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LINCOLN — University of Nebraska-Lincoln police began investigating hazing at Sigma Chi fraternity after a pledge alleged he was anally penetrated with a vibrator at an initiation event, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday in Lancaster County District Court. The act allegedly was performed by a stripper at the instigation of active members of the fraternity during a party at a house located off-campus. The pledge told police he was handcuffed and blindfolded at the time. UNL police on Monday cited eight members of the Sigma Chi fraternity on misdemeanor charges alleging hazing and procuring alcohol to minors. The misdemeanor charges did not include sexual assault allegations. However, Police Capt. Carl Oestmann said the investigation continues. According to documents relating to a search warrant and a sworn statement, police found evidence corroborating at least part of the pledge’s account, including a letter to a national fraternity official explaining the incident.
FORT WALTON BEACH — A 57-year-old Fort Walton Beach man was arrested nearly a year after he drove off of a dead end road and rolled his vehicle into the perimeter security fence for Hurlburt Field, according to his arrest report. He was charged with DUI property damage, driving with a suspended licence and financial responsiblity for property damage for the June 3, 2008 crash. He was extremely intoxicated and was going in and out of consciousness when rescue workers arrived on scene. He was also naked from the waist down and had defecated in the drivers seat, according to his Okaloosa County Sheriffs Office arrest report. The deputy obtained his medical records from the hospital and learned that his blood alcohol content was .443, more than four times the legal limit.
Last Thursday, a man walked into the Wachovia Bank in the 2700 block of Smith and reportedly told the teller he had a gun and ordered her to give him money. Fearing for her life, the teller gave the man some cash bundles with exploding dye packs in them. The suspect stuffed the money down his pants and ran out of the bank. Police arrested Daniel Duran a short time later, after the dye packs exploded while still allegedly down his pants. Duran was taken to an area hospital with second degree burns to his genital area. No weapon was found.
Trial told of escort’s deadly rage – Front Page – Top Stories – NZ Herald News
A jealous prostitute killed her lover in a “deliberate and brutal” knife attack after he admitted cheating on her with other escorts, a court has heard. Dionne Liza Neale, 39, is accused of murdering 38-year-old advertising executive Reece John Shadbolt in his Parnell apartment on Waitangi Day two years ago. In the High Court at Auckland yesterday, prosecutor Kevin Glubb said Neale stabbed Mr Shadbolt nine times with a carving knife in an assault that began in the shower.
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Snakes escape on Qantas flight
An Australian airliner was grounded after four baby pythons escaped from their container in the aircraft’s hold. The snakes, just six inches long, were among 12 Stimson’s pythons being flown from Alice Springs to Melbourne. At first it was thought the reptiles may have been eaten by the other snakes, but this was discounted after they were weighed on landing. Passengers were transferred to other aircraft. The jet was fumigated but the snakes’ bodies are yet to be found. “They’re not endangered so a decision was made to fumigate…if these snakes turn up they will be very much dead snakes,” David Epstein of Qantas said. It is not known how the snakes – which can grow up to a metre in length – escaped from their container. They were being transported in the cargo hold of the aircraft in a bag inside a plastic foam box with air holes. The passenger aircraft returned to service on Wednesday.
Lotto winner seeks to open nude ranch
BROOKSVILLE, Fla. – You’ve heard of nude beaches, but how about a nude dude ranch? Tim Clements hit a $3.3 million jackpot in 2004, and wants to return to the farm life he grew up in. Clements and David Jennings, co-owner of the ranch, said the farm is secluded enough to be in the buff. But they have two big problems — local zoning laws and a nudity ban in Hernando County. Clements said they’ll try to get the necessary paperwork, but if they can’t get approval he’ll close the CJ Ranch again to all but friends. Though their Web site says clothing is optional, there is a caveat: Everyone “must wear pants and boots to ride the horses.”
