Toddler Steals Washington Teen's Violin
Nichola Evans/Stockbyte(MOUNT VERNON, Wash.) -- Police believe a Washington woman used her toddler to steal an antique violin from a teenager Wednesday afternoon at a local restaurant.
Mount Vernon Police Lt. Chris Cammock told ABC News that 17-year-old Kalob Tatum entered a McDonald’s with his backpack and violin after school. When he went up to the counter to order a burger, he turned around, and his 100-year-old Czechoslovakian copy of a Stradivarius violin was missing.
“When I saw the violin gone, my heart just dropped,” Tatum told ABC affiliate KOMO News. “I had this feeling that something terrible just happened.”
Tatum has been playing the violin since kindergarten, according to Lt. Cammock. The teen earned a scholarship to perform in New York this summer.
“I got a scholarship to a two-week camp and… I do not have a violin and I don’t have the money to get a new one right now,” Tatum told KOMO.
Officers searched for the violin immediately following the theft.
“On the security video that’s inside the McChevron (McDonald’s there is attached to a Chevron gas station), it showed a young girl who picked up the violin and left the restaurant with her mother,” Cammock said. “By depiction, it looks like the mother would have been aware that her daughter was taking it.”
Officers then took the footage obtained from the store and circulated the girl’s picture.
On Thursday, Cammock says an officer on patrol spotted the mother and daughter walking near a school.
“The officer stopped her, had a conversation with her and asked for the violin,” Cammock said. “The violin was then returned to the victim.”
The mother, who was not identified, faces possible charges of theft, Cammock says.
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Dozens Hurt as Commuter Train Derails, Hits Second Train in Connecticut
Comstock/Thinkstock(FAIRFIELD, Conn.) -- Approximately 60 people were taken to hospitals this evening – five with critical injuries – when a New York-area commuter train derailed near Fairfield, Conn., knocking a second train coming the other way off the tracks, officials said.
Amtrak train service between New York and Boston was suspended indefinitely, as was service on the Metro-North Railroad’s New Haven commuter line in Connecticut, amid an investigation, and damage to the Metro-North trains and tracks.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy estimated normal service would not resume until at least Monday.
“These tracks have been torn up,” he told reporters. “There’s been extensive damage.”
The National Transportation Safety Board was sending a team to investigate the crash, and was to be the lead agency in the investigation.
Local police initially put the number of injured between 20 and 25, but several hours later Malloy said 60 people had been taken to hospitals. Five of those 60 had critical injuries, he said, including one person who was considered “very critical.”
The accident occurred just east of the Fairfield metro station at approximately 6:10 p.m., when trains heading in opposite directions between New Haven, Conn., and New York’s Grand Central Terminal collided, officials said. The collision occurred after the New York-bound train derailed, knocking cars from the second train off the tracks.
Rob Oliver, a passenger on board the train that was struck, said he heard “a tremendous amount of metal and just an extremely loud sound.”
“We suddenly were screeching to a stop, but you knew it wasn’t a screech-normal stop … because there was just an awful burning smell and the cabin was filling with smoke,” he said.
He saw people being removed on stretchers with apparent neck or back injuries.
“I know some people breathed in some smoke, including myself, and I’m sure there’s people who have those sorts of [smoke] injuries,” he said. “Other people got injured coming off the train, because it’s a big jump down to the tracks and people were scrambling to get off the tracks as quickly as possible.”
Multiple reports of injuries initially prompted officials to scramble ambulances from all over the region to the site, police said.
The train cars involved were M8s, which were fairly new to the New Haven line. This was the first serious accident involving the new cars, considered state-of-the-art.
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Chechen in Boston Investigation Denies Link to Bombing
John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The former Chechen rebel who said his home was searched by the FBI in connection to the Boston Marathon bombing investigation said in a letter Friday he has "nothing to do with the terrible act in Boston."
"I would like to state that I barely knew the Tsarnaev family, and only met them for the first time after we moved to the U.S.," 35-year-old Musa Khadjimuradov said in a letter handed to media outlets. "During the very few encounters, which were initiated by Tsarnaev, we have never discussed political or religious issues, so I could never guess what ideas were in their minds."
"Should I have any suspicions I would do my duty to prevent what happened at the Boston marathon," he added.
