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SAN DIEGO, California – A Southern California couple are headed to prison after pleading guilty to keeping a young niece in the United States illegally as a sex slave.
Inez Martinez Garcia, 44, was sentenced Monday to a 20-year prison term.
Her husband, Marcial Garcia Hernandez, 45, was given a 23-years-to-life sentence. Both pleaded guilty to multiple counts of abuse.
Prosecutors said the couple coerced a relative in Mexico to send their niece to the United States illegally to live with them at their Oceanside home.
The couple promised they would look after the girl, then 12, and make sure she went to school. Full Article
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MURRAY, Utah – A Utah mother is giving her daughter some tough love after learning she was bullying a classmate.
Kaylee, a fourth grader, was teasing a fellow student about her clothes, so her mom Ally decided to give her a taste of her own medicine.
Ally got an email from a teacher on Wednesday saying that her daughter had been relentlessly teasing another student about her clothes for the last three weeks.
So Ally decided to let Kaylee know what it feels like to be judged on what you wear. She went out to a thrift store and picked out some clothes for Kaylee, then made her wear them to school on Thursday and Friday. Full Article
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SPRINGFIELD, Illinois – Illinois Lottery Officials confirmed eight checks worth a total $9,940 bounced at the beginning of the month.
Officials said the checks issued to winners May 1 bounced because an employee forgot to approve the funds to U.S. Bank before the winners attempted to cash the checks, which ranged from $847 to $2,565, WLS-TV, Chicago, reported Tuesday.
Charles Cinquegrani, the winner of the $2,565, said he was shocked when the check bounced.
“They said the check you deposited is no good.
I said, ‘what?!’ I couldn’t believe it,” said Cinquegrani, who won the money from a Pick 4 ticket. Full Article
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Maryland – Entrusted with a government credit card, an Internal Revenue Service worker allegedly used the plastic for a years-long Amazon.com shopping spree that netted her hundreds of items, including a chocolate fondue fountain; Bollywood movies; Pampers; Harlequin romance novels; Omaha Steaks; Apple Bottoms skinny jeans; mango body wash; and a Ginsu knife set.
Yetunde Oseni, 37, was named this month in a U.S. District Court felony complaint charging her with embezzling government funds.
Oseni has worked since 2000 as a secretary in an IRS office in Lanham, Maryland.
According to a court filing, Oseni was given a Citibank MasterCard for the purchase of office supplies for her business unit. Full Article
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China – A Chinese businessman has paid a world record $398,500 for a Belgian pigeon, highlighting Asia’s huge and growing interest in racing birds.
The one-year-old award-winning pigeon named Bolt was bred by Belgian pigeon fancier Leo Heremans, a well-known name to pigeon enthusiasts, who sold his entire collection of 530 birds for 4.3 million euros at an auction over the weekend.
“You can compare it to artwork.
A painting made by Picasso is worth more than one made by an unknown artist.
It’s the same with this pigeon,” Nikolaas Gyselbrecht of pigeon auction site PIPA said on Tuesday. Full Article
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USA – Did you know that under the Military Code of Justice the U.S. Army can’t suspend pay for an employee who has been accused of a crime unless he is proven guilty?
And it’s the reason why Nidal Hasan, the accused Fort Hood shooter, has been paid more than $270,000 by the U.S. government since the Nov. 5, 2009, mass shooting that left 13 dead and 32 injured, NBC DFW reports.
“If Hasan had been a civilian defense department employee,” the report continues, “the Army could have suspended his pay after just seven days.”
And if you think it’s outrageous that Hassan has been receiving paychecks while he awaits trial, keep in mind many of the soldiers wounded by his alleged rampage are still fighting to get pay and medical benefits given to those wounded in combat. Full Article
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Colorado – The college student, 21, had to be rescued yesterday afternoon off a Colorado mountain after she ingested mushrooms, stripped off her clothes, and scuffled with two classmates with whom she had been hiking.
After receiving a 911 call that a female hiker was “high on mushrooms and in distress,” Boulder County Sheriff’s Office deputies and other assorted rescue personnel (35 in total) responded to Chautauqua Park.
Taylor Powers was located by a park ranger who discovered that the University of Colorado undergrad had “removed all of her clothing and was being restrained” by two male companions.
Rescuers had to handcuff the unruly Powers, who struggled as she was placed in a rescue basket. Full Article
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Kentucky – Punishment by the administration of East Carter High School in Grayson, Ky., is deemed too extreme by classmates, parents – and even a state senator.
But Principal Larry Kiser says the critters were expensive to clean up after.
High school seniors were banned from graduation after releasing 10,000 crickets into its halls as a prank.
East Carter High School in Grayson, Ky., stopped seven students from attending Saturday morning’s celebration because of the cost of the cleanup. Full Article
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MAGALLON, Spain – Police in Spain said they arrested a man accused of breaking into a fortune teller’s home to recover the $212,000 he paid for a love spell that didn’t work.
