CADOTT, WI: UPDATE -THE DICKINSENS BEAT SONS, GO TO COURT

Cadott couple accused of abusing, duct-taping boys
CHIPPEWA FALLS, WIS , Brothers Abused

Jan 3, 2008 10:36 AM (2 days ago), AP

CHIPPEWA FALLS, WIS. (Map, News) - Signature bonds are ordered for a Cadott couple accused of abusing or neglecting their two boys.

The bond was set yesterday in Chippewa County Circuit Court for James and Sarah Dickinsen.
James Dickinsen is accused of beating his son and stepson with a belt, then duct-taping the boys together and pouring water on them as they stood outside without their pants last October.

Twenty-eight-year-old James Dickinsen is charged with child abuse and causing mental harm to a child. Twenty-seven-year-old Sarah Dickinsen is charged with child neglect and causing mental harm to a child. Prosecutors say she failed to protect the children, who are six and eight years old.

The Dickinsens have been ordered to have no contact with the boys.

SEE THE UPDATE...
http://www.examiner.com/a-1136117~Cadott_couple_accused_of_abusing__duct_taping_boys.html

YASER SAID: HONOR KILLING IN AMERICA?

MANHUNT FOR A COWARD

Yaser Abdel Said is about 6-foot-2, weighing about 180 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes. He last was seen wearing a black turtleneck shirt or sweater, a brown coat and tan pants. He is believed to be armed with a handgun, police said.

Authorities announced a $10,000 reward Friday for information

leading to the arrest and indictment of Yaser Abdel Said.

HUCKABEE: WRONG MAN TO SAVE US FROM DEMOCRATS

OBAMA (D) versus HUCKABEE (R)
Higher Taxes versus the Wrong Man!
HuckleScary Win
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted Friday, January 04, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Politics: Huckabee vs. Obama would pit an unelectable Republican against a Democrat who would wreck our economy and weaken our security. And both have blasted the president's success in the war on terror.

(snip)

Obama, Edwards and Clinton are practically identical in their stereotypically liberal ideas: raise taxes, especially on investors; inject health care with more government; and fight international terrorism with diplomacy. As his rivals for the GOP nod will soon drive home, Huckabee is not the man to save the country from that fate.

READ ARTICLE...
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=284342372964795

GARY HILTON: IS HE LINK TO MISSING HIKERS, THE BRYANTS?

Hiker's John Bryant missing, his wife, Irene, found dead

Clue Could Link Missing GA Hiker Search With Bryants Disappearance
Report: yellow jacket a clue in two missing hiker searches
Friday, Jan 04, 2008 - 07:48 AM

The search for a missing hiker and her dog continues in Georgia on Friday and a newspaper reports investigators are looking at a clue that could link that to a case in western North Carolina.

(snip)

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports investigators are looking at the yellow jacket as a clue that could link Emerson's disappearance with the case of missing hikers John and Irene Bryant from Hendersonville.

The Bryants were last seen in the Pisgah National Forest in October. Irene Bryant was later found dead, but John Bryant hasn't been seen or heard from since the couple's disappearance.

The only clue authorities have is someone wearing a yellow jacket spotted on a surveillance tape using the couple's ATM card.

THE CLUES ARE COMING FAST...
http://www.wspa.com/midatlantic/spa/news.apx.-content-articles-SPA-2008-01-04-0006.html

GARY HILTON: DID HE KILL MISSING HIKER, MEREDITH EMERSON?

GARY MICHAEL HILTON, "A PERSON OF INTEREST"

Meredith Emerson was last seen hiking with her dog on Blood Mountain in Georgia on New Year's Day.

Person of interest in missing hiker case in custody

BLAIRSVILLE, Georgia (CNN) -- The man last seen with missing hiker Meredith Emerson in the north Georgia mountains is in custody and is being questioned by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, authorities announced Friday evening.

Gary Michael Hilton, 61, was detained after a police officer spotted his van at a convenience store in suburban Atlanta.

