Bus driver won't be fired for doing paperwork behind the wheel (Ctv)
(A Gatineau bus driver who was caught filling out paperwork while driving an STO bus will not be fired. A passenger caught the distracted bus driver on camera as he drove along Tache Boulevard in Gatineau last month. He can be seen clearly filling out forms. At one point, the driver uses his knees to help steer the bus. The video, which was posted on YouTube, has received nearly 130,000 views.Transit officials in Gatineau say the bus driver has been disciplined, but they wouldn't specify what that disciplinary measure was. Officials add that the driver has a good record.)
Kid run over by own school bus in east Delhi (India Times)
(A four-and-a-half-year-old child was mowed down by his school bus while he was alighting from it in the Geeta Colony area in east Delhi. The incident took place around 1.30pm on Tuesday. According to witnesses, the child, identified as Japneet Singh, lost his balance while getting off the bus and his tiffin box fell off. He was bending down to pick it up when the bus ran over him. Realizing what had happened, the driver tried to flee the spot and in the process ran both the front and rear wheels over the child.)
Opponents of abortion, same-sex marriage kick off Iowa tour to sparse crowd (Desmoines Register)
(A bus tour of national groups opposed to abortion and same-sex marriage kicked off Tuesday morning in Des Moines before a large a media contingent but few of the “values voters” whom organizers are hoping to reach. The “Values Voter Bus Tour” will roll through 22 Iowa cities over four days during one of the busiest weeks so far in the presidential caucus season. Along the way, it will link up with several presidential candidates as they reach out to voters ahead of Saturday’s Ames Straw Poll, an early test of their popularity and organization.)
Help your first-timer overcome fears of the school bus (Neagle.com)
(For some youngsters, the first day of school this year will also mean the first ride on a school bus. It can be a nerve-wracking, anxiety-ridden time for little ones and their parents, said Marcy Guddemi, Ph.D., of the Gesell Institute of Child Development. “Parents need appropriate expectations of their child’s age and development (to know whether they’re ready to ride the bus). Many parents expect too much,” Guddemi said. Riding the bus can be scary for a child, but there are plenty of ways to calm their fears. A good place to start is by talking about how safe the school bus is.)
Bus company sorry for discriminating against singer Ari Gold and boyfriend (SDGLN.com)
(Following Lambda Legal's demand letter to Short Line Bus Co. on behalf of singer Ari Gold, who was harassed by a driver for holding his boyfriend's hand, Short Line has confirmed it has appropriately disciplined the driver and pledged to conduct antidiscrimination training for all the company's drivers. "Lambda Legal is always prepared to go to the courts when members of the LGBT community face discrimination, but we're pleased when it doesn't have to come to that," said Hayley Gorenberg, Lambda Legal's deputy legal director who handled the case.)
IPS pre-schooler lost, then found on wrong bus (WISH TV)
(The first day of classes at Indianapolis Public Schools brought some fearful moments for one local family. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department said an Indianapolis mother called for their help when her 4-year-old boy didn’t get off the bus at their house Monday afternoon.)
Stolen jewels found abandoned in bus (IBN Live)
(Diamond and gold ornaments worth Rs1 crore that were stolen from Aabushan Jewellers on Friday, were found abandoned in a bus in Hospet of Bellary district. However, the police are yet to nab the accused, Sohanlal Kathri. According to the police, the accused after committing the theft on Friday was heading towards Mumbai in a private bus, on the same night. When the bus was moving on NH-4 in the outskirts of the city, the police were checking all the vehicles at a check post. Afraid of future consequences, the accused abandoned the bag with jewels and alighted the bus.)
Man shoots at SEPTA train; beaten man flees onto bus (Philly.com)
(No riders were hurt, but passengers had to be alarmed by two incidents that spilled over from city streets onto SEPTA vehicles. About 7:30 last night, a westbound Market Frankford train was struck by a bullet fired at a man who jumped aboard after fleeing an argument, according to agency spokesman Andrew Busch.)
Mystery woman in iconic Elvis photo identified (Reuters)
(A U.S. magazine has identified the mystery woman seen kissing singer Elvis Presley in a backstage theater stairwell in an iconic 1956 photograph. Barbara Gray, now 75 and living in Charleston, S.C., told Vanity Fair magazine that she didn't reveal her identity for the money or fame.
"I just wanted to get my name on the damn picture," she said.)
Deaf man complains nudist festival would not provide interpreter (Reuters)
(A deaf man has accused a nudist park in upstate New York of violating federal law by refusing to provide him with a sign-language interpreter at an annual festival. Tom Willard, 53, of Rochester, filed a complaint with the U.S. Justice Department claiming Empire Haven Nudist Park violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by refusing his requests for an interpreter.)
