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180、Teen crashes car after hearing doll cry Fri Dec 1, 6:03 AM ET



PLEASANTON, Calif. - The perils of parenting apparently can be discovered through a classroom project.

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A startled 17-year-old girl swerved her car into a freeway guardrail and slammed into a pickup truck after the realistic-sounding baby doll in her care suddenly began to cry.

The teenager had just picked up the doll as part of a school project on responsible parenting minutes before the accident occurred Tuesday on I-580, said Steve Creel, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol.

The educational doll cries and wets itself and has a recording device that monitors how long it takes the doll's "parent" to respond to its crying.

The girl, whose named was not released because of her age, was driving around 65 miles per hour in a Mini Cooper when the fake baby sprang to tears, causing her to crash into the guardrail and swerve back onto the freeway where she hit a Ford F-350 pickup truck.

"When officers arrived, she was still caring for the baby," Creel said.

No one was seriously injured in the crash, but the CHP will pursue charges because the girl was driving without a license, he said.

181、Two Miss. inmates thwart escape attempt Fri Dec 1, 5:25 PM ET



LAUREL, Miss. - Jones County authorities are crediting two inmates with thwarting the escape attempt of a third. Sheriff Larry Dykes said a trusty at the jail, Danny Lamar Odom, 47, bolted Thursday from a work crew toward a field behind the jail.

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Dykes said Odom had been working in the kitchen and was helping unload food boxes from a delivery truck when the attempted escape occurred.

Dykes said two younger trusties, Reginald Ducksworth and Jacob Lambert, also were helping unload the truck. They chased down Odom and brought him back to the jail.

"I've never heard of anything like this before and probably never will again," Dykes said.

Ducksworth and Lambert normally wash cars for police, Highway Patrol and sheriff's department patrol units, Dykes said. As trusties, they do chores in and around the jail in south Mississippi.

Lambert told the Laurel Leader-Call that Odom "just took off and started running."

"I turned to the duty officer and asked him if we should go after him and he said, 'Go get him,'" Lambert said.

Odom ran about 150 yards before Ducksworth and Lambert caught him just inside the field.

Odom was serving time for possession of a firearm by an ex-felon. Dykes said felony fleeing is being added to his list of offenses, and the newest charge likely would add about five more years to his sentence.

"He's tried to escape before, years ago when he was being held here," Dykes said. "I guess he's gotten older than he thought he was."

182、W.Va. city's Xmas scene has no Jesus By TOM BREEN, Associated Press Writer
Fri Dec 1, 6:31 PM ET



ST. ALBANS, W.Va. - Christ is missing from Christmas in this small town. The community's holiday display has a manger with shepherds, a guiding star, camels and a palm tree, but no baby Jesus, Mary or Joseph.

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The parks superintendent said Jesus was left out because of concerns about the separation of church and state. But Mayor Dick Callaway said it was done for purely technical reasons: "It's not easy to put a light-up representation of a baby in a small manger scene, you know."

In recent years, some communities around the country have dropped nativity scenes after the displays were challenged as unconstitutional. Some communities have tried to head off legal problems by incorporating nonreligious symbols, or symbols of more than one faith, to avoid the appearance of endorsing one religion over another.

David Cunningham, parks superintendent in this town of 11,000, initially insisted St. Albans' display was not even technically a manger scene because he was concerned about possible lawsuits. But the mayor said such anxieties were unwarranted.

"We have a manger scene," the mayor said.

Around the country, only a few skirmishes in what some conservatives have called the "War on Christmas" have been reported this year so far.

Some retailers, including Wal-Mart, have returned to greeting customers with "Merry Christmas" after coming under attack last year for saying "Happy Holidays."

Two weeks ago, the Marine Reserves Toys for Tots program in Los Angeles overcame concerns about accepting a donation of 4,000 talking Jesus dolls that quote Bible verses by promising to make sure the dolls reach Christian children.

