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Chicago, IL (AHN) - Eight deaths in Illinois and Missouri are being linked to a 28-year old man sighted near the border of the two states. The Illinois State Police called Nicholas Sheley of Sterling "a person of interest". Sheley is armed, dangerous and has a $25,000 prize money on his head. He has been linked to at least five of the homicides, including four people whose corpse were discovered in an apartment at Rock Falls.

WNYW-TV: What you're about to see raises serious questions about the character and reputation of an elite and highly trained part of the police department.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2007 – Coalition forces detained three suspected militants in the Nerkh district of Afghanistan’s Wardak province yesterday. The troops caught the suspects during a search of buildings believed to be militant hiding places. “Coalition forces conducted a search of the compounds in the Nerkh district for militants indicated to be in the area,” said Army Maj. Chris Belcher, a spokesman for Combined Joint Task Force 82. In earlier operations, coalition forces killed several militants and detained two others in the Nerkh district of Wardak province Oct. 23. A follow-on search yielded a weapons cache containing explosive materials,...

JERUSALEM – Islamic authorities using heavy machinery to dig on the Temple Mount – Judaism's holiest site – have been caught red-handed destroying Temple-era antiquities and what's believed to be a section of an outer wall of the Second Jewish Temple.

A motorist in Helsingborg has been ordered to pay back over a quarter of a million kronor in disability benefits after claiming to be blind for a period of ten years. The person in question was caught driving a car on three separate occasions while at the same time receiving benefits totalling 268,000 kronor ($38,500). The Swedish Social Insurance Agency (Försäkringskassan) explained its decision to request reimbursement in a letter to the individual concerned: "While investigating your case in the autumn of 2006, we received information suggesting that you cannot be considered sightless.

Two suspected thieves were nabbed after mistakenly telephoning police as they tried to set up a drug deal, police in California say. The two men - Paul White, 38 and Ryan Ogle, 25 - were arrested after dialing the emergency number 911 in an attempt to page a drug dealer, Pomona police sergeant Eddie Vazquez says. The misplaced phone call from a public booth alerted police, who arrived on the scene and found the men standing beside a car which had been reported as stolen, Sergeant Vazquez says. He says the men were arrested for various offences, including auto theft,...

A man wanted for attempted murder in Maricopa County was caught by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers Sunday night while crossing into the United States from Mexico at the San Luis port-of-entry. Just after 11 p.m. Julian Angel Tamayo, 20, tried to enter the United States on foot, according to a press release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. When questioned by authorities, Tamayo refused to identify himself and, as he grew increasingly nervous, he asked to return to Mexico. Customs and Border Protection officers then took Tamayo into custody. After fingerprinting him they learned he was wanted for...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A convicted murderer who escaped from a Michigan psychiatric facility in 1976 was back behind bars Thursday after living most of his 30 years on the run as an otherwise law-abiding family man in Tennessee, authorities said. Thomas Ball, 76, was arrested at his Nashville home Wednesday morning, Deputy U.S. Marshal Danny Shelton said. Ball had been using the name Thomas Fry and had run a storage business near Nashville for years with a woman he called his wife, Shelton said. After she died last year, he turned to the government for financial help, and that led...

A failure by the U.S. and the European Union to reach a new agreement next month on the provision of passenger data for transatlantic flights could ground up to 105,000 people each week, the International Air Transport Association's director general said Thursday. The two sides need to reach a new accord by the end of September, after the European Court of Justice ruled in May that the current agreement is unacceptable. That agreement calls for airlines to provide U.S. authorities with the names, addresses, ticket payment details, and telephone numbers of passengers on U.S.-bound flights. The EU's highest court ruled...

Ivy League Professor Caught with Videos That Show Him Having Sex with Children, Feds Say August 28, 2006 6:10 PMJack Date Reports: An Ivy League business school professor is in federal custody for allegedly having videos of himself engaging in sexual acts with children, ABC News has learned.Lawrence Scott Ward, 63, Professor Emeritus of Marketing at University of Pennsylvania's renowned Wharton School of Business, was caught with child pornography in his luggage and on his laptop computer after arriving at Dulles International Airport on a flight from Brazil, according to court documents.An affidavit in support of a criminal complaint...

