Category: News
25 November, 2008 (19:41) | Medicine, News, Sad, Shocking | No comments
A coroner in Britain has determined that a 12-year-old boy died after using too much spray deodorant in a confined space.
Daniel Hurley collapsed in a January after spraying on Lynx deodorant in the bathroom of his Derbyshire home.
An inquest was told last week that a “volatile” agent in the deodorant upset the boy’s heart […]
25 November, 2008 (19:35) | News, Parents Behaving Badly | No comments
The 40-year-old mother of a Salt Lake City-area high school student faces charges of having sex with minors in her Utah home after allegedly sending nude photos of herself to the cell phones of several teenage boys.
Kimberly Arigot of Syracuse, Utah, is accused of sending naked pictures of herself to boys in her neighborhood […]
25 November, 2008 (19:30) | News, Weird & Strange | No comments
A longtime school bus driver could be fired after several members of a cheerleading squad in Lynnfield, Mass., said he offered them $40 to lift up their shirts.
Driver Bill Diamond, 56, was suspended without pay after the allegations surfaced. Diamond has been at the job for 23 years.
“This clearly goes well beyond any bounds […]
25 November, 2008 (13:23) | News | No comments
LONDON — A woman has told a British court she accidentally flushed her newborn down the toilet because she didn’t realize she was giving birth.
Claire Jones says she knew she was pregnant from an affair with a colleague but thought the pain she suffered in the early hours of Dec. 28 was from diarrhea.
Jones […]
25 November, 2008 (10:58) | News, Sad, new hampshire | 1 comment
HAVERHILL — Christopher Gray didn’t deserve to die. Even his alleged killer says so.
Developmentally disabled but outgoing and active, the 25-year-old Wal-Mart cashier left work one night last month with two co-workers and another person.
Later that night, he was stabbed to death outside a mobile home in what suspect Timothy Smith called a fight, but […]
23 November, 2008 (19:50) | News, new hampshire | No comments
NASHUA, N.H. — Relatives of a Nashua woman said they can’t accept a jury’s decision convicting her of manslaughter in the death of her 21-month-old daughter.
Nicole Belonga, 27, faces up to 30 years in prison after being convicted earlier this month. Her 21-month-old daughter, Rylea, died in 2006 of brain injuries doctors said could only […]
23 November, 2008 (19:42) | News | No comments
An elementary school cafeteria worker and playground monitor, who had an extensive career in the adult entertainment industry, is becoming a New Jersey school district’s legal nightmare.
Some parents in Vineland, N.J., as well as the board of education president, want Louisa C. Tuck fired, but district officials were advised by their lawyers and those […]
23 November, 2008 (19:38) | News, Parents Behaving Badly, Sad, Shocking | No comments
MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. — A West Virginia mother faces charges after being accused of burning the word “wimp” into her 6-year-old daughter’s neck.
Tammy Smith is charged with five counts of child abuse and of malicious assault, all felonies.
Moundsville Police Chief Jim Kudlak said Saturday that the child told police that her mother used a […]
23 November, 2008 (19:36) | News, Teacher's Behaving Badly | No comments
A missing 17-year-old girl was found hiding in a closet at a male teacher’s home near Chicago after he told police he didn’t know where she was — prompting officers to arrest him on a charge he lied to them.
Eric Wood, 24, who teaches at Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Waukegan, Ill., was charged […]
23 November, 2008 (19:33) | News, Sad, Shocking | No comments
MIAMI — The family of a college student who killed himself in front of an Internet audience say they’re horrified his life ended before virtual spectators and infuriated that viewers and Web site operators didn’t act sooner to save him.
Only after police arrived to find Abraham Biggs dead in his father’s bed did the […]
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