Mom who joined cheerleading squad pleads insanityGREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A 33-year-old woman accused of stealing her daughter’s identity to attend high school and join the cheerleading squad has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.Wendy Brown faces a felony identity theft charge after enrolling in a Wisconsin high school as her 15-year-old daughter, who lives in Nevada with Brown’s mother.According to a federal complaint, Brown attended one day of classes, practiced with the cheerleading squad and went to a party at the coach’s house.Brown also faces theft and forgery charges from an unrelated case, where she is accused of collecting money for an apartment she didn’t have authority to rent. She could face up to nearly 13 years in prison if convicted of all charges.- –Suspect in golf cart eludes Utah sheriff cruisersMORGAN, Utah (AP) — A Utah sheriff’s office has found that it shouldn’t underestimate the golf cart as a getaway car.A suspect in a souped-up cart managed to elude officers who pursued him last month through an alfalfa field — but only for a while. He was arrested the next day at his grandmother’s house.Officers started pursuing the driver after he was spotted spinning out in a city park in Morgan. He took off into an alfalfa field and jumped irrigation ditches that the sheriff’s cruisers couldn’t cross.Morgan County Sheriff’s Sgt. Scott Peay suspects the cart was fitted with a car engine instead of the original electric motor.- – – -Contact The Daily Reveille’s entertainment staff at [email protected]
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October 18, 2008