Khadjimuradov told Voice of America Thursday he met with Tamerlan Tsarnaev less than a month before the bombing. He said he has been repeatedly interviewed by the FBI and agents searched his Manchester home and took DNA and fingerprint samples Tuesday.
Tamerlan and his younger brother Dzhokhar are accused of setting off a pair of bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon April 15, killing three people and injuring more than 260 others. Tamerlan was killed in a firefight with police, but Dzhokhar survived and was later captured.
A neighbor of Khadjimuradov's, Troy Boudreau, said he noticed sedans with tinted windows and Massachusetts license plates near his home two weeks ago and finally asked one of the occupants for identification.
"They showed me their FBI badge,'' said Boudreau, 36. "I asked them why they were there and they would only say, 'it's a private matter.'"
Days later, Boudreau saw roughly a dozen investigators go into Khadjimuradov's home. He said for most of the day crime scene technicians and FBI agents came in and out of the apartment carrying electronic equipment. "They were moving furniture in, moving furniture out. They didn't leave until after 10 pm."
Boudrea said it was "unsettling" to think Tsarnaev had walked past his door to visit his neighbor.
In the VOA report, Khadjimuradov said he moved to the U.S. from Chechnya in 2004 and met Tamerlan at a gathering for Chechens in Boston in 2006.
Khadjimuradov told VOA he felt like he was being treated like a suspect by the federal agents, but said they told him not to worry. In the new letter, which is dated May 16, he said he understands why they were focusing on him.
"… I fully cooperate with the federal investigators, and I understand that these guys need to do everything they can to solve this case, so they can prevent anything like this horror from happening again in the future…" he says.
Khadjimuradov said in the letter he and his family are exhausted from stress and asked for privacy.
"I am sincere in saying that America has become a new, beloved home for me and my family, and we appreciate the freedom and peace this country gives us," the letter says.
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Cyanide Poisoned Doctor's Husband a Person of Interest, Lawyer Says
Brigham and Women's Hospital(PITTSBURGH) -- The husband of a Pennsylvania doctor who died with "toxic levels of cyanide" in her system is being investigated as a person of interest, his attorney told ABC News Friday.
Autumn Klein, 41, collapsed at her home in Pittsburgh's Oakland neighborhood and later died on April 20 at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, where she was chief of the division of women's neurology and an assistant professor of neurology, obstetrics and gynecology.
Her husband, Dr. Robert Ferrante, 64, is a professor of neurological surgery at University of Pittsburgh. The couple has a 6-year-old daughter named Cianna.
"There's no question he's a person of interest and that's really all I can go into now," William Difenderfer, Ferrante's attorney, told ABCNews.
"He's under investigation, as any case like this would be, and that's about all we know from the standpoint of the government and he has retained me and we have some experts on board too," Difenderfer said. "We're looking into things as well."
He "adamantly" denied that Ferrante was responsible for or in any way was involved in his wife's death.
"We're going to anxiously defend the case at this point," he said. "I don't want to even get in on a debate with this case now until we see what the commonwealth does."
Difenderfer said he was not aware of police talking to his client recently.
When asked about reports that Ferrante may have purchased cyanide with a university credit card, Difenderfer said, "I can't confirm or deny that. I don't know."
A source briefed on the case told ABC News that investigators believe Ferrante ordered cyanide prior to his wife's death. Detectives have not questioned the doctor about that, but are aware that his attorney has told others that the chemical was used in Ferrante's research.
Ferrante is currently the only person under suspicion in connection with the death of his wife.
"No one else is being looked at," the source said, insisting that that could still change if new leads are developed.
Pittsburgh police again declined comment when contacted by ABC News on Friday.
Authorities have said that Klein's death is being investigated as a possible homicide and a possible suicide.
The FBI is working to assist the Pittsburgh police in the investigation. Earlier this month, police executed a search warrant to search the couple's home.
Investigators removed three vacuum cleaners, a computer tower, and towed the couple's cars.
Warrants were executed for "PITT and/or UPMC," where Ferrante and Klein worked, respectively, according to authorities.
Veteran forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht told ABC News recently that he has been retained to consult in the investigation of Klein's death, but did not say who hired him.
