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Monday-today I read about The volunteers were told to wear long pants and sturdy shoes, to bring a driver's license so they could prove they were not minors. They were asked to check in and then placed in groups of four or five, maybe more. For three long weeks, her parents have lived with uncertainty, police have called regular press conferences and volunteers have joined professionals in the effort to find her. By Saturday afternoon, Find Lauren Day, as it was dubbed, had drawn about 400 or so people, said Kelly Holloway, who was helping coordinate search teams. A neighbor of Rossman reported seeing Spierer leave around 4:30 a.m., but police said they found no sign of her after the 3 a.m. As she has done at almost every news conference, Charlene Spierer pleaded again Friday for anyone with information to come forward.
In today’s news , a case is open upon the death of a 21 year old inmate at the Vista jail. Deputies found Daniel James Sisson , who lived in Cardiff by the Sea in his cell not breathing or anything Saturday night. It was said that emergency responders were unable to resuscitate him and that an autopsy will determine his cause of death. But , Sheriff’s Department officials said information on Sisson’s arrest and the circumstances surrounding his death were unavailable Sunday night so case open.
In today’s news , a 48 year old woman who was passenger in a Mitsubishi Eclipse died after the car collided with a truck in Pala Sunday morning. The accident was on state Route 76 east of Lilac Road . It was said that the woman's husband was driving the Eclipse on the highway when the car crashes into a pickup turning into Pala Raceway. The woman who was wearing a seat belt in the front seat was pronounced dead at the scene after first responders could not revive her. Her name was not released but as for her husband he was transported to a hospital with unknown injuries.
Monday-today I read about the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Monday for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and two of his relatives. The warrants are "for crimes against humanity," including murder and persecution, "allegedly committed across Libya" from Feb. 15 through "at least" Feb. 28, "through the state apparatus and security forces," the court said in a news release. Libyan government spokesman Musa Ibrahim has previously denied the allegations and criticized what he said were incoherent conclusions of the prosecutor's office. The European Union said it "fully supports" the court and underscores that the court's Libya investigation "is an independent judicial process which must be fully respected. Authorities believe Moammar Gadhafi ordered attacks on unarmed civilians, he told CNN, and al-Sanussi is "his right-hand man, the executioner.“
Monday- Today I read about James "Whitey" Bulger will appear in court Tuesday, where a federal judge will determine whether the reputed Irish mob boss can afford to pay for his own attorney. The U.S. Attorney's office in Boston, where Bulger is being prosecuted, filed a response Monday to the request, challenging the notion that the federal government pick up his legal tab. Bulger lived "a relatively comfortable lifestyle" with his girlfriend for the 16 years he was a fugitive, including numerous gambling trips to Las Vegas, according to a government document filed in his case. Agents found $822,198 in cash much of it in packages containing $100 bills that were bundled together and hidden inside a wall in the apartment when they searched his home last week. Bulger, 81, and Catherine Elizabeth Greig, 60, were arrested Wednesday after he was lured out of his Santa Monica, California, apartment by an FBI ruse. The alleged East Coast mobster, who was on the FBI's Top 10 Most Wanted list, faces charges in 19 mob-related murders.
Tuesday- Today I read about The Supreme Court has struck down a California law that would have banned selling "violent" video games to children, a case balancing free speech rights with consumer protection. The 7-2 ruling Monday is a victory for video game makers and sellers, who said the ban which had yet to go into effect would extend too far. They say the existing nationwide, industry-imposed, voluntary rating system is an adequate screen for parents to judge the appropriateness of computer game content. The state says it has a legal obligation to protect children from graphic interactive images when the industry has failed to do so. "As a means of assisting concerned parents it (the law) is seriously over inclusive because it abridges the First Amendment rights of young people whose parents (and aunts and uncles) think violent video games are a harmless pastime," wrote Justice Antonin Scalia for the majority.
