(San Antonio, Texas) A 40-year-old local landlord, Angelina Miller, has been arrested for allegedly engaging in sex with a 15-year-old boy. Police said both she and the 15-year-old boy admitted they had been having a sexual affair since November.Miller was booked into custody at the Bexar County Jail with bond set at $50,000.
The arrest affidavit showed they met a year ago. Miller was the landlord for the boy and his father.
Cape Cod firefighter Richard Doherty lost a job he’d held for 16 years because he ridiculed his own Bourne Fire Department’s rules in Facebook postings, including some timestamped during the fireman’s work shifts.This is a good illustration of a guy being his own most destructive enemy.
Town Administrator Thomas Guerino of Bourne, Massachusetts fired Richard Doherty on Wednesday, after a series of three disciplinary hearings had occurred in late 2010.
(Orlando, Florida) A 26-year-old Brevard County man, Michael Grzybowicz, was arrested last week for allegedly raping a two-year-old girl at SeaWorld Orlando. The crime was discovered when pictures of the rape were found on Michael Grzybowicz's cell phone, sheriff's records state.Grzybowicz was booked into custody at the Brevard County Jail without bail. He soon will be transported to the Orange County Jail.
A member of the Cocoa Police Department's Sex Crimes Unit confiscated the phone.
Four photographs on the phone's memory chip clearly show the violation of the youngster wearing a diaper and a yellow sun dress while she rode in a dark blue stroller, records state. The child visited Sea World on Feb. 17 with her mother, father and Grzybowicz, records state.
(Collier County, Michigan) Last Wednesday, 42-year-old local mom, Lisa Kay Creger, accepted a plea deal and was convicted on charges of lewd and lascivious battery and 17 counts of providing obscene material to minors.Investigators subsequently charged Creger in November 2010 for obstruction of justice for attempting to convince the victim to change his court testimony. Prosecution of this additional charge is pending.Heh.
Mr. Snider, nicknamed at a young age by his father, slammed 407 home runs in his 18-year major-league career and joined Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese among the most beloved members of "Da Bums," the Dodgers teams that, even more than a half-century later, still have a sentimental hold on many baseball fans in the borough.The Duke is survived by his wife Beverly.
During his 11 seasons in Brooklyn, Mr. Snider appeared in eight All-Star games and helped the Dodgers win six National League pennants and the 1955 World Series. (He won another World Series in 1959 after the Dodgers had moved to Los Angeles.)
Inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1980, he hit at least 40 home runs every year from 1953 to 1957, including the last one at the team's ballpark, Ebbets Field.
A loud altercation broke out, with the women (seemingly intoxicated, said some observers) telling the man to “Shut the f*” up” and that “It’s a free country!”One woman was arrested while the others were sent to the back of the line. Heh.
The verbal assault by the females continued for about 15 minutes with no intervention by U.S. border officials until the women began to strike the man with plastic bags of burritos and tortillas. The baggies broke open and chunks of tortilla began to fly.
At that point, about eight U.S. officials ran toward the altercation (some leaping the turnstiles action-movie style) to stop the females from assaulting the man.
Barack Obama, the Tea Party, and the Threat of Race: On Racial Neoliberalism and Born Again Racism
Author: Enck-Wanzer, Darrel
Source: Communication, Culture & Critique, Volume 4, Number 1, March 2011, pp. 23-30(8)
Abstract:
This essay engages the racist rhetoric of the U.S. Tea Party and President Barack Obama's (non)response as both emblematic of what David Theo Goldberg and others call racial neoliberalism. While Obama's detractors certainly deserve attention for their invective discourse, Obama also warrants critique for operating within a racially neoliberal discursive field binding him to antiracial (not antiracist) responses to racist discourses. This essay first stakes out the conceptual terrain of racial neoliberalism and addresses the relationship between racial neoliberalism, antiracialism, and racial threat to elucidate its significance for discourse about race. How the Tea Party's racist rhetoric functions and how Obama's reaction further reinforce the hegemony of racial neoliberalism are explained using this critical analytic.
