By Calvin Palmer
The dollar signs are flashing up for the parents of an eight-year-old autistic girl who was arrested at school on suspicion of battery.
Charles and Spring Towry have filed a tort claim against Lake Pend Oreille School District and Bonner County, Idaho, claiming more than $500,000 in damages.
Their third-grade daughter, Evelyn, has Asperger’s syndrome. [...]
July 15, 2009
Parents sense pay dirt after autistic daughter arrested at school
July 15, 2009
Alabama man gets nine years for sex with runaway teenager
By Calvin Palmer
A married Alabama man who drove across the country to have sex with a teenage runaway girl he met through the online World of Warcraft video game was given a nine-year prison sentence yesterday.
Morgan Douglas Jones, 28, of Birmingham, Ala., took advantage of the father-like relationship he established online with the 14-year-old Boise, [...]
July 15, 2009
White supremacist found guilty of planning firebomb terror campaign
By Calvin Palmer
A white supremacist was convicted at the Old Bailey today of planning a terrorist campaign and turning his bedroom into a bomb-making factory.
Neil Lewington, 43, who lived at home with his parents in Reading, Berkshire, was arrested by chance at Lowestoft station in Suffolk on October 30 last year after he insulted a [...]
July 15, 2009
Girl, 11, dies after junior lifeguard training accident
By Calvin Palmer
An 11-year-old girl died yesterday after being struck by a boat during a junior lifeguard training exercise at Huntington Beach.
Alyssa Squirrell, from Laguna Hills, California, was among two dozen junior lifeguards taking part in a training exercise known as a “speed drop”, where the youngsters drop off a moving rescue boat.
Laurie Payne, a spokeswoman [...]
July 15, 2009
Jaguar ends production of X-Type
By Calvin Palmer
Production of the Jaguar X-Type has ceased ahead of schedule and 300 jobs will be axed by the end of the year.
Jaguar Land Rover will seek voluntary redundancies at the factory in Halewood, Merseyside, which employs about 2,000 workers, and will also close for three weeks in September in response to the weak [...]
July 15, 2009
Missing British backpacker found alive
By Calvin Palmer
A British backpacker feared dead after going missing in Australian bushland for almost two weeks has been found alive and well.
Jamie Neale, 19, of Muswell Hill, north London, left a youth hostel in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, on July 3 and planned to walk to the Ruined Castle rock formation in [...]
