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A 31-year-old woman has been arrested after several months posing as a teenage student at a private high school in Texas, local media reported. _0"> Charity Johnson enrolled in October as a sophomore at New Life Christian School in Longview under the name "Charite Stevens," with identification that said she was 15 years old, broadcast station KLTV said. Johnson told school officials she had been home-schooled and had no prior transcripts. A school district representative could not immediately be reached for comment. Tamica Lincoln, a woman who lives in the area, told KLTV she took Johnson in after she claimed to be a teenage orphan from an abusive household, enrolled her in school and met with her teachers.   true       "I took her in as a child, did her hair, got her clothes and shoes," Lincoln said. But Lincoln said she started to doubt Johnson's story and alerted police. Johnson was arrested Sunday after identifying herself to police as the ali

A show rabbit breeder in Pennsylvania is suing a French class="mandelbrot_refrag"> gas exploration company for using low-flying helicopters she said terrorized her prized animals, causing many to die and leaving survivors unable to breed. Deafening noise from helicopters flying over Susan Knowlden's mountain home in Trout Run, Pennsylvania, in search of shale gas deposits, sent her skittish rabbits into a frenzy, she told Reuters on Thursday. “It scared the you-know-what out of them,” Knowlden said. “They hit the sides of their cages and trampled the babies. They broke their necks or backs or legs.”   true       Knowlden filed a lawsuit this week against CGG, the French oil-and-gas exploration company based in Paris, one of many energy firms involved in oil and gas extraction in Pennsylvania’s Marcellus Shale, a heartland of America’s fracking boon. The company also uses helicopters that employ seismic equipment to explore for gas deposits. The helicopters fl

U.S. political adviser David Axelrod spelt British opposition leader Ed Miliband's surname wrongly in a Tweet on Friday erroneously linking to a spoof account that pokes fun at his new client instead. _0"> The gaffe, which came down to Axelrod, a former adviser to President class="mandelbrot_refrag"> Barack Obama , putting an extra 'l' in the Labour party leader's surname, delighted British Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative party who sought to make political capital from the mistake. "Labour's latest guru @davidaxelrod gets Ed Miliband's name wrong in tweet - DOH! £300k (300,000 pounds)a year for this?," the party's central office wrote in a Tweet, mischievously asking whether Axelrod had actually met the real Miliband.   true       Axelrod, who swiftly fixed the spelling mistake, has been in London meeting Miliband and the Labour party for the first time since being hired by them to offer strategic advice a

A 31-year-old woman has been arrested after several months posing as a teenage student at a private high school in Texas, local media reported. _0"> Charity Johnson enrolled in October as a sophomore at New Life Christian School in Longview under the name "Charite Stevens," with identification that said she was 15 years old, broadcast station KLTV said. Johnson told school officials she had been home-schooled and had no prior transcripts. A school district representative could not immediately be reached for comment.   true       Tamica Lincoln, a woman who lives in the area, told KLTV she took Johnson in after she claimed to be a teenage orphan from an abusive household, enrolled her in school and met with her teachers. "I took her in as a child, did her hair, got her clothes and shoes," Lincoln said. But Lincoln said she started to doubt Johnson's story and alerted police. Johnson was arrested Sunday after identifying herself to police as the ali

Displaying 80 people in a human zoo in Oslo's most elegant park, two artists hope their " class="mandelbrot_refrag"> Congo Village" display will help erase what they say is Norwegians' collective amnesia about racism. Re-enacting a similar display from 1914, Lars Cuznor and Mohamed Ali Fadlabi say class="mandelbrot_refrag"> Norway , one of the richest nations in the world, with a reputation for tolerance, has only suppressed its intolerance, especially around the time of Saturday's national day. The class="mandelbrot_refrag"> Congo Village - which 100 years ago displayed African tribes, attracting 1.4 million visitors over four months - will this time exhibit volunteers taking turns living on show in makeshift huts, resembling a traditional sub-Saharan village.   true       "Norwegians have been propagating this self-image of a post-racial society and it's been internalized that it's a good, tolerant soc

Tara, the California cat that became a YouTube sensation after being caught on video saving a boy from a dog attack, has been invited to “throw” the first pitch at a minor league baseball game, Bakersfield Blaze officials said on Friday. Video footage showed a dog dragging 4-year-old Jeremy from his tricycle in a driveway in Bakersfield. YouTube video: r.reuters.com/hyt39v Tara, the family's cat, ran to the rescue, broadsided the dog, and chased it away from the child. She then returned to the boy. “Thankfully, it wasn’t worse," the child's father, Roger Triantafilo, wrote in a posting with the video. "My son is fine."   true       Local minor league baseball team the Bakersfield Blaze has invited the cat, assisted by the Triantafilo family, to throw the first pitch at a May 20 game. "We will be attempting to have her throw out the first pitch. Now, how that goes off, we'll see, but the idea is to have her pitch the ball," said Philip Guiry,

A Connecticut college dropout was arrested Sunday night after admitting to calling in two bomb threats to keep her family from learning she had quit Quinnipiac University, police said on Monday. Danielle Shea, 22, of Quincy, Massachusetts, made the threats after arriving at the graduation ceremony in a cap and gown with her mother, who did not know she had dropped out. She "panicked" when relatives noticed her name was not on the list of graduates, police said. Shea called in two bomb threats to the Quinnipiac University library so the graduation ceremony would be canceled, police said. Instead the Sunday evening ceremony was delayed 90 minutes and moved a mile (1.6 km) to a different campus of the university in the town of Hamden.   true       Local police went to the library as an estimated 5,000 people, including the 388 graduates, evacuated the area and quickly moved to the indoor location, according to John Morgan, university spokesman. "We cannot speculate wh