DANVILLE, Pa. - A 12-year-old special education student was charged with disorderly conduct after authorities said she deliberately wet her pants at school.Her mother told the Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg that the girl urinated only because she was frightened by the principal.The girl, whose name was withheld by the newspaper, had worked with her classmates […]
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As Obesity Fight Hits Cafeteria, Many Fear a Note From School
BLOSSBURG, Pa. - Six-year-old Karlind Dunbar barely touched her dinner, but not for time-honored 6-year-old reasons. The pasta was not the wrong shape. She did not have an urgent date with her dolls.The problem was the letter Karlind discovered, tucked inside her report card, saying that she had a body mass index in the 80th […]
Teenager sworn in as mayor of Oregon town
Kyle Corbin has been sworn in as the mayor of Union, Oregon -- even though he's barely old enough to vote himself. And in his first hours on the job, the 18-year-old mayor is calling for unity in Union.The university freshman conducted his first City Council meeting two months after he was elected as a […]
NY toasts Subway Superman after death-defying rescue
WESLEY Autrey is a hero. For once the word cheapened by overuse is the only one that is appropriate.Mr Autrey was standing on the platform of a New York subway station with his two daughters when he noticed a young man having a fit. He put a pen in the man's mouth to keep him […]
NASA found life on Mars - and killed it
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have found alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist is theorizing. The Viking space probes of 1976-77 were looking for the wrong kind of life, so they didn't recognize it, a geology professor at Washington State […]
U.S. Army sorry for asking deceased to re-enlist
The U.S. Army said Friday that it will apologize to the families of deceased and wounded officers that it mistakenly encouraged to re-enlist via letters sent out in late December.About 75 families of deceased officers and 200 families of wounded officers received such letters sent to more than 5,100 officers between Dec. 26 and 28, […]
US: Statement may allow government to open mail
WASHINGTON - A signing statement attached to postal legislation by President Bush last month may have opened the way for the government to open mail without a warrant. The White House denies any change in policy.The law requires government agents to get warrants to open first-class letters. But when he signed the postal reform act, […]
US: Boy dies imitating Saddam
A 10 year-old boy accidentally killed himself imitating Saddam Hussein's hanging after watching the video clip on television, the Houston Chronicle reported on Thursday.The boy tied a slipknot around his neck while on a bunk bed on New Year's eve, the paper reported.The boy's mother told police that he watched a report on Saddam's death […]
Student Held In Fatal School Shooting
A teenager was shot to death in a high school hallway Wednesday as classes resumed after the winter break, and police arrested a fellow student found wandering a neighborhood a few miles away, authorities said. Police said the suspected gunman fled the scene, CBS affiliate KIRO reports, but he was later found and taken into […]
Surgery to stunt girl's growth sparks debate
In a case fraught with ethical questions, the parents of a severely mentally and physically disabled child have stunted her growth to keep their little "pillow angel" a manageable and more portable size.Posted by: RebelnerdSource Article
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