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HOUSTON -- A college student’s trip to Wal-Mart last month ended with her in handcuffs and a two-day stay in the Harris County jail. Nitra Gipson was charged with felony forgery after the Meyer Park Wal-Mart manager accused her of passing bogus money orders. Thing is, the money orders were legit and had been purchased at Wal-Mart to begin with. The cash-strapped college student had just sold her car to pay for her last two semesters at Texas Southern University, where she is studying criminal justice. She was paid with Wal-Mart money orders, which the giant retailer advertises as “good...

Dear Rush, Over the last few months I've tried to call you countless times, but for some reason your line always seems busy. So please understand my use of this format, as I am obligated to reach out and answer the question you have asked your students at the Limbaugh Institute of Higher Education. Time and again you have asked "Who will speak for the Conservatives?"...

Dear Rush, Over the last few months I've tried to call you countless times, but for some reason your line always seems busy. So please understand my use of this format, as I am obligated to reach out and answer the question you have asked your students at the Limbaugh Institute of Higher Education. Time and again you have asked "Who will speak for the Conservatives?"....

· Lecturers fear threat to academic freedom · Manual downloaded from US government website A masters student researching terrorist tactics who was arrested and detained for six days after his university informed police about al-Qaida-related material he downloaded has spoken of the "psychological torture" he endured in custody. Despite his Nottingham University supervisors insisting the materials were directly relevant to his research, Rizwaan Sabir, 22, was held for nearly a week under the Terrorism Act, accused of downloading the materials for illegal use. The student had obtained a copy of the al-Qaida training manual from a US government website for...

The News & Observer filed a motion Monday opposing the Orange County district attorney's request to seal the results of the autopsy of murdered UNC student Eve Carson. Last week, Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour ordered that the results remain under seal to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation into the 22-year-old Athens, Ga., senior's death.

Students and guests pack the auditorium for a graduation ceremony at the Vocational-Technical School in the IIC May 4. FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU — Approximately 200 students from the Vocational-Technical School in the Iskandariyah Industrial Complex (IIC) graduated May 4 with friends and family members in attendance. “I’d like to say congratulations to the vo-tech director and his staff but most of all to the students of this graduating class,� said Lt. Col. Jeff McKone, Multi-National Division – Center Iskandariyah Industrial Complex liaison, Team Iskan officer in charge. “It is an honor to be a part of the success in...

ALTOONA, Pa. -- Police say a straight-A business student at Penn State-Altoona told them he has been selling cocaine to finance his college education. Twenty-year-old Michael Conforti, of Hackettstown, N.J., was charged in the aftermath of a sweep last month by the Blair County Drug Task Force and Logan Township police. He was originally charged with three drug deals involving a confidential informant but yesterday authorities added charges of possession with intent to deliver cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia. Police based those charges on drugs, nearly $3,500 in cash and other items they say they found at Mr. Conforti's...

Brooksville, Florida – A student at Central High School in Hernando County was arrested Friday morning, after deputies say he thrust his pelvis into a teacher. Around 9 am, the teacher bent over to take a drink at a water foundation in one of the hallways. At that point, deputies say the 17-year-old student thrust his pelvis into the back of the teacher for a few seconds. The teacher told deputies she felt violated and told the student to back off. The student was arrested on a charge of assault or battery on a member of school personnel.

A representative from Students for Concealed Carry on Campus argued for a more sensible policy for carrying concealed handguns on college and university campuses at Walter Hall last night. “It’s hypocritical to say you can bring a gun into a 300-person movie theatre but not a 300-person lecture hall,” said Stephen Feltoon, Midwest regional director of SCCC. Feltoon, a 2007 graduate of Miami University of Ohio, spoke for a 40-person group as part of the SCCC’s weeklong protest of concealed carry laws across the nation that forbid concealed handguns on college campuses. The OU Second Amendment club — comprising about...

