Salt Lake City - Utah Supreme Court justices acknowledged Tuesday that they were struggling to wrap their minds around the concept that a 13-year-old girl could be both an offender and a victim for the same act - in this case, having consensual sex with her 12-year-old boyfriend.
The Ogden, Utah, girl was put in this [...]
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A Doctor Who fan has made a Dalek he can sit inside, complete with voicebox, to scare away rowdy students from his street.
It rasps: ‘I don’t like students. You will be exter- min-ated!’ at passers-by.
Andrew Simpson, 22, who took eight months to make the Doctor Who creature at a cost of £1,000, claims his tactics [...]
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LONDON (AFP) - Harrods has sacked a Father Christmas for his offensive remarks, the world-famous London department store has said.
The sinning Santa had his contract torn up after two complaints from customers visiting the Father Christmas World grotto at the store in west London’s plush Knightsbridge district.
He had asked one family of South Asian origin [...]
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WEST POINT, Miss. Dec 6, 2006 (AP)— When pigs fly, indeed. Kevin Pugh, 20, of Cedar Bluff, has been fined $279 for tossing a pig over the counter at the Holiday Inn Express in West Point on Nov. 12. Pugh pleaded guilty Tuesday in city court to a charge of disturbing the peace.
West Point Police [...]
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Misty Fetko, a mother of two teenagers, got up early to walk the dog before she roused her boys from bed one summer day in 2003. Her eldest, Carl, a gifted guitar player and award-winning artist at his Ohio high school, never woke up.
“His friends told me his smile made their day,” Fetko said of [...]
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Damon Wayans became the first famous offender of the Laugh Factory’s ban on the use of the n-word, and was fined and banned from the club for three months as a result, Wayans’ publicist tells TMZ.
After the Michael Richards incident on November 17, the club decided to ban use of the word and fine comedians [...]
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Rock icon Elvis Presley’s favorite snack - fried peanut butter and banana sandwich - is to be immortalized in a new chocolate bar. Chocolate giant Hershey will release a limited edition of its Reese’s peanut butter cup range featuring a layer of peanut butter and a layer of banana cream next July to mark the [...]
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SOUTH PLAINFIELD, New Jersey (AP) — Taco Bell ordered scallions removed from its 5,800 U.S. restaurants Wednesday after tests suggested they may be responsible for the E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least three dozen people in three states.
The fast-food chain said preliminary testing by an independent lab found three samples of green onions, [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — A marketing campaign to promote milk by outfitting city bus shelters with cookie-scented cardboard strips has crumbled.
City officials ordered CBS Outdoor, the company that holds the advertising contract for its bus shelters, to remove the adhesive strips Tuesday, just one day after they were put up as part of a [...]
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Staff at an Irish riding school were forced to postpone festivities after Gus the camel chomped his way through 200 mince pies and several cans of Guinness intended for their Christmas party.
Gus, starring in the riding school’s Santa’s Magical Animal Kingdom show, helped himself to the feast while staff were getting changed [...]
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