FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A South Florida town manager is out of a job -- for marrying a porn star. The Fort Myers Beach town council has voted 5-0 in an emergency meeting to give Scott Janke the boot. Mayor Larry Kiker tells the News-Press of Fort Myers the council took the action after learning Janke's wife is an adult film star. They were married last year. Janke tells The Associated Press they've done nothing wrong and their "heads are held high." Adult Industry News recently reported Janke's wife, Anabela, performs under the stage name Jazella Moore.
FOOD FIGHT FIRING
BUCKHANNON, W.Va. (AP) - Food fight! Now, you're fired! A West Virginia high
school principal has been canned, following a cafeteria food fight. The Upshur
County Board of Education voted this week to send Brenda Wells packing. The
Buckhannon-Upshur High principal admits she jumped on top of a pile of students.
She says she did it to relieve the tension and to stop the food fight. Wells
says it was done in fun. Wells adds she was off the so-called dog pile before
you could count to one.
CONDOM IN SOUP
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - That's no melted cheese in the soup - at least
according to one California man. Zdenek Philip Hodousek charges he found a
condom in a bowl of French onion soup he'd ordered at a Claim Jumper restaurant.
A lawsuit has been filed by the unhappy customer in Orange County Superior
Court. He's seeking unspecified damages. The man claims he bit into a condom
instead of melted cheese. His lawyer contends female DNA was found on the condom
and they're seeking to test restaurant employees for a match. A public relations
firm for Claim Jumper says an internal investigation has revealed employees did
nothing wrong. The P-R firm says there's no proof the so-called "foreign object"
was actually found in the soup.
UNBEARABLE VISITOR
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado TV station is a mess, thanks to a bear of a
vandal. Staffers say a hungry bear managed to get into the office of GrassRoots
TV in Aspen. The back door was left open a few inches Monday night. By Tuesday
morning, the fridge had been cleaned out, trash cans were overturned and a
filing cabinet had been thrown across the room. But the bear left something
behind and you can imagine what. Workers found a pile of bear poop and a puddle
of bear pee. Officials note bears are roaming around the mountain town, looking
for food. A late freeze wiped out some of the burins' favorite munchies.
TEEN GEEK SQUAD
MCCLELLEN, Calif. (AP) - High school geeks have something to do this summer -
and there's no hacking involved. A school district in the Sacramento, Calif.,
area is putting the tech-savvy teens to work. The students are earning eight
bucks an hour trouble-shooting computers for the Twin Rivers Unified School
District. Officials say the students do the work faster and cheaper than
commercial vendors. The teens also get valuable work experience. It grows out of
a pilot program at Foothill High where a student-run help desk is called the
MOUSE Squad.
FLAG FLAP-VEGAS
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - The Vegas flag flap has been settled by the Nevada
Supreme Court. The court has ruled against a company that wanted to keep a
109-foot-high flagpole at a Las Vegas car dealership. City officials maintained
the tall pole, and a 30-by-60-foot flag, were more of a marketing gimmick than a
patriotic symbol. People in a nearby residential community complained about the
noise, from the giant flapping flag on windy days.