The owner of an Internet-based firearms store that sold a gun to Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho says he is now offering a discount for students who want to carry guns on campus to protect themselves. The company, TGSCOM Inc., also sold two 9mm Glock magazines to Steven Kazmierczak, who killed five people at Northern Illinois University earlier this year. The owner of TGSCOM, Eric Thompson, announced today that for the next two weeks he will sell firearms at cost in the hopes of targeting students who may be on a tight budget. Customers will have over 5,400 different kinds...

DURHAM - A University of New Hampshire student who was told by a professor that he could not wear an empty gun holster in her class as part of a protest responded by posting the correspondence on the Internet, which earned the professor several angry e-mail from strangers. Senior Matt Ham, 22, is taking part in a nationwide demonstration this week in which participants wear empty gun holsters as a way to push for college students with permits to carry a concealed weapon to be able to bring guns onto campus. Those in favor of the move say that just...

(Too short to excerpt) MOUNT VERNON — Things appeared calm and quiet this morning at Mount Vernon Middle School as students and staff followed their normal routines. Mount Vernon City police officers were stationed in the entry lobby, presumably to prevent unauthorized entry and to protect the students’ privacy. Middle school officials declined to comment on reports of students wearing T-shirts and carrying signs in support of science teacher John Freshwater. Several students had also planned to take Bibles to classes in support of Freshwater’s refusal to remove a Bible from his classroom desk. Superintendent Steve Short said the students...

For one Chinese Duke student, Wednesday's pro-Tibet and pro-China protests did not end when the participants went home. Since her appearance in front of the Chapel, the student, who requested anonymity because she fears retaliation, has found herself the target of a wave of threatening messages from individuals who believe she advocated for Tibetan independence. After the protests, the student's personal information, including her name, phone number and Chinese identity number were posted to the Duke Chinese Scholars and Students Association Web site, according to documents obtained by The Chronicle. Photographs and a video of the student from the rally...

Six days after she was sucker punched and beaten in her own Baltimore classroom, high school art teacher Jolita Berry still finds it almost impossible to watch the MySpace video of the attack. And she can’t make herself go back to work.... The attack happened last Friday morning in Berry’s classroom in Reginald F. Lewis High School in Baltimore. One of the girls in the class approached the 30-year-old teacher and got nose-to-nose with her and threatened her. ...The video, recorded on a cell phone by another student, picks up with Berry on the floor trying to defend herself while...

A gunshot in a boys' restroom yesterday morning at Albert Einstein High School in Kensington set off an investigation that yielded three guns and several other weapons, stowed in a student's locker, officials said. Police said students took the guns to school in hopes of selling them. One of the guns went off accidentally as students were examining it in a second-floor restroom, they said. [snip]"The big news here is there was not an intent to harm a student," said Lucille Baur, a police spokeswoman. "Students brought the guns in with the purpose of selling the guns, and in the...

British Council to send pupils on Afghanistan exchange By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent British children are to make exchange visits to war-ravaged Afghanistan and Iraq under a classroom twinning scheme. The plan is the latest step in a dramatic change in outlook for the British Council as it prepares to mark its 75th anniversary next year. Promoting ties with Muslim countries has emerged as a top priority and is closely linked to the Government's efforts to fight terrorism. Swapping the Playstations and duvets of modern Britain for the dirt floors and brick beds of Afghanistan will depend on security...

For too long, high schools and states have played hide-the-dropout, artificially inflating their graduation rates. In many places, a teenager practically has to show up at the principal's office and shout "I'm a dropout!" to get counted as one. Considering that the dropout rate is, even by sunny estimates, distressingly high, U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings is right to plan a standardized method of reporting nationwide. The public won't demand change when it cannot clearly see the problem. This is one subject, though, that calls for delicate handling -- not the bludgeon-likeapproach of the rest of the No Child Left...

NEW PORT RICHEY - Bill Bunting expects more than 40 University of Central Florida students to attend his gun class Saturday. In addition to a shared interest in guns, Bunting, chairman of the Pasco County Republican Club's executive committee, agrees that college students in Florida should be able to carry concealed handguns on campus if they hold the proper permit. Under state law it is illegal to bring a firearm onto a school campus. The students in Bunting's class are members of UCF's Republican club; some also are members of the Knight Rifle Association, a group of students who educate...

