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Officials believe 26-year-old woman had sex with student. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- School officials fired a home-school coordinator after an investigation found she allegedly had sex with a 17-year-old student, authorities said. The 26-year-old was under contract with the Wayne Township school district as a non-teaching staff member, officials said. She served as a type of social worker, coordinating activities between the school and parents or other adults who are responsible for teaching students off-campus. Her job included working closely with students who skip school, cause trouble, struggle with class work or otherwise have problems. She was not a licensed teacher....

Many argue that communism will never be possible because of "human nature". The essence of this false argument is the belief that a communist society would consist of an all-powerful central government that would tell everybody what to do--and would therefore undermine the creative initiative of individuals and the search for happiness. • This argument is based on two false assumptions: (1) It assumes that a communist society will look like the former Soviet Union, or the current China, North Korea, etc (ie: corrupt police states with a feudal-style ruling class) (2) It assumes that people will only work in...

Gas costs so much. I cant afford it. Why want Bush do something? Don't say he can't. His daddy or his handlers could be on the phone in 2 minutes with the Rothchilds and by 1 week, oil prices would be under $20 and gas would be 1 dollar a gallon. You know it and I know it. Why want he? Do you know? Is there sombody we can call? Plaese advice.

For legal reasons, the names of the family and the 14-year old girl that are the subject of this story have been withheld at this time. GRANITE CITY - A Sothern Illinois woman was arrested last week (March 17) after trying to intervene on behalf of her 14-year old daughter's effort to have an abortion. The girl was allegedly taken to an abortion clinic by the mother of the man allegedly to have impregnated the 14-year old. According to the girl's mother, her 14-year old daughter was called off from school in Madison County by a woman posing as the...

Attorney says father of her unborn child is 14-year-old GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) -- A pregnant 34-year-old woman acknowledged having sex with a 14-year-old boy when she pleaded guilty to a single count of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. In exchange for her plea, entered Monday, two similar charges were dropped against Stephanie Elizabeth Bissell, of Spring Lake, Mich. The prosecution declined to say who fathered the woman's unborn child, but her attorney said outside the courtroom it was the boy. During a hearing at Ottawa County Circuit Court, Judge Ed Post asked Bissell: "Did you have sexual intercourse with a...

WORLAND (AP) -- The family of a teenage girl who was allegedly given emergency contraception pills under the supervision of a school counselor has filed a claim against Washakie County School District No. 1. The claim included a dollar amount, but the family's attorney, Larry Berryman, declined to reveal it, the Northern Wyoming Daily News reports. Berryman said in a prepared statement that the Worland High School student, 15, confided in the ninth-grade counselor that she had sex with a 23-year-old and was afraid of being pregnant. The counselor made an appointment with the public health office in Worland and...

News item,my local paper: A 47 year old employee at a pharmaceutical firm received minor injuries after mixing sodium carbonate monohydrate with sodium hydrosulfite . The mixing beaker exploded.Hazmat crew was called in-apparently nothing major transpired,but my curiosity is aroused: Why in hell would a knowledgeable chemist be mixing these two chemicals ? (I'm assuming water was present-whether added,or as part of a solution).

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SACRAMENTO (AP) - The head of the U.S. Forest Service on Thursday approved a sweeping plan to manage 11.5 million acres of national forest land across the Sierra Nevada range, renewing debate over how best to prevent wildfires like those that devastated Southern California a year ago. Chief Dale Bosworth rejected appeals by environmental groups, prompting immediate promises of lawsuits as the administrative process grinds to an end. Regional Forester Jack Blackwell said the plan he approved in January will improve wildlife habitat while reducing fire danger particularly around mountain communities. Environmental critics called it a veiled effort to triple...

about anti-Bush SEAL This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40427 Monday, September 13, 2004 ELECTION 2004AP stands by its story about anti-Bush SEALMan with Muslim name doesn't come up on search of elite sailors Posted: September 13, 20044:06 p.m. Eastern By Ron Strom © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com An Associated Press reporter is standing by his story that describes an anti-Bush veteran as a former Navy SEAL in the face of questions about whether or not the man was in fact a member of the elite unit. The reporter, Elliott Minor says the...

SPENCER (AP) -- A Kanawha County woman and her former boyfriend were arrested after she allegedly allowed him to have sexual contact with her daughter in exchange for money, State Police said. Marsha Kay Nichols, 31, of Elkview was charged Friday in Roane County Magistrate Court with three felony counts of extortion or attempted extortion and two felony counts of allowing sexual abuse to be inflicted upon a child. Bruce Stover, 42, was charged with five counts of third-degree sexual assault. State Police Sgt. J.E. Elmore in Spencer said when the pair broke up, Stover allegedly began an affair with...

MONTEREY PARK - Harriet McClendon found closure this week, and she is working on forgiveness for the three alleged white-power followers accused of luring her 32-year-old son into a car in 1997, driving him down a secluded Palmdale road, beating and stabbing him to death and burying him in a shallow grave. McClendon also believes justice will be served in her son's 1997 killing. "I forgive you. How God feels is another issue," Harriet said as if speaking to the suspects during a press conference at Sheriff's Headquarters on Wednesday afternoon. "Get yourself saved! Then you will not need to...

Sept. 17 -- Americans may be getting used to the Terminator on the ballot. But can they handle his teenage fans in the voting booth? Laura Finstad says yes. She works, pays taxes, and has been a political activist for years. And she's finally won the right to vote in the United States. Her big accomplishment? Turning 18 last Saturday. Finstad fumes about the law that made her wait so long and is campaigning for the voting rights of younger teenagers. The teen is gathering signatures for a petition to lower the voting age in suburban Takoma Park, Md. "Young...

The 17-year-old lives in isolation, in a room created just for him. His visitors are therapists and teachers, and, of course, there are the round-the-clock guards. The cost to keep him at the state's Green Hill Training School in Chehalis: $1,000 a day, $30,000 a month. Last year, the teen became the youngest person ever to be considered for incarceration as a "sexually violent predator" at McNeil Island's Special Commitment Center. As a ward of Washington and a minor, the state has little choice but to try to treat and educate him. And until he turns 18, he cannot...

Friday, July 19, 2002 By JANINE A. ZEITLIN, jazeitlin@naplesnews.com Marco Island police and Collier County court officials are at odds over who was to blame for the swift departure of a Saudi Arabian government official from the United States this week after his arrest on charges of sexual assault of a Marco girl. Court officials say Collier Circuit Judge Ted Brousseau had no way of knowing Dr. Farouk Murad, 66, was a flight risk when the judge set a $50,000 bond Sunday. Brousseau didn't seize Murad's passport. The only address listed on police reports of Murad's arrest was a post...

A state court on Wednesday rejected an appeal filed by a man who was sentenced to death for a killing carried out when he was 17. The appeals court also lifted a stay of execution it had granted while reviewing the case. Napoleon Beazley, who was four hours away from execution when he won the stay last August, was convicted of murdering 63-year-old John Luttig, a prominent businessman in Tyler and the father of a federal judge. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday rejected all of the issues Beazley raised in challenging his conviction and sentence. Beazley's attorney...