Former NH bus driver faces new abuse charges (Boston.com)
(A former New Hampshire school bus driver already indicted on federal charges involving the sexual exploitation of children has been indicted by the state on 15 new charges alleging he sexually abused a local child and filmed the incidents on a school bus. When he was arrested in September, 45-year-old John Allen Wright of Milton was a driver for special needs children in Kittery, Maine, Rochester and other areas.)
Manhunt continues for shooter in bus station killing (Lansing State)
(A potential suspect in a fatal shooting at the downtown Lansing bus station was taken into custody Tuesday evening after police say he fired a gun at them while he fled. But Lansing police Capt. Ray Hall said later Tuesday he questions whether the man is the suspect wanted in connection with the bus station shooting. Police were continuing to search for the man who shot and killed a 31-year-old Lansing man outside the Capital Area Transportation Authority facility at about 3:30 p.m.)
Scare for people on Regina bus when man believed to have gun utters threats (CP)
(People on a Regina bus had some tense moments when a man believed to have a gun was talking about harming people. But the man didn't have a weapon and police arrested him without incident. Lara Guzik with the Regina police says they got the call about 11:30 a.m. and were able to track down the bus. The No. 13 bus stopped at 12th Avenue and Smith Street just a block north of City Hall and police stopped traffic. No one was injured in the incident.)
Prosecutors approve arrest of school bus driver responsible for accident killing 15 students (Xinhau Net)
(Prosecutors in east China's Fengxian county, Jiangsu province, have approved of the arrest of the school bus driver responsible for a road accident that left 15 students dead and another eight injured. The People's Procuratorate of Fengxian County approved of the arrest of Hong Xu, the 30-year-old driver of the school bus that was carrying 29 students when it veered into a roadside ditch and overturned, killing 15 students and injuring eight others. Hong's improper operation caused the accident, according to local prosecutors.)
Kardashians accused of using slave labor (Mercury News)
(We're happy to report that the Kardashians are in today's news. Whew - it was feeling like we didn't have any air there for a while. Today's big story is a claim that the family turns a blind eye toward the slave-labor conditions used to produce some of their merchandise, according to TMZ. A human rights group is investigating claims that Chinese workers as young as 16 are working in squalid conditions to manufacture merchandise for the K-Dash by Kardashian label, the Kris Jenner Kollection and ShoeDazzle, according to a Star Magazine investigation.)
Santa Delivers! Returning Soldier Surprises Her Kids At Mall (WTAE)
(Army Reserve Capt. Dawn McCracken-Bruce spent nine months in Iraq and Kuwait. Husband Scott took their sons, Dominic, 4, and Tyson, 2, to see Santa Claus at the Mall at Robinson so they could tell him what they wanted for Christmas -- their mom -- and that's when she showed up and surprised them. After the emotional reunion, she got a surprise herself when the band from alma mater Chartiers Valley High School played the national anthem.)
Boy disciplined after waving gun-shaped pizza slice (WKRN)
(For the rest of the semester, a Rutherford County elementary student has to eat lunch at the "silent table" for allegedly waving around a slice of pizza some say resembled a gun. Nicholas Taylor attends David Youree Elementary School in Smyrna, about 30 miles southeast of Nashville. School leaders say the 10-year-old threatened other students at his lunch table with a piece of pizza with bites out of it so it looked like a gun and when asked about it was initially not truthful.)
Woman danced naked as corpse lay on sofa (News AU)
(SWEDISH police searching for a missing man found his rotting corpse on a woman's sofa - as she danced naked around her apartment. The dead man was reported missing in September but the unnamed 52-year-old woman, who he was known to spend time with, told police she did not know where he was, the Aftonbladet newspaper reported overnight.)
Cocaine found on nine out of 10 public baby changing tables (SF Gate)
(Attention cocaine users of the world: Parents everywhere would like you to know that changing tables are generally covered in baby poop, and we’d appreciate it if you’d think of that the next time you’re looking for a place to snort a line. According to an informal study out of the United Kingdom, 92 percent of the more than 100 public changing tables were coated with trace amounts of cocaine.)
Brazilian baby 'born healthy with two heads (Daily Mail)
(A Brazilian woman who has given birth to a baby with two heads, admitted she had initially expected twins. Maria de Nazare, gave birth by caesarean at a hospital in Anajas, in Brazil's northern Para state, with her newborn weighing 9.9lbs. And in a tribute to the religious celebrations at Christmas, she has decided to call the pair Emanoel and Jesus.)