Pete Palmer A Texas high school sophomore is suing his school district after he was booted from campus for wearing a John Edwards for 2008 president T-shirt last year, MyFOXDFW.com reports.

WASHINGTON, March 21, 2008 – After completing four semesters at the University of Alabama, 19-year-old Daniel K. Winnie felt his life lacked discipline and direction. Marine Chief Warrant Officer Daniel K. Winnie is telling his story to audiences around the country as part of the Defense Department's "Why We Serve" public-outreach public-outreach program. Defense Department photo  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “I was sitting around enjoying college life, which was good, but I wasn’t doing much of anything else,” he recalled. At that point, about halfway through his college career, Winnie made a bold decision. “I thought the...

PROVIDENCE - A $10,000 reward has been offered for anyone who has information that leads to the arrest and conviction in an apparent fire bomb attack against an emissary for a Jewish group at Brown University. The Jewish Federation of Rhode Island, the Brown/Rhode Island School of Design Hillel Foundation, and the Anti-Defamation League announced the reward at a news conference Monday. Police said someone threw two Molotov cocktails at Yossi Knafo's off-campus apartment early Saturday morning. One exploded on the side of the building. The other failed to ignite. "A despicable act of violence which most of us in...

A 15-year-old girl who stopped her out-of-control school bus was hit with a Saturday detention because she was supposed to be in class when the accident happened. Marina High School student Amanda Rouse was on a bus with 40 elementary school students Wednesday morning when the driver fell out of her seat after a turn and hit her head. Rouse jumped up and applied the brakes, bringing the bus to a halt after striking two parked cars. No one was injured. But Rouse said she was punished because she wasn't supposed to be on the bus in the first place....

Danbury (AP) _ Danbury officials have been notified they are being sued by a student who was awakened in class by a teacher who made a loud noise. Documents filed with the Town Clerk, a prelude to a lawsuit, claim that a sleeping student suffered hearing damage when his teacher woke him up by slamming her hand down on the boy's desk. in December. Attorney Alan Barry says 15-year-old Vinicios Robacher suffered pain and "very severe injuries to his left eardrum" when teacher Melissa Nadeau abruptly slammed the palm of her hand on his desk on Dec. 4. A city...

2 Charged in UNC Student Leader Slaying Published: 3/12/08, 6:05 PM EDT By ERIN GARTNER and MIKE BAKER HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (AP) - Two suspects were charged Wednesday with first-degree murder in the killing of the University of North Carolina's student body president. Demario James Atwater, 21, of Durham, was arrested and ordered held without bond. Police said they are still searching for the second suspect, 17-year-old Lawrence Alvin Lovett Jr. Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran declined to say whether Lovett was the subject of an intense police standoff Wednesday afternoon in nearby Durham. City Councilman Eugene Brown said it...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- Contraband candy has led to big trouble for an eighth-grade honors student. Michael Sheridan was stripped of his title as class vice president, barred from attending an honors student dinner and suspended for a day after buying a bag of Skittles from a classmate. The New Haven school system banned candy sales in 2003 as part of a district-wide school wellness policy, said school spokeswoman Catherine Sullivan-DeCarlo. Shelli Sheridan, Michael's mother, said he is a top student with no previous disciplinary problems. "It's too much. It's too unfair," she said. "He's never even had a...

Chapel Hill, N.C. — Chapel Hill police Monday evening released two new photographs of a man they want to talk to about the shooting death of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Body President Eve Carson. The photos show a black man attempting to use Carson’s debit card at an automated-teller machine in a local convenience store, Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran said. He did not specify when or where the pictures were taken, in order to protect the investigation. "The photos depict a male going into an area convenience store," Curran said. That man was the...

