Teen who spread nude picture pleads

Teen who spread nude picture pleads

SPARTANBURG, S.C.

The South Carolina high school student accused of taking a former teacher’s cellphone and sharing nude photos of her with other students has pleaded guilty in family court to a computer crime.

Local media outlets report Deputy Solicitor John Anthony of the 16th Circuit Solicitor’s Office said the teenager pleaded guilty Thursday to a second-degree computer crime. Anthony said the teenager was ordered to receive an evaluation by the Department of Juvenile Justice. He will then return to family court for sentencing.

Former Union County High School teacher Leigh Anne Arthur told news outlets she left her cellphone on her desk Feb. 18 during a class change when a teenager took it and took pictures of nude images of her on the phone.

Navy accuses officer of misconduct

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates

A U.S. Navy officer relieved of commanding a Persian Gulf patrol ship allegedly failed to maintain equipment to the point of exposing “his crew to unnecessary risk,” interfered with an inquiry into his actions and once slept drunk on a bench at a Dubai port, according to a naval investigation.

The accusations against Lt. Cmdr. Jeremiah Daley saw the Navy on March 12 remove him from the USS Typhoon, a Manama, Bahrain-based vessel patrolling a region crucial to global oil supplies where American forces routinely have tense encounters with Iranian forces.

Reached by The Associated Press, Daley said he was challenging the report and appealing his punishment as a “good number of things are 100 percent not true.”

Queen Elizabeth II marks 90th birthday

WINDSOR, England

Fate unexpectedly made her queen. Duty and endurance have made her an institution and an icon.

Queen Elizabeth II turned 90 on Thursday as Britain’s oldest and longest-reigning monarch, drawing crowds of well-wishers and floods of tributes to the stamina and service of a woman who can claim to have given her name to the age.

Britain is living, Prime Minister David Cameron said, in the “modern Elizabethan Era.”

Oklahoma voters to decide on monument

OKLAHOMA CITY

Oklahoma voters will decide in November whether to abolish an article of the state constitution so that a Ten Commandments monument can be returned to the Capitol grounds.

The House voted 65-7 late Thursday for a resolution calling for a statewide vote on whether to remove a constitutional prohibition on the use of state funds to support a religion. The state Supreme Court relied on that section of the constitution in June when it ordered a 6-foot-tall granite Ten Commandments monument moved from the Capitol grounds.

Mitsubishi probed over false data

TOKYO

Officials are investigating Mitsubishi Motors Corp. after the company said it had found employees manipulated fuel-efficiency data of more than 620,000 light vehicles it manufactured.

Local media reports showed investigators from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism entering offices of the company’s assembly plant in central Japan’s Nagoya on Thursday.

On Wednesday, the company apologized for what it said was intentional falsification of mileage test data that falsely boosted fuel economy by about 5 percent to 10 percent.

Associated Press