Hoopz (Nicole Alexander) and Shaq Engaged?

Some of you may remember a girl with the nickname Hoopz if you watched the “Flavor of Love” follow up called “Flavor of Love, I Love Money.” Hoopz, aka Nicole Alexander, actually won the reality television show, and walked away with $250,000 in cash. Over the last few months there have been reports that Boston Celtic Center, Shaquille O’Neal and Hoopz had been spending a lot of time together. Many people believed the two were dating, however, all the rumors shot up a notch Monday Night.

According to Sam and Majdolin David, the owners of the Sahara Mediterranean Cuisine and Hookah Lounge in Bridgeton, Shaq, another man, and three females showed up around 11:30 pm. Shaq placed a chair on the middle of the dance floor and then place a ring on the finger of one of the females, believed to be Hoopz. Sam David stated, “I think he may have proposed to his girlfriend. He brought a chair into the middle of the dance floor and he put a ring on her finger.”

Whether the proposal was legitimate, or even to Hoopz, is yet to be confirmed, although it seems to be the case. This morning the two were spotted at a Tennessee Waffle House. Shaquille O’Neal recently got a divorce from his wife of 7 years, Shaunie O’Neal.

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Ex-policeman holds bus in Manila, 7 hostages freed

A tourist walks away from a bus containing hostages after he was released by former police officer Rolando Mendoza (top) at Quirino Grandstand in Manila August 23, 2010. The disgruntled ex-policeman armed with an automatic rifle was holding 18 people, including tourists from Hong Kong, hostage on a bus in downtown Manila on Monday, demanding his reinstatement to the force.

MANILA — A disgruntled ex-policeman armed with an automatic rifle was holding 18 people, including tourists from Hong Kong, hostage on a bus in downtown Manila on Monday, demanding his reinstatement to the force.

Two negotiators had approached the bus and spoken to the gunman, identified by police as Rolando Mendoza. He gave the negotiators a list of demands, local television reported.

Mendoza, armed with a M-16 rifle and small arms, had released seven hostages: a man, three women and three children, police said. He asked for food for the remaining 18 on the bus, which was delivered, and fuel to keep the air-conditioning going.

A Manila police spokesman said Mendoza was co-operating with the authorities and that the use of force would be a last resort.

"They are all safe, no untoward incident has been reported," Manila Vice Mayor Isko Moreno told radio station DZMM of the tourists on the bus.

Police had established a landline connection with the bus, which was stopped across the eight-lane park road in front of the Quirino grandstand, where President Benigno Aquino III had taken his oath of office on June 30.

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