Austin Appelbee swam four kilometres to shore to raise the alarm after he got into difficulties on Friday with his mother, Joanne Appelbee, 47, brother Beau, 12, and sister Grace, 8, police said.
Ontario’s Wiarton Willie is a staple on Groundhog Day, one of the many animal prognosticators that emerge to give good or bad weather news, depending on if you love or hate winter. (Chris Young/Canadian Press)
Mail-order spies: Tech companies employ some of the most robust network security to protect against IP theft. However, no amount of network security protects against theft from within. While corporate espionage is largely digital these days, good old-fashioned infiltration is still in use. China and Russia increasingly use sexual honeypots to compromise employees and gain access to sensitive technology.
A professional tennis player who said a kiss caused a positive methamphetamine drug test was suspended for four years by the International Tennis Integrity Agency on Friday.
The 32-year-old Lewis worked as a teacher’s assistant at the West Florence High School in Florence County, South Carolina. His duties did not, of course, include spraying anything “designed to imitate fecal odor” into the air. But according to police, Lewis was responsible for “creating a foul smell” at the school—not once, but for weeks. It was so dire that multiple students needed medical attention.
Wasps living around a Cold War-era nuclear facility in South Carolina have built at least four radioactive nests, raising questions about their source of hazardous material and the extent of environmental contamination, according to a report by The New York Times.
Lucy Roberts managed a jewelry store for a year and would bring jewelry home with her, falsifying inventory records. She left the job and later went on a cruise, sending selfies to her former coworkers and telling them how much fun she was having. Police arrested her at the airport when she returned to the UK.