Runners-Up: Travis Armstrong (S.B. News-Press publisher), Mindy McCready, “Survivor” winner Brian Heidik, Actress Lindsay Lohan, Pamplona bull-runners and Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett
Runners-up for top story of the month:
Acting publisher of the Santa Barbara, California News-Press, Travis Armstrong, for failing to pour on the alcoholic charm required to keep almost a dozen reporters, including seven out of the paper's top eight editors, from walking out after managing to silence a story on his arrest for driving drunk the wrong way down a one-way street. His Blood Alcohol Level was .23 per cent, which requires the equivalent of 15 shots of 80-proof liquor in a period of four hours for a 200-pound person.
Country singer Mindy McCready, who recently testified she thought that police pulled her over in May 2005 to "give her a hard time,"not because they thought she might be driving ...
