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A Hillsboro mother found her daughter’s missing winter coat on eBay, and now a teacher at the girl’s elementary school faces charges of theft and computer crimes. Elizabeth Logan, 41, is on paid administrative leave from Jackson Elementary. “She denies stealing the coat, saying she got it from a lost-and-found,” Cmdr. Chris Skinner said. The mother searched the school’s lost and found for the coat, then decided to turn to eBay for a replacement. After finding a seemingly identical coat, she noticed that the seller was from Hillsboro. The mother alerted another bidder that the coat might be stolen, and...

Caption: Design student Olivia Ong '07 hugs two garments, treated with metallic nanoparticles through a collaboration with fiber scientists Juan Hinestroza and Hong Dong, that she designed as part of her fashion line, "Glitterati." Fashion designers and fiber scientists at Cornell have taken "functional clothing" to a whole new level. They have designed a garment that can prevent colds and flu and never needs washing, and another that destroys harmful gases and protects the wearer from smog and air pollution. The two-toned gold dress and metallic denim jacket, featured at the April 21 Cornell Design League fashion show, contain...

Disturbing new evidence reveals a threat to our homeland security is worse than originally thought. The News Four WOAI Trouble Shooters first uncovered records last May showing 1400 airport security badges and uniforms are missing from airports here and across the country. Now, new information obtained by Trouble Shooter Brian Collister shows a dramatic increase in the total number. But that's not all the Trouble Shooters found. A WOAI viewer contacted the Trouble Shooters because he found a TSA screener's jacket for sale at a local thrift store. Security experts fear TSA uniforms could help terrorists pull off an attack....

U.S. Army 1st Lt. Sean Craig swims 15 meters in his interceptor body armor system during a training class at the pool at Logistical Support Area Anaconda, near Balad, Iraq. U.S. soldiers assigned to 3rd Battalion, 29th Field Artillery, 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, developed training to help soldiers survive in full combat gear if they happen to fall in water. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Paul J. Harris Soldiers Find Bulletproof Jacket Is Also Floatation Device With river boat patrols increasing, U.S. soldiers develop training to help soldiers survive in full combat gear if they...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian man built up a 40,000-volt charge of static electricity in his clothes as he walked, leaving a trail of scorched carpet and molten plastic and forcing firefighters to evacuate a building. Frank Clewer, who was wearing a woollen shirt and a synthetic nylon jacket, was oblivious to the growing electrical current that was building up as his clothes rubbed together. When he walked into a building in the country town of Warrnambool in the southern state of Victoria on Thursday, the electrical charge ignited the carpet. "It sounded almost like a firecracker", Clewer told Australian...

Or was he cheating? :) It looks like President Bush was having a little fun at Kerry's expense last night right before the debate commenced. This three still-shot sequence from my TIVO recording of Fox News Channel's debate coverage, clearly shows President Bush reaching into his suit jacket and pulling out a white pen.

The classified reading room is on the 6th floor of the National Archives at College Park complex - the world's largest and most advanced archival facility in the world. The records vaults (each larger than most people's homes) for classified docs are also on that floor, as are the offices for the archivists and technicians who handle them. Employees can go up to that floor, but once there, everything is super-secured. You can't get out of the hall without the proper clearance and magnetic access badge that doubles as your ID badge. At the time, I had a Secret-level...