www.cbc.ca - “Boy, 9, steals Saskatoon city bus, hits 2 parked vehicles” – September 6^th, 2014:

No injuries are reported after a nine-year-old boy stole a city bus in Saskatoon and managed to drive it for a couple of blocks Saturday morning.

Police say the bus was stolen from the bus garages on 300 block of 24th Street West, near downtown.

CBC reporter Steve Pasqualotto was driving south along nearby Idywyld Drive toward downtown when he looked over and saw the child at the wheel of the bus.

The boy eventually stopped at the corner of Idylwyld Drive and 25th Street, after getting the bus hung up on the curb.

Police say the boy hit two vehicles — a parked city bus and another parked car — but no one was hurt.

Since the boy is 9-years-old police cannot lay charges.

Officers have confirmed he was taken home and is now with his family.

According to city officials, the stolen bus was being repaired on Saturday when it was stolen.

Jeff Jorgenson, General Manager of Transportation & Utilities Department, said he and other officials have reviewed a video tape that captured the incident. Based on this footage, Jorgenson explained that the bus had been left running by a maintenance person when the boy entered the bus and stole it.

"This is a case, from what I've seen, [where] policy and procedures were very clearly violated," said Jorgenson. "Buses are not to be left in that condition."

Jorgenson said typically buses must be left in a secured state. He explained that none of the steps had been taken to secure the bus, making it easy for the child to drive away with the bus.

"This is a case where safety protocols were violated," Jorgenson said, as he explained that the door was left unlocked, and the boy entered the bus with ease and started driving the bus a short time after entering it because the bus was not secure.

motoringcrunch.com – “Tesla Model S Hiccup Lets You Unlock Doors Remotely” – September 1^st. 2014:

The Model S from Tesla, the electric car, comes with many vulnerabilities that allow the car door to be unlocked and provides access to various controls of the car, said researchers. The flaw means that someone could activate such as the horn, lights and roof through remote control.

Tesla have been told about the bug and those who found it said that it can only be manipulated via high tech manoeuvres and it can be remedied by simply deactivating the remote access function of the vehicle.

The security company who found the issue have been the first to come across the security issue with Tesla cars. However this isn’t the first time that Tesla have come across issues as in March it was found that electric cars of theirs could be located and unlocked thanks to a six character password that could be used remotely.

www.nj.com - “Kearny man punched 74-year-old Lyndhurst man in robbery attempt, police say” – August 31^st, 2014:

A Kearny man broke into a Bogle Drive home Friday and struck one of its 74-year-old occupants in a robbery attempt, police said.

Police charged Evanalain Sieberkrob-Hershman, 24, with robbery, burglary, three counts of aggravated assault, hindering apprehension, criminal restraint and possession of a hypodermic needle.

A 74-year-old woman told Lyndhurst Police that a man entered her home through an unlocked rear door, Capt. John J. Valente said in a press release. The man grabbed her and demanded money.

The woman's husband, also 74, tried to intervene but the man struck him in the head, Valente said. A 50-year-old relative living upstairs came down after hearing screams for help.

The man pushed her aside as he fled toward Riverside County Park, Valente said.

Police searched the park, where a witness reported seeing someone matching a description provided by police, Valente said. The witness said he saw the man walking north through the park toward Riverside Avenue.

Police arrested Sieberkrob-Hershman in a parking lot on Riverside Avenue. He was trying to remove clothing, apparently to avoid being recognized by police, Valente said.

He was sent to Bergen County Jail in lieu of $420,000 bail.

The 74-year-old man was released from Meadowlands Hospital after treatment for face and head injuries, Valente said.

The Pocono (Pennsylvania) Record - “Pocono Mountain Regional Police Commission investigation kept from public” – August 24^th, 2014:

The Pocono Mountain Regional Police Commission hired an attorney last year to conduct an investigation of then-chief Harry Lewis that eventually cost $56,053, without approving it at a public meeting, records show.

Now, the commission is withholding the report based on a privately executed agreement signed with Lewis and his lawyer.

The department responded to a Right-to-Know request this week for the invoices from Philadelphia attorney, Neil A. Morris, hired to conduct the investigation. Coolbaugh Township commission representative Bill Weimer revealed the investigation for the first time earlier this summer, estimating it cost $50,000, while demanding to see a copy of the resulting report.

Lewis, whose last day was Aug. 8, left his handgun in an unlocked department vehicle at his Allentown-area home the night of May 19-20, 2013. Two teens who were allegedly going through unlocked cars in the area were accused of stealing it before one sold it on the streets of Allentown.

