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By JIMENITA SWAIN Guardian Staff Reporter Tennel McIntosh was convicted Thursday by a twelve member jury on a manslaughter charge for the death of American visitor Lori Fogelman. "Tennel McIntosh the jury has found you not guilty of murder but guilty of manslaughter by provocation," Justice Jon Isaacs told an expressionless McIntosh after the verdict. The seven woman, eight man jury returned a not guilty verdict eight to four and a guilty verdict on the same count. Francis Cumberbatch from the attorneys general's office prosecuted the case and said that he was glad the long trial was over. He said...

Jimmy Carter is "idiotic" and a "damn menace" for letting Cuban dictator Fidel Castro exploit him, Adm. Thomas H. Moorer, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told NewsMax.com in an exclusive interview Wednesday night. "He should get the hell out of there!" thundered Moorer, a member of NewsMax.com's board of directors. "He’s trying to justify himself," the retired admiral said. "He has an inferiority complex about what he did and how he left the situation" after his failed one-term presidency. "He had his opportunity, and he really screwed it up." The antics in Cuba don't surprise Moorer, who...

For the past several months the King County Council has considered a proposal which I introduced to build a "sister-county relationship" with Granma Province in Cuba. The measure has sparked heated controversy at the council. Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and right-wing groups have denounced me as a communist and an enemy of democracy. I recently led a delegation from King County to Cuba (I paid my own expenses) and Granma Province on a fact-finding mission to explore building this relationship. I met hundreds of wonderful people who love Americans but scorn the American government. I met people...