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Someone's fate hangs in the balance in Chronicles' season finale, but that wasn't how it was planned. The strike halted filming with only nine of 13 episodes shot. Luckily, the cliff-hanger ending ties storylines together...

Garth Stapley, one of The Modesto Bee's lead reporters on the Scott and Laci Peterson case, shares the story behind the story in a column Sunday. He describes staking out jurors in a parking garage and debunking a defense theory that Laci was captured by Satanists.

NOTE: I had Joe as a guest on my Rightalk Radio show a few years ago and am trying to get him on other shows. If you know of a host who wants him on, I have his contact info. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ (Joe has written a current op-ed for the NY POST and hopes they will publish it) BILL PARDONED TERROR FALN CLEMENCY ENCOURAGED KILLERS By JOSEPH F. CONNER Killed by the FALN: Frank T. Connor, the author's father. September 27, 2006 -- BILL Clinton's scath ing, defensive attack against Chris Wall ace and Fox News on Sunday left me once...

LOS ANGELES -- The Miss USA pageant gears up to name a new queen this week in a live televised competition that organizers say will spotlight how reigning titleholder Tara Conner nearly lost her crown and ended up in rehab. "Certainly, our reigning Miss USA is going to be on television and we're certainly not going to shy away from referring to what happened," executive producer Phil Gurin said. "Why shy away from what's part of our family? We embrace our family." While not a centerpiece of the show, Conner will be "all over our telecast," Gurin said. The 56th...

Three months after sentencing a sex offender to probation rather than prison, Franklin County Judge John A. Connor yesterday found himself in the crosshairs of Ohio politicians calling for his impeachment and a national commentator who labeled him "the worst judge in America." Connor, a soft-spoken Democratic Common Pleas Court judge, was roundly lambasted by Ohio Gov. Bob Taft, Attorney General Jim Petro, House Speaker Jon A. Husted and top-rated Fox television commentator Bill O'Reilly for sentencing a convicted sex offender to five years of probation instead of prison. Taft, Petro and Husted, all Republicans, said the House should consider...

LISTEN ONLINE TO RIGHTALK RADIO Wednesday, 2pm Eastern Wednesday's guest is Joe Connor, whose father was killed by FALN terrorists when Joe was a child. His family was victimized twice --- once by the terrorists, and then years later when Bill Clinton issued pardons for the terrorists. The pardon was one of the last of the impeached Clinton's tricks in office. He, of course, was hoping to solidify votes for his wife in the Puerto Rican community of New York. 1.866.884.TALK

LIFE AFTER TERROR By JOSEPH F. CONNOR YOU sometimes hear how the first World Trade Center attack was a warning that the city ig nored. But it wasn't the first: Tomorrow is the 30th anniversary of the New York terrorist attack that killed my father, Frank T. Connor — the Jan. 24, 1975, bombing of Fraunces Tavern. The killers struck on a warm, clear and pleasant winter's day. My dad, a 33-year-old officer of Morgan Guaranty Trust, was having lunch with clients. The bomb killed him and three others in unspeakably gruesome ways. One of his colleagues was decapitated; silverware...

SAN FRANCISCO - Double murderer Scott Peterson, convicted of killing his wife and unborn son, has issued his first public message via the Web - a thank you to supporters - since he was condemned to death in Modesto in December. "For me, the amount of support we have received is just incredible," he writes in a note dated July 21 from San Quentin prison on a Web site hosted by the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty, based in Toronto. "Those who have decided to reach out to our family have made such a difference. In every conversation among...

LOS ANGELES — Laci Peterson's parents now want to exact an even pricier revenge on their killer son-in-law — to the tune of $25 million. Sharon Rocha and her husband, Ron Grantski, amended their $5 million wrongful-death suit against Scott Peterson this week, arguing that a larger judgment against him "would send a message . . . that such vicious and outrageous savagery inflicted by one human being shall be met with the severest of civil penalties."

