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Five New York firms charged with importing toxic toys from China

Aaron Katersky
ABC News
Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:20 UTC
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© Courtesy of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents search for toxic goods in this handout photo; the agency was recently involved in the indictment of 5 men from Queens, NY for importing toys and other goods from China that contained high levels of lead.
The children's scooters imported into the United States from China by ZY Wholesale Inc. may have looked like ordinary scooters and basketball sets like ordinary basketball sets but federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said today they contained high levels of lead and toxic chemicals.

ZY Wholesale's owner, Chenglan Hu, is one of five New York City-based importers charged with illegally bringing hazardous and counterfeit toys into the country.

"For years, the defendants sought to enrich themselves by importing and selling dangerous and counterfeit children's toys without regard for the law or the health of our children," said Loretta Lynch, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

Just today authorities seized five tractor trailers worth of counterfeit/dangerous goods worth an estimated $10 million to $15 million.
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Frail teen found chained in parents' basement

Maria Sudekum
Associated Press
Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:18 UTC
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© KCTV
Authorities found a frail 17-year-old boy handcuffed to a pole in his parents' Kansas City basement, where he said he'd been kept since his father withdrew him from school in September.

Police said Wednesday that they were still investigating and hadn't turned over any of their findings to prosecutors for consideration of possible charges. Police have not released the names of anyone involved in the case. The teen was placed in the custody of child services.

According to a police report, an officer and social worker who were acting on a phoned-in tip visited the family's home on Monday. When they entered the basement, they heard someone cry out, "I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything. I didn't do anything."

"I then observed a thin frail looking male getting out of the fetal position on the concrete floor around a steel support pole," Officer Jonathan Stone wrote in the report. The teen was handcuffed to the pole and looked very thin for his height, with a sunken face and eyes that "had a look of desperation."
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Feds: 4 charged with selling Miracle Mineral Supplement online as cure-all


The Associated Press
Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:44 UTC
Spokane - Two people from Oregon and two from Washington have been charged with selling an ingredient for bleach online as a cure-all for arthritis, cancer and the flu.

An indictment unsealed in federal court in Spokane Tuesday charges 42-year-old Louis Daniel Smith and 38-year-old Karis Delong, both of Ashland, Ore., as well as 49-year-old Chris Olson and 50-year-old Tammy Olson, of Nine Mile Falls, Wash.

Prosecutors say they were involved in a business called Project GreenLife, which imported sodium chlorite from Canada, and that they sold the chemical online as a "miracle mineral supplement." Buyers were instructed to mix it with orange juice or other source of citric acid before drinking it.

Mixing sodium chlorite with citric acid makes chlorine dioxide - a powerful bleach. It wasn't immediately clear if anyone was injured by consuming it. Charges include conspiracy, smuggling and interstate sales of misbranded drugs.

The Olsons were scheduled to appear in federal court Wednesday.

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Indonesian Komodo dragon attack leaves two hospitalised


Agence France-Presse
Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:35 UTC
Komodo Dragon
© Kenneth Garrett/National Geographic
With its sheer strength and deadly, bacteria-ridden saliva, the Komodo dragon is the top predator in its range.
One victim, a 50-year-old park ranger, was sitting at his desk at the Rinca island front office, where tourists usually check in, when the two-metre-long monitor snuck into his room Tuesday afternoon.

"The man panicked when he saw the Komodo and tried to escape by jumping on a chair, but the Komodo quickly grabbed and bit one of his legs," Komodo National Park official Heru Rudiharto told AFP.

Rudiharto said the ranger was the victim of a similar Komodo attack in 2009 and was still traumatised.

Another employee, aged 35, heard the ranger scream and quickly ran to his aid, but the lizard also attacked him, taking a bite at his leg.

Both are in good condition after being given stitches at a health clinic, Rudiharto said, but they are being monitored in hospital to ensure an infection does not develop.

