John Doe probe looms over Walker's recall election (WI)
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| It's the biggest question hanging over Gov. Scott Walker's recall election: Will Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm file additional criminal charges as part of his John Doe probe before the June 5 election? For nearly two years, Chisholm's office has been looking into various activities in Milwaukee County during Walker's time as county executive. So far, prosecutors have brought charges against three ex-Walker aides, one appointee and a major campaign contributor. Chisholm has sent strong signals that additional charges are in the offing. Walker - who has set up a legal defense fund to pay his two lawyers -... |
DA: Death penalty out in all but one of four torture slaying suspects
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| It's official. Death is no longer a possible fate for three of four defendants in the January 20007 torture slayings of a Knox County couple. Assistant District Attorney General Leland Price has filed notice of an intention to seek the death penalty as punishment in the deaths of Channon Christian, 21, and boyfriend Christopher Newsom, 23, only against alleged ringleader Lemaricus Davidson. Price this month notified attorneys for Davidson's brother, Letalvis Cobbins, and Cobbins' friend, George Thomas, that he will push for a fate in their cases no more than life without possibility of parole. Because Cobbins' girlfriend, Vanessa Coleman,... |
Wis: Asst DA’s rec’d layoff notices; GOP rec’d death threats – Who's the woman in custody?
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| Now that Gov Scott Walker and the GOP led state legislature has managed - in the face of overwhelming headaches and death threats - to pass legislation to save public sector jobs, how soon will the Wisconsin Dept of Justice identify who is behind the death threats that were sent to legislators before the vote? |
Woman charged in Houston day care fire (killed 4) has fled to Nigeria
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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.........."How in the hell did they let this happen?" asked a furious Tracy Storms, grandmother of 3-year-old Shomari Leon Dickerson, who died in the fire. "She killed four children. That was enough to keep her in custody. She was negligent for seven children and she killed four. This is ridiculous." Seven children were in Tata’s care at the home-based day care she operated in west Houston when a fire broke out Thursday. Four of the children died. Two are being treated at Shriners Hospital for Children-Galveston in critical but stable condition. Investigators believe the fire started on top of the...
Manhattan DA launches criminal probe of pro-choice group's spending (NARAL looted for luxuries)
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| ...........a bombshell audit found an ex-NARAL President siphoned off more than $100,000 for meals, high-end clothing, a Hamptons rental, and $100,000 to chauffeur her kids to school. The allegations against the Dem-leaning charity have far-reaching political implications for state AG Eric Schneiderman.... whose office regulates charities, and who received NARAL's endorsement. His father, Irwin Schneiderman, was NARAL’s treasurer during the audit period. |
Da Vinci Code? Tiny Numbers and Letters Found in Mona Lisa Painting
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| It appears Mona Lisa, who has been captivating people for centuries, just got much more interesting. Art detectives have discovered that one of the world’s most famous paintings contains small letters and numbers put there intentionally by Leonardo Da Vinci: Hidden in the dark paint of her pupils are tiny letters and numbers, placed there by the artist Leonardo da Vinci and revealed only now thanks to high-magnification techniques. Experts say the barely distinguishable letters and numbers represent something of a real-life Da Vinci code. The revelation could have come straight from the pages of Dan Brown’s best-seller The Da... |
DA promises to prosecute overly touchy pat downs
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| SAN MATEO COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- The San Mateo district attorney's office has a warning for all TSA personnel at SFO -- anyone inappropriately touching a passenger during a security pat down will be prosecuted. |
U of M Student Body President drops request for personal protection order
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| The high-profile case the Action News Investigators broke has taken a new twist. Chris Armstrong, the student assembly president at the University of Michigan, dropped his request today for a personal protection order against Andrew Shirvell, who works as an assistant prosecutor in the Michigan Attorney General's office. Court documents say the request is being withdrawn because Armstrong has not been contacted by Shirvell since the request for the PPO was originally made. Armstrong created a blog blasting Armstrong for allegedly promoting a radical homosexual agenda on campus. Armstrong called police when Shirvell showed up outside his Ann Arbor home... |
Judge rips Harris' office for hiding problems
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris' office violated defendants' rights by hiding damaging information about a police drug lab technician and was indifferent to demands that it account for its failings, a judge declared Thursday. Superior Court Anne-Christine Massullo stopped short of granting a request by more than 40 drug defendants that their cases be dismissed because of prosecutorial misconduct, saying that decision must be left up to the judges hearing their cases. But in a scathing ruling, the judge concluded that prosecutors had failed to fulfill their constitutional duty . . . |
Breaking, Obama Named "Da Man!!"
