HUNDREDS of Chile without tickets broke through fences or climbed over barriers into the stadium.

STADIUM staff struggled to deal with a serious failure in security measures before Spain's World Cup match against Chile at the Maracana.

Hundreds of Chile without tickets broke through fences or climbed over barriers into the stadium.

A number of the intruders who charged through the main media centre were detained by officials but many others appeared to have made their way into the stands after breaking down a temporary wall.

Meanwhile, thousands of Chile fans without tickets remained on the roads outside the stadium but organisers said kick-off would not be delayed.

A joint statement from FIFA and the local organising committee said "at least 85 intruders" had forced their way into the stadium but that none had made it to the seating area for the match.

The statement said: "Ahead of the Spain versus Chile match at the Maracana, a group of individuals without tickets violently forced entry into the stadium, breaking fences and overrunning security. They were contained by the security and did not make it to the seats.

"The situation was brought under control quickly and at least 85 intruders were detained according the military police of Rio.

"The organisers of the FIFA World Cup condemn these acts of violence and we will communicate further information and measures to be taken in due course."

According to Brazilian media, one person - a disabled woman who is a Chile fan - was injured.

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Donkeys and Maremma dogs are the latest tricks farmers are using in Queensland to protect their flocks of sheep from dingoes and wild dogs, but traditional dog netting fences maybe the most effective.

Early last century when sheep first were brought to Western Queensland farmers had to come up solutions for dingoes and what occurred was proliferation of seven foot high wire netting fences.

Farmers would fence a paddock and then shoot or trap all the dogs and then bring in the sheep. It was so effective that dingoes virtually disappeared from many areas.

The dog fences were then redundant and as they collapsed they were replaced by traditional livestock fences only one metre high.

Now with the recent increase in wild dog and dingo numbers farmers are looking to the old ways for solutions.

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DAGUPAN CITY - Two armed men shot and killed Urbiztondo town Mayor Ernesto Balolong Jr., his police escort and an electrician on Saturday near an area in the town where the mayor was supposed to hold his 25th wedding anniversary party today, Sunday.

Balolong was at the back of the town's convention centre around 8:50 a.m. when armed men in a Toyota Innova drove up and opened fire, police said.

The mayor was inspecting the venue for his wedding anniversary and for the wedding of his son, Urbiztondo Councilor Voltaire Balolong, which were to take place simultaneously.

The gunmen alighted from the Innova and had calmly approached the mayor before they opened fire, according to a witness.

The witness said Balolong managed to scamper away but was felled by another shot. One of the gunmen approached Balolong and shot him at point-blank range, the witness said.

Targets

Police said Balolong and his escort, Police Officer 1 Eliseo Ulanday (not Umanday as earlier reported), were the apparent targets of the attack. Edmund Meneses, a supermarket electrician, was caught in the barrage of the bullets.

The attack also wounded Jose Vigilia, an employee of CSI Supermarket, and Rogelio Esguerra, a soy drink vendor.

Balolong was immediately taken to Elguira General Hospital in San Carlos City. But Dr. Samuel Elguira, owner of the hospital, said the mayor was already dead when he arrived in the hospital about an hour later, 9:55 a.m.

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After twice failing to protect students from the false promises of expensive, for-profit career colleges, California is trying again.

A bill making its way through the Legislature would replace the state's regulatory bureau -- slammed as ineffective in a March state audit -- with an independent board to investigate complaints and monitor the schools.

Industry lobbyists and consumer advocates have staked out their positions. The schools view the proposed changes as unnecessarily disruptive, according to the bill's analysis, but the advocates say it could make the state more responsive to students left in the lurch.

Whatever the state sets up, "I hope that it's a little more user-friendly," said Megan Thompson, a former student who remains unemployed six months after completing a Boston Reed College online program in electronic health records.

The Milpitas woman said she is still awaiting a response to the complaint she filed early this year with the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education.

