Carjack staged for girlfriend

He was desperate. His pregnant girl friend had developed childbirth pains and bleeding. She had to be taken to hospital immediately. Hence he had to carjack a vehicle.

Boudreaux, 31, of Deona, USA, allegedly walked into the path of a car to force it to stop, and threatened to shoot the driver if he didn't give him and his 22-year-old girlfriend a ride. He later forced the driver out at a red light, the sheriff’s office said in a statement, and got behind the wheel.

The couple's saga started when the girlfriend's car ran out of gas in DeLand, she told police. A friend picked them up and dropped them off in the town of Deltona, only a few miles away. The couple then walked for several miles, and the woman started to feel dehydrated and began to bleed. Volusia County Sheriff's Office Spokesman Brandon Haught said that police did not know where the couple was going. Around noon, Boudreaux tried unsuccessfully to flag down cars on North Normandy Boulevard but failed. Boudreaux allegedly turned to carjacking.

When a driver stopped his vehicle at a red light at the intersection of North Normandy and Elkcam Boulevards Boudreaux ordered the driver to run the light, when the driver refused Boudreaux grabbed the driver’s seat belt, using it to force him back against the seat and yelled that he would shoot him if he didn’t get out.

The man got out of his car and Boudreaux drove off, while the man called 911. The driver told police he never actually saw a gun. Deputies quickly spotted the car. They said Boudreaux used a turning lane to pass other vehicles and erratically shifted between lanes as he refused to stop. Even after he pulled into the parking lot of Florida Hospital Fish Memorial in Orange City, Boudreaux continued to evade authorities until the car he was driving was trapped by patrol cars, the sheriff’s office said. It was like a scene from a thrilling film. Boudreauxe was taken into custody and faces charges of armed carjacking, fleeing or eluding and driving with a suspended license. Deputies took the girlfriend to the hospital’s emergency room, where she was treated for heat exhaustion and later released.

Armless tutor teaches with her toes

She is a mathematics tutor and teaches with her foot. You may wonder how on earth a teacher can teach students using her foot!

But believe it or not Mar Gannon, a 24-year- old tutor at Harding Middle School in Lakewood, Ohio,USA does it with ease. She was born without arms hence what else to do but use the legs. Her fancy footwork has inspired the students and has become a living icon who has proved that if there is a will you can achieve anything. Mary Gannon, 24, teaches mathematics using her feet. She was born in a Mexican orphanage with no arms, and now she tutors at a middle school in Ohio.

Gannon drives, dresses, cooks, types emails and writes mathematics problems on the board – all with her toes. Gannon is right-footed and jokes that she can’t read her writing with her left foot. She applies her personal experience with overcoming adversity in the classroom with students who need added help in mathematics. Missing arms means a calculated compensation in everything she does.

“I’m not saying I don’t get frustrated. Watching a normal person carry something heavy, I wish it would take me two seconds to carry groceries.”

Gannon grades papers with her right foot — because she can't read her writing with her left foot. “I have a bunch of goals for myself: Being a full-time mathematics teacher and having one grade to focus on,” said Gannon, an ambitious recent college graduate who started as a substitute teacher at Harding Middle School before becoming a mathematics tutor.

“You probably noticed there’s something different about me. You’ll see me writing on the board with my feet. I do everything with my feet. If you have questions, you’re more than welcome to ask me”, she said.

A lone, brave hand may shoot up, but most of her students spanning the sixth, seventh and eighth grades hold back until they’re a few weeks into Gannon’s class. Her students have been very respectful, she said, calling it “cute” when they do get the nerve to ask her.

“I waited and then asked her how she does it … and how she drives,” shares 11-year-old Giovanni Tillery a sixth-grader who was curious from day 1. Giovanni tells TODAY.com that he’s been raving to his mother, Elizabeth Reyes, about his teacher: Miss Gannon uses her feet as hands! She gets to go barefoot at school!

May Gannon can even play instruments with her feet. Giovanni thought it was so cool, he attempted the feat of gripping with his toes, but unfortunately, “It didn’t work,” he said.

For Gannon it is natural because she’s been using her feet for hands her whole life. She doesn’t know why she was born this way. Gannon spent her early childhood in a Mexican orphanage and lacks early medical records.

The young teacher draws her enormous inner strength from the large, loving Ohio family who adopted her when she was seven years old.

“They never gave up on me. They’re encouraging me to this day. They’re very supportive, especially my mom,” she gushed. “She’s a doctor and just watching her raise her chileren and go back to school and get her master’s — if she can do it, so can I.”

Gannon was hired on her merit – she can teach and knows mathematics, said Keith Ahearn, principal at Harding Middle School. The parents and students love her. And later, the principal noticed she has something “intangible” – that X factor. .

“The thing that’s so remarkable is that once you know her, her disability goes away in your eyes,” Ahearn said.

New Mexico town's police force goes to the dog

Nikka, a police dog in Vaughn, N.M., is now the town's only official member of the police force.

There is no other option, he will have to take over the police of the New Mexico town of Vaughen as he is the only certified officer remaining.

Police chief Ernest “Chris” Armijo stepped down because of his criminal record. Armijo owes tens of thousands of dollars in delinquent child support payments in Texas and also faces a felony charge after being accused of selling a town-owned rifle and pocketing the cash.

Armijo is working to clear up the latest case and he has not ruled out seeking the police chief's position again if his case is resolved and the position is open.

A second police officer in Vaughn, Brian Bernal, was hired in the spring, but he had his own legal problems: In January of 2011, Bernal pleaded guilty to assault and battery against a household member, which prohibits him from owning a firearm by federal law. Now, according to records, the only qualified member of the Vaughn Police Department is Nikka, a drug-sniffing dog. Non-certified officers can't make arrests and can't carry firearms.

Vaughn, a town 104 miles east of Albuquerque, is a quiet place that is an overnight stop for railroad workers.

While residents maintain there is no crime problem, the town is set deep in what the U.S. officials say is an area popular with drug traffickers. The desolate roads in Guadalupe County make it hard for authorities to catch smugglers moving drugs from Mexico.

Guadalupe County Sheriff Michael Lucero said since news about the police chief's record became public his department has helped patrol Vaughn. But he said those efforts have put a slight strain on his already short-staffed department.

“I visit the town at least once a month,” said Lucero. “The important thing is to keep a presence so residents know we're there to help if we're needed.”

Romero said town officials are considering whether to hire another police chief or keep the department staffed with just one officer. He said it's unclear whether the town will keep the police dog, which had been in Armijo's care.

The dog's kennel could be seen in Armijo's backyard, and a police truck marked “K-9” was parked in his driveway.

At Penny's Diner, residents said they were embarrassed by the attention the episode has put on the small town.