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It Appears Transients From All Over The Globe Converging On Bohemian Williamsburg -- And Residents Are FuriousPanhandling, Drugs Taking Over Parts Of Hip Brooklyn Neighborhood BROOKLYN, N.Y. (CBS) -- There's a neighborhood in Brooklyn that's known for being trendy and hip, but some residents say the Bohemian reputation is drawing a group of transient people from around the world known as "gutter punks" and it's now turning into a squatter invasion. And as CBS station WCBS-TV found out some are fighting to get them out of the neighborhood. Some call Northside Williamsburg along Bedford Avenue the new Greenwich Village, with...

He was preaching to the choir last night at the Democrat Congressional retreat in Williamsburg, Virginia. His frustration level with any dissent over this massive pork bill is evident. He says he welcomes debate and then demands that it gets passed without quibbling and partisanship. He says that all economists from both sides of the aisle think a catastrophe will befall us if it is not passed, but that nobody should listen to the debate "chatter" on the cable news channels. Video at the link . . .

Rabbi Nachum Rosenberg said he has received death threats from the Jewish community for opening a help line for victims of sexual abuser. He said the cut on his forehead is from being hit on Oct. 17th on Berry street in Williamsburg .   A Brooklyn Rabbi who has been outspoken about child molestation in the city's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community said yesterday he's been targeted with death threats.  Nuchem (Nathan) Rosenberg, 58, complained outside the 90th Precinct in Williamsburg that cops have ignored his pleas for help since the summer. The threats were so frightening, Rosenberg said, that he closed...

Former College President Gene Nichol has accepted an offer to teach at the University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill School of Law. College spokesperson Brian Whitson released a statement from Interim College President Taylor Reveley Thursday morning, announcing that Nichol and his wife, law professor Glenn George, will return to the Chapel Hill law school faculty. Before becoming president of the College, Nichol had been the dean of the UNC law school, where George was a professor. Nichol resigned his position as College president Feb. 12, following the Board of Visitors’ decision to not renew his contract. In an interview with...

The regimental flag of the Continental Army 2nd Light Dragoons, also known as Sheldon's Horse, was captured by British cavalry led by Banestre Tarleton in the 1779 Battle of Pound Ridge. (December 21, 2007) WILLIAMSBURG - Four rare American battle flags captured by the British during the Revolutionary War will get their first extended public homecoming Saturday in a new exhibit at The Museums of Colonial Williamsburg. Taken as trophies more than 225 years ago, the unusually well-preserved banners remained in the family of notorious British cavalry leader Banestre Tarleton until being sold at auction to a private owner last...

WILLIAMSBURG — Advocates of our version of “The DaVinci Code” were back in town Friday, calling for another excavation to locate the “secret vault” of Sir Francis Bacon, which they still allege is buried beneath the churchyard of Bruton Parish Episcopal Church. It is a replay of a saga from 14 years ago that put the church in an awkward position of dispelling some very weird myths. A media circus resulted. The story propagated by Sir Francis Bacon's Sages of the Seventh Seal has all the elements of Dan Brown's theological thriller. The Bacon story relies on a conspiracy theory...

TICONDEROGA, N.Y. (AP) - May 11, 2006 - Chocolate was more than a treat for the Continental Army – it was their MRE's. Rodney Snyder, a historian for candy maker Mars, Incorporated, says the soldiers in the Continental Army would have a couple of cups of hot chocolate in the morning and be good until lunch. He says chocolate was a staple of Revolutionary War rations. Mars is out with a new line of products based on old recipes. American Heritage Chocolate was introduced at a historic fort in upstate New York yesterday. The products will be sold at just...

WASHINGTON -- A federal judge Friday loosened the restrictions on John W. Hinckley Jr., allowing the hospitalized presidential assailant to spend seven overnight visits with his parents in Williamsburg, Va. Hinckley, who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, had been permitted to leave St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington for outings around the nation's capital. He wanted to make longer trips and travel outside the area to his parents' community in southeastern Virginia. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman ruled Hinckley could be allowed initially three, three-night visits and later another four, four-night visits. It was not known Friday when Hinckley...

WASHINGTON - A federal judge Friday loosened the restrictions on John W. Hinckley Jr., allowing the hospitalized presidential assailant to spend seven overnight visits with his parents in Williamsburg, Va. Hinckley, who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, had been permitted to leave St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington for outings around the nation's capital. He wanted to make longer trips and travel outside the area to his parents' community in southeastern Virginia. U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman ruled Hinckley could be allowed three, three-night visits and another four, four-night visits. "He is not permitted to leave one or both...

<p>Lawyers for the man who shot President Reagan in 1981 are scheduled to return to a federal courtroom in Washington today to renew his efforts to make overnight visits to his parents' home near Williamsburg.</p> <p>A judge last fall denied John Hinckley Jr.'s request, citing a continuing relationship with a former girlfriend.</p>

All of us arrived at Crim Dell Meadow and the caravan of aging hippie throwbacks had already setup shop. According to Flora McDonald she had spoken to William and Mary previously about our counter protest. She was reassured we would be seen by both students and anti-war protesters. We were shocked to learn that the school had gone back on its word and sent us a football field or so away from the antiwar protest. Worse than that, the area had little foot traffic and shade (something the cindy sheehan’s group did have). So I walked over to the college...

