BITE-SIZED NEWS INTERNATIONAL Police say Norway mass murder suspect is insane The man accused of killing 77 people in a terrorist rampage that shook Norway last summer is insane and cannot be sentenced to prison or preventative detention, but can be confined to a mental …
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No Snacks? No Class!
No snacks? No class! Ramsey Kincannon News Editor George Parrott, a professor at Sacramento State University, is under fire for a policy he enacted shortly after starting at the University in 1969: he won’t teach unless his students bake him snacks. After walking out of …
STUDENTS HURT AS 6-YEAR-OLD DROPS PISTOL
Students were sitting down in a cafeteria at an elementary school in Houston when a loaded pistol tumbled out of the pocket of a 6-year-old boy and discharged, injuring him and two other children, school officials said. They were taken by ambulance to a hospital. …
TORNADO HITS HARD ACROSS U.S.
A string of twisters† traveled from Oklahoma to Virginia before going out to sea Sunday. They demolished and damaged schools, big-box stores and brick houses, killing at least 45 people. Although authorities are still assessing the damage, as many as 90 percent of the fatalities …
ABORTION OUTLAWED IN IDAHO
The Idaho legislature on Tuesday gave final approval to a measure that would outlaw abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless it could be proved that the pregnancy endangered the woman’s life. The Senate-backed bill cleared the House in a 54-14 vote and now heads …
Last World War One Veteran Dies
Last World War One Veteran Frank Buckles died last Sunday at the age of 110. He had recently recovered from a chest infection and seemed in reasonably good health for a man of his age. aving lived from the dawn of the 20th century, he …