BISBEE — A Phoenix woman caught in Douglas driving a stolen car with nine illegal immigrants inside was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison by a Cochise County Superior Court judge Friday. Liliana Lopez, 19, asked Judge Tom Collins for probation, which was one of several sentencing alternatives included in a plea agreement she signed in July. “Well, I’m not going to do that,” said Collins, who cited the value of the stolen property, the fact that Lopez was transporting illegal immigrants, and that she admitted to belonging to a gang as aggravating circumstances. According to court records, a...

Imagine going to get your car repaired, paying for it, and then finding out that the work was never done. With the help of insiders, NBC4 uncovered an apparent scheme at several Los Angeles area Jiffy Lube stores. The Los Angeles District Attorney's Office has asked customers who have had problems at Jiffy Lube stores to contact the DA's Consumer Protection Division, by e-mail, at jiffylube@lacountyda.org

JPFO began our campaign to "Boot the BATFE" (www.jpfo.org/bootbatfe.htm) in January of 2005. The instigating factor was a tape we received, a tape that indisputably showed BATFE agents attempting to frame an innocent gun owner, John Glover. That tape -- which we promptly copied and began distributing as _BATFE Fails the Test_ (www.jpfo.org/batfevideo.htm) -- was something the BATFE _never_ intended you to see. Thanks to it, the charges against Glover were dropped and all but one of his firearms returned. Eighteen months later, we offer you something else the BATFE was hoping wouldn't get out: John Glover's story, straight from...

Tucson Police say men on a surveillance tape are doing more than just washing a car. They say they're trying to erase evidence. Tucson Police say that surveillance tape may solve the mystery for a family who says someone broke into their home. It's a story you'll see only on News 4. A Tucson family says they've been living in fear since their home was burglarized a week ago. Police say whoever did it took off with electronics, personal identification information, jewelry and the family car. Monday, the family talked only to News 4's Lupita Murillo. ------ The men in...

Apple's Jobs caught up in US options scandal (Filed: 30/06/2006) Apple Computer has launched an internal investigation after admitting it may have manipulated stock-option grants to benefit executives, including chief executive Steve Jobs. The admission wraps Apple into the unfolding business scandal that is spreading to some of America's best-known companies. At least 60 have now disclosed possible stock option irregularities. Tainted: Steve Jobs may have been awarded a manipulated grant Investigators are trying to determine whether companies inflated the value of stock options awarded to senior executives by backdating or timing the grants to coincide with days when the...

KENNER, Louisiana — Three people convicted of hauling away liquor, wine and beer from a grocery store after Hurricane Katrina were sentenced to 15 years in prison. The judge said Wednesday he wanted to send a message that looting would not be tolerated when he gave the maximum sentence to Coralnelle Little, 36, Rhonda McGowen, 42, and Paul C. Pearson, 36. A jury convicted the trio May 2 on a portion of the state's looting law that took effect two weeks before the Aug. 29 storm. The amended law set a three-year minimum sentence, and a maximum of 15 years...

One in four shops is caught selling knives to children under 16 By David Derbyshire, Consumer Affairs Editor (Filed: 21/06/2006) More than a quarter of shops that stock knives are illegally selling them to children under 16, according to a survey by trading standards officials. Despite concerns about rising knife violence, a significant number of shopkeepers are failing to check the ages of teenage customers or are wilfully turning a blind eye. Richard Beckett, 14, shows knives bought by teenage volunteers However, there was some evidence that the recent spate of stabbings and the Home Office amnesty may finally be...

It may not be on a scale of Franklin D. Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court, but Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez's bid to pack the Coastal Commission with his cronies is very troubling all the same. As speaker, Núñez, D-Los Angeles, gets to make four appointments to the 12-member panel. Under state law, if an appointee is unable to attend a Coastal Commission meeting, he may send a designated alternate in his place. Núñez, however, is attempting to dictate who the four alternates will be – a clear usurpation of each commissioner's legal authority. What's more, the timing of...

