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US: Boy Faces Suspension For Bringing Butter Knife To School
Gray, who is 6, said he brought his book bag to school on Monday, but when he set it down, one of his family's butter knives fell out onto the cafeteria floor. A teacher walked up to question him. The school now plans to give the boy a one-day in-school suspension as part of its […]
Danish Air Force Pays Santa After Jets Scare Reindeer To Death
The Danish Air Force said Thursday it paid about $5,000 in compensation to a part-time Santa Claus whose reindeer died of heart failure when two fighter jets roared over his farm.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: Army Sees Uphill Recruiting Battle
The Army has closed the books on one of the leanest recruiting years since it became an all-volunteer service. It missed its enlistment target by the widest margin since 1979. Many in Congress believe the Army needs to get bigger perhaps by 50,000 soldiers over its current 1 million in order to meet its overseas […]
US: School Board Bans Book About Vietnam
The book was a 1990 Pulitzer Prize finalist, but students will no longer find it on the shelves of the school library in Solon. The Solon School Board has voted to ban the Vietnam-themed book, "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien. Members said it is a good book but it's too mature for eighth-graders.Posted […]
US: Two Students Suspended For Web Postings
Content being posted on a Web site is pitting some Valley High School students against administrators. Two students have been suspended because of what they posted on the site Myspace.com. Chris Bright is one of two students suspended by Valley High School for posting a picture of Valley's principal Vicky Poole on the site.Posted by: […]
US: Stepping Up the Attack on Green Activists
A remorseless rapist in Hamilton County, Ohio is sentenced to 15 years in prison for beating and raping a 57-year-old woman. An environmental activist in California is sentenced to 22 years and 8 months for burning three SUVS at a car dealership after taking precautions to harm no lives.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: A Pentagon Whitewash
Amid feeble excuses, the Pentagon refuses to allow key witnesses to testify in the investigation of destroyed counter-terrorism intelligence. What is the significance of Able Danger, and why are Defense officials so adamant about keeping the lid on?Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
US: Schools directed to expand history curriculums
State legislators across the country are increasingly directing their schools to teach students more about the struggles and triumphs of different races and ethnic groups -- a move critics say amounts to politically correct meddling.Posted by: SoulRiserSource Article
UK: Girl fires BB gun in school
A teaching assistant was threatened with an imitation gun by a gang of schoolgirls in Liverpool after telling them off, police have said. The woman was left traumatised after one of three girls, all aged 14, pulled a BB gun, which fires plastic pellets. The girls were arrested shortly after the incident on Monday afternoon.Posted […]
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