Tuesday- Today I read about The Supreme Court has struck down a California law that would have banned selling "violent" video games to children, a case balancing free speech rights with consumer protection. The 7-2 ruling Monday is a victory for video game makers and sellers, who said the ban which had yet to go into effect would extend too far. They say the existing nationwide, industry-imposed, voluntary rating system is an adequate screen for parents to judge the appropriateness of computer game content. The state says it has a legal obligation to protect children from graphic interactive images when the industry has failed to do so. "As a means of assisting concerned parents it (the law) is seriously over inclusive because it abridges the First Amendment rights of young people whose parents (and aunts and uncles) think violent video games are a harmless pastime," wrote Justice Antonin Scalia for the majority.
Tuesday-today I read Greek riot police fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators Tuesday, as thousands marched to protest proposed austerity measures on the first day of a two-day strike. The protesters are rallying outside the Greek Parliament building in the center of the country's capital, where lawmakers are set to vote Wednesday on a tough five-year package of tax increases and spending cuts. Police in riot gear manned barricades outside the building, as the latest of a series of rallies over the past several weeks heated up. Drumming and music reverberated around the square as the protesters tried to restore the peaceful atmosphere of earlier in the day, with no signs of the rally coming to an end. Thousands of marchers chanted slogans and unfurled banners in central Athens on Tuesday.
Tuesday- today I read about Casey Anthony's father took the stand again in his daughter's capital murder trial Tuesday, his frustration at the defense's allegations against him evident as he denied having an affair with a volunteer searcher and telling her that his Baez told jurors in his opening statement May 24 that George Anthony had an affair with Holloway. George Anthony testified he did visit Holloway at her gated condominium, showing identification to the complex guard. The meter reader who discovered Caylee Anthony's remains, Roy Kronk, took the stand just before lunch Tuesday. In developments Monday, Anthony was determined competent to proceed with her capital murder trial after she was examined by two psychologists and a psychiatrist over the weekend at defense attorneys' request.
Greek riot police fired tear gas to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators Tuesday, as thousands rallied to protest proposed austerity measures on the first day of a two-day strike. Twenty-one police officers and one demonstrator were hurt, and at least five people have been arrested, police said. About 3,000 officers are deployed on the streets of Athens. The protesters are rallying outside the Greek Parliament building in the center of the country's capital, where lawmakers are set to vote Wednesday on a tough five-year package of tax increases and spending cuts. European Council President Herman van Rompuy urged them to pass the measures, for the sake of Greece and the wider economy .
Wednesday-today I read about The judge in Casey Anthony's capital murder trial declined to immediately rule Wednesday on a defense motion requesting that he declare Florida's death penalty law unconstitutional in light of a recent federal court decision. Martinez found the method used to impose a death sentence in Florida is improper "because it does not require a jury to make the findings of fact necessary to impose a death sentence." Florida is the only state in the nation that allows a jury to decide aggravating factors exist and recommend a death sentence with a majority vote. On Tuesday, a former Orange County, Florida, meter reader testified Tuesday about finding Caylee's skull in December 2008. Earlier, Casey Anthony's father took the stand again, his frustration at the defense's allegations against him evident as he denied having an affair with a volunteer searcher and telling her that his granddaughter's death was an accident that snowballed out of control.
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Today I read about Saiz Ahmed, an American Ph.D. student in Kabul studying Afghan legal history, had just eaten dinner and returned to his fourth-floor room at the Hotel Inter-Continental when he heard odd noises. His room was pitch black because the electricity was out, and he did not initially recognize the sounds. "I thought it was construction," he said, recalling that a sign he had seen earlier in the day on the elevator apologizing to guests for work being done.
Wednesday- Today I read about methamphetamine, black tar heroin confiscated in traffic stop. Officials found about 300 pounds of illegal drugs in 2005 Nissan Armada. 28-year-old driver faces several drug charges. She remains jailed on several charges including possession of a dangerous drug, possession of a dangerous drug for sale, transportation of a dangerous drug, possession of a narcotic drug, and possession of a narcotic drug for sale. The search continues for the passenger, a Hispanic male, who fled the scene after the traffic stop. An investigation by the sheriff's department revealed the truck was being used to transport the drugs after they were smuggled into the United States through the Mexico desert.
