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Mary Delgado E-mail
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mary-delgado.pngDelgado was arrested in 2007 early Wednesday morning by Pinellas County police and charged with domestic battery.Former star of The Bachelor Byron Velvick and Mary Delgado, who got engaged after she won the final rose on TV back in 2004, are going strong these days despite a pre-Thanksgiving fight.Mary Delgado, the Season 6 winner of the reality show "The Bachelor," has been arrested for public intoxication in Texas.

TMZ said Delgado was also charged with allegedly resisting arrest and disorderly conduct after she allegedly refused to leave a Del Rio, Texas, tavern Saturday night, then became "loud and belligerent' during a ride to the police station in which she also kicked the squad-car radio.

Delgado was also arrested last year for allegedly punching her fiance, "The Bachelor" star Byron Velvick.


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Hurricane Ike E-mail
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Hurricane Ike causes destruction and pass the Coastline of the United StatesHurricane Ike is crossing Cuba after smashing into the northeast of the country with winds of 205 kilometers (125 miles) per hour, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

In the Florida Keys, where the storm may pass on Tuesday, many residents took a wait-and-see approach to evacuating Sunday, perhaps a harbinger of attitudes to come from Gulf Coast residents returning from an arduous evacuation and already showing signs of "hurricane fatigue."The price of crude oil surged more than $2 a barrel as the approach of Hurricane Ike delayed the restart of production from the Gulf of Mexico.

Royal Dutch Shell evacuated workers from Gulf platforms or kept staff onshore who were moved from the path of Hurricane Gustav last month.

 


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Russian collective farms become hot capitalist property E-mail
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PODLESNY, Russia: The fields around this little farming enclave are among the most fertile on earth. But like tens of million of acres of land in this country, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, they literally went to seed.
Now that may be changing. A decade after capitalism transformed Russian industry, an agricultural revolution is stirring the countryside, shaking up village life and sweeping aside the collective farms that resisted earlier reform efforts and remain the dominant form of agriculture.
The change is being driven by soaring global food prices (the price of wheat alone rose 77 percent last year) and a new reform allowing foreigners to own agricultural land. Together, they have created a land rush in rural Russia.
			
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