From the complaint:

The Home Depot knew or should have known, that after the incident in Boulder, CO that there would be a strong possibility that instances of copycat behavior would occur, especially since the Home Depot sells a wide variety of adhesive products and that same could be used in a similar manner to recreate, or to cause a similar situation.

Mr. Rosales claims he was "rendered unable to work" by his injuries, is seeking in excess of $25,000 in damages.

Glued To His Seat [The Smoking Gun]

A Northeast Missouri family says that Comcast has been renting their land for a cable tower, but hasn't been paying the bill for the last six months. The confusion started when Comcast took over another cable company that had been renting the land. The family tried negotiating with Comcast, but the cable company walked away from the table.. and kept using the land.

From the KHQA:

When Comcast walked away without paying its rent, the Williams' decided to stop providing the service by shutting off the transmitter.

With the tower out of service, a Comcast employee had to come to the tower to turn it back on. That meant he trespassed onto the Williams property. That happened a couple of times before the Williams decided to turn the power off.

Again Williams told me a Comcast employee returned, trespassed and brought a generator to keep the tower going.

KHQA talked with Comcast officials to find out why the company would trespass. Here's the explanation we got.

No power on the tower shut down emergency pagers for physicians, not to mention turned out the tower's lights which serve as a warning for airplane pilots.

Comcast officials say they didn't know about the contract negotiations or the backed up tower rent until they officially took over Insight Jan. 1.

Monday, the Williams signed a year long contract. But that hasn't changed anything.

The Williams told us they contacted KHQA, because they want local customers to know what kind of company is serving the Quincy area.

She says it's the kind that wants you to pay your bills, but won't pay its own.

Comcast officials also told us the Williams' rent check is in the mail.

Comcast paying their bills late? [KHQA] (Thanks to a Quincy resident !)

Con artists turn to text messaging [News-Leader via Consumer World Blog]
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"The primary objective of both lawsuits is to get TTP out of Missouri," said Gregory Leyh of Gladstone, the attorney for both class-action lawsuits. "TTP cheats by pretending to be a local florist so it can fool consumers and steal the legitimate business of Missouri florists. At least for now, TTP is no longer in the floral business in Missouri."

TTP's president, Thomas Meola, said the company could no longer afford the cost of defending the lawsuits.

"This is a victory for us," said Debbie Fulton, owner of Gladstone Florist on North Oak Trafficway. "We noticed our business began to pick up this summer, when it is normally down. Then we found out that the telemarketer had disconnected the phone."

Local florists score victory over telemarketing scheme [KCCommunityNews]
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Missouri is the only state without a statewide fee or tax for wireless 911 service. Voters have twice rejected ballot measures to raise taxes for 911 service, most recently in 2002.

Public Safety Director Mark James told lawmakers Monday that service needs to improve, and recommended a 75-cent monthly fee per cell phone number.

That fee would generate about $33.8 million a year, nearly as much as what's collected now through the fee on landline numbers, state emergency officials said.

"Ours is one of the worst in the nation, and actions must be taken to correct this life-threatening problem," James said. "I pray that we don't have to have a catastrophe occur before we have the courage to fix this situation."

Cell phone fee sought for 911 service [AP]
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She's not, but now she can't get credit for anything. The trouble started when she closed an account with her bank. The bank listed her as dead and then sold the information to "an outside agency" From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Coburn said she then contacted the agency and was told someone had called an old phone number of hers to update her information. Someone who answered the phone said that he was a relative and that Coburn had died in November.

You'd think this would be easy to clear up? Nope. Madeline walks around with a stack of emails from her bank and other agencies crying out for help. She's tried the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and 14 other federal and state agencies. She's had to drop out of school because her loans have been cut off. She hasn't got any money for a lawyer to prove she's alive, and she can't borrow... well, you get the idea. Poor thing.

Anyone want to take her case? She's in St. Louis. Listen for the sound of tears. —MEGHANN MARCO

False report of death puts woman's life on hold [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] (Thanks, Ian!)
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Monett Rural Fire Department responded to the scene but did not fight, instead watching to see if the fire might spread to homes owned by members.

"People need to realize you've got to become a member. If you live outside the city limits, you need to join one of the rural fire departments," Fire Chief Ronnie Myers said.

Rueda offered to pay, County Sheriff's Detective Robert Evenson said, but the Monett department does not have a policy for on-the-spot billing.

Southwest Missouri firefighters watch as fire hits nonmember [Belleview News Democrat]