Some people are still scratching their heads over what happened in Chicago, where the movie studio behind "The Nativity Story" was dropped as a sponsor of a Christmas festival for fear of offending non-Christians.

In Wheeling, baby Jesus is represented in a manger scene at Olgebay Park's Winter Festival of Lights, which draws visitors from across the country.

"If anything, we get criticized for not having more examples of that type of thing," said J.C. Douglas Dalby, president of the Wheeling Park Commission.

182、Wanted: Bell-Ringers in Montana Fri Dec 1, 6:06 AM ET



HELENA, Mont. - The Salvation Army in Montana is falling behind in its holiday collections because it can't find enough bell-ringers.

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On Wednesday, only seven of 14 locations around the city were staffed, and that was a good showing, said Stan Jones, an officer with The Salvation Army.

"The problem is, the few bell-ringers we have are real off-and-on ― they don't always show up," Jones said.

Daily collections are lagging between $400 and $1,000 behind last year. In just a week, Jones said the local Salvation Army has already fallen $2,700 off last year's pace.

"By the end of the season, at this pace, we'd be about $10,000 short," Jones said.

Even at $6.50 an hour, good bell-ringers are hard to find.

The job is posted at the Helena Job Service and Jones hasn't received any interest among residents at God's Love, a homeless shelter.

Bob Ruth, who has worked at God's Love for a dozen years, said the shelter's residents don't appear interested in the job, even though they are given two weeks to find work and some of the money raised by The Salvation Army might eventually help God's Love.

"I've tried to get them to ring the bells, but they say it's not enough money," Ruth said. "I guess they don't have any interest. It bothers me when they won't do anything."

183、Wanted: Bell-Ringers in Montana Fri Dec 1, 6:06 AM ET



HELENA, Mont. - The Salvation Army in Montana is falling behind in its holiday collections because it can't find enough bell-ringers.

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On Wednesday, only seven of 14 locations around the city were staffed, and that was a good showing, said Stan Jones, an officer with The Salvation Army.

"The problem is, the few bell-ringers we have are real off-and-on ― they don't always show up," Jones said.

Daily collections are lagging between $400 and $1,000 behind last year. In just a week, Jones said the local Salvation Army has already fallen $2,700 off last year's pace.

"By the end of the season, at this pace, we'd be about $10,000 short," Jones said.

Even at $6.50 an hour, good bell-ringers are hard to find.

The job is posted at the Helena Job Service and Jones hasn't received any interest among residents at God's Love, a homeless shelter.

Bob Ruth, who has worked at God's Love for a dozen years, said the shelter's residents don't appear interested in the job, even though they are given two weeks to find work and some of the money raised by The Salvation Army might eventually help God's Love.

"I've tried to get them to ring the bells, but they say it's not enough money," Ruth said. "I guess they don't have any interest. It bothers me when they won't do anything."

185、Wanted: Bell-Ringers in Montana Fri Dec 1, 6:06 AM ET



HELENA, Mont. - The Salvation Army in Montana is falling behind in its holiday collections because it can't find enough bell-ringers.

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On Wednesday, only seven of 14 locations around the city were staffed, and that was a good showing, said Stan Jones, an officer with The Salvation Army.

"The problem is, the few bell-ringers we have are real off-and-on ― they don't always show up," Jones said.

Daily collections are lagging between $400 and $1,000 behind last year. In just a week, Jones said the local Salvation Army has already fallen $2,700 off last year's pace.

"By the end of the season, at this pace, we'd be about $10,000 short," Jones said.

Even at $6.50 an hour, good bell-ringers are hard to find.

The job is posted at the Helena Job Service and Jones hasn't received any interest among residents at God's Love, a homeless shelter.

Bob Ruth, who has worked at God's Love for a dozen years, said the shelter's residents don't appear interested in the job, even though they are given two weeks to find work and some of the money raised by The Salvation Army might eventually help God's Love.

