The Show: 12/01 - TEACHER GONE WILD !!! /ALEC BALDWIN QUITTING / ROMAN POLANSKI STILL IN JAIL / TIGER PULLS OUT OF GOLF TOURNEY

LOCAL BUZZ:
"Sumner County Teacher Vandalizes Middle School"

*SUMNER CO., Tenn. – An elementary school teacher in Sumner County was arrested Monday on charges she vandalized a local middle school using condoms and sardine juice. Sumner County Sheriff Bob Barker said Brenda Rawls, a teacher at Watt Hardison Elementary School, vandalized Portland East Middle School on August 16 in retaliation for comments made by a teacher at Portland East.
She is alleged to have entered the teacher's classroom and vandalized both a mini refrigerator and a drawer in the teacher's desk using condoms, sardine juice and a lubricant.
Investigators also learned two school lockers and three textbooks were additionally vandalized and condoms and sardine juice were used. The sheriff said Rawls had assistance from a student, who admitted to accompanying the teacher to the school and being present while the vandalism occurred.
The 50-year-old Rawls was booked into the Sumner County jail on $1,000 bond. She faces charges of vandalism, criminal trespassing and contributing to the delinquency of a minor and is scheduled to appear in court on December 16.

*FRANKLIN, Ky. - Kentucky police caught an escaped inmate from Cheatham County, Tenn. Jermiah Bradshaw, 30, was caught in Franklin around 5:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Bradshaw escaped from the Cheatham County Jail on Nov. 29. He used the birth date and social security number of another inmate who was scheduled for release on that Sunday.

*KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The trial for the third suspect in the carjacking and murder of a young couple has been scheduled to begin Tuesday in Knoxville.
George Thomas will be tried for the murders of 21-year-old Channon Christian and 23-year-old Christopher Newsom, both were brutally tortured and murdered in January 2007.The state is seeking the death penalty. Two of Thomas' co-defendants have already been convicted of the crimes. Accused ringleader Lemaricus Davidson was sentenced to death, and Davidson's brother, Letalvis Cobbins, was sentenced to life in prison.
The trial of a fourth suspect, Vanessa Coleman, was put on hold pending a pretrial appeal.

*Murfreesboro were searching Tuesday morning for two men who held up a Middle Tennessee State University student outside a dorm Monday night.
MTSU issued an alert about the crime around 11 p.m.
Officials said a student was robbed by two men outside Clement Hall just after 10 p.m. The two suspects held something to the student's back and then demanded valuables before getting away on foot.
The victim did not see a weapon, and he was unhurt.
Anyone with any information should contact MTSU police.
Top News:

*Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, who is under fire for his role in freeing Maurice Clemmons, the prime suspect in the murder of four police officers in Washington state, spoke to Bill O'Reilly last night. He said, "If I could have known nine years ago that this guy was capable of something of this magnitude, obviously I would have never granted a commutation. It's sickening." But Huckabee also blamed Clemmons' freedom on "a series of failures in the criminal justice system in both Arkansas and Washington state" and said Arkansas prosecutors "failed to file the paperwork in a timely way." It's not the first controversy over Huckabee's mercy for convicted felons. During his failed run for the Republican presidential nomination, he was criticized for securing the release of rapist Wayne DuMond, who murdered a woman after his release.
UPDATE: Seattle police have announced that Clemmons was shot and killed by police fire this morning (Tuesday).

*The couple who crashed a state dinner at the White House last week asked a top Defense Department official to get them an actual invitation to the event. In E-mails that were given to the Secret Service yesterday, Tareq and Michaele Salahi asked Michele Jones -- a special assistant to the Secretary of Defense whose job connects the Pentagon to the White House -- to get them in. Although one source who has seen the correspondence claims Jones assured the Salahis they were on the guest list, Jones issued a statement saying, "I did not state at any time, or imply that I had tickets for ANY portion of the evening's events. I specifically stated that they did not have tickets and in fact that I did not have the authority to authorize attendance, admittance or access to any part of the evening's activities. Even though I informed them of this, they still decided to come."
The couple will be interviewed by Matt Lauer on the first hour of The Today Show on N-B-C this morning.

*There are conflicting reports out of Tallahassee about legendary Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden. E-S-P-N is reporting that Bowden will announce his retirement today. But the Associated Press quotes his wife, Ann, saying he hasn't made a decision and will meet with school officials today. Bowden has 388 career wins, second all-time to Penn State's Joe Paterno. Florida State went six-and-six this year. The job will go to coach-in-waiting Jimbo Fisher. As expected, Notre Dame fired coach Charlie Weis on Monday. He'd compiled a disappointing 34-and-27 record in his five years coaching the Fighting Irish.
Question: Which team would you rather coach -- Florida State or Notre Dame?

*A day after Tiger Woods released a statement about that mysterious car crash, he pulled out of a golf tournament because of injuries he says he suffered in the accident. Tiger had hosted the Chevron World Challenge in Thousand Oaks, California for nine years.
The Florida Highway Patrol says it is pursuing an investigation into the crash and "charges are pending." However, they have not been able to interview the golfer, who turned down several requests to speak with investigators over the weekend.
Meanwhile, Tiger's reputed "other woman," Rachel Uchitel, denies having any relationship with the golfer. She tells E! News, "I did not have any involvement with him. Whatever was written in the Enquirer was not said by me, it was said by two people that claimed they were friends of mine, but they're not."

*Director Roman Polanski will have to wait a few more days before he's released into house arrest at his Alpine Chalet. A spokesman for the Swiss Justice Department tells Reuters that the 76-year-old still needs to deposit his four-point-five-million-dollar bail and the electronic monitoring still needs to be set up at the luxury chalet.
Polanksi has been sitting in a Swiss prison for two months awaiting possible extradition to the U-S on a charge of having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977.

*Details are emerging in that altercation between Anthony Michael Hall and his former girlfriend Diana Falzone -- and it looks pretty ugly. According to police, the former Brat Pack star allegedly "bit his girlfriend's forehead" and "pushed, shoved and spit at" her during a fight at her New York apartment two weeks ago. Police were called to the apartment following a fight at around 2 a-m. Hall returned the next day around 3 a-m "intoxicated," and banged on Falzone's door until officers escorted him off the premises. Falzone, a Sirius Radio host and columnist, has obtained a temporary restraining order against Hall.

*Alec Baldwin says he no longer has interest in acting. The 30 Rock star and future Oscar host tells Men's Journal, "Movies are a part of my past. It's been 30 years. I'm not young, but I have time to do something else." He says he'll walk away from acting after 30 Rock "in a couple of years or so," and adds, "I consider my entire movie career a complete failure. The goal of movie-making is to star in a film where your performance drives the film, and the film is either a soaring critical or commercial success, and I never had that."

*On December 1, 1992 Pearl Stewart (1951-) became the first black woman editor of the "Oakland Tribune, which has a circulation of over 100,000.

Things to think about:

-Developing Healthy Relationships
-Relationships take time to develop.
-Relationships are built on trust and mutual respect.
-Understand and accept the other person; be non-judgemental.
-Have open and honest communication.
-Work through your relationship blocks and conflicts.
-Listen carefully to the other person.

HOT MESS OF THE DAY:
"White Weave Disaster"

*Someone tell Chris Rock to check out this weave before he makes any more fun of black women's hair.

Today's Thought:
" All experiences have the ability to make us wiser if we choose to let them."~Allyson Partridge,- Canada