When an eyebrow trimmer is a weapon, and more
A Pennsylvania middle-schooler has been expelled for bringing an eyebrow trimmer to school.
When an eyebrow trimmer is a weapon
A Pennsylvania middle-schooler has been expelled for bringing an eyebrow trimmer to school. School officials at Penn Hills Middle School ruled that Taylor Ray-Jetter’s grooming tool was essentially a razor and expelled her under the school’s zero-tolerance weapons policy. “I did not come up there to hurt anybody,” said Ray-Jetter, 15, who now worries that colleges will reject her because of the expulsion on her record. “I want to be an anesthesiologist.”
Montana town offers to house Gitmo detainees
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One blighted Montana town has volunteered to house the terrorist suspects currently detained at Guantánamo Bay. The town council of Hardin voted 5–0 to accept the detainees, in hopes of boosting the local economy. Town official Greg Smith said the prisoners would bring “hope and opportunity” to Hardin by finally making use of the empty maximum-security prison built there two years ago. “It’s big enough you could probably build a mosque,” said Smith.
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