Remorse, Detention for Snow-Day Caller
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High school senior Devraj "Dave" S. Kori, who may be remembered someday as the Fairfax County champion of the snow day, will spend a Saturday in detention at Lake Braddock Secondary School for the phone call that started it all.
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The Hillsborough County, Florida, sheriff on Wednesday offered a personal apology to a disabled man who was dumped onto the floor from his wheelchair while in deputies' custody.
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SHEBOYGAN, Wis. - Sheboygan County prosecutors hope to add imprisonment to injury. They charged a 31-year-old man Monday with being a felon in possession of a firearm after he shot himself in the foot Friday. Patrick R. Hupf Jr.
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Tom Day started working here 29 years ago as a lift attendant, and today he is Waterville Valley's general manager. Over his tenure, he has pulled many a lift ticket from skiers and snowboarders for on-snow infractions like excessive speed or going down closed trails. Now many of those rebels are back with their own children, ...
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School officials in Harford County, Maryland, are using a robo-dialing service that automatically calls students' homes and plays a prerecorded message if a snowstorm closes schools. By the Associated Press.
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Dawnette Knight entered the pleas at an arraignment on one count of stalking and 24 counts of making criminal threats. If convicted, she could face up to 19 years in prison.
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ATHENS -- Tammy Crow had to put it all aside for about four minutes. The sports utility vehicle veering off a snowy road. The two people who died. The three-month jail sentence awaiting back home.
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A husband and wife who were stranded in heavy snow for 12 days were rescued in Utah when a snowplow driver happened upon them on a little-traveled canyon road. After writing their wills and recording messages for their daughter, the pair had abandoned their snowbound truck and hiked with their dog for three days.
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Farmers and fishermen hit by a Feb. 19 snowstorm can ask the Internal Revenue Service to waive any estimated-tax penalties, the tax agency said Wednesday.
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By Christopher Magan Staff Writer  TRENTON -- A prank to cancel school just a day before 7 inches of snow shut down local schools this week has two Edgewood High School girls facing felony charges.
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WALKERTON, Ont. (CP) - The man who will serve a year in jail for his role in the tainted-water tragedy that killed seven people hopes the devastated Ontario community can one day forgive him, his lawyer said Monday.
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EASTPOINTE, Mich. - A 23-year-old woman ticketed by police after a friend was talking on a cell phone outside her home following a barbecue has landed in jail for violating the city's noise ordinance.
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By Geoffrey Fattah Deseret Morning News  A former television weatherman was convicted Wednesday in federal court on charges of transporting, receiving and possessing child pornography.
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PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. (CP) - A Florida satellite talk-radio host was thrust into the middle of an armed standoff in a Manitoba town early Wednesday when he spent almost five hours on the phone with a suspect who had already fired a gun at police.
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By ELBERT AULL Staff Writer The Associated Press contributed to this report.  Game wardens are scheduled to resume their search this morning for a Massachusetts man who went missing after a snowmobile accident on Sebago Lake late Saturday.
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Thomas Coughlin, who was sentenced to home detention after pleading guilty to five counts of wire fraud and one count of filing false tax returns, got off too light, an appeals court ruled.
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Â· Decision expected soon on whether to hold retrialÂ· Four convicted men to be sentenced today