Son Gets Marijuana For Doing Homework

 

(AP) GETTYSBURG, Pa. A woman admitted to smoking marijuana daily with her 13-year-old son to reward him for completing his homework. Amanda Lynn Livelsberger, 30, pleaded guilty to several charges Monday and will be sentenced Nov. 27.

 

Livelsberger, of Conewago Township, admitted in Adams County court that she had been smoking marijuana with her son since he was 11, and that she often gave it to him as a reward.

 

The boy told police that he was required to do his homework as soon as he got home from school, and then was allowed to smoke marijuana with his mother, according to court documents.

 

Livelsberger pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of corruption of minors, possession with intent to deliver drug paraphernalia, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a small amount of marijuana and possession of a small amount of marijuana with intent to distribute.

 

The plea did not stipulate a sentence.

 

The woman also said she also smoked marijuana with two of her son’s friends, ages 17 and 18, police said. The 18-year-old also told investigators he had also bought heroin from Livelsberger.

Man Who Pawned Rifle As Boy Gets It Back

 
Terry Jackson Holds His Rifle He Pawned at
Age 8 For His Grandmother’s Washing Machine

Sep 26, 2006 3:40 pm US/Pacific
(AP) SYRINGA, Idaho It was a ricochet nearly 50 years in the making. At age 8, Terry Jackson gave up his prized .22-caliber Winchester short-barrel rifle to get his grandmother a washer. Recently, the 57-year-old got the gun back through a series of chance encounters and conversations.

“I didn’t even have much reaction,” said Jackson. “I was so dumbfounded.”

As a boy, Jackson felt bad that his grandmother was too poor to have a washer. So he took the rifle he had earned money for by mowing lawns and doing other chores to a pawn shop.

“That was the only thing I had that was worth anything,” Jackson told The Lewiston Tribune.

The pawn shop owner agreed to trade a wringer washer for the rifle. When the washer was delivered to his grandmother, Edna Jackson, she refused it until realizing the sacrifice her grandson had made.

“She just couldn’t believe it,” Jackson said.

The rifle, meanwhile, remained with the pawn shop owner, Bill Jackson. He never sold the rifle, instead giving it to family friend James Grow in the 1980s, recounting the story that accompanied the rifle.

“He told me the story but I never thought anything about it,”Grow said. “I didn’t even know who Terry Jackson was at the time, although Bill did tell me his name.”

Grow said Bill Jackson told him the gun might be worth something someday. He never shot the rifle and kept it in his closet.

Grow became an attorney in Lewiston, and Terry Jackson recently hired Grow to do some legal work. The connection might not have been made about the rifle except for a conversation Becky Brotnov, Terry Jackson’s companion, had with Grow during a business lunch.

She told the story of Terry Jackson giving up the rifle to get the washer.

“All of a sudden it dawned on me, I own the gun,” Grow said.

After hearing the story, Grow said he knew he wouldn’t keep the gun. So he recently drove to Terry Jackson’s home to return the rifle.

“That was a really nice thing he did for his grandma,” Grow said.

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Blind man sentenced to library course

Fri Dec 1, 2006 8:45 AM ET

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – A blind Turkish pensioner has been sentenced to a 26-day reading and writing course at his local public library after he failed to vote on time in an election for his village cooperative, his son said Friday.

A prosecutor in the province of Kutahya in northwest Turkey sentenced Ismail Canseven, 73, to the education course after he did not show up for the election of the cooperative’s board of directors in May, Isa Canseven told Reuters.

“What am I going to do in a library? I can’t see out of either of my eyes, and I can’t read or write anyway,” Friday’s edition of the Hurriyet newspaper quoted Ismail as saying.

Isa Canseven, 42, said he would appeal against the sentence served on his father. “My father can only find the bathroom by holding on to a piece of string we’ve tied to the (bathroom) wall,” he said.
In Turkey, people are obliged by law to vote in elections.

Widow Rented Rotary Phone For 42 Years

Tuesday September 26, 2006

AP) CANTON, Ohio A widow rented a rotary dial telephone for 42 years, paying what her family calculates as more than $14,000 for a now outdated phone.

Ester Strogen, 82, of Canton, first leased two black rotary phones — the kind whose round dial is moved manually with your finger — in the 1960s. Back then, the technology was new and owning telephones was unaffordable for most people.

Until two months ago, Strogen was still paying AT&T to use the phones — $29.10 a month. Strogen’s granddaughters, Melissa Howell and Barb Gordon, ended the arrangement when they discovered the bills.

“I’m outraged,” Gordon said. “It made me so mad. It’s ridiculous. If my own grandmother was doing it, how many other people are?”

New Jersey-based Lucent Technologies, a spinoff of AT&T that manages the residential leasing service, said customers were given the choice option to opt out of renting in 1985. The number of customers leasing phones dropped from 40 million nationwide to about 750,000 today, he said.

“We will continue to lease sets as long as there is a demand for them,” Skalko said.

Benefits of leasing include free replacements and the option of switching to newer models, he said.

Gordon said she believes the majority of people leasing are elderly and may not realize they are paying thousands of dollars for a telephone.

Skalko said bills are clearly marked, and customers can quit their lease any time by returning their phones.

Strogen says she’s not a big fan of her new push-button phone.

“I’d like to have my rotary back,” she said. “I like that better.”

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