Investigators also have another piece of the puzzle: Emerson's black Labrador retriever, Ella.
The dog walked into a grocery store about 30 miles north of Atlanta hours before Hilton was spotted Friday.

The animal was positively identified through an implanted microchip.

Watch how the dog was discovered »

Emerson's roommate, Julia Karrenbauer, said she's encouraged that Hilton has been found and still hopeful "that [Emerson] walks right into that same damn Kroger that her dog did."
The search for Emerson will continue Saturday morning, said Union County sheriff's investigator Kimberly Verdone.

Earlier Friday, a Georgia State Police helicopter and search dogs joined in the effort to find 24-year-old Emerson, which now spans 400 square miles.

She was last seen hiking along the Freeman Trail on Blood Mountain on New Year's Day.
Witnesses saw Hilton and his reddish dog with Emerson on "multiple occasions" Tuesday before she disappeared, Verdone said.

Watch what police know so far »

Watch Verdone describe scope of Friday's search »

READ UPDATE...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/04/missing.hiker/index.html

PEREZ-OLIVO: SON, MERCED PEREZ-HALL, SAYS FATHER A HERO

SHATTERED LIVES: Merced Perez-Hall, the son of slain Peggy Perez-Olivo and wounded lawyer
Carlos Perez-Olivo leaves the family's Chappaqua house yesterday.

Clinton neighbor's son: No way my father killed my mother
10:54 AM EST, December 28, 2007

CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. - The son of a disbarred lawyer accused of shooting his wife in the head and blaming an unknown stranger is backing his father's claims of innocence, calling his parents a loving couple and the allegations "inconceivable."

"As far as I'm concerned, my father's nothing but a hero," Merced Perez-Hall told The Journal News in an interview Wednesday at the family's home, three doors away from Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton's residence.

His father, Carlos Perez-Olivo, 59, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Peggy Perez-Olivo, 55. He is being held on $1 million bail.

UPDATE...

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--clintonneighborss1228dec28,0,4826872.story

CARLOS PEREZ-OLIVO: I HAD AFFAIRS, BUT DIDN'T KILL MY WIFE

Alan Zale for The New York Times
The police said that Carlos Perez-Olivo, 58, of Chappaqua, a disbarred defense lawyer who had specialized in handling murder cases, reported driving his wife to a hospital after they were shot on a stretch of Saw Mill River Road on Saturday night.

The New York Times
A man said he and his wife were shot while driving home Saturday.

Clinton Neighbor Accused of Killing Wife Admits Longtime Affair
Friday, January 04, 2008

Associated Press

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The neighbor of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton who is accused of murdering his wife admitted to police he had a 10-year affair with another woman and had sent her flowers two days before his wife was shot.

According to court papers released Friday, disbarred lawyer Carlos Perez-Olivo also told investigators that the day of his wife's killing, Nov. 18, 2006, was the other woman's birthday.
Perez-Olivo, who lives in Chappaqua on the same cul-de-sac as the Clintons, was arrested in December in what a prosecutor called a chilling "execution" of his wife, Peggy, more than a year earlier.

He has pleaded not guilty and is being held on $1 million bail. The papers filed by the district attorney's office were released after a brief session in Westchester County Court. Perez-Olivo, his hands cuffed behind him, did not speak.

He contends his 55-year-old wife was killed by an assailant who forced their car off a dark road near Chappaqua and shot her in the head and him in the abdomen. He has suggested the killer was perhaps hired by a dissatisfied client.

Prosecutors have never commented on a motive for the killing, and Lucien Chalfen, spokesman for District Attorney Janet DiFiore, would not comment Friday about the released evidence.

The statements came when Perez-Olivo was interviewed by police 11 days after the shooting, the documents indicate.

Perez-Olivo told police he also had other "small" affairs and his wife didn't know of the long affair with the Georgia woman. He also admitted he "made a hell of a lot more money than I said on my taxes."

