The City Council is reviewing a proposal to keep strangers out of its 455 miles of alleys.
Miles and miles of Minneapolis alleys would be off-limits to strangers under a proposed city ordinance intended to curtail crime. The proposal would prohibit anyone from walking in an alley who doesn't live on that block or who isn't a guest of someone who does. Police, paramedics and firefighters would be exempt, as would garbage haulers, meter readers, code inspectors and others whose jobs take them there.
Minneapolis has 455 miles of alleys, most of them paved. They serve as places to drive to garages in the city's oldest neighborhoods and as shortcuts.
"I see so much crime occurring in the alleys. It's a quick getaway," said Minneapolis police officer Mike Killebrew. "If you don't live there on that block there's no reason to be in the alley," said Killebrew, who proposed the ordinance to the city attorney.
Any move to make walking in alleys illegal is likely to anger some people. On a sun-rich Friday afternoon, Gordon Anderson walked down the paved alley on the 3400 block of Lyndale Avenue S. He said he has lived on the block for 20 years and that everyone in the neighborhood walks down alleys. "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard," he said. "The whole country seems to be going to the Soviet Union, I'll tell you that."
Council Member Robert Lilligren sponsored the motion, which was introduced Friday and referred to the City Council's Public Safety Committee for review. Lilligren, who had surgery last week, was unavailable to comment.
No more escaping down them alleys, for there are no more alleys. Seems to work for Bob, and he got no flak for demolishing a moque either. Sounds good to me, but a bit extreme.
PHILADELPHIA -- The FBI arrested two men who did computer work for a powerful state senator Wednesday on charges that they permanently deleted e-mails to thwart a federal investigation. Leonard P. Luchko and Mark Eister performed electronic "wipes" of computers at Sen. Vincent J. Fumo's Senate offices, his home at the New Jersey shore and at a nonprofit with deep ties to Fumo, authorities allege. "This was a deliberate, systematic and ultimately successful effort to interfere with a federal investigation," U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehan said. "We have to assume that valuable information is lost forever."
The document does not name Fumo and he has not been charged. The affidavit refers to an unidentified senator who clearly is Fumo. Luchko and Eister, employees of a state Senate entity that provides computer services to its Democratic members, are charged with obstruction of justice.
The investigation centers on whether Fumo used his office to extort corporate donations for the Citizens' Alliance for Better Neighborhoods, which benefits Fumo's South Philadelphia district. Investigators are trying to find out if the senator "benefited both politically and personally from expenditures made" by the nonprofit, according to court documents. The nonprofit, which has helped finance charter schools and refurbished run-down properties in South Philadelphia, has obtained millions of dollars in donations from powerful entities that lobby the Legislature. Federal investigators said they have been looking into the charity since 2003, and prosecutors say they have numerous e-mails from third-party sources that show Fumo used the nonprofit to funnel money to projects and causes important to him.
Fumo, the ranking Democrat on the Senate appropriations committee, is one of the most influential politicians in Harrisburg. He has said requests for donations to Citizens Alliance were efforts to help his district and did not influence his policy positions.
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Stupid. You were too late with a do-not-delete subpoena, can't get the big fish, so you go after the techs? They were just doing their job, guys. That's what they get paid for.
A man wearing a purple women's bathing suit and carrying a flare gun was arrested after he told a bartender he was going to "get rid of all the dirt bags in Key West," authorities said. Jeffrey C. Anderson, 55, was charged with carrying a concealed firearm Monday after he brandished the flare gun, which was under a skirt he was wearing, Key West police spokeswoman Christie Phillips said.
The bartender, who was not identified, was working in the downstairs bar of The Bull and Whistle, a popular Key West watering hole located on Duval Street. "She reported she had seen a man, later identified as Anderson, dancing in the street showing tourists his private parts, and asking people for money when they took his picture," the news release said.