(A thrill-seeking Florida stripper and her AK-47-toting siblings on a multistate crime spree yesterday ignored their heartsick mother's plea to give themselves up, authorities said. The mom's appeal came as the FBI launched a nationwide manhunt for alleged "Dougherty Gang" bank robbers Lee Grace Dougherty, a 26-year-old exotic dancer; her brother Ryan Dougherty, 21; and their half-brother, Dylan Dougherty Stanley, 26. "The only safe thing, the only right thing, the only good thing to do is turn yourselves in," Barbara Bell begged her kids.)
(A 33-year-old man was hospitalized Tuesday morning after police said he fell five stories from a downtown apartment building and was impaled by an iron fence. Police said Julian Mattes fell out of a window at the Maverick Apartments at around 1 a.m. and crashed onto the fence. Two of the posts speared the front and back of his neck, police said.)
(A hapless Arizona man was facing possible gun charges Tuesday after he accidentally shot himself in the penis - with his fiancee's little pink pistol. Joshua Seto was walking with Cara Christopher to a convenience store in the town of Chandler last week when he began stuffing her gun into the front waistband of his pants - and it went off, police said.)
(A New Jersey man commutes to Manhattan once a week to panhandle for affection beneath a sandwich board that reads, "I'm looking for a wealthy lady to be my wife," The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The cardboard and duct tape sign folds into a neat square when Robert Darling takes it to and from his two-bedroom apartment in Bradley Beach, N.J. For nearly a decade, he has donned the portable personal advertisement at his three preferred love-seeking locations -- the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Columbus Circle and Wall Street.)
(9-year-old boy who left his wallet containing hundreds of dollars at a Virginia convenience store got it back after he posted a handwritten letter. The boy, identified only as Charlie, says he left the wallet on the counter while he was getting a drink. The boy’s letter which contained his photo was posted on the store’s front door. It said the wallet contained more than $300 the boy had saved, along with gift cards he got for his birthday.)
(US swimmer Diana Nyad has been forced to abandon her attempt to be the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without the protection of a shark cage. Ms Nyad, 61, stopped 29 hours into an expected 60-hour swim, CNN reported. "I am not sad, It was absolutely the right call," she told CNN, which had a producer on a boat accompanying her on the 103 mile (166km) swim.)
(UA man infatuated with a neighbor broke into her home and grabbed her thigh while she slept, but was caught when he returned later to apologize. Salvatore Louise Pascucci, 36, allegedly told police that he sneaked into the victim's bedroom in Port Charlotte, Fla. to touch her, because she "was pretty" and he "wanted to be her boyfriend," according to The Daily Press.)
(On the surface it's the unkindest cut of all ... Arnold Schwarzenegger out bike riding Sunday in Santa Monica, wearing a shirt that says, "I survived Maria" -- the woman whom he betrayed so badly. But there's more to this story. We found out ... Arnold got the shirt last November, during a farewell party for the Governator's staff. The shirts were actually designed by Maria's staff, as a joke.)
Monkees axe anniversary tour (Canoe)
(The Monkees have cancelled the remaining dates on their 45th anniversary tour. Peter Tork, Mickey Dolenz and Davy Jones teamed up for the first time in 10 years for a comeback trek, which kicked off in the U.K. in May. But now the Daydream Believer hitmakers have disappointed fans by calling off the rest of their planned concerts, which were scheduled into September, without offering an explanation.)
(Japan's system to forecast radiation threats was working from the moment its nuclear crisis began. As officials planned a venting operation certain to release radioactivity into the air, the system predicted Karino Elementary School would be directly in the path of the plume emerging from the tsunami-hit Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant. But the prediction helped no one. Nobody acted on it.)
(A self-proclaimed UFO researcher has found what he believes to be alien outposts in Antarctica. Posting at a blog and YouTube channel under the moniker "americanbunker," he has "analyzed" satellite photos of Antarctica via Google Earth, and says the photos show UFOs and other creatures. He strings together highlights of his Antarctic objects in a 12-minute video. However, the objects visible in the stream of pixellated photos look much more like ice floes, rocky outcroppings and shadows cast by bumps in the terrain than they do flying spacecraft or structures built by Martians.)
(A Maryland woman vacationing in Aruba has disappeared from the same resort town where Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway was last seen six years ago. Robyn Gardner, 35, of Frederick, Md., disappeared Aug. 2 from the Renaissance Aruba Resort & Casino in Oranjestad, MyFoxDC.com reports.)
RIM blog hacked in warning over London unrest (CBS)
(The official Blackberry blog was hacked earlier today in retaliation for Research in Motion's apparent decision to assist the London police. t's still unclear what assistance, if any, RIM has extended to the London police, who are combating street unrest that has wracked England's capital for the last several days. A spokesman for RIM did not immediately respond to requests for comment. But on Monday, RIM tweeted that it felt sympathy for people "impacted by the riots in London. We have engaged with the authorities to assist in any way we can.")
