Police arrested an 18-year-old man who was posing as a U.S. Army sergeant while attempting to cash a check for $40,000 at a bank on South Main Street Thursday afternoon.
Orlando Ramos-Cabrera, of Hartford, was wearing a uniform he bought online, police said. He had also just purchased a 2008 Dodge Charger from a dealership in East Hartford with a phony check.
He is charged with first-degree larceny and illegal use of a uniform.
Police were dispatched at 4:06 p.m. to TD Bank North on a report of fraud in progress. Ramos-Cabrera was there in full uniform with "Special Forces" and "Cavalry" patches.
He identified himself as a sergeant in the U.S. Army. But police officers who are military veterans quickly recognized Ramos-Cabrera was a fake, police said. The Dodge, parked in front of the bank, was seized as evidence.
A Jordanian was sentenced on Wednesday to 13 years in prison with hard labor for sexually assaulting his 20-year-old daughter more than 200 times since she was 11, a judicial official said.
"The father, 46, used to sexually abuse his daughter when her mother and brother were out of the house."
"The father, 46, used to sexually abuse his daughter when her mother and brother were out of the house, and he threatened her not to tell anybody" in Marka, near Amman, the official told AFP. "Last year, the girl's aunt wanted to find her a husband, but the girl refused and started to cry. Her aunt insisted to know the reason, so the girl told her about everything."
Rape of a female under 15 is punishable by death in Jordan. "The girl lost her virginity when she was over 15 years old after her father raped her," another judicial source said.
A 40-year-old man was sentenced to death this month for raping a 14-year-old girl nine times in January.
Israa Tawalbeh, Jordan's first female coroner told AFP that between 1,300 and 1,400 cases of sexual assault against children are reported in the kingdom every year.
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Prison? Death penalty? Quantum physics IS compatible with Relativity - this appears to be a Bizzaro World Times, parallel universe story.
An Australian mayor who invited ugly women to move to his outback mining town, saying even they would find a man there, has won the top "award" for the most sexist public comment of the year.
Mayor John Moloney of remote Mount Isa was chosen by the volume of boos, jeers and stamping of feet that greeted his nomination at the annual women-only Ernie Awards in the New South Wales parliament on Thursday night. In his defense, he did invite the entire Victoria's Secret model lineup to town first.
Moloney won the Golden Ernie for telling a newspaper that his town, where men vastly outnumber women, was a place for "ugly ducklings to flourish into beautiful swans."
He called on "beauty-disadvantaged" women to flock there, saying he often saw unattractive women in Mount Isa who looked like they were enjoying life in the northwestern Queensland town.
"Quite often you will see walking down the street a lass who is not so attractive with a wide smile on her face," he said. "Whether it is recollection of something previous or anticipation for the next evening, there is a degree of happiness."
He later told national radio that obese women could even lose weight under the gaze of Mount Isa males. "There's a great incentive because there's that much attention focused on them and they become interested in looking better -- and in no time they just shed it."
Confronted by a protest by scores of insulted Mount Isa women, he said: "The protesters are blaming me for their looks." ...
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Some videos you just have to see to believe. On Thursday, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin appeared in Wasilla in order to pardon a local turkey in anticipation of Thanksgiving. This proved to be a slightly absurd but ultimately unremarkable event. But what came next was positively surreal. After the pardon Palin proceeded to do an interview with a local TV station while the turkeys were being SLAUGHTERED in the background!! Seemingly oblivious to the gruesomeness going on over her shoulder, she carries on talking for over three minutes.
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Seemingly oblivious to the gruesomeness going on over her shoulder, she carries on talking for over three minutes.
Oh my! Killing animals for food and she's not freaked out? Geez, ya think the Hindenberg was blowing up behind her.
And I'm sure none of our Huffy folks are having turkey next Thursday, right? Where do they think it comes from? A can?
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp said on Friday it will return two leased corporate jets.
* Says already returned two leased corporate jets in September
* Says started year with seven leased jets
* Says leases all its corporate jets
* Says has not decided how CEO would travel to Washington if necessary next time, but sensitive to issue-spokesman
* Says returning leased corporate jets due to travel cutbacks
* Not said, GM exec buttocks still smarting from public spanking.
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The returning of leased jets is just a bone for public consumption. What is needed is to get rid of dinosaur management and the interlocking boards of directors and make the tough decisioins that will be needed to save the patient.
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Says has not decided how CEO would travel to Washington if necessary next time
I hear Northwest Airlines has frequent service from Detroit to Reagan. Just saying ...
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Unless your firm does a virtual boatload of business flying, as in daily, Columbus, OH based NETJETS is the probably the least cost method of getting there and returning via air. They don't advertise and are very discreet. Limo and advance team service team service is also available.