CRIME UPDATE...
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,320366,00.html

MADELEINE McCANN: POLICE SUSPECT PARENTS

No end to the torment: Gerry McCann and his wife Kate, pictured yesterday at the couple's home in Rothley, Leicestershire

Police 'still think McCanns killed Madeleine by accident'

- and they will be suspects for 20 years

By VANESSA ALLEN - Last updated at 00:19am on 4th January 2008

A secret police dossier has accused Kate and Gerry McCann of accidentally killing their daughter and hiding her body, it was claimed yesterday.

The couple faked four-year-old Madeleine's abduction, according to a leaked report on the eight-month police investigation.

The two doctors remain the chief suspects in her "accidental homicide" and could also be accused of staging her disappearance, the Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha reported.

In addition, the couple have been warned they could remain suspects for another 20 years.
Publicly, the couple's lawyers dismissed the leaked report as a fake, insisting they had not expected them to be cleared yesterday as an eight-month legal deadline in the case expired.

Privately, however, friends admitted the McCanns, both 39, would be "desperately disappointed" if the dossier were genuine as it showed Portuguese police had not changed their position in the four months since the couple were named as official suspects, or arguidos.

They had hoped the new head of the investigation, Paulo Rebelo, had moved away from the theory that Madeleine died in their care on May 3 last year.

MORE UPDATES ON MADDIE McCANN...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=505826&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

SHANNON HARPS: COMPOSITE OF SUSPECT KILLER

Police Composite of Suspect in killing of Shannon Harps
If you have information call 911 or tipline (206) 233-5000

Sketch gets tips flowing in Capitol Hill murder case
By HECTOR CASTRO, P-I REPORTER

Last updated January 3, 2008 7:35 p.m. PT

(Editor's Note: This article has been updated with new information from the Seattle Police Department regarding a volunteer at the Sierra Club.)

More than 30 tips have come in for Seattle police homicide detectives since they released a composite sketch of a man seen fleeing the scene of a murder on Capitol Hill on New Year's Eve.
Shannon Harps, 31, was stabbed repeatedly by an assailant who attacked her about 7:10 p.m. Monday just as she was about to enter her condominium building in the 1500 block of East Howell Street.

Witnesses heard her screams and saw a man running away.

That man has been described as white, in his 40s, with a scruffy beard 3 to 4 inches long, wearing a ski cap, blue hooded jacket and baggy pants. He might have had a yellow hooded sweatshirt under his coat.

A sketch of the man based upon witness descriptions was released Wednesday afternoon. At the same time, police announced a 24-hour tip line, 206-233-5000.

Since that sketch was released, more than 30 tips have come in to the line, police spokeswoman Renee Witt said. More tips have been provided to the department through other channels.

Witt said one witness was nearby when he saw the man run right past him. Another witnesses saw a man matching the same description a few blocks later.

Because there were no witnesses to the actual attack, Witt said, police have not called the man in the sketch a suspect in the slaying.

READ MORE...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/345906_capitolhill04.html

SEATTLE: SHANNON HARPS STABBED, POLICE COMPOSITE RELEASED

Grant M. Haller / P-I
A mourner lights a candle before placing it with about sixty other candles Wednesday at the spot at 15th Ave. and E. Howell Streets where Shannon Harps was killed.

SHANNON HARP'S LAST DAY -DECEMBER 31, 2007

Police Composite Sketch of Suspect

Police searching for "person of interest" in Capitol Hill slaying
By Jennifer Sullivan, Seattle Times staff reporter

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Police are seeking a man they call a "person of interest" in the slaying of Capitol Hill stabbing victim Shannon Harps.

A sketch of the man, who was seen running from where Harps' body was found, was released Wednesday.

Police said this morning that more than 30 people have contacted authorities to report possible information about the man in the sketch.

Assistant Police Chief Nick Metz declined to call the man in the sketch a suspect in the slaying."We're looking at anybody who has had any type of relationship with her," Metz said Wednesday. "Right now there is nobody we are fixated on, besides the person we have the sketch of."

