Principal walks into home, two boys didn’t come to school

New York - A principal made an unannounced house call to check up on a student who didn’t show up to school. The two students, ages 12 and 16, live at the home with their mother. A criminal complaint alleges Chester Academy Principal Ernest Jackson entered the home without permission when the two boys didn’t come to school tried to coax them out of their beds. “You don’t walk into someone’s house,” Melanie Hunter said. “I could’ve been coming out of the shower.” ...More

Turkeys terrorize New York neighborhood

New York - Residents of a New York neighborhood said aggressive turkeys are terrorizing the area. Locals in the Ocean Breeze neighborhood said the fowl have been blocking traffic, filling their yards with droppings and even trapped resident Gina Guaragno in her car for a short time before she splashed them with window washing fluid. The turkey trouble began about 10 years ago after a woman released her nine pets, and now there are about 100 of the wild birds in the neighborhood....More

Man Arrested For Defending Home From Gang Members

New York - He was arrested for protecting his property and family. But it’s how the Long Island man did it that police say crossed the line. He got an AK-47 assault rifle, pulled the trigger and he ended up in jail. George Grier said he had to use his rifle to stop what he thought was going to be an invasion of his Uniondale home by a gang he thought might have been the vicious “MS-13.”
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New York Bush drives drunk 11 miles without tire

New York - Authorities said a western New York man whose license expired 33 years ago has been charged with driving while intoxicated after police said he drove a van 11 miles without one of its tires. The Genesee County Sheriff’s Office said another motorist reported seeing a tire falling off a van weaving on a road in Bethany late. Deputies later arrested 61-year-old Duane Bush at his home in Bethany, 32 miles southwest of Rochester.---...More

Iran: Death penalty for man accused of homosexuality

Tehran, 23 Sept. (AKI) - Nemat Safavi, arrested almost three years ago at the age of 16, has been condemned to death by a court in Ardebil, in the northwest Iranian Azerbaijan region.

Nemat has not killed anyone, stolen anything or even carried out any political activism.
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Nemat has been accused of having homosexual relations.While that was not stated during the court case, he was accused of "sexual relations that were not admitted".

A year ago, on a visit to Colombia University in New York, Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said "there were no homosexuals" in Iran in response to a question from a student.

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Stupid News-School Bus Driver Gets Lost For 5 Hours With Kids

Stupid News-School Bus Driver Gets Lost For 5 Hours With Kids

New York - The driver of a school bus that circled Brooklyn for nearly five hours while carrying about a dozen kindergartners and first-graders has been suspended. Authorities say the 53-year-old driver claimed he had gotten lost Wednesday while ferrying the children from the Achievement First Brownsville Charter School to their homes. Parents say their children were shaken by the ordeal that ended when police were called and were finally able to reach the driver.

Stupid News-Help-wanted ad for nanny: `My kids are a pain'

Stupid News-Help-wanted ad for nanny: `My kids are a pain'

NEW YORK - It was an unusually honest ad for a live-in nanny, a 1,000-word tome beginning, "My kids are a pain." But it worked, attracting a brave soul who's never been a nanny before.

"If you cannot multitask, or communicate without being passive aggressive, don't even bother replying," Rebecca Land Soodak, a mother of four on Manhattan's Upper East Side, wrote Aug. 19 in her advertisement on Craigslist.

"I can be a tad difficult to work for. I'm loud, pushy and while I used to think we paid well, I am no longer sure."

This being the age of instant communications, the ad took on a life of its own, making the rounds of parenting blogs and e-mail inboxes and inspiring an article in Thursday's New York Times.

Soodak, a 40-year-old painter whose husband owns a wine store, eventually hired Christina Wynn, a 25-year-old University of Virginia graduate, to take care of Rubin, 12; Ellis, 9; and Shay and Cassie, both 6.

"I made a commitment to stay in the job for at least a year," Wynn told the Times. "I met the oldest child, but not the others, which my mother said was crazy — to accept the job without meeting all the kids. So we'll see." She noted that one of the pluses is that the children are all in school for several hours each day.

Some other excerpts from the listing: "If you are fundamentally unhappy with your life, you will be more unhappy if you take this job, so do us all a favor and get some treatment or move to the Rockies, but do not apply for employment with us."

And this: "Also, if you suspect all wealthy women are frivolous, we are not for you."

And this: "I have all sorts of theories on how to stack my dishwasher, and if you are judgmental about Ritalin for ADHD, or think such things are caused by too much sugar, again, deal-break city."

No word yet on whether a sequel to "The Nanny Diaries" is in the works. Meanwhile, Soodak tells the Times: "I hope she likes it here. I sent the ad to one of my old sitters and she said she felt it was pretty accurate, which sort of stung a little bit."

Stupid News - Waterboarding an attraction at amusement park

Stupid News - Waterboarding an attraction at amusement park This is just stupid!

Waterboarding an attraction at amusement park

By Ritsuko Ando


NEW YORK (Reuters) - A man with a black hood pours water on the face of a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit strapped to a table: no, it's not Guantanamo Bay naval base, but New York's Coney Island amusement park.
The scene using robotic dolls is an installation built by artist Steve Powers to criticize waterboarding, a simulated drowning technique the United States has admitted using on terrorism suspects, but that rights group say is torture.