The bartender said Anderson then approached her, telling her he was going to get rid of the city's "dirt bags" before displaying the gun, police said. Police quickly located Anderson and found an orange 12-gauge flare gun in his possession, Phillips said. He was transported to the Monroe County detention center. It was not clear if he had a lawyer.
Who cares -- does he have a psychiatrist?
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Durham, North Carolina - A woman whose grandson had to have one of his legs amputated after he was abused was ordered to spend 14 days behind bars and one year on probation for her role in the case. Desiree Justice, who previously pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact, was sentenced on Tuesday. Prosecutor Mitchell Garrell told a judge that Justice was "the least culpable and most co-operative" of three defendants. The boy's mother, Tanekeia Justice, was sentenced to five to seven to years in prison after she pleaded guilty last month to felonious child abuse. Randall Hargraves, her boyfriend at the time of the abuse, also pleaded guilty in April. He faces 27 to 42 months in prison.
Garrell said he believed the four-year-old boy, who was malnourished, was tied to a doorknob in 2004 to prevent him from trying to feed himself at night. When the boy tried to free himself, the restraining cord wound more tightly around his leg and cut off the blood supply, Garrell said. The child's leg was amputated below the knee.
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We had a story like, judged a few months back, a little boy abused for years by his family including his grandmother, not sexually, but attached to a leash, forced to live with animals,... he finally died from hunger and mistreatment. Really sad, and disgusting. I don't remember the judgement, but I hope it was more severe than here (5-7 isn't just enough).
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This kind of shit makes my blood boil. Only 5 - 7 years? If they were years of continual beatings perhaps. But it will probably be 3 - 4 in a medium security prison followed by 'early release'.
Meanwhile this poor kid has to go through his entire life with one leg.
What I wonder is.... would the sentence have been more severe if instead of a boy it was an animal? Like a dog or a horse?
Around here it seems that if an animal is abused the local newsmedia goes apeshit but if its a human... no big deal....
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If these Muther Fahkin child killers make it out alive and end up in Minnesota, it WILL be painfull.
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CF, not to mention the possibility of foster care or being shuttled from home to home. No one deserves that, these people need to meet the iron maiden.
A north Wales farmer is recovering in hospital after he was mauled by a 47-stone (298 kg) pig. Geraint Roberts, 49, was trying to move the Landrace boar into its pen in Brynsiencyn, when it attacked him. The pig pinned him against a tractor and bit him on the legs, back and left arm. One bite nearly severed an artery.
The farmer's wife Nerys stopped the attack by turning a hose on the pig. Mr Roberts has undergone seven hours of surgery at Ysbyty Gwynedd, Bangor. He remains in hospital, four days after the attack on Sunday evening.
Son Gwyn, 19, said: "My father is lucky to be alive. "I think if he had been on his own, or my mother had not thought to use the hose, he would probably be dead.
"I had a pitchfork and was trying to shout at the boar, to get him away, but it was no use.
"We've no idea why he turned violent. We've had him for about a year and he's normally quite placid, but you can never really trust a boar, just like you can never trust a bull." He added: "My father has worked with pigs all his life and this is the first time anything like this has happened."
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"They still see Communist Party USA members as idealists focused on social justice -- just 'liberals in a really big hurry,' " he says. But Haynes is hopeful that the facts will prevail. Younger historians are more receptive, he says. "They don't have the same investment in the academic conventional wisdom as the Sixties generation, who often try to rewrite history to suit their own agenda."
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"we will need to watch precisely how the remaining 91 Senators vote on this precedent-setting bill to dismantle America into separate race-based enclaves annually funded by taxpayers but tax-exempt and free of most federal, and all state and local governing authority"
Should S. 3064 pass, the legal door is open for Mexican Indigenous homeland claims being pursued by the Aztlan Movement to overturn the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in order to restore 525,000 square miles of the Southwestern United States to the Indigenous Mexicans. This is no joke. This is what the Akaka Bill means for the future of an America, no longer "indivisible."