A black bear chased, caught and mauled a bicycle rider on a mountain trail in Canada's oldest and most popular national park, and was shot and killed when it refused to leave the area, a warden said. The biker, Greg Flaaten, 41, a Web administrator for the town of Banff, was being treated for severe arm injuries at Foothills Hospital in Calgary following the attack, and reconstructive surgery in the biceps and triceps area was scheduled Monday. Authorities initially feared Flaaten might lose his arm, but that concern was eased when a key artery was found to be intact, maintaining...

Taylor 'looked like whipped dog' as justice caught up By Hans Nichols in Freetown, Sierra Leone (Filed: 02/04/2006) Slumped and sombre, Charles Taylor uttered not a single word as he sat in the United Nations helicopter that spirited him from Liberia, where he once ruled, to neighbouring Sierra Leone, where he is accused of committing war crimes. "He looked like a whipped dog. A look of total defeat," said a UN official, one of 16 passengers on the flight that brought Taylor to the tribunal he has eluded for three years. Charles Taylor in Freetown "You look at someone that...

Former Tucson sector Border Patrol agent Scott James says he caught his fair share of illegal immigrants from countries other than Mexico during his years of service with the agency. Not that it really mattered, he added. James, who resigned from the Border Patrol two months ago, said his job, like those of his colleagues, was little more than a sham. Enforcing the law was the last thing the Department of Homeland Security wanted, he said. Some illegal immigrants apprehended on the border are from Pakistan, Iraq, China and other countries considered by the Department of Homeland Security to be...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Two brothers who had eluded a string of felony drug and weapons charges for 15 years have been captured and were found with stockpiles of drugs, weapons and gunpowder, a U.S. marshal said Saturday. A tip earlier in the week led authorities to a rented home in rural southwestern New Mexico, where the brothers were arrested Friday on weapons, explosives and other charges from a 1991 warrant in Merriam, Kan., officials said. Geoffrey Rose, 62, and Gregory Rose, 50, were taken into custody without incident, U.S. Marshal Gorden Eden said. The men were thought to be aligned...

Atmospheric 'sprites' captured in explosive detail 18:28 16 February 2006 NewScientist.com news service Kimm Groshong Sprites are rare and fleeting events, lasting between just 10 and 100 milliseconds (Image: Steven A Cummer, Duke University) Mysterious flashes of light called “sprites", that occur above thunderclouds during powerful storms, have been captured on film in unprecedented detail by researchers using an ultra-high-speed camera. The best images yet of the flashes – which resemble a giant undulating jellyfish with its tentacles falling from a halo of light – have allowed the team to pick apart their structure and mechanics. Sprites are fleeting events,...

Obesity 'can be caught like a cold' By Roger Highfield, Science Editor (Filed: 31/01/2006) Evidence that obesity could be contagious was published yesterday by American researchers - and washing your hands could be an elementary step to avoiding the virus and becoming overweight. A team led by Dr Leah Whigham, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, found that the human adenovirus Ad-37 causes obesity in chickens, marking the third virus to be linked to being overweight: two related viruses, Ad-36 and Ad-5, also cause obesity in animals. Moreover, Ad-36 has been associated with human obesity, leading researchers to suspect that...

TIKRIT, Iraq (Army News Service, Dec. 28, 2005) – Three weapons caches were discovered and destroyed by Iraqi and U.S. Soldiers Dec. 27 in north central Iraq. Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team discovered a large cache of mortar rounds and artillery fuses while patrolling near Hawijah. Nearly 400 mortar rounds of various types and sizes, along with 250 lbs. of explosive propellant, 878 artillery fuses, 1,900 rounds of small arms ammunition, a Russian-made anti-tank missile and an anti-personnel mine were blown up by an explosive ordnance disposal team at the site in a controlled detonation....

TIKRIT, Iraq (Army News Service, Dec. 8, 2005) – Just a week after a huge cache of mortars was uncovered near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, another large terrorist cache was discovered Dec. 6 near the neighboring city of Tuz. Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, found two storage bunkers crammed with weapons near Forward Operating Base Bernstein, west of the city. More than 400 rockets of various types and 80 mortar rounds were discovered in the bunkers. Mortars and rockets, along with IEDs, are the preferred weapons of terrorists, officials said, because...

