Wednesday, August 29, 2012
oddly enough
W. Pa. school district confused on first day
MONESSEN, Pa.
At least 10 students showed up a day early for the new school year in one southwestern Pennsylvania school district, and now the school superintendent is trying to trace the source of the miscommunication.
Tara Yorty tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that the Monessen City School District told parents in the spring that school would resume Monday.
Since then, the district had alerted parents that school was to begin Tuesday — but that message got lost in the shuffle because different dates were posted on four websites used by the district and its individual schools.
Yorty’s fourth-grade daughter was one of several who didn’t get the message until she showed up at her empty school Monday, though most of the district’s 950 students stayed home.
Man turned himself in for bank robbery
BISMARCK, N.D.
Authorities say a man accused of robbing a bank in western North Dakota called 911 three days later from his home in Kansas and told officers to arrest him for “making a mistake.”
Court papers say 53-year-old Kent Anthony Clemens held up the Gate City Bank in Williston on July 18. On July 21, he turned himself in to police in Topeka, Kan.
Authorities say Clemens was sitting on his front porch when police arrived and held out his hands to be handcuffed.
Clemens is being held in North Dakota. His attorney wouldn’t comment Tuesday on specifics in the case.
Clemens told authorities he believed he made off with about $800.
Associated Press