OPERATION HERO ALERT & PLANNING THREAD: Sheehan Counter-Protest and Rally for our Troops!DATE: Sunday, 9/18/05 - Time: 2:45pm - 5:00pm Crim Dell Meadow, College of William & MaryWilliamsburg, VA OPERATION HERO is spreading word of a counter-protest being organized in Williamsburg, VA on Sunday, Sept. 18, 2005. We have word that Sheehan's group will be protesting on the campus of the College of William & Mary. Freepers will be getting together for a counter-protest meeting in the Crim Dell Meadow at 2:45pm. Please keep an eye on this thread for exact details on where in the meadow freepers will be...

Insurrections have three times thrust upon Williamsburg armies of occupation. In July 1676, when the town was yet called Middle Plantation, it fell into the power of the rebel Nathaniel Bacon and his men. In June 1781, as the war for American independence neared its dénouement, England's Lord Cornwallis and his troops briefly took over the city. After Yorktown, French troops took up winter residence. Eighty years later, the morning of May 6, 1862, in the War for Southern Independence the first of the Yankees marched in. It was the end of the Battle of Williamsburg, a clash along an...

For all of you who are, or know people who are: Active Duty, Active Reserve, Ready Reserve Service members or National Guardsmen....Free Admission to Busch Gardens is available. Check this link. Free Admission info is on the left side. The link will take you to a view of the advertisement shown during the Super Bowl on Sunday. http://www.herosalute.com/states/free_admission_summary.html FREE ADMISSION SUMMARY Any active duty, active reserve, ready reserve service member or National Guardsman is entitled to free admission under the Here's to the Heroes program. He or she need only register, either here or in the entrance plaza of participating...

Candles in the Windows Christmas in Colonial Virginia Good Eating and good Porter are two great Supporters of Magna Charta and the British Constitution. by Harold B. Gill, Jr. At Christmas play and make cheer For Christmas comes but once a year Good bread and good drink, a good fire in the hall Brawn, pudding and souse, and good mustard withall: Beef, mutton and pork, shred pies of the best: Pig, veal, goose and capon and turkey well drest: Cheese, apples and nuts, jolly carols to hear, As then in the country is counted good cheer. Thomas Tusser (c....

<p>WILLIAMSBURG - John Callaghan was so disgusted by the cover of a national gay and lesbian newsmagazine at a library that featured two men about to kiss, he said he ripped it off and took it home with him.</p> <p>Now he could face criminal charges. Library officials are deciding whether to alert law-enforcement officials, revoke Callaghan's library privileges or take other disciplinary action against him.</p>

<p>Lawyers for John Hinckley Jr., the man who shot President Reagan in 1981, will ask a federal court Monday to let their client take day trips to his parents' house in Virginia and stay overnight with them.</p> <p>Federal prosecutors are fighting the request, arguing in a pre-hearing memorandum last week that Hinckley cannot be trusted and would represent a danger to the community.</p>

<p>LEXINGTON, Ky. — In his day job as a federal appellate judge, Eugene Siler Jr. often guards the separation of church and state and even ruled against vouchers for church schools, a decision later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.</p>

<p>Donald T. Regan, who gladdened conservatives' hearts as President Reagan's chief of staff, died of cancer yesterday at 84.</p> <p>In a White House that had its share of palace intrigue and backbiting, Mr. Regan managed to hold two top jobs before falling victim to first lady Nancy Reagan's animosity in the second term of the Reagan presidency.</p>

(AP) - Pictures of Civil War battle scenes were temporarily covered with sheets or removed from a Williamsburg hotel's walls last week at the insistence of a group of judges and court officials from Washington, D.C.Leah Gurowitz, a spokeswoman for the D.C. courts, said organizers of a training conference for judicial officials feared images of the Confederate battle flag at the Radisson Fort Magruder Hotel and Conference Center would be offensive to some participants."As part of the contract, we asked that there wouldn't be any Confederate flag images in the main area," Gurowitz said.Officials of the hotel, which is named...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has warned the United States against launching a unilateral attack on Iraq. He argued that action under a UN umbrella would have greater legitimacy and better odds of success. In an address marking the 310th anniversary of William and Mary College, Annan stressed that force should be used only as a last resort. But if the UN Security Council concludes, after a key report by UN inspectors due on Friday, that Iraq is not disarming as required by council resolutions, "the council must face up to its responsibilities," he said. "When there is strong UN leadership,...

The College of William and Mary 310th Charter Day Ceremonies February 8, 2003 10a.m. William and Mary Hall "That when the said college shall be erected, made, founded, and established, it shall be called and denominated forever, The College of William and Mary in Virginia." Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan -- who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his successful efforts to enhance the peacemaking efforts of the UN -- will speak at the College of William and Mary’s annual Charter Day ceremony on Feb. 8, 2003. The event marks the 310th anniversary of the founding of...