(Shelby County, Tennessee) A 40-year-old local woman, Mary Magdalene Collier, has been accused of aggravated statutory rape.The mother of a 16-year-old boy told officers she returned home to find the woman “completely naked in her son’s bedroom closet.”Collier was booked into custody at Shelby County’s Jail East with bond set at $50,000.
Mary Magdalene Collier told Memphis police sex crimes investigators that she had been having a consensual sexual relationship with the boy since January, according to court documents.
(Odessa, Texas) A 43-year-old English teacher at Odessa High School, Jena Marie Graves, has been arrested for having intent to deprive owner of property without consent. On Jan. 20, ECISD Police Officer Paul Carr hand delivered a letter to Graves, giving her 10 days to return the missing money. On Jan. 31, officers reported they hadn’t been contacted by Graves about returning the money, the affidavit said.The District Attorney has yet to act on the case.
It adds that Graves is the sole sponsor of the Bronchettes and no one gave her permission to take the money or deposit the funds.
"'ObamaCare' ... is a disparaging reference to the President of the United States. It is meant as a disparaging reference to the President of the United States. It is clearly in violation of the House rules against that," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla. "ObamaCare," according to several blogs, is the new "n" word.
Assume, for the sake of argument, "right-wingers" use "ObamaCare" in a "mean-spirited" way. The left well understands and embraces the tactic: personalize or make a caricature about a policy; or use a description to induce a negative reaction. Here are a few:
"Reaganomics": Used to personalize and attach to a "cold-hearted conservative" president an economic agenda the media opposed and assumed would fail.
"Star Wars": Used to derisively describe Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a missile defense program critics thought technologically impossible.
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Google says it has tweaked the formulas steering its Internet search engine to take the rubbish out of its results. The overhaul is designed to lower the rankings of what Google deems "low-quality" sites.Original content? Valuable info? Heh, I'd like to think that generally applies to Interested-Participant.
That could be a veiled reference to such sites as Demand Media's eHow.com, which critics call online "content farms" — that is, sites producing cheap, abundant, mostly useless content that ranks high in search results.
Sites that produce original content or information that Google considers valuable are supposed to rank higher under the new system.
There is little dispute that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is a world-class bully but it doesn't make him unique. She must surrender her teaching certificate and not apply for one anywhere else and also agreed not to volunteer in a school or a church or to supervise, teach or tutor any children other than her own.Nancy Cheek was not prosecuted in exchange for her testimony against Peavy.
Turns out the major culprit in its demise was evolution — in the form of the barred owl, a closely related species that is bigger, more omnivorous, and generally all around superior to the spotted owl.Of course, this is bad news for environmentalists devoted to the spotted owl. In the words of Lowell Diller, with Green Diamond Resource Co.,
Barred owls (Strix varia), also native to North America, seize spotted owl habitat and out-compete the endangered species.
"We have a huge amount of resources committed to protecting that species," Diller says. "Then we have the barred owl show up."To remedy the situation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is soon expected to issue guidance to blast the barred owls with shotguns. Possibly 1,200 to 1,500 barred owls will be killed in several study areas and impact will be gauged.
(Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) Earlier today, a 45-year-old Florida woman, Anna May Alexander, was sentenced in federal court for traveling to Oklahoma City for the purpose of engaging in sex with a 14-year-old boy.The victim's mother said, "She took his innocence."Alexander said she was sorry.
The boy became suicidal after his relationship with Alexander was discovered and he had to be hospitalized.
Alexander admitted during her plea hearing that she drove to the Oklahoma City area Jan. 9 to have sex with the boy, whom she met through an online Sony PlayStation 3 virtual-reality game. The game allows users to create electronic versions of themselves and interact with others.A sentencing date has yet to be scheduled. Reportedly, Alexander faces a possible 30 years in prison.
