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5-year-old boy threatened with suspension for making "Lego gun" at school


Activist Post
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:11 UTC
A boy playing in a Massachusetts after school program found himself in hot water this week after creating an allegedly threatening object using LEGO blocks.

Joseph Cardosa, 5 years old, was participating in an after-school program at Hyannis West Elementary School on Cape Cod when school officials say he created a gun out of LEGOs, reports Fox25 Boston.

The boy's parents told the station that the school issued Joseph an official warning, and said a second warning would lead to suspension.
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Mexican officials: Sex-slavery cult broken up, leader claimed to be Christ


Fox News Latino
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 19:24 UTC
Ignacio Gonzalez
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Mexico City - Mexican officials broke up a bizarre cult that allegedly ran a sex-slavery ring in which members had sex with the cult leader -- who claimed to be the reincarnation of Christ.

The cult was operating in Nuevo Laredo, across the border from Laredo, Texas, Mexican immigration authorities said Tuesday.

The "Defensores de Cristo" or "Defenders of Christ" allegedly recruited women to have sex with a Spanish man who claimed he was the reincarnation of Christ, according to an official of a victims' advocacy group, who spoke on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak publicly about the case.

Followers were subjected to forced labor or sexual services, including prostitution, according to the National Immigration Institute that said it filed a complaint more than a year ago about the cult.

Federal police, agents of Mexico's National Immigration Institute and prosecutors raided a house earlier this week and found cult members, including children, living in filthy conditions, according to the institute official.

The agency said in a statement that 14 foreigners were detained in the raid and have been turned over to prosecutors, pending possible charges.

Those detained include six Spaniards, and two people each from Brazil, Bolivia and Venezuela. One person from Argentina and one from Ecuador were also detained. Spain's Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed its citizens were among those arrested.

The institute said 10 Mexicans were also found at the house, mainly women, and are presumably among the victims of the cult.
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High school teacher charged with having sex with 7 students

Terry Dickson
Florida Times-Union
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:55 UTC
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© Provided by the Charlton County Sheriff's OfficeDaNita Wilson, a Charlton County High School teacher charged with having sex with students.
A Charlton County High School teacher has been charged with having sex with seven students, officials said.

DaNita Wilson, 32, faces seven counts of sexual assault after a one-day investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, said Stacy Carson, assistant special agent in charge of the GBI's Kingsland office.

Six of the students were at least 16 and one was younger than 16, Carson said.

"She turned herself in" at the Charlton County Sheriff's Office, which had requested the GBI's help, Carson said.

Carson said the investigation is ongoing.
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20 semis, 15 cars involved in massive crash in Indiana

Dan McFeely
indystar.com
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:12 UTC
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© Doug McSchooler/For the StarTraffic is backed up in both directions of I-70 in this photo from the 65 mile marker in between Plainfield and Monrovia exits. About 50 vehicles were involved in a massive pileup on I-70 in Hendricks County Thurs, Jan 31, 2012
A massive crash on I-70 west of the city has injured at least seven motorists and resulted in a major shutdown of the highway between Plainfield and Monrovia.

The highway is expected to be blocked in both directions for several hours this evening. Indiana State Police have blocked westbound access to I-70 at the I-465 interchange.

State police say the chain-reaction crash too place shortly after 2 p.m. near an overpass at Hendricks County Rolad 275 East.
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Applebee's fires waitress for exposing pastor's 'give God 10%' no-tip receipt

David Edwards
Raw Story
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:35 UTC
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A waitress says she was fired from her job at Applebee's after posting a note from a pastor who refused to tip, writing that "I give God 10% Why do you get 18."

The waitress, who identified herself only as Chelsea, told The Consumerist that she originally posted the photo on the atheist section of social media website Reddit as a "lighthearted joke."

"I thought the note was insulting, but it was also comical," she explained. "I posted it to Reddit because I thought other users would find it entertaining."

