Bear ransacks school bus in campground (Sky-Hi Daily News)
(A bear at the Green Ridge Campground on Shadow Mountain Reservoir helped himself to lunches inside a school bus late Monday night. The bear had been reported previously in the area as having gotten into trash containers and coolers left outside by campers, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesperson Mike Porras. But on Monday night, the bear broke into a school bus from the Odyssey School of Denver as 7th- and 8th-graders camped, according to a report compiled by 7 News. The group's food was left in sealed Tupperware containers on the bus, and the bear reportedly “ruined” the school's bus door by breaking in.)
Pasco school bus, car collide at intersection in Shady Hills (TampaBay.com)
(He was sitting in the shade taking a break from yard work when he heard the crash. It was a thundering boom. Dragan Romanovic looked toward the noise and saw a flash of yellow; a school bus skidding through the intersection of Bosley and Monteverde drives just before 3 p.m. Tuesday. The bus screeched off the road and flipped on its side. A 2001 Buick LeSabre sat crumpled in Romanovic's neighbor's front yard.)
Youths hijack bus, arrested (Times of India)
(Nine youths from Gurdaspur in Punjab were arrested by Chamba police on Tuesday, after they hijacked a tourist bus brandishing sharp edged weapons, with women and children, from Gujarat in it. The incident has exposed the hollow claims of police department over security arrangements of main tourist spots, while the annual Manimahesh Yatra is on these days in Chamba.)
16 kids, driver flee Southeast Polk school bus blaze (Desmoines Register)
(Nobody was hurt when a flames engulfed a school bus on the first day of school Monday afternoon in Pleasant Hill. An electrical problem was most likely responsible for the fire, Southeast Polk school officials said. The bus carrying 16 sixth- through 12th-grade students was making the rounds through Pleasant Hill’s Rising Sun neighborhood shortly after 3:30 p.m. when driver John Fathergil noticed smoke coming from beneath the hood.)
Suspicious Package Found On Metro Bus In Seattle Apparently Not A Threat (KIRO TV)
(A report of a suspicious package onboard a King County Metro bus in Belltown on Tuesday evening was apparently no threat. The Seattle Police Department investigated what was described as a shopping bag full of wires and cables on a bus at 4th Avenue and Wall Street. Metro confirmed the report of a suspicious package and said that the bus was out of service and no one was onboard when the package was found.)
Zero tolerance law to crackdown on drunk bus drivers(WLSAM)
(New law in Illinois is targeting intoxicated bus drivers who may have even a hint of alcohol in their system. Starting January 1st, it will be zero tolerance for any registered level of alcohol in the system of a school bus driver in Illinois.)
Florida Highway Patrol says a school bus driver ran a stop sign, hitting a Buick in Northern Pasco County (WTSP)
(The Florida Highway Patrol blames a school bus driver for a crash that sent four people to the hospital Tuesday afternoon. The accident happened in Northern Pasco County at the intersection of Monteverde Drive and Bosley Road just before 3 p.m. FHP says the school bus was heading south down Monteverde and ran through the stop sign at Bosley Road.)
Scientists warn that aliens may come to destroy us (Yahoo)
(There have been 20-30 major Hollywood alien apocalypse movies released in the last year or so, and more are on the way. They’re unavoidable. Some of them are cataloged here, but there are almost too many to count. As such, it’s no wonder that scientists have hostile aliens on the brain. Several researchers have released a study that says there is a good chance aliens will come and wipe us out if they think we’re irresponsible, expanding too quickly, or a number of other reasons, reports the IB Times. The researchers point to humanity’s own history of hostility toward unfamiliar humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas as evidence.)
Shark Leads Father, Son on a 'Texas Sleigh Ride' (Fox Houston)
(Imagine being dragged up and down the coast of Galveston by a shark. That’s what happened to one man and his 9-year-old son. The duo is calling it a "Texas sleigh ride."
They hook onto a big fish, unhook their anchor and let the fish pull them around in the ocean. But here's the catch: This time that big fish was a shark and they were in a kayak.)