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - A jury decided Monday that Scott Peterson (news - web sites) should be executed for murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, whose Christmas Eve disappearance two years ago was the opening act in a legal drama that captivated the nation. A cheer went up outside the courtroom as the jury announced its decision after 11 1/2 hours of deliberations over three days. The jury had two options in deciding the 32-year-old former fertilizer salesman's fate: life in prison without parole or death by injection. Peterson clenched his jaw when the verdict was read and leaned over to...

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Two People, Two Deaths Paul Weyrich Thursday, Mar. 18, 2004 Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) stated in a letter to South Dakotans that he favored acting "expeditiously" on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. In his June 12, 2003 letter, Daschle stated: "I agree with the Republican Leader that Congress should consider this issue expeditiously." The rhetoric of the Senate Minority Leader fails to match the record. The Unborn Victims of Violence failed to reach the Senate floor quickly. After all, Tom Daschle has a voting record slanted in favor of legalized abortion, having voted for the Harkin (D-Iowa)...

© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The Peterson murder case is an magnificent example of America's continuing cowardice and moral occlusion. But for once, a bright line has been drawn which prevents the supporters of "a woman's right to choose" from hiding behind tortured definitions, incomplete phrases and naked appeals to selfishness, and forces the neutral majority to realize their complicity in America's greatest shame. Indeed, I am grateful to those few abortionettes, like Mavra Stark of the Morris County, N.J., chapter of NOW, who are bold enough to publicly articulate what is the ultimate position of their pro-death camp – that a...

Another outrage is going to take place at Seton Hall Law School on Friday, April 16, 2004.  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor,  who is notoriously pro-abortion and voted to strike down the partial-birth abortion laws of more than 30 states, is presenting the annual "Sandra Day O'Connor Medal of Honor" to Judge Maryanne Trump Barry (Sister of Donald Trump) of the U.S. Court of Appeals, the pro-abortion author of the opinion striking down the New Jersey partial-birth abortion statute. Seton Hall is a nominally Catholic arm of the Archdiocese of Newark which includes the seminary where most of the...

PRO-LIFE CHALLENGE Federal Legislation Key Facts on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (S. 1019, H.R. 1997)Published by the National Right to Life CommitteeUpdated January 5, 2004For more information on unborn victims of violence (or "fetal homicide" laws), visit the NRLC website at http://www.nrlc.org/Unborn_victims/index.html.* The Unborn Victims of Violence Act (also known as "Laci and Conner's Law") is a proposed federal law currently under consideration in Congress. This bill, which is supported by President Bush, is sponsored in the Senate by Senator Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) (S. 1019), and in the House of Representatives by Congresswoman Melissa Hart (R-Pa.) (H.R. 1997)....

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<p>The Supreme Court stepped in yesterday to allow the continued isolation of terrorism suspects at a Navy base in Cuba.</p> <p>Justice Sandra Day O'Connor granted a request from the Bush administration to stop a lower court from communicating with a detainee at Guantanamo Bay.</p>

<p>MODESTO -- The public's first real look at evidence against double-murder suspect Scott Peterson is expected Wednesday, when prosecutors begin laying out a legal case that has been under wraps for 10 months.</p> <p>"Everything will be a revelation to us," said Ruth Jones, a criminal law professor at McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento and a former prosecutor. "This case is unique in that sense."</p>

<p>Modesto (AP) - The Contra Costa County Coroner's office is examining several bones reportedly found near the spot where Laci Peterson's remains washed ashore.</p> <p>Investigators have not determined whether the bones are human, and a forensic anthropologist will test them in the next few days.</p>

Governor's ex-mistress is indicted Accusation against Patton prompts mail-fraud case By Jack Brammer HERALD-LEADER FRANKFORT BUREAU Tina Conner, who had a two-year adulterous affair with Gov. Paul Patton, was charged yesterday with one count of mail fraud by a federal grand jury in Covington. Conner prompted the grand jury's investigation last fall with her allegations that Patton abused his office to help her during their affair and then to hurt her once it ended. In an ironic twist, she now faces charges that could result in a 20-year sentence and a $250,000 fine. No one else has been charged, but...