Alexander, a mother of three, was arrested in Texas in April, several weeks after authorities issued a warrant for her arrest.
Police found suggestive text and photo messages from Alexander on the boy's phone, according to an affidavit, in addition to a photo stored in the boy's PlayStation console of her in her underwear.
The indictment charges Alexander with four separate counts. Alexander is accused of sending obscene material to the 14-year-old boy.A court appearance is scheduled for Monday.
The indictment also alleges that on two occasions, Alexander enticed the 14-year-old to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing photographs.
Lastly, the indictment alleges that on January 9, 2010, Alexander traveled interstate to Oklahoma for the purpose of engaging in sex with the 14-year-old boy.
Investigators also learned that Alexander traveled to Oklahoma City on one or more occasions to meet the boy. Alexander is driving a white 2003 Dodge Intrepid with Florida license plate J254HN, police said.Anyone with information is asked to call the authorities.
A two-page summons with notice, filed Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, says the two romance language teachers are victims of "wrongful termination, libel and slander."Responding to a state arbitrator's report, the Department of Education fired the two teachers last month.
"They've had to deal with these false allegations of engaging in lesbian sex," said Michael Valentine, a lawyer for the classroom cuties. "It's been painful.
"Aside from losing their jobs, their reputations have been ruined."
A Brooklyn teacher caught naked in a lesbian sex romp was given the heave-ho this week -- after ridiculously claiming that she ended up naked and sweaty with a colleague on a classroom floor because she was being treated for low blood sugar.Brito has denied that she was naked or drunk. It could be that the whole episode has been mischaracterized. The media tends to do that but one must suspect that things are rather loosey-goosey at James Madison High School. Medical emergency? I don't think so.
Spanish teacher Alini Brito, 30, said colleague Cindy Mauro led her into a darkened classroom at James Madison HS for an insulin shot and candy when a dizzy spell forced her to the ground.
"[I] started getting those -- my heart beating fast, a little dizzy, and I knew that I wasn't feeling well," she told school officials regarding the November 2009 incident.
Brito said she ended up on the floor with her feet propped up on a chair while Mauro knelt beside her.
But testimony from two school janitors and a school safety agent who walked in on the duo that night disputed Brito's account.
The safety agent said she saw Brito "naked on the floor with her legs kneeled, like in a birthing position, and I saw the blonde between her legs."
(Brooklyn, New York) Attention! There are now three pulchritudinous pedagogues under investigation at James Madison High School. The paper reports the school learned of the relationship between 31-year-old Allison Musacchio in March after a female student saw her ex-boyfriend's phone number on the tenured teacher's cell phone.More than 500 fans populate the Facebook page following the stories of the three high school teachers.
Officials reportedly found 200 text messages and calls between Musacchio and the male student.
(Carson City, Nevada) In his biennial address to the Nevada legislature, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called for a ban on prostitution. The whorehouse owner in attendance, Dennis Hof of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, told reporters on the scene: “Harry Reid will have to pry the cathouse keys from my cold, dead hands.”With unemployment in Nevada well above 10%, it's inexplicable that Sen. Reid would propose shutting down an entire industry.
"The Middle East was a growing market until a few weeks ago," said one arms trader who, like most, asked not to be named.Heh.
"It's a question now of who do we want to sell to. Do we want to sell hi-tech equipment to [Egypt's] Muslim Brotherhood? I don't think so."
The Breakup Notifier is “free for now” according to its website, where users can download and implement the app into their social networking experience.Arguably, it's hard to dispute the contention that the brain trust guiding Facebook is a cluster of schoolgirls.
All interested parties need to do is log onto Facebook with the app, choose the Facebook users who they’re interested in that are currently in a relationship, and then receive emails when their crushes breakup with their significant others.
It’s pretty easy, and more importantly, it will more than likely be incredibly successful.
