Ohio
Teacher accused of bathroom spying on kindergartners
A former teacher secretly recorded his kindergarten students using a tiny camera hung inside his class bathroom, prosecutors said Saturday.
Dozens of videos of students were found on the computer of Elliot Gornall, 32, a former teacher at R.F. McMullen Elementary School in Loudonville, Ohio, Ashland County Prosecutor Chris Tunnell said.
Gornall faces 25 felony charges, including illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material or performance; Tunnell said 25 kindergartners were recorded. Gornall was arrested Friday and was expected in court Monday.
Gornall resigned from his teaching job in December after being charged with felony drug possession and a misdemeanor count of receiving stolen property, which court records said was children’s underwear. The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation examined Gornall’s computer and found videos dating from on or after Aug. 20 to mid-November, Tunnell said.
Associated Press
Arizona
Slain aid worker honored at memorial
The father of an international aid worker killed while being held captive by Islamic State militants read a moving letter at his daughter’s hometown memorial service Saturday, recounting her discovery that her purpose was to ease the suffering of others.
“This is my life’s work,” Carl Mueller quoted his daughter Kayla Mueller as saying. “But my family is my life.”
The 26-year-old was captured in August 2013 after leaving a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Aleppo, Syria, and held for 18 months.
An estimated 500 people attended the memorial in a college auditorium in Prescott, Arizona. Speakers at the ceremony described Mueller as the ultimate Good Samaritan, with a quick wit and overflowing heart.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) gave a short tribute, saying Mueller has touched the lives of people who never actually knew her.
“We can try to give justice to her murderers’ other victims and their families,” McCain said. “But even if we succeed, and our retribution is swift and complete, we could not equal the rebuke that Kayla’s life gave to the culture of death that robbed her of it.”
Mueller’s death was confirmed Feb. 10 by U.S. officials. The militant group said she died in a Jordanian airstrike, but U.S. officials have not confirmed that.
Associated Press
Korean War POW’s remains laid to rest: A horse-drawn caisson brought the remains of an Army corporal who died while a prisoner of war in North Korea to his final resting place in Centennial, Colo., on Saturday, 65 years after he disappeared near the Chosin Reservoir and was captured by the Chinese. The body of Army Cpl. Floyd J.R. Jackson was identified using DNA from relatives. He was buried Saturday next to his mother. On Dec. 12, 1950, Jackson was reported as missing in action. A returning service member told U.S. officials that Jackson died Feb. 13, 1951, in an enemy prisoner of war camp.
Illinois fire crews still battling oil blaze: Firefighters were still working Saturday to extinguish several blazes that erupted when a BNSF Railway train loaded with crude oil derailed two days ago in a rural area of northwestern Illinois, a local official said. Nobody was injured in Thursday’s fiery wreck, in which 21 cars of a 105-car train that originated in North Dakota derailed on the mainline track about three miles outside Galena, near the Wisconsin border. Five of the 103 cars packed with Bakken crude oil caught fire, sending black smoke and fireballs over the area, city and company officials said. By Saturday, several minor fires were still burning but crews expected to extinguish the blazes by later in the day, said Galena City Administrator Mark Moran.
From wire reports
0 comments:
Post a Comment