The Night Note: 3/5/09

News you need to know

By BRENDAN WILLIAMS-KIEF

Updated 1:00 AM EST, Fri, Mar 6, 2009

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The following stories have been hand-selected by the Assignment Desk at News4:

COP CAUGHT WITH POT
Steven Wesley Spoonire, a 16-year veteran with the Maryland State Police, pleaded guilty today to possessing marijuana.
Spoonire, 36, of Union Bridge, entered an Alford plea of guilt to the charge four days before he was set to go on trial in Frederick County Circuit Court. An Alford plea is not an admission of guilt but an acknowledgment that had the case gone to trial, prosecutors had the evidence to support a conviction. (Frederick News-Post)

NUTS FOR MCNUGGETS
She's been called "McNut" by TMZ.com and "loco 4 pollo" by PerezHilton.com. Now, after becoming an Internet sensation for calling 911 three times to report an emergency after McDonald's had run out of McNuggets, a Fort Pierce woman said Wednesday she is embarrassed by all the media attention. "I'm embarrassed to show my face in public," Latreasa Goodman told WPBF News 25's Alexis Rivera one day after her McNugget meltdown was first reported. (MSNBC)

SIR, GET DOWN FROM THE LADDER, THE DOG IS FINE
A South Texas mayor was so concerned about reports of a Great Dane being stuck on a second-story balcony that he alerted emergency workers, went to the location himself, scaled a fire department ladder and entered the apartment to help the dog.
The problem was, the dog wasn't in distress. The bigger problem came when the surprised dog owner found Mayor Pat Ahumada standing in his kitchen Tuesday. (USA Today)

I'LL TAKE MY M&M BONELESS
J. Paulette Potts has a bone to pick with the makers of M&M's candy. The Atlanta woman says she bit into a blue peanut candy last week -- and got a bone. FOXNEWS.com says that when she called the company to report the incident, she was told it was probably a peanut twig. (AOL News)