Man sacked after being caught smoking at home By Kate Connolly in Berlin (Filed: 03/12/2005) A German company has sacked one of its employees for smoking at home after hiring a detective to catch him in the act. Sandro Beier was dismissed from his £19,000-a-year job with a Berlin printing company after being photographed smoking in his back garden. The company, Laserline, which runs a rigorous health and fitness programme for its 100 staff, said Mr Beier, 42, had "defrauded" it by lying about his smoking habits. It claimed that Mr Beier had signed an agreement, renewable every month, in...

TIKRIT, Iraq (Army News Service, Nov. 28, 2005) -- Sixteen suspected terrorists, including one female, were captured by Iraqi and U.S. forces during operations in north-central Iraq Nov. 26. In an early morning cordon and search mission near Baqubah, Soldiers detained nine suspected terrorists and seized fuses used for detonating explosives along with several anti-aircraft artillery rounds. To finish off the day, U.S. troops conducted a clearing operation in Baqubah Saturday night. The Soldiers detained a man and a woman after discovering them with eight blocks of C-4 plastic explosive, an AK-47 with several hundred rounds, blasting caps and various...

Michelle Malkin has the update on a 527 organization's attempt (Main Street Individual Fund) to hide the George Soros' $50,000 donation to moderate Republicans (Republican in name only - RINOs) who are essentially against President Bush. This organization funds "Main Street" moderate Republicans. Even if the Google cache is supposedly gone (Soros) you can always try the Internet Archive site to find the cache where it would look like this. Click on any of the three that were archived in 2004 and see that Soros' name is still there. This'll add a bit more legitimacy on what Malkin pointed out...

TERROR suspects held in today's massive police operation had formed a group to wage "holy war" against Australians, a court has been told. Nine of the accused have appeared in a Melbourne court, with police alleging their aim was "to kill innocent men and women in Australia". They include include Osama Bin Laden supporter and radical Islamic cleric, Abdul Nacer Benbrika, also known as Abu Bakr. Benbrika has been named in court as the alleged leader of the group. In total, 16 people were arrested in today's raids in Melbourne and Sydney, now believed to have involved some 500 police,...

Howard Dean throws bombs... "I'm tired of the ayatollahs of the right wing," Dean said. Howard Dean, for whom comparing social conservatives to "ayatollahs" is fine, but being compared to Newt Gingrich is "beyond the pale": "[I] am deeply saddened that [Gephardt] has chosen to resort to the politics of the past by engaging in name-calling, guilt by association and scare tactics. "It is a sad day for Dick Gephardt when he compares ANY democratic candidate running for President to Newt Gingrich and his divisive policies. No Democrat in the presidential race bears any resemblance to Newt Gingrich on any...

Three incidents of looting have been reported in the village of Pe'at Sadeh in southern Gush Katif. Two soldiers were caught looting an air conditioner from a home in the town of Pe’at Sadeh in Gush Katif on Tuesday. The soldiers were caught by a female soldier who reported the incident to her superiors. The two soldiers have admitted to looting the home. The IDF Judge Advocate General has ordered an investigation into the incident. Two other incidents of looting have been reported in Pe’at Sadeh. On Sunday, two soldiers were caught attempting to steal appliances left behind by residents...

SECURITY chiefs were jubilant last night after police and SAS troops combined brilliantly to corner 21/7 bombing suspects like rats in a trap. A day of drama ended with ALL five men wanted over last week’s botched London suicide attacks in custody. Muktar Mohammed-Said, 27, thought to have attempted to blow himself up on a No26 bus, was arrested after a siege at a West London flat. A man wanted over the Oval Tube attack, named last night as Ramzi Mohammed, was held at the same address. In another raid less than a mile away, a suspected terrorist said to...

