November 14, 2010

States Control: Washington

Booing at games may be banned
The organization that oversees high school sports in Washington is considering rules for fans that could ban booing and offensive chants.
Source: Seattle P-I, March 3, 2007
School district ignored warnings, then silenced girls fondled by teacher
She was 10 years old, a fourth-grader in the Northshore School District, when John Carl Leede began fondling her, according to court records.
He was a teacher, but not hers. He would spy her in the school library, approach, turn her away from him and begin grabbing, rubbing her breasts. She’d try to break away, but he would yank her back and put her in a kind of headlock.
Source: Seattle Times (online), October 22, 2006
On the heels of USA Today’s doctored photograph of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week, a WorldNetDaily inquiry into an altered photo of a gun-toting Ward Churchill has prompted a Seattle-area college to remove the image from its website.
Source: WorldNetDaily, October 29, 2005
When a Washington student objected to having a homosexual teach his sex education class, the school district attempted to punish the student by barring his reenrollment, but now a judge has sided with the student.
Source: WorldNetDaily, September 21, 2005
An anti-immigrant group was asked to leave a Washington Township diner while a Hispanic civil rights conference took place in Hightstown.
Source: Windsor-Hights Herald (online), April 8, 2005
The letter was on expensive-looking law firm stationery, and John Athan had no reason to doubt its authenticity. So the New Jersey construction worker did what the letter asked: He signed a form agreeing to join a lawsuit in Washington state aimed at recovering overcharges in traffic fines, and he mailed it back in March.
But the law firm was phony, created by police in Athan’s hometown, Seattle. They didn’t want Athan’s signature, they wanted his DNA, the unique genetic code they lifted from the saliva he unwittingly provided by licking the return envelope.
Source: USA Today (online) September 10, 2003

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