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A Manor Independent School District teacher was arrested Tuesday after the district said they [sic] were seen hitting a student “several times.”... The district said a student was trying to enter the building through a doorway, when a teacher stopped the student from coming in. The teacher tried to tell the student to use another door, but the student refused and pushed past the teacher.That’s when the teacher “was then observed striking the scholar several times,” the district said.

SNIPPET: "Actually, two have been convicted by a jury for using their nightclubs to launder the proceeds of drug and weapons deals, one was acquitted of money laundering but has pled guilty to a drug trafficking charge, and one of those convicted of money laundering has now been charged with tax evasion. And that's not to mention the failure to pay state liquor taxes and fees, the unsolved murder of a one-time business partner, and various immigration-related issues. Money was transferred in to a relative and known Hizballah operative in Lebanon, and there are strong ties to the Lebanese expat...

The Yassine family of Austin, Texas is apparently quite the enterprising group. Led by Hussein “Mike” Yassine, the Yassines were quite diversified. They own 8 bars. According to law enforcement authorities they are also a one-family crime wave. They are involved in murder, money laundering, drug dealing–and they have a brother back in Lebanon who is part of Hezbollah.

Science behind the Soap OperaThe cute and the shocking at Meerkat Manor Susan Milius Tim Clutton-Brock has suddenly said, for reasons not at all clear to me, "Hard-boiled egg." Perhaps it's best to ignore this. So, I ask him again in our phone conversation what he would pick as the highlights of his past 13 years of directing a field study of meerkats in the Kalahari Desert. Meerkats, a type of mongoose, cluster in family groups and share the job of raising the top female's pups. Clutton-Brock and his colleagues have published reports on meerkat behaviors ranging from altruism to...