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US: Huntington Park High students walk out to protest pending removal of teachers


Los Angeles Times
Tue, 10 May 2011 02:40 UTC
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Hundreds of students walked out of class Tuesday.
An estimated 250 to 300 students from Huntington Park High School organized a walkout to protest the anticipated replacement of at least half the school's teachers.

The Los Angeles Board of Education is scheduled to vote Tuesday afternoon on the aggressive school-improvement strategy, which has been pushed by board member Yolie Flores, a graduate of Huntington Park High who represents the area.

According to one walkout participant, students gathered in an outdoor area of campus and refused to go to class at about 10 a.m. The intended destination of protest leaders was the headquarters of the Los Angeles Unified School District, located just west of downtown, where a public meeting was scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. The nearly seven-mile trek through busy city streets was expected to take two hours or more.

An estimated 10 to 15 adults from the school were accompanying the students, a standard precaution to try to keep students safe.

An internal district memo indicated that no bus transportation would be provided to return students to campus. For some past protests the district has provided such transportation as a safety measure.
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Colorado, US: Loveland school evacuated after mystery illness sends 33 to hospitals


Boulder Daily Camera
Tue, 10 May 2011 14:31 UTC
Thirty-three students and teachers have been taken to area hospitals, and Winona Elementary School has been evacuated and closed for the day after people in isolated areas of the school suddenly became ill.

Loveland Fire and Rescue is investigating the cause of the illness, which initially was reported as dizziness. Some reported nausea, stomachaches and feeling lightheaded.

Students have reported that they smelled something odd.

Ten patients were taken to McKee, 18 to Medical Center of the Rockies and five to Poudre Valley Hospital.
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Health

South Korea: Mystery virus in 8 patients kills one


Korea Joongang Daily
Wed, 11 May 2011 14:22 UTC
A mystery virus that has infected eight patients from different parts of the country claimed its first known victim yesterday morning after a 36-year-old, nine-months pregnant woman died in a Seoul hospital of multiple organ failure triggered by pulmonary fibrosis and a stroke.

The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said yesterday that the woman had received intensive care treatment in a general hospital in Seoul for a month before her death. Doctors managed to save the baby.

According to the KCDC, the victim was one of the eight patients in the hospital receiving treatment for various conditions suspected to be caused by the same unidentified virus. All patients initially received treatments at different clinics around the country, but were later transferred to the Seoul hospital to receive intensive care, the KCDC said. The patients were not infected because they were at the same hospital, it said.
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US: Psychopath Cop Allowed To Stalk Citizens Of Seattle! SPD: "Nothing We Can Do"


YouTube/MOXNEWSd0tCOM
Mon, 09 May 2011 11:06 UTC
29 year old Sheriff Deputy Matt Paul recently cost Seattle tax-payers a record 10 million dollars for his use of excessive force against Chris Harris, a suspect wrongly identified. As seen in the video, Paul body-slamed Harris causing sever damage to his brain and spinal cord later resulting in his death.

Psychopath cop Matt Paul
© K5 News Seattle
Matt Paul, pictured here has, "A pattern of frequent force and questionable tactics that needlessly escalated some situations and caused injuries."
So far the King County Sheriff's office has not reprimanded Paul, claiming there is "No evidence of misconduct," and Paul continues to loom large on the streets of Seattle. In this investigative report by K5 News, reporters find that Paul has, "A pattern of frequent force and questionable tactics that needlessly escalated some situations and caused injuries." According to sources, Paul uses force 6 times more frequent than the average Sheriff's Deputy.

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Furious Bin Laden Supporters Vow to Take Revenge

Brendan Abbot
Express UK
Tue, 10 May 2011 06:33 UTC
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Muslim demonstrators march on the US embassy in London this afternoon

Hundreds of Osama bin Laden supporters clashed with English Defence League extremists today as a "funeral service" for the assassinated terror leader sparked fury outside London's US Embassy.

Police stepped in to separate the chanting groups amid threats of violence from both sides.

US leaders were branded "murderers" by radicals, who warned vengeance attacks were "guaranteed" and shouted: "USA, you will pay."

Protesters carried signs declaring 'Islam will dominate the world' and Jihad to defend the Muslims' as well as banners attacking the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The pro-bin Laden 'funeral' took place as relatives of the 7/7 terror attack on London - which claimed 52 lives - wept at the inquest into the atrocity just three miles away.
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Canadian Woman Found in Nevada, Search for Her Husband Continues

Scott Sonner
The Associated Press
Sat, 07 May 2011 03:48 UTC
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Penticton British Columbia, couple Albert Chretien and wife Rita are shown in this undated Royal Canadian Mounted Police handout photo. The couple went missing en route to Las Vegas more than a month ago. Rita Chretien has been found alive Friday May 6, 2011 in a remote part of northeastern Nevada police say. Hunters in Elko Country, Nevada, found Rita alive on Friday, RCMP Cpl. Dan Moskaluk announced in a tweet. There is no word yet about the whereabouts of her husband.
Sheriff's deputies searching for the husband of a Canadian woman who survived for seven weeks on water and trail mix in their stranded van in remote mountains near the Nevada-Idaho line were holding out hope against all odds on Saturday that he too somehow could still be alive.