China tells off "Batman" star Bale for "creating news" (Reuters)
(China slammed Hollywood actor and "Batman" star Christian Bale on Wednesday for "creating news" after he was roughed up by security guards as he attempted to visit a blind legal activist whose detention has sparked a domestic and international outcry. Bale and a camera crew from CNN were last week jostled by men in plainclothes in Dongshigu village in eastern Shandong province, where activist Chen Guangcheng has been under house arrest for 15 months.)
Batman fans struggling to hear Bane (UKPA)
(Christopher Nolan is reportedly unperturbed by fans' complaints that they cannot understand villain Bane in The Dark Knight trailer. The first trailer for the highly-anticipated Batman movie arrived online this week along with a Dark Knight prologue screened ahead of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol in Imax cinemas. But the film blogs and Twitter are abuzz with complaints from viewers claiming they can't understand what Bane, played by Tom Hardy, is saying. Bane's super-power comes from a drug that he continuously inhales. The trailer shows him wearing a mask that covers his nose and mouth, muffling his speech.)
Canadian-developed HIV vaccine approved for human testing (The Globe and Mail)
(Researchers at the University of Western Ontario announced Tuesday that they are beginning clinical trials next month for the first HIV vaccine being developed in Canada, using a groundbreaking technique that relies on the entire virus. Preliminary toxicology tests show that the vaccine, SAV001, can produce strong immune responses, said the team lead by Dr. Chil-Yong Kang, a professor of virology at UWO’s medical school.)
Scientists say Turin Shroud is supernatural (Independent UK)
(Italian government scientists have claimed to have discovered evidence that a supernatural event formed the image on the Turin Shroud, believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ. After years of work trying to replicate the colouring on the shroud, a similar image has been created by the scientists.)
Earth Has a Second Moon, Astronomers Say (Gizmodo)
(In a research paper called "The population of natural Earth satellites", astronomers say that Earth has a second moon at any given time. While these moons are small, the scientific implications of this discovery are phenomenal. Think about it: instead of having to send crews to asteroids, now we know that they come to us—they orbit Earth and we can intercept them to learn more about the origins of our solar system. All with a small price tag.)
Talking Twin Babies, Nyan Cat among YouTube's top videos of 2011 (LA Times)
(Citizens of the Internet: We salute you. Your taste in YouTube videos is, for the most part, awesome. On Tuesday, YouTube published its annual list of its most watched videos. If you haven't watched them yet, we suggest you carve out 20 minutes of your day today to see the videos the world Facebooked, tweeted, emailed and watched with co-workers this year. It's a pretty big spread, from a talking dog listening jealously to stories of the meat his owner just ate, to a Volkswagen commercial starring a little Darth Vader, to two kids covering a song by Chris Brown featuring Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes.)
Twitter Reveals When We're Happiest (Live Science)
(They may be short but the 140-character messages posted on Twitter can tell researchers something about the state of mind of English-speakers around the world. Using values assigned to words contained in 4.6 billion messages, also known as tweets, posted from Sept. 9, 2008, to Sept. 18, 2011, researchers were able to track how levels of happiness rose and subsided.)
Mystery buyer acquires vatican.xxx web address (Odd News)
(The Vatican said on Wednesday an unknown buyer had snapped up the internet address vatican.xxx, a domain combining its name with an extension reserved for pornographic content. "This domain is not available because it has been acquired by someone else, but not the Vatican," Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said on Vatican radio. It was not clear from his statement if the Vatican had tried to acquire the domain in order to prevent future misuse and had been beaten to the punch by the unknown buyer.)
A Brief History of Eggnog (Time)
(Eggnog really makes you wonder: How did humans first think chugging a spiced and spiked egg-yolk-and-milk mixture was a good idea? It’s a bit like Gaston from Beauty and the Beast: “Now that I’m grown, I eat five dozen eggs, so I’m roughly the size of a barge!” Yet despite its “love it or hate it” fame, eggnog has charmed drinkers for nearly a millennium. While culinary historians debate its exact lineage, most agree eggnog originated from the early medieval Britain “posset,” a hot, milky, ale-like drink. By the 13th century, monks were known to drink a posset with eggs and figs. Milk, eggs, and sherry were foods of the wealthy, so eggnog was often used in toasts to prosperity and good health.)
Japan Releases 40-Years Nuke Cleanup Plan (Time)
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