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SEAL Auctions Bin Laden Raid Knife for Fallen Friend
JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images(TAMPA, Fla.) -- A member of the elite team that killed Osama bin Laden donated a knife he carried on the historic raid to a charity auction recently, raising $35,400 for the family of another Navy SEAL who perished in a training accident in March.
Mark Owen, the pseudonymous author of No Easy Day, which detailed the bin Laden mission, told ABC News he was approached by a friend who was setting up the auction and volunteered to part with the combat knife he’s carried with him on missions for over eight years.
“If there was something I could do, I wanted to be involved,” the former SEAL Team Six member said.
The auction in all raised more than $75,000 for several special operations charities, but the proceeds from the knife sale will specifically go the family of Brett “Shady” Shadle, according to Matthew Griffin, a former Army Ranger who helped organized the event. Shadle, who served in SEAL Team Six with Owen, was killed in late March in a training accident in Arizona.
Owen’s knife, a folding Emerson knife that Owen said was his secondary blade, was one of several items in the charity put on by The Macalan Group along with Combat Flip Flops and Intelligent Waves IW simultaneously online and at the Special Operations Forces Industry Conference and Exhibition (SOFIC) hosted this week in Tampa, Fla. The auction began May 1, exactly two years after President Obama announced the death of the al Qaeda leader.
Griffin, the co-founder of Combat Flip Flops, told ABC News that when the bids for the knife jumped in the last minutes of the auction, the audience at SOFIC was ecstatic.
“People were cheering, folks were in tears,” he said.
Griffin said he and the other organizers threw the auction together in just a couple weeks and sought out people like Owen willing to donate items. Since there was no overhead, Griffin said 100 percent of the proceeds will go to the special operations charities.
The winning bidder for the knife has not been identified, but will also be presented with a letter of certification from Owen.
Click the links below to find out more about the organizations Griffin said were supported in the auction:
To learn more about Combat Flip Flops and its work in Afghanistan, click here.
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Powerball Jackpot Soars to Record $600 Million
Scott Olson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- The estimated jackpot for Saturday's Powerball drawing has swelled to a record $600 million for the popular lottery game.
The biggest lottery jackpot ever was $656 million for the Mega Millions drawing on March 30, 2012. The previous record for a Powerball jackpot was $587.5 million on Nov. 28, 2012.
The jackpot soared to $600 million after no one won Wednesday's drawing. That would translate into a lump sum payment of $376.9 million.
The pot is expected to keep growing as the bonanza attracts even more people to take a chance. Tickets for Saturday's drawing can be purchased until 9 p.m. ET Saturday. If no one matches all five numbers plus the Powerball, the jackpot will continue to grow.
This current jackpot began rolling on April 3 with a mere $40 million jackpot, but has grown as no winner has emerged in several drawings.
The odds of winning the grand prize are one in 175,223,510, according to the Powerball website. The odds of winning the second prize are one in 5,153,632.65.
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Unemployment: How Does Your State Rank?
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Forty states showed a drop in unemployment in April.
Louisiana, Tennessee and North Dakota showed an increase in the unemployment rate, while rates were unchanged in seven states, according to the Labor department.
The country’s unemployment rate is 7.5 percent, the lowest since December 2008.
Although companies are adding jobs, part of the reason for the decline in unemployment is because people have stopped looking for work. They are either discouraged by their prospects of getting a job or they are joining the swelling ranks of retiring baby boomers.
Texas, New York and Florida saw the most jobs added, while Wisconsin and Minnesota saw the biggest drop in unemployment.
Nevada had the highest unemployment rate at 9.6 percent, though this is down significantly from a high of 14 percent in October 2010.
North Dakota, meanwhile, had the lowest jobless rate at 3.3 percent. The state’s unemployment rate has been persistently low because of the oil and gas boom facilitated by hydraulic fracturing.
The housing recovery is playing its part in the job market, as many of the job added in Texas and Florida for instance were in construction.
