Adam Wheeler, 23, of Milton, Del., was admitted to Harvard and became a student in 2007 after he falsely claimed he had earned a perfect academic record at Phillips Academy in Andover and had studied for a year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, prosecutors said Monday.

Ultimately, authorities said, Wheeler’s attempts to be an overachiever were his undoing: Harvard started to look into Wheeler’s background after he sought the school’s endorsement for Rhodes and Fulbright scholarships. A professor reviewing his application noticed similarities between Wheeler’s writing and that of a colleague, prosecutors said.

Wheeler was indicted on 20 offenses, including larceny, identity fraud and pretending to hold a degree. He was arrested Monday by Massachusetts authorities and scheduled for arraignment Tuesday in Middlesex Superior Court.

Wheeler, who was studying English, was trying to transfer to Yale and Brown when he got caught in the “web of lies and deceit,” Middlesex County District Attorney Gerry Leone said.

“This defendant’s actions cheated those who competed honestly and fairly for admissions and for the scholarships that this defendant fraudulently obtained,” Leone said.

A number listed to Adam Wheeler in Milton, Del., had been disconnected. Leone’s office did not know whether he had a lawyer.

In January, authorities say, Wheeler submitted transfer applications to Yale and Brown. In his applications, Wheeler said he was employed by McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility affiliated with Harvard, even though he was not, Leone said. His transfer application included faked recommendations from an employee at the hospital and from his former Harvard dean, Leone said.

Harvard released a statement saying it could not discuss individual cases because of federal privacy laws and referred all questions to the Middlesex District Attorney’s office.

Before attending Harvard, Wheeler was a student at Bowdoin College in Maine from 2005-07, but was suspended for academic dishonesty, authorities said.

The Charlotte Observer reported Monday that 22-year-old Ashley Johnson felt slighted after waiting on the couple at Brixx Pizza.

So she blasted the couple on Facebook, calling them cheap and mentioning the restaurant by name.

Brixx officials told Johnson a couple of days later that she was being fired because she violated a company policy banning workers from speaking disparagingly about customers and casting the restaurant in a bad light on a social network.

Johnson says she has apologized to Brixx and is looking for a new job.

Authorities say Jiles tried to climb a 12-foot fence at the Brevard County Detention Center in August. He was caught and hospitalized with severe cuts from the barbed wire. He had been released a week earlier after accepting a plea deal on a manslaughter charge. Jiles had begged jail officials to take him back into custody, saying he feared retaliation from the victim’s family. Jail officials said they couldn’t take him in and told him to file a police report.

Police responding to Wednesday’s reports decided Pierce wasn’t breaking any laws. Robert Pierce said he’ll fight changes that would keep his wife from gardening outside topless, which is legal under state and city law. “They’re making a big mistake,” he said.

Boulder Housing Partners Executive Director Betsey Martens didn’t return a phone call Friday seeking details on how covered residents would have to be. She told the Daily Camera newspaper that people have complained for years about the couple often going outside wearing only thong underwear. Robert Pierce said the new rules wouldn’t discourage the couple. “We’ll stay the way we have to stay,” he said.

The City Council is scheduled in April to consider expanding the city’s anti-nudity ordinance, but a draft proposal to make it an offense for women to go topless in public was removed. City spokesman Patrick von Keyserling said the housing authority is a separate entity and that the city can’t dictate the agency’s rules.

Judd Golden, chairman of the Boulder County chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, said neighborhoods are generally able to make their own rules for residents to follow. But he said the ACLU does not support limits that are more restrictive than the law.

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The east coast state of Maryland on Thursday published on the Internet its annual “Caught in the Web” list of the 50 biggest tax dodgers in the state, along with the amount the scofflaws owe.

At the top of this year’s list is the name and address of a resident of Towson, near Baltimore, who owes the state more than half a million dollars. Nipping at his heels is a company that owes more than 400,000 dollars.

Maryland began publishing its list 10 years ago, and since then, “We’ve brought in 25 million dollars as a result of shaming these folks into paying up,” Christine Feldmann, a spokeswoman for the state comptroller’s office, told AFP.

“We see this as an issue of fairness and of bringing in every penny we can for the state, especially in this economy when every cent counts,” said Feldmann.

In the wealthy, northeastern state of Connecticut, 3,000 tax cheats have been outed since June 2007. Two-thirds of them felt such shame that they paid up, bringing in 190 million dollars to state coffers.

Based on the success of Connecticut, Maryland and some 20 other states that name and shame tax cheats, New York launched its own “site of shame” this month, hoping to recoup billions in back taxes.

“When we ask working families to sacrifice more and more during this difficult economic downturn, we need to first make sure that everyone is already paying their fair share,” said New York Democratic Assemblyman William Colton, who was the driving force behind the list.

The first of 250 individual tax-dodgers outed on the New York list has tax warrants against him for more than 16 million dollars, including one for more than 14 million dollars in sales tax, the list shows.

