Girl charged with posting nude photos on Internet
By The Tribune-Review
Saturday, March 27, 2004
Police said the girl was charged with possession and dissemination of child pornography.
512 YEARS AGO TODAY
Mar 31 1492
Ferdinand and Isabel expel all of the Jews from Spain. Even with the infusions of gold and silver arriving during the 16th century from the Americas, this is an act from which Spain never recovers.
By expelling their merchant and banking class, Jews and Muslims, the country is left ill-equipped to process the new wealth, which ultimately winds up in the coffers of other countries and squandered on disastrous military campaigns.
Lawmaker cited for illegal disposal
State Rep. Dell Hanson, a Vinton Republican, has been cited for throwing away an old bathtub, a vehicle muffler and construction debris at the local brush and compost dump.
Vinton police said Hanson dumped out a trailer full of debris on Saturday. He was cited for dumping where prohibited, which is punishable by up to $5,000 for each occurrence.
Hanson, a member of the House Environmental Protection Commission, said he didn't dump the muffler or oil filters that were found..
A county supervisor from 1985 to 2000, Hanson was a member of the county landfill commission for years.
Ill senior dies in jump from birthday biplane flight
EL CAJON, California (AP) -- An elderly man recently diagnosed with a brain tumor leaped to his death from a vintage airplane he rented to celebrate his 88th birthday, officials said Tuesday.
Joseph Harold Frost took off his safety belt at 300 to 400 feet, stood up in the open cockpit of the two-seat biplane and went over the side Monday.
"I think that was Dad's idea, to go out in a flash of glory," said Robert Frost, who had helped his father arrange the chartered flight.
The man landed on an apartment patio.
From menelaus22
TEACHER WHO COULDN'T READ TO SPEAK AT LOCAL LIBRARIES
John Corcoran, who graduated from college, taught school for 17 years and became a successful businessman -- all BEFORE he learned to read at age 48, will speak this month at two Des Moines-area libraries.
Corcoran, author of "The Teacher Who Couldn't Read," and adults learning to read at the Drake University Adult Literacy Center will discuss their struggles with reading at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 30.
By ROSANNA RUIZ
Copyright 2004 Houston Chronicle
Hall of Fame basketball player and Houston icon Calvin Murphy was charged Monday with sexually molesting five of his daughters more than a decade ago.
Murphy, a television commentator for the Rockets, surrendered to authorities after being charged with three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and three counts of indecency with a child.
The charges involve five grown daughters who said Murphy sexually abused them between 1988 and 1991, when they were under 17.
In all, Murphy has 14 children.
| Beer taster wins compensation over alcoholism |
A Brazilian has won increased compensation from a brewery after 20 years as a taster made him an alcoholic.
Master Brewer Bernd Naveke, 49, drank around eight litres of beer every working day while at the Brahma Brewery near Rio de Janeiro.
He was forced to leave his job after becoming a registered alcoholic and hasn't worked since.
By Jonathan Nicholson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was the anecdote that politically seemed too good to be true. And it was. Treasury Secretary John Snow was set to say on Friday that "frivolous lawsuits" had caused the U.S. ladder industry to fold.
"There is not a single company left in the United States that makes ladders. The lawsuits got to be too much for the ladder industry," read comments Snow prepared for a conference sponsored by the Small Business Administration.
But when the department discovered there were some 11 producers selling $850 million worth of ladders in the United States, those words were left unspoken and deleted from a speech text posted later on the department's Web site.
AP: Accused AFA cadet kept on at school
Even after his arrest in Los Angeles for sodomy, the Air Force got cadet Doncosta Seawell released from custody and took him back to the academy, according to the files. He was accused of rape by a fellow cadet three months later.
BOSTON (Reuters) - A Vermont man could face animal cruelty charges if state authorities find that he failed to care properly for 130 goats he moved into his house.
Chris Weathersbee said he took the goats, mostly nursing mothers and their young, into his farmhouse to shelter them from the cold last month.
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