The Show 11/23: Police Dragging Suspect Arrested/Is Halle Berry Getting FINER/AMA Awards/Toni Braxton SPLITS from Husband/Final Thought

Local News:
"Troops Return Home In Time For Thanksgiving"

-FT. CAMPBELL, Ky. - Just in time for Thanksgiving, 700 Fort Campbell soldiers from the 159th Combat Aviation Brigade have been scheduled to return.
The troops should arrive home Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
The soldiers have spent the past 12 months in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

-LOS ANGELES - The man accused of secretly video-taping ESPN reporter Erin Andrews in her Nashville hotel room has been scheduled to face charges in federal court in Los Angeles on Monday.
Police charged 48-year-old Michael Barrett, 48 with one count of interstate stalking after investigators said Barrett used an altered peephole to secretly videotape Andrews in her room it the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt.
LOS ANGELES - The man accused of secretly video-taping ESPN reporter Erin Andrews in her Nashville hotel room has been scheduled to face charges in federal court in Los Angeles on Monday.
Police charged 48-year-old Michael Barrett, 48 with one count of interstate stalking after investigators said Barrett used an altered peephole to secretly videotape Andrews in her room it the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt. After taping the reporter Barrett posted the videos online and tried to sell them to a celebrity Web site. Barrett was released Friday on $100,000 bond. He could face up to five years in prison if convicted.

-A series of auctions claiming to offer items being sold by victims of Bernie Madoff appears to be trading on the investment scammer's name as a way to make money, buyers and members of an investor protection group say.
"It's all a marketing ploy," said Jack Cruse, a Gallatin resident who was bidding at one of the auctions Sunday in a banquet room in the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University on West End Avenue.
The room was filled with paintings from well-known artists such as Peter Max, Salvador Dali and Itzchak Tarkay; stacks of silk rugs; and a case of jewelry including Rolex watches. Cruse bid $100 and $200 on several paintings and purchased an oil painting for $300.
Auctioneer Avi Asher said only 15 percent to 20 percent of the items actually belonged to Madoff's victims, and he couldn't identify those items.
Most of the auctions are arranged by Southern Star Auctioneers, a company based in Georgia. They are promoted in ads that have appeared in newspapers across the country. The ads claim the auctions are "due to losses caused by Bernie Madoff," who stole more than $60 billion from investors. Asher said using Madoff's name in the advertisements is an attempt to generate more interest but isn't misleading. Asher never mentioned Madoff's name during any of the bidding.
"It helps us and it helps (the victims) by getting a bigger crowd," Asher said. "That means better prices for them and more fees for us." The auction company charges buyers 15 percent of the purchase price. Ron Stein, founder of Madoff-Help.com and a member of the Network for Investor Action and Protection, called the auctions "despicable." He said somebody is looking to make money off the misfortunes of others. "It's just a slap in the face," he said. "It's doubly painful for the real Madoff victims to see other people doing this."

-NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Sunday night, police arrested the man they say dragged a Metro Police officer 90 feet late Wednesday night. Field training officer Carlos Anderson was dragged 90 feet by a vehicle Wednesday night after he attempted to arrest a man. A warrant for attempted criminal homicide was issued for Jeffery Story, and Sunday night officers tracked him down across from the Farmers Market on Rosa L. Parks Blvd. around 8:45 p.m. after he put another officer in danger.
Earlier in the evening Sunday, near 4th and Van Buren Street in North Nashville, officers spotted the car that reportedly dragged Anderson earlier in the week, but when they attempted to stop him, he ran into the police car causing damage in the front and giving it a flat tire.
He was spotted again, and another chase ensued with speeds reaching 120 miles per hour.
"The attempts to get away were reckless, and that's why the call was made earlier tonight to initially cease chasing him because the speeds were getting excessive and what we were hoping would happen is that he would land again. He did land, and he got picked up," explained Sgt. Julian Moore.
Anderson was driving a Mustang police believe was taken from an ex-girlfriend. The collision with the officer's vehicle is what police believe eventually caused the car to give-out and led Story to flee on foot. He was found trying to masquerade as a drunk, homeless person.
Wednesday night, the two-man police car pulled over 43-year-old Jeffery Story on Arrington Street in East Nashville on a traffic stop. The officers soon found out that Story had warrants for domestic violence and driving on a suspended license. When the nine-year veteran officer tried to make the arrest, Story refused to get out of the car, so Anderson reached through the open door into the vehicle to extract him. Story quickly slammed the door, pinning Anderson, and put the vehicle in drive. According to police, while Anderson was being dragged, he ordered Story to stop the truck. Story screamed "No," while he was trying to shake the officer from the car.
Anderson eventually fell off the vehicle, and emergency crews transported him to Vanderbilt University Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.
Story dumped his vehicle in an alley near his ex-girlfriend's house and then took her car.
Positive news:

-Screen siren Halle Berry looks to help abused women turn their lives around.
Halle Berry is no stranger to domestic abuse; her mother was a victim of domestic abuse and Berry herself has admitted to growing up with self esteem issues.
Berry recently sat down in an interview with NBC Nightly News to discuss how she hopes to inspire people to leave a bad situation and that they have the capacity to turn their lives around.
"Get out. Just get out. You're so worth it, as women, as mothers, as people," was Berry's message to abused women. "If you can't do it for yourself, get out for your children, because your children deserve better."
The actress has been working with the Jenesse Center for about 10 years, which is a Los Angeles-based center that provides resources and support to battered women.
After immediate care such as shelter is given, the women are enrolled in a program that hopes to break the abuse pattern by counseling them and offering legal services. Berry has even volunteered her time with the center, working with women one-on-one, noting that they don't see her as a celebrity, but rather as a fellow woman.

On this day Andrew J. Beard, and African American inventor was awarded Patent # 594,059. Despite having no formal education in engineering or metalwork, Beard had invented an automtic railroad car coupling device called the Jenny Coupler. Prior to the Jenny Coupler train cars were joined together manually, causing thousands of railroad workers to lose their hands,arms, and even their lives. Born in Eastlake, Alabama, in 1850, Beard labored for years in railroad yards where he personally witnessed horrific accidents when workers tried to execute the rapid procedure of manually coupling train cars with a pin. Beard sold his lifesaving invention to a New York company for $50,000.

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