Investigators said Jose Laparra, former manager of the Club Deportivo Castellon soccer team, paid the sum to a Magallon fortune teller in exchange for casting a spell to bring his former lover back to him, thinkSPAIN reported Monday.
However, Laparra allegedly broke into the woman’s house when the spell didn’t work and demanded his money back. Full Article
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BRADENTON, Florida – A 19-year-old high school student has been arrested after authorities say she bit her boyfriend’s penis when he refused to have sex with her.
Manatee Sheriff’s Office said Krystle Harrison made several advances toward her boyfriend of three years and he rebuffed her.
According to an arrest report, she grabbed him and bit his genitals.
He left the house, but the arrest report says Harrison followed him and slapped and spit in his face.
The report says he declined medical treatment, which also included scratches on his chest. Full Article
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China – In Leqing City, in China’s Zhejian Province, at around 6:00 a.m., a woman was using a public restroom when the toilet literally exploded.
The blast so was so powerful that it blew the exterior wall outward, injuring another woman who was walking by.
Amazingly, the woman inside was completely unharmed, protected by the room’s internal brick walls.
A local citizen speculated that the incident may have been caused by faulty electrical wires that sparked and thus ignited the methane gas that had filled up the stopped-up toilet. Full Article
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DENVER – One mom decided to change her child’s diaper out in the open at a Denver Starbucks and what happened next ended with a call to police.
Burgos noticed there was no changing table at the Denver Starbucks on the 7900 block of East 49th Avenue so she changed her son’s diaper in the seating area.
Alex Burgos says a Starbucks employee tossed his wife a rag and spoke to her in a “demeaning” tone.
“He said make sure to wipe the seat when you’re done,” he said. “They started talking amongst themselves and laughing about it.”
Burgos says his blood started boiling, hotter than the venti coffee with extra sugar he decided to pour on the floor. “And I said make sure you clean that,” Burgos said. Full Article
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Ohio – A 23-year-old Ohio man is facing a child endangerment charge after allegedly allowing his nine-year-old daughter to drive the family car, a 1998 Honda that the child lost control of after “achieving excessive speed” and drove into a tree.
Jaron McGee was riding shotgun while his child was tooling around last night in the parking lot of Headlands State Park, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
“However the child lost control of the car after achieving excessive speed, and drove directly into the large tree,” investigators reported.
Before deputies arrived, the girl was driven from the scene of the accident by family members, who said she was not injured in the crash. Full Article
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Ever had that fear of falling asleep after take-off and waking up to realize you are on the wrong flight?
Well, due to an airline mix-up, Sandy Valdivieso and her husband Triet Vo had exactly that nightmare experience.
According to the Los Angeles Times, the couple wanted to fly from Los Angeles to the African city of Dakar, Senegal, but ended up on a flight to Dhaka, Bangladesh, which is 6,900 miles away and on a completely different continent.
The two travelers, flying on Turkish Airlines, had a layover in Istanbul before making their connecting flight to what they thought would be Dakar.
After boarding their flight, they quickly fell asleep and several hours later woke up to see the inflight map showing the plane over the Middle East, headed the completely wrong direction. Full Article
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Canada – Jazz singer Alexis Normand garnered a penalty before a Saturday hockey game in Canada after slashing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” SI.com reports.
Normand delivered an unforgettable version of America’s national anthem during a Memorial Cup round-robin game between the Halifax Mooseheads and the Portland Winterhawks in Saskatoon.
According to SI.com, Normand made it through the first few lines of the national anthem, but botched the line, “twilight’s last gleaming” with “twilight’s first gleaming.”
As Norman lapsed into a Hall of Fame meltdown, she mixed in various phrases at random, as well as mumbles and hums in an attempt to fill in the gaps. Full Article Watch video at NuttyNewsVideos.com
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DAMASCUS, Virginia – Authorities believe the driver who plowed into dozens of hikers marching in a Virginia mountain town parade suffered from a medical condition and did not cause the crash intentionally, an emergency official said Sunday.
Officials did not have a formal confirmation or any specifics on the condition, but based on the accounts of authorities and witnesses on the scene, they are confident the issue was medical, according to Pokey Harris, Washington County’s director of emergency management.
“There is no reason to believe this was intentional,” she said.
In what witnesses called a frantic scene at the parade, about 50 to 60 people suffered injuries ranging from critical to superficial Saturday. Full Article
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Washington DC – First Lady Michelle Obama has expanded her anti-obesity campaign to museums, enlisting them to offer “healthy food options,” and change their menus.
Mrs. Obama’s “Let’s Move!” initiative is now calling for museums, zoos, gardens, science and technology centers to “join the call to action,” to decrease obesity among children.
The first lady is recruiting these institutions to join the “Let’s Move! Museums and Gardens” project because of their power to “influence real and sustained behavior change” on the eating habits of kids. Full Article
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France – More than 8,000 French households’ tax bills topped 100 percent of their income last year, the business newspaper Les Echos reported on Saturday, citing Finance Ministry data.
The newspaper said that the exceptionally high level of taxation was due to a one-off levy last year on 2011 incomes for households with assets of more than 1.3 million euros ($1.67 million).