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| Much to Tiger Woods chagrin, no longer will he hear that clever phrase "YOU DA MAN!!" shouted at him after each and every golf shot he hits. That is because today, Barak Obama has been named "DA MAN" by whoever the hell it is decides such important things. When asked if he would share that title with Tiger Woods, Obama scoffed at the idea. "What the hell has he ever done" was Rham Emmanuel's immediate response. Tiger looked on the bright side of things, however, when he said, "hey, at least I will still get to hear "get in the... |
80 liberals each pledge $1 million for alliance
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| <p>WASHINGTON - At least 80 wealthy liberals have pledged to contribute at least $1 million each to fund a network of think tanks and advocacy groups, to compete with the potent conservative infrastructure built up during the last three decades.</p> |
D.A. seeks names of posters (Slippery Slope alert!)
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| The company that owns and operates the York Daily Record/Sunday News readers' comment posting Web site will release the identities of people who anonymously posted comments to a story about the stabbing death of Andrew Wright, according to sworn statements Friday in county court. Prosecutor Timothy Barker informed Judge Thomas H. Kelley on Friday that an attorney for Topix LLC said the Internet Protocol addresses and personal information of the posters "has been preserved" and will be turned over when the company is served with a subpoena by the York County District Attorney's Office. (snip) Under oath Friday, York County... |
Former assistant DA arrested for defecating outside IHOP
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| A man arrested and charged over the weekend for public intoxication and disorderly conduct after defecating outside a local International House of Pancakes has been identified as a former Cameron County assistant district attorney. Thomas Whitley Teague, 26, was arrested at 3 a.m. Sunday morning after police responded to a call of a man defecating outside the restaurant at 2430 Pablo Kisel Blvd., according to a Brownsville Police report. Officers arrived at the scene to find an intoxicated Teague and spoke to witnesses who claimed "the male subject had pulled his pants down to his ankles and defecated on a... |
Suspect, 91, has been dead a month
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| Attorneys in the case of a 91-year-old Palisade man accused of sexual assault spent Wednesday morning in court trying to determine whether the aging man was fit to stand trial. It turns out he wasn’t. He died nearly a month ago and has been cremated, according to a relative who contacted The Daily Sentinel. Ralph Ridenour died Feb. 22 at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, said Jim Snell of Snell-McLean Funeral Home in Palisade, which handled arrangements for Ridenour. VA officials said they couldn’t comment on Ridenour. “That’s a relief for public safety,” Mesa County District Attorney Pete Hautzinger said... |
Harris County (TX) DA drops re-election bid after e-mail scandal
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| HOUSTON — Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal, facing pressure from Republicans since romantic e-mails to his personal assistant surfaced last month, will not run for re-election, local party leaders said Wednesday. Rosenthal, who is married and wrote messages like "I want to kiss you behind your right ear" to his secretary, had his name removed from a listing of candidates for the party's nomination on the Harris County GOP Web site by late Wednesday. He has said he is not having an affair with the woman. Just minutes before the deadline for removing candidates from the March 4 primary... |
DA Criticized Over Affectionate Emails Seeks Re-election
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| Harris County District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal is rejecting calls by the county Republican Party to give up his 2008 re-election campaign. His party's request came because of a scandal over affectionate e-mails Rosenthal sent to his secretary. Fifteen members of the Harris County Republican party's Advisory Committee voted unanimously yesterday to urge Rosenthal to withdraw from the March 4 GOP primary. Harris County Republican Chairman Jared Woodfill says Rosenthal had made a serious error in judgment and called the e-mails horrible. Woodfill says they've contacted about 10 potential candidates. He refused to name the potential candidates but said he is... |
{ Eddie Jordan } New Orleans district attorney to resign
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| NEW ORLEANS—District Attorney Eddie Jordan disclosed plans to resign Tuesday amid a $3.7 million discrimination verdict against his office and a rising murder rate since Hurricane Katrina. Jordan's spokesman, Dalton Savwoir, said the district attorney told his staff he would resign on Wednesday. Jordan lost the discrimination lawsuit against dozens of his former employees in 2005. The white former employees said they were fired by Jordan, who is black, because of their race. Jordan has consistently lost the appeals in that case and earlier this week, a federal judge refused to delay payment of the judgment. That opened the door... |
Updated 2:15 a.m.: Former McHenry campaign worker indicted for voter fraud from 2004 election
