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A Pennsylvania school bus aide is charged with stabbing a nurse at the school and holding a 14-year-old student hostage at knifepoint in a bizarre burst of violence. Police said the incident unfolded shortly after 9 a.m. Wednesday during morning drop-off at the Watson Institute, a school for special-needs students in Allegheny County. Rochelle Pinkle, an aide at the Sewickley school, allegedly stabbed the school nurse twice in the back, then grabbed the student and led him at knifepoint back inside her bus, WTAE-TV said. She released the teen after police arrived but struggled with the cops and had to...

A top aide to new Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal said he was fired and escorted out of the office by armed deputies after raising concerns about controversial spending practices that have dogged the agency for years. Brett Mandel, who lasted just five weeks as Bilal’s chief financial officer, said her first order of business was to continue spending with little budgetary planning or oversight. She spent out of a multimillion-dollar fund of money from fees collected by the office for sheriff’s sales, serving writs, and other duties, Mandel said, describing it as a “slush fund.” Mandel said that he was...

Guy named Sam S. was in a storm of trouble when he was caught inside the Tornado in Rochelle IL, Not only was he unlucky but he also screwed up with bad filming, But for liveleak i managed to fix his mistake during the best shot of the video.

Wife Of L.A. Clippers Owner Donald Sterling Sues His Mistress For Millions She Says He’s Spent On Her Posted on Apr 27, 2014 @ 8:32AM | By Radar Staff Rochelle Sterling is mad as hell and she’s not going to take it any more. Married to Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for 50 years, Rochelle has watched him lavish millions of dollars on his new girlfriend, Vanessa Stiviano, the past few years. She wants the spending stopped and the money back.

Flawed Study Misleads Tennessee Taxpayers A study released last Friday in support of a proposal to institute a broad-based state income tax overlooks a great deal of existing research pointing to the dangers of such a plan. "Supporters of Speaker Naifeh's income tax plan would rather mislead Tennesseans with flawed statistics than confront the real source of Tennessee's budget problem: their own bloated spending habits," said NTU President John Berthoud. "In fact, a mountain of evidence shows that a state income tax would fuel government, stall the economy, and leave all Tennesseans with a bigger tax bill." Read more by...

Editorial 5/21: Why block state tax relief for so many? May 21, 2002 STATE LAWMAKERS will try again this week to enact a plan that would cut taxes for as many as three of every five Tennessee taxpayers. What a dirty trick that would be. An analysis prepared for Tennesseans for Fair Taxation, a tax reform advocacy group, concludes that a proposal sponsored by state House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh (D-Covington) would mean lower state taxes overall for nearly all Tennessee families that earn less than $62,000 a year - 60 percent of the state's households. It would do so by...

Rochelle faces spirited fight for re-election By John Gerome, Associated Press April 21, 2002 LEBANON, Tenn. - At the Ideal Barber Shop on Lebanon's town square, owner Ann Tisdale believes she is a pretty good barometer of political opinion. Between the snip of scissors and the buzz of electric razors, she hears a lot of scuttlebutt. Lately she's hearing that state Sen. Bob Rochelle, a 20-year incumbent from Lebanon, is vulnerable. "If he wins this time around, it will surprise the heck out of me," says Tisdale, as she trims a customer's locks. "I haven't heard one person say they're...