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 Boxing announcer Mark Beiro has called scores of professional and amateur fights in his career, but he refuses to be ringside at Toughman bouts.The competitions, pitting inexperienced fighters against each other in unregulated bouts, billed as  brawling for fun,  appeal to the  uncaged savage in all of us,  he said. Toughman loosens about every restriction that boxing currently has and makes it that much more dangerous,  said Beiro, one of the nation s best known boxing announcers.  Personally, I am surprised more people haven t been permanently injured or killed in it. Criticism of the events flared up again last week when a 30-year-old mother of two died after entering a Toughman competition in Sarasota. She was the 10th contestant to die in the 24-year history of Toughman.In a statement, competition founder and promoter Al Dore denied that the events are dangerous, and he billed them as safer than conventional professional and amateur boxing.        After the woman s death, though, Dore temporarily halted the traveling show.Sarasota police are investigating whether a crime was committed when Stacy Young, who had never boxed before, was pummeled by a woman who appeared to have more exper stanley tumblers ience fighting.As the fight wore on, voices in the crowd were yelling for someone to stop it. Young s daughters stanley cup , ages 12 and 9, were among them.  They are just devastated,  said Don Meyers, Young s brother-in-law.Officials in several states h stanley cup ave attacked the fights as not having adequate saf Axry Sex Abuse Suit Filed In Missouri
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 Bob Evans, whose quest for quality sausage to serve the truckers who filled his 12-stool, 24-hour-a-day steakhouse in southeast Ohio led to the creation of a restaurant chain that bears his name, died Thursday, Bob Evans Farms Inc. said. He was 89.Evans died at the Cleveland Clinic about 12:30 p.m., Evans  family told the company. Bob Evans Farms Inc. said last week that he was being treated at the hospital for pneumonia.Evans complained that he could not get good sausage for the restaurant that he started after World War II in Gallipolis in southeast Ohio.Starting with $1,000, a couple of hogs, 40 pounds of black pepper, 50 pounds of sage and other secret ingredients, Evans opted to make his own, relying on the hog s best parts as opposed to the scraps commonly used in sausage. He began selling it at the restaurant and mom-and-pop stores, and peddled tubs of it out of the back of his pickup truck.It marked the beginning of what is now a restaurant chain with sales of $1.6 billion in the fiscal year ended April 28 with 590 restaurants in 18 states. The company also op stanley cup erates 108 Mimi s Cafe casual restaurants in 19 states, mostly in the West. Its sausage and other products are sold in grocery stores.         You might say the truck drivers did my research for me,  he said.  They would tell me that this was the best sau stanley cup sage they ever had, and then b stanley cup uy 10-pound tubs to take home. Evans formed Bob Evans Farms in 1953 with five friends and relatives. The chain emphasizes farm-fres Wnwq Interracial Marriage Rising but Not as Fast
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 California and Los Angeles County prosecutors are joining forces to investigate the enormous salaries earned by officials in Bell.The district attorney s office says it will look into possible criminal activity while California s attorney general will handle a civil probe.The city of 40,000, one of the poorest in the county, has been in an uproar since residents learned their city manager earned nearly $800,000 and other leaders were also getting huge paychecks. The city manager and two other officials have resigned.Meanwhile, the city s bonds were downgraded to junk status Tuesday by Standard  Poor s, which could make it costlier to float bonds.The move followed reports that Bell can t meet a deadline to pay off a $35 million bond debt for a failed land deal.        Salary Backlash in Small-Town Calif.AG Brown Subpoenas Bell, Calif., Pay RecordsCA Knew of Exorbitant Bell Salaries, Did NothingL stanley italia ocal Video from CBS 2 / KCAL 9 in Los Angeles         ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5          display: none;             inline-recirc-item--id-95 stanley us 30f654-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d,  right-rail-recirc-item--id-9530f654-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d         display: stanley water bottle  none;             inline-recirc-item--id-9530f654-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .item:nth-child 5          display: block;       Ftyj The Odd Truth, Aug. 7, 2002
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 Israeli intelligence had advance warning that terror groups were operating in Kenya but did not have information that they were planning to attack Israeli targets, an army intelligence chief said.On Tuesday, Palestinian militant groups refused to condone last week s attacks in Mombasa, Kenya, and said they were not interested in extending  stanley quencher their conflict with Israel outside the immediate region.The chief of research in Israel s military intelligence, Brig. Gen. Yossi Kupperwasser, told a parliamentary committee Monday that Israel did not have specific information mdash; like Germany and Australia did mdash; that attacks were being planned in Mombasa, Knesset spokesman Giora Pordes said Tuesday.Germany and Australia put out advisories in mid-November warning their citizens against visiting Mombasa, based on intelligence they had that terror groups were planning attacks on Western targets in the Kenyan port city.Asked by a legislator whether Israel had similar information, Pordes quoted Kupperwasser as saying:  No, there was no concrete and exact information. There was general information, but not regarding Israeli targets, rather on the attempt to carry out an attack in Kenya. Israel was never mentioned.         Ten Kenyans, three Israelis and two or three suicide bombers were killed Thursday in an attack at the  stanley cups Paradi stanley cup website se hotel near Mombasa. The hotel is owned by a British company, Paradise Mombasa Ltd., but hundreds of Israelis have bought time-share units there, according to Zxat Japanese Volcano Violently Erupts, Sending Hikers Racing To Safety
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