Mom leaves child alone in car to have sex :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Metro & Tri-State
(SOUTH HOLLAND) A Florida woman is charged with endangering the life of a child for allegedly leaving her 4-year-old son alone in a car so she could have sex in south suburban South Holland. Leslie Foster, 18, of Jacksonville, Fla., was arrested on the 14700 block of West Riverside Drive in South Holland just before 2 a.m. Monday, according to South Holland police. Foster allegedly left her 4-year-old son in one car while she went to have sex in another car, police said. The boy wanted his mother, so he got out of the car and walked down the street knocking on doors until the resident of one home let him in and called 911, police said. The boy was not harmed. Foster was able to post bail and is scheduled to appear in court May 29 at the Markham Courthouse.
For those with a little free time this morning, the Institute for Creation Research filed an 80-page complaint in Dallas federal court at the end of last week claiming that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has done violated its constitutional rights, including freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of religious exercise. For starters. Why come? Says the suit, when the THECB — of which Raymund Paredes, Ph.D. serves as commish — decided last year not to let the Royal Lane-based joint hand out master’s degrees in science, they “perpetrated viewpoint discrimination and censorship.”
High School Cheer Coach Fired After Posing Nude – cbs13.com
ORANGEVALE, Calif. (CBS13) ? She posed nude and now she is out of a job. CBS13 went to Casa Robles High School to find out about the cheerleading coach turned Playboy centerfold. “The girls are supposed to look up their coaches,” says one concerned parent. She bared all, all over the internet. Casa Robles High School officials in Orangevale confirm with CBS13 that their girl’s cheerleading coach, Carlie Christine, was the one who posed nude in a playboy centerfold. Christine is also Playboy’s ‘cyber girl of the week.’ (NSFW)For obvious reasons we can only show a few of many provocative poses from Playboy. Parents and some students, who did not want to be identified, exposed the coach to school officials after rumors started slowly getting out that she had posed nude. “I think it’s unacceptable. It’s not fair,” says Jamye Curtis. What apparently uncovered the coach was when some girls didn’t make the cheerleading squad because they had a few unexcused absences from school. Their parents then made copies of Christine and dropped the pictures on the principal’s desk.
Christine was then fired from her position at Casa Robles High School. “And I was in shock that I knew the girls had seen it and knew about it,” a parent told CBS13. A lot of parents and faculty are talking and looking. “The whole football team has seen it,” says one parent.
Woman bares chest to deputy during DUI stop
SPRING HILL – Authorities made several DUI arrests over the weekend, including a woman who bared her chest to a deputy and a suspect who crashed head-on into a parked car. The weekend started around 9 p.m. Friday when a deputy was sent to the intersection of Cortez Boulevard and Commercial Way to investigate multiple reports of a reckless driver. On arrival, the deputy saw traffic driving around a black Mercedes stopped at the intersection. The car was pulled over at Commercial Way and Country Lane and as the deputy stepped out of his cruiser, he noticed the Mercedes was in reverse gear.Despite the deputy’s shouts to “stop,” the Mercedes continued its path into the cruiser’s front bumper. As the car’s driver, Tina Lopez, 49, stepped out of the car, she grabbed the deputy’s arm multiple times to keep her balance, according to a report. Lopez showed other signs of intoxication, so she was asked to perform field sobriety tests, which she reportedly failed. The suspect was arrested on suspicion of DUI and, while the deputy waited for backup, “felt it necessary” to expose her chest, a report states. She was taken to the county jail on charges of DUI and DUI with property damage, where she reportedly supplied a blood alcohol level of .111 and .108. Florida law presumes intoxication at .08.