Meanwhile, Seattle police are saying they have ruled out no one in connection with the stabbing. Police had said earlier they had ruled out one of Harps' co-workers.

"As of this morning we had not interviewed him," said Seattle police Sgt. Deanna Nollette.
Harps was walking home from the grocery store Monday night when she was attacked outside her condominium building, police said. Fellow residents of the 1500 block of East Howell Street called 911 after hearing screaming and yelling, Metz said.

Harps was found lying in the planting strip on the north side of the building with stab wounds to her abdomen and chest, according to police. She was pronounced dead that night at Harborview Medical Center.

One or two people saw a man run from Harps' condominium building, Metz said. Police produced a sketch based on witnesses and are requesting that if people recognize the man in the sketch, they call 911 but not approach him.

CHOMP WILL STAY ON TOP OF THIS STORY...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004105581_webstabbing03m.html

CHOMP: I know this area very well. I have driven on those same streets. I have shopped at those same stores. Am I walking around Seattle after dark. Not a chance! Now that we have a composite, I, like many others, will be looking for that face.

DENVER: PEDRO CORTEZ ARRESTED FOR NEW YEARS SHOOTING OF TWO

Photo by Family Photo
Becky Yanez, shown in this family photo, and her 11-year-old cousin, Angelica Martinez, were both kiled at a home near Lakewood Gulch in Denver early Jan. 1, 2007 by a single bullet believed to have been fired from long range.

Photo by Family Photo
11-year-old Angelica Martinez. Martinez, shown in this family photo, and Becky Yanez were shot and killed by a single bullet fired from long range shortly after midnight in the 4700 block of West 11th Avenue. Police say it may have been accidental. No arrests had been made.

Photo by George Kochaniec Jr.@The Rocky
Pedro Cortez makes his first appearance in Denver County Court today. Cortez, 25, was arrested in connection with the shooting deaths of Becky Yanez, 47, and 11-year-old Angelica Martinez.

'There's no accident about it,' slain girl's aunt says
Man arrested in shootings says he fired at streetlight
Kevin Vaughan and Lynn Bartels
Originally published 12:30 a.m., January 3, 2008

Updated 06:20 a.m., January 3, 2008

On the north side of an undulating park that cuts through a west Denver neighborhood, a 25-year-old man stood in an apartment house parking lot and raised a .44-caliber handgun toward a streetlight.

Three-hundred yards to the south, on the other side of the park, about a dozen family members gathered in a small, white home with a snowman on the front porch, welcoming 2008.

It was about 12:15 a.m. Tuesday, and the fireworks outside were just dying down.
And then, horror as a single bullet ripped through the front wall of the home, killing 47-year-old Becky Yanez and wounding a distant cousin, 11-year-old Angelica Martinez, who died a short time later at a hospital.

That picture emerged Wednesday as Denver police continued their investigation of two deaths that shocked a neighborhood, and a 25-year-old man suspected in the killings made his first court appearance.

A judge ordered that Pedro Cortez, the Denver native arrested in the shooting, remain in jail pending the filing of formal charges. Cortez told police investigators that he was shooting at a streetlight with a .44-caliber revolver, according to court documents.

READ MORE...

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jan/03/man-court-new-years-slayings/

KUMARI FULBRIGHT: TORTURED BOYFRIEND, MAKES BAIL

Kumari Fulbright, in an undated photo provided by the Tucson Police Department in Tucson, Ariz.
AP

Beauty queen in kidnap, assault case makes bail
Law student accused of holding, torturing ex-boyfriend with accomplices
updated 7:07 p.m. PT, Wed., Jan. 2, 2008

TUCSON, Ariz. - A former Miss Pima County and current University of Arizona law school student has been freed on bond and authorities are searching for an ex-boyfriend accused of helping her kidnap and assault another former boyfriend.