(Ottawa, Canada) This all just smells crooked.Hudak attacked the Liberals on a range of issues, including massive cost overruns at a hydro expansion project at Niagara Falls, and subsidies to green energy producers that have sent electricity bills soaring.I know the answer. McGuinty is a liberal and that's what liberal politicians do.
"Premier, why do you treat Ontario families like they're bottomless ATM machines?"
Dean of Student Affairs Bruce Reitman thoroughly disagreed with FIRE's branding of Tufts and believed the organization has exaggerated a lack of free speech on campus.
According to Reitman, it is just as essential to acknowledge offensive material as it is to allow that material to exist. "That's the purpose of community learning — so that we have those conversations that at times include the voice in the community that says, ‘they don't have the right to say that,'" Reitman said.
"I think that's an ingredient of that conversation. It always will be. I will always support a person's right to say, ‘they don't have the right to say that,' because that's their opinion." Reitman said that FIRE itself is guilty of not truly respecting the freedom of expression.
"If FIRE is saying we are at fault because we are restricting people from having an opinion that can be voiced, aren't they doing exactly that by saying a group of people doesn't have the right to call something harassing behavior?" he said. "I think they're hypocritical even in making this argument. So they're saying that people don't have the right to call something what they think it is. So they're the ones in my mind who are talking about censoring."
(Kiana, Alaska) A 26-year-old second- and third-grade teacher with the Northwest Arctic Borough School District, Sheree Buchanan, has been arrested for allegedly engaging in sex with a 16-year-old male student.She had a good reputation as a teacher, said Norm Eck, superintendent of the Northwest Arctic Borough School District.Buchanan was booked into custody at the Kotzebue Jail with bail set at $5,000.
She was not the male teen's teacher. Eck did not know how their relationship developed, but said the school is small.
"Kiana is a very good school," he said. "It's a very good village. It's just terribly unfortunate that such a horrible thing would occur anywhere, but we have to be watchful and vigilant all the time with those people who work with our children and are entrusted with the care of our students."
The school took action to notify police as soon as the relationship came to light, Eck said. The school district is in the process of terminating Buchanan, he said.
Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano spoke of Special Agent Zapata's courage and commitment to the job and vowed to bring those responsible for his death to justice.Meanwhile, a possible suspect has emerged.
"This much is clear we will not relent or flint or let up in any way in our determination to see that those responsible for his death are held to account for their crimes," said Napolitano.
Attorney General Eric Holder and ICE Director John Morton also spoke.
Holder called Zapata a hero and "a man who's acts of valor are a testament to what is best about our country and our national international law enforcement community.
Jesús "El Mamito" Rejón, a former corporal in Mexico's elite forces who became a top leader in the violent Zeta cartel is one of the people the U.S. believes may have been involved in the killing of Mr. Zapata last week.Currently, the U.S. is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to Rejón's capture. Mexico offers $2.3 million reward for Mr. Rejón.
"Let me be clear: Any act of violence against our ICE personnel — or any [Department of Homeland Security] personnel — is an attack against all those who serve our nation and put their lives at risk for our safety," she said in a statement.Seems clear to me. Secretary Napolitano will seek justice by talking.
"We remain committed in our broader support for Mexico's efforts to combat violence within its borders."
The Economist Intelligence Unit is the world's leading resource for economic and business research, forecasting and analysis.Pittsburgh was selected by 'experts' as most livable due to a variety of factors such as healthcare, culture, environment and education.
Even after it was clear that Prince William and Kate Middleton would not be sending a wedding invitation to the White House, Michelle Obama still appears not to have given up hope. "If I get invited, I'll go," the First Lady said on the Live With Regis and Kelly Show on American television. She conceded, however, that, as things stand, she had not been invited
A Burien woman who filmed herself and her husband raping a 4-year-old girl and sent videos of the sexual abuse over the Internet has been sentenced to 26 years to life in prison.
