It’s usually the students who get in trouble for cutting class.
An Ohio fourth-grade teacher had a side job as a prostitute, and even skipped class after using a school computer to arrange an afternoon tryst at a motel, authorities say.
Logan County sheriff’s officials said 35-year-old Amber Carter was arrested Tuesday at a motel parking lot [...]
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Ohio Teacher Amber Carter: Great Teacher… Or Greatest Teacher?
February 11th, 2009
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Please Send Peanut Man Stewart Parnell To Jail
February 11th, 2009
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Seriously. Jail. Not a fine or a slap on the wrist. This guy (and others in his company) are the reason behind several homicides.
A peanut company blamed for a salmonella outbreak discovered the dangerous bacteria at its Georgia plant as far back as 2006.
Darlene Cowart of JLA testing company told a House committee on Wednesday [...]
Republican Crooks In The News: Colorado Edition
February 6th, 2009
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Police arrested the former manager of Sen. John McCain’s Pueblo presidential campaign office Wednesday on charges he sexually assaulted a 5-year-old boy left in his care so the boy’s mother could attend a rally for McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, The Denver Post’s Howard Pankratz reported Thursday afternoon.
It’s the second arrest on charges [...]
What Lt. Worf Does In Retirement
February 5th, 2009
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It’s not as bad as that crazy party Captain Picard had, but its getting there.
Colorado police say a man with too much ‘Star Trek’ on his mind used a sword modeled after the weapon carried by Klingon warriors to demand money from two convenience stores.
Investigators say the man took an unknown amount of cash from [...]
RICO For Catholic Abuse
December 31st, 2008
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Way back when I was writing about Cardinal Law and the coverup by the archdiocese in Boston, I was in favor of using RICO to go after the church for their systematic hiding of pedophiles.
Connecticut’s Catholic Church is charged with racketeering in a suit that claims church officials covered up alleged sex abuse by priests, [...]
Rod Blagojevich Brings The Corruption “A” Game
December 9th, 2008
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From the indictment of Illinois Gov Rod Blagojevich (backstory):
“ROD BLAGOJEVICH said that the consultants (Advisor B and another consultant are believed to be on the call at that time) are telling him that he has to “suck it up” for two years and do nothing and give this “motherfucker [the President-elect] his senator. Fuck him. [...]
Please Send William Jefferson To Jail
November 12th, 2008
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Since the voters of Louisiana won’t do the right thing.
A federal appeals court upheld bribery and other charges against Louisiana Democratic U.S. Rep. William Jefferson on Wednesday, clearing the way for a trial.
Jefferson, who cruised to victory in a primary last week and is expected to easily win re-election, had sought to dismiss a 16-count [...]
ATF Stops Assassination Plot (Another)
October 27th, 2008
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The ATF says it has broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree.
In court records unsealed Monday, agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target an unnamed but predominantly African-American high school by two neo-Nazi skinheads.
MORE:
Jim [...]
McCain Volunteer Ashley Todd Made Up Her Story Of Attack
October 24th, 2008
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Shame. Shame. Shame.
Police sources tell KDKA that a campaign worker has now confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter ‘B’ in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker.
Ashley Todd, 20, of Texas, initially told police that she was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield and that [...]
McCain Supporter Attacked?
October 23rd, 2008
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If this is true, it’s pretty insane.
Police are investigating after a local woman working at a campaign call center says she was attacked by a suspect who became enraged after seeing a McCain bumper sticker on her car.
According to police, the 20-year-old woman said she was mugged at an ATM in the Bloomfield area around [...]
9 Hours I’ll Never Get Back
September 15th, 2008
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Some guy is so lucky he didn’t get Oliver “They’re All Guilty” Willis deciding his fate.
50 Shots? Sigh.
April 25th, 2008
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I confess I haven’t followed this case, and it is highly likely the jury (correction: it was a judge trial) had every reason for deciding as they did. But I hope people understand that just from a gut level it is very hard for black people to reconcile that there was nothing criminal about an [...]
Priorities
April 16th, 2008
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What John Stagliano is doing is perfectly legal and falls under the first amendment.
A grand jury has socked Stagliano with eight obscenity violations for selling adult videos online and via unmarked packing envelopes shipped by the U.S. Postal Service. None of the films contain children. This is not a child-porn case.
Since the feds have had [...]
Don Siegelman Released To Appeal His Rove/Gonzalez DOJ Conviction
March 27th, 2008
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Good news.
A federal appellate court today ordered former Gov. Don Siegelman released from prison while he appeals his 2006 conviction, saying there are “substantial questions” about his case.
A federal jury in 2006 convicted Siegelman and HealthSouth founder Richard Scrushy of federal funds bribery. Prosecutors alleged Scrushy bought a seat on a state board with a [...]
