Spears shaves head

Spears shaves head
LOS ANGELES -- Britney Spears appeared in a tattoo parlor in the San Fernando Valley with her head shaved completely bald. Video on KABC-TV showed the newly shorn Spears with tiny tattoos on the back of her neck as she sat Friday night for a new tattoo -- a pair of red and pink lips on her wrist.
Derrik Snell, who works at the tattoo parlor, said Spears showed up without notice and stayed for about 90 minutes.
Mummified man found
HAMPTON BAYS, N.Y. -- The partially mummified body of a man dead for more than a year has been found in a chair in front of his television, which was still on, authorities said. Vincenzo Ricardo, 70, apparently died of natural causes, said Dr. Stuart Dawson, Suffolk County's deputy chief medical examiner.
Police found Ricardo's body this week when they investigated a report of burst pipes. The home's dry air had preserved his features, morgue assistant Jeff Bacchus said. Ricardo's wife died years ago, and he lived alone, Dawson said.
Auction goes awry
DALLAS -- The auction of a window advertised as Lee Harvey Oswald's sniper perch in the killing of President John F. Kennedy brought a bid of about 3 million, but the sale quickly fell through.
The window was up for auction Friday on eBay with a starting price of 100,000, and bidding quickly rose to seven figures. But 32 bids were either retracted by the bidders-- normally because a wrong price had been entered, including one for 17 million -- or canceled by the seller because a bidder didn't meet qualifications.
Then, it turned out that the winning bidder "didn't have the cash," said Fred McLane, a business representative for owner Caruth Byrd, whose father, D. Harold Byrd, owned the Texas School Book Depository building when Kennedy was assassinated Nov. 22, 1963.
Weeks after the assassination, the elder Byrd ordered employees to remove the window, and he kept it in his home until his death in 1986. Caruth Byrd later lent it to The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, where it was displayed for 12 years.
Questions unanswered
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- During the first three days of a custody dispute over Anna Nicole Smith's body, attorneys frequently referred to the former pinup's will. But the 2001 document, which was released Friday, leaves more questions than it answers about who will inherit Smith's potentially huge estate.
The 19-page will did not say how much Smith was worth, so it is still a mystery how much money those battling over her remains and her baby daughter could get. And though her body underwent embalming Saturday, the will also didn't mention where Smith wanted to be buried.
It named Smith's lawyer and boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, as her executor, stipulating that he hold her estate in trust for son Daniel Smith. But her son died last September at age 20 of apparently drug-related causes, days after the birth of the Smith's daughter, Dannielynn.
Catch robber, win coffee
MOUNTLAKE TERRACE, Wash. -- The owner of a coffee stand north of Seattle is offering free coffee for a year to anyone who helps catch a robber. Troy Malchow hopes the offer will create a buzz that finds the man who pointed a gun at him Wednesday at Perfetto Espresso.
Malchow, who has owned Perfetto Espresso for a decade, says the business had never been robbed until Wednesday. But in the past two weeks, his business in the parking lot of an auto repair shop has been both vandalized and robbed.
Talk about beating odds!
MAPLEWOOD, Minn. -- An airline pilot from Maplewood won a 25,000 lottery jackpot -- two days in a row. Raymond Snouffer Jr. matched the winning numbers 11-14-23-26-31 to win the Feb. 10 Northstar Cash drawing with odds of about 170,000 to 1, Minnesota Lottery officials said.
On Feb. 11, Snouffer stuck with 11 and switched to 3-7-19-28 -- and won again. Lottery officials said such a sequence was so farfetched that the odds against it were "virtually incalculable."
Food record broken
MEXICO CITY -- A group of businessmen in the northern Mexican City of Chihuahua broke a tasty record Friday, making a hunk of meat on a skewer big enough to serve 24,000 tacos. In the Friday event dubbed as the "Tacoton," the meat for a pastor taco, a variety of the Mexican dish that consists of pork squashed onto a stake, weighed 3.9 tons and was 13 feet high, Mexican government news agency Notimex reported.
Officials from the Guinness World Records recognized the hunk of meat as the world's "largest skewer of kebab meat," Notimex reported.
Associated Press