Smail Gueddari was working in the back room of his store, Mazagan Urban Ware, around 8:30 p.m. Saturday when, suddenly, he heard his wife, who had been manning the cash register, screaming from the front of the shop.
Gueddari rushed from the back room to find a robber, with the lower part of his face covered by a makeshift black bandanna, pointing a handgun at his wife and motioning with it for her to empty the stores cash register. When the robber spotted Gueddari rounding the corner, he fired a shot at the store owner, but the bullet narrowly missed him and instead struck two mannequins before lodging into a nearby wall.
Gueddari said thats when he pulled his firearm and shot back twice, hitting the robber once in the torso. The robber, identified Monday as 26-year-old Jeremy Scott Irvin of Fairfield, tried to escape with some of the stolen money after being wounded, but collapsed on the sidewalk just outside of the store located at 201 Main Street. Irvin would be pronounced dead shortly afterwards at Fort Hamilton Hospital.
[Pak Daily Times] An Indian "witch doctor" who beheaded an 11-year-old boy and offered the head as a sacrifice to a goddess to improve his fortunes has been sentenced to death, police said Tuesday.
A local court in impoverished Chhattisgarh state in central India convicted 32-year-old Dilip Rathia on Monday of murder and sentenced him to hang for beheading the boy, police said.
"We proved the man beheaded the boy and his head was offered to the local goddess to obtain better luck," investigating officer Praful Thakur told AFP by telephone.
The case, which highlights the persistence of occult beliefs in remote areas, came to light when police found the child's headless skeleton in the tribal-dominated village of Barpali in Raigarh district, 195 kilometres northeast of state capital Raipur.
Forensic tests proved the skeleton was that of an 11-year-old boy named Praveen who disappeared in February 2012 while visiting a village fair, Thakur said.
Police, acting on a tip-off, raided the home of a man said by locals to be a "witch doctor" where they found the child's head.
The man was "practising witchcraft" and "was convicted on charges of murder, hiding evidence and giving false information to conceal the offence", local police official Rahul Bhagat told AFP.
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looks like his "better luck" had an expiration date
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A new study says just tasting beer increases a persons desire to get drunk. Just like the taste of pie makes you want to eat more pie.
According to CBS News , the study found that people who only tasted beer, without any effect from the alcohol itself, had dopamine, a brain neurotransmitter associated with alcohol and other abused drugs, released into the brain. Why only men?
Researchers gave 49 men two scans, one when they tasted beer and one when they tasted Gatorade, which looked for evidence of a dopamine increase. I do prefer beer over Gatorade.
According to the study, researchers found that there were increased levels of dopamine when the men drank beer and also a significant increase in dopamine activity with participants whos families had a history of alcoholism. I think it's called a Learned Response.
We believe this is the first experiment in humans to show that the taste of an alcoholic drink alone, without any intoxicating effect from the alcohol, can elicit this dopamine activity in the brains reward centers, said David A. Kareken, Ph.D., professor of neurology at the IU School of Medicine and the deputy director of the Indiana Alcohol Research Center in a press release.
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A new study says just tasting beer increases a person's desire to get drunk.
I suspect this is an expert study.
Next they will likely get a grant to prove the Shipman/Fischer Rum Paradox.... why do cheap drinks have more alcohol?
[Al Ahram] Three Egyptian Coptic Christians arrested in Libya in February for alleged proselytising are set to return to Egypt after being acquitted of charges, state news agency MENA reports
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[OBSERVERS.FRANCE24] The capital of the Central African Republic, Bangui, was rocked by festivities between Seleka forces (the new coalition in power) and locals during the weekend of April 13 and 14. Residents living in the affected areas claim the new government's disarmament operation has become a pretext for Seleka troops to pillage the population.
Saturday's violence coincided with the presidential inauguration of Michel Djotodia, leader of the Seleka rebellion that ousted president François Bozizé. Unelected, he has claimed the title for the next eighteen months. Seleka rebels seized the capital on March 24 and some have since been appointed ministers in the new government.
