A Nottingham college has introduced a course in which students can study heavy metal bands such as Black Sabbath and Metallica, British media reported.The Heavy Metal Music Performance course by New College Nottingham allows the students to form bands and perform heavy metal music, and also academically explores the genre.“We’ve created this pioneering course in response to student demand and Nottingham’s growing music and creative economy,” the college explained on its homepage. The course does

May 13, 2013

Russian police said a teacher turned to Satanism and a hired thug to attack a former student's fiancee after the former student rejected her.Police said Lyudmila Osipova, 41, of Volgograd, developed a crush on a man in his 20s while teaching a computer class several years ago and attempted to reconnect with the man after quitting her job in 2009, RIA Novosti reported Friday.The woman posed online as a model half her age in an attempt to reconnect with the man, but he spurned her advances because

March 24, 2013

Florida police said a woman barricaded herself in a motel room, fired off 18 shots and threatened suicide because she was upset about her unfaithful boyfriend.Daytona Beach police said officers were called to the Sun & Surf Motel at 5 p.m. EDT Wednesday when Heather Beaver, 21, barricaded herself in a motel room with a firearm after an argument with her boyfriend of three years, Craig Garris, about his cheating, the Daytona Beach News-Journal reported Friday.Beaver fired off 18 rounds during the

March 16, 2013

   A New York City woman jumped from an eight-story building along with her infant son, police said. She died, but the baby survived with minor injuries.　Cynthia Wachenheim, a 44-year-old lawyer, jumped out of a window in Harlem Wednesday with her son, Keston, strapped to her chest, the New York Daily News reported.　The mother left a 13-page suicide note, chastising herself for being a bad mother. Her husband, Hal Bacharach, 48, was at work at the time.　Wachenheim landed on her back and died at

March 15, 2013

The Florida Highway Patrol said a man seen releasing a dozen heart-shaped Mylar balloons with his girlfriend was charged with a felony.The patrol said a trooper saw Anthony Brasfield, 40, send up the balloons Sunday in the parking lot of a Motel 6 in Dania Beach while with his girlfriend, Shaquina Baxter, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Monday.Brasfield was charged under the Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Act with polluting to harm humans, animals, plants, etc., the highway patr

Feb. 26, 2013

A massive 4-pound goldfish found in Lake Tahoe may be the result of aquarium dumping that could threaten the lake’s ecosystem, U.S. scientists say.Researchers trawling the lake on the California-Nevada border in a study to identify invasive fish species say they netted a goldfish that was nearly 1.5 feet long and weighed 4.2 pounds.“During these surveys, we’ve found a nice corner where there’s about 15 other goldfish,” environmental scientist Sudeep Chandra of the University of Nevada, Reno, tol

Feb. 24, 2013

Authorities said they arrested a 42-year-old woman accused of beating up her 82-year-old boyfriend in Ocala, Fla.The victim, who suffered eye and face injuries, said his girlfriend had been drinking and attacked him.The Marion County Sheriff‘s Office said Deputy Robert Thomas arrived at a home Wednesday and the woman ran out and told him her boyfriend was inside, the Ocala Star-Banner reported Friday.The deputy walked toward the residence and the man came out covered in blood. The sheriff’s offi

Feb. 24, 2013

Officials in a Florida county said a fire battalion chief and two medical supervisors were fired after an investigation found they engaged in sex while on duty.Polk County Assistant Fire Chief Rick Parnell said Battalion Chief Trampas Fletcher and medical supervisor Michael Tomlinson were both said to have separately carried on sexual affairs with medical supervisor Shellie Krauklis while on duty and on county property, The Lakeland Ledger reported Friday.The fire department fired all three work

Feb. 18, 2013

A central New York woman hopped on the stage during a school assembly and began stripping, police said.Aydrea Meaders, 24, was attending a Black History Month presentation at her child‘s school. WTEN-TV, Albany, N.Y., said Meaders had been acting normally during the event, conversing with the school’s principal.During a dance number, Meaders hopped on stage and began dancing with the students performing.“That wasn‘t an expected part of the routine but she wasn’t doing anything inappropriate,” Al

Feb. 18, 2013

A Swedish woman said she visited her doctor‘s home to receive extra care for a sore shoulder, but was given a sex toy instead.The woman, whose name was not reported, told Swedish newspaper Dalarnas Tidning she had been visiting the doctor at a clinic in Ludvika regularly for pain in her shoulder.She said the visits became increasingly longer and extended beyond the clinic’s open hours. The doctor, whose name was not reported, eventually offered to treat her at his home free of charge.“I thought

Feb. 4, 2013

New Orleans police said they are searching for two men who dressed in women‘s lingerie, and beat and robbed a man at a motel.The New Orleans Police Department said the alleged victim met with what he thought were two women Friday in a motel room, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune reported Saturday.He tried to leave the room when he realized the two women were in fact men. A third person came out of the motel bathroom and all three suspects allegedly beat the man, and ran away with his cash, credi

Feb. 4, 2013

Police in Florida said they arrested a man accused of spying through a window with his pants undone as a woman took a bath.Davie police said they were called to a trailer home neighborhood shortly before 12:10 a.m. Thursday, on a report of a man masturbating while looking into a window, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Friday.An officer arrived and discovered Luis Velasco, 18, standing in front of a trailer home‘s window while “jumping up and down in front of the window looking inside of

Feb. 3, 2013

Police in Sweden raided an apartment after receiving a report of gunfire and cries of help only to find several teenagers playing a computer game.The teenagers were playing the game “Call of Duty Saturday” night when one of the boy’s characters was killed after being shot several times and was left laying on the floor, screaming “help, help, help,” Swedish news agency TT reported.Passersby heard the game and thought it was real and called police.A 10-person police unit was dispatched to the apar

Jan. 30, 2013

A 5-year-old girl got in trouble at a Pennsylvania elementary school for talking with a friend about a pink toy bubble gun, officials said.The incident occurred Jan. 10 while the girl and her friends were waiting in line for a school bus, PennLive.com reported.“I‘m going to shoot you and I will shoot myself,” the girl allegedly said in reference to the toy that shoots out bubbles, said Robin Ficker, a Maryland lawyer representing the girl’s family.The girl was labeled a “terrorist threat” by the

Jan. 21, 2013