Muslim girl loses legal bid

Muslim girl loses legal bid
LONDON -- A 15-year-old British schoolgirl who went to court after being told she couldn't wear traditional Muslim dress in the classroom today lost a legal bid to overturn the ban.
Shabina Begum was sent home from Denbigh High School in Luton, north of London, in September 2002 for wearing the jilbab, a long, flowing gown covering all her body except her hands and face. She has not attended school since.
She went to the High Court, arguing she was being denied her right to education and to manifest her religious beliefs.
Judge Sir Hugh Bennett ruled that the school's dress code was a "reasoned, balanced, proportionate policy" and that Begum's human rights had not been violated.
2 deaths linked to drugs
MANCHESTER, Tenn. -- Two fans died during the weekend Bonnaroo music festival, which drew tens of thousands of people, and investigators said drugs appear to have been involved.
They were the first deaths in the festival's three-year history.
"When there is drug usage and the heat has been like it has, we have been expecting it every year. ... This year our luck ran out," Coffee County Sheriff Steve Graves said.
Preliminary toxicology tests showed both victims had been using drugs, investigator Dale Brissey said.
Temperatures reached 90 degrees or higher on Friday and Saturday. "The high humidity, high heat, alcohol and drugs -- it's not a good combination," Brissey said.
Mother charged in deaths
STEVENSON, Wash. -- A woman who authorities said confessed to fatally shooting her two young daughters and burying them in a rock pit was charged Monday with two counts of aggravated murder.
Prosecutors will have a month to decide whether to seek the death penalty for Charlene Dorcy, 39, after she enters a plea at a hearing on Thursday. Her bail was set at $1 million.
Dorcy called 911 from a pay phone and confessed to the killings Saturday, just hours after she said she drove 2-year-old Brittney and 4-year-old Jessica about 80 miles to Gifford Pinchot National Forest and shot them, said Sheriff Dave Brown.
Associated Press