# Tonight's TV news headlines **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 25, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667 "2010-05-25T03:09:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/1 "2010-05-25T03:09:50Z")
On out local NBC station tonight, and they actually said, “We have two BIG stories tonight…” One was a local resident who wrestled with a burglar, but the burglar got away. The other was a black bear caught on video in the nearby town of Waunakee. If you care for details (and really, who would?): [nbc15.com](http://www.nbc15.com/) These were the lead stories tonight. What’s big in your town? ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/2 "2010-05-25T05:53:27Z")
What? No coverage of Lindsey Lohan showing up in court in LA…ELEVEN MINUTES LATE!!! Is this the end of days, or what? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/3 "2010-05-25T05:57:11Z")
I’ll bet the was the lead story on all the LA local channels. If she’d been attacked by a bear, we would have carried it here. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/4 "2010-05-25T11:00:46Z")
Our local stations are from Washington DC… So we get murder, mayhem, and politics. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/5 "2010-05-25T13:18:05Z")
Christ, I can’t believe it… no bears??? ---
**Author:** ![howye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@howye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/howye)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/6 "2010-05-25T13:21:36Z")
No bears, but: [Is There A Cougar In Athens County?](http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2010/may/24/7/cougar-hunt-athens-ar-86712/) ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/7 "2010-05-25T13:29:38Z")
Nikki Haley, Tea Party candidate for governor and Sarah Palin buddy, may have had an affair with some blogger. Some guy who wants to preserve slave cabins is sleeping in slave cabins. Somebody robbed a bingo parlor and made off with an unspecified amount of money. “Kershaw County man shoots intruder on a hunch” - ? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/8 "2010-05-25T13:46:00Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > “Kershaw County man shoots intruder on a hunch” - ? Well, he just wanted to wound the guy and figured his hunch was the safest place to shoot him. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/9 "2010-05-25T13:47:35Z")
Ottawa firefighters help to battle a blaze in Gatineau. Search for missing swimmer ends grimly IED blast kills Canadian soldier in Afghanistan ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/10 "2010-05-25T13:48:24Z")
We’ve had a few coyotes running around New York in the last few weeks. Most of them have been caught but released in wooded areas. But the story was on the news and the expert had this to say, “That might work out, or it might not.” Okay. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/11 "2010-05-25T13:53:37Z")
Headlines from today’s Arab News; Raped maid to be repatriated Government eyes 12,600 jobs for women Kidney patients to be treated in small towns, villages and of course: Israel’s dirty secret is out ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/12 "2010-05-25T14:07:15Z")
I’d pay big money to see the following after the titles of a news show: Announcer: News Center 13, with your hosts Jim Walcott and Karen Mitchell [music fades] Jim: Fuck it, we got nothing. See you tomorrow! [music rises, studio lights go out] Announcer: We now join “Wheel of Fortune”, already in progress ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/13 "2010-05-26T01:34:47Z")
Lester Says UPP’s Move Toward Electoral Reform Illegal Jamaica Mayhem Ministry of Education executes plan to train all teachers by 2013 The really hot story though comes on the letters page: The traffic light saga ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/14 "2010-05-26T01:39:51Z")
Where are you from? Do they just hire teachers off the street? ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/15 "2010-05-26T01:50:09Z")
Local news the other night: “Researchers have created life in the laboratory. But first, we go to the airport, where they are moving a plane into a field for students to work on.” And they go on for five minutes about this dead airplane, and I’m squirming in my chair wondering “WTF, THEY CREATED LIFE??? SHOW THAT YOU IDIOTS!!!” Turns out the life creation thing was overblown quite a bit… ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/16 "2010-05-26T01:50:09Z")
“Tonight: We met her before her facelift. Tonight, the after photos. A special report next on Fox 47.” ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/17 "2010-05-26T02:01:09Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Where are you from? Do they just hire teachers off the street? Antigua in the West Indies - scary eh? You can become an assistant, then end up teaching the class - this would be primary schools - 4-11 year olds. ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/18 "2010-05-26T03:23:44Z")
This was in the “Breaking News” in the Times-Picayune a couple of months ago and got some mention on all the TV news too: “Man robs convenience store, flees with nearly $200 worth of cigarettes”. Wow, that’s a huge haul. 4 cartons! He must’ve needed a truck to carry them away. Or maybe he stole the generic cigarettes and got away with 7 cartons…but who the hell steals generic cigarettes? ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/19 "2010-05-26T04:04:11Z")
“28 year old grandma goes missing.” ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2010, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667/20 "2010-05-26T11:23:57Z")
“Hickville” school district teachers get .5% pay hikes again. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tonights-tv-news-headlines/540667.md?page=2)