The names and debts are public information because judgements were recorded in state courts against individuals and companies before they were added to the lists.

He was arrested Tuesday and charged with first degree burglary. Kennewick Police said he helped officers recover a cell phone stolen in the break-in.

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Prater told police the match ignited when he pulled a package from his pocket during the flight from Washington, D.C.

Prater pleaded not guilty Thursday in East Boston District Court to a fugitive charge. He was held on $5,000 bail and ordered to return to Georgia within five days to clear the warrant. It was unclear if he had hired an attorney.

The union said in a statement on Thursday that the campaign follows a complaint it had received in the last week from a 24-year-old woman who said a 42-year-old disabled man asked her to provide sexual services as part of his care at home. The young woman witnessed some of the man’s other nurses offering him sexual gratification, the union said. When she refused to do the same, he tried to dismiss her on the grounds that she was unfit to provide care.

“This type of action is not part of the job responsibilities of carers and nurses,” NU’91 said. The case has been reported to police, the union added.

(Reporting by Ben Berkowitz, editing by Paul Taylor)

Police believe the man stopped during the test drive to have a copy made of the truck’s key. He returned the truck to the lot, but police believe he stole it overnight using the duplicate key.

The dealership owner drove to the man’s address and found the truck parked about 10 blocks away.

Police arrested the man, and he was still in the Lancaster County jail Thursday morning. Charges had not been filed by early Thursday morning.

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Detective Lt. Charles Love said the gunman was aiming for a man who escaped with a bullet hole in his down jacket. The suspect remains at large. Frazier told The Press of Atlantic City that ‘I could have been dead. They said my love handles saved my life.” Frazier also told the newspaper that she had been “hollering” that she wanted to lose weight. She now said “I want to be as big as I can if it’s going to stop a bullet.”

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I’m looking at you GOP, I’m looking at all of you republicans that are making it harder for a super villain to get work because you’re putting a corner stone on all the evil, what with your hatred of Health care, hatred of gays and just your general hatred.

I’m not even sure when it started, maybe it was all the desperate attempts at subverting the public’s trust in Barack Obama during the election. Instead of actually focusing on strengthening their own platform and policies, they decided to seed doubt, distrust and fear into the American public. Who really cared what John McCain’s policies in regards to the struggling economy were when the voters were really concerned as to whether or not Obama was a secret, Israel hating, commie-Nazi from Kenya? And even though they didn’t win the election, their conspiracy theories did struck a note with the already paranoid and xenophobic Right, and within no time the Good Old Party had managed to amass itself a sizeable cult following.

And now they’re not even trying to be subtle with their villainy. 30 Republican senators voted against an amendment that would punish military contractors that restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court. I’m bad, but seriously, you’re going to vote against an anti-rape bill? That’s pretty evil, even by my standards. Even worse, the republicans are getting upset because the president won a peace prize? I don’t know if they’re upset because they think he’s done nothing to earn the award, they’re just being needlessly partisan, or if they secretly just hate peace. There have even been conferences and mumbled sabre rattlings in regard to instigating a military coup – they want to overthrow the world’s most powerful nation: That’s villainous ambition that us little guys just cant compete with!

It’s not easy being a super villain. We’re hated by our enemies, hated even more by our peers, and it’s almost impossible to walk down the street without getting accosted by an up and coming super-hero who wants to prove himself. The hours suck and we don’t get any kind of government assistance. Forget about ever getting a steady side job or a girlfriend. Now we have to deal with the Republican party strong arming us out of work.

I have to concede though, their plan to poison the country’s water supply with copious amounts of tea is a stroke of genius, what will they think of next?

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Foreign acts often draw protests by the Pan Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS), whose youth wing succeeded in forcing Beyonce to cancel a 2007 concert and sought last year to prevent Canadian singer Avril Lavigne from performing in this mainly Muslim country of 27 million people.

“We are against western entertainment that promotes hedonism. We do not want our youth to be misled,” said Ahmad Sabki, vice-president of PAS Youth, was quoted as saying in Thursday’s New Straits Times newspaper.

Malaysia’s image as a moderate Muslim country has been hit by the recent sentencing to caning of a woman caught drinking beer.

Beyonce is due to perform in Malaysia on October 25 for the first time, if she is allowed, as part of a global tour, the newspaper said.

Earlier this month, Malaysia initially banned Muslims from attending a concert by U.S. hip-hop band The Black Eyed Peas, which was sponsored by Guinness, one of the brands owned by the world’s biggest spirits group Diageo.

The ban was reversed, but a senior official said it was up to the individual’s “better judgment” to attend the event.

PAS conservatism on cultural issues has caused problems for the three-member opposition alliance of which it is a part, said Zaid Ibrahim, a former law minister who is now a senior opposition politician.

“It is as if for PAS Youth, the effort to fight corruption, abuse of power and inciting racism is less important compared to the efforts to make sure the young who are just learning to love and wish to be entertained freely are obstructed from enjoying a little freedom,” Zaid wrote on his website