Apparently, "Anonymous" won't be accepting your friend request. Members of the shadowy collective known for its politically motivated Web hacks and attacks are targeting Facebook for what they claim to be the social-networking giant's misuse of personal information. "Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed," the speaker said in a YouTube video, which was posted July 16 but started circulating widely this week.)
(VAn information technology professional has pleaded guilty to copyright infringement and possessing proceeds of crime after twice selling “unlocked” video game consoles to undercover RCMP investigators. Thousands of illegally copied video games were seized from the Boychuk Drive residence of Terry T. Heilman, 36, during a search last Oct. 7. Heilman came to the attention of the Border Integrity Unit last fall after posting ads on Kijiji, an Internet classified advertising site, in which he offered to sell or modify video game systems so they would play illegally-copied Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 3 and Sega games.)
(A week after Samsung agreed out of court to postpone the launch of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia, the leading manufacturer of tablets running Google's (GOOG) Android operating system has suffered a second major setback. A court in Germany Tuesday granted Apple (AAPL) a preliminary injunction barring distribution of the device in the entire European Union except The Netherlands.)
(Video game rental company GameFly is looking to evolve into a one-stop online destination for video games -- like Netflix is for movies and TV. Later this year, in time for the holiday shopping season, the online video game rental service will launch a new online client that incorporates direct downloading of more than 100 computer games along with its current 8,000 console titles available on disc.)
(Tiny, self-assembling robots can swim and clamp onto particles and then release them when subjected to the right magnetic fields. These mini robotic doughnuts spontaneously form from metal particles floating between a layer of oil and water, and could potentially be used to manipulate chemical reactions, deliver medical treatments in the body or clean surfaces. “It’s really counter intuitive,” said physicist Igor Aranson, co-author of a study in Nature Materials, Aug. 7. “There is nothing fancy about magnetic particles, you can just buy them. But if you pour them on the surface of a liquid, you can form robots which can do something useful.”)
Police Expand 'Grim Sleeper' Serial Killer Probe to 230 Unsolved Cases (FOX News)
(Los Angeles police are reviewing an additional 230 missing persons cases and unsolved killings to look for links to the alleged "Grim Sleeper" serial killer, the Los Angeles Times reports. Lonnie David Franklin Jr., 57, a one-time city employee, was arrested on July 7, 2010 and charged with killing at least 10 women, many of them prostitutes, and dumping their remains in alleys and trash bins around South Los Angeles.)
(After killing six people, Michael Hance tracked his last victim to the basement of a house on Schocalog Road, where he shot an 11-year-old boy in the head -- as a younger boy stood nearby. Hance on Sunday killed Scott Dieter, who was hiding in the darkened basement with a 9-year-old boy, according to a Summit County sheriff's official and published reports. Moments later, Hance bolted out of the house and was shot to death by a Copley Township police officer.)
Upper St. Clair Man Describes Being a Batman Extra (CTV)
(On Saturday, thousands of fans poured into Heinz Field to cheer on a fictional football team for a scene in The Dark Knight Rises. Joe Heckel, of Upper St. Clair, said he has been a Batman fan since he was a kid and jumped on the chance to be an extra. "It was a long day, but it was pretty cool," Heckel said.)
(After suffering a brutal attack early Monday morning in New York, Gavin DeGraw has been released from the hospital and is said to be on the road to recovery. A rep for the "I Don't Wanna Be" singer confirmed that DeGraw was discharged Tuesday evening (August 9) from Bellevue Hospital, where he was being treated for a concussion, broken nose, black eyes, cuts and bruises sustained when a group of unknown assailants attacked him in Manhattan's East Village.)
(Staff at The Ledbury, a two Michelin-starred restaurant in London, trounced a horde of looters with rolling pins and fry baskets, then treated rattled diners to petit fours, champagne and whiskey. The restaurant, a preferred haunt of Kate Moss and Lily Allen in Notting Hill, came under attack around 10:30 p.m. on Monday evening. )
(A lawmaker has called for BlackBerry's instant messaging service to be suspended after rioters used it to mobilise in London and other British cities. David Lammy, Member of Parliament for Tottenham, where London's worst riots for decades began on Saturday, appealed on Twitter and on BBC radio for BlackBerry maker Research in Motion to suspend BlackBerry Messenger (BBM).)
(The unrest seen in London continued to spread to the rest of England last night, as a police station in Nottingham was firebombed by youths. There were "copycat attacks" across the Midlands, where police made scores of arrests on a night of violence. Canning Circus Police Station in Nottingham was attacked by a group of 30-40 youths but no injuries were reported, Nottinghamshire Police said.)
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