An Andhra Pradesh doctor pursuing his post-graduation in internal medicine in Pennsylvania was found murdered over the week-end. Akkaldevi Srinivas is the fourth Indian student to meet a violent end in the US in the last three months. The body of Srinivas (29), hailing from Korutla in Karimnagar District, was found in a pool of blood with stab wounds under mysterious circumstances on Saturday last. An MBBS student of 1995 batch of Gandhi Medical College in Hyderabad, Srinivas had joined Scranton State University for an MD programme in 2005 after completing his MS. He went to the US in 2002....

There is now a plan to allow college students to carry weapons on any public campus. The legislation is on its way to the state house. The text of House Bill 2513 says any student who is at least 21 years old and has a concealed carry permit would be allowed to bring a firearm to school. It comes as campus violence seems to be on the increase. Everyone at OSU-Tulsa we spoke to about the plan doesn't like it. They already have a lot of security on campus. One example -- push a button on a phone and it...

Gravity Powered Lamp, Designed By Student, Provides As Much Light As 40 Watt BulbThe Gravia LED lamp will be powered by gravity. It will be about 4 feet high and the entire column will glow. (Credit: Clay Moulton) ScienceDaily (Feb. 22, 2008) — A Virginia Tech student has created a floor lamp powered by gravity. Clay Moulton of Springfield, Va., who received his Master of Science in Architecture with a concentration in industrial design from the College of Architecture and Urban Studies in 2007, created the lamp as a part of this master’s thesis. The LED lamp, named Gravia, has...

‘BULLIED’: 15-year-old Catrina McDermott, who was suspended for wearing religious badges, one representing St Patrick, the other a guardian angel PICTURE: Courtesy Fermanagh Herald THE Catholic bishops have refused to back the stand taken by a 15-year-old girl suspended from a Catholic school for wearing emblems of her faith. Catrina McDermott was suspended from St Eugene’s College in Roslea, Co Fermanagh, this week because she refused to remove or hide two religious badges. Her parents said the fourth-year pupil had been wearing the St Patrick and guardian angel symbols on her lapel to give her comfort following bullying when she...

BAGHDAD — Coalition Transition Teams have been teaching Iraqis combat lifesaver classes (CLC) for several years. Recently, at Joint Security Station Jazeer, medics from the 7th Brigade, 2nd Iraqi National Police (NP) Division were the instructors teaching fellow Iraqis these valuable skills. “There have been two main individuals I’ve been using throughout the class, that I identified early on from a previous class to be my instructors,” said Sgt. Jason Kun, a medic with Company C, 610th Brigade Support Battalion, Task Force Dragon, and Silver Lake, Kan., native. “I was able to bring them back and utilize them to teach...

SIERRA VISTA — A Buena High School student is in jail on narcotics charges, and his family has been deported to Mexico, after the student was arrested on campus Monday. Hector Romero Salazar, 18, is being held without bond at the Cochise County Jail in Bisbee, Cochise County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Carol Capas said. Sierra Vista police Sgt. Daryl Copp said police responded to the high school, 5225 E. Buena School Blvd., Monday afternoon after school security reported a problem needing police attention. On Wednesday, police would not say what the situation at the school was, but did say Salazar...

Anger in Iran after law student dies in custody By Kay Biouki in Teheran and Gethin Chamberlain 26/01/2008 The death of a student in the custody of Iranian intelligence officers has provoked outrage among opponents of the regime, who claim it is part of a concerted crackdown on dissent in the run-up to parliamentary elections. Ebrahim Lotf-Allahi, a fourth year law student, was buried before his family could see his body. They later discovered that the grave had been filled with cement, apparently to prevent his body being exhumed for medical examination. Student leaders say 150 students have been arrested...

London, Jan. 24 – The United States said on Wednesday that it was “deeply concerned” at the death in prison of a Kurdish Iranian student who had been arrested by the country’s secret police in Sanandaj, western Iran. “The United States is deeply concerned about the tragic death under suspicious circumstances of Ebrahim Lotfallahi, an Iranian student of Kurdish descent detained by the Ministry of Intelligence on January 6”, said U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack in a press statement. “We call on Iranian authorities to conduct a full investigation”, McCormack said. The State Dept. said that the Iranian regime...