"I've tried to get them to ring the bells, but they say it's not enough money," Ruth said. "I guess they don't have any interest. It bothers me when they won't do anything."

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Window washer falls asleep on 20th floor Thu Nov 30, 11:06 PM ET



NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A window washer working on a downtown Nashville high-rise building apparently fell asleep on the job, authorities say.

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The man, whom fire officials did not immediately identify, was cleaning the glass on the 20th floor of the Fifth Third Bank building on Church Street Friday when several onlookers noticed he was not moving.

The man came to after firefighters tugged on his ropes, then held up a sign from inside the window to get his attention. The worker lowered himself to the sidewalk, where he was examined by paramedics.

Assistant Fire Chief Lee Bergeron said it appeared as if the man fell asleep, but added that he couldn't be certain.

"I figured he had just either passed out or maybe he had fallen asleep," said onlooker Leroy Anderson, who said he had been watching the man for 30 minutes before fire engines arrived. "It's sunny and warm up there, and there's no wind."

Nashville Fire Chief Henry Booker said the worker was taken to Baptist Hospital to be checked for a rapid heartbeat, but said he expected the man to be released.

"It's unusual to fall asleep outside while on scaffolding that high up," Booker said.

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Information from: The Tennessean, http://www.tennessean.com

187、Wis. woman accused of faking cancer Thu Nov 30, 8:44 PM ET



MADISON, Wis. - A Wisconsin woman faked having cancer and collected thousands of dollars from sympathetic donors in the process, according to a criminal complaint.

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The complaint, filed Wednesday, said some people drove Angelia Culberson, 36, to the University of Wisconsin Hospital for supposed chemotherapy treatments.

The report identifies a dozen people and two businesses who donated a total of $6,000 for Culberson's cause.

Culberson even shaved her head to continue the ruse, according to the complaint.

The complaint identifies a document in which Culberson wrote that she lied to a co-worker about why she missed work because she was taking tests and that she might have had Hodgkin's disease.

Culberson has been charged with felony theft, which could carry up to 15 years in prison or a $10,000 fine if she is convicted.

In court documents, Culberson said living with the lie was a nightmare.

A message left at the office of Culberson's lawyer, Mark Borns, wasn't immediately returned Thursday night, and no one answered at his home number.

188、Woman sentenced for condom explosives Wed Nov 29, 9:06 PM ET



BOSTON - A former strip club waitress was sentenced Wednesday to five years of supervised release after she pleaded guilty to mailing threatening letters and flammable material, including condoms filled with a potentially explosive mixture, court documents said.

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The documents said Kimberly Lynn Dasilva, 49, of Hull, mailed the condoms to a television station, strip clubs where she had worked and other places, saying she was tired of being mistreated by men. In May, she pleaded guilty to mailing threatening communications and a violation of injurious articles as nonmailable.

U.S. District Judge George O'Toole sentenced Dasilva to the supervised release with conditions, including not contacting victims, receiving mental health counseling and treatment, performing 500 hours of community service and refraining from alcohol.

None of the condoms exploded. Dasilva told investigators she did not think they would explode.

189、Ancient skull found on N.Y. property Fri Dec 1, 4:08 PM ET



WATERMILL, N.Y. - Archaeologists surveying a property earmarked for a Long Island housing development discovered an ancient skull.

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The Suffolk County medical examiner's office on Thursday determined that the skull was that of an American Indian dating back 1,000 to 3,000 years.

The skull, which was unearthed Wednesday, has been turned over to the Shinnecock Indian Nation in Southampton for reburial, the Town of Southampton police said.

The town requires archaeologists to study land for American Indian artifacts before development can begin because of the centuries-old history of the Shinnecock tribe on the shores of Eastern Long Island.

There are 1,300 members of the Shinnecock Nation, 600 of whom live on a 1,200-acre reservation adjacent to the Town of Southampton. A spokesman didn't immediately return a telephone message Friday.

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On the Net: http://www.shinnecocknation.com