"Waterboard Thrill Ride" beckons a sign along with cartoon character "SpongeBob SquarePants" who appears tied down and exclaiming: "It don't Gitmo better!"

The public can peek through window bars and feed a dollar into the slot to bring the robotic dolls into action, one more attraction in the beachfront amusement park in the New York neighborhood of Brooklyn.

"Anyone can see this is painful from 50 feet away," said Powers, who had previously been painting signs and storefronts in the area. "I wanted people to understand the psychological ramifications of this."

Marion Tracey, 57, from New Jersey, said she found the installation disturbing. It made her think of her father who had nightmares after returning from World War II. "In all wars, horrible things happen," she said. "I'd rather not see it."

Alex Soto, 23, said he thought it was a good thing for people to learn about waterboarding, but he added: "It is pretty twisted."

(Editing by Michelle Nichols and Anthony Boadle)

Governor Spitzer and The Escort " Ashley Dupre"

Well by now the media blitz on Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer has about reached it's climax. The story is now that Governor Spitzer and his wife had affairs! Read the article below!
More pics are pouring into the web of the high priced call girl Kristin "Ashley" Dupre.

THE Telegraph

By Tom Leonard in New York
Last Updated: 2:43am GMT 19/03/2008



The successor to Eliot Spitzer, the disgraced New York governor, has admitted that both he and his wife had had extra-marital affairs.

David Paterson's admission signally failed to sweep away the controversy that has engulfed New York state politics since Mr Spitzer was exposed as a regular user of prostitutes.

Mr Paterson admitted at a press conference, with his wife, Michelle, that he had had relationships with several women, including a state employee.

The Patersons said they both had affairs during a time when their marriage was headed toward divorce. But they sought counselling and have built a stronger marriage and family.

"We dealt with it as a family," Mrs Paterson said. A marriage has peaks and valleys... no marriage is perfect. I think we have a marriage like many Americans. Elected officials are really just reflections of the people we represent."

His admission came a day after he told the New York Daily News of one affair between 1999 and 2001.

Unlike his confrontational predecessor, Mr Paterson, New York's first black governor and the second of any state to be registered blind, is popular among fellow politicians.

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The Governor was exposed as Client 9 of the Emperor’s Club VIP call-girl ring after he was caught on an FBI telephone tap.



Eliot Spitzer resigned as Governor of New York yesterday after a sex scandal put an abrupt end to the political career of a rising star who seemed destined for the White House.

Mr Spitzer, a crusading former prosecutor once known as the Sheriff of Wall Street, said that he would “leave public life” two days after he was identified as Client 9 in a $5,500-an-hour international call-girl ring.

He will be replaced on Monday by his deputy, David Paterson, who will be New York’s first black Governor and the first blind one in US history.

Mr Spitzer, who is married with three daughters, emerged from his Fifth Avenue apartment to announce his resignation yesterday.

“I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me,” he told a press conference, with his wife, Silda, at his side.

“I look at my time as Governor with a sense of what might have been . . . There is much more to be done. I cannot allow my private failings to disrupt the people’s work.

“In the past few days I have begun to atone for my private failings with my wife, Silda, my children and my entire family. The remorse I feel will always be with me.”

Mr Spitzer’s lawyer, a former chief of the prosecutor’s public corruption unit, failed in an attempt to use his resignation as a bargaining chip in negotiations with her former bosses.

The Governor was exposed as Client 9 of the Emperor’s Club VIP call-girl ring after he was caught on an FBI telephone tap setting up a tryst with a “American, petite, very pretty brunette” prostitute named Kristen.

She was identified last night as a failed rhythm-and-blues singer born Ashley Youmans but now known as Ashley Alexandra Dupré.

“I just don’t want to be thought of as a monster,” Ms Dupré, 22, born in New Jersey and now living in New York’s Flatiron district, told The New York Times. “This has been a very difficult time. It is complicated.”

On her MySpace page Ms Dupré said that she had left “a broken family” at 17 and had used drugs, “been broke and homeless”.

“But I made it,” she adds. “I’m still here and I love who I am.”

Ms Dupré travelled by train from New York to Washington to meet Mr Spitzer in an hotel on the eve of Valentine’s Day. An alleged madam was caught on the phonetap asking “Kristen” whether Client 9 had sought unsafe sex.

The New York Post reported that he had asked her to perform oral sex on him without a condom but she had insisted on protection.

Mr Spitzer’s embarrassment was compounded yesterday by a prostitute called Sienna, 22, who told ABC News that he paid her for sex two years ago while he was still state attorney-general, New York’s top law-enforcement official. She said that he tipped her well and “didn’t do anything that wasn’t clean”.

The investigation began when his bank notified authorities of suspicious money transfers to a shell company.

Mr Spitzer allegedly wanted to transfer more than $10,000 to the ring’s front company, QAT Consulting Group, but broke it up into smaller amounts to avoid the bank being required to report it to the Government. The Wall Street Journal said that he made three payments of roughly $5,000 in the spring and summer of 2007.