Wednesday-today I read about the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the New Mexico town of the same name will be spared from a fire raging in the vicinity, the Los Alamos fire chief told CNN Wednesday. "Laboratory facilities will be closed for all activities and nonessential employees are directed to remain off site," the lab said in a statement. The Las Conchas fire touches the south border of the lab's 40-square-mile facility, and comes close to the west border, according to Tucker. River, an academic affairs employee at Santa Fe University of Art and Design, hosted one of Los Alamos' evacuees Monday night. The Donaldson and Game fires south of Hondo and U.S. Highway 70 have merged into one fire that has consumed an estimated 15,000 acres and is also 0% contained, according to the New Mexico Fire Information website.
Wednesday- today I read about drug gangs being more violent in Puerto Rico. Power struggles between drug gangs have led to a surge in homicides in Puerto Rico this year. Police statistics show the number of homicides so far this year in the U.S. island commonwealth is 16% higher than last year's figure for the same time period an increase authorities attribute to drug violence. There have been 526 homicides so far this year, compared to 452 during the same period in 2010, Puerto Rico Police Agent Hilda Rivera said.
Thursday- Today I read about James Cromitie, Onta Williams and David Williams get minimum of 25 years. They plotted to bomb two Bronx synagogues and attack a military base in New York. Prosecutors had been pushing for life in prison for the three men. A fourth defendant, Laguerre Payen, was not in courtroom pending evaluation. A federal judge in New York sentenced three men to a minimum 25 years in prison on Wednesday for plotting to detonate bombs at two Bronx synagogues and attack a military base in New York. In an emotional statement on Wednesday, Cromitie apologized to the people of United States, his family and friends. The prosecutors were pushing for life in prison for the three men. Members of the defense team argued during the trial that their clients were victims of entrapment. The original sentencing was postponed from March 24 so the judge could hear defense arguments on the government's usage of a confidential informant in the case.
Today I read about a Pennsylvania woman, jailed after a photo surfaced of her 2-year-old daughter duct taped to a chair, has been granted bail. Ferguson was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child, unlawful restraint and false imprisonment on February 16 after showing police a photo of her child bound to a plastic chair with duct tape. She revealed the photo as part of her claim that someone had stolen her identity. She posted 10% of $25,000 bail on Tuesday and is required to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet, according to a Common Pleas Court spokes womanFerguson is due back in court on Monday for a preliminary hearing, court officials said.
Thursday- today I read about two people that got shot and murdered. This shooting left ten people injured and killed two. The nightclub shooting that resulted in the two men dead took place on Thursday morning in Broward County, Florida. The shooting occurred at the South Rock Lodge Bar & Grill, a Caribbean establishment in Lauderdale Lakes, said Broward County Sheriff's spokeswoman Dani Moschella. An altercation between two men escalated when one of them brandished a gun, Moschella said. An armed security guard ordered the man to drop his weapon but he did not follow his orders.
Friday- Today I read about the Amanda Knox case. Knox and her ex-boyfriend, Raffaele Sollecito, were found guilty in the 2007 killing of Knox's roommate, Meredith Kercher. She was found dead in the villa she rented with Knox in the central Italian university town of Perugia, semi-naked and with her throat slashed. In December, Knox was sentenced to 26 years in prison. But Wednesday, forensic experts told an Italian court that the DNA evidence police used to link Knox to the murder weapon may have been tainted. Prosecutors say the knife had been used to stab Kercher in the neck and that it had been cleaned. The DNA matter attributed to Kercher consists of flesh, not blood, they say.
Friday- today I read about Another argument over witness testimony has put the Casey Anthony murder trial on what Judge Belvin Perry called an indefinite recess just as the prosecution's rebuttal case was about to begin. Casey Anthony, 25, is charged with seven counts, including first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse and misleading police, in the 2008 death of her 2-year-old daughter Caylee. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against her. She has pleaded not guilty. The records the two sides wrangled over are from the former employer of Cindy Anthony. Prosecutors want to introduce them in an effort to prove Cindy Anthony was not home when searches for key words including chloroform were conducted on the Anthony family computer in March 2008. On Wednesday, George Anthony bristled at Baez's questions and at one point broke down and sobbed on the stand as he was questioned about his granddaughter and his suicide attempt that followed the discovery of her remains.