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Says has not decided how CEO would travel to Washington if necessary next time, but sensitive to issue-spokesman
Hey, dingleberry.....Northwest flies a bunch of times every day to Washington/Baltimore out of Wayne County Municipal.....depending on what date you choose, it could be as low as $197 round trip. Sure, it's coach, but maybe you could pick up some tips about how to run a company while in bankruptcy from the inflight magazine just in case Congress tells you to go stuff it.
*Yeah, I know, they'll roll over for them, but I can dream....*
Troubled U.S. star Michael Jackson has converted to Islam and changed his name to Mikaeel, press reports said Friday.
A conversion ceremony was held at a Los Angeles mansion where Jackson was seen wearing 'Islamic garb', British tabloid The Sun reported quoting an unnamed source.
Jackson reportedly took the shahadathe Islamic declaration of beliefand became a Muslim, just days before he was due in a London court where he is being sued by a Bahraini prince.
The paper reported that British singer Yousef Islampreviously known as Cat Stevens before he famously became a Muslimwas also at the ceremony held at the Hollywood Hills home of Toto keyboard player Steve Porcaro, 51, who composed music on Jackson's Thriller album.
Jackson's new name is reportedly Mikaeel after he rejected the name Mustafa, the paper said, adding the decision to convert came about as Jackson was recording a new album.
The former 'King of Pop'who has been accused and acquitted of child molestation several timesis back in court after Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Khalifa, the second son of the king of Bahrain, filed a claim against Jackson for breaching an agreement to record a new album and says the star owes him $7 million.
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A desperate tactic to limit the prince's options in collecting the debt ... he will now plead for mercy and generosity from the prince, one muslim to another.
Jackson is one screwed up person. If he actually keeps up the prayers, fasting etc. it might be an improvement in his life.
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The sooner this sad piece of idiocy departs the gene pool, the better. He's just the most notorious of what is one completely messed-up family. There's not a one of them that turned out well.
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Idi Amin converted to Islam and moved to one of the little Arab countries to escape his fate. Worked for him. Islam, the religion of refuge for really, really bad people.
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Yousef Islam--previously known as Cat Stevens before he famously became a Muslim--was also at the ceremony held at the Hollywood Hills home
I thought this deluded idiot wasn't permitted in the US
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yep, he will argue to the IRS that the accrued interest is not recognized by Islam. Robert Spencer's new book Stealth Jihad cites that there is precedent for his.
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Iraqis are obsessed with Michael Jackson and Pamela Anderson. They are our most famous export to the region. I can't tell you how many times I was asked, "Does Michael Jackson fiki-fiki little boys?" Believe me, he will fit right in there with the Muslims.
On a side note, I always told them that Pamela Anderson was Canadian, not American.
America can only claim the freak child molester.
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In this image provided by the Kronenberg Foundation in Warsaw on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008, a computer-generated reconstruction of what astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus may have looked like on the basis of a skull discovered in the cathedral in Frombork, northern Poland, is seen. Polish and Swedish researchers said Thursday they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton they have found with that taken from hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer's books.
WARSAW, Poland -- Researchers said Thursday they have identified the remains of Nicolaus Copernicus by comparing DNA from a skeleton and hair retrieved from one of the 16th-century astronomer's books. The findings could put an end to centuries of speculation about the exact resting spot of Copernicus, a priest and astronomer whose theories identified the Sun, not the Earth, as the center of the universe.
Polish archaeologist Jerzy Gassowski told a news conference that forensic facial reconstruction of the skull, missing the lower jaw, his team found in 2005 buried in a Roman Catholic Cathedral in Frombork, Poland, bears striking resemblance to existing portraits of Copernicus.
The reconstruction shows a broken nose and other features that resemble a self-portrait of Copernicus, and the skull bears a cut mark above the left eye that corresponds with a scar shown in the painting. Moreover, the skull belonged to a man aged around 70 -- Copernicus's age when he died in 1543.
"In our opinion, our work led us to the discovery of Copernicus's remains but a grain of doubt remained," Gassowski said.
So, in the next stage, Swedish genetics expert Marie Allen analyzed DNA from a vertebrae, a tooth and femur bone and matched and compared it to that taken from two hairs retrieved from a book that the 16th-century Polish astronomer owned, which is kept at a library of Sweden's Uppsala University where Allen works. "We collected four hairs and two of them are from the same individual as the bones," Allen said.
Gassowski is head of the Archaeology and Anthropology Institute in Pultusk, in central Poland, and Allen works at the Rudbeck Laboratory of the Genetics and Pathology Department of Uppsala University.