I fathered child when still Catholic bishop, president confesses – Scotsman.com News
PARAGUAY’S president, Fernando Lugo, admitted yesterday he is the father of a child conceived while he was still a Roman Catholic bishop. Mr Lugo surprised journalists by acknowledging that he had an intimate relationship with Viviana Carrillo, the child’s mother, just five days after lawyers for Ms Carrillo announced they were filing a paternity suit against him.”Here and now, before my people and my conscience, I declare with absolute honesty and a sense of duty and transparency in relation to the controversy provoked by the paternity suit, that there was a relationship with Viviana Carrillo,” he said. “I assume all responsibilities… and recognise the paternity of the child,” Mr Lugo said, promising to protect the boy’s privacy. The president said he would not comment further, but would instead focus on his presidency.Ms Carrillo’s lawyer, Claudio Kostinchok, said he was pleased at the announcement. “By recognising that he is the father of the child, he proves us right,” Mr Kostinchok said. “We didn’t invent anything.” Mr Lugo, 57, resigned in 2004 as bishop of San Pedro, capital of San Pedro province, the poorest region in the country. Ms Carrillo is from the province. In December 2006, he said he was renouncing the status of bishop to run for president. But it was not until 31 July last year that Pope Benedict XVI gave him permission to resign, relieving him of his chastity vows. The Vatican had insisted during the 2008 presidential campaign that Mr Lugo would always be a bishop under Church law. Mr Kostinchok says the boy was born on 4 May, 2007, and was named after Mr Lugo’s grandfather, Guillermo Armindo. Ms Carrillo is now 26, but her intimate relationship with Mr Lugo reportedly began when she was just 16.
Library finds urine saturating 41 books | Fox10tv.com
BAY MINETTE, Ala. – Disgusting is the best way to describe what library workers found on Wednesday. “This is a filthy and despicable act of vandalism,” said Mayor Jamie Tillery. Empty shelves show where the books were located in the Bay Minette Public Library. Workers say someone urinated on 41 books. Mayor Tillery says the incident is sickening. “It is criminal in nature and it shows a disrespect towards the city, the library, and the citizens of this community,” said Tillery.It was three hours before closing when the discovery was made. The library worker was straightening books when she realized they were stuck together. When she pulled them apart, she immediately smelled the scent. She recognized the smell and went straight for her gloves. Pictures taken just after the discovery show workers attempting to use alcohol to salvage the books, but that didn’t work. It appears all of the books are ruined.
P.J. Ikner goes to the library often to read the Bible. He also likes to visit the religion section for other material and that’s the same place where the incident happened. “It’s filthy. It’s real filthy of them. Even them doing it in the religious section, so its real filthy,” said Ikner. “The perpetrator will be found and will be prosecuted,” Tillery added. Prosecuted for a crime that is totally unacceptable. The library is working to upgrade its security system, so incidents like this will be caught on video.
Monkey, missing for 6 weeks, captured in Fla.
FRUITLAND PARK, Fla. – He spent six weeks on the lam from the circus, but Reggie the spider monkey has been captured with the help of junk food. Reggie had performed for the Liebel Family Circus for years, but he escaped on March 13 when the troupe did a show at a central Florida flea market. A search for the monkey came up empty-handed. He was spotted a few weeks ago in a nearby neighborhood, looking lonely and scared but otherwise healthy. But a dog frightened him away before residents there could attract him with some food. Then on Monday, Reggie was seen hanging from a tree at a mobile home park. Neighbors fed him Coke, potato chips and Twinkies until the circus owner Tom Liebel came to grab him.
Young girls walk in on four people having sex in restaurant bathroom
The parents of two young girls say their daughters walked into a downtown restaurant bathroom and saw four people having sex. Their parents are so disturbed, they want all parents to be aware. “They saw two women servicing two men in the restroom,” Robert Schumann says. “Eleven years old is still not old enough to learn about such things as that.” “My 11-year-old asked me, ‘How come two women were coming out of the bathroom and why were two guys in there?” Melissa Schumann, the girls’ mother, says. “And they were making funny noises.’”The Schumann’s contacted the managers at Taco Bell and suggested they lock the doors. “She turned around and told me they used to lock the bathrooms because of this very issue but she was told to keep them unlocked because of all the complaints they got about the doors being locked,” Robert says. Taco Bell Spokesperson, Rob Poetsch, sent a statement that reads: “The safety of our customers is our number one priority, and although this is an isolated incident, we’re having self-locking doors installed as a precautionary measure.”
