An Emmy award-winning composer who wrote music for Sesame Street and Disney has been arrested for distributing child porn pictures of a four-year-old girl in handcuffs.
Cuban-born Fernando Rivas, 59, was arraigned on charges of coercing a child ‘to engage in sexually explicit conduct and distribution of child pornography in South Carolina on Monday.
Rivas who was educated at New York’s Julliard School, was arrested at his Charleston home on April 19 following a police investigation.
Fernando Brazier, 28, left a note at the front desk of the hotel, where he had spent the first night with his new wife, telling her where his body could be found.
He was then seen leaving the Radisson Hotel in New Rochelle, New York around 9am on Sunday and climbing into a taxi.
Packing two jet engines and capable of hitting speeds of over 200mph, this Harley Davidson offers brave souls the ride of a lifetime.
Based on the classic 1926 flat-track racer and built by super-mechanic Robert Maddox, the Harley Davidson SportJet can complete the sprint to 60mph in just five seconds.
The self-proclaimed ‘Rocketman’ customised the two-wheeler for a bike racer in Illinois.
If video above fails to load click here.
Power showers use twice as much energy as a bath – exposing the myth that showers are always greener, research suggests.
A study into the habits of British families has found that some showers also use nearly twice as much water as the average bath.
While an average bath uses 80 litres of water, some power showers can use up to 136 litres of water in an eight-minute wash.
People with the rare condition send incoherent text messages while asleep to their friends and family – completely unaware that they are doing it.
Sleep specialist Dr David Cunnington, of Melbourne Sleep Disorder Centre in Australia, said patients had reported incidents of sleep texting – and he has advised people to leave their mobile phones outside the bedroom.
Media Trackers, a Mequon-based nonprofit that does political research targeting liberals, released records showing that 36 people were registered to vote using the address of Mama Delta’s Lovehouse, a group home and homeless shelter run by Lena J. Taylor. The home is at 1018 N. 35th St., property that is owned by the senator and next door to her law office.
Of the 36 registered voters at that address, about 20 voted in the April 5 election for county executive and a state Supreme Court seat, records show. And 11 of those individuals registered to vote on election day.
Top Democrats are aggressively pushing the claim that Republicans’ worries about voter fraud are an insincere excuse to suppress voting by African-Americans and Hispanics.
But former Democratic Rep. Artur Davis told The Daily Caller that anti-fraud measures are needed to protect African-Americans from corrupt political bosses — many of them African-Americans themselves — who run Democratic Party machines in the South.
Climate change over the past two million years has boosted human evolution by forcing us to adapt to changing conditions and allowing us to migrate to new areas.
Researchers found that far from hindering our development, periods when the earth is either cooling or warming up have actually been highly beneficial.
As well as prompting us to migrate changes in climate have also forced humans to evolve culturally by encouraging us to learn to work together.
The £1,500 Mandometer can even talk, telling its users ‘please eat more slowly’ if it detects that they are rushing thir meal.
The revolutionary technology is being trialled in an NHS study to see if it can change the eating habits of overweight families.
A teacher at a troubled residential school for vulnerable children could be struck off amid allegations he lined his pupils up against a gym wall and hit golf balls at them.
James McMenemy is also said to have hurled rocks at the teenagers and thrown them into rivers and streams.
The incidents allegedly happened at Kerelaw residential school in Ayrshire, which looked after children with significant emotional, social and behavioural problems.
It was closed amid a police probe into abuse in 2006. Mr McMenemy is facing 15 charges of violence towards pupils and failing to comply with guidelines.
One charge brought by the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) claims he threatened to make false allegations of criminality against the youngsters.
At a competency hearing this week a former pupil, now a prisoner at Barlinnie, told how he was attacked by the 48-year-old teacher.
Daniel Higgins, who the GTCS heard was in custody for a driving offence, arrived in handcuffs to give evidence against Mr McMenemy.