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Chicago-area high school sets bathroom-visit limit for students

EVERGREEN PARK, Ill.

Students at a suburban Chicago high school will have to hold it or risk staying after school.

A policy at Evergreen Park High School allows students to leave class three times per semester to go to the restroom. After that, they have to make up any missed class time after school.

Principal Bill Sanderson tells the Tinley Park SouthtownStar that the policy is designed to make sure that students don’t miss valuable class time. He says it deters them from using restroom visits as an excuse to miss class.

Each teacher gets to decide whether to enforce the policy in their classes.

But some students argue that they don’t have time to stop at the restroom otherwise because they get only five minutes between classes.

Swedish bird-catcher convicted of animal cruelty

STOCKHOLM

A Swedish man who captured 13,000 wild birds and kept hundreds of them locked up in his home has been convicted of animal cruelty and illegal hunting and sentenced to a year-and-a-half in prison.

The Hudiksvall district court says Pierre Johansson, 39, used illegal nets and traps to capture the birds, including owls, falcons, hawks, sparrows, pheasants and woodpeckers.

After documenting his catch, he released most of them, but the court said Monday that Johansson also kept hundreds of birds locked up in cages in his garage and a hen house on his property.

Johansson claims he wanted to give the birds shelter during the winter and never intended to harm them.

His lawyer did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

Police: Calif. men sold guns from hot-dog stand

SAN JOSE, Calif.

Authorities say a Northern California hot- dog vendor offered undercover officers more than just mustard, ketchup and relish on the side

Jose Gilberto Ortiz, 58, was arraigned in U.S. District Court in San Jose on Thursday on charges of selling firearms to the officers from his hot-dog stand.

His partner, 23-year-old Guillermo Gonzalez Castillo, also was arraigned on weapons charges. Castillo also is accused of selling the San Jose police officers methamphetamine.

Authorities say the officers purchased a sawed-off shotgun, a machine gun and other firearms from the pair. They were arrested at the hot-dog stand Sept. 2.

Messages for the men’s attorneys were not immediately returned.

Associated Press