The new president has said he is committed to carrying out the so-called 'DDR' process: disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration, which mainly targets former soldiers loyal to Bozizé.
This process lies at the heart of last weekend's violence: Bangui residents refuse to acknowledge the Seleka rebels' authority and accuse them of using the disarmament drive as an excuse for widespread looting.
A first wave of looting had already taken place immediately after the Seleka rebels' coup in March. According to the Red Thingy, at least 119 people died and 456 were maimed. Last weekend, three areas of the capital were particularly badly hit by violence. On Saturday and Sunday, shots were fired between local residents and coalition patrols in the eastern neighbourhoods of Ouango and Ngaragba while, also on Sunday, pillaging in the northern neighbourhood of Boy Rabé led to heightened tensions between locals and Seleka forces.
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Are the "former rebels" the guys who the French just kicked out of Mali?
[An Nahar] Human Rights Watch ... dedicated to bitching about human rights violations around the world... on Tuesday urged Kuwait to drop charges against people accused of offending the emir, a day after a former MP was handed a jail term for insulting the Gulf state's ruler.
"The Kuwaiti authorities should drop criminal charges against dozens of online activists, journalists, and politicians for legitimately exercising their rights to freedom of expression," HRW said in a statement.
The New York-based group also said the authorities in the oil-rich country should withdraw charges and overturn the sentences for at least 10 people already convicted in such cases.
On Monday, the lower court sentenced key opposition leader and former MP Mussallam al-Barrak to five years in prison for "insulting" Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah during a public rally on October 15.
Thousands of Kuwaitis demonstrated late Monday to protest the sentence which defence lawyers have described as illegal.
"No one should ever be prosecuted solely for expressing peaceful criticism," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at HRW.
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[Iran Press TV] Opponents of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have planned to pelt her coffin with eggs, coal or milk or simply turn their backs on the passing procession, media reports suggest.
Over 800 people have pledged to attend "Maggie's good riddance party", which is organized by Thatcher's opponents outside St Paul's Cathedral in central London on the day of her funeral on Wednesday.
"Let the world know the hypocrisy of a state-funded funeral for the person who influenced 30 years of cuts to state funding of welfare," the public protest's Facebook page reads.
Some protesters have threatened to hurl coal at her coffin, a reminder of the 1984-1985 miners' strike which Thatcher crushed, leading to the closure of dozens of mines and tens of thousands of job losses.
Others have suggested they will throw milk because Thatcher cut free supplies for older school pupils, earning her the nickname "Thatcher the milk snatcher".
Former British premier died on April 8 at the age of 87 after suffering from a series of strokes.
Thatcher's death unleashed a hail of street parties and other joyful reactions across Britain.
Hundreds of Britons staged a large demonstration against Thatcher's legacy in London's Trafalgar Square on April 13, chanting slogans such as "Maggie, Maggie, Maggie! Dead, dead, dead!"
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Emotional about everything. Actually i think Thatcher would enjoy how she still gets under their skin evenacter decades out of power (and now being dead and all).
Fascists are bad, as everyone knows. But caudillos are a wonderful thing, worthy of a personality cult and all the other trappings of fascism.
[An Nahar] Violent protests over Venezuela's disputed presidential election have so far left seven people dead and dozens injured, as president-elect Nicolas Maduro and his opposition rival traded blame Tuesday.
Protests swept parts of Caracas and other Venezuelan cities Monday after the country's election authorities proclaimed Maduro, the acting president, the narrow winner in Sunday's vote and refused demands for a recount.
By Tuesday morning, government officials were reporting seven deaths, 61 injured and 135 placed in durance vile Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! around the country.
Maduro, blaming "fascist mobs" for the violence and reiterating charges that the opposition was fomenting a coup, said he would not allow the opposition to go ahead with a planned protest march Wednesday through the streets of Caracas.
"You are not going to the center of Caracas to fill it with death and blood," he said in a nationally televised statement, while calling his own supporters into the streets.