Hollie Beston pleaded guilty in December to first-degree child rape, first-degree child molestation, sexual exploitation of a minor and dealing in child pornography. Her estranged husband, Brian Beston, of Kent, pleaded guilty to the same charges and was sentenced last June to a minimum of 26 years up to life in prison.
The couple began exchanging child porn with jennymomsd and soon the Internet contact "was accepted as a fellow child lover," the court documents said. Jennymomsd then requested pornographic images of children and began receiving pictures of a young girl, according to detectives.Brian and Hollie Beston face charges of first-degree child rape, first-degree child molestation, exploitation of a minor and dealing in depictions of a minor engaged in sexually-explicit conduct. They were booked into custody at the King County Jail with bond for each set at $500,000.
Jennymomsd claimed to have a brother interested in having sex with children, prosecutors said, and the conversations eventually turned to talks of this brother visiting Seattle to have sex with the young girl featured in the photographs sent by the Bestons.
But Jennymomsd remained skeptical of the authenticity of the Bestons' photos; he thought the images may have been pulled from the Internet, he told investigators. When he expressed his skepticism to Brian Benson, the Kent man offered to present the girl via a live video feed, the statement said.
Brian Beston, using the camera on his computer, provided Jennymomsd with a live feed featuring himself sexually molesting the pictured girl for approximately five minutes, detectives said, even briefly holding up a sheet of paper with the day's date written on it to prove the authenticity of the feed.
Jennymomsd later confirmed to federal agents that the girl featured in the feed was the same girl who had appeared in the 40 to 50 pornographic images the Bestons had sent him throughout the course of their correspondence.
AN illegal immigrant who admitted to rape on Facebook was jailed for four years yesterday.Unfortunately for Mr. Ssewagudde, his Facebook entry admitting guilt was traced to his mobile phone.
John Ssewagudde, 21, raped a 28-year-old woman after calling on her at her flat, a court was told.
And he later posted a message to her on Facebook, saying: "I admit it. I raped you."
At his trial, Ugandan Ssewagudde denied making the comment on the social networking site and claimed someone else was responsible for it.
(Oakland Park, Florida) A 40-year-old local man, Tomas Bautista, has been arrested for allegedly engaging in sex with his roommate's dog. Bautista faces one count of felony cruelty to an animal.The 3-year-old female Chihuahua mix, named Mimi, is recovering, said her owner, Clemente Velasquez, 67, on Friday afternoon.Bautista was booked into custody at the Broward County main jail with bond set at $2,500.
After being treated by a veterinarian, "she is now just lying down on the sofa," Velasquez said. "She's not happy like she normally is."
- Protesters being strafed by planes in Tripoli,
- All telephone and mobile phone connections have been cut,
- Ground artillery being used on Tripoli protesters,
- Roaming cars with Gaddafi supporters firing at Tripoli protesters,
- Bloodbanks in Tripoli hospitals stolen,
- Libyan Marines have joined protesters in Benghazi,
- 300 people killed in Benghazi hospital,
- Two Libyan Air Force planes land in Malta with pilots seeking asylum,
- Libyan soldiers burned for allegedly refusing to shoot protesters.
The journalists were hit and pushed by family and friends of a young man who had been gunned down the night before outside an International House of Pancakes restaurant in Sacramento.
FOX 40 News reporter John Lobertini and his cameraperson, Rebecca Little, were assaulted after approaching a group of people standing near a memorial for 27-year-old Chester Jackson set up on the sidewalk outside the restaurant.
He even married ten women in one year, when he was at his most prolific, and enjoys his own double bed while his wives have to make do with communal dormitories.So, "He keeps the youngest women near to his bedroom." It's probably because they are the quickest to respond to a cardiac emergency. Uh, or maybe there's some other reason. Heh.
He keeps the youngest women near to his bedroom with the older members of the family sleeping further away - and there is a rotation system for who visits Mr Chana's bedroom.
