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A former award-winning teacher has been sentenced to jail over a sexual assault of a student more than a decade ago. Leah Ruthann Queen, 44, pleaded guilty to having a sexual relationship with a student. Benton County Circuit Judge Brad Karren sentenced Queen to six years of state-supervised probation and 58 days in the Benton County Jail. She was also ordered not to have any contact with the victim.Queen was a teacher at the Gentry Intermediate School in Arkansas.

The students were identified as Matthew Frazier and Matthew Rawlings, who are accused of calling the black student racial slurs before beating and kicking him.TUCSON, Ariz. — Police identified the two students accused of using racial slurs and beating a black student at the University of Arizona earlier this week as Matthew Frazier and Matthew Rawlings. Several dozen students at the University of Arizona on Friday protested campus police handling of a physical and racist attack on a black student this week. The protests took place less than an hour after the university announced that the two assailants, who are...

Hillary Clinton won South Carolina Democratic Primary. Projected winner at top of hour after polls closed.

HOUSTON (AP) — A white Houston-area man was sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison for committing a hate crime when he surprise punched an elderly black man. In federal court in Houston on Friday, Conrad Alvin Barrett was sentenced to prison followed by three years of probation. Barrett admitted in court to racial motivation in the Nov. 24, 2013, attack on his 81-year-old victim. Evidence showed Barrett filmed the attack on his cellphone. The 29-year-old Katy, Texas, man punched an 81-year-old man with such force that he fell to the ground. Barrett then laughed and said, “Knockout!” as...

Swiss escapes from Abu Sayyaf captors • Hostage hacks bandit as military pounds lair of terror group in Sulu MANILA, Philippines — A Swiss hostage escaped on Saturday from Abu Sayyaf extremists after hacking a militant commander and getting shot as he dashed to freedom, ending more than two years of jungle captivity in Sulu province, according to military officials. Lorenzo Vinciguerra, 49, made his daring escape after government forces fired artillery rounds in the jungle camp where he was being held near the mountainous Patikul town in Sulu. He hacked an Abu Sayyaf commander and ran away but was...

Texas woman sets snake on fire, snake sets her house on fire The woman was frightened by a snake outside her house, so she doused it with gas and had her son set it on fire. That plan didn’t work out so well. A Texas woman burned her own house down during a heated battle with a snake. The serpent frightened the lady while cleaning outside her home Wednesday night. She doused the limbless reptile in gasoline and called over her son to set it ablaze. The plan backfired. Her son tossed a lit match at the creeping reptile but...

Nepali man bites snake to death in revenge attack KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A Nepali man who was bitten by a cobra snake bit it back and killed the reptile in a tit-for-tat attack, a newspaper said on Thursday. Nepali daily Annapurna Post said Mohamed Salmo Miya chased the snake, which bit him in his rice paddy on Tuesday, caught it and bit it until it died. "I could have killed it with a stick but bit it with my teeth instead because I was angry," the 55-year-old Miya, who lives in a village some 200 km (125 miles) southeast of...

A man accused of throwing a mustard-covered corn dog that hit his live-in girlfriend during a weekend fracas faces misdemeanor charges, according to a recently released arrest affidavit. Fort Pierce police arrested Tommie Lee Mckeliver, 48, on Saturday after his beau told investigators he "got mad at her and threw a paper plate that contained a mustard covered State Fair corn dog on it." The corn dog crashed into her chest area, leaving her "coated" in mustard. "(The girlfriend) stunned by the situation then found herself being pushed out of the room, and (the) door locked behind her," the affidavit...

A West Haven, Connecticut man is under arrest, accused of biting a police dog. Police tell our affiliate WTNH that officer Scott Bloom was on patrol yesterday with his police dog Onyx when he spotted Roderick Lewis walking near a Rite Aid with his pants falling down. They say Lewis appeared to be on drugs and approached the officer while yelling at him, then punched the officer in the face. "He noticed the gentleman Roderick actually bite down on K-9 Onyx's leg, whereas K-9 Onyx actually yelped out and screamed," said the West Haven police department's Bret Schneider. After police...

Doctor tells Obama supporters: Go elsewhere for health care A Mount Dora doctor posted a sign telling Obama health care supporters to go elsewhere. MOUNT DORA — A doctor who considers the national health-care overhaul to be bad medicine for the country posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Barack Obama to seek care "elsewhere." "I'm not turning anybody away — that would be unethical," Dr. Jack Cassell, 56, a Mount Dora urologist and a registered Republican opposed to the health plan, told the Orlando Sentinel on Thursday. "But if they read the sign...

