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Sewer system probed following plutonium spill

World Net Daily (CO)

July 02, 2008

City officials in Boulder, are investigating whether plutonium, the key ingredient in triggers for nuclear bombs, was washed into their municipal wastewater system when the metal was spilled during a project at the NIST.

According to a report in the Denver Post, the contamination may have reached the municipal system when two people involved in the spill a week earlier washed their hands in a washroom, just feet from the lab where a vial holding a quarter gram of plutonium powder was spilled.

Federal workers contaminated with plutonium

World Net Daily (CO)

July 02, 2008

An unspecified number of federal workers on the Boulder, Colo., campus of the National Institute of Standards and Technology will have to be treated for plutonium contamination after an accident.

NIST officials confirmed that a "small number of personnel" have tested positive for the exposure and will undergo chelation treatment in hopes of preventing an advanced risk for cancer.

More information on arrest of county worker

Las Vegas Sun

by Abigail Goldman

June 27, 2008

New information about the arrest of Clark County Senior Family Service Specialist Deborah Ann Edmonston has surfaced - though there are still several questions to be answered.

Edmonston, who was charged with two counts of battery with a deadly weapon related to domestic violence, child endangerment and malicious destruction of private property, was driving her 14-year-old daughter to her father's house and pulled the girl by her hair back into the car when she tried to get out.

Drilling for new taxes

World Net Daily (CA)

by Doug Powers

June 23, 2008

The coming election is now all about finding viable solutions for our energy problems. Just kidding it's all about excuses to drill in the region of our wallets and purses again.

Unless we can figure out a way to put caribou on our paychecks, the worst is yet to come. Barack Obama opposes a lift on the ban on oil drilling off the Florida coast. Not only because drilling would cause disruptive ripples in the water on which Obama's walking, but because he claims it would take at least 10 years...

3 suspected illegal immigrants given $60,000 in workers comp benefits

The Western Star (OH)

June 14, 2008

The Butler County Sheriff's Office has teamed with the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation to investigate various violations of laws that resulted in the arrests of three suspected illegal immigrants in the past several weeks.

The three arrested have received workers compensation benefits of almost $60,000, officials said. They have been identified as illegal immigrants and Immigration and Customs Enforcement also have placed holders on them for deportation.

High Fuel Prices Drive up Donkey Prices in Turkey

Novinite (Bulgaria)

by M3 Communications Group

June 11, 2008

The prices of donkeys in the Yozgat District in Central Turkey have increased sevenfold as many local people are giving up the use of tractors over the high fuel prices.

Because of the increased demand the price of one donkey grew from EUR 26 to about EUR 180, the Turkish newspaper Zaman reported.

Improper pressure on caseworkers?

The Wichita Eagle

by Tim Potter

June 08, 2008

Concerns arise over SRS files' validity -- For years, some families have complained that court documents filed by social workers that result in children being removed from the home have contained false or fabricated information.

Now, some say they have proof. The head of the state's child welfare agency was recorded in a meeting with a family advocacy group saying that Sedgwick County prosecutors have "bullied" social workers into putting information they don't agree with in affidavits. Those affidavits are used to decide whether children remain in protective custody or are returned to their parents.

State social worker charged with DUI while transporting a child

Lexington Herald-Leader

by Valarie Honeycutt Spears

May 16, 2008

A state social worker has twice been charged with driving under the influence of drugs -- once while transporting a child for a family court hearing.

Justin Prater was arrested in Knott County on April 7, when he arrived with the child after driving 115 miles from Greenup County to Knott County.

Unemployment plummets after crackdown on illegals

World Net Daily (OK)

by Jerome R. Corsi

April 24, 2008

Unemployment rates are rising across the United States, except Oklahoma.

That state is experiencing the most dramatic reduction in unemployment since 2007, an improvement many in Oklahoma attribute to the passage last year by the state legislature of a strong employment-focused immigration reform law.

Colleges in Missouri are recruiting home-schooled students

Columbia Missourian

by Megan McCalla

April 06, 2008

The number of home-schooled students in Missouri has risen from 2,253 in 1998 to 5,409 in 2007.

Home schooling in the U.S. has begun to catch the eye of universities nationwide. In the past 10 years, the number of children home schooled has increased from an estimated 850,000 to nearly 2 million. Many are bright, well educated and well socialized, and universities are courting them more rigorously every year.

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