A series of invoices on "Chief Harry Lewis (Lost Weapon Issue)" starting in July 2013 shows Morris began billing for hours July 8 and continued through Dec. 12. In that time, Morris' then firm Archer & Greiner billed 213.7 hours of work. The department spent $27,606 in October alone investigating.

Lewis denied he was disciplined after what he said in early November was an "internal review" that was thorough and concluded.

Police commission representative and Coolbaugh Supervisor Juan Adams has said Lewis was punished, but has not specified how. Officials have not confirming the discipline question, calling it a personnel matter exempt from disclosure.

Minutes reviewed throughout 2013 do not show any motion to approve hiring the attorney. The department last week also denied a Right-to-Know request for a record of the commission's approval because the records do not exist.

"There are no minutes of executive session meetings of Pocono Mountain Regional Police Department," the denial said in explanation.

Police Solicitor Harry Coleman has not responded to several requests for comment, but commission chair Jim Frutchey said he sees no problem with the executive session decision-making.

But the two closed-door decisions to hire an attorney and sign the agreement with Lewis are problematic, said Kim de Bourbon of the Pennsylvania Freedom of Information Coalition.

"Public boards cannot take votes on official action behind closed doors. Period," de Bourbon, a former Pocono Record editor, said by email. "Sometimes courts have allowed so-called 'straw polls' in executive session, as long as official votes are made in public."

De Bourbon said the investigation could be viewed as internal because it was conducted by the commission with outside help, not by state or federal agencies.

Melissa Beven Melewsky, media law counsel at the Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association, said both executive session decisions indicate compliance problems with the Sunshine Act.

Without disclosing private personnel issues, the commission should have acted in public, she said.

"They have to give the public enough information to determine whether or not they want to comment," she said.

Lake County (Illinois) News-Sun – “Police: Burglars target garage door openers for home access” – May 29^th, 2014:

Gurnee police have put out a Crime Alert warning residents of a residential burglary trend in which thieves target unlocked cars and grab garage openers to enter the home.

Two recent burglaries on the northeast side of the village have followed that plan, according to Gurnee police. In one case, the car was stolen, too.

"It’s unique,” said Tom Agos, the department’s crime prevention specialist.

The incident in which the car was stolen hasn’t been solved, but police did recover the vehicle in Waukegan.

In each case, a garage door opener was taken from an unlocked car parked outside to gain entry into the garage and then into the home, police said. The doors between the garage and home were left unlocked. Both cases happened overnight while the residents were home asleep.

“It seems elementary, but both crimes could likely have been thwarted had the parked vehicles been locked,” Agos said.

www.yourmoney.com – Blog: Don’t accidentally invalidate your home insurance – by Adam Powell, May 23^rd, 2014:

Few of us think we'll ever fall victim to burglary yet it's an issue that a surprisingly high number of people have faced.

According to recent research, one in 10 of us has had our home burgled. More alarmingly perhaps is that one in three people admit to leaving doors unlocked when they leave the house and six per cent hide spare keys near their front door.

While some may think leaving doors unlocked is a trivial action, by not securing your property efficiently, you'll not only risk burglary, you'll also risk invalidating your home insurance.

If there is no evidence of a forced entry and it appears a burglar strolled in through an unlocked door, your home insurer may refuse to meet your claim. They might say you failed to take appropriate measures to properly secure the property and therefore deem your policy invalid.

Associated Press – "Donor, ex-boyfriend: GOP Senate hopeful stalked me" - May 18th, 2014:

PORTLAND, OREGON (AP) — A millionaire former boyfriend who’s now bankrolling ads against her opponent called the police last year on Monica Wehby, the leading Republican candidate in Oregon’s U.S. Senate race, and accused her of stalking him as their relationship broke up.

Timber company executive Andrew Miller told a Portland police officer on April 4, 2013, that Wehby “had been ‘harassing’ his employees and ‘stalking’ him,” according to a report the officer filed.

Wehby did not address the issue in a debate with Conger in Portland on Friday, and she ignored questions from reporters as she and her staff left out a side door.

Wehby has excited Republicans in Washington, who are impressed by her resume and are hopeful she can raise enough money to make her competitive against Democratic incumbent Jeff Merkley, despite Republicans’ longstanding struggles to win statewide races in Oregon.

Authorities got involved when Miller called police to say Wehby wouldn’t leave his house, according to the report. An officer spotted Wehby’s Mercedes leaving Miller’s neighborhood and pulled her over.

She told the officer she’d been in a relationship with Miller for two years but that something changed over the weekend and he’d stopped talking to her or returning her calls, according to the police report. She said she’d visited his house, and when he didn’t answer, entered through an unlocked back door. The officer told her to go home and not to return to Miller’s home unless she was invited.

Miller said he and Wehby remain friends, but their relationship is over.