.

Officials at the South Country School District in Bellport said the unidentified male driver had a full load of kids from the Frank P. [...]

Former NBA player and sometime ESPN.com contributor Paul Shirley who averaged an entire 1.8 points while playing profesionally has decided he is much better being an unfeeling idiot who attacks a country that has just been hit by an earthqauke. He attacks Haiti for being poor and for a lack of birth control.

Here are some [...]

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) – Desperate Haitians Wednesday still faced a battle for survival more than two weeks after a deadly quake, as aid trickled in and fears grew that child traffickers could exploit the tragedy.

Pillagers ran rife in the ruins of the capital while there was no sign of the tent camps promised by the government [...]

A South Carolina politician is making very a public apology – and this time it’s not Governor Mark Sanford.

After likening welfare recepients to stray animals, Andre Bauer, the embattled Republican’s lieutenant governor, is hastily back-pedalling from remarks his rivals have called “immoral.”
“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a [...]

Chores are never a teenager’s favorite way to spend a fall afternoon, but for 14-year-old John Caudle chores were the motive for murder, Colorado police say.

In an arrest affidavit, Caudle told investigators that on Oct. 26, 2009 he argued with his mother because he didn’t want to do household chores like taking out the trash [...]