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| Updated 2:15 a.m.: Former McHenry campaign worker indicted for voter fraud from 2004 election Kevin Ellis May 11, 2007 - 11:33PM A grassroots organizer in U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry’s 2004 bid for Congress faces a felony election fraud charge. A Gaston County grand jury indicted Michael Aaron Lay, 26, of Pioneer, Tenn., on May 7. Lay, who graduated with a law degree from the University of Tennessee on Friday, did not immediately return a phone message left with his father early Saturday. McHenry dismissed the charge against Lay as a political attack in a statement released by his office Friday... |
Stabber Does No Jail Time: Exiting DA Gives Hoop Star Free Shot
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| Stabber does no jail time: Exiting DA gives hoop star free shot By Dave Wedge Boston Herald Chief Enterprise Reporter Wednesday, January 3, 2007 - Updated: 12:03 PM EST On his final day in office, Bristol County District Attorney Paul F. Walsh Jr. infuriated cops and a stabbing victim by setting free a star hoop player who coldly knifed a teen in the back at an Acushnet party. Brian Rudolph, a smooth swing guard hailed as “the Sebastian Telfair [stats] of Buzzards Bay,” admitted stabbing 19-year-old Jose Raposo in the back in April but was given three years’ probation and... |
New Orleans District Attorney Bristles at Criticism, Walks Out of Interview
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan bristled at criticism and walked out of an ABC News Nightline interview when told that law enforcement officials were critical of Jordan's handling of his office. ABC News' Brian Ross interviewed Jordan earlier today as part of a report examining the state of the New Orleans justice system one year after Katrina, to be broadcast on Nightline later tonight. Since last year's hurricane, there has been growing criticism of Jordan's office by senior people in law enforcement who say, even with the acknowledged problems caused by Katrina, the District Attorney has not efficiently dealt... |
Sheriff Says Teen Saved Family by Killing Intruder (Brave Kid)
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| Parents in danger: The boy breaks free of duct tape, plunges knife five times into the man's back CEDAR CITY - Police in southern Utah are calling a 17-year-old boy a hero after he fatally stabbed an armed intruder who broke into his family's home early Wednesday. Iron County Sheriff Mark Gower described the boy as a level-headed kid "who, in my opinion, saved his family's lives." It all began when a 19-year-old Las Vegas man, who was recently fired from a construction company owned by the family, broke into their home at 2650 N. 2200 West, near Cedar City,... |
Nifong Admits Some Criticism Justified
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| Mike Nifong is trying to reassure voters that he's the man for the job a day after a potential challenger said he won't pursue the district attorney job. Nifong admitted Friday that there's some justification to criticism about how he handled the media with the Duke case. "My handling of the media coverage of this case has occasioned substantial criticism, some of which is undoubtedly justified," Nifong said during a half-hour press conference. "I both underestimated the level of media attention this case would draw and misjudged the effect that my words would have. |
Duke Lacrosse Controversy: Cheek hurdles one DA barrier: Petition drive gets 9,800 signatures
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| DURHAM - Riding a strong wave of voter discontent about the handling of the Duke lacrosse rape case, county Commissioner Lewis Cheek cleared the first crucial barrier Friday in the race to put him on the ballot against District Attorney Mike Nifong in November. Beating a noon deadline, Cheek's organizers handed in more than 9,800 signatures to elections officials. The number would seem to give him a healthy enough cushion over the required 6,303 signatures to survive the painstaking process of verifying that enough signatures belong to registered Durham County voters. "It looks like he obviously will have enough signatures,"... |
Muslim Pakistan bans "The Da Vinci Code"
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has banned "The Da Vinci Code" following calls from both minority Christians and majority Muslims, an official said on Sunday. The adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling novel, the story of a Vatican cover-up involving Christ and his supposed offspring, has made hundreds of millions of dollars around the world since it opened last month. But the screening of the film in Pakistan, or possession of it on video cassettes or discs, was prohibited and unlawful, said Jalil Abbas, secretary of the Ministry of Culture. "The film is sacrilegious to all religions, that's why we did this,"... |
Important Update on Veteran Data Theft
Wednesday 23rd of May 2012 09:50:48 PM
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| Dear Military.com Member, As you may know, data was stolen from the Department of Veterans Affairs. This data contained identifying information on up to 26.5 million veterans and spouses, including names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and some disability ratings. At this time, we encourage you to be vigilant and monitor your financial accounts to protect yourself against identity theft. We have put together the following information to help you: Read the latest from the Department of Veteran Affairs Important FAQs What happened at VA and how does it affect me?How do I know if information on me was... |
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