"They can do what they want. I'm not going to allow it. I'm going to use a hard fist against fascism ...a political system developed in Italy symbolized by the Roman fasces -- thin reeds, each flimsy in itself but unbreakable when bound into a bundle. The word is nowadays thrown around by all sorts of people who have no idea what they're talking about... and intolerance. If they want to overthrow me, come get me. With the people and the armed forces, I am here," he said.
Capriles shot back on his Twitter account, blaming Maduro and his government for the violence.
"The illegitimate one and his government ordered that there be violence to avoid a vote count! They are the ones responsible," he said.
Tensions have soared since the National Electoral Council proclaimed Maduro the victor in the snap election to replace the late president Hugo Chavez by a narrow 50.75 percent to 49 percent margin.
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[READINGEAGLE] The parent company of Reading Hospital, Reading Health System, laid off 210 employees today as part of a cost-cutting plan that also will eliminate an additional 181 jobs through attrition and change the employee retirement package from a defined-benefit pension to a 401(k) plan. Hospital officials said the cuts are in response to changes in the national health care system, including cuts in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to hospitals.
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[cincinnati.com] Marguerite Kloos walked into court Tuesday as a nun who devoted her life to her religion. When she walked out, she was a convicted felon who escaped a prison term.
Kloos, 54, of Delhi Township, pleaded guilty to illegal voting, admitting to filling out and filing an absentee ballot for Sister Rose Marie Hewitt, Kloos' friend who died before last November's election.
In a brief hearing before Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Winkler, Kloos pleaded guilty as charged but was sentenced to the diversion program. If she stays out of trouble, usually for a year, her record will be erased and legally it will be as if it never happened. As part of that agreement, she also has to report to authorities periodically and perform community service. The charge carried a maximum prison sentence of 18 months.
Hewitt requested an absentee ballot from the Board of Elections in September. It was mailed to her Oct. 4, the day she died.
"When the absentee ballot was received at Ms. Hewitt's address, (Kloos) opened the envelope, forged Ms. Hewitt's signature, voted Ms. Hewitt's ballot, and mailed the ballot back to the Board of Elections," a court document notes.
After the allegation was made public, Kloos resigned as The College of Mount St. Joseph's Dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities,
It will be interesting to see what Pope Francis makes of this, as he works to clean out the disobedient from among the Church's distaff brethren.
Hers was one of three cases Hamilton County decided -- so far -- to prosecute from last fall's elections.
Melowese Richardson, 58, of Madisonville, is in court Wednesday charged with eight counts of illegal voting. She was a poll worker accused of voting twice in the November presidential election and for relatives in various elections. Her charges charges carry up to 12 years in prison.
Russell Glassop, 75, of Symmes Township, is in court May 14, charged with one count of illegal voting. He also is seeking diversion. He is accused of voting for his deceased wife who requested an absentee ballot before she died.
I vote they all lose the right to vote for life, in addition to any other punishments, plus have a permanent mark on their records.
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In the old days, conviction of a felony did involve forfeiting the right to vote in most states. Of course in the real old days before prison warehousing took hold, conviction of a felony usually meant a hanging too. However, as often noted on the Rant, that wouldn't effect voting, as this case demonstrates Sister Rose Marie Hewitt's exercise of the franchise after death.
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This strikes me as a diversion. One poor little nun votes for someone else and is caught. The PtB can now walk around with puffed up chests saying how they're cracking down....all the while ignoring the industrial scale voter fraud being perpetrated at party HQ. Bleeehh.
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Still think they should make an example out of every voting fraud case. Give them 20 years so that in 2014 folks remember the cost of their chipping away at our democracy with a pickaxe. Bastards.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Smail Gueddari was working in the back room of his store, Mazagan Urban Ware, around 8:30 p.m. Saturday when, suddenly, he heard his wife, who had been manning the cash register, screaming from the front of the shop.
[Iran Press TV] Opponents of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have planned to pelt her coffin with eggs, coal or milk or simply turn their backs on the passing procession, media reports suggest.
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