An indictment and police descriptions of Kumari Fulbright's alleged actions in early December seem to contradict her public persona as a Tucson beauty queen and serious student who just finished a semester as an unpaid extern for a federal judge.

The 25-year-old, midway through her second year in law school, faces a long prison term if convicted of kidnapping, armed robbery, aggravated robbery and two counts of aggravated assault.

A Dec. 18 indictment in Pima County Superior Court accused Fulbright of forcibly holding and torturing a 24-year-old former boyfriend 10 days earlier with the help of three other men, including an earlier ex.

Tucson police are looking to serve that former boyfriend, Robert Ergonis, 44, and his brother, Michael Ergonis, 46, with arrest warrants charging them with kidnapping, armed robbery and aggravated assault, but believe they may have fled the country.

WHAT AN UPDATE...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22479324/

RUDOLPH ZURICK, UNION COUNTY JAIL GUARD, COMMITS SUICIDE

This note taunting guard Rudolph Zurick was left behind after a jailbreak.

Wed January 2, 2008
Guard taunted in jailbreak note kills himself

NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) -- A guard who was named in a cheeky thank-you note left by two jail inmates when they chiseled their way out of their cells has committed suicide, his lawyer said Wednesday.

Rudolph Zurick, 40, was found dead at his home in Middlesex County, said attorney Michael J. Mitzner.

Zurick had not been charged in the December 15 break from the Union County Jail and had been cooperating with the investigation, Mitzner said.

"Everything I understand, he did nothing wrong," said Mitzner, who spoke to Zurick on Monday. "It's hard to know what goes through someone's head."

Mitzner did not have Zurick's cause of death.

In a statement, Union County Prosecutor Theodore J. Romankow said the death is being investigated by Middlesex County authorities.

"This is not a time for speculation, but a time for mourning," Romankow said. He declined further comment.

Officials in Middlesex County did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

Zurick had been scheduled to be interviewed Wednesday about the daring break by inmates Otis Blunt, 32, and Jose Espinosa, 20. Both remained at large Wednesday.

READ SHOCKING UPDATE...
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/01/02/guard.suicide.ap/index.html

IRVING, TEXAS MANHUNT: YASER SAID SHOOTS HIS 2 GIRLS

YASER ABDUL SAID (Photo: AP/Irving Police Department)

Manhunt for Father Suspected of Killing Teen Girls
Wednesday, January 02, 2008

ASSOCIATED PRESS

IRVING, Texas — Police continued searching for a man suspected of shooting his two teenage daughters, including one who called 911 about an hour before officers found them dead in his taxi, police said.

Yaser Abdel Said, 50, of the Dallas suburb of Lewisville, is accused of shooting Sarah Yaser Said, 17, and Amina Yaser Said, 18, in his taxi Tuesday night and abandoning it in a parking lot, leaving them to die.

Police have not released a motive for the shootings, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in its online edition Wednesday.

Click here for more from MyFoxDFW.com.

One of the teens called 911 on a cell phone about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and said she was shot, but she couldn't tell police where she was, Irving police said.

Officers were dispatched to the area, which turned out to be about half a mile from the taxi, but didn't find anyone, The Dallas Morning News reported in its online edition Wednesday.

Police found the taxi with the bodies inside an hour later after a witness called and reported a suspicious vehicle in a hotel parking lot, said David Tull, an Irving police spokesman.

Police described Yaser Abdel Said as about 6-foot-2, weighing about 180 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a black turtleneck shirt or sweater, a brown coat and tan pants. He is believed to be armed with a handgun, police said.

INFORMATION FOUND AT LINK BELOW...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,319525,00.html

DENVER: SUSPECT ARRESTED IN NEW YEARS KILLING OF 2 WOMEN

ANGELICA MARTINEZ, AGE 11

Colorado Police Arrest Suspect in Single Bullet Killing

of Woman, Girl at New Year's Eve Party
Wednesday, January 02, 2008

DENVER — A single bullet that may have been fired in celebration of the New Year ripped through the wall of a house shortly after midnight Tuesday, killing an 11-year-old girl and a woman attending a party inside, investigators said.