Friday- Today I read about a guy who was a convicted murderer got shot and died. This happened when he tried to escape from a Washington state prison in a forklift. Kevin Newland, 25, drove the forklift through the doors of a work area and into the perimeter fences at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center on Wednesday. A correctional officer fired a shot at Newland, killing him. Newland was serving a 45-year sentence for first-degree murder. At the same time that Newland was trying to escape, another inmate named Dominick Maldonado used a pair of scissors to take an officer hostage. This officers got away with minor injuries and was treated for them.
On Today's’ CNN news I read that Strike cancels ferry service in San Francisco Bay area. About 5,000 commuters in the San Francisco Bay area are urged to find alternate forms of transportation Friday as Golden Gate Ferry ticket agents go on strike. It was said the commuter should car pool or use the bus service. The current contact with the Inland Boatmen’s Union expired at midnight Thursday. The one day strike starts 4 am Friday and continues until 10 p.m. The spoke women said that the district is trying to find other jobs of displaced employees. The golden gate ferry runs daily from Sausalito and Larkspur to San Francisco. It will resume normal service On Saturday. The golden gate Transit service will operate its regular service Friday and will also offer additional service from the Larkspur Ferry terminal.
Thursday-today I read about two of the four people indicted in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri are senior members of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, multiple sources in the region told CNN on Thursday. Two additional lists of indictments are expected later this summer and are expected to include the organizers and planners of the attack, the U.N. source said. The United Nations and the Lebanese Republic negotiated an agreement on the establishment of the tribunal, based at The Hague. Syria had thousands of troops in Lebanon and great influence in the country until mass protests after Hariri's assassination forced their withdrawal.
Friday-today I read about a medical examiner's autopsy of former pro wrestler "Macho Man" Randy Savage shows he died of natural causes due to heart disease, the Florida Highway Patrol announced Thursday. The cause of death was atherosclerotic cardiovascular a thickening of artery walls that can lead to heart attack or sudden cardiac death. Gaskins said the autopsy report will be included in the traffic homicide report, which "should be released in the next several weeks.“His wife, Barbara Lynn Poffo, 56, who was in the passenger seat, suffered minor injuries and was briefly hospitalized.
In today’s news , police are investigating a string of armed robberies early Monday. It was said that a 16 year old was visiting with his family from Paradise Valley , Ariz and staying at a nearby hotel was skateboarding when he was approached by thieves. They robbed the boy and then fired at him , & suffered a gaze wound to the head and was taken to the hospital/ and no further information was released about the crime or suspects. At 2 a.m. in City Heights, two men armed with a shotgun and a handgun robbed a pedestrian on Wightman. One minute later, another pedestrian walking on View Place off College Avenue in El Cerrito was robbed. Thirteen minutes after that, a third robbery was reported in City Heights on 46th Street north of Home Avenue. In the last three cases, the thieves were said to be Latino and in their 20s with shaved heads. But investigators have not said if all four robberies were related.
In today’s new, the death of a woman whose body was found Monday night in a house in Spring Valley neighborhood of La Presa is not considered suspicious. The department received a 911 call about 6:10 p.m. Monday after someone went to check on the welfare of a resident in the house on Gillespie Drive and found the body of a woman in a bedroom. But , based on observations at the scene and a consultation with the sheriff's homicide detail, it was determined that homicide detectives would go to the house to investigate. It appears the death was not suspicious in nature , and a cause of death and a positive identification of the woman was being determined by the Medical Examiner's Office
In today’s news , a 69 year old man accidentally backed his car over his wife then also was run over when he got to set the brake as he rushed to her aid late Thursday night. It was said that the couple was hospitalized with injuries considered not life threatening. But , said that Stafford said the man ran over his 69-year-old wife as he was backing his 1999 Toyota Corolla on Isle worth Avenue off Flanders Drive about 5:45 p.m. That He got out of the Corolla without setting the parking brake and went behind the car to help his wife. &The car kept rolling backwards and went over the man. He said they got into their car and the man drove to a local medical center. Staff there called police and paramedics, and the couple was taken by ambulance to a trauma center. The woman suffered a badly broken arm and her husband suffered abdominal bruising and a foot injury.
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