Any item that looks like a gun will have to be licensed under several changes to the Weapons Act being considered by the Queensland State Government. Even guns made out of materials as unlikely as soap or plastic may have to be kept under lock and key if they could “reasonably be taken to...
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Parents will have to make sure their kids have strapped on helmets before they hit the ski slopes, if the governor signs a bill approved by state lawmakers this week. The measure by Sen. Leland Yee, D-San Francisco, mirrors bicycle helmet laws already in place in California. It would impose a $25 fine on...
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The words “retardation” or “feeble-minded” will be replaced by “intellectual disability” or “developmental disability” in all state laws and regulations, under a bill Governor Christie signed into law Monday afternoon. Dozens of people with disabilities and advocacy group leaders gathered at the State House in Trenton to witness the bill signing and reflect on...
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A ‘man of 21 with learning disabilities has been granted taxpayers’ money to fly to Amsterdam and have sex with a prostitute. His social worker says sex is a ‘human right’ for the unnamed individual – described as a frustrated virgin. His trip to a brothel in the Dutch capital’s red light district next...
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A bottled water ban? OK. No more regular Coke and Pepsi in government vending machines? All right, if we have to. But no more Happy Meals? That’s the ban that San Francisco is mulling over. Some city supervisors say the toys in McDonald’s Happy Meals unfairly lure children to eat unhealthy food. McDonald’s has...
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Linda Martin, 68, had hung the floral displays around the centre of Wilton, Wiltshire, in an attempt to brighten up the area. But she was told they must be removed as they breached health and safety rules. Officials were concerned that shoppers could bump their heads as they passed under them. The ruling followed...
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Students in North Rhine-Westphalia needed to learn responsible online behaviour on social networks like Facebook, the state government said on Thursday, as it proposed a new education programme for internet manners in schools. The coalition of centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and environmentalist Greens wants students to earn a media competence certificate, the Minister for...
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It’s hardly unusual to hear small-business owners gripe about licensing requirements or complain that heavy-handed regulations are driving them into the red. So when Multnomah County shut down an enterprise last week for operating without a license, you might just sigh and say, there they go again. Except this entrepreneur was a 7-year-old named...
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The doggie bag from your restaurant dinner could be tomorrow’s lunch. But then you see someone on the street who needs that meal more than you do. So you hand it over (with a smile) and continue on your way, maybe feeling a little better about yourself. Then a police officer stops you and...
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A huge poster of a Nazi swastika behind a 1940s-style naked pin-up model clad only in a Mickey Mouse-mask and stretched across a building has stirred controversy in Poznan, western Poland. A new art gallery is using the work titled “NaziSexyMouse” by Italian artist Max Papeschi to advertise an exhibition, but a city councillor...
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