President Francois Hollande’s Socialist government imposed the tax surcharge last year, shortly after taking office, to offset the impact of a rebate scheme created by its conservative predecessor to cap an individual’s overall taxation at 50 percent of income. Full Article
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Florida – Maria Elena Palacio was worrying her trapped pit bull wouldn’t make it out alive from the blaze.
This was when the businessmen began approaching her with sales pitches.
“It got really crazy. The firefighters had to tell them to leave me alone,” the Hollywood resident said Wednesday, the day after her house fire.
“I couldn’t think straight. There were so many of them. They are still coming around here.”
When firefighters race to a blaze with their trucks and hoses, another group of responders are usually right behind them with clipboards. Full Article
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HADEERA, Israel – A hiker was hospitalized after a sheep attacked him Saturday on the Israel National Trail, authorities said.
The attack occurred near Kfar Qara, south of Haifa, Ynetnews.com reported.
The hiker, a 56-year-old man, was conscious and was able to call for help on his cellphone.
Paramedics treated the hiker at the scene and he was then transported to the Hillel Yaffa Hospital in Hadeera.
He had broken bones in his lower body, doctors said. Full Article
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Australia – An Australian politician has been attacked by a kangaroo as he went for a morning jog.
Shane Rattenbury said he was out running in a suburb of the capital Canberra when he suddenly came up against an eastern grey kangaroo grazing on a front lawn.
“We both got a nasty fright, and of course when kangaroos are startled, they lash out,” the 41-year-old said.
“As the kangaroo sought to escape, it landed on me, and its claws dug into my leg.”
Mr Rattenbury tweeted his encounter along with a picture of his bloodied legs, saying: “Mugged by a kangaroo! And this was in the suburbs, had not even got to the nature park!” Full Article
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NEWARK, New Jersey – An airline official says a US Airways flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport after experiencing landing gear trouble.
No injuries were reported.
US Airways spokesman Davien Anderson tells The Associated Press that a turboprop plane that left Philadelphia shortly before 11 p.m. Friday landed safely at Newark with its landing gear retracted at about 1 a.m. Saturday.
Anderson said the flight, being operated by Piedmont Airlines, was carrying 31 passengers and three crew members. Full Article
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USA – For most Americans in the United States, Armed Forces Day is not on the lists of likely holidays to honor the country’s military in celebrations of Memorial Day or Veteran’s Day.
Sadly, most Americans may not even realize that Armed Forces Day is even a legitimate holiday.
Armed Forces Day was established to be celebrated on the third Saturday in May.
It started during Harry Truman’s administration when he led an effort to consolidate the various holidays supporting each separate branch of the military into a simple unified holiday to honor the four branches together.
The actual initiation of this day occurred on August 31, 1949, when Truman’s Secretary of State announced the establishment of a joint Armed Forces Day to take the place of the former tradition of having separate days to honor the men and women in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. Full Article
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Texas – A Houston landlord has constructed a fake cemetery to keep local homeless people from loitering on his property.
The small green space is located in the shadow of some of Houston’s tallest buildings, but also close to a known homeless encampment.
After years people sleeping on the lot, the man who owns the property who asked ABC station KTRK not to use his name, said that he had erected the tombstones nearly a year ago.
The stones are rejects from a local stonecutter.
The property owner said that he did not know when he bought the stones that they bore the names of real deceased people. Full Article
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USA – Born with Asperger’s syndrome, Jacob Barnett was written off by experts who insisted he would grow up locked in a world of his own.
They said the youngster would never be able to read, write or even tie his own shoelaces.
But his mother Kristine refused to accept their word and set about transforming his life.
Since then, she has watched him flourish into a child genius with an IQ of 189 – higher than Albert Einstein’s – and an astonishing grasp of maths and physics.
And he’s still only 14. Full Article
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Idaho – An Idaho man who admitted to breaking into a Boise zoo last year and killing a monkey was sentenced to seven years in prison on Thursday, court records show.
Michael Watkins, 22, of Weiser, Idaho, in March pleaded guilty to attempted grand theft, a felony, and misdemeanor animal cruelty stemming from the break-in and beating death of the monkey at Zoo Boise in November.
The primate was one of the zoo’s two Patas monkeys, ground-dwelling animals from Africa that stand more than 2 feet tall and weigh about 35 pounds.
Watkins attempted to steal the monkey, which bit him, police said. Watkins then kicked and hit the animal, severely wounding it, according to police.
The monkey later died of blunt force trauma, zoo officials said. Full Article
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GREENWICH, Connecticut – An anteater has given birth at a Connecticut conservation center, prompting officials there to wonder how the mother conceived.
Officials at the LEO Zoological Conservation Center tell the Greenwich Time they had removed the only male anteater from the enclosure in August, long before the six-month gestation period for baby Archie would have begun.
They feared that male, Alf, would kill another baby in the pen.
That left the mother Armani, and the young female, Alice, in the enclosure. Full Article
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