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Barkley edgy but hopeful in zoning dispute BY FRED GRAY NEWS-REVIEW STAFF WRITER HORTON BAY - Bay Township excavator Lyle Barkley, who has vowed to resist by force any attempt to enforce township zoning violations against him, says if he can just be left alone he'll be able to get back on his feet. "It's the slowest year I've had in 15 years of being in business, and now with all of this going on, I can't get out of my driveway to do it," said Barkley, 55. "I have some work lined up and if they'd just leave us...

Showdown averted at sunrise BY FRED GRAY NEWS-REVIEW STAFF WRITER updated Thursday, Sep 18, 2003 - 03:15:15 pm EDT Lyle Barkley (left), his daughter Kim (holding her child), and her fiance Charles McClure, at today's meeting with Charlevoix County Sheriff George T. Lasater and Norman Olson of Alanson, senior advisor to the Michigan Militia. The meeting took place at 7 a.m. on the edge of the Barkleys' Camp Daggett Road property, which is the subject of Bay Township zoning dispute. HORTON BAY - An armed confrontation in Bay Township over property rights was averted today when Charlevoix County Sheriff George...

Showdown averted at sunrise Sheriff agrees to set up meeting with Barkleys and local officials next week BY FRED GRAY NEWS-REVIEW STAFF WRITER HORTON BAY - An armed confrontation in Bay Township over property rights was averted today when Charlevoix County Sheriff George T. Lasater held a sunrise meeting with Lyle Barkley and his daughter, Kim, on the edge of their property and promised not to take any action today to enforce a court order against them. Lasater agreed to set up a meeting next week with the Barkleys, county prosecutor Mary Beth Kur, township and county officials, and Norman...

Sheriff agrees to meet with Barkley on Thursday BY FRED GRAYNEWS-REVIEW STAFF WRITER CHARLEVOIX - Lyle Barkley spent the night bulldozing berms around his 2.6 acres in Bay Township as his legal options to forestall action by Bay Township officials and the county sheriff in a zoning dispute appear to be running run out. But Charlevoix County Sheriff George T. Lasater said this morning that he had agreed to meet early Thursday with Barkley on his property along with Clint Dare, commander of Michigan Militia; Norman Olson, adviser to the militia; and representatives of the press. "Dare made the invitation...

HORTON BAY - The peaceful, rolling farmland of Charlevoix County's Bay Township belies the potential armed confrontation that may develop there in a matter of days. Bay Township residents Lyle Barkley and his daughter, Kimberly, stand near Kimberly's adjacent manufactured homes off Camp Daggett Road. A district court judge has ordered the rear unit removed, an order the Barkleys say they will not honor. A county district court judge has ordered by Thursday the removal of three manufactured homes from four acres on Camp Daggett Road. The family who owns the property is vowing an armed confrontation with anyone who...

Standoff may crumble Whitmire returns; Perry weighs 3rd special session By RACHEL GRAVES and ARMANDO VILLAFRANCA Sept. 2, 2003, 10:25PM State Sen. John Whitmire came home to Houston late Tuesday, possibly ending the long holdout by Texas Democratic senators who fled the state to prevent a vote on congressional redistricting. Whitmire, who revealed earlier Tuesday that he had sneaked home over the Labor Day weekend, returned to Albuquerque, N.M., to meet with his colleagues but did not even unpack his bags before catching a flight back to Houston Tuesday night. He said he remains opposed to redistricting, but he would...

Standoff in Berkeley Passes 24-Hour Mark A bizarre standoff in Berkeley Monday was still ongoing after 24 hours. The situation started Sunday around noon, when police responded to reports of a disturbance involving a man with a gun in the 1900 block of 10th St. When officers arrived, the suspect allegedly fired shots, slightly wounding one officer, and then barricaded himself inside an apartment. Police negotiators were communicating with the suspect, but there was no word on his motive or mental state. In the meantime, buildings in the area were evacuated.

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Taiwan boards N Korean ship Taiwan boards N Korean ship Taiwanese customs officers have boarded a North Korean freighter at the request of US intelligence authorities, reports say. The Taiwanese Central News Agency reports the US as saying the ship could be transporting illegal chemicals that could be used in the manufacture of nuclear weapons. Officials from Taiwan's Ministry of Finance and Customs Bureau (MFKCB) subsequently boarded the ship, which arrived in Kaohsiung Harbour on Thursday from Bangkok, Thailand. The Taiwanese newspaper Lien Ho Pao reported the US had urged Taiwan's National Security Council...

Meeting fails to end standoff 2 GOP lawmakers unable to sway runaway Dems By RACHEL GRAVES and R.G. RATCLIFFE Aug. 6, 2003, 11:34PM ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Two Republican state senators flew here Wednesday for a covert two-hour meeting with several of the 11 Democratic state senators who fled Texas to block a GOP congressional redistricting plan. Republican Sens. Todd Staples of Palestine and Robert Duncan of Lubbock told the Houston Chronicle Wednesday evening that they met with Democratic Sens. Leticia Van de Putte of San Antonio, Royce West of Dallas and Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa of Mission. "Our only form of...

