The tiny computers will be used for everything from note taking to e-mail. Of course, some of the students will probably be playing games on their Palms, too. A couple of New Jersey inmates may face charges for trying to break into prison. Isiah Benton and Melvin Paschall live in halfway houses. They were dropped off at East Jersey Prison for parole hearings, but were left on the wrong side of the facility.
Authorities say the men decided take a shortcut and climbed over a fence.
Prison guards spotted the guys, thought they were escapees and sounded the alarm. An investigation is continuing, but officials say the men could face trespassing charges. Police in the central Illinois city busted animal rights protester Kristie Phelps around noon yesterday. She wanted to pose nude in a cage as a demonstration against the upcoming Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. Phelps was clad only in painted tiger stripes, but the handcuffs came out as soon as her robe came off.