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Two-year teacher Jason Schoenberger, 24, was suspended from PS 279 in Brooklyn, N.Y., in March after he hung a 5-year-old student on a closet coatrack (supposedly with the kid’s permission) just to see the shock on a colleague’s face when he walked in to the closet.
Sweden’s Parliamentary Ombudsmen’s office in Stockholm, looking through some old environmental records recently, discovered that in 1986 a regional environmental court in Jaemtland province had denied a resort-development permit to a builder on the ground that the Loch Ness-resembling “Storsjoe monster” (serpentlike body, catlike head, first rumored in 1635) often “sighted” there had been declared endangered. Declared the ruling, “(I)t is prohibited to kill, hurt or catch animals of the Storsjoe monster species” or to “take away or hurt the monster’s eggs, roe or den.”
In April, the Virginia Supreme Court turned down the petition for a new trial for Aleck J. Carpitcher, who was sentenced in 1999 to 38 years in prison for molesting an 11-year-old girl even though she recently told authorities she made up the whole incident to punish Carpitcher, who was at the time dating the girl’s mother. The justices cited state law, which allows consideration of “new evidence” only if it is submitted within three weeks of the sentencing date.
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