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.
He said the teacher told Edgewood High School administrators that the students, all cheerleaders, asked her to take them to the bar in February.
The
teacher told school officials in an e-mail that she got permission from
the parents of the 17- and 18-year-olds to bring them to the club.
The teacher taught marketing at the school and previously served as a coach for the district’s eighth-grade cheerleaders.
Crater of Diamonds State Park, Arkansas : Chad Johnson nearly threw away his largest find ever, 4.38 carat, tea-colored diamond.
Chad Johnson has found about 80 diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Park, but on Monday he nearly threw away his largest find yet. A cube-shaped rock plucked out of his sifters turned out to be a 4.38-carat, tea-colored diamond.
Johnson, 36, made the dig Saturday at the park and left his equipment in a locker. When he came back Monday morning, he made the discovery.
Crater of Diamonds State Park, which opened in 1972, is the world’s only diamond-producing site open to the public, and visitors can keep the gems they unearth. The largest diamond found at the park was the 16.37-carat Amarillo Starlight, a white diamond found in 1975.
Johnson’s find is the second-largest diamond uncovered at the park this year. In June, a Louisiana man found a 4.8-carat stone. More than 700 diamonds have been found there this year.
Since moving to Arkansas from Iowa in February, Johnson said, he was living off money made by selling diamonds. He only recently took a job at a convenience store, partly because he “got tired of selling diamonds to make ends meet.”
Park officials declined to speculate how much money Johnson could get for the diamond. Johnson suggested he expects much more than what he is used to getting.
“If someone offers me that much money, it’s theirs,” Johnson said.
Where is Crater of Diamonds State Park?
The Crater of Diamonds State Park is an Arkansas State Park located near Murfreesboro in Pike County, Arkansas, USA containing the only diamond producing site in the world open to the public.
108 cars and 18 big rig trucks collided in the fog on Highway 99 near Fresno, California on Saturday November 3, 2007
108 car crash pile up in Fresno involving 18 big rig trucks is one of the worst in terms of numbers of vehicles involved, in U.S. history in terms of the number of vehicles.
The first impact happened just before 8 a.m. in the northbound lanes just south of American Avenue. Even as rescuers worked to help the injured, more cars and trucks crashed into the growing pileup.
“Our firefighters could hear other crashes happening in the distance,” said Cal Fire/Fresno County Fire Capt. Mike Bowman. “It definitely affects the psyche of the firefighters.”
By the time it was over, the wreckage extended from American Avenue about a mile south toward Clovis Avenue, investigators said.
18 big rig trucks were also damaged in the vehicle crash, which occurred on northbound Highway 99 just south of Fresno in deep fog. Witnesses states that the fog made it hard to see and that may have added to the increase in the accident occurring. This is verified by the CHP.
“It looked like something out of a movie, walking up and seeing all the cars mangled and crushed,” according to CHP Officer Paul Solorzano Jr.
“There was probably 2-foot visibility in the fog when I got here. It was really bad,” “It looked like chaos.” “Cars were backed up on top of each other”, according to Mike Bowman, who is a spokesperson for California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
First responders extracted many from their cars and trucks. The ambulances transported at least three dozen wounded to the emergency room with injuries, according toKen Shockley, a Fresno Fire Department spokesperson.
“Everybody was trying to miss everybody, but it was impossible not to get hit,” according to Cindy Ramirez, who is 21 years old.
The freeway’s northbound lanes were shut down and accident reconstructionists are at work trying to determine fault. Traffic was backed up for many miles just south of the crash site but the Southbound lanes did not close.
This type thick seasonal fog is called “Tule fog” and is common in Central California during the winter and fall months. Recently another part of the highway just due south of this wreck was the accident site of a 74-car chain collision in autumn. That was about ten years ago and two people died in that one.
The most deadly, weather-related accident happened the day after Thanksgiving in 1991. Fierce winds stirred up a huge dust storm that reduced visibility on Interstate 5 in western Fresno County to zero. Five pileups involving 127 vehicles left 17 people dead.
Traffic was backed up for miles on the highway, a major north-south connector through the Central Valley. But late Saturday, authorities said they hoped to have the northbound lanes reopened by 9 p.m. By 6 p.m., all but four vehicles had either been towed from the scene or driven away. By 9:30 p.m. the lanes were reopened.