On the receipt she posted, Applebee's computer system had added an automatic 18 percent gratuity because the dinner party had eight or more people. But the customer scratched out the $6.29 tip and wrote "0." The receipt included a note about giving God 10 percent and a signature which indicated that the diner was a "pastor."
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3 injured in San Diego explosion after suspects light cigarette near hash oil

Stephen C. Webster
Raw Story
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:59 UTC
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Three people were seriously injured Wednesday after a container of butane exploded in a San Diego hotel room as two suspects tried to make hash oil out of marijuana, police told The Associated Press.

Although hotel room explosions are usually association with making methamphetamines, they can happen any time an accellerant is improperly used, such as in the production of hash oil, a form of marijuana that is super-concentrated in liquid form, with roughly one drop equaling the amount of THC in a lower-potency joint.
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Crash in Detroit kills at least three people, causes massive multi-vehicle accident

Corey Williams and Ed White
Huffington Post
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:45 UTC
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© AP Photo/Paul SancyaA section of multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 75 is shown in Detroit, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. Snow squalls and slippery roads led to a series of accidents that left at least four people dead and 20 injured on a mile-long stretch of southbound I-75. More than two dozen vehicles, including tractor-trailers, were involved in the pileups.
Blinding snow squalls, high winds and a slick highway led to a mile-long series of crashes in Detroit that left at least three people dead, including two children, and 20 more injured.

Michigan State Police Lt. Michael Shaw said visibility was extremely poor when the mass of crashes happened on Interstate 75 on the southwest side of the city. The injured, also including children, have been taken to hospitals, Shaw said.

SUVs with smashed front ends and cars with doors hanging open sat scattered across the debris-littered highway, some crunched against jackknifed tractor-trailers and tankers. Rescue crews went vehicle to vehicle in the search for survivors and to provide aid.
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Police hunt for two people who shot a Texas prosecutor

Matt Goodman
WFAA
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:28 UTC
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© Credit: WFAAA prosecutor was shot dead outside the Kaufman County courthouse on Jan. 31, 2013.
Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was shot dead outside the courthouse Thursday, spurring a complete lockdown of the grounds and an active search for the two shooters.

Kaufman County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Pat Laney said the suspects ambushed the assistant DA on his way in to court and shot him multiple times in a parking lot at about 8:50 a.m. They then fled the scene. The courthouse was locked down and later closed for the day.

Hasse, a longtime prosecutor for the Dallas County District Attorney's Office and current assistant DA for Kaufman County, is the man who was shot and killed, the Sheriff's Office confirmed. He was a felony prosecutor who headed murder and drug cases.

Hasse joined the Kaufman County District Attorney's Office in July 2010, records show.
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14-year-old student shot in neck, teacher wounded at Atlanta middle school

Christian Boone
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:26 UTC
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A 14-year-old student shot in the head at an Atlanta school Thursday is "alert, conscious and breathing," said police.

The shooting occurred outside Price Middle School in southeast Atlanta, said Atlanta police spokesman Carlos Campos.

The victim has been taken to Grady Memorial Hospital.
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No new developments in 2-day child hostage standoff

John Shryock and Mark Wilder
WSFA
Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:20 UTC
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Authorities and the suspected killer of a school bus driver and abductor of a 6-year-old kindergartner remain locked in a hostage standoff in southeastern Alabama that's spanned nearly 2 days.. The child is said to be "okay", having been given access to medicine and the box of crayons and a coloring book he requested.

The child, whose name isn't being published due to the ongoing investigation, has remained in an underground bunker with his captor since Tuesday afternoon when he was plucked from the school bus he was riding home. The abductor, identified as 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes, is accused of boarding the child's bus in the town of Midland City where he fatally shot the bus driver before kidnapping the boy.

Hostage negotiators have pleaded with the suspect to hand over the child and give himself up to police. Communication with Dykes, via a PVC pipe connected to his bunker, has so far yielded no movement.

At this time, federal law enforcement officials say FBI hostage negotiators are working with local law enforcement to try and bring the ordeal to a close.

The child is said to have a medical condition, for which authorities were successful Wednesday morning in getting medication. The situation remains "static".
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