| Truant kids, parents get lesson in court
O'Neil deals with a teenager who just had a baby. Her mom is by her side and the baby is strapped to her chest. She left school to have the child but was supposed to receive at-home services. According to mom, the teacher never showed up. "That's your job, mom, you should have been on that," O'Neil says. "Pedro Garcia should have tripped over you every day until your child got the homebound teacher she needed. "If she had cancer, you'd be breaking down the door at Vanderbilt," he says, now yelling. "This is cancer of the mind. She didn't get a homebound teacher and you didn't do anything about it." O'Neil says there's only so much the court can do to force kids to go to school. In some cases, the parents go to lengthy measures to keep kids out of school, including registering them in home school or moving so they can't be found.
Plateau Earns Top Ratings for Customer Satisfaction and Completeness ...
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Vigil honors slain restaurant owner
He fought to stay composed at Friday's candlelight vigil for his best friend, Degene Barecha, who was gunned down Wednesday in his Central District store, Philadelphia Cheese Steak. Kefenine wrapped his arms around the women, whose agony could be heard a block away. Then he crouched below a bullet hole in a store window, knelt on the curb and saw the blood that still stained the beige floor. He put his head in his hands and broke down. .
Surveillance System Raises Privacy Concerns
The security surveillance system, dubbed RealEyes, could help agents identify and track down a suspect, help police find a lost child or guide firefighters to disaster victims, according to Homeland Security spokeswoman Amy Kudwa. It could be a "very valuable" tool in the government's security and emergency-response efforts, she says. .
More: Britney Spears , Kevin Federline , Lynne Spears
I'm pretty sure inside the courtroom there's at least 50 cops, a guy in a safari hat with a tranquilizer gun and a tank. Although, I'm basing this on the picture I drew on the back of the stock report. I would've put an X-wing fighter in the jury box but my boss confiscated my box of crayons. Fortunately I keep a magic marker taped to my inner thigh. Wait, that's not a marker… Continue Reading "Britney Spears will not receive special treatment" .
Filed under: MilwaukeeBrewers
The Brewers bullpen seems to be improved on paper. Doug Melvin spent a lot of time on that in the offseason signing Riske, Mota, Torres, and the biggest name signing of Gagne. I trust Doug Melvin, I really do, but that doesn't mean that these signings don't make me a little twitchy. All of these guys with the exception of Riske are coming off of seasons that weren't their best. They can't afford the nice house in good condition, so they go for the same size house that is in forclosure down the block. They get it, get in there, and see what the previous owners left and how much work they have to do to it to get it back into a condition they can live with. So far they have had a pretty good track record with their "house flipping ventures." I have my reservations that it will last right now. According to a jsonline.com article, it almost seems like the fact that they didn't have good years last year is what made them so enticing to Melvin.
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