More children read websites than comics, survey finds (The Guardian)
(Children are now far more likely to read emails and websites than comics, according to a survey of more than 18,000 eight to 17-year-olds. The research also found that while one in 10 children claimed to have read 10 books in the last month, 13% had not read any at all. And boys were nearly twice as likely to say they never read than girls. Some 29% of all children read every day.)
2 intruders found sleeping in caskets at East Tennessee funeral home (Washington Post)
(Police in Tennessee were called to a funeral home where workers found two intruders sleeping inside caskets. The employees at Weaver’s Funeral Home in Bristol called police around 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday after finding two men asleep in caskets. The men fled through a window after police were alerted, the Bristol Herald Courier reports. One man escaped, but police caught and arrested Barrett Lance Hartsock, who was charged with burglary and vandalism over $1,000.)
Woman Hasn’t Used Money in 15 Years (Oddity Central)
(Heidemarie Schwermer, a 69-year-old woman from Germany, gave up using money 15 years ago and says she’s been much happier ever since. Heidemarie’s incredible story began 22 years ago, when she, a middle-aged secondary school teacher emerging from a difficult marriage, took her two children and moved to the city of Dortmund, in Germany’s Ruhr area. One of the first things she noticed was the large number of homeless people, and this shocked her so much that she decided to actually do something about it. She had always believed the homeless didn’t need actual money to be accepted back into society, only a chance to empower themselves by making themselves useful, so she opened a Tauschring (swap shop), called “Gib und Nimm” (Give and Take).)
Ariz. street sign warning of ‘rogue panda’ was prank: police (Chicago Sun Times)
(Authorities in Flagstaff, Ariz., are assuring residents there are no rogue pandas roaming the city after some pranksters got creative with an electronic street sign. The Arizona Department of Transportation-controlled sign was set up to warn drivers not to make left turns at a busy intersection. But motorists heading to work Monday morning got an entirely different message: “Rogue panda on rampage.”)
B.C. boy, 12, delivers his own little brother (The Globe and Mail)
(As the eldest child, 12-year-old Gaelan Edwards bears a lot of grown-up responsibilities. He looks after his younger siblings, playing with Gage, 2, and Rhianna, 1, in the backyard so their mother can cook dinner undisturbed, and he changes and throws away their used diapers. And now he’s even delivered another little brother.)
Kangaroo 'embarks on lingerie looting spree' in Prague (Digital Spy)
(A kangaroo named Benji reportedly angered several neighbours in Prague after he was caught 'stealing' their underwear. The 2-year-old marsupial is said to have escaped his owner before hopping over several gardens. He was only caught after a neighbor spotted him jumping away with his loot of lingerie. Benji's owner had already reported him missing to police, but a spokesperson revealed that separate calls of stolen clothing were not linked at first.)
12-Year-Old Girl Solves Crime When Police Couldn’t (News One)
(An Atlanta 12-year-old girl recently solved a crime using her detective skills. When Jessica Maple’s family home was burglarized, she used the detective skills she learned from the Junior DA program at the Fulton County District Attorney’s office. After furniture, beds and the washer and dryer were found missing, Maple used her skills to find the burglar.)
Diver swims 20 miles in shark-infested seas (News Lite)
(A diving instructor was reportedly forced to swim 20 miles in shark-infested waters after being abandoned by a boatman off Borneo's Santubong peninsula. Japanese diver Hishashi Koze had been had been exploring a shipwreckwith colleagues when the boatman they'd sailed out with, lost sight of them and their air bubbles underwater.)
Conn. Woman Sues Over Sex Abuse Of Horse (My Fox NY)
(A Connecticut woman is suing a neighbor accused of sexually abusing her horse. Joan Flannery of Shelton has filed a lawsuit in Milford Superior Court seeking at least $5,000 from Marian Wegiel for emotional distress and the cost of surveillance cameras and locks.)
Life on Mars closer than ever (Daily Mail)
(A mission to Mars may seem like a distant dream to cash-strapped Nasa, but a controversial scientist says we are on the verge of a breakthrough that would enable humans to settle there. U.S. scientist Craig Venter stunned the scientific community last year when he revealed that he had created the world's first synthetic organism.)
