IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Surprise! Sailor comes home to find wife 8 months pregnant
SAN DIEGO » A Navy wife greeted her husband returning from six months at sea by revealing she was nearly eight months pregnant with his fourth child.
Video posted by Natasha Daugherty to Facebook shows her husband, Petty Officer Chris Daugherty, hugging his three children on the docks in San Diego after getting off the USS Carl Vinson last week.
Natasha stood back holding a sign in front of her that read “Welcome Home Baby Daddy” and dropped it to reveal the pregnancy. The video captured his shocked reaction as he poked her belly and asked, “Is that real?”
Natasha says she found out she was pregnant soon after Chris deployed on Jan. 5. She tells KSND-TV that keeping the secret “was difficult but totally worth it in the end.”
Man who needed air in tires, bought lottery ticket wins $1M
BALLSTON, N.Y. » A New York man who stopped at a convenience store to put air in his tires and ended up buying a lottery ticket has won a $1 million jackpot.
State lottery officials on Friday introduced 19-year-old Anthony Iavarone as the winner of the jackpot on a $1 million Cashword scratch-off ticket.
Iavarone, of Clifton Park, says he recently stopped at a Stewart’s Shops store in the Saratoga County town of Ballston to put air in his tires. While there, he decided to buy a lottery ticket.
Iavarone says he chose the $10 Cashword scratch-off because it’s the one his aunt always plays. He says he at first didn’t believe he won the jackpot, so he had his father double-check.
Jerry Springer is appalled by Donald Trump
Tabloid talk show host Jerry Springer - whose shameless segments often devolve into onstage brawls over matters such as sexual infidelity or dubious paternity - isn’t exactly considered a paragon of virtue and morality. And he’s never shied from his role as the king of all things tawdry.
Yet the daytime television star once dubbed “TV’s lowest life form” has once again made a point to place himself among Donald Trump’s vocal celebrity critics. After Trump tweeted insults at MSNBC “Morning Joe” cohosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough - calling Brzezinski “low I.Q. Crazy Mika” and claiming she once visited Mar-a-Lago while “bleeding badly from a facelift” - Springer took to Twitter to condemn the president’s attacks as “beneath the dignity” of “any decent man”:
“I’m sorry, but Trump’s behavior is not just beneath the dignity of the Presidency ... but that of any decent man.”
It wasn’t the first time the talk show host has taken aim at Trump. Springer, who once served as the Democratic mayor of Cincinnati and mounted a failed bid for governor in Ohio in 1982, was a staunch supporter of Hillary Clinton and a donor to her campaign. After watching Clinton and Trump spar in a presidential debate in September, Springer fired off a tweet that promptly went viral:
“Hillary Clinton belongs in the White House,” he wrote. “Donald Trump belongs on my show.”