Newscenter 16 went into the Taco Bell Thursday and found a note on the bathroom doors asking customers to get a key from the counter and lock the door behind them. But we were able to walk into the women’s room without a key. Once we spoke to a manager, she locked the doors right in front of us. “It’s scary because now I don’t want to send my children to the bathroom by themselves and my 11-year-old doesn’t want to be treated like a child,” Melissa explains. “She wants to feel grown up. I can’t do that now.”
“I was fuming. I was angry. I was upset. I was concerned,” Robert says. He is pleased now the restaurant is taking action and installing locks to prevent people from wandering in. South Bend police say public sex happens very often and in many places. They say they’ve gotten calls from this Taco Bell before, as well as other fast food restaurants, bars, cars, parks and almost any public place. But police say by the time they arrive, those having sex are either gone or not committing the act anymore. Still, the Schumanns never thought having lunch at noon on a Saturday would turn so disturbing. “We see police there all the time…eating there. And I figure, all right, police have made themselves known there so it should be relatively safe,” Melissa explains. “Nothing can really happen here. Oh, I was so wrong. I was so wrong.”
Reverend accused of taping minors’ sex acts
BELLE GLADE, FL — A Belle Glade minister is facing four felony counts after pornographic DVDs were obtained by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office identifying him and several minors on video. According to a probable cause affidavit by the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, Reverend James Richard Harris is accused of videotaping juveniles performing sexual acts with one another on several occasions at Harris’s home in Belle Glade.
El Paso, TX. – Prisoners of war suffer in ways most veterans don’t, enduring humiliating forced marches, torture or other trauma that may haunt them long afterward. In partial recompense, the government extends them special benefits, from free parking and tax breaks to priority in medical treatment. Trouble is, some of the much-admired recipients of these benefits apparently don’t deserve them. There are only 21 surviving POWs from the first Gulf War in 1991, the Department of Defense says. Yet the Department of Veterans Affairs is paying disability benefits to 286 service members it says were taken prisoner during that conflict, according to data released by VA to The Associated Press. A similar discrepancy arises with Vietnam POWs. Only 661 officially recognized prisoners returned from that war alive – and about 100 of those have since died, according to Defense figures. But 966 purported Vietnam POWs are getting disability payments, the VA told AP.
Pop Tarts fight leads to stabbing
An argument about Pop Tarts led a woman to stab her boyfriend in the chest with a steak knife today, Lakeland police say. Officers arrived today at 210 Lake Hollingsworth Road, No. 4, and saw 18-year-old Catheline Marie Colon cleaning blood from the floor. Investigators said Colon had lived with her boyfriend, 19-year-old Shawn Andrews, for about three months. Colon had moved out but returned to collect belongings. “She wanted to get a Pop Tart, and he said she couldn’t have anything,” police spokesman Jack Gillen said. Gillen said Andrews pushed and hit Colon, and she stabbed him in the chest, causing a severe wound. Andrews’ friend took him to a Lakeland hospital. His condition wasn’t immediately known. “At this time, he hasn’t been charged, and he did suffer a severe chest wound, and she apparently did not have any marks on her body,” Gillen said. “He refused to give us a witness statement, and he said he did not want her arrested. But we obviously arrested her.” Colon was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and tampering with evidence. Her bail hadn’t been set today.
School: Ohio teacher took students to strip club
HAMILTON, Ohio (AP) — A school spokesman said a southwest Ohio teacher has resigned after acknowledging she accompanied four female students to a male strip club. Butler Tech school district spokesman Bill Solazzo said the 47-year-old teacher resigned Thursday. He said the teacher told Edgewood High School administrators that the students, all cheerleaders, asked her to take them to the bar in February. The teacher told school officials in an e-mail that she got permission from the parents of the 17- and 18-year-olds to bring them to the club. The teacher taught marketing at the school and previously served as a coach for the district’s eighth-grade cheerleaders.