Here’s the rundown of state rates:
Alabama — 6.9% Alaska — 6.0% Arizona — 7.9% Arkansas — 7.1% California — 9.0% Colorado — 6.9% Connecticut — 8.0% Delaware — 7.2% D.C. — 8.5% Florida — 7.2% Georgia — 8.2% Hawaii — 4.9% Idaho — 6.1% Illinois — 9.3% Indiana — 8.5% Iowa — 4.7% Kansas — 5.5% Kentucky — 7.9% Louisiana — 6.5% Maine — 6.9% Maryland — 6.5% Massachusetts — 6.4% Michigan — 8.4% Minnesota — 5.3% Mississippi — 9.1% Missouri — 6.6% Montana — 5.5% Nebraska — 3.7% Nevada — 9.6% New Hampshire — 5.5% New Jersey — 8.7% New Mexico — 6.7% New York — 7.8% North Carolina — 8.9% North Dakota — 3.3% Ohio — 7.0% Oklahoma — 4.9% Oregon — 8.0% Pennsylvania — 7.6% Puerto Rico — 13.7% Rhode Island — 8.8% South Carolina — 8.0% South Dakota — 4.1% Tennessee — 8.0% Texas — 6.4% Utah — 4.7% Vermont — 4.0% Virginia — 5.2% Washington — 7.0% West Virginia — 6.6% Wisconsin — 7.1% Wyoming — 4.8%
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Steak n’ Shake Waitress Scores $446 Tip on $6 Check
Medioimages/Photodisc(INDIANAPOLIS) -- If service with a smile results in a good tip, then Steak n’ Shake waitress CeCe Bruce is smiling from ear to ear.
Bruce, a waitress for the past two years at a Steak n’ Shake in Indianapolis, is $446 richer after a longtime customer left her a tip in that amount on a $5.97 order.
“My first reaction was, ‘Miss Jo, I’m not taking your money,’” Bruce, 31, told ABC News. “It was crazy.”
The customer, identified only as Miss Jo, eats at her local Steak n’ Shake at least once a week and was evidently feeling very generous when she came in for breakfast Wednesday morning.
“She asked me if she could leave me a ridiculously large tip, but I did not know that it was that large,” said Bruce, who described Miss Jo as a middle-aged woman -- “my angel.”
“She didn’t even give me time to tell her, ‘Thank you,’ or anything,” Bruce said. “When I went back to get my manager, she took off out the door. I went outside and she said, ‘You’re going to take that money,’ and drove off.”
“I haven’t had the time to even express my gratitude to her,” she said.
What Bruce has had time to do is put the $446 tip to good use by paying her bills.
“I’ve already spent it,” said Bruce, who, in addition to her full-time waitress job, is a full-time student at Martin University studying psychology.
She is also already back at work at Steak n’ Shake, speaking to ABC News in between serving customers.
As to her secret for delivering service good enough to warrant an approximately 7,000-percent tip, Bruce was humble in her own praise.
“I’m not exactly sure,” she said. “I just try to have a nice personality. I do my job to the best of my ability every day.”
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Taco Bell Sued By Prisoner for ‘Stealing’ Doritos Locos Idea
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Where do wildly popular fast food ideas come from? According to Gary Cole: Prison.
That is the contention of Cole, who claims that it was he who invented Taco Bell’s famous Doritos Locos tacos while doing time in maximum security federal prison in Florence, Colo. He is so adamant about it that on May 15 he filed a federal lawsuit in Dallas alleging that Taco Bell, along with Pepsi, Frito Lay and Taco Bell parent Yum Brands, stole his idea.
Cole has been incarcerated since 1997, when he was given a 25-year sentence for “delaying interstate commerce, conspiring to do so, and using and carrying a firearm in relation to a crime of violence,” according to court papers. Fellow inmates include alleged September 11 co-planner Zacarias Moussaoui, shoe bomber Richard Reid and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
Cole claims that in 2006 he sent his lawyer a notarized document with a list of nine products he devised, the Dallas Observer reports.
The majority fall under a brand he called “Divas and Ballers,” which include hot sauce, body oil, clothing line, and shoes and accessories. But second on the list was a “Tacos [sic] shells of all flavors (made of Doritos).”
In his 35-page handwritten complaint, Cole -- who is representing himself -- alleges that in 2010 he had sent his original list via certified mail to Janice B. Cole and Keonia K. Cole. That letter, he maintains, was “stolen through the United States Postal Service Brand and Submitted to Frito Lays [sic], Taco Bell, Yum Brands.”
