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Student Kicked Out For Wearing Nose Ring Back In School With Transparent Stud

AHN — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:00:53 +0000

Bountiful, UT (AHN) – Officials of Utah’s Bountiful Junior High has accepted back a student it kicked out for wearing a nose ring after she replaced it with a transparent, almost invisible stud.

Suzannah Pabla was kicked out a week ago because her nose piercing violated the school’s dress code. Her argument that she was following her Sikh father’s culture was not accepted by school officials, who insisted that the dress code only allows piercings in ear lobes.

Pabla’s American mother, who is divorced from her Indian husband, accused the school of racial discrimination. But Davis School District spokesman Chris Williams said nose piercing is allowed if it is truly a religious practice.

“The school should admit its mistake, reinstate and apologize to student Suzannah Pabla and her parents, and amend the dress code accordingly,” Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed, chairman of the Indo-American Leadership Confederation, said on Monday in Nevada.

Federal judge allows Elizabeth Smart testimony against kidnapper Brian David Mitchell

Kim LaCapria — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 20:59:02 +0000

Elizabeth Smart, the Utah girl snatched from her bed and later found alive in 2002, has been allowed to give testimony today against kidnapper Brian David Mitchell in his competency hearings.

Smart, then 14, was held captive by Mitchell and his partner Wanda Barzee for nine months in 2002. Smart was located in Sandy, Utah, only 18 miles from her home. Mitchell was initially found incompetent when charged with the kidnapping, but now faces charges of kidnapping and unlawful transportation of a minor.

Smart, who is now 21 and a senior at Brigham Young University, testified that during the ordeal, she was raped frequently, sometimes 3-4 times a day. Smart said that the assaults were frequent and that she was rarely able to defy her attacker, causing friction with Barzee:

“Wanda would get very upset with him,” said Smart. “She’d say ‘All you do is lust after her.’”

Smart said “There wasn’t an actual 24-hour period he wasn’t able to rape me.”

There was at least one time when Smart was able to rebuff Mitchell. During a hike to get water from a stream, Smart said that Mitchell tried to convince her to have sex with him despite it being Wanda’s turn.

“He said how much he needed me to have sex with him right then and there, and that Wanda would never know, she would understand and she would be OK, and it would be OK,” said Smart, who testified that she had refused him sex.

[Source: ABC]

Body Of Missing Nevada Hiker Found In Utah Woods

AHN — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:07:46 +0000

Salt Lake City, Utah (AHN) – The body of a teen hiker, from Nevada, who has been missing since Aug. 6, was found in the woods of Green Canyon in Utah, the Cache County Sheriff’s Office said.

The death of Andrea Celina Roye, 18, of Henderson, was ruled a suicide but the Utah state medical examiner will still conduct an autopsy to determine the cause of her death.

Hikers who smelled bad odor on a heavily wooded Beirdneau trail led to the discovery of the victim’s body at 5 p.m. Sunday.

Roye went hiking with her dog, who was found alive, and was reported missing on Aug. 16. A 10-day search and rescue operation was conducted but failed to find her.

7 year old steals car to avoid church

Kim LaCapria — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:09:51 +0000

Do any of us raised in religious environments not sympathize?

A 7-year-old boy in Weber County, Utah lead police on a car chase last Sunday morning. Police responded to reports of a “child driving recklessly” and indicated that the rugrat ran a stop sign before his apprehension. The officers tried unsuccessfully to stop the child, who reached speeds of about 40 mph, before he stopped in a driveway and ran into his house.

Under questioning by his father, the kid admitted he didn’t want to go to church. (I feel you, brother.) Police were unable to arrest the child or issue citations due to his age, but did urge the dad to keep his keys somewhere less prone to being thieved.

Video below, but someone really needs to add the Cops theme to it.

Utah school says wearing a Kilt promotes cross-dressing

Duncan Riley — Mon, 18 May 2009 10:11:25 +0000

A school in Utah has sent a student home after alleging the student was promoting cross dressing by wearing a kilt.

14 year old Gavin McFarland, who has Scottish heritage (if the Mc wasn’t a give away already) was wearing his family tartan to school as part of an art project. Rocky Mountain Junior High Principal Craig Jessop though had other ideas: that kilt was clearly a sin as it promoted the homosexual act of cross-dressing.

The school district however was far more tolerant of Scottish tradition, and has asked Jessop to apologize to McFarland over the incident, as opposed to apologizing for his clear homophobia and victimization of school children.

Google Maps shows Missile over Utah

Duncan Riley — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:53:17 +0000

Interesting Google Maps discoveries are a dime a dozen, but a missile in flight is a rare find. The shot below shows a missile in flight over Utah near the town of Circleville (direct link on Google Maps here)

It’s hard to be sure from the shot, but the Missile appears to be an AIM-9 Sidewinder used by the US Air Force. It’s also a considerable distance from the Utah Test and Training Range, so it would appear to be out of place.