A Macon GA area third-grader was suspended from school after he pointed a toy gun at a parent while walking home from school....

 

MACON — A Macon area third-grader was suspended from school after he pointed a toy gun at a parent while walking home from school Thursday.

The Ingram-Pye third-grader is awaiting a hearing to determine whether he should be expelled from school. School systems have zero tolerance policies in place when it comes to dangerous weapons at school, and officials have to take even toy guns into account.

"You have to assume they are real," Bibb County school Superintendent Sharon Patterson said.

She said the school system is doing its part to be proactive, but parents need to be more aware and take more responsibility for what their children bring onto school property.

Ingram-Pye Elementary School.

"I think it's a snowball effect," Hasan said, referring to several recent incidents in Bibb, Jones and Dublin schools in which students or young adults carried real and toy guns onto campus.

Earlier this week, an 18-year-old was arrested and charged for having a toy gun and knife on a Bibb school property.

In Dublin, an eighth-grader was suspended for bringing a loaded handgun to Dublin Middle School.

Also this month, four Jones County High School students were suspended for bringing weapons to school. Three students were questioned for having pocketknives, and a hunting rifle and bow and arrow were found in another student's truck.

At Howard High School in Bibb County, two girls were charged with having a loaded handgun at school.

"We need to make parents more aware to look into their kids' book bag before they go to school," Hasan said.

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Sammy Sosa celebrates 41st birthday with wife and New Lite Skin! No one told Sammy that Darkskinned bros are In??

Former baseball slugger Sammy Sosa celebrated his birthday with his wife Sonia on his arm at the famed Fontainebleau Hotel on Miami Beach over the weekend.

Sosa turned 41 on Nov. 12. He looks like a peacock strutting his new light skin around the room. His new skin has brought him a lot of attention since his public debut at a Latin awards event two weeks ago.

At first Sosa tried to deny the obvious. But then he decided to come clean and admit he used bleaching cream all along to lighten his complexion to the more socially acceptable whiter hue. Sosa said his new look is the result of a "bleaching cream that I apply before going to bed and it whitens my skin some."

Some?

But did Sammy really use bleaching cream all over his body, which would seem impractical? Or did he get the injections like Michael Jackson did, which works faster in the bloodstream and gives him an overall even skin tone?

Whatever he used to achieve his results, it worked. He's obviously happy to be accepted into the white society in his community.

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Police taser 10 yr old girl after Parents call the Police to help make her go to Bed.....

The local police chief in Ozark, Arkansas is standing behind one of his officers who tasered a 10-year-old girl who was refusing to go to bed.

The bizarre story is laid out in a police incident report obtained by website The Smoking Gun.

Officer Dustin Bradshaw was called to the home by a woman complaining that her daughter was being unruly and refusing to go to sleep. Bradshaw wrote that when he arrived at the home, he found Kiara Medlock "balled up in (sic) the floor crying and screaming."

After watching her mother attempt to get Kiara into the bathtub with little success, Bradshaw took the girl into the living room and threatened her with jail. That didn't settle things down. At some point, Bradshaw claims Kiara's mother told him to "taser her if I needed to."

Bradshaw then tried to handcuff Kiara. But he couldn't manage that either.

To hear Bradshaw tell it, he was now in the midst of a full-on brawl on the living-room floor with Kiara, a Grade 5 student. The 65-pounder was "verbally combative ... struck me with her legs and feet in the groin," Bradshaw wrote.

That's when he reached for his holster and delivered a "very very (sic) brief drive stun to her back with my taser."

Unsurprisingly, Kiara's struggling stopped immediately. Bradshaw then cuffed her and carried her to his squad car, since she could no longer walk.

The incident hit the news when Kiara's father, Anthony Medlock, took exception. Medlock does not live with Kiara's mother.

"I want to know how the heck in God's green earth can they get away with this ... If you can't pick the kid up and take her to your car, handcuff her, then I don't think you need to be an officer," Medlock told local Ozark 40/29 news. He said his daughter has shown signs of emotional issues, but she "doesn't deserve to be treated like a dog."

