Who stole the Michigan Bridge?
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Police in Michigan are dealing with a heavy mystery after a man reported a 5,000-pound bridge stolen from his property in a Detroit suburb. Robert Cortis filed a report with the Farmington Hills Police Department Wednesday saying he visited his property in Farmington Hills, where he no longer lives,
and discovered the 5,000 pound wood-and-steel bridge his father constructed decades ago was missing. "My heart dropped. I felt lost," Cortis told WXYZ-TV. "It has sentimental value." Cortis said he had visited the property Wednesday to begin arrangements to have the bridge transported to his catering company to serve as a setting for wedding photos. Cortis said he will not seek to press charges if the bridge is returned. "If we can get it returned, the police investigation is over," he said. "If not, it continues on."
Families sue hospital 20 years after baby switch
GRASSE, France, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The French families of two 20-year-old women are suing the hospital where they were mistakenly switched at birth. The families made a court appearance Tuesday in Grasse as part of their lawsuit, which is seeking a total of $15 million. Sophie Serrano told the court her daughter, Manon, suffered from jaundice when she was born in July 1994 and she was placed in an incubator with another newborn girl with the same condition. Serrano said she and her husband discovered when the girl was 10 that they were not her biological parents and she had been switched with the other girl when a nurse removed the infants from the incubator. Serrano and the other family's parents, who asked to remain anonymous, met their biological daughters when the girls were 10 years old, but they chose not to switch the children back. Sophie Serrano told the Nice Matin newspaper, however, she "instinctively loved" her biological daughter. "I have raised three children but in my heart I have four," Sophie Serrano said. The lawsuit names the clinic, two obstetricians, two pediatricians and an auxiliary nurse.
Woman: Jail threats won't stop loud sex
WASHINGTON, England, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A British woman who was given suspended jail sentences for violating a court order to stop having loud sex with her husband says she will not comply. Caroline Cartwright, who was given suspended jail terms of eight weeks and 12 weeks for violating the four-year anti-social behavior order, told a film crew for Channel 5's ASBO and Proud she will not comply with the court's demand that she spare her neighbors from the banging and screaming resulting from her trysts with Steve, her husband of 38 years. "As far as I'm concerned, that's what you should be doing," Cartwright said of her loud marital encounters. "Just relax. Go with the flow. It's not as if I'm having sex and think 'Oh, I'm making too much noise. I better be quiet.'" Cartwright was served with the ASBO after she was found to have breached a noise abatement order five times. The couple said they tried to appease neighbors by moving their late-night activities to the morning, but complaints have continued. “I don't see why I should stop having sex in my own house with my husband of 38 years," Cartwright said. "I'm sure there could be a lot worse things I could be doing."
Threesome request at work Christmas party, Old Health fined
A PUBLIC hospital cafe supervisor, whose female manager asked her at a work Christmas party if she would join in a threesome with another female, has won compensation for sexual harassment. Queensland Health and Lindy Ralph, the manager who was found to have made the threesome comment, were ordered by a tribunal to pay Karen Bell $9000.POLL: Firefighter charged over Facebook harassment. Ms Ralph also harassed and bullied Mrs Bell at work and Queensland Health “poorly investigated” Mrs Bell’s sexual and workplace harassment complaints, a tribunal found. The sexual harassment caused Mrs Bell to develop a psychological injury, Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal member Ann Fitzpatrick said in a recently published decision.While Mrs Bell was working at Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital’s Connect Cafe as food and retail services supervisor, Ms Ralph was her line manager.Mrs Bell told the tribunal she became so stressed by Ms Ralph’s aggressive and abusive management, that she eventually left her job. Ms Fitzpatrick found the threesome comment, denied by Ms Ralph, had been made by Ms Ralph at a work-related Christmas party at Brisbane’s Paddington Tavern in 2011. She accepted the evidence of Mrs Bell and her husband that Ms Ralph asked if she would join her and another female colleague in a threesome.Ms Ralph also said she wanted to “experiment with people she knew”, it was found. Mrs Bell said she made it clear she was not interested. “I accept Mrs Bell’s evidence that she was offended and made to feel very uncomfortable,” Ms Fitzpatrick said, finding it was sexual harassment. She found on the same occasion Ms Ralph told Mrs Bell her breasts were nice and she wished she had breasts like Mrs Bell’s, lifting her shirt to expose her own breasts. However the tribunal member said it was a lighthearted comment, not harassment. Ms Fitzpatrick rejected Queensland Health submissions that Mrs Bell had made complaints to deflect from her own poor work performance. The member awarded Mrs Bell compensation for her adjustment disorder and for embarrassment and humiliation.
Why College hired strippers as recruiters?
MIAMI, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Federal prosecutors said a for-profit college in Florida hired "exotic dancers" to work as "admissions representatives" to attract young men to the school. The U.S. attorney's office and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who joined a whistle-blower lawsuit against Miami-based FastTrain College, said in a civil complaint at least one of the school's now-closed seven campuses used strippers as "admissions representatives." The college "purposely hired attractive women and sometimes exotic dancers and encouraged them to dress provocatively while they recruited young men in neighborhoods to attend FastTrain," the complaint states. The whistle-blower lawsuit was originally filed by Juan Pena, a former admissions employee at the Plantation campus and the Flagler campus. The school's campuses were shut down in 2012 following a raid by the FBI. Alejandro Amor, chief executive officer of the company, was indicted in October on criminal charges of conspiracy and theft of government money. Federal authorities said the school received more than $35 million in Pell grants and other federal financial aid between 2009 and 2012, and they allege the school obtained a large amount of grant money through fraudulent means including falsifying high school diplomas for ineligible students
