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| 2004-05-18 - Weird News Wireless Flash News Around The Weird: Bizarre News Briefs | ||
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Dallas, TX (WFN) -- Americans have realistic expectations about finding love on the internet. Or so it seems. According to dating data compiled by TRUEBeginnings.com, 47 percent expect their online dates will be "favorable" but only 17 percent are expecting perfection. Meanwhile, 18 percent are grouches who predict incompatibility with whoever they meet. NEW YORK -- Rising taxi fares in the Big Apple have one New York hotel taking action. The Jolly Hotel Madison Towers is offering guests up to $20 a day in rebates to reimburse taxi cab costs. TOMS RIVER, N.J. -- A Staten Island, New York, man who was scheduled to be sentenced for masterminding an illegal multi-million-dollar investment scheme skipped off to Las Vegas to play poker instead according to the "Ashbury Park Press of Neptune." According to the man's lawyer, he faxed a letter to the court saying he went to World Series of Poker to raise money to pay restitution to the people he defrauded. A follow-up fax stated he was up $5,000. MADRID, Spain -- Spanish mothers with newborn babies are cooing over the name Letizia ever since TV news reporter Letizia Ortiz and the Crown Prince Felipe became engaged. In the last five months the use of the name Letizia and Leticia has risen more than 500 percent according to a marketing survey by Caprabo.
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