CLEVELAND (Reuters)-with a snowstorm predicted to batter the Plains, the Midwest and the East Coast this weekend, an Ohio Prosecutor spring-deprived is taking his frustration with the long winter on a famous prognosticating Groundhog. "I decided it was about time we accused of fraud afor Punxsutawney Phil," said Mike Gmoser, Attorney of Butler County, Ohio, in an interview on Friday.
Harvard stripped of titles quiz tournament
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters)-Harvard University will be stripped of four national quiz Championship titles after the organizers found a competitor of Ivy League school improperly accessed information on the questions used in the tournament. The national academic Quiz tournaments said that a security review found that Harvard competitor Andy Watkins access pages on its website just before the administrative 2009, 2010 and 2011 Intercollegiate championship tournaments or "Quiz Bowl".
Petition to 100,000 segno ex-Portuguese PM Socrates to keep out TV
Lisbon (Reuters)-Portuguese State television RTP channel to give former premier Jose Socrates a commentary spot week sparked outrage, with 100,000 people signing a petition citing his "mismanagement" that led the country to pick up a save in 2011. "We, citizens and taxpayers, declare that we reject the presence of former Prime Minister Jose Socrates on any program to RTP television paid for by public funds of taxpayers suffering from mismanagement of this gentleman," said the petition.
Swiss court jails "healer" to infect with HIV 16
Zurich (Reuters)-a self-styled healer was sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on Friday after a Swiss Court convicted the acupuncturist of 16 people with HIV to infect. A court in Bern have found the man guilty of causing bodily harm and spread of the virus that can cause Aids, the Court Secretary Rene Graf told Reuters. He did not give further details.
Tunisian Rapper gets jail time for police dogs called in song
Tunis (Reuters)-a Tunisian Court has convicted a rap singer to two years in prison in absentia for insulting police in a case likely to fuel debate over free speech under the Islamist Government. The singer, known as el Weld 15, is on the run. Two of his associates, Mohamed Hedi Belgueyed singers and Sabrine Klibi, were in court when they received suspended sentences of six months each, a source of the Ministry of Justice said Friday.
Russian serial killer sentenced to life for nine murders
Moscow (Reuters)-a Russian serial killer who slaughtered his nine victims with a knife and hammer and said he ate the hearts of two of them, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Friday. Prosecutors said Alexander Bychkov targeted alcoholics and the homeless out of contempt for their way of life, li has lured in deserted areas, killed, dismembered them and hid the body parts.
Instruction manual "goblinproofing" chicken coops named Oddest Book Title
London (Reuters)-a book that offers tips on how to protect the henhouses from Goblin Oddest title won Book of the Year award, the organisers of the contest said Friday. "Goblinproofing's a chicken coop" by Reginald Bakeley and Clint Marsh attracted 38 percent of online votes for 1,225 beat craft manual "Like tea Cosies changed the world" with 31 percent to win the annual diagram Prize 35a.
Yoko Ono tweets against guns showing bloody Lennon glasses
NEW YORK (Reuters)-Yoko Ono took up arms against gun violence with a raft of Twitter postings, including a photo of the blood-stained glass apparently worn by John Lennon when he was shot and killed more than 30 years ago. "Beyond 1,057,000 people were killed by firearms in the United States since John Lennon was shot and killed on December 8, 1980," Ono, the widow of the former Beatle Twitter.
Would-be thieves camped over the Toronto area Bank
TORONTO (Reuters)-Toronto-area police say they have foiled a robbery in Hollywood style, arresting five men they say camped out in vacant office space over a branch of the Bank and, under cover of night, cut through a thick concrete ceiling to access the underlying crypt. Halton Regional Police arrested men with C $ 300,000 (055.28, 193 pounds) seized in two hockey bags after they were discovered hiding in a field not far from a branch of the Toronto-Dominion Bank in Burlington, Ontario.
Museo Cancels heavy metal concert, fearing noise damage
London (Reuters)-the Victoria and Albert Museum (V &) has cancelled an experimental concert extreme metal band Napalm Death, fearing that the noise could harm the building 104-year-old. Ceramic artist Keith Harrison from V &, the world's largest Museum of decorative arts and design, he has worked with Napalm Death on a set to be played through a sculptural sound system that disintegrerebbe under stress of decibels.
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