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A waiter poses with a tray of baby bottles that he brought out from storage, at Einstein Cafe in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, March 14, 2021. Cafes across several Gulf Arab states have begun selling coffee and other cold drinks in baby bottles, kicking off a new trend that has prompted excitement, confusion and backlash. The fad started at Einstein Cafe, a slick dessert chain with branches across the region. Soon, authorities from Kuwait to Dubai cracked down claiming the trend violates local traditions. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Cafes across several Gulf Arab states started selling coffee and other cold drinks in baby bottles this month, kicking off a new trend that has elicited excitement, confusion and backlash. The fad began at Einstein Cafe, a slick dessert chain with branches across the region, from Dubai to Kuwait to Bahrain. Instead of ordinary paper cups, the cafe, inspired by pictures of trendy-looking bottl
PENSACOLA, Florida A mother and daughter in Pensacola, Florida, have been accused of rigging a high school homecoming court election by accessing accounts without authorization, authorities said Monday.
Laura Rose Carroll, 50, was arrested Monday and booked into the Escambia County Jail with a bond of $8,500, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) said in a news release. Her 17-year-old daughter was taken into custody and transferred to the Escambia Regional Juvenile Detention Center, it said.
When reached by CNN, a man identifying himself as Carroll s husband, said, We have no comment right now. Our lawyers told us not to speak and we will have our day in court.
Florida assistant principal, daughter accused of hacking to rig homecoming election
Updated Mar 17, 2021;
PENSACOLA, Florida The assistant principal of an elementary school and her 17-year-old daughter are facing charges after they were accused of hacking student records in order to rig a homecoming queen election last fall.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement announced in a Facebook post that Laura Rose Carroll, 50, and her daughter, a senior at Tate High School, were arrested on multiple charges in connection with fraudulently accessing confidential student information.
The FDLE says it was contacted in November by the Escambia County School District when it discovered there had been unauthorized access into hundreds of student accounts. Investigators say they found that Carroll, an assistant principal at Bellview Elementary School, and her daughter had accessed student FOCUS accounts. Carroll reportedly had district-level access to the accounts.
March 17, 2021
Following the arrest of a Tate High School homecoming queen and her assistant principal mother for alleged improper use of an Escambia County School District computer system, parents are concerned about the safety and security of their students’ personal information and why they were not notified.
Laura Rose Carroll, 50, and her 17-year old daughter, Emily Rose Grover, were charged by state law enforcement with multiple computer crimes. Grover and Carroll, a now-suspended assistant principal at Bellview Elementary School, allegedly accessed hundreds of student accounts to cast fraudulent votes for Grover, enabling her to win the homecoming queen crown.
NorthEscambia.com took the parental concerns about student data to Escambia County School Superintendent Dr. Timothy Smith.