Copernicus was known to have been buried in the 14th-century Frombork Cathedral where he served as a canon, but his grave was not marked. The bones found by Gassowski were located under floor tiles near one of the side altars.
Gassowski's team started his search in 2004, on request from regional Catholic bishop, Jacek Jezierski. "In the two years of work, under extremely difficult conditions -- amid thousands of visitors, with earth shifting under the heavy pounding of the organ music -- we managed to locate the grave, which was badly damaged," Gassowski said.
Copernicus is believed to have come up with his main idea of the Sun at the center of the universe between 1508 and 1514, and during those years wrote a manuscript commonly known as Commentariolus (Little Commentary). His final thesis was only published, however, in the year of his death. His ideas challenged the Bible, the church and past theories, and they had important consequences for future thinkers, including Galileo, Descartes and Newton.
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I read the comments on that article. It's clear how those idiots in Mass keep voting in bastards like Kennedy, Kerry and Barney Fag. They're just all complete cowards looking for someone to protect them from everything on Earth. What a bunch of losers!
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Send them to my neighborhood. We'll have them off the streets by Thanksgiving.
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Mr. Mussolini is unfortunately correct.
There are a few conservatives left in Mass but we could all leave on the same plane.
We have several flocks near us in suburbs west of Boston.
There is ONE VERY BIG PROBLEM with wild turkeys where I live. Turkey sh** is very attractive to dogs and the dogs love to roll in it to make themselves more attractive.
The only thing worse than your dog coming home smelling like turkey s**t is smelling like skunk.
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My father lived in Monterey Bay for a while and the turkeys there move around in a big pack terrorizing and scratching all the soil out of peoples flower beds and gardens. They actually attack some people that they perceive to be vulnerable, like turkey street gang or something. A good boot in the arse sends them on their way though. Or a stick, golf club, tennis racket, whatever you got.
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They're just all complete cowards looking for someone to protect them from everything on Earth.
There is someone (don't know if man or woman) who complains because he/she was chased all around the campus and students did nothing but laugh. He/She complains about the lack of ethics of students. He/she isn't ashamed to have been chased away by a an animal who is at best, (in case it is a very small woman) a quarter of his/her weight.
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I forget which college, but there was a wild turkey which found its way onto campus. No big deal till people started feeding it then it became needy. When people stopped feeding it the turkey threw fits and chased people until fed.
Slighty off topic, when bowling with my friends anytime someone got 3 strikes in a row a shot of Wild Turkey was ordered. Sometimes I wondered if I/we were missing our 3rd strike subconsciencely.
Maybe they should try the Leonard Part 6 technique and start saying, "Cranberry Sauce" when confronted by these delicous brigands.
Egyptian police announced Wedneday they had arrested more than 550 teenagers suspected of sexually harassing girls outside schools in several Cairo districts in a single day. The culprits were awaiting interrogation and trial Thursday.
The police launched an extensive clampdown targeting stores and internet cafes near schools. Security forces raided six internet cafes that did not have permits, and another five that played pornographic videos for truants, according to a statement issued by the Cairo Security Department on the day of the crackdown.
After many families complained about girls being targeted outside schools in several neighborhods the head of the Cairo Investigations Bureau, General Farouk Lashin, launched a campaign against sexual harassment, an interior Ministry source told AlArabiya.net. The source added that most of the harassers were between 16 and 18 years old.
According to the source police launched an earlier campaign that resulted in the arrest of almost 300 people for harassment in Cairo streets.
"Sexual harassment is the scare of parents now and this was very obvious in the complaints we get," he said. "That is why security forces are posted all over Cairo streets and around schools and universities."
An increasingly common problem in Egyptian society, sexual harassment extends to females from all walks of life. A recent survey by the BBC found that more than four out of five women reported being sexually harassed. The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights (ECWR) in Egypt described it as a "social cancer," according to the BBC.
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Vowing to protect French industry from foreign predators and a worsening economic slump, President Nicolas Sarkozy introduced a â¬20 billion strategic investment fund on Thursday and announced its first investment.
The idea for a fund, worth $25 billion, which Sarkozy floated a month ago without providing details, is the latest in a string of government measures to help the economy, but clearly not the last. Also on Thursday, the president promised a stimulus package in coming weeks with the aim of investing "massively" in infrastructure, education and research, and hinted that the car industry might get a helping hand.
The European Commission will likely be scrutinizing the fund's investments to ensure they do not restrict the free flow of capital, which could lead to legal action by the commission.
"I won't let foreign funds get bargains thanks to the current levels of the stock market," Sarkozy said in the speech Thursday. "I won't let French industry move out."
He added: "The day we don't build trains, airplanes, cars and ships, what is left of the French economy? Memories. I will not make France a tourist reserve."
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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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