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Woman loses Disability Payment over Photos posted to "Facebook"....

MONTREAL, Canada - A 29-year-old woman has been stripped of her disability insurance after her insurance company saw pictures she uploaded to the popular social networking site, Facebook

Nathalie Blanchard of Montreal has been on disability leave from her job at IBM for nearly two years since she was diagnosed with major depression.

But she stopped receiving disability payments in the mail after her insurance company saw photos on her Facebook profile showing her smiling and having a good time. Because of those photos, her insurer told Nathalie she was OK to return to work since she didn't appear to be depressed in the photos.

Blanchard depends on her community of Facebook friends a lot these days.

In February 2008, she says after 10 years working at IBM, her life started to unravel.

"I suffered anxiety attacks, and depression. I couldn't work anymore," Blanchard said.

In fact, she says her doctor as well as the company's insurance psychiatrist ordered her to go on disability insurance. And that's what she's been living on until they cut her off last month. Blanchard says she phoned her insurance representative to find out why.

"She said she had taken my picture from my Facebook. And she said that I'm not sick," Blanchard said.

She says the representative referred to pictures at a Chippendale event at a local bar as well as comments she made about climbing a local mountain.

Her lawyer is Tom Lavin. He is preparing a suit against IBM as well as the insurance company.

"Because there are no precedents, it's a free-for-all right now, and probably there are no rules or boundaries," Lavin said.

Lavin says the insurance company says its decision is based on a psychiatric reevaluation, though Blanchard has not met with the psychiatrist.

Insurance companies make no secret that Facebook has become a tool for investigation.

"We cannot ignore it," Claude Distasio, of the Canadian Life and Health Insurance Association, said. "Whatever the source of the information is, we cannot ignore it."

And so far the insurance company, according to Blanchard's lawyer, has not handed over its reevaluation report.

"I don't understand why I gave all my life to IBM to get what I get now," Blanchard said.

IBM has not commented on this case.

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Top High School Player in Texas is the Son of former Dallas Cowboy....

There is only so much the father can say about his son's football skills as he cautiously maneuvers through an NCAA minefield of bylaw subparagraphs and potential recruiting violations.

"You know, as a recruiter I can't really talk about him," Jim Jeffcoat was saying over the telephone from his assistant coach's office at the University of Houston. "But as a father, I can tell you that I would guess he is exactly what this school is looking for."

A hearty laugh punctuated the words of the man known in college football recruiting circles these days as Jackson Jeffcoat's father. He knows NCAA rules are very specific about what college recruiters can say about high school players. They've been legislated into silence about anything more than the fact they know the kid exists and their school has an interest.

And here is the piece de resistance in the Jim-Jackson, father-son, recruiter-recruit tale: Jackson Jeffcoat just may be the best high school player in the country. ESPN ranks Jackson the nation's No. 1 recruit. To be fair, Rivals.com, another respected ranker of recruits, is not quite as impressed. It rates Jackson, a senior defensive end at Plano West, only at No. 5.

But even the powerful enforcer of college football rules knows it can't legislate the speech of a man who has changed his son's diapers, watched him take his first steps, helped with homework, fussed to make that tie look just right on prom night and taught him a thing or two about technique when exploding toward a quarterback.

And Jim Jeffcoat, who earned two Super Bowl rings with the Cowboys and played 15 stellar seasons as a defensive end in the NFL, delights in talking about his son.

After all, Jackson is a 6-5, 235-pound blue chip off the old block. He is a student of the game, a good student in the classroom, a quiet leader on the field, always painfully polite off it.

"I am so proud of him," said Jim Jeffcoat, whose office is 270 miles south of his family home in North Dallas but who gets back as often as he can, particularly on Friday nights. "It's not because of his accomplishments on the field, but how he treats people and how they react to him. It's most important that he is kind and considerate. His mother has taught him well. There is a whole lot more to life beyond football."

Yes, but recruiting season is wide open on Jackson Jeffcoat. He has yet to take his first official recruiting trip but plans a bunch. He has narrowed his choices to Texas, Oklahoma, USC, Florida, Arizona State and Houston.

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