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A tenured economics professor at Colby College was forced to resign late last month after allegations surfaced that, while chaperoning an international student trip, he set up a hidden surveillance camera to take photos of female students in a bathroom, according to court documents.
Philip H. Brown, an associate professor of economics at Colby since 2003, has not been charged and an investigation by the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit is ongoing. Brown's resignation was confirmed by the college.
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Following a computer glitch that sent out erroneous tickets for running red lights, State Rep. Paul Wieland, R-Barnhart, plans to seek an audit of the city records and change state legislation.
Of the 8,000 letters sent out in January by American Traffic Solutions on behalf of the city of Arnold for red light camera tickets issued from 2005 on, roughly 1,000 were sent out on tickets that had already been paid.
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Upon the timely request of respondents, the Commission has determined to conduct a portion of its hearing in the above-captioned investigation scheduled for May 1, 2012, in camera. The remainder of the hearing will be open to the public.
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The Prince George's County town of Cheverly sent a letter in July to speed-camera vendor Optotraffic, informing the company that one of its cameras had caught a bicycle going 57 mph - just 26 mph off the world record for a flat surface.
The obvious error, town officials wrote, was the latest in a pattern of inaccurate readings by the Optotraffic device, which had caught another bike going 38 mph and an "invisible vehicle" traveling 76 mph.
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Ryan Switzer, star running back for the George Washington Patriots, has the scrapbook to end all scrapbooks. In addition to the newspaper clippings he was just named the Daily Mails 2011 Kanawha Valley Player of the Year Switzer, a junior, has thousands of photos from his elementary, middle and high school sports careers. They all were shot by a professional photographer: his dad, Michael Switzer. Michael took up photography during his time at Concord University, where he studied commercial art. However, he hung up his camera after he graduated and took a decade-long break from the hobby. He didnt take many photos during that time. When he did, they werent very good. I just didnt concentrate on it, he said. He began purchasing new equipment when his children started playing sports. Th...