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Man: Flesh-eating aliens were chasing me when I caused fatal car crash By Emanuella GrinbergCourt TV A California man facing life in prison for crashing his car into a UPS truck will not dispute that his actions resulted in the death of the driver when his trial opens Monday in Nevada County Superior Court.Instead, Scott Krause's defense will argue that the defendant believed he was trying to escape man-eating subterranean beings when he ran into Drew Reynolds' truck on Jan. 6, 2004.Krause has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to five felony counts, including first-degree murder, carjacking, and burglary,...

Storm Pusztay's small Slavic Village home looks like it's been evacuated. The first floor contains almost nothing. The second has little more than a bed, a dresser, and a TV. Everything else is gone, taken by thieves. Pusztay was in Virginia last fall, the first time his home was hit. He's a commercial roofer by trade, and travels for a living. He got a voice mail from his sister; come home right away. The bad guys had come through a back window, taking all that was immediately pawnable -- DVDs, movies, a TV, tools. "Anything you could sell real quick,"...

WASHINGTON - Gov. Bill Richardson is concerned that some of his phone calls were monitored by a U.S. spy agency and transcripts of them were given to the president's nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton. Richardson called Sen. Chris Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, to express his concerns after Dodd revealed that Bolton had on 10 occasions asked the National Security Agency for the intercepts of phone conversations involving Americans. An online journalist then speculated that Richardson's conversations with former Secretary of State Colin Powell and another U.S. official about North Korea might have been among Bolton's requests.

My son was taken from me when he was only 2 months old because I supposedly "worshiped the devil" in front of him. I am an atheiest. I don't even belive in the devil. It ruined my life and at the same time opened up a whole new world of horror stories from other parents. How our government is walking all over the rules they put in place to protect us and how our civil rights are violated each and everyday. EVERYONE especailly those with families should be aware of this!!! Please visit my sites and sign my petition to...

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Jacko and Snoop Dogg's America Michelle Malkin (archive)  February 2, 2005 | Cry me a river. Michael Jackson's father is blaming -- what else? -- American "racism" for his ghoulish son's persistent legal and personal problems. Joe Jackson reportedly told CBS News's "48 Hours": This is just the United States. All the rest of the countries, all over the world, are proud of Michael. It's here we have the most trouble out of them. It is racism.  Who is "them"? After millions of American record buyers of all races propelled Michael Jackson to unimaginable heights of fame and fortune during...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A mother has been arrested on charges that she gave crack to her 4-year-old son to "calm him down." Michelle R. Shelton, 32, of Kansas City, was arrested Thursday on a child endangerment charge. Police said the boy did not suffer any obvious injuries from taking the highly addictive drug. He remains in state custody. Police first began investigating Shelton a year ago when officers said they saw her escorting drug users into the apartment complex where she and her son lived. Police said some residents at the complex told investigators Shelton sometimes gave the boy...

Uri Avnery was the first Israeli to meet with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, and one of the last. While many Israelis blamed Arafat for the failure of the Oslo Accords and for leading the reign of terror which replaced it, Avnery said he never lost his faith in the Palestinian leader. "Arafat was not only a great national leader, but he was a partner with whom we could have made peace and should have made peace," said the 81-year-old long-time activist and former journalist. "I was the first Israeli who ever spoke with Yasser Arafat; it was unusual. My...

A candidate for state office in the great state of Washington appears headed for defeat even before the first absentee ballots are mailed in. (This is my first post on FreeRepublic, by the way, so bear with me if I make a few errors.) David Blomstrom is a candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction who issued a press release calling for the "legal or quasi-legal" execution of President George W. Bush. It was discussed in this thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1168765/posts Apparently, his actions were legal, as his sites are still online. But the website may outlive Blomstrom. Check his campaign website, at...

Cops: Man denied swallowing crack, didn't seem sick. Corpus Christi Police Chief Pete Alvarez on Wednesday strongly defended the actions of his officers after they arrested a man who died after reportedly eating a ball of crack cocaine while in custody. George Jackson died in February 2000 at age 25 while in custody at the Nueces County Jail. His mother, Carol Kinney, is suing the city of Corpus Christi and Nueces County for unspecified damages, saying authorities failed to afford her son proper medical attention. "In an emergency, they take them to the hospital," Alvarez testified. "We have training to...

<p>A Chalmette man was arrested after calling the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office to complain he had been ripped off attempting to trade a microwave oven for crack cocaine.</p> <p>Joseph Bulot, 32, of 600 Oak Tree Lane, Apt. B, was booked Saturday just after 4 a.m. on a misdemeanor charge of possession of drug paraphernalia after he showed a sheriff's deputy a crack pipe he said he had used to smoke what turned out to be fake cocaine, according to a sheriff's report.</p>

Lawyers for convicted spy Jonathan Pollard are asking an appeals court to allow a review of his life sentence for selling military secrets to Israel. The request filed Wednesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit seeks to overturn a judge's ruling in November that found Pollard had waited too long to challenge his 1987 sentence and rejected claims that Pollard's original attorneys did not adequately represent him. Pollard's current lawyers argue that U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan didn't address their claims that prosecutors reneged on a promise to seek a lesser sentence in return...

Jayson jests: I got over on the Times Plagiarist delights in attention over misdeeds All across America, journalists are wringing their hands over the Jayson Blair case. The only one who’s not, it seems, is Jayson Blair himself. Far from repenting his misdeeds, the 27-year-old ex-New York Times reporter is glorying in them, celebrating himself for fleecing the esteemed newspaper and exhorting others to admire his audacity. In a lengthy interview published today in the New York Observer, Blair expresses no regret at having been fired from the Times, calling the paper a "snakepit," full of idiots and racists. Anyway,...

Mother of soldier arrested in grenade attack fears for son’s safety WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com)--A Muslim soldier from the 101st Airborne Division has been charged with murder in a grenade attack on Army officers’ four days after the U.S. invasion of Iraq that killed two U.S. servicemen in Kuwait, officials at Ft. Campbell, Ky. announced on April 4. Sergeant Asan K. Akbar, 32, was officially charged on March 25 with two counts of premeditated murder and 17 counts of attempted murder along with other charges under military law. He was transferred from Kuwait to a military detention center in Mannheim, Germany immediately...