(Decatur, Alabama) A 33-year-old local woman, Stephanie White Piner, surrendered to Decatur Police on Friday to face child sex charges. Investigators determined that Piner had engaged in sexual intercourse and deviant sexual intercourse with both juveniles on multiple occasions, and had provided them with tobacco and alcohol.Piner was booked into custody with bail set at $100,750.
(Virginia Beach, Virginia) A 37-year-old local woman, Leslie Lozy, has been accused of engaging in sex with two of her son's teen buddies, ages 15 and 18."It looks like a case where teenage boys are spending the night at a friend's house and somehow that leads to a sexual encounter with the teenage boy's mother they're spending the night with," said MPO Adam Bernstein of Virginia Beach Police.Lozy was booked and subsequently released on $5,000 bond. A court appearance is scheduled for March 3.
"I think the cautionary approach to that would be to assume it's going to have some adverse impacts and respond accordingly," said Ron Klauda, a Maryland freshwater fisheries biologist.So, based on the assumption that rock snot has adverse impacts, the state of Maryland proposes to ban a certain type of footwear.
(Pinellas County, Florida) A 48-year-old woman, Donna Lynne Jones, was arrested Thursday for allegedly driving under the influence and crashing into a school bus. Reportedly, Jones rear-ended the bus at 8:15AM.The children on the bus weren't injured. The bus was heading to Garrison Jones Elementary School in Dunedin.Jones was booked into custody at the Pinellas County Jail at which time she was allegedly found to be carrying a crack pipe. Consequently, Jones was also charged with introduction of contraband into a secure facility.
She told deputies she had consumed prescription drugs, the sheriff's office said.
(Little Rock, Arkansas) A 27-year-old algebra teacher at McClellan High School, Solona Islam, was placed on paid administrative leave after the school system learned that she was convicted of prostitution in November.Documented in the police report from October 2010, Islam tells undercover officers she would engage in sexual activities for money.Reportedly, the school system requires teachers to provide notification of all convictions and Islam didn't comply. Instead, a reporter notified the school that its algebra teacher was moonlighting as a hooker.
"I decided at the tail end of it when he offered the sex for extra money to do it," says Islam.
The five year McClellan math teacher says she had fallen on tough times dealing with lawsuits and bankruptcy and had just lost her part-time job.
"When you look at your check and it's only $600 and you know your rent is $700, and the light bill is coming up and your child needs day care paid. It was a point of desperation," says Islam.
(Balaka, Malawi) Arguably, this report illustrates that there are limits to multiculturalism. The man, Fanuel Samsom is said to have been engaging casual sex with the daughter Catherine for close to three years, until last week when the mother caught them red-handed.Although incest is reportedly illegal in Malawi, it's not clear that Samsom and his daughter will ever be prosecuted.
But instead of being ashamed with their act, the two joined forces to chase the mother out of the house and declared themselves wife and husband.
In an interview, the mother said there was nothing disheartening like your own daughter snatching away your man.“Somehow it is understandable when other women take away your man, but not your own daughter,” she said amidst sobs.
(Zionsville, Indiana) A 33-year-old art teacher at Zionsville High School, Mandy Jared, has been accused of child seduction incidents involving a 17-year-old student. The charging documents say Jared engaged in fondling or touching with the student with intent to arouse or satisfy her or the student’s sexual desires of her or the student.Jared was booked and released. A court appearance is scheduled for Tuesday in Boone Superior Court in Lebanon.
Neither the charging documents nor the school district news release identify the gender of the student.
(Kirksville, Missouri) Twenty-six-year-old Melissa Songer completed the 120-day sex offender assessment and requested to be placed on probation.Circuit Judge Russell Steele denied Songer's request and ordered her to serve the remainder of her sentence in state prison.It appears that the assessment was less than favorable.
After serving the five years in prison, Songer will be required to be under lifetime supervision by wearing a GPS ankle bracelet.
She must also register as a sex offender.
