N.J. Student Penny-Protesters Pardoned
READINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) -- Twenty-nine New Jersey students punished with two-day detentions after they used pennies to pay for their $2 lunches are getting a pardon.Readington, N.J., school Superintendent Jorden Schiff informed parents in an e-mail Sunday that he has rescinded...
Trial To Begin In Tribal Smoke Shop Raid
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- The trial of seven Narragansett Indians arrested for scuffling with police who raided a tribal smoke shop could reopen a painful period for Rhode Island and its only federally recognized American Indian tribe.
Ag Official Charged With Starving Horses
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A top South Carolina agriculture official and two of his relatives are accused of mistreating dozens of horses here and in Georgia, where authorities described some of the animals as looking like someone "draped a hide over bones."James Trexler, one of...
Heroin Found In Boots Of Bus Passenger
LAREDO, Texas (AP) -- These boots weren't made for walking. Customs agents at a Laredo port of entry found nearly two pounds of heroin hidden in the soles of boots in the luggage of a commercial bus passenger.Authorities say the heroin is worth about $170,000.The bust...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Twin brothers who have appeared in hardcore gay-porn online videos are charged with the rooftop burglary of a South Philadelphia business and are suspected in dozens of similar crimes in at least three states, authorities said.
Man Admits Hoax Threatening Stadiums
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- A man has pleaded guilty to making bogus Internet postings warning of terrorist attacks against NFL stadiums.Jake Brahm admited in federal court in New Jersey that he posted false information that dirty bombs would be detonated at seven stadiums having games on Oct....
Woman Who Married Teen Freed From Prison
ATLANTA (AP) -- A woman who married her son's 15-year-old friend and later bore the friend's child was released from prison Friday.Corrections officials said Lisa Lynette Clark had to immediately report to her probation office and had 24 hours to tell officials where she will live...
That's Not What's Meant By Extra Credit
ANN ARBOR TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- Students in a University of Michigan biology project had been assigned to grow herbs, vegetables, annuals and perennials. Police are trying to find out whether someone's green thumb also was being used to grow pot.The Ann Arbor News reports 11 small...
Survey Sez: Clinton Has Biggest Balls
NEW YORK (Wireless Flash) -- Zac Efron needs to grow a pair of balls.{image_988}In accordance with the bold sketch...
Handshake Sends Attorney To Jail
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A lawyer has been charged with assault for shaking a federal prosecutor's hand so hard, authorities said, that it injured her shoulder.Kathy Brewer Rentas, 49, was arrested Thursday after attending a court hearing for her husband, who was accused of...
UN Board Says Marijuana Machines Illegal
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Marijuana vending machines in Los Angeles violate international treaties and should be shut down, the U.N.-affiliated drug control board said Friday.
Court Apologizes For Man's Twin Troubles
Court Apologizes For Man's Twin TroublesPHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A traffic judge apologized to a man who had been hounded for 17 years by officials trying to get his similarly named twin brother to resolve $1,800 in unpaid tickets and fines.The problems all started for...
Disorder In The Court: Lawyer Punched
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) -- A public defender who was punched in court by a disgruntled client said Thursday he doesn't blame the man who gave him with two black eyes.The disorder in the court, captured on video, happened Monday at Scott County Circuit Court after the judge refused...
Beer Gets Seatbelt. Child Doesn't
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) -- A woman pulled over for allegedly running a red light had a 24-pack of beer strapped in with a seat belt but had a 16-month-old girl unrestrained in the back seat of her car with the toddler's mother, authorities said.Tina D. Williams, 46, was arrested...
Spears' Supposed Spokesman Has Previous Restraining Orders
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- He's been seen squiring around a dazed looking Britney Spears, at times acting as her spokesman, referring to himself as her manager and friend, and insisting all the while that her best interest is his only concern.All the same, Sam Lutfi, the 33-year-old man in...
