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March 29, 2006
German prostitutes are scrambling to sign up for classes that will train them to be nurses or telemarketers. Reuters reports that 30 sex workers in the state of North-Rhine Westphalia are enrolled in the classes, which are so popular there is a waiting list.
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March 16, 2006
Topics bank, body, banks, train, china, dogs, university, help, reuters, news, city, police and chinese
It may not be as malodorous as the Body Farm at the University of Tennessee, but this "bank" in eastern China has at least as many different smells. Police in the city of Nanjing are using the country's first human body odor bank to help train their dogs to find criminals.
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March 14, 2006
Texas officials announce the death of the reigning Miss Deaf Texas, who died after being struck by a train. Tara Rose McAvoy, 18, was reportedly walking near railroad tracks and didn't hear the train and was struck by a Union Pacific train.
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March 14, 2006
Topics texas, train, miss, laura, rose, america, college, birth, television, university, school and freak
The reigning Miss Deaf Texas is killed after being struck by a train, Monday. According to authorities, 18-year-old Tara Rose McAvoy was walking near railroad tracks when she was struck by a Union Pacific train. A witness tells Austin television station KTBC the train sounded its horn right up until the accident occurred.
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February 28, 2006
New York transit police continues to arrest a transgender person for using the women's restroom at Grand Central Terminal. Helena Stone, 70 is in transition from male to female. She accuses an officer of calling her "a freak, a weirdo, and the ugliest woman in the world. "
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