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A ghost-hunter chasing women was arrested for allegedly firing a BB gun at a car that stopped near her home so its occupants could explore a "haunted tunnel." The group had heard the tunnel was haunted and planned to take some photos of it.

Nearby neighbor, 28-year-old Brandi Lea Amey, came out of her home and told the group to leave. As they were driving away, she is alleged to have pulled out a BB gun and fired at the rear of the vehicle. She was charged with five counts of aggravated assault. The incident took place near the Sensabaugh Hollow Railroad tunnel in Church Hill Tennessee.
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Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power station was destroyed in the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011, but instead of the cleanup reducing radiation leaks, it has now become clear that extremely dangerous Strontium-90 is entering regional ground water at an ever increasing rate. This is believed to come from a crack in reactor two, but TEPCO refuses to confirm this. Right now, contaminated water is stored in huge drums on the facility site, but if there is a reactor crack, the amount of contaminated water will over time become enormous. TEPCO claims that it has plans to filter the radioactive material out of the water and release it into the ocean.read more

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Even places you’re not sure you like all that much can become "home" if you stay there long enough. I feel that way about Texas–it’s not a place that fits the way I think, but I made lots of good friends there and I miss them all terribly.

I was reminded of this when I read that Cicely Tyson just won the Tony for starring in "The Trip to Bountiful" on Broadway, a movie that garnered the great actress Geraldine Page an Academy Award in 1985. I was lucky enough to hear the playwright, Texan Horton Foote, speak when we lived in Texas.
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