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Celebrating the Nations Best Geography Educators

Washington, DC (PRWEB) June 05, 2014

For 99 years the National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) has worked to enhance the status and quality of geography teaching and learning at all levels of instruction. Through its awards program, the NCGE recognizes excellence in geography teaching, mentoring, research, instructional design and service.

The National Council for Geographic…

Puppy drives car into Massachusetts pond, owner says

BOSTON Mon Jun 2, 2014 1:39pm EDT

BOSTON (Reuters) – A 3-month-old German shepherd puppy is being blamed for driving a family car into a Massachusetts pond.

The dog’s owner, John Costello, said he took the dog for a walk around Bolivar Pond in Canton on Sunday, then got into the car and started it in preparation for the ride home. That’s when the puppy jumped in with him.

“The dog just jumped into…

No charges for Michigan man who drove across U.S. with corpse

n”>(Reuters) – A man who completed a cross country drive to Michigan from Arizona with a dead woman in his van will not face charges for failing to report her death immediately, police in suburban Detroit said on Friday.

Ray Tomlinson, 62, told police he had determined that the woman, a friend who had signed herself out of an Arizona mental health facility, had died during the drive but feared he…

Here, piggy piggy: U.S. turns to military gear in hunt for feral swine

By P.J. Huffstutter

CHICAGO Fri May 23, 2014 12:15pm EDT

CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. Agriculture Department is known for its army of statisticians packing yardsticks and calculators to measure wheat and count soybeans.

But the agency needs more firepower for another kind of rural reckoning and is gearing up with thermal imaging weapons.

In its crosshairs are aggressive feral hogs that can weigh…

Texas city in hot water for knocking down homes, again

By Lisa Maria Garza

DALLAS Wed May 28, 2014 7:13pm EDT

DALLAS (Reuters) – Fort Worth has been hit with its third lawsuit in a year from residents who claim the Texas city knocked down their homes by mistake.

Jorge Rodriguez this week filed a lawsuit saying the city wrongly destroyed his house in June 2013, his lawyers told local media.

But the city contends it was within its rights to knock down the…

New Mexico employee at half-way house charged with licking food

By Joseph J. Kolb

ALBUQUERQUE N.M. Fri May 30, 2014 6:12pm EDT

ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (Reuters) – A kitchen employee at a women’s halfway house has been charged with three counts of battery on a peace officer for licking sandwich cheese and ice cubes and serving them to probation and parole officers at the center, according to court documents.

Yolanda Arguello, 59, was employed at the South Valley New…

Anonymous donor leaves San Francisco fans searching for hidden cash

By Laura Rena Murray

SAN FRANCISCO Wed May 28, 2014 10:40pm EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Some San Francisco-area residents are flush with cash, thanks to an anonymous donor who has been hiding envelopes full of money in secret spots around the city.

The donor has been conducting the Northern California treasure hunt by posting clues to a Twitter account called HiddenCash, sending followers to…

Steaming mad: Maine charges lobsterman for “egregious” catch violation

BOSTON Tue May 20, 2014 4:19pm EDT

BOSTON (Reuters) – Maine wildlife officials are pressing charges against a local fisherman for possessing hundreds of undersized or otherwise protected lobsters, calling it one of the state’s most “egregious” lobstering violations in a quarter century.

Maine Marine Patrol said on Tuesday that Theodore Gray, 34, of Stonington had 269 undersized lobsters, and 123…

Thousands of naked bicyclists stage festive Portland protest ride

By Shelby Sebens

PORTLAND Oregon Sun Jun 8, 2014 2:22am EDT

PORTLAND Oregon (Reuters) – Thousands of bicyclists, many of them stark naked, poured into the streets of Portland, Oregon on Saturday night for the 11th annual World Naked Bike Ride, a protest that promotes bike riding as an alternative to driving cars.

Nude cyclists with lights flashing in their tire spokes rang bells as they barreled…

French rail company orders 2,000 trains too wide for platforms

PARIS Tue May 20, 2014 4:57pm EDT

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s national rail company SNCF said on Tuesday it had ordered 2,000 trains for an expanded regional network that are too wide for many station platforms, entailing costly repairs.

A spokesman for the RFF national rail operator confirmed the error, first reported by satirical weekly Canard Enchaine in its Wednesday edition.

“We discovered the…

Connecticut aging commissioner a reluctant retiree at 88

By Richard Weizel

MILFORD Conn. Thu Jun 5, 2014 4:55pm EDT

MILFORD Conn. (Reuters) – At age 88, Edith Prague brought real-world experience to her job as commissioner of Connecticut’s Department on Aging, but when urged by her doctor to consider cutting back her schedule she reluctantly decided to retire.

Prague, one of the state’s oldest employees who is believed by state officials to be the…

Florida man paints American flag on house to protest city citation

n”>(Reuters) – A Florida man who feels he is being unfairly treated by local code enforcement officials has mounted an unusual protest – he painted his house like the American flag.

“It’s just total government abuse. This is still America,” said Brent Greer, who lives in Bradenton, Florida.  

Greer is upset that city code enforcement officers inspected his home in February after an anonymous…

Maryland man sentenced to 5 years for lengthy dine-and-dash binge

By John Clarke

ANNAPOLIS Md. Fri May 30, 2014 4:30pm EDT

ANNAPOLIS Md. (Reuters) – A Baltimore man who police say routinely scammed restaurants by eating and then faking a seizure to get out of paying his bill was sentenced Friday to five years in prison.

Andrew Palmer, 47, had defrauded dozens of restaurants, from casual to upscale, according to Baltimore Police. Court papers show that Palmer was…

French rail company orders 2,000 trains too wide for platforms

PARIS Tue May 20, 2014 4:57pm EDT

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s national rail company SNCF said on Tuesday it had ordered 2,000 trains for an expanded regional network that are too wide for many station platforms, entailing costly repairs.

A spokesman for the RFF national rail operator confirmed the error, first reported by satirical weekly Canard Enchaine in its Wednesday edition.

“We discovered the…

Indiana man left dead in living room since last July: coroner

n”>(Reuters) – An Indiana woman is under investigation after her husband’s corpse was left in their home for more than nine months and fed on by birds, authorities said on Thursday.

Gerald Gavan Jr., 89, whose body was found on May 3 on the living room floor of his house in Lafayette, Indiana, had been dead since at least last July 15, Tippecanoe County coroner Donna Avolt said.

Investigators are…

Pennsylvania man accused of stealing human skin from hospital

n”>(Reuters) – A Pennsylvania skin-graft salesman is facing charges that he stole $350,000 worth of human skin from a Philadelphia hospital over a period of nearly two years, police said on Friday.

Gary Dudek, 54, is accused of stealing sheets of lab-grown skin intended for use in skin-graft surgeries from Mercy Philadelphia Hospital between November 2011 and July 2013, a local police spokeswoman…