In some cases where there was no time for elaborate details, incidents ended with students simply pummeling suspected criminals bloody. Vigilante acts are the norm in Guatemala, where last year saw 108 lynching attempts. Even the world's oldest profession is out of bounds for foreigners living in Germany without a work permit, the Constitutional Court ruled Friday. The woman, who is married to a German, argued that the law was vague about whether the ban on ''gainful employment'' included prostitution. A lower court disagreed, and the Constitutional Court upheld that decision.
Prostitution is legal in Germany.
Although a jury found Robert Washington innocent of murder, he's still going to jail. So is his mother. It wasn't even a complete sentence. The clerk at Kelly's Gas told police that a man in a black ski mask had come in just before midnight and pulled a handgun from his coat pocket, police said. The would-be robber put the gun back in his pocket and left.