Until recently, Komodos were believed to hunt with a "bite and wait" strategy using toxic bacteria in their saliva to weaken or kill their prey, before descending in numbers to feast.
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Hysteria: Virginia cops bust 10-year-old for bringing toy gun to school

Naomi Jagoda
Washington Examiner
Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:30 UTC
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Douglas MacArthur Elementary
A 10-year-old Alexandria boy was arrested after police said he brought a toy handgun to school on Tuesday, a day after he showed it to others on a school bus.

The boy, a fifth-grader at Douglas MacArthur Elementary School whose name is not being released, was charged as a juvenile with brandishing a weapon, police said.

He was also suspended from school, and Alexandria City Public Schools Superintendent Morton Sherman said further action is being considered, including expulsion.

On Monday, the boy showed the plastic gun to at least one other student during a bus ride home from the school. The 10-year-old did not point it at anyone or threaten to shoot it, but he neglected to mention that the weapon was fake, said Alexandria police spokeswoman Ashley Hildebrandt.
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Hysteria: Philadelphia fifth-grader searched, threatened, called a murderer over paper gun

Madeleine Morgenstern
The Blaze
Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:26 UTC
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© WTXF-TV
A Philadelphia fifth-grader said she was scolded by a school administrator and even searched in front of her entire class last week - all because she pulled out a paper gun.

Melody Valentin's grandfather had made her the "gun" - which resembled a piece of paper with a chunk torn out of it - the day before, and she stuck it in her pocket and forgot about it, WTXF-TV reported. When she went to throw it out in class the next day, another student spotted it and called her out. A school administrator was summoned, and Melody was reprimanded for having the paper.
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Hysteria: Nerf guns, lego guns, bubble guns and paper guns: Schools go into gun panic mode

Daniel Greenfield
frontpagemag.com
Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:19 UTC
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News reports like these make it seem that wolves would probably do a better job of running American public schools than its grotesquely overpaid administrators do. These incidents have their funny side, but administrators are terrorizing and traumatizing students because of a national media panic and their own incompetence.

Case 1: The Nerf Gun unleashes a panic that makes Cold War nuke drills seem mild by comparison.
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Mail

Postal Service plans to end Saturday mail delivery by August

Ed O'Keefe
Washington Post
Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:50 UTC
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The financially struggling U.S. Postal Service announced Wednesday that it plans to stop delivering mail on Saturdays starting the week of Aug. 5 - but will continue delivering packages.

Unless forbidden to do so by Congress, which has moved in the past to prohibit five-day-a-week delivery, the agency for the first time will delivery mail only Monday through Friday. The move will save about $2 billion a year for the Postal Service, which has suffered tens of billions of dollars in losses in recent years with the advent of the Internet and e-commerce, officials said.

"The American public understands the financial challenges of the Postal Service and supports these steps as a responsible and reasonable approach to improving our financial situation," Postmaster General Patrick R. Donahoe said at a news conference. "The Postal Service has a responsibility to take the steps necessary to return to long-term financial stability and ensure the continued affordability of the U.S. Mail."
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Health

Fictitious 'hispanic male' blamed after Texas woman accidentally shot in the back by reckless friend

Marvin Hurst
KENS5.com
Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:46 UTC
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© screengrab via KENS 5
San Antonio police say a woman was accidentally shot in the back late Tuesday night. However, detectives say her friends concocted a robbery story to shift the blame.

The shooting happened in the 15000 block of Chase Hill Blvd. inside of a car just before midnight.

Investigators say three men and two women went to pick up a gun. A 19-year-old man, whose identity has not been released, was reportedly handling the gun recklessly when the gun accidentally went off.
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German employment agency sends teen to work in brothel

Erik Kirschbaum
Yahoo News
Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:41 UTC
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© photo via Augsburger Allgemeine
A German teenager looking for a job was told to report for duty in a brothel by the local labor office, the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The 19-year-old woman said she was horrified when she opened a job placement letter from the German Labor Office in Augsburg on Saturday informing her that it had lined up a waitressing job for her at the Augsburg Colosseum brothel.
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