RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) – School officials have put a chill on two students’ plans to wage a “snow day” at their high school. Two Ramona High School students were suspended for bringing snow to school after officials declared snowballs dangerous.

“Anything that disturbs that or disrupts that is inappropriate on a school campus,” said Principal Mike Neece. “Anything that could cause injury, or could cause a student to get upset and instigate a fight, or damage students’ personal property is just inappropriate behavior.”

Seniors Michael Sepulveda and Daniel Zavala made a pre-dawn run to a resort area of the San Bernardino Mountains to fill their pickup trucks with snow and bring it to school for what they hoped would turn into an annual “bring Big Bear to Riverside” ritual.

They were suspended after a school parking lot snowball fight before the start of classes Thursday. Zavala and Sepulveda were stunned. “It’s snow,” Sepulveda said.

“The school overdid it. In the handbook it does not say, ‘Do not bring snow to school,”‘ Zavala said Thursday afternoon.

Savala’s mother Martha Valdez called the boys’ actions “harmless” but said she supported the decision by school officials.

“They’re still there to mandate the rules, and they have to draw the line somewhere.”

Stolen beer truck returned empty

WEST BEND, Wis. (AP) – Authorities are trying to find thieves who stole nearly $26,000 in beer from a delivery truck, but first they have to hope the suspects didn’t drink the evidence.

A semi trailer loaded with cans and bottles of Miller beer was stolen from a trucking company in Richfield, according to a Washington County Sheriff’s Department report. The trailer was found four days later – sans beer – at an Oak Creek trucking firm.

The trailer had been dropped off at Millis Transfer Co. sometime on Feb. 17 for delivery to a beer distributor in Menomonie, authorities said. Later that night, the trailer was discovered missing. Company officials did not report the loss immediately because they thought a driver must have picked up the wrong load.

Officials said the thieves made off with 384 24-packs of Miller Genuine Draft cans; 560 18-packs of 12-ounce bottles, 980 18-packs of 12-ounce cans and 40 24-packs of Miller Lite 16-ounce plastic bottles.

The sheriff’s department is investigating with Oak Creek authorities and Miller officials, said Sheriff’s Capt. Dale Schmidt.

Callers chatted up instead of helped

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – A brochure offering help and advice to those affected by methamphetamine addiction mistakenly listed a telephone number for an adult singles chat line instead of a drug help line. About 60,000 copies of 200,000 planned mailers were sent to dozens of Tennessee counties before the error was caught.

“It was an unfortunate mistake,” said Wally Kirby, executive director of the Tennessee District Attorney Generals Conference, which sponsored the mailing.

The mailer referred to a toll-free number for a drug hot line operated by the Tennessee Association of Alcohol and Drug Services. But callers dialing that number heard a recorded message: “Talk to people just like you, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.” A female speaker then gave another toll-free number, which offered “hot girls just waiting to talk to you” for a minimum charge of 99 cents per minute.

Allan Brandon, head of Brandon and Associates Direct Mail in Smyrna, which produced the mailer, said the mistake was “a typo. We hated that it happened.”

District Attorney General Mickey Layne of Manchester said he had received no complaints from citizens.

“However, I have had several friends to rib me for the wrong number,” Layne said. “This, too, shall pass. This was just a small piece of the program. I don’t think the message is going to be hurt because one person got a number wrong.”

In January, a company that administers the state’s health care program, TennCare, mistakenly listed a toll-free help number for customers that led to a similar singles chat line.

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