A 30-year-old high school band director was arrested Sunday night and charged with spying on other men in the restroom of a rest stop near Boardman, Oregon. He has also been charged with possession of marijuana. The man has been suspended with pay at Hermiston High School.
A Idaho firefighting crew was sent home after five of the 20 members were caught drinking beer at a base camp in southwestern Colorado.
Four of the five were too young to drink legally and alcohol is banned by regulation for all firefighters in the camps.
All five were either fired or forced to resign after being caught the night of June 10 at the base camp for the Missionary Ridge fire. Because only full crews can work the fires, all 20 of the members were sent home.
A 36-year-old Austrian woman was injured when a cow fell on her car, landing on the hood. The cow had wandered onto a hillside near Salzburg and toppled off over the exit lanes of a tunnel as the woman’s car was emerging.
The cow was killed in the fall.
Kathy Beehler, president of Southwest Florida Goodwill, is charged with one count of carrying a concealed firearm. Security screeners at Southwest Florida Regional Airport found the loaded 38 caliber revolver after an X-ray scan showed the presence of a gun.
A giraffe suspected of killing a US pastor at a luxury hotel in Kenya leaped to his death from a cliff. The animal had been injected with a tranquilizer just prior to its death.
The dead giraffe’s hooves are being examined for bloodstains.
Sunday school teacher Todd Warren, 42, who asked a 16-year-old boy to write “What would Jesus do?” on his penis has been sentenced to a month of work release in Ramsey County, Minnesota. Warren also asked to boy personal questions about sex, masturbation, and homosexuality.
Australian Labor party representative Mark Latham has described Prime Minister John Howard as an “arse-licker”. Mr Latham says he hates the Liberal and National parties.
Latham claims that Howard has failed to push Australia’s concerns about US farm subsidies.
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