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Police: Pa. mom changed her kids' grades BY USING COMPUTER

NEW TRIPOLI, Pa. — A Pennsylvania woman allegedly changed her children's grades after logging into a school computer system using passwords obtained when she worked for the district.

Investigators say Catherine Venusto used the Northwestern Lehigh School District superintendent's password to change the grades. She was arraigned Wednesday on a half-dozen felony counts and released on bail.

Officials say Venusto changed a failing grade to a medical exception for he daughter in 2010, when she was still a district secretary. The New Tripoli woman is also accused of bumping one of her son's grades from 98 to 99 percent in February.

State police say Venusto admitted changing the grades, saying she thought her actions were unethical but not illegal.

A phone listing for Venusto could not immediately be located Thursday.

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Cops: Mom ditches kids for sex with neighbor
Children as young as 10 months old left alone for 4 hours
Published On: Aug 09 2012 11:19:29 AM EDT
A mother in Florida is accused of leaving her three children home alone to go have sex with the neighbor.

Crystal Rusaw, 24, was arrested on charges of child neglect, Tampa Bay TV station WTSP reported.

The children -- ages 10 months, 3 and 4 -- were left in their New Port Richey home for about four hours. Witnesses called police after seeing them crossing a busy street at 5 a.m. Sunday.
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The 4-year-old was holding the 10-month-old, who had a wet diaper, as the trio dodged traffic.

"It could have been tragic," neighbor Joan Miller told Tampa Bay TV station WFTS. "It's just unbelievable."

Deputies said Rusaw admitted to her crimes when arrested. The neighbor authorities said she was visiting was not identified.

Distributed by Internet Broadcasting.

Who has ever had sex on a PWC? & when.
I have a feeling lots may this weekend after reading this question.
 
Man in Florida charged with catching and wanting to cook Rare Turtle.

Officials: Fla. man wanted to cook rare sea turtle.

TAMPA, Fla. — A rare sea turtle that a Florida fisherman wanted to cook and eat has been released back into the wild.
Officials at The Florida Aquarium say the fisherman snagged the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle in May. Instead of releasing it, he put the 15-pound juvenile turtle in a tank in his backyard in Tampa.
Aquarium official Susan Coy tells The Tampa Tribune ( http://bit.ly/RyCkRB) that the fisherman planned to cook and eat the endangered species, but a neighbor reported him to authorities.
It's not unheard of for turtle meat to be used in dishes such as soups.
Gary Morse, a spokesman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, says the fisherman told investigators he didn't know the turtle was endangered.
The turtle named "Lucky" was rehabilitated at the aquarium until Wednesday, when it was released.___

Information from: The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune, http://www.tampatrib.com
 
Well here in KY everybody knows you don't cook turtles rare. They're best cooked med. to med. rare.

Signed,

The KY Turtle Man
 
Stolen Cows traded for ATV....

Police seeking Van Buren County man in connection with missing cows
Authorities: Michigan man traded cows he didn't own for 4-wheeler, illegally sold another cow
Published On: Sep 26 2012 01:28:10 PM EDT

BANGOR, Mich. -
Authorities in southwestern Michigan are seeking a man they say traded two cows he didn't own for a four-wheeler and illegally sold another cow at auction.
The Van Buren County sheriff's department says they're trying to arrest the 26-year-old man from the Bangor area who may have moved to North Carolina for a job.
He's charged with larceny by conversion, but authorities aren't immediately releasing his name.
The person who reported the cows stolen says he made an agreement with the man to board them from May until November, but the man claimed the cows got loose.
Deputies investigated after an initial report of the missing cows in July and determined two cows had been traded and the other sold in Indiana.
 
An Air Canada commercial flight finds distressed sailor with broken down boat near Australia.

Air Canada flight finds Australian yacht
Yachtsman was out of fuel with broken mast after storm
Author: By Ed Payne CNN
Published On: Oct 18 2012 07:23:42 AM EDT Updated On: Oct 18 2012 10:49:07 AM EDT

Air Canada
(CNN) -

They were ready to land in Australia, at the end of a 14-hour international flight, when the 270 passengers of an Air Canada flight were suddenly thrown into a high-seas search-and-rescue operation.

Flight AC033 diverted after pilot Andrew Robertson got a call from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority on Tuesday to help search for a yachtsman who had sailed from Sydney two weeks earlier.

"If we have the fuel, could we investigate an emergency beacon that had just gone off," came the question from maritime officials, Robertson told CNN Canadian affiliate CBC News.

Down below, Glenn Ey of Queensland, Australia, was being tossed about in his crippled 36-foot yacht -- out of fuel and with a broken mast after a storm.

"I thought I had a very good chance of getting back to Sydney without assistance," Ey said after nine days adrift. "I couldn't see any evidence of Sydney, and I had no idea of my exact position, and it was at that point I set off the emergency position indicator radio beacon."

The search began as the Boeing 777, on its way from Vancouver, dropped from 37,000 feet to 4,000 feet. Robertson asked the passengers and crew to train their eyes on the choppy waters below.

"I think everyone's heart started beating a little bit faster," said Jill Brown, a Canadian singer, who was making the trip to Sydney for a concert. "They said ... we'd really appreciate it if everyone could look out their windows, and if anyone has any binoculars that could help us identify this yacht, that would be really helpful."

It didn't take too long to find Ey as passengers and crew scanned the waters below.