U.S. Calls on Iran to Account for Student's Death January 24, 2008 Reuters Joanne Allen WASHINGTON -- The United States on Wednesday joined a rights group in calling for a full investigation into the death of a Kurdish law student in Iran after he was detained in the western city of Sanandaj. "The United States is deeply concerned about the tragic death under suspicious circumstances of Ebrahim Lotfallahi, an Iranian student of Kurdish descent detained by the Ministry of Intelligence on January 6," U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in a statement. Top U.S. stories "We call on Iranian...

Teacher screens fail students, even after prison termsBy Scott Reeder, Small Newspaper Group Published: Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:54 PM CST SPRINGFIELD - In July 1977, Mark Wolff was a 12-year-old attending music camp at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Ill. "I was an irresponsible kid and didn't lock the door to my dorm room before I went to sleep. Someone entered my room, and, well, he violated me," said Wolff, who is now a 43-year-old college professor in Oneonta, N.Y. "I'd never seen the man before. I have no idea why he picked me. Maybe he spotted me somewhere...

CHULA VISTA – A middle school student was arrested Tuesday after a teacher saw him fashioning a small knife out of wood during a shop class. The boy, who is in eighth grade at Castle Park Middle School, was taken into custody about 11:15 a.m. and then released to his parents, said Chula Vista police spokesman Bernard Gonzalez. The boy has been suspended for four days, said Sweetwater Union High School District spokeswoman Lillian Leopold. When he returns to school after the holiday break he will also undergo counseling, Leopold said. District policy says that a student will be expelled...

We could focus on the latest worrisome news in education: the results of an international test released last week that show American 15-year-olds don't know much about science and are falling behind their peers in other industrialized nations. But why get depressed? There is an aluminum foil lining: The test also found that our teens don't let their ignorance bother them. They may not know as much as students in Finland, Canada or New Zealand, but they think they do. When asked to rate their own scientific abilities, they put themselves at the top with their better-educated peers. This is...

EL DORADO, Kan. - A missing Kansas college student believed to be the victim of foul play apparently led a double life as an Internet porn star by the name of Zoey Zane. Nude photos of 18-year-old Emily Sander appeared on a Zoey Zane Web site before she vanished, and investigators are looking into whether her modeling had anything to do with her disappearance last Friday. "She enjoyed it. She is a young teenage girl and she wanted to be in the movies and enjoyed movies. She needed the extra money," Nikki Watson, a close friend of Sander's at Butler...

HILLSBORO, Ore. - A college student from Washington County could be deported after trying to renew her driver's license at a local DMV. Alejandra Trujillo, 20, went to the Tanasbourne DMV office on Friday.     When a DMV worker asked her for identification, authorities say she handed over a fake Social Security card. The DMV worker called police  and they arrested Trujillo. Lt. Mike Rouches of the Hillsboro Police department said "at that point he [the officer] had probable cause to arrest her for the crime of criminal possession of a forged instrument." Wednesday evening, supporters of Trujillo picketed outside...

If one were to judge the Muslim Student Union (MSU) of the University of California at Irvine (UCI) solely on the basis of its self-description and its stated mission, one would have no inkling of the volcano of Jew-hatred that animates this organization. Founded in 1992 by a small group of Muslim students who “desired to establish an Islamic presence on campus,” MSU says it aims to provide a “community” or “family” atmosphere for Muslims enrolled at UCI, and to build “an environment that enhances good, discourages bad, and provides networks of resources, knowledge, people, and companionship to its members.”...

CLINTON TOWNSHIP — The young man’s testimony read like a made-for-television movie script. For about three hours on Nov. 8, an 18-year-old male confidently told those present in Judge Sebastian Lucido’s courtroom of his alleged sexual relationship with former Roseville High School French teacher Janelle Batkins. He said the two were involved with one another during his senior year in 2006-07 where he was a student aide for Batkins, 42. The two had sex at her Harrison Township home over several months, he testified, and penetration was involved. The teen’s mother found out, the Macomb County Sheriff’s Department conducted an...

