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• Position: Sexual allegations against taxi driver Tony Kemp; gun dealer advertisement; description of criminal suspects in Sweden

English taxi driverTony Kemp says he lost business and his reputation was damaged after the North Yorkshire County Council banned him from taking students to school because of an allegation made against him. Someone had reported him hugging and kissing two girls outside a local school. The girls were his daughters.

Jackson, Mississippi, City Council member Kenneth Stokes is calling for an investigation of a local gun dealer who posted a sign saying that people who vote for Stokes or Barack Obama are too stupid to own a gun. "If this gun dealer feels that it's legal for him to display negative images of the president of the United States, keep in mind that he must have some kind of license," Stokes said. "We're asking the attorney general of the United States to do an investigation and let's see whether the rules and regulations have been violated."

Police in Stockholm, Sweden, have been ordered not to include race, ethnicity, nationality, skin color, or height in any descriptions of criminal suspects they release to the public. Officials say they don'twant to appearto be racist.

Danish police saytheywill likely charge a 17-year-old girl who used pepper spray to fend off a man who knocked her to the ground and tried to remove her clothes. It is illegal to possess or use pepper spray in Denmark.

Robert Weide, a sociologist at the Los Angeles branch of California State University, doesn't think much of that school's chapter of Young...