Man attacks mother over ‘American Idol’ dispute
`A Plattsburgh man is facing felony charges for allegedly striking his mother in the head after the two disagreed about the fate of an “American Idol” contestant. [..]
His mother made comments that contestant Katharine McPhee was going to have a successful career despite losing to another contestant, Taylor Hicks.
Favreau allegedly stood up, made a malicious comment to his mother and struck her in the head with a sharpened, cross-shaped object attached to a bicycle chain.’