Just One Replacement? They Come in Two's
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A woman who said her breast implants were damaged in an on-the-job car accident should be compensated for the replacement of only one implant, state appellate judges ruled Tuesday.The North Carolina Court of Appeals issued the decision in a workers' compensation...
Damages Reduced In Funeral Protest Case
BALTIMORE (AP) -- A federal judge has reduced by more than half the amount of damages that a fundamentalist Kansas church must pay to the father of a Marine who was killed in Iraq.The Westboro Baptist Church and three of its members, who picket military funerals out of a belief that the...
Man Dies Under Mardi Gras Parade Float
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The son of a Mississippi political leader was killed by a float in one of the city's Mardi Gras parades.Joseph P. "Jody" Compretta Jr., 39, was pronounced dead at the scene after being run over during the Krewe of Endymion parade on Saturday, police...
What A Nasty Letter For Only $16.96!
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- A collection agency tried to collect a $16.96 debt with an letter that addressed its recipient with a four-letter word for excrement. "Dear S---," began the letter attempting to collect from an old record club membership. The word was spelled out in the...
Fake Bomb Defendant Cites 1st Amendment
BOSTON (AP) -- A computer science student who unwittingly created an airport bomb scare by wearing a blinking circuit board attached to her shirt had a First Amendment right to express herself in that manner, her lawyer argued Friday.
W.Va. Considers Gun Training In Schools
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A significant drop in the number of hunters in West Virginia has left a hole in the state's budget, and one lawmaker thinks he has a solution: allow children to receive hunter training in school.Seventh- through ninth-graders could opt for instruction in...
Smith's Ex: Stern Took Photos Of Body
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) -- A former companion of Anna Nicole Smith said Wednesday that her attorney-turned-boyfriend Howard K. Stern took several photographs of the collapsed body of her late 20-year-old son for profit.
Filing Tells Of Horror At Amusement Park
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A teenager whose feet were severed last summer in an amusement park ride accident said in a court filing she remembers cables whipping against her body, a burning odor, and a fear that she might not survive.Kaitlyn Lasitter, then 13, said she felt like her whole...
Woman With Vomiting Daughter Gets Ticket
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Gina Boyd's day already had soured when her 3-year-old daughter began vomiting in her Dodge Caravan. Then she got a traffic ticket.Boyd, 27, got a $123 citation from a Hillsborough County deputy on Monday after she made an improper U-turn to attend to her...
Vending Machines Dispense Pot In LA
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The city that popularized the fast food drive-thru has a new innovation: 24-hour medical marijuana vending machines.{image_857}Patients suffering from chronic pain, loss of appetite and other ailments that marijuana is said to alleviate...
Cops: Drunk Took Mower To Store In Snow
ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) -- A man was charged with drunken driving after going through two bottles of wine, cutting through a snowstorm on his lawn mower and riding down the center of the street to reach a liquor store, authorities said.Police found Frank Kozumplik, 49, homeward bound on a John...
Couple Sentenced In Maid Abuse Case
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A former Hollywood studio attorney and his wife have been sentenced for abusive treatment of their Filipino maid in a case federal prosecutors said "amounts to modern-day slavery."James Jackson, former vice president of legal affairs at Sony Pictures, was...
NY Worker Accused Of Stealing Artifacts
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- A long-time state archivist was accused on Monday of stealing hundreds of historic artifacts and documents from the New York State Library, including two Davy Crockett Almanacs, and selling some on eBay.Daniel Lorello, 54, an archives and records management specialist...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Yankees second baseman Chuck Knoblauch agreed Monday to talk to a House committee investigating drug use in baseball, and the session was postponed until later this week.The committee issued a subpoena for Knoblauch last week after he failed to respond to an...
Ore. Court: Boy Has Say In Circumcision
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The wishes of a 12-year-old boy should be considered in a dispute between his divorced parents about whether he should be circumcised, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled Friday.The father, James Boldt, converted to Judaism in 2004 and wants the boy to be circumcised as...