(AP) BOSTON An MIT student has been arrested at gunpoint after allegedly walking into Logan International Airport with a fake bomb strapped to her chest this morning. State police say 19-year-old Star Simpson, a sophomore from Hawaii, had a computer circuit board, wiring and a putty that later turned out to be Play-Doh in plain view over a black hooded sweatshirt she was wearing. Stay with wbztv.com and WBZ-TV for the latest on this developing story.

A woman who walked into Logan International Airport allegedly wearing a fake bomb strapped to chest was arrested at gunpoint Friday, officials said. Star Simpson, 19, had a computer circuit board, wiring and a putty that later turned out to be Play-Doh in plain view over a black hooded sweatshirt she was wearing, said State Police Maj. Scott Pare, the commanding officer at the airport. After a Massachusetts Port Authority official notified State Police about 8 a.m., troopers tracked Simpson down outside Terminal C, where they arrested her and later determined the device was a fake.

GAINESVILLE - Police have released the incident report detailing the Tasering of a University of Florida student during a campus forum with Sen. John Kerry Monday, and the officer who actually Tasered Andrew Meyer wrote in the report that Meyer later told police, "You didn't do anything wrong." VIDEO HERE: University of Florida student Tasered at Kerry forum In the 12-page report, which gives accounts of the incident from the perspective of eight different officers who were present Monday afternoon, Officer Nicole Mallo writes that Meyer would only resist officers when cameras were present. "As (Meyer) was escorted down stairs...

September 17, 2007, Canton, MI – Former Plymouth Christian Academy teacher Stephanie Ann Stein, 31 of Canton, was arraigned in 35th District court today on charges stemming from a relationship with a 15-year old student she befriended during this past school year.

I’ve been searching Google and Yahoo news daily for new information on the 2 Middle Eastern Students that were arrested in Goose Creek, South Carolina with explosives. I just got home from Detroit shopping for the Yuntif (Holiday) with my lovely wife and low and behold……. They’re seems to be some news about our misunderstood Middle Eastern School Boys who were busted in Florida with IED’s (Improvised Explosive Devices) in their car. From The Tampa Bay Tribune: TAMPA - A federal grand jury in Tampa is asking for DNA and hair samples from a University of South Florida student jailed...

11th Circuit rules school was in its power to suspend teen in light of other incidents of school violence across nation. CITING SCHOOL SCHOOTINGS from Columbine to Virginia Tech, a federal appeals court has ruled against a local student suspended in 2003 after a teacher saw a story the student had written in which the narrator dreams of shooting her math teacher. Rachel Boim, who was a ninth-grader at Roswell High School when the incident occurred, sued the Fulton County School District and school officials, asking the courts to force school officials to remove the suspension from her disciplinary record....

A former elementary school teacher in Tacoma, Wash., is behind bars for allegedly kidnapping and raping her 10-year-old student numerous times. Jennifer Rice, 31, is said to have met the fourth-grade boy shortly after being hired last year as a replacement teacher at McKinley Elementary School. She was taken into custody Saturday and booked into the Pierce County Jail for investigation of kidnapping, five counts of first-degree child rape, and four counts of child molestation. Rice pleaded not guilty yesterday as she's being held on $500,000 bail. Police documents indicate

RELATIONSHIPS between academic staff and students can be a minefield, as a gay male university tutor who turned down a movie date with a female student has discovered. Peter Gauci, a former University of Queensland tutor, has won a two-year battle to appeal against a federal magistrate's decision that he was not the victim of sexual harassment by a student. Mr Gauci was working as a first year tutorial co-ordinator in the university's psychology department when he met Cristelle Kennedy, a social work student, in 2002. As part of his job, he sometimes met Ms Kennedy to review her exam...