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Cindy Adams: Connie Stevens is in need of some healing tunes
Cindy Adams: Connie Stevens is in need of some healing tunes

New York Post

time24-06-2025

  • Entertainment
  • New York Post

Cindy Adams: Connie Stevens is in need of some healing tunes

She needs some healing tunes Although the world turns, not all of us can. Celebrity seer John Cohan who knows Connie Stevens since Brooklyn childhood says, 'Prayers are needed,' for Connie, 86, in an LA nursing home. 'She'll not sing onstage again.' Connie grabbed stardom from her role on the show 'Hawaiian Eye' (1959 to 1963). Kids would dress with false eyelashes, ponytails and balloon skirts to copy her. Forget her nudie movie 'The Sex Symbol' (1974). Even she's probably forgotten it. It's a wild, wild world The world has changed — even for animal-kind. The Post had a recent story about coyotes. Just now, in Weston, a manicured lawn near Boston, a teeny white fluffy Maltese played in a private secured area with grass, lawn, trees, flowers, gated road, while its owner — inside her adjacent kitchen — watched. From woods sprang a coyote. Despite its screaming owner racing out and the dog's terrifying barking — her precious adored pet was taken. Gone. Never to be seen again. Recently, in another country home — with alarms, locks, sirens, guards, private roadways — a Shih Tzu played in the grass. Inches away stood its owner. Overhead swooped an eagle. Huge. Wings outstretched, it lowered itself. Shrieking in terror, she quickly collected her dog. A neighbor had lost her own pet at the talons of an eagle. I was recently in Jackson Hole. The owner asleep, but being 8 a.m. NY time, I was up. Standing inside her house's glass walls. Nose to nose, staring at me, taller than I, there was a gigantic black bear directly in front of me, trying the door's lock. Terrified, I screamed. The bear lumbered away. Me, I got the hell out — back to New York. Shelter for all America's growing old — trains, bridges, tunnels, machines, houses, people, rules, infrastructure's crumbling. Patience, respect, learning, family affection is waning. Established ways are wobbling. It's come to world safety. Being only a visitor on the planet I'm not smart enough to have an answer. At this tense time, my thoughts also run to the animals and the elderly. And I'm an animal lover. On the ASPCA's international board for years, I organized the longtime Blessing of the Animals at Park Avenue's Christ Church, until we got hit with the pandemic. My Yorkshire terrier Jellybean I love desperately. I'm even willing to overlook my dog's poor bathroom habits — which are worse than my husband's were — because I love my 6-pound Yorkie, so much. Impeach this DESPITE terrorist Iran's plan to kill all Americans plus Israelis, bartender Ocasio-Cortez, whose background is a sloe gin fizz, snarls at the White House. She should have done the same to Biden since that seemed the only way to protect him. TWO redneck wives: One asks, 'How do you get your husband out of bed and to work in the morning?' Second one: 'Easy. I just open the door and let the cat in.' First one: 'That get him up?' Second one: 'Absolutely. See, he sleeps with the dog.' Only in America, kids, only in America.

Body found in Santa Fe National Forest identified as 1950s grappler
Body found in Santa Fe National Forest identified as 1950s grappler

Yahoo

time20-05-2025

  • Yahoo

Body found in Santa Fe National Forest identified as 1950s grappler

Human remains discovered more than two decades ago in the Santa Fe National Forest have been identified as Keeble Wofford Sr., known in the 1950s as actor and wrestler Kimo Mahi, who had been missing since 1992. The case is the fourth in New Mexico in which state officials have been able to positively identify someone using the DNA testing technology of forensic genealogy company Othram, the firm claims. Wofford's bones were found by hikers in the forest in Sandoval County in 2001 and reported to the Sandoval County Sheriff's Office, Othram said in a news release. Deputies entered the case into the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System as Sandoval County John Doe, whose identity remained a mystery. Kimo Kimo Mahi In 2021, the sheriff's office and the state Office of the Medical Investigator sent the remains to the lab of Texas-based Othram, which used a process it calls "forensic-grade genome sequencing" to build a DNA profile from the remains, the news release states. Othram compared a DNA sample from Wofford's daughter to the unidentified remains and was able to positively identify them, the company said. A death certificate was then drafted for Wofford, and his cremated remains were returned to his daughter. Investigators believe Wofford had been traveling from Pueblo, Colo., to Albuquerque in September 1992 for a business meeting and "was never heard from again," the news release says. Wofford competed as wrestler Kimo Mahi in the 1950s and '60s. He was described in an El Paso Herald-Post column as a "plucky Hawaiian grappler." He also appeared in at least one film — Twilight for the Gods, starring Rock Hudson and Cyd Charisse — and several television shows, according to IMDb, including the series Hawaiian Eye and Sea Hunt. Othram's technology has been used in the past to identify the remains of two women found in and near Albuquerque as well as a suspect in a 1987 rape and murder case in Carlsbad, according to the company. "People should know that it doesn't matter how old a case is, or whether it was hopeless in the past, there is technology here today that is able to bring answers to families like in this case," Kristen Mittelman, the company's chief development officer, said in a statement. "This was a well-known man who just disappeared more than 20 years ago and now he has his name again."

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