A 25-year-old man was later arrested at his home on investigation of two counts of first-degree murder, police spokesman Sonny Jackson said.

Click here to read report at MyFOXColorado.com.

"It might have been an accident, which still would be illegal if someone was firing a weapon recklessly in the city," Police Chief Gerry Whitman said.

Investigators believe the weapon was a high-powered rifle, Whitman said. The shot was fired at about 12:20 a.m., and the shooter may have been a New Year's reveler celebrating the New Year, Jackson said.

IMPORTANT UPDATE...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,319399,00.html

LOUISIANA: REDDY AND ALLAM, BODIES RETURNED TO INDIA

Media Credit: courtesy of Indian Student Association
Murdered students' bodies returned to India
Investigation continues into deaths
Ginger Gibson
Issue date: 12/30/07

The bodies of the two students murdered during finals week were returned to their hometowns in India and cremated.

The International Herald Tribune reported this week that the bodies of Komma Chandrasekhar Reddy, 31, and Kiran Kumar Allam, 33, arrived in India on Sunday.

Reddy and Allam were murdered on Dec. 13 in what appeared to be a home invasion. The two men were found shot in an Edward Gay apartment.

The murders are being investigated by a task force including University and city police. Sgt. Don Kelly, BRPD and task force spokesman, said the investigation is continuing and the public is still encouraged to give them information.

IT'S NOT OVER. CALL CRIMESTOPPERS IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION...
http://media.www.lsureveille.com/media/storage/paper868/news/2007/12/30/%20News/Murdered.Students.Bodies.Returned.To.India-3145340.shtml

TUCSON: KUMARI FULBRIGHT KIDNAPS, TORTURES EX-BOYFRIEND

Kumari Fulbright

Pinup Girl Law Student Indicted in Kidnap
Former Miss Arizona Contestant Tied to Ex-Boyfriend's 10-Hour Kidnap, Torture

By DAVID SCHOETZ, Jan. 1, 2008

ABC NEWS

An Arizona law student and beauty pageant queen-turned-calendar girl has been indicted in the alleged kidnapping and torture of her former boyfriend last month.

Kumari Fulbright, 25, is accused, along with three other men, of tying up her 24-year-old ex-boyfriend with plastic cable and duct tape, and holding him captive for hours in two different Tucson homes, the Arizona Daily Star reported, citing indictment documents in Pima County Superior Court.

Fulbright, who participated in the Miss Arizona pageant as Miss Pima County in 2005, and Miss Desert Sun in 2006, also reportedly serves as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Raner Collins. She is listed as a second-year writer on the editorial board of the Arizona Journal of International and Comparative Law at the University of Arizona.

Fulbright was indicted by a Pima County Superior Court Dec. 18, on five felony charges, including armed robbery, aggravated robbery, kidnapping and two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

According to court filings, Fulbright and the three other men pointed pistols at the unidentified kidnapping victim, threatened his life and took his wallet, cell phone, briefcase and hundreds of dollars in cash.

MORE TO THIS UNUSUAL STORY...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4072634&page=1

DENVER NEW YEARS: TWO KILLED BY REVELRY GUNFIRE

11-year-old girl Angelica Martinez, seen here, and an unidentified woman were killed Tuesday morning, Jan. 1, 2008. (Post / Mark T. Osler)

Norma Kaholo, aunt of 11-year-old Angelica Martinez, cries while talking about the young girl's death early this morning. (Post / Mark T. Osler)

Denver police look for slugs on a hillside outside a home where a woman and an 11-year-old girl were killed this morning, Jan. 1, 2008. (The Denver Post / Mark T. Osler)

2 dead in New Year's shooting
By Kirk Mitchell, The Denver Post
Updated: 01/01/2008

An 11-year-old girl and a woman in her 30s were killed early this morning when a single bullet fired from a high-powered rifle ripped through the front of a Denver home where they were attending a New Year's party, police said.