<p>Newman resident Vera Alizaga, 41, thinks the tip she provided led Scott Peterson's defense team to examine a van.</p> <p>A Newman woman believes her tip about a suspicious van two weeks ago led Scott Peterson's defense attorneys to acquire the vehicle as a possible clue in the Laci Peterson murder case. The same day police received Vera Alizaga's tip, they examined a van and announced that there was no connection to the double-murder case. They won't say whether her tip led them to the van they towed to a crime lab.</p>

As Scott Peterson counts the days to next moths perliminary hearing, ABC News has obtained new details on the defense team strategy and what is behind the so-called satanic cult theory.The details stem from a Modesto Police report that outlines a conversation that took place between a rape couselor and police.The report reveals that a rape crisis counselor told investigators about a woman who said she was attacked in the area a week before the young pregnant woman went missing.The counselor told police of the victim just days after Laci Peterson disappeared on Christmas Eve.The counselor told police the woman...

Defense sources told NBC News that investigators hired by the defense have identified 'four or possibly five people' who they believe actually killed Laci Peterson.The sources, who spoke with MSNBC's Dan Abrahms on condition of anonymity, said they obtained the names of the suspects, who they say have been involved in satanic activity from a mystery witness.The purported 'suspects' were seen in the Modesto California neighborhood where the Petersons lived on the morning of her disappearance, the sources said.One of the male suspects is believed to have a '666' tatoo-a symbol for the devil, they said.In addition to having their...

We speak now of Amber Frey, the mistress/girlfriend of Laci Petersons pig husband.People are muttering that they wont be startled, suprised, stunned, shocked if they hear she okays a Playboy spread.The sum bandied about as a could be, should be, would be offer is $500,000.00Ambers high cotten lawyer Gloria Allred has a high sucess rate, which also comes with high maintenance. Although Gloria's into publicity, she is even more into being highly paid.The mutters are: Amber didn't necessarily need a high profile lawyer just to be a witness. And that Amber is a masseuse and sometimes masseuses have something in...

<p>Fox News has obtained exclusive new details about the condition of the body of Laci Peterson (search), which washed up on the shores of San Francisco Bay (search) last month.</p> <p>A source who has seen the 25-page autopsy report and does not work for either the defense or the prosecution told Fox News that the body of the 8-months-pregnant woman was missing the head and neck, and both arms are cut off at the elbows.</p>

<p>Scott Peterson's defense team says they have found the mystery woman who can provide information about the real killers of the California murder suspect's 8-months-pregnant wife, Laci, and their unborn child.</p> <p>The sources told Fox News they're working to transport the woman to a safe location because they fear retaliation against her if her identity is revealed.</p>

MODESTO, Calif. - About 3,000 people gathered at a church Sunday to remember Laci Peterson (news - web sites) on what would have been her 28th birthday, nearly three weeks after her body washed ashore along with the remains of her unborn son. "So many questions and no answers. No real answers," Peterson's cousin Addie Hansberry, told those in attendance. "Today I come to you with a heavy heart because we know now Laci is never coming back." A white heart-shaped bouquet of flowers rested near the altar, with a red line of petals down the middle depicting a broken...

ARLINGTON, Va. - Mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters paid tribute Sunday to loved ones killed in the first Persian Gulf War and said they supported President Bush's efforts to again send Americans against Saddam Hussein.  AP Photo   "I'm behind our president 100 percent," said Sally Minich of Hawthorn, Pa., at a ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery remembering the more than 400 men and women who died in the Gulf War.   Her 20-year-old son, Frank J. Walls, died in an Iraqi Scud missile attack.   Joyce Wilbourn of Huntsville, Ala., said armed service families generally are more supportive...

<p>Rita Cosby again quoting local LE sources saying that three different samples of blood were found in the Peterson house, not just in the kitchen.</p> <p>Authorities confiscated Scott's computer in the earlier search and some outdoor patio chair furniture.</p> <p>The blood work is taking some time to process and will be ready late next week as was indicated in Rita's initial report, the authorities will wait to make an potential arrest until then.</p>