A dentist was dancing to a song on the radio while drilling on a woman’s tooth, and she wound up in the hospital when the drill bit snapped off and lodged near her eye, a lawsuit alleges.
Brandy Fanning, 31, said she had to undergo emergency surgery and spent three days in the hospital because of the October 2004 mishap.
The federal lawsuit filed last month against Dr. George Trusty seeks $600,000 for her medical expenses, pain and suffering
Trusty, 57, a dentist at Syracuse Community Health Center, declined to comment, as did Dr. Ruben Cowart, the center’s president and CEO.
Fanning said she went to the center’s emergency dental clinic after pain in a left molar started getting worse. With a root canal ruled out as an option, Trusty gave her some Novocain and began drilling to break up the tooth before extracting it, she said.
As Trusty drilled, he was “performing rhythmical steps and movements to the song `Car Wash,’” which was on the radio, according to the lawsuit. Then, Fanning heard a snap.
Trusty tried to use a metal hook to pull the bit out, but that only pushed it farther up, driving it through the sinus and bone near her eye socket, the lawsuit alleged.
After first minimizing the problem, Trusty talked to an oral surgeon to set up an appointment — and then told Fanning she needed to get to an emergency room immediately, according to the lawsuit.
She claimed he had initially told she would likely sneeze the drill bit out, but doctors said later that if she really had sneezed, the drill bit could have blinded her left eye.
Atlanta Police Commander Faces Disciplinary Action Following Traffic Incident
ATLANTA (FOX 5) — A FOX 5 exclusive — an internal city report says an Atlanta police commander faces disciplinary action for putting the public in danger. Atlanta police video caught the high-ranking officer traveling 90 miles per hour in a 55 mile per hour zone.
This is not the first time that Atlanta Police Department is under scrutiny. Kathryn Johnston, 92-year-old Atlanta, Georgia woman shot by three undercover police in her home on Neal Street in northwest Atlanta on November 21, 2006 where she had lived for 17 years. She opened fire on the officers after they pried off burglar bars and broke down her door using a no knock warrant.
Two police officers pleaded guilty to manslaughter, violation of oath, criminal solicitation, and making false statements on April 27, 2007 in the shooting death of a 92-year-old woman during a botched drug raid. A third officer was also indicted in the woman’s death.
Astragalus is also known as milk vetch root (referring to astragalus species that grow in the United States) and huang-qi. It is an adaptogen, that is, it has a balancing effect on bodily functions. Astragalus is used by practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine to strengthen or tone the body’s overall vitality, improve digestion, and support the spleen.
Studies confirm it contains medicinally active compounds, including a polysaccharide that stimulates the immune system and to increase the body’s resistance to common viruses.
Estee Lauder Cosmetic Co., of New York, opened its own research center in Shanghai in late 2005, and offers such products as Origins Plantidote Mega-Mushroom Face Serum, with reishi mushroom, and Re-nutriv Ultimate Lifting Serum, with Astragalus root to fight wrinkles.
Coca-Cola Co. has announced the opening of a research center for health-and-wellness drinks at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, in Beijing. The launch makes Coke the first international company to start a research facility at the institution, the Atlanta company said. The drinks will be made from traditional Chinese herbs and flowers such as chrysanthemum and myrobalan, a prune-like fruit rich in antioxidants.
Marie Osmond collapsed Monday night during a live “Dancing with the Stars” reality television program.
She had just finished an energetic samba with her professional partner when Osmond collapsed. An out-of-breath Osmond was listening to the judges’ comments when she fell to the floor.
Host Tom Bergeron quickly went to a commercial break.
By the time the program resumed a few minutes later, Osmond was back on her feet.
Kingda Ka at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey
Kingda Ka is the fastest and tallest roller coaster in the world. The train is launched by a hydraulic launch mechanism to 128 miles per hour (206 km/h) in 3.5 seconds. At the end of the launch track, the train climbs the main top hat tower reaching a height of 456 feet (139.5 m) That’s 45 stories into the sky.
Ride Summary:
Get propelled horizontally at 128 mph (world record) via hydraulic launch
Hang on tight as you shoot 90 degrees into a quarter-turn
Blast 456 feet high, then plunge vertically into a 270-degree spiral
Experience weightlessness as you swoop down a valley and up a 129-foot camel hump