Police called it a "tragic accident" and suspect the shot was fired across a gulch from the home from a distance of up to 300 yards. A second bullet was found in a snowbank in front of the home.

"We're not concerned for public safety — that we have a sniper. It is more likely related to New Year's Eve revelry," said David Fisher, Denver's chief of police investigations.

The girl, identified by an aunt as Angelica Martinez, and the woman, whose identity has not been confirmed, were shot at about 12:20 a.m. at a home in the 4700 block of 11th Avenue.

Police said the pair were at a party at the home attended by about a dozen people. The bullet traveled through the front of the house and struck the woman in the head as she was sitting in a chair. It passed through her head and into Angelica's side, police said.

The woman, who witnesses said is from Fort Collins, was pronounced dead at the scene and Angelica was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead, police said.

Police used lasers early Tuesday to trace the bullet's trajectory. And officers scoured an area across the gulch from the home looking for evidence.

READ MORE...

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_7856697

SHELBYVILLE, TENN: OUTRAGE OVER SOMALI IMMIGRANTS

An estimated 700 to 1,000 Somali refugees are living in Emporia, a magnet for the refugees because of jobs at the Tyson Foods meatpacking plant. (Thad Allton/KHI)

Somalians respond poorly to local hospitality
Brian Mosely, Saturday, December 29, 2007

(Times-Gazette, Shelbyville, Tennessee ~ Tuesday, January 1, 2008)

Over the past few years, this community has given a helping hand and opened their arms to the new arrivals from Somalia.

In return, many of these refugees have given Shelbyville the finger.

When I began researching this story about the Somalis, I knew it would be controversial. We were aware that many in Shelbyville were having serious concerns about hundreds of Sunni Muslims moving here.

But as I began to talk with officials and others about our new neighbors, I was stunned by the reaction. Practically every person I spoke with locally said they had done everything possible to help out the refugees in adjusting to their new home and were treated very badly in return.

On the other hand, some I contacted for background on this story seemed to be so blinded by political correctness that they would excuse any behavior, no matter how upsetting or disruptive, as "part of their culture."

Did anyone involved in integrating these folks into American society stop to think that many in the heartland of America might not share this overly optimistic and myopic view of cultural diversity?

Unfortunately, the feelings and views of the communities the Somalis move to are almost never taken into account. Indeed, they are expected to simply keep their mouths shut and accept the newcomers without question. Those who protest are labeled racists by the various groups involved in resettling the refugees.

But many of the problems do not seem to have a basis in skin color. According to a story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 2003, when the Somali Bantu first arrived, "many cannot read or write even in their native language. Only in the last few months have most seen telephones, flush toilets and clocks ..."

READ ABOUT ASSIMILATION INTO AMERICAN CULTURE...

http://www.t-g.com/story/1300668.html

SARA JANE MOORE: TRIED TO KILL PRES. FORD, OUT OF PRISON

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme

AP file: Sara Jane Moore looks out a U.S. marshal's car in San Francisco, seen in this Dec. 16, 1975, file photo, on her way to the federal court where the judge accepted her plea of guilty to the attempted assassination of President Gerald Ford.

Would-be assassin of President Ford freed
Moore, 77, tried to shoot president outside hotel in 1975
ASSOCIATED PRESS, updated: Mon., Dec. 31, 2007

SAN FRANCISCO - Sara Jane Moore, who took a shot at President Ford in a 1975 assassination attempt, was released from prison Monday.

Moore, 77, had served about 30 years of a life sentence when she was released from the federal prison in Dublin, east of San Francisco, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said.

She was 40 feet away from Ford outside a hotel in San Francisco when she fired a shot at him on Sept. 22, 1975. As she raised her .38-caliber revolver and pulled the trigger, Oliver Sipple, a disabled former Marine standing next to her, pushed up her arm. The bullet flew over Ford's head by several feet.

