Teacher arrested for public intoxication

A first-grade teacher from Valparaiso is free on bond after she was arrested at school for public intoxication. Police say 49-year-old Sharon Duerring had two cans of beer in her purse at the time of her arrest.

Officials at Cooks Corners Elementary School removed Duerring from the classroom and called police when they suspected she was drunk. A portable breath test showed her blood alcohol concentration to be 0.20 percent, more than twice the legal limit of 0.08 percent.

Police say she was given a trespass warning not to return to the school.

A Porter County Jail officer says Duerring was released on bond. The Associated Press couldn’t reach her for comment because there was no phone number listed under her name.

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New Zealand doctors lost man’s false teeth down his throat during operation

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A New Zealand Health and Disability Commission report says doctors lost an elderly man’s false teeth during surgery but found them four days later – stuck down his throat.

However, the commission found doctors had taken all due care during the surgery.

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Cops dive for cover after lighter blast

ROSEMEAD, Calif. —

Sheriff’s deputies who mistook an exploding cigarette lighter for gunfire dived to the ground and called in reinforcements, shutting down a neighborhood for hours.

“We have a lot of unusual things happen in our business, and we expected the unexpected. It’s better to be safe than sorry,” Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Lt. Robert Craton said.

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Designer Anand Jon faces new rape charges

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California officials unsealed new rape charges against Indian-born celebrity fashion designer Anand Jon on Thursday, bringing the number of women he is accused of raping or sexually assaulting to 20.

Jon, 33, who once appeared on television show “America’s Next Top Model,” is accused of luring women back to Los Angeles to work as models and then attacking them. He has been charged with 59 counts of raping or sexually assaulting women between the ages of 14 and 27.

In June, the celebrity designer faced 46 counts involving 18 women. The new charges came after a September grand jury hearing that involved 23 witnesses, the Los Angeles County District Attorney said in a statement.

Jon is being held in a Los Angeles jail, and the District Attorney’s office said it will ask for a bail amount of $5.1 million at an arraignment scheduled for Oct. 25.

Defense attorney Anthony Brooklier said he believed the alleged victims had collaborated against Jon.

“We think that there was collusion,” Brooklier said. “We think this is made up whole-cloth, the entire case.”

Jon also is under investigation in Dallas and Houston, Texas, as well as New York and Massachusetts.

California prosecutors claim the designer is a serial rapist, and charges against him include forcible rape, sexual battery, sexual penetration by a foreign object and sodomy by use of force, among numerous others.

Prosecutors say the attacks occurred between November 2002 and March 2007.

Jon has dressed celebrities like Paris Hilton and Janet Jackson and had planned to launch of new line of jeans.

20 women?  20 women have filed case against you Jon. Now thats shameful. I think you prefer dressing them down than dressing them up.