He contacted the FBI, and also sent a Freedom of Information Act request to Taco Bell, asking to be sent documents relating to the invention of Doritos Loco Tacos. Private companies are generally not subject to FOI laws, however.
He also wrote to the IRS, that “a check was made out to a person for a large amount by Taco Bell, Frito Lay, and Pepsi Co. Inc. for an idea or invention that was submitted to them by theft and fraud.”
While Cole did not specify a monetary amount in his civil action, he did ask the court to place “a lean [sic] and moratorium” on “Taco Bell, Frito Lays, Pepsi Co, Yum Brands, et al. for the fraudulent and concealment, theft, lying, and covering up, to violate patent and trademark, invention and United States Constitutional Rights, to steal the taco shells made of Doritos of all flavors.”
In an email statement to ABC News, Taco Bell spokesperson Rob Poetsch said that “Given the unprecedented success of Doritos Locos Tacos, we are not surprised others may seek to claim credit. The reality is, the suit is completely without merit as our product innovation team continuously develops and tests new menu concepts, and as a policy we do not accept unsolicited ideas, period.”
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Consumer Confidence Rises to 6-Year High
iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- American consumers are feeling better about the economy.
Consumer confidence rose this month to 83.7 -- better than expected and its highest level since July 2007, according to the University of Michigan’s Consumer Sentiment Index. In April, the figure stood at 76.4.
“Overall, a number of indicators in the economy have been improving,” said Rebecca Jarvis, ABC News’ chief business and economic correspondent, “and that has positively impacted the mind and the psychology of the American consumer.”
“The Dow above 15,000 for the first time, the S&P 500 hitting new records every day -- that helps when you think about the mind of the consumer,” Jarvis said. “As does housing values improving, as does the fact that gasoline prices have sunk to a large degree over the last couple of months.”
There is one place where there’s still room for improvement.
“The jobs picture,” Jarvis said. “It has improved to some degree, [but] it’s still not where we would consider normal.”
U.S. employers added 165,000 jobs to their payrolls last month, taking the unemployment rate down to 7.5 percent.
“A normal jobs picture would be with unemployment more like 5 or 6 percent,” Jarvis said, “and we’re still a ways away from that. The reason we care so much about a number like this is that it looks at what the future of our economy could hold and it looks at it from the perspective of the consumer.”
“Consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of economic growth and so when the consumer is feeling better, the consumer tends to spend more,” she added.
In a separate report, the index of leading indicators from The Conference Board -- a non-profit business research group -- rose 0.6 percent last month. The index aims to predict future growth and was pushed higher by the housing recovery.
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Nicki Minaj Dodges "American Idol" Return Question
Ray Mickshaw/FOX(LOS ANGELES) -- Is Nicki Minaj leaving American Idol? She won't say.
Nicki came backstage briefly after the show’s season finale Thursday and took three questions. One she chose not to answer was, "Are you coming back?"
Nicki was first asked why she didn't perform Thursday night since all the other judges did. She explained that she was committed to performing her song "High School" at this Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards, so she wasn't allowed to perform on Idol. She also revealed that this season, she was supposed to premiere the song's video during American Idol, but Fox rejected it as being too risque.
Nicki then said that she felt that newly-crowned champ Candice Glover was "absolutely" the right person to win. When a publicist said the rapper would take one more question, several were shouted, and Nicki chose to take one about whether or not she was working on new music -- she begins work on her official third album in July.
But as reporters shouted, "Are you coming back?" she blinked, smiled, and walked offstage.
Meanwhile, Candice's debut album, titled Music Speaks, will be in stores July 16 and is available for pre-order now. The newly-minted champ will perform on Live with Kelly & Michael on Monday, and will also appear on PBS’s 24th Annual National Memorial Day Concert, and on the annual special A Capitol Fourth.
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Report: Beyonce Pregnant; Blue Ivy Becoming a Big Sister
James Devaney/WireImage(NEW YORK) -- If the reports are correct, Beyonce's having another baby. Multiple sources have confirmed to E! that the singer is pregnant.
ABC News has reached out to reps for both Bey and her husband, Jay-Z, for comment; so far, there's been no response.