OAK BLUFFS, Mass. -- It wasn't too little, but it was too late. Fishermen who hauled in a massive 1,100 pound tiger shark off Massachusetts this past weekend failed to capture first place in the monster shark derby on Martha's Vineyard. The reason: The boat was six minutes too late in returning to Oak Bluffs harbor with its catch. The toothy tiger shark may not have won the competition, but it did win the admiration of other fishermen. Steven James of the Boston Big Game Fishing Club said this truly was a monster shark, and one that "could eat you."

Goliad County wrote a new chapter Tuesday in its ongoing dealings with human smuggling. Sheriff Robert DeLaGarza said more than a dozen Asians who appear to be illegal immigrants were caught traveling through south Goliad County by a deputy patrolling an area north of Sarco. DeLaGarza said the suspected illegals had passports from the Republic of China. It appears they are obtaining passports to enter Mexico as tourists, then making their way to the United States border, he said. A U.S. Border Patrol agent who picked up the immigrants later in the day told DeLaGarza the agency is seeing more...

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - Eleven members of a California-based Mexican gang, including nine illegal aliens, have been charged with defrauding a bank out of more than $40,000 by using fake IDs made with picture cell phone images, federal authorities said Friday. In wrapping up the investigation dubbed "Operation Snapshot" in western Virginia, U.S. Attorney John Brownlee said the gang is responsible for bilking banks in at least eight states out of an estimated $50 million. "Investigators have determined these 11 defendants are members of one cell of a major Mexican organization that has operated in several states, including Tennessee, California,...

05/04/2005 By BRUCE SCHREINER / Associated Press Russell Winstead spent two years eluding Kentucky authorities who wanted him in the brutal slaying of his aunt, but his luck eventually ran out at a casino in Costa Rica. Winstead was arrested Tuesday by Costa Rican authorities at a casino in the capital city of San Jose. Kentucky prosecutors were eager to try him on murder and first-degree robbery charges. "It's a day we've been waiting for," Hopkins County Commonwealth's Attorney David Massamore said Wednesday in reacting to Winstead's arrest. Winstead, 40, fled in June 2003. A month later he was indicted...

Sinatra 'almost got caught carrying $3.5m Mafia cash' By Catherine Elsworth (Filed: 05/05/2005) Frank Sinatra once served as a Mafia courier and narrowly escaped arrest with a briefcase containing $3.5 million in cash, according to a new biography of the legendary singer. The entertainer Jerry Lewis is quoted as saying that Sinatra "volunteered to be a messenger for them... And he almost got caught once... in New York." Frank Sinatra: mob links Extracts of Sinatra: The Life, an unauthorised biography by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, were published yesterday by Vanity Fair magazine. Lewis said that Sinatra was going through...

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Alan Chin for The New York Times Ashley Evans, 18, in police custody yesterday outside the Seventh Precinct station house on the Lower East Side. She is charged with second-degree murder and robbery in the killing of Nicole duFresne. Another young woman was charged with murder yesterday in the killing of an actress last week on the Lower East Side, the second to be linked to the 19-year-old man accused of shooting the victim during a robbery. The new suspect, Ashley Evans, 18, left New York sometime after the Thursday morning shooting and went to her father's house in...

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. - The Social Security Administration (news - web sites) is rejecting marriage documents issued for heterosexual couples in four communities that performed weddings for gay couples earlier this year. The agency is rejecting all marriage certificates issued in New Paltz, N.Y., after Feb. 27, when the town's mayor began marrying gay couples, according to town officials. Certificates issued during the brief periods when Asbury Park, N.J., Multnomah County, Ore., and Sandoval County, N.M., recognized gay marriages are also being rejected. Susie Kilpatrick, 30, of New Paltz, said the local Social Security (news - web sites) office told...

Bill Burga thought he had done everything right Tuesday, and he was expecting a triumph. Burga, president of the Ohio AFL-CIO, led a massive union effort on behalf of Sen. John Kerry that contributed to a large registration of new voters and the biggest electoral turnout of union members in Ohio history. On Wednesday morning, he woke up to the blunt reality that it was not enough. Religious-based groups focused on abortion and same-sex marriage had done union organizers one better, turning Ohio, and the election, in President Bush's favor by engineering an even greater turnout in more conservative parts...

