| Cozy getaway near Starved Rock
Inside, the sitting room welcomes its guests in subdued elegance; John tends the corner bar in the appetizer hour before dinner. Table settings change for the morning and evening meals: country casual for breakfast (included in the room price), white and burgundy linen for the extra-cost dinners.
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Nic Cage's Naked Intruder Sentenced
The latest on the bizarre break-in. The man who broke into the home of NICOLAS CAGE has been sentenced to six months in rehab, Reuters reports. ROBERT DENNIS FURO JR. pleaded guilty to one count of felony stalking, while two other charges were dropped. He was also given credit for time served. His attorney said he was in a compromised state due to sleeping pills and Vicodin. Last October, the 46-year-old man gained entrance to the actor's Newport Beach residence, where he stripped nude and put on Cage's leather jacket. Cage and his family were home at the time. He confronted the intruder and escorted the man out of his home without incident. .
Ex High-Flying UK Banker Launches TV For Addicts
A former London banker whose cocaine addiction cost him his high-flying job and nearly destroyed his marriage has created Britain's first television channel to help addicts and their families. Dan Butcher, 34, from Berkshire, developed an addiction that left him suicidal while running a foreign exchange trading desk at a firm in London's financial district known as the "City." "If I didn't have a wife and children I would have killed myself," he told Reuters in an interview. "If they weren't around, I wouldn't be here." At his lowest point, he was taking up to 300 pounds worth of cocaine a day and was arrested for possession after visiting his dealer. The last few days before he sought help were spent alone in a hotel room, drinking vodka and taking cocaine around the clock without sleeping or eating.
Boosters slow to join GOP race
Bill Richardson, a Democrat, because he was the only Hispanic running for the White House. "I think as a Latino, we all have a responsibility to back qualified Latinos," Sosa said. After Richardson's withdrawal from the race, Sosa threw his support behind McCain, largely because of his stance on immigration reform. But while many of Bush's one-time South Texas backers have flocked to McCain, Giuliani and Romney, others appear to be waiting for a consensus candidate to emerge. "There is a wait-and-see attitude out there," J. Bruce Bugg Jr. said. Bugg, a San Antonio investment banker, is a member of the McCain campaign's South Texas finance committee. He said victories by former Arkansas Gov.
Indictments include drug busts, child pornography
A Johnson County grand jury handed up indictments last week for charges of aggravated sexual assault of a child, stalking, burglary, evading arrest, possession of controlled substances and child pornography.Robert Walter Bonner and Amanda Dawn Bonner were reindicted on possession of marijuana in a drug-free zone between five and 50 pounds. On May 8, the Burleson Police Department seized more than 500 marijuana plants in the Bonners' home, which was 1,000 feet from Kerr Middle School. The couple's two children were placed in foster care. Robert Walter Bonner was also charged with possession of child pornography. The task force found the images on a computer seized from Bonner's home during the arrest.Chistopher Warren Bone of Mineral Wells was indicted on a charge of stalking. Bone, 42, was arrested by the Cleburne Police Department on Sept.
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