"We're doing this big sweeping right turn and almost immediately they said, 'Oh, we see something,' " Robertson said. "We were totally ecstatic."

Total from time from activation of the emergency beacon until he was found by the Air Canada flight: about 25 minutes.

"You know, we cheered and we applauded and I think we all kind of felt a sense of pride," Brown said.

A merchant vessel helped the yacht until the New South Wales water police arrived from Sydney late Wednesday, about 270 nautical miles off the coast.

Copyright 2012 by CNN NewSource. All rights reserved.
 
EPA turns down states' request for ethanol waiver

By MARY CLARE JALONICK, AP

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has denied requests from several governors to waive production requirements for corn-based ethanol.
A renewable fuels law requires that 13.2 billion gallons of ethanol be produced by this year and 15 billion gallons be produced by 2015. That's good for corn farmers, but it's angered poultry, hog and cattle farmers. They say they've seen big jumps in corn-based feed costs as corn is diverted to make ethanol vehicle fuel.
States requesting the waiver say reduced corn production due to this year's drought has made the problem even worse.
Gov. Mike Beebe, D-Ark., said in a letter to the EPA in August that ethanol production was taking a "terrible toll" on animal agriculture in his state and that consumers would pay more as a result.

Governors of North Carolina, New Mexico, Georgia, Texas, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Utah, and Wyoming also asked for the waiver, along with members of Congress and a coalition of farm groups and other industries that have opposed increased ethanol production.
The EPA said Friday that the agency has studied the effect of waiving the requirement and officials believe it would have had little impact on corn prices.
"We recognize that this year's drought has created hardship in some sectors of the economy, particularly for livestock producers," said Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation. "But our extensive analysis makes clear that congressional requirements for a waiver have not been met and that waiving the RFS will have little, if any, impact."

A coalition of livestock, poultry and dairy organizations reacted angrily to the decision.
"We are extremely frustrated and discouraged that EPA chose to ignore the clear economic argument from tens of thousands of family farmers and livestock and poultry producers that the food-to-fuel policy is causing and will cause severe harm to regions in which those farmers and producers operate," the coalition said in a statement.

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German police stop man with mobile office in car.
In this photo made available by the Saarland State Police in Germany on Friday Nov. 16, 2012, shows a vehicle with its interior wired up like a mobile office, that Saarland State police stopped on the autobahn near Saarbruecken Germany on Monday Nov. 12, 2012. Forget texting while driving. German police say they nabbed a driver who had wired his Ford station wagon with an entire mobile office. Saarland state police said Friday the 35-year-old man was pulled over for doing 130 km/h (81 mph) in a 100 km/h (62 mph) zone while passing a truck Monday. Built on a wooden frame on his passenger seat they found a laptop on a docking station tilted for easy driver access, a printer, router, wireless internet stick, WLAN antenna, and an inverter to power it all. A navigation system and cellphone mounted to the windshield completed the array. Since there wasnt evidence he used the office while moving, he got away with a euro120 ($153) speeding ticket and possible fine for having unsecured items in his car. (AP
 
Australian Police find drugs worth $246M in steamroller

SYDNEY — Australian police seized 237 million Australian dollars ($246 million) worth of cocaine and methamphetamine found inside a steamroller shipped from China.

Australian Federal Police said Wednesday that they arrested a Canadian man and a U.S. man in Sydney after finding 350 kilograms (770 pounds) of cocaine and meth. The men were charged with importing drugs and face a maximum of life in prison if convicted.

It was the police agency's second major drug bust in a week. On Friday, police said officials had tracked down a boat carrying 200 kilograms (440 pounds) of cocaine to Australia after it ran aground in the small island nation of Tonga. A corpse was found on board. Officials are trying to determine the cause of death
 
MIAMI, Fla. -

A Florida man choked to death after downing dozens of live roaches during a contest earlier this year in which the grand prize was a python, according to an autopsy released Monday.

Edward Archbold, 32, of West Palm Beach died as a result of "asphyxia due to choking and aspiration of gastric contents," according to the report released by the Broward County medical examiner's office.

It said his airway was obstructed by the roach body parts, which caused him to not be able to breathe.
Lab tests for drugs came back negative. The death has been ruled an accident.
Archbold died after downing the bugs as well as worms in the Oct. 6 contest at Ben Siegel Reptile Store in Deerfield Beach, about 40 miles north of Miami.
Messages left with the store's owner and his attorney were not immediately returned.
Archbold became ill shortly after the contest and collapsed in front of the store.
He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
About 30 people ate the insects, but authorities said none of the other contestants became ill.

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Looks like we have another candidate for the Darwin awards.
 
Thanks for continuing to update this.. entertaining reads.. :thumbsup:
 
Town evacuates as authorities relocate explosives


NEW ORLEANS — Authorities have resumed the transfer of an estimated 6 million pounds of improperly stored explosive material at a northwest Louisiana industrial site.

State police say the movement of the explosive "M6" propellant began again at daybreak Monday at Camp Minden in rural Webster Parish after being suspended before nightfall.

Residents of the nearby town of Doyline (doy-LEEN') were advised to leave the area Friday in advance of the transfer, which began Saturday. Authorities estimated that about half the town's 800 people voluntarily evacuated.

The material was stored on property leased by Explo Systems Inc., which became the subject of a criminal investigation following an explosion in October. State police said they found material improperly stored both outdoors and in unauthorized buildings.

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