Songer will serve 120 days in the Department of Corrections Sex Offender Assessment Unit.Songer was also ordered to register as a sex offender
After that, depending on how well she does during those 120 days, she could serve probation for the remainder of the five years.
Adair County Prosecutor Matt Wilson told KTVO due to the nature of her offense, Songer will also be under lifetime supervision by wearing a GPS ankle bracelet.
The indictment alleges the incident, involving a boy age 13, occurred in September of last year. Songer is schedule to be arraigned in Adair County Circuit Court Tuesday.Songer was booked into custody at the Adair County Jail with bond set at $50,000.
Dannon agreed pay $21 million in a settlement with 39 states and drop some health claims for its Activia yogurt and DanActive dairy drink under pressure from state and federal regulators.It's not clear how the Activia commercials will be affected. Note that the problems with Dannon Inc. brand yogurt are not related to the semen-flavored yogurt scandal reported last week.
The food company has claimed in marketing that its Activia yogurt helps relieve irregularity and that its DanActive drink helps people avoid catching colds or the flu.
"The surgically sharp steel blade sliced through Toucet's pelvis cutting off his penis and testicles while virtually cutting his body in half," the lawsuit states.Echevarria seeks $15,000 in punitive damages for the loss of his junk. Frankly, I would imagine that a guy's genitals would be valued higher. Mine, for example, are priceless.
At least 24 people have been killed in anti-government protests in Libya in recent days, rights activists say.Most observers believe that Gaddafi has enough muscle to overcome the protesters. We'll see.
Many others were wounded in the clashes between security forces and protesters, the US-based Human Rights Watch said.
Protests continued overnight with thousands on the streets of the eastern city of Benghazi, while activists set up camps in al-Bayda, after Thursday's "Day of Rage", witnesses said.
With several hundred protesters clashing with police and Gaddafi supporters Wednesday in the city of Benghazi, Amnesty International voiced concern about a new crackdown.It's not clear what exactly is going on in the streets.
Thursday, clashes between security forces and protesters broke out in Beyida killing four people, opposition website Libya Al-Youm has said. And according to AP, hundreds of people marched through the streets of Zentan, setting fire to security headquarters and a police station. In anticipation of a Tunisia-Egypt-like protest in Libya, Gaddafi argued that Libya does not need to import Western concepts of democracy. The North African leader believes that Libya is safer under his Third Universal Theory system- which entails a concept were citizens govern themselves through grassroots institutions called popular committees.
Amid observations from analysts indicating that an Egypt-style revolt is improbable in Libya because the Gaddafi regime is capable of solving these social problems with its bulky oil revenues, Libyan state television has been broadcasting images of pro-government rallies in cities across the country and whilst completely ignoring the protests.
In the last few days, Gaddafi privately met with Libyan political activists, journalists, and media figures and he issued severe warnings that these professions would be held responsible should they participate in any way in disturbing the peace or creating chaos in Libya.Fasten your seat belts, readers, the North African roller-coaster continues.
This was a source of frustration to those who attended these meetings and who had expected Gaddafi to inform them of his intention to carry out important political and economic reforms.
The opposition "Libya Al-Youm" website that is based in London quoted eye-witnesses who attended these meetings with Gaddafi, reporting that Gaddafi addressed the audience (the majority of whom were from cities in eastern Libya) in a tone of warning against the consequences of participating in any potential disturbances.[…]
Libyan activists have claimed that the Libyan intelligence service has been carrying out a large-scale campaign to shut down Libyan websites based outside of the country due to their ongoing coverage of the situation in Libya.
(Vernon Parish, Louisiana) A 24-year-old local woman, Kayla Marie Bordelon, has been accused of cyberstalking. She faces 13 counts of cyberstalking.The arrest is the result of an investigation which was initiated in November of 2010 in that a complaint of harassment was received by the Vernon Parish Sheriff's Office.Bordelon was booked into custody at the Vernon Parish Jail with bond set at $1,300.