Rita Chretien, 56, told investigators the last she saw of Albert Chretien, 59, was on March 22 when he set off for help on foot with a GPS unit just a few days after they got stuck in the mud on a national forest road in extreme northern Elko County, Elko County Sheriff Jim Pitts said.

While it seemed unlikely he could have survived all this time, sheriff's Detective James Carpenter said crews weren't ready to turn the rescue mission into a recovery operation.

"I want to wait to see what they come up with," Carpenter told the Associated Press. "It's pretty nasty up there and there's no communication."

Deputies from Nevada and Idaho's Owyhee County continued searching the rugged river canyons and snowy mountain sides about 10 miles northeast of the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest's Jarbidge Wilderness Area.

"I don't know how much snow is up there, but it's really wet and heavy," Carpenter said from the northeast Nevada town of Elko, which sits on U.S. Interstate 80, roughly 80 miles south of where hunters spotted the Chretien's van on Friday.
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US: Kansas boy mauled by leopard after climbing over zoo railing

Michael Winter
USA Today
Fri, 06 May 2011 04:21 UTC
Amur leopard
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Amur leopard
A 7-year-old Wichita, Kan., boy on a zoo outing was mauled on the head and neck by a leopard after the first-grader climbed a railing separating the cage from the public, according to local news reports. The boy was hospitalized in fair condition.

The unidentified boy climbed over a four- to five-foot railing at the Sedgwick County Zoo and approached the Amur leopard, which then grabbed him with a paw or paws and tried to bite the boy, assistant zoo director Jim Marlett told The Wichita Eagle.

KSN-TV reports that witnesses said the leopard grabbed the boy with both paws and that a woman ran to the boy's rescue. Several school groups were at the zoo today.
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US: Man Sues Funeral Home Over Mother's 'Humiliating' Burial


CBS News
Fri, 06 May 2011 10:35 UTC
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A man has sued a Chicago funeral home and a cemetery over what he claims was the botched body preparation of his mother, and a humiliating burial experience.

As WBBM Newsradio 780's Bernie Tafoya reports, Byron Morrow has sued Taylor Funeral Home, 63 E. 79th St., and Mount Hope Cemetery, 11500 S. Fairfield Ave.

Morrow claims that after his mother died on April 5, the funeral home improperly embalmed her, leaving brown liquid leaking from her skull.
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Jail For Man in Charge of Egypt's Security Police

David Kirkpatrick
The Sydney Morning Herald
Sat, 07 May 2011 00:00 UTC
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The jailing of Habib al-Adly, left, Egypt's former Interior Minister is the first conviction against any cabinet member of the former leader Hosni Mubarak, who was ousted in February.
Egyptians are celebrating the sentencing of the once-feared former Interior Minister, Habib el-Adly, to 12 years in prison, a decision which sets the scene for a series of high-profile corruption trials of senior figures from the government of the ousted president, Hosni Mubarak.

Seen as a triumph for the rule of law and a vindication of the revolution that defined the so-called Arab spring, the trials could include Mr Mubarak.

''This marks a new beginning,'' said Salama Ahmed Salama, the head of the editorial board of the independent newspaper El Shorouk. ''For the first time someone who represented such a brutal force is questioned, interrogated and held accountable. This is something new for Egyptian politics, and it is new for Egyptian justice.''

El-Adly's lawyer could not be reached for comment. But Gameel Said, a lawyer representing about six other former government officials, called the trial fair. ''There was no animosity between the judge and the defendants,'' he said. ''The requirements of justice were considered in this case like any other case.''

Arguably the most powerful cabinet minister under Mubarak, el-Adly, 73, personified the government's repressive tactics. He presided for 14 years over a central security force of nearly 400,000. The security police focused exclusively on suppressing domestic dissent and unrest, specialising in torture and detention without trial. Among the force's most common targets were Egyptians who sought to apply the teachings of Islam to political life, whether through violence or the ballot box.
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U.S. Adds 244,000 Jobs in April, but Unemployment Rises

Clifford Marks
National Journal
Fri, 06 May 2011 05:29 UTC
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Sobering: Unemployed workers fill out applications.
Pace of employment growth accelerates; unemployment up to 9 percent.

U.S. employment growth accelerated last month as the economy added 244,000 jobs, but the unemployment rate rose to 9 percent, the Labor Department reported on Friday.

The report easily bested analysts' expectations for a decidedly mediocre jobs report and marked the fastest rate of employment growth since last year when census hiring inflated numbers. Private-sector growth clocked in at 268,000, the highest level since 2006. The public sector continued to lose ground, shedding 24,000 jobs in April.

Hiring in the service sector drove the gains, with sizable jumps in retail trade (up 57,000), professional and business services (up 51,000), leisure and hospitality (up 46,000), and health care (up 37,000). Goods-producing sectors showed less of a bump, and construction job levels didn't budge, a reflection of how depressed the housing market continues to be.

The number of long-term unemployed--defined as those individuals being out of work for more than 26 weeks--fell 283,000 to 5.8 million, and their share of unemployment fell to 43.4 percent.
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