| Smith leaves legal tangle and a baby who may or may not be an heiress
LOS ANGELES - With major legal issues undecided, Anna Nicole Smith's legacy could take years to untangle and could leave her baby daughter with millions of dollars or nothing at all. Smith's battle over her late husband J. Howard Marshall II's oil fortune with the family of his son grinds on in Texas. And there is a pending class action suit seeking unspecified damages against Smith and TrimSpa Inc., alleging the company's marketing of a weight-loss pill with Smith as spokeswoman was false and misleading. Meanwhile, two men are contesting the paternity of Smith's 5-month-old daughter Dannielynn, with an emergency hearing in the case planned for Friday in Los Angeles. Experts say the custody decision could determine the child's inheritance. Attorney Howard K.
Area Parents Breathing Easier After Car Seat Flub
New car seat safety crash test data from Consumer Reports magazine -- in which most of the car seats manufactured today failed the tests -- left many parents questioning the safety of the seats their children have been sitting in. But as it turned out, the parents' fears may have been unfounded. The magazine issued a retraction after it discovered most of the tests were conducted at speeds higher than planned. Debbie Fine, owner of "The Baby's Room in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., says this is the topic all her customers are talking about now: "Because we sell a stroller that connects to a car seat, many customers are asking us which car seat to buy." Angela Osterhuber, director of Pennsylvania's Traffic Injury Prevention Project, says the bottom line is that every car seat available for sale today meets national safety crash test standards.
Hopefully the humanity of the female victims will survive as the ...
While sorting through the muck of evidence in the Robert Pickton mass-murder trial, can the humanity of the victims possibly survive in the filth? There's been a common element in the coverage during the opening of the West Coast trial of the pig farmer and the missing women from Vancouver's Downtown East side -- not sensationalism, but largely respect for the dead. Most news agencies have tried to remind the public the bits and parts of the souls allegedly found on Pickton's farm -- fragments of horror which threaten to overwhelm everything else in the stories -- were real people who were once loved and hoped for better days. Whether it's lingering guilt, that society didn't do more for these women when they started to go missing, or an acceptance that they were mothers, daughters and sisters, the initial reporting has dwelled on the recollection of friends and the snapshots of happier days.
i'coo offers up Pico-iPod stroller: will the madness ever end?
Seriously, one day this mayhem has to end, but we suppose today isn't that day, so we'll just take a look at yet another (admittedly useful) product that'll probably sell at least three times as well as sufficient alternatives simply because you can strap your iPod into it.
The Pico-iPod (which comes in black and white, to no one's surprise) appears to be a suite of iPod-laced goodies to pamper your child, including a stroller, car seat, and diaper bag, all entirely more attractive than your average kid carrier due to its DAP connection. In the hood of the stroller you'll find a holster for your dock-connecting iPod, volume / track controls, and built-in speakers to drown out those piercing screams lull the kiddo to sleep. While there's no apparent pricing listed on their site, we're seeing that it'll run you right around $300 from other outlets, so your kid best really love music before you throw down on this.
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