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Man vandalizes stranger's cars for art
Police in London are investigating an artist who recently announced his most recent work was vandalizing (47) cars. Mark McGowan claims he used a key to scratch nearly 50 cars since March. He also says he intends to display pictures of himself damaging the vehicles.
This isn't the first time McGowan has displayed a flair for the eccentric. He once pushed a nut for seven miles with his nose towards Tony Blair's office. He did that to protest against debts run up by students to pay for their studies. He also rolled himself across London for four miles singing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" to highlight the work of office cleaners. - local6.com
Lawyers for highway sniper to argue he didn't know it was wrong to shoot innocent people
Attorneys defending a man charged in a string of highway shootings, including one that killed a 62-year-old woman, conceded Monday that their client is the one who fired the shots in the 6-month spree. Still, defence attorneys said, jurors must decide what crimes were committed and whether Charles McCoy Jr. understood that his actions were wrong.
McCoy, 29, who has paranoid schizophrenia (psychotic disorder), has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to aggravated murder and 23 other counts in 12 linked shootings. He could face the death penalty if convicted of the most serious charge.
The defence will attempt to prove that McCoy has a mental illness that kept him from knowing right or wrong during the shootings. - cleveland.com
Seventeen–year–old arranges to have his $50K BMW stolen so he can use insurance money to get a better car
A 17-year-old youth was arrested on suspicion of arranging the theft of his $50,000 BMW so he could collect the insurance money to upgrade to a pricier Bentley. The teen allegedly worked out a deal with accomplices to steal his white 2002 BMW M3 outside a building. He planned to use the insurance payout to get a more expensive car.
The youth's accomplices took the car, and it was reported stolen. Police later caught four people stripping the car of its parts.
The men implicated the teen in the crime and he was arrested at his workplace. - seattletimes.nwsource.com
"Why in the world would you think your cell phone would work in your house? The customer has come to expect so much. They want it to work in the elevator, they want it to work in the basement." –– Verizon Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg
Couldn't the company correct customer expectations by distributing statistics on how often Verizon's service works indoors or by providing more detailed coverage maps that show all possible dead zones? Seidenberg said it wasn't Verizon's responsibility.
Verizon owns and operates Verizon Wireless through a joint venture with Britain's Vodafone Group. Verizon Wireless was the most highly rated wireless carrier in a survey published by Consumer Reports magazine.
The Verizon chairman also mocked San Francisco's interest in building a municipal wireless Internet, or Wi-Fi, network. "That could be one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard," he told the Chronicle. "It sounds like a good thing, but the trouble is someone will have to design it, someone will have to upgrade it, someone will have to maintain it and someone will have to run it." - sptimes.com
In an attempt to improve school standards test scores, principal helps students cheat on tests
A veteran principal and school administrator has been suspended while officials investigate allegations that she helped students cheat on tests. Jayne Gibbs was placed on a paid leave after eighth graders her Junior Academy said she had given them answers to questions on a School Assessment test.
She was previously principal at another middle school in the district where students' scores on standardized tests improved dramatically during her tenure. Between 2002 and 2003, the percentage of students testing proficient in math on the local exam jumped from 11 percent to 71 percent. - channelone.com
Published in the Rising Stars on April 28, 2005
Police in London are investigating an artist who recently announced his most recent work was vandalizing (47) cars. Mark McGowan claims he used a key to scratch nearly 50 cars since March. He also says he intends to display pictures of himself damaging the vehicles.
This isn't the first time McGowan has displayed a flair for the eccentric. He once pushed a nut for seven miles with his nose towards Tony Blair's office. He did that to protest against debts run up by students to pay for their studies. He also rolled himself across London for four miles singing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" to highlight the work of office cleaners. - local6.com
Lawyers for highway sniper to argue he didn't know it was wrong to shoot innocent people
Attorneys defending a man charged in a string of highway shootings, including one that killed a 62-year-old woman, conceded Monday that their client is the one who fired the shots in the 6-month spree. Still, defence attorneys said, jurors must decide what crimes were committed and whether Charles McCoy Jr. understood that his actions were wrong.
McCoy, 29, who has paranoid schizophrenia (psychotic disorder), has pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to aggravated murder and 23 other counts in 12 linked shootings. He could face the death penalty if convicted of the most serious charge.
The defence will attempt to prove that McCoy has a mental illness that kept him from knowing right or wrong during the shootings. - cleveland.com
Seventeen–year–old arranges to have his $50K BMW stolen so he can use insurance money to get a better car
A 17-year-old youth was arrested on suspicion of arranging the theft of his $50,000 BMW so he could collect the insurance money to upgrade to a pricier Bentley. The teen allegedly worked out a deal with accomplices to steal his white 2002 BMW M3 outside a building. He planned to use the insurance payout to get a more expensive car.
The youth's accomplices took the car, and it was reported stolen. Police later caught four people stripping the car of its parts.
The men implicated the teen in the crime and he was arrested at his workplace. - seattletimes.nwsource.com
"Why in the world would you think your cell phone would work in your house? The customer has come to expect so much. They want it to work in the elevator, they want it to work in the basement." –– Verizon Chairman and CEO Ivan Seidenberg
Couldn't the company correct customer expectations by distributing statistics on how often Verizon's service works indoors or by providing more detailed coverage maps that show all possible dead zones? Seidenberg said it wasn't Verizon's responsibility.
Verizon owns and operates Verizon Wireless through a joint venture with Britain's Vodafone Group. Verizon Wireless was the most highly rated wireless carrier in a survey published by Consumer Reports magazine.
The Verizon chairman also mocked San Francisco's interest in building a municipal wireless Internet, or Wi-Fi, network. "That could be one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard," he told the Chronicle. "It sounds like a good thing, but the trouble is someone will have to design it, someone will have to upgrade it, someone will have to maintain it and someone will have to run it." - sptimes.com
In an attempt to improve school standards test scores, principal helps students cheat on tests
A veteran principal and school administrator has been suspended while officials investigate allegations that she helped students cheat on tests. Jayne Gibbs was placed on a paid leave after eighth graders her Junior Academy said she had given them answers to questions on a School Assessment test.
She was previously principal at another middle school in the district where students' scores on standardized tests improved dramatically during her tenure. Between 2002 and 2003, the percentage of students testing proficient in math on the local exam jumped from 11 percent to 71 percent. - channelone.com
Published in the Rising Stars on April 28, 2005
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