<p>SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis' top finance official lashed out at a GOP lawmaker in a fiery finger-pointing confrontation Tuesday after a press conference where Republicans accused Democrats of holding up the budget for political gain, a scene that underscores the rising tension in the Capitol as the standoff passed the three-week mark.</p>

Rowlett police fire nonlethal weapon to end standoff 05/30/2003 By STEPHEN TERRY / The Dallas Morning News The Rowlett Police Department's first use of a firearm against a suspect in years may have saved the man's life. Confronted Tuesday by a distraught man wielding an assault rifle, officers calmed him as much as possible, then fired a 40 mm foam rubber projectile. Result: The situation was defused, and the suspect suffered only a bruise. "This won't always work," said Lt. Dean Poos, a police spokesman. "But that one launcher we purchased has paid for itself in saving a human life."...

WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. -- A couple involved in a police chase ended a standoff with authorities on Interstate 75 when they disrobed and ran out of their borrowed truck, the Florida Highway Patrol said. Nicholas Daicoff, 29, was charged Tuesday with fleeing and attempting to elude police, domestic battery, leaving the scene of a crash and resisting an officer without violence. He was being held without bail at the Land O' Lakes jail. He was accused of hitting his wife, Louisa Meyer, 28, during the chase, and telling her to strip her clothes during a 45-minute standoff with officers because...

VIENNA, Austria, Feb. 12 — The U.N. nuclear agency on Wednesday raised the stakes in the standoff with North Korea, reporting the nation to the Security Council for violating international obligations. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s 35-nation board of governors made the decision to find North Korea in “noncompliance” — its last resort after months of discussions with Pyongyang — in an emergency closed-door session Wednesday afternoon at the agency’s headquarters in Vienna. RUSSIA AND CUBA abstained from the vote, which sets the stage for possible sanctions. The move had been expected as Pyongyang had signaled no interest in...

<p>Across the world, yesterday's newspapers carried front-page headlines similar to that of The Washington Times: "Russia Remains Silent on Deadly Knockout Gas." The mystery of the knockout gas's identity has been solved.</p> <p>Last Wednesday, some 50 Muslim terrorists from the Russian province of Chechnya stormed a theater in Moscow and took as hostages about 800 people (mostly Russians) who were watching a play. The terrorists demanded that Russian troops depart Chechnya, or else they would murder the hostages in cold blood. His patience running out and afraid the terrorists would carry out their threat, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a commando assault on the theater, led by crack Speznaz special operations teams.</p>

RBC, 25.10.2002, Moscow 20:44:49.The militants may start killing hostages as soon as 10 p.m. today, Sergey Govorukhin, who is a son of well-known film director Stanislav Govorukhin, declared after returning from the music theater, where about 700 hostages are held, the NTV television reported. Together with Dmitry Belovetsky, chief editor of the Literaturnaya Gazeta newspaper, he delivered water and hygiene products to the theater. Govorukhin underlined that during the talks with the terrorists, the militants pointed out that they did not want to hold further negotiations and could fire on any negotiator approaching the building. The talks will not be...

Instead of having multiple threads about the Russian Theater Hostage Crisis lets try to focus the commentary into one place. It is hard enough to find anything about this potentially explosive and history altering event. Please send an e-mail to FOX, CNN, MSNBC, and all other news outlets and tell them you do care about this situation, would like to see news on it and that we are not as vain and shallow as they obviously think we are. From StratFor: "The ongoing hostage situation in Moscow has put Russian President Vladimir Putin in a lose-lose situation. Chechen militants are...

Instead of having multiple threads about the Russian Theater Hostage Crisis lets try to focus the commentary into one place. It is hard enough to find anything about this potentially explosive and history altering event. Please send an e-mail to FOX, CNN, MSNBC, and all other news outlets and tell them you do care about this situation, would like to see news on it and that we are not as vain and shallow as they obviously think we are.

Morocco and Spain dug themselves deeper into a territorial conflict over a disputed Mediterranean islet. Spanish defense ministry sources said Madrid had dispatched three naval warships to its two Spanish enclaves on Morocco's coast, Ceuta and Melilla, while four Spanish military helicopters continued patrolling the area. Spain said it was awaiting a Moroccan response to its demand for a troop withdrawal from the disputed island off Morocco's north coast. But Morocco insisted that it kept control over the island, AFP reported. On Thursday, Morocco deployed around a dozen troops to the uninhabited island -- known as Perejil in Spain and...

The car in this standoff has Tennessee tags. Two people in a maroon Oldsmobile. Late 80s - early 90s model. No word on the county yet. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/711249/posts

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