Rumors that they are expecting their second child began swirling earlier this month when Beyonce showed up to the Met Gala in New York City wearing a belly-concealing Givenchy gown. The buzz intensified when the singer postponed a Belgium concert earlier this week, with her publicist citing "dehydration and exhaustion."
If the news of Beyonce's pregnancy is true, then the timing might come as a bit of a surprise, what with her Mrs. Carter Show world tour under way. Then again, Beyonce revealed in an exclusive interview with ABC a couple of weeks ago that she "would like more children," explaining that she thinks her daughter, Blue Ivy, "needs some company."
Well, now it looks like a new sibling may be coming to Blue, who was born January of last year.
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Bill Hader Reveals Post-"SNL" Plans
Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC(NEW YORK) -- After eight years on Saturday Night Live, Bill Hader announced that this season, which ends Saturday, will be his last – and all he wants to do afterwards is “sleep.”
“[I'll be] spending time with my family. A new set of concerns,” he tells GQ magazine in its June Comedy Issue. “Heading back to LA. I met my wife in California and lived out there before this. We have good friends out there.”
During his time on the show, Hader, 34, became famous for his impressions of James Carville, Al Pacino and Julian Assange, though he says he never set out to make that his forte.
“I don’t know if I’ll keep doing impressions,” he says in the magazine, on stands May 21. “People told me I had a facility for it and I was like, ‘Okay, I’m the impression guy.’ So you imagine the cast at SNL is an A-Team and you’ve got the explosives guy, and I’m the impression guy.”
He also doesn’t intend to reprise Stefon, the infamous club kid with insider knowledge of the most ridiculous hotspots in New York City.
“Sometimes people say to me, ‘I want a Stefon movie!’ and I’m like, you think you want a Stefon movie but then you’ll see the poster for it and think, ‘Wait, I don’t want this!’ he says. “There’s no emotional through line.”
And while he’s fine with saying goodbye to his characters, Hader does have great affection for his SNL co-stars, particularly Seth Meyers, who was just tapped as the new host of Late Night.
“When I heard the news I started clapping–you know, just by myself, clapping. It’s amazing. He is the perfect fit,” he says. “I’ve watched as SNL hosts come into our office and we pitch them ideas and Seth is always at ease with them. He’s naturally and genuinely curious about people. And he really is such a funny writer. I’ve learned more from him about sketch comedy than probably anybody.”
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Justin Bieber Must Pay for His Monkey’s Shelter Stay
CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP/Getty Images(MUNICH, Germany) -- When you bring the monkey, you must pay the price.
The German animal shelter that has been keeping Justin Bieber's capuchin monkey is asking the singer to pay for his pet's two-month stay there. Mally the monkey has reportedly racked up a bill of several thousand euros for food, housing and veterinary care at the Munich animal shelter where Mally has been staying since customs officials seized the animal March 28.
Bieber had brought Mally with him on tour, but reportedly didn't have the proper paperwork to take the monkey with him on the road in Germany.
Bieber also reportedly has until Friday night to claim Mally, though what will happen to the animal if he doesn't isn't quite clear.
E! News reported late last month that the animal shelter housing Mally claimed Bieber's management had surrendered the monkey to the shelter. However, there's still paperwork to be done, and customs officials claim so far, they haven't received the necessary documents to release Mally, wherever she may end up.
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Zoe Saldana Says She'll Never Retire
Kevin Mazur/WireImage(NEW YORK) -- Zoe Saldana is currently on the silver screen, helping to defend the USS Enterprise in the J.J. Abrams-directed Star Trek Into Darkness, out now. The 34-year-old actress is having so much fun, she tells ABC News Radio that she never wants quit the movie business.
"I don't ever want to retire," Saldana said Thursday night at a Star Trek Into Darkness screening at Paramount Studios in New York City. "What am I going to do, gardening?"
"I'm always going to be evolving in my career. Right now, I've finally found something that makes me happy. I've been doing this for over 10 years and it makes me happy," she continued. "And the moment this business doesn't make happy I am going to do something else."
Saldana stars alongside Chris Pine, who plays Captain Kirk, and Zachary Quinto, as Spock in the Star Trek re-boot. Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch portrays the mysterious villain, John Harrison.
Star Trek Into Darkness, which is screening in 3D, is rated PG-13. It's the only movie opening in wide release this week.
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