A Phoenix man seems to have confused the iconic message of McGruff the Crime Dog. Rather than taking a bite outta crime, the man took a bite out of a cop last night after assaulting a woman, trying to steal a car, and getting shot by an officer. Last night around 10, two men, whose names have not been released, walked through the drive-through of a Church's Chicken on Thomas Road in Phoenix. The men reached through the window and assaulted a 17-year-old girl working at the restaurant, police say. When police arrived on the scene, the men were no...

"Access Hollywood" executive bitten by rattlesnake Editorial Note: While this story is outside our local area, we thought it important to remind people to be careful of rattlesnakes. Sunday, July 12th, 2009.Issue 28, Volume 9. An "Access Hollywood'' executive bitten by a rattlesnake -- just in time to put her out of action on the Michael Jackson story -- is expected back at work tomorrow after a nasty reaction and two-week recovery that required 22 vials of antivenin, she said today. Sharon Smith's disastrous encounter with the cold-blooded viper occurred June 27 at a roadside rest area on U.S. 101...

Hillsborough — Three UNC football players were the victims in a kidnapping, robbery and sexual assault incident involving two women, the university confirmed Thursday afternoon. Chapel Hill police said the assault happened about 3:30 a.m. Sunday at an apartment complex in Chapel Hill where all three victims were bound with tape and then assaulted by the suspects. At a bond hearing Thursday, Orange County Assistant District Attorney Morgan Whitney said police arrived at the scene and found two of the victims, tied up, in boxer shorts. The third victim was fully clothed with his hands tied. At least two were...

NEW YORK (Dec. 13) -- A Muslim man jumped to the aid of three Jewish subway riders after they were attacked by a group of young people who objected to one of the Jews saying "Happy Hanukkah," a spokeswoman for the three said Wednesday...

Woman bites penis to deter attacker By Leo Leonidou POLICE AND hospitals in Ayia Napa are on the lookout for a man who had his penis bitten by a woman who rejected his sexual advances. The incident took place in the early hours of Friday morning on the party town’s Krio Nero Avenue. The 21-year-old Austrian, who works in a local hotel, was taking a walk with a friend when two young men approached them on mopeds. According to her statement, the men offered to take them for a stroll and a drink along the beach. The women accepted but...

Animal cruelty case yields 'doggone' dismissal June 6, 2007 By Peter Hirschfeld Times Argus Staff CHELSEA – A woman facing jail time for "staring" at a police dog had charges against her dropped Monday after an Orange County prosecutor viewed videotape of the alleged crime. Jayna Hutchinson, now of Lebanon, N.H., was scheduled for a jury trial this week on a misdemeanor charge of cruelty to animals. A Vermont State Police sergeant said Hutchinson was intoxicated and stared at his police dog in a "taunting/harassing manner" last July while officers were in the process of investigating a reported melee outside...

Florida Man Sues to Halt Mosque Construction, Claims Terrorism Ties Wednesday, May 02, 2007 A man fighting the opening of a mosque in his suburban neighborhood filed a lawsuit Tuesday to try and halt construction, a move derided by Arab leaders as anti-Muslim. Rodney Wright, who is Christian, claims the relocation of the Islamic Center of South Florida to a new, larger building in his Pompano Beach neighborhood "presents a substantial harm to the well-being, safety and health" of the community. The lawsuit claims the leader of the mosque, Imam Hassan Sabri, has repeatedly been associated with others who are...

Widow attends massacre trial wearing Mohammed cartoon 26 March 2007 MADRID ? The widow of a man killed in the Madrid bombings attended the trial of Islamic radicals with a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed with a bomb on her T-shirt. The judge in charge of trial on Monday asked security guards to check the woman?s T-shirt and ordered the cameras to halt live transmissions. Initially, he thought the woman could been a relative of one of the 29 accused and thought she might have put some kind of message on her T-shirt. The T-shirt was a copy of the...

See for example this thread first. This story is fit for a blog A man tried to pee on a dog "Turnabout is fair play" If that's what they say-- I'm just glad it excluded a..."log".

Dan LeBlanc’s neighbour says he saw a Canada Post carrier open the gate of LeBlanc’s Spryfield yard and shake his tied-up husky-shepherd mix, Silver. (Photo: Darrell Oake) Dan LeBlanc is livid after a neighbour says he witnessed a Canada Post carrier enter his yard and vigorously shake his dog Thursday morning. “I wouldn’t treat her like that and I sure as hell don’t want Canada Post treating her like that,” said the 39-year-old from Spryfield. LeBlanc keeps his dog Silver tied up next to a doghouse in a fenced yard. His mailbox is attached to the outside of the fence....