The initial report was filed by a family member of Bordelon.
Further investigation resulted in several subpoenas being issued to a social networking web site as well as internet service providers.
The information obtained from the subpoenas identified Kayla Bordelon as the individual sending harassing messages to her own family members.
It was found that Bordelon created two ‘fictitious' social networking website pages in the names of acquaintances and sent numerous messages to herself and other family members from those pages.
Hopkins told the woman on the telephone she could live with him for free if she cooked and cleaned. Hopkins allegedly paid for her plane ticket to fly to New York and picked her up at the airport.Rescue followed after police were alerted by the woman's mother.
However, when she arrived at his home on Feb. 4, Hopkins allegedly told her she was his slave and forced her to call him “master.”
The woman told police that she was handcuffed to a radiator, beaten, bound, gagged and raped repeatedly.
Marlboro maker Altria Group Inc. said Wednesday it is suing seven Chinese online retailers, alleging they sold counterfeit versions of its top-selling cigarette brands to customers in the U.S.[...]What! No health warning on counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes? Lord have mercy!
Counterfeit, or gray market cigarettes, are made with different materials and under different quality-control procedures than cigarettes sold in the U.S. and may not display the required health warnings, the company said in the complaint.[my bold]
(DeWitt, New York) A 30-year-old teacher's assistant formerly with Onondaga - Cortland - Madison Counties BOCES, Christen L. Hayes, has been accused of engaging in sex with a 17-year-old male student on several occasions between June 2009 and February 2010.Hayes is charged with three counts of third-degree rape, three counts of third-degree criminal sexual act, all felonies, three counts of third-degree sexual abuse, three counts of endangering the welfare of a child, and one count of unlawfully dealing with a child, all misdemeanors.Hayes was booked into custody and released on $10,000 bond.
"Commenting on a bungled move for the ball by Chelsea player Fernando Torres, he said: ‘It’s come off his chest, his knee, and his toe. It’s almost like that Chinese player Knee Shin Toe’.
Hoddle - who enjoyed a glittering career playing for Tottenham, Monaco and England - was sacked as the national team manager in 1999 when he claimed in an interview that disabled people were paying for their sins in a previous life.
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(Selma, North Carolina) A 40-year-old teacher formerly at North Johnston Middle School, Kimberly Bailey Ward, was arrested earlier today for allegedly giving alcohol to six teens.According to arrest warrants, Ward caused the youngest of the six teens involved, a 13-year-old, to become intoxicated. The incident took place in January, according to warrants.Ward was booked into custody.
One hundred faculty members at UC Irvine signed a letter last week asking Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas to drop the charges against 11 Muslim students, 8 from UC Irvine and 3 from UC Riverside, who last year disrupted a speech on campus by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren.The students are scheduled to be arraigned on March 11.
On February 4, the DA's office announced that it was charging each student with "one misdemeanor count of conspiracy to disturb a meeting and one misdemeanor count of disturbance of a meeting."
According to the District Attorney, the students planned the disruption several days in advance.
At the event, on Feb. 10, 2010, the first student to stand up and interrupt Oren's speech allegedly said, "Michael Oren, propagating murder is not free speech." Another defendant allegedly said, "Michael Oren you are a war criminal," while another said, "You sir are an accomplice to genocide."
"This case is being filed because there was an organized attempt to squelch the speaker, who was invited to speak to a group at UCI," Rackauckas said in a statement announcing the charges.
"These defendants meant to stop this speech and stop anyone else from hearing his ideas, and they did so by disrupting a lawful meeting. This is a clear violation of the law and failing to bring charges against this conduct would amount to a failure to uphold the Constitution."
(Louisville, Kentucky) A man pulled over for a traffic stop, Antione Banks, was found to be in possession of a variety of drugs. Banks was arrested on drug possession and trafficking charges.
In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew.Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers.
She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning. She is currently in the hospital recovering.