Steampunk Themed Apartment in Manhattan, Only $1.75 Million (Geekosystem)
(Have you always wanted to live in an alternate-world 1890? Well now you can, sort of, and it’ll only cost you $1.75 million dollars. Filmmaker Jeremy Noritz bought the Manhattan apartment for $1.3 million back in 2006 when, apparently, the apartment still looked like it belonged in 2006. The steampunk renovation has largely been Noritz’s “little” project. The extensive remodling he’s done includes a bedroom designed to look like an exploded blimp and bathrooms hidden behind walls of gears and cogs. It was a personal passion for Noritz, who did his interior design with real reclaimed material, not prefab steampunk toys.)
Bisexual men: Science says they're real (CNN)
(Plenty of people identify as bisexual, but scientists are still trying to figure out what that means in terms of physiological arousal and attraction. A new study in the journal Biological Psychology claims to have at least shown that some men who say they're bisexual actually get aroused by both men and women. And that's a new result; a controversial 2005 study could not demonstrate bisexuality.)
Boy Bites Off, Dog Eats Girl's Ear (My Fox NY)
(A teenage girl's boyfriend bit off part of her ear -- which was later eaten by a dog -- in what an Australian prosecutor Tuesday labeled a "brutal" attack. Judge Stuart Durward told the 26-year-old man, who cannot be named, that it was a "disgraceful thing to do" to his 15-year-old girlfriend after he pleaded guilty in the Townsville District Court to a charge of assault occasioning grievous bodily harm.)
Sea eagle attacks reverend and his flock....of geese (Telegraph)
(God may have made "all creatures great and small" but one leading churchman admitted yesterday he had been left traumatised by Britain's biggest bird of prey after it attacked him and killed one of his geese.)
Bridgeport Woman Charged With Hot Coffee Assault (FOX New York)
(A 40-year-old woman from Bridgeport is being charged with assault after police say she threw hot Dunkin' Donuts coffee into another woman's face during a dispute. Stamford police told The Stamford Advocate that Michelle Walker is being charged with second-degree assault.)
Millions of Unseen Species Fill Earth (Time)
(Our world is a much wilder place than it looks. A new study estimates that Earth has almost 8.8 million species, but we've only discovered about a quarter of them. And some of the yet-to-be-seen ones could be in our own backyards, scientists say. So far, only 1.9 million species have been found. Recent discoveries have been small and weird: a psychedelic frogfish, a lizard the size of a dime and even a blind hairy mini-lobster at the bottom of the ocean.)
(ou may not know the name Brian O'Halloran but chances are you’ll know the actor from his role(s) in Kevin Smith movies. The actor, best known for playing Dante Hicks in “Clerks” and “Clerks II,” recently stopped by to chat about Kevin Smith, even though he “wasn’t supposed to be here today.”)
(Anne Hathaway wants to visit sick children dressed as Catwoman. The 28-year-old actress portrays the super-villain and her alter-ego Selina Kyle in the upcoming Batman movie ‘The Dark Knight Rises' and wants to be able to keep the famous black catsuit worn by her character in order to help with her charity work.)
The other Bat-folk we want to play as in "Arkham City" (IFC)
(Warner Bros Games is making more and more of Batman's milieu come to life in "Batman: Arkham City." Along with recent reveals of the Penguin and Mr. Freeze as antagonists for the Dark Knight, we've also heard about Catwoman falling under players' control in the game's story mode and Robin being a playable character in the game's challenge maps. Then, yesterday, alternate skins were announced for the Boy Wonder, with looks from the Red Robin identity of Tim Drake, the modern-day hooded variation worn by Bat-son Damian Wayne and the 1990s animated series on display.)
Bridesmaid attends wedding via iPad (Telegraph)
(Renee Armstrong, who was in Virginia, followed the bride down the aisle in Denver courtesy of an usher holding a white iPad connected to her webcam. The bridesmaid, who had done her makeup to match the wedding theme, even made it into the wedding photos of Jonathan Alberico and Jamie Wilborn who married last Saturday.)
Is Facebook "required reading?" (Reuters)
(British youngsters are ditching Dickens, Shakespeare and Keats for Facebook and Twitter, with one in six failing to read a single book in a month, according to a survey.