She said the school charged students for textbooks they never received, gave them a job-board web address instead of promised career counseling and neglected to mail her certificate. (She has since obtained it.) The college appears to be open, but did not respond to requests for comment.

For-profit colleges, many of them national chains, have come under intense scrutiny for soaking up federal student aid and leaving former students jobless and in tremendous debt. A new report last week from the National Consumer Law Center gauged the "gathering storm" of investigations by state attorneys general and federal agencies: 61 since 2007 with a steady increase each year, including 13 through May of this year.

And Thursday, the California-based Corinthian Colleges warned that federal financial sanctions might force it out of business. Its schools include Heald, Everest and Wyotech, which enroll more than 70,000 students nationwide, many of them in California. The U.S. Department of Education said the company failed to address concerns about its practices, "including falsifying job placement data used in marketing claims to prospective students and allegations of altered grades and attendance."

The increasing number of probes "shows that for-profit school abuses continues to be a problem," said Robyn Smith, a former California deputy attorney general who wrote the Consumer Law Center's report.

Californians could benefit from having an independent board watching over the industry -- as long as those with ties to the colleges can't dominate its membership, she said.

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Developers seem to be getting busier and busier.

KB Home paid $3,696,000 for 59 acres with 168 home sites for its Bartram Creek community on Race Track Road. Prices will begin in the mid-$200s. This is just Phase 1 and KB is planning a total of 468 lots there.

Meanwhile, KB is opening five new communities this summer:

The Crossings at Glen St. Johns, off St. Thomas Island Parkway in St. Johns County, Abby Glen off Sunbeam Road in Mandarin, Angora Bay off County Road 220 in Orange Park, Hillcrest Bluff off Main Street in North Jacksonville and Biscayne Grove off Duval Road and I-295 in North Jacksonville.

Mattamy Homes paid $6.9 million for 42 acres along Bartram Park Boulevard off Race Track Road. It will be an additional phase of Bartram Park Preserve with 219 sites with homes starting in the $170s.

Tamaya, the huge development that broke ground this year at Beach and Kernan boulevards, set a first-year sales goal of 40 homes. But its reaching that by the end of June, a spokesman said. Eventual plans call for 2,400 homes on 780 acres.

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Syndicated Equities, a private real investment firm based in Chicago, has paid $14.2 million for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building at 13077 Veveras Drive in Flagler Center. The two-story, 47,000-square-foot building on 3.9 acres was built in 2012.

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Jacksonville Transportation Authority paid $1,875,000 for 10.1 acres with a building at 3191 Armsdale Road, at the southeast corner of the intersection of Lem Turner Road and I-295. It plans to put a park-and-ride facility for its bus rapid transit initiative, a spokesman said. It could also become a satellite facility for Northside community shuttles, he said.

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June 18th, 2014 10:36 am by Wes Bunch

GATE CITY -- A Tennessee man accused of carrying out a paving scam is wanted on fugitive charges in Scott County after he failed to show up for court last week.

Frank Edward Small, 54, of Kingsport, was scheduled to appear June 11 in Scott County Circuit Court, but reportedly failed to show. As a result, Small's bond was revoked and a capias warrant issued for his arrest.

The Scott County Commonwealth's Attorney's Office said it would have asked the court to revoke Small's bond if he had appeared because he had allegedly continued to perform work in Virginia without a contractor's license.

Small was indicted in May by a Scott County grand jury on a single felony count of violating Virginia business regulations for the third time in three years.

The charge against Small stems from the fact he performed work without a valid contractor's license. Unlike neighboring states, operating without a contractor's license is considered a crime in Virginia under certain conditions.

The Scott County Sheriff's Office began investigating Small in early March 2014 after receiving a report from a homeowner in Nickelsville who claimed he was scammed.

Small allegedly failed to provide an initial estimate before telling the victim he was owed $8,000 for paving his driveway. When the homeowner could only pay $2,200, Small reportedly told him he would be back in two or three days to collect the money.

Small also has charges pending in Hawkins County, Tenn. for allegedly perpetrating a paving scam there.

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