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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Monsanto Co.'s "seed police" snared soy farmer Homan McFarling in 1999, and the company is demanding he pay it hundreds of thousands of dollars for alleged technology piracy. McFarling's sin? He saved seed from one harvest and replanted it the following season, a revered and ancient agricultural practice. "My daddy saved seed. I saved seed," said McFarling, 62, who still grows soy on the 5,000 acre family farm in Shannon, Miss. and is fighting the agribusiness giant in court. Saving Monsanto's seeds, genetically engineered to kill bugs and resist weed sprays, violates provisions of the company's...

Brian Delekta, who finished 11th grade in 2002 ranked at the top of his class, said he should have recieved an A+ for a St. Clair County intermediate school district work experience class in which he worked as a paralegal in his mother's law office.Memphis schools award grades on a 12 point scale with an A+ being 12. Memphis City High School gave Delekta credit for an A.Diane Delekta said her son who filed the duit Friday, fufilled the districts work program requirements and performed professionally at work.'It was what he would do if he were a paralegal in a...