Best of web: Wife beats husband for smoking

A woman beat her husband with a rock because she didn't want him to smoke.

The couple's teenage daughter called police when she could not get her mother to stop beating the father, according to local media
reports.

When the police arrived at their residence in Callaway, Florida, they saw the husband hunched over with his hands over his head,
trying to protect himself.

His 41-year-old wife was standing behind him, kicking him in the hip and hitting him on the head with a rock, shouting and telling him to give her the cigarettes.

“A woman can only take so much,” she told police.

Both husband and wife told deputies they had been suffering with the flu recently and had not felt well.

The night before, they got into an argument and the woman scratched her husband’s face, the report said.

When he mentioned going outside to smoke a cigarette that morning, the wife became angry and told him “he did not need to be smoking since he is sick,” according to the reports.

She admitted to assaulting the husband and has been arrested.

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Drive-thru sex shop offers privacy

In the technology-savvy north Alabama city of Huntsville, visitors won't just find burgers and prescriptions at the drive-thru window.

A "romance" store called Pleasures offers a rare convenience: a drive-through with adult novelties for sale. Business is brisk so far, with cars sometimes lining up three deep for vibrators, lubricants, lingerie and other risque items.

Employee Toni Kennedy says the store has been doing well in part because the option is easy to use and discreet.

Pleasures is owned by Florida businesswoman Sherri Williams, who fought the state for almost a decade over whatÕs considered by free-speech advocates to be one of the nationÕs toughest anti-obscenity laws.

In November, she held the grand opening for an expanded Pleasures store in an old bank building at a busy intersection.  

900-pound bull escapes on way to slaughter

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A 900-pound (400-kilogramme) bull escaped on his way to slaughter and led his owners and authorities on a two-mile (three-kilometer) chase through two eastern Pennsylvania townships for an hour.

The Daily Item reports that Wayne Myers was headed to the butcher with the raging 2-year-old bull when he stopped at a red light near a middle school Wednesday. He says thatÕs when then the bull made a break for it.

The bull fled ran at least two miles before being shot to death by its owners.
No one else was hurt.  

Meat labels to include calories starting in 2012
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The Agriculture Department will require many meat labels to include the number of calories and other nutritional information starting in 2012 so that consumers can make healthier decisions about what they eat.

The rule announced Wednesday is part of the governmentÕs effort to educate Americans about nutrition and diets.

It applies to 40 of the most popular cuts of meat and poultry products. Ground meat and poultry will have the facts on their labels. Raw cuts will offer the information on labels or to consumers where itÕs purchased.

Labels will list grammes of total fat and saturated fat, and fat percentages for products already offering lean percentages.

Major cuts affected are boneless chicken breasts, brisket and tenderloin steak. The rule also affects hamburgers and ground turkey.  

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