In recent interviews, Moore said she regretted her actions, saying she was blinded by her radical political views.

"I am very glad I did not succeed. I know now that I was wrong to try," Moore said a year ago in an interview with KGO-TV.

Just 17 days before Moore's attempt, Ford survived an attempt on his life in Sacramento by Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson.

WHAT A SURPRISING UPDATE... http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22454599/

SEINFELD: "I HOPE YOU HAD THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE"

CAST OF SEINFELD: KRAMER, ELAINE, JERRY SEINFELD, GEORGE

Thanks to all my Readers for stopping by in 2007. I hope to see you again in 2008.
Please, feel welcome to read the new news or click on old archives.
Make comments sometimes; I would love to hear from you.

Thanks to my friends...that be you, Merry Widow.
I look for your posts, and I know that I will enjoy your comments.
Then I'm on my way to your blog...for recipes, commentary, and friendship!

Thanks to my family and, especially to my sister, Donal, for your wonderful support
and creative feedback on how to keep my blog interesting.
Sis, you are the greatest!
I use your splendid blog at DU'Rat Review as my model.

And thanks to Seinfeld for your Theme song! It makes me feel good when I hear it.

So I'll post this in 2007, and see everyone in a couple hours for 2008.
I hope it will be as much fun as this year.

CHOMP

Sister, Donal's blog, check it out!

http://dudratreview.blogspot.com/

CHELSEA CLINTON: SHUNS AND STUNS 9-YEAR-OLD REPORTER!

Dec. 30: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., right and daughter Chelsea greet an audience in Vinton, Iowa. (AP Photo)

Silent Chelsea Clinton Brushes Off 9-Year-Old Reporter on Campaign Trail
by Associated Press
Sunday, December 30, 2007

VINTON, Iowa — It’s one thing for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign to turn down interview requests for the candidate’s daughter, Chelsea. But can’t a 9-year-old reporter catch a break?

Sydney Rieckhoff, a Cedar Rapids fourth grader and “kid reporter” for Scholastic News, has posed questions to seven Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls as they’ve campaigned across Iowa this year. But when she approached the 27-year-old Chelsea after a campaign event Sunday, she got a different response.

“Do you think your dad would be a good ‘first man’ in the White House?” Sydney asked, but Chelsea brushed her question aside.

“I’m sorry, I don’t talk to the press and that applies to you, unfortunately. Even though I think you’re cute,” Chelsea told the pint-sized journalist.


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PHOENIX: POLICE LOOKING FOR KILLER, JOSE MENDOZA

Phoenix Police Department
Phoenix police say they are looking for 24-year-old Jose Francisco Mendoza,

who is sometimes called "Psycho

Man sought in shooting of 6
Elias C. Arnold, The Arizona Republic

Dec. 30, 2007

Phoenix police are looking for a 24-year-old man suspected of shooting six people Saturday night in connection with an ongoing dispute.

Police searched a neighborhood near 15th Avenue and Broadway Road but were unable to locate suspect Jose Francisco Mendoza, also known as "Psycho."

He is described as Hispanic, 5 feet 9 inches tall, and having a medium build.

Five victims were found inside a house in 1600 block of West Tamarisk Street, with one found in front of the house.

The dispute began with a physical confrontation and escalated into a shooting with several rounds being fired, police said.

The victims were transported to area hospitals in stable condition. Their names were not released.

Police responded about 6:40 p.m to a 911 call regarding a disturbance in the street on Tamarisk Street.

When officers arrived, Mendoza was standing in the street and opened fire on them, police said. The two-person patrol team returned fire, though neither officers nor Mendoza were hit.

Police said additional officers arrived and surrounded the neighborhood. A search for Mendoza was unsuccessful.

A dog found with a gunshot wound during the search was also transported for medical care, police said. It was not expected to survive.

Phoenix police ask that anyone with information on Mendoza's whereabouts call 911 or Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS.

STAYED TUNED...

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