The poll, which questioned 18,141 children aged eight to 17, also showed less than half of youngsters choose to read a book outside of class at least once a month.)
Missouri Teachers Sue to Protect Their Facebook Rights (Wall Street Journal)
(The Missouri State Teachers Association has filed a suit challenging the constitutionality of a new state law, due to take effect this week, that restricts private online communication between teachers and students. Here’s an earlier LB post about the law, called the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act, which is designed to prevent the sexual abuse of students by their teachers.)
Antenna clothes help phone signal (BBC)
(Radio antennas that can be sewn directly onto clothes have been developed by US researchers. The team from Ohio State University created a prototype using plastic film and metallic thread. The scientists reported in an IEEE journal that the system's range is four times greater than that of a conventional antenna worn on the body. The technology could potentially be applied in a number of fields, but is primarily designed for military use.)(SENT BY: Fitzman73)
Lawyer's addiction to video games leads to 3-year suspension (Daily Business Review)
(A lawyer who claims that his addiction to video games caused him to botch the handling of 17 cases has been suspended from practicing law for three years by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Matthew J. Eshelman, 43, of Carlisle, Pa., testified before the Disciplinary Board "that when he experienced problems, he lost focus on his legal work and diverted his attention to electronic recreation," according to the board's 89-page report and recommendation.)
Mom gets stillborn's remains in envelope (World News)
(A British mother has received damages from a hospital where a receptionist handed her an envelope containing skin and tissue from her stillborn baby. "I can't believe anybody could be so unfeeling as to behave in this way," Danielle Tivey, 27, said in a statement reported by the Daily Mirror Tuesday.)
Amy Winehouse Toxicology Report Shows No Illegal Drugs (Rolling Stone)
(Amy Winehouse's family has revealed that toxicology tests indicate there were no illegal drugs in the singer's system at the time of her death on July 23rd. The report did show that alcohol was present, though it has not been determined whether that contributed to her death.)
Turkey opens its eyes to domestic violence (Guardian)
(Being a woman in Turkey means living with several contradictions. On the one hand, Turkish women were granted the right to vote as early as 1934, ahead of numerous European nations, and they have been far better off than their sisters throughout the Muslim world. Western visitors to Turkey today frequently express their surprise at seeing women highly active and vocal in all cultural, economic and social spheres. Yet on the other hand, there is a darker side to the story that only now is being openly discussed, openly contested: domestic violence.)
Widely felt earthquake is not unprecedented for U.S. (US TODAY)
(Earthquakes can strike just about anywhere, as seismologists reminded us after Tuesday's magnitude-5.8 quake in central Virginia. USA TODAY asked the expert.)
Children, pets most affected by earthquake (Toronto Sun)
(Small children were most affected by the mild earthquake tremors that shook many Canadian homes Tuesday, a prominent doctor says. "Everything tends to be bigger in the mind of a child, so when you've got your whole house shaking and the furniture trembling on the floor, even for a few seconds, it can have a major emotional impact," Dr. Robin Ganzert, president of the American Humane Association (AHA), said in a statement Tuesday.)
Nuclear Plant Loses Electricity in Temblor (Wall Street Journal)
(Tuesday's 5.8-magnitude earthquake created a state of emergency at the North Anna nuclear-power station in central Virginia, causing it to lose electricity and automatically shut down, although generators restored power.)
TouchPad Backlash: Retailers Say 'Sorry' For Order Errors (PC World)
(Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and Best Buy are facing a backlash from wannabe HP TouchPad buyers after each of the retailers oversold their supplies of the WebOS-based tablets. B&N is facing the brunt of angry customers with many disgruntled TouchPad bargain hunters taking to social networks to speak their mind.)
Prepare for Irene, EMO says (CBC)
(Nova Scotia's Emergency Management Office is advising people to get ready for hurricane season. Hurricane Irene was weakening Tuesday evening, but is threatening the U.S. and could affect Nova Scotia. The Canadian Hurricane Centre is forecasting it will hit the mid-Atlantic states on Sunday afternoon, if it continues on its current course and speed.)
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