THE KERRY vs. BUSH DEBATE by: Chris Bjornberg I finally had time to listen to the tape of the debate. Kerry continually repeated the mantra, "I can do it better." Bush has caught 75% of the Al Quida terrorists and has them in prison. Pakistan is catching terrorist leaders. Even Yemen is supporting us and gave the death penalty to two terrorists who bombed the U.S.S. Cole. How's Kerry going to do better? Oh, maybe he'll claim our troops were cutting off Iraqi's ears and raping women. Kerry has continually voted over the years to cut funding to the CIA,...

Except for the very original advise he received from Clinton: assail Bush on domestic issues! Now why would Clinton set Kerry up to walk straight into this minefield? After all, when Clinton was running for reelection in 1996: The unemployment rate was 6.2 percent. Today, under Bush, it’s 5.4 percent – with 1.7 million new jobs created and a record of steady job growth for the last 12 months! The inflation rate was 2.6 percent. Today, under Bush, it’s 1.9 percent! ·The mortgage rate was 7.81 percent. Today, under Bush, it’s 5.86 percent – at a 20-year low! And let’s...

Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:41 PM EST By Melanie Hunter CNSNews.com Deputy Managing Editor September 09, 2004 02:34 pm '60 Minutes' Documents on Bush Might Be Fake (CNSNews.com) - The 32-year-old documents produced Wednesday by the CBS News program "60 Minutes," shedding a negative light on President Bush's service in the Texas Air National Guard, may have been forged using a current word processing program, according to typography experts. Three independent typography experts told CNSNews.com they were suspicious of the documents from 1972 and 1973 because they were typed using a proportional font, not common at that time, and they...

HOUSTON (AP) - A South African woman whose arrest last month near the Mexico border raised concerns about whether terrorists could easily enter the United States has been indicted on charges of violating U.S. immigration law and lying to a federal officer, federal prosecutors said Thursday. Farida Goolam Mahamed Ahmed was arrested July 19 after being stopped by the U.S. Border Patrol at the McAllen-Miller International Airport in South Texas as she tried to board a plane for New York. She carried a pair of muddy, wet pants in her baggage, $7,300 in various currencies and a passport with three...

TWO GROUPS OF MIDDLE-EASTERN INVADERS CAUGHT IN COCHISE COUNTY IN PAST SIX WEEKS Information officer Andy Adame, from the Border Patrol Tucson sector says, “I guarantee it’s not true.” However, seasoned Border Patrol field agents have shared some disturbing information with the Tumbleweed as well as other civilian sources with the hope the information will make it to the general public.The Tumbleweed has verified information that a flood of middle-eastern males have been caught entering the country illegally east of Douglas, Arizona. The increased patrols in the Huachuca Mountains area of Cochise County, seems to have diverted the flow...

BISMARCK, N.D. July 27, 2004 — A National Guard soldier who returned from Iraq this spring says his military training kicked in when he saw an intruder outside his home about 5 a.m. "I yelled, 'Hey you, stay right there,'" said Chris Seil, who was awakened by his wife and sounds of shattered glass early Saturday morning. The intruder ran away, Seil said, and he grabbed a handgun from the night stand and ran out the door. "I didn't even think, I just grabbed it," Chris Seil said. "I think it was a military thing." Trish Seil watched her husband...

Leaked UN audit proves Oil-for-Food shamblesTim Wood'19-MAY-04 03:00' NEW YORK (Mineweb.com) -- A United Nations internal audit report leaked to Mineweb cracks open the door on hitherto secret details of the disgraced Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme. The report details irregularities that went on for years, with hundreds of millions of dollars not properly accounted for, hinting at disarray in the programme from start to finish. The report was never forwarded to the UN Security Council.The leaked document is the first audit involving the Office of the Iraq Programme (OIP) to see the light of day. Despite intensifying US Congressional scrutiny,...

"Stop diggin'" John Kerry, Bill Clinton political cartoon.  Apr. 28, 2004... "When practical people find  themselves in a hole, they stop digging. When ideological people find themselves in a hole, they ask for a bigger shovel."Bill Clinton