Man, 62, Sues for $125G Saying Ohio Police Made Him Walk Home in Polar Bear Pajamas
CINCINNATI — A Cincinnati-area man is suing two suburban police departments, saying he was falsely arrested and then humiliated when he had to walk through his neighborhood in pajamas with polar bears on them. In a suit filed Wednesday in Hamilton County, 62-year-old James Williams says he was getting a document from his pickup truck in his driveway when he was arrested and forced to the ground. The former firefighter says he was an innocent bystander in the investigation of a man who had crashed his car nearby. The lawsuit says Williams was taken to a gas station where a man had stolen gasoline and that he was held in a police cruiser for about 20 minutes. Williams says he had to walk home in his pajamas when he was released. He’s asking at least $125,000 from the departments and officers involved.
PFLUGERVILLE, Texas – A Pflugerville man is arrested for driving home a piece of construction equipment, police say while intoxicated. FOX 7 News first reported this in October, now Pflugerville Police are releasing the video. A patrol officer spotted the road roller at four in the morning, driving down Immanuel Street. “The vehicle was actually weaving. There were no flagmen, no lights on it. It was dark and it was a dangerous situation,” Asst. Chief Jim McLean said. The officer put on his lights, and pulled the driver the equipment over. The driver– 32 year old Ronald Howell– told the officer he was walking from Players Night Club and Tuffs Tavern. He took the Dynapac Vibrator Roller from a construction site at F.M. 1825, and started driving it home. “The officer smelled alcohol on his person,” McLean said. Howell was given a series of sobriety tests, which police say he failed. He was arrested for DWI, driving with an invalid license and felony theft, for stealing the roller valued at $180,000. “When the officer was talking to him, the only explanation he could get was that it was cold outside, he’s driving it because it was cold, trying to get home. During an officer’s career, I would say that’s a normal contact they would have,” McLean said. A judge ordered Howell deferred adjudication on the criminal charges.
KSTP TV – Minneapolis and St. Paul – Man injured after falling off Cedar Ave Bridge
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) – Police in Bloomington say a 23-year-old man is in stable condition after he pretended that he was falling off a bridge over the Minnesota River, then actually fell off the bridge. Police got a call just before 5 a.m. Sunday from a 21-year-old man who said his friend fell off the Highway 77 bridge and into a marshy area about 30 feet below. The caller said he was driving north when his friend, who he said had been drinking, told him to pull into the bridge’s emergency lane so he could urinate.The 23-year-old eventually climbed to the ledge of the bridge, then looked at his friend and pretended to fall. “He then in fact fell,” reads a press release from the Bloomington Police Department. Police from Bloomington and Eagan responded, and the Eagan Fire Department used a chair lift to retrieve the man. He was transported to Hennepin County Medical Center where he’s being treated for serious injuries.
Man charged for inciting pillow fight
BURLINGTON, Vt. – A pillow fight organized as a “flash mob” event drew about 50 participants, and police charged one of them with disorderly conduct. The incident Friday outside Burlington Town Center mall lasted about two minutes, part of a fad in which people – after organizing online – suddenly materialize in a public place and do something strange. Twenty-one-year-old Darin Cassler, of Burlington, who helped plan the event, blew a whistle to start the pillow fight and blew it again to signal the end. He’s been charged with disorderly conduct and could get 60 days in jail and a $500 fine. But county prosecutor T.J. Donovan told the Burlington Free Press the arrest may be much ado about nothing.
Mom Arrested After Kicking Bickering Kids To Curb – wcbstv.com
SCARSDALE, N.Y. (CBS) ? Did a Westchester mother go too far when she kicked her kids to the curb and drove away? No doubt many parents have threatened it. But few actually do it. “Sometimes you say you’re going to kick them out of the car, but you don’t do it,” said Scarsdale mother Elinor Gutierrez. But police said 45-year-old Madlyn Primoff did. She’s accused of kicking her fighting daughters out of her car in White Plains and driving off Sunday evening. She allegedly circled the block a few times, lost sight of the 100 and 12-year-olds, but then drove to her multi-million dollar home in Scarsdale. “They’re lovely people, it sounds extraordinarily out of character,” said neighbor Seth Greenberg. According to the police report, the 10-year-old was emotional as she described her mom demanding both youths exit the vehicle when they wouldn’t stop fighting. The 12-year-old was found walking home. A good Samaritan took the distraught 10-year-old to an ice cream store and called police.
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