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Man faked his way into Harvard University

Man faked his way into Harvard University

By MARK PRATT, Associated Press Writer Mark Pratt, Associated Press Writer WOBURN, Mass. – A Delaware man has been charged with faking his way into Harvard and duping the Ivy League school out of $45,000 in financial aid, grants and scholarships. Adam Wheeler, 23, of Milton, Del., was admitted to Harvard [...]
Driving School Teacher get Drunk Driving Charge

Driving School Teacher get Drunk Driving Charge

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The owner of an Albuquerque driving school has been charged with driving while intoxicated after crashing his car. Police said the man was arrested Aug. 6 after he crashed his car in Rio Rancho. Police spokesman John Francis said when officers responded, the man had “an odor [...]
High school diploma at 90

High school diploma at 90

CHICAGO – A 90-year-old suburban Chicago woman who dropped out of school to help her family during the Great Depression now has her high school diploma. Eleanor Benz left Chicago Public Schools’ Lake View High in 1936 during her senior year to take a job. Over the following decades she moved [...]
Ohio teacher took students to strip club

Ohio teacher took students to strip club

HAMILTON, Ohio – A school spokesman said a southwest Ohio teacher has resigned after acknowledging she accompanied four female students to a male strip club. Butler Tech school district spokesman Bill Solazzo said the 47-year-old teacher resigned Thursday.
Exam cheaters jailed on state secret charges

Exam cheaters jailed on state secret charges

BEIJING (Reuters) – Eight Chinese who used high-tech communications equipment, including mobile phones and wireless earpieces, to help their children cheat at university entrance exams have been jailed on state secret charges, local media said.
Drivers in Wales find translator out of the office

Drivers in Wales find translator out of the office

LONDON – In English, the road sign was just fine, warning drivers that the route ahead is not suitable for heavy trucks. But the translation in Welsh didn’t work so well. “I am not in the office at the moment. Please send any work to be translated,” it said. Swansea Council says the [...]
Washington school calendar forgets Christmas

Washington school calendar forgets Christmas

In Spokane Washington,  they made a list, but they should have checked it twice.  In a December newsletter to the families of elementary school students, Spokane Public
Police nab bogus martial arts masters

Police nab bogus martial arts masters

A dozen Chinese teenagers have been caught in a failed plot to sneak into Canada by masquerading as kung fu masters from the famous Shaolin Temple, state media reported Friday. The 12 had no martial arts experience but joined a team of genuine kung fu performers from a school in Henan province, also [...]
Kids at graveyard school face nightmares

Kids at graveyard school face nightmares

PATNA, India (Reuters) – Scores of Indian children attending a school located in a graveyard were having recurring nightmares about ghosts and have appealed to authorities to shift them from the site, officials and residents said. “I have stopped going to school after many dead people walked [...]
Author tries to interest leader in arts, books

Author tries to interest leader in arts, books

Best-selling Canadian author Yann Martel, worried about Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s apparent lack of interest in the arts, sent him a book on Monday and said he would continue doing so once a fortnight. Martel, who wrote the novel “Life of Pi,” was upset that Harper had paid no [...]
Wisconsin law hinders lewd library case

Wisconsin law hinders lewd library case

A law protecting library records’ confidentiality has hamstrung officials pursuing a man who reportedly masturbated among the books at the Neenah Public Library earlier this month. City Attorney James Godlewski said the library can’t turn a surveillance video of the man over to police without [...]
Tale of Teeny Ted said to be world’s smallest book

Tale of Teeny Ted said to be world’s smallest book

Canadian researchers said on Wednesday they have produced the world’s smallest published book, a story of a turnip contest that will require readers to use an electron microscope. The book, entitled “Teeny Ted from Turnip Town”, measures 0.07 mm by 0.10 mm and was made using a focused [...]
School district investigates porn bill

School district investigates porn bill

School district officials are trying to identify who watched $250 worth of pay-per-view pornographic movies using a school cable television box, officials said. Someone after business hours used one of the five cable boxes in the Board of Education building to order the films, priced between $4.95 and [...]
Sub loses job over pinchy punishment

Sub loses job over pinchy punishment

A substitute teacher’s tool for silencing chatty kindergartners — clothespins — doesn’t wash with school officials. Four boys said spring-type clothespins were placed over their upper or lower lips for talking too much in class, Amanda-Clearcreek Primary School principal Mike [...]
Probe ordered into students with nice cars

Probe ordered into students with nice cars

Students in Tajikistan driving expensive cars may find their names in the local press under an anti-corruption measure announced on Friday by President Imomali Rakhmonov. The long-serving leader ordered officials at the Agency for Financial Control and Fighting Corruption investigate the incomes of students [...]

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