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Mass. mom outraged driver left son, 5, on school bus

Mar 13, 3:50PM by Barry Leibowitz Topics Daily Blotter

(CBS) CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- Tara Dendy's top priority is protecting her five-year-old son, named Reign. She says she's outraged and heartbroken about what happened to him recently when he fell asleep on the bus.

The boy got on the school bus in Cambridge, near Boston, last Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock to go to his after-school program. But the child fell asleep and he never got off, CBS Boston reported.

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Police: Preschool teacher tried to give kids sleep aid

Mar 13, 9:54AM by Barry Leibowitz Topics Daily Blotter

Deborah Gratz, a Morgan Hill, Calif. preschool teacher, allegedly put the sleep aid Sominex in some children's drinking cups; she was fired, and arrested.

/ Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office, via CBS San Francisco

(CBS) SAN FRANCISCO - Parents of children at a preschool in San Francisco's Morgan Hill neighborhood are being asked to contact police, after a teacher who has been with the school for five years allegedly put a sleep aid in some of the kids' drinking cups, CBS San Francisco reported.

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Family buries wrong woman after mortuary mix-up

Mar 13, 9:01AM by Barry Leibowitz Topics Daily Blotter

(CBS) INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Call it a case of being switched-at-death.

Funeral regulators are investigating an Inglewood mortuary's mistake, after a family and friends learned they had buried the wrong woman - someone they thought was 82-year-old Darlene Davidson, but who was really someone else.

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Cops: Copper thief nearly electrocuted by live wire

Mar 13, 8:30AM by Barry Leibowitz Topics Daily Blotter

Denton County, Texas authorities say a copper thief was nearly electrocuted when he touched a wire on a downed utility pole, seen above.

/ Denton County Sgeriff's Office, via CBS DFW
(CBS) DENTON COUNTY, Texas - A suspected copper thief was the victim of a unique occupational hazard - he was nearly electrocuted doing his "job" and wound up hospitalized, CBS DFW reported. Continue »
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Hearse procession a protest against Chicago gun violence

Mar 12, 9:33AM by Barry Leibowitz Topics Daily Blotter

One hearse among procession on Chicago's South Side organized to protest gun violence, Sunday, March 10, 2013

/ WBBM Radio
(CBS) CHICAGO - A procession of hearses snaked through South Side Chicago streets Sunday, only this time it wasn't to mark a funeral, but to make a point - a point of protest against the city's gun violence.

The procession was organized by funeral directors and morticians, reported CBS radio station WBBM

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Cops: Armed robber stole shoes right off victim's feet

Mar 12, 9:14AM by Barry Leibowitz Topics Daily Blotter
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(CBS) GLEN BURNIE, Md. - Authorities say Anne Arundel County teen is behind bars after he stole a pair of tennis shoes at gunpoint - straight from the victim's feet - outside a mall in Glen Burnie, Md., CBS Baltimore reported.

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NYPD: Smartphone thief sorta dumb, shows face on Facebook

Mar 12, 8:32AM by Barry Leibowitz Topics Daily Blotter

NYPD says this man stole a smartphone that was set to post any photos on the owner's Facebook page - and this is one of them

/ New York Police Dept. via CBS New York
(CBS) NEW YORK - A man was cunning enough to steal a woman's smartphone in the Bronx, but also dumb enough to post a photo himself on Facebook using the stolen phone, according to police. Continue »
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Settlement: Guinea pig can "room" with college student

Mar 11, 8:42AM by Barry Leibowitz Topics Daily Blotter
Guinea pigs

A female student at a Michigan college will be allowed to keep a pet guinea pig for emotional support after the school settled her lawsuit

/ CBS/AP
(CBS/AP) ALLENDALE, Mich. - Grand Valley State University in western Michigan has reached a $40,000 settlement with a student who sued the school to keep a guinea pig on campus for emotional support, CBS Detroit reported. Continue »
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Parent, students, accused of assaulting L.A. teacher

Mar 8, 9:34AM by Barry Leibowitz Topics Daily Blotter

John Muir Middle School in South Los Angeles

/ CBS Los Angeles
(CBS) LOS ANGELES - A parent and two students are accused of assaulting a South Los Angeles middle school teacher in an argument that escalated at the school, an anonymous tipster told CBS Los Angeles.

The tipster called it "a brutal attack."

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"Butterfinger Burglars": Candy bar trail ends in arrests

Mar 8, 9:13AM by Barry Leibowitz Topics Daily Blotter
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(CBS/AP) SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. - A trail of candy bars led officers to two teenagers who were arrested on suspicion of burglarizing a Scottsbluff, Neb. convenience store.

Butterfingers indeed!

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