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No more horsing around for teen who rode to school

HAVERFORD, Pa.

Whoa! There will be no more horsing around for a suburban Philadelphia teen who’s been commuting to school on his trusty steed.

Roby Burch had been riding his horse Jet about four miles each way to the private Haverford School. He kept the horse in a corral on school grounds.

Burch tells The Philadelphia Inquirer that school trustees decided in October that the horse was a liability issue. The teen then began keeping Jet at his uncle’s house nearby.

However, Burch says Jet hurt his hoof from the repeated trips over pavement. Another family horse twice escaped while Burch was in class.

Now he’s getting a ride from his parents. The 16-year-old hopes to get his driver’s license in February.

Bad ‘Alibi’: Idaho burglary suspect found at bar

LEWISTON, Idaho

Police say it didn’t take them long to locate an Idaho man suspected in the robbery of a Cedars Inn — he was next door at The Alibi bar.

Lewiston police say 40-year-old Donald Mosley Jr. was arrested less than 15 minutes after he walked into the hotel and demanded cash from the desk clerk late Wednesday.

Police found Mosley at The Alibi, a bar next to the hotel. Mosley was booked into the Nez Perce County Jail early Thursday and faces possible felony robbery charges.

The Lewiston Tribune reports this is the second time Mosley has been arrested in recent weeks.

In late October, police say he called in a fake fire report from a pay phone after he was declined a cup of coffee at a Lewiston fire station. It was unclear if Mosley had hired an attorney Thursday, when various state and county offices were closed in observance of Veterans Day.

Dirty dancing forces Ore. school to cancel formal

PORTLAND, Ore.

Frustrated teachers who have been unable to stop students from grinding on the dance floor have canceled the winter formal at an Oregon high school.

Vice Principal Pam Joyner tells The Oregonian chaperones have tried everything to prevent the inappropriate contact — lectures, shining flashlights and even T-shirts that said “No bumping.”

Nothing worked. So, teachers at the Portland school are refusing to chaperone the January dance.

The school’s special-projects coordinator, Jan Watt, says the students dance like people they see on TV.

Some students told The Oregonian grinding is no big deal, but they wouldn’t want their parents to watch.

Associated Press