"Nine senators sponsoring S. 147, now morphed into S. 3064, having completely flunked their course on the U.S. Constitution, turn a deaf ear to the majority of their constituents, and have no problem debilitating our youngest State of Hawaii. A separate, race-based government operating far outside of the U.S. Constitution is just fine with these federal elected officials, but how this mentality comports with taking their Oath of Office is chilling."
As the Army suffered the highest number of fatal attacks in a month since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, commanders on the ground are concerned at the level of sophistication and ferocity of the assaults. Their anxiety was underlined when the Ministry of Defence named two soldiers killed in the latest attacks that have claimed nine lives this month.
Lt Tom Mildinhall and L/Cpl Paul Farrelly, both of the Queen's Dragoon Guards, died after a roadside bomb destroyed their Land Rover on Sunday night. The 26-year-old officer's parents, Lt Col Colin Mildinhall, a retired Royal Engineer and his mother Susan, said their grief was "an ordeal we would not wish any mother and father to endure". "For those parents who have lost sons and daughters in this way, we are now with them," they said in a statement. "For those who will have to go through this in the future; we are here.
"We have lost a beautiful, talented and loving son for ever. Our world is in pieces and our country has again lost one of its best."
Lt Mildinhall was educated at Monkton Combe school in Bath and studied computer sciences at Durham University where he also excelled at rowing. On his second tour of Iraq, Lt Mildinhall was praised as a "thoroughly capable officer" who "physically led the more dangerous patrols". Lt Col Anthony Pittman, commanding officer of the QDG, said: "Regardless of circumstance he always viewed the glass as half full.
''His love of life, sharp wit and ability to laugh at himself coupled with his enduring commitment to the team were qualities that endeared him to us all."
L/Cpl Paul Farrelly, 27, from Runcorn, was top recruit on his course when he joined the Army four years ago and was serving on his third Iraq deployment. Lt Col Pittman praised the married father of three young children as "one of the most competent lance corporals in the regiment". "He embodied much of what is best about soldiers in the British Army; selfless, determined, humorous and steadfast in the face of adversity," he said.
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God bless lads, and thank-you. Used to go to cadet camps with the Monkton Combe lads - damn good at rugby.
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God bless them and their families.
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These are men to be proud of. There is much right in a country that can produce such men. I'll raise a cup of tea in their memories this afternoon.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli scientists said on Wednesday they had discovered a prehistoric ecosystem dating back millions of years. The discovery was made in a cave near the central Israeli city of Ramle during rock drilling at a quarry. Scientists were called in and soon found eight previously unknown species of crustaceans and invertebrates similar to scorpions. "Until now eight species of animals were found in the cave, all of them unknown to science," said Dr Hanan Dimantman, a biologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He said the cave's ecosystem probably dates back around five million years when the Mediterranean Sea covered parts of Israel.
The cave was completely sealed off from the world, including from water and nutrients seeping through rock crevices above. Scientists who discovered the cave believe it has been intact for millions of years. "Every species we examined had no eyes which means they lost their sight due to evolution," said Dimantman.
Samples of the animals discovered in the cave were sent for DNA tests which found they were unique, he said. The cave has been closed off as scientists conduct a more detailed survey. "This is a cave of fantastic biodiversity," Dimantman said.
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This is a dismally bad piece of writing. When I first read it I thought they had found fossils. I had to reread it to determine that these organisms are alive.
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.
PHILADELPHIA -- The FBI arrested two men who did computer work for a powerful state senator Wednesday on charges that they permanently deleted e-mails to thwart a federal investigation. Leonard P. Luchko and Mark Eister performed electronic "wipes" of computers at Sen. Vincent J. Fumo's Senate offices, his home at the New Jersey shore and at a nonprofit with deep ties to Fumo, authorities allege. "This was a deliberate, systematic and ultimately successful effort to interfere with a federal investigation," U.S. Attorney Patrick Meehan said. "We have to assume that valuable information is lost forever." 
A man wearing a purple women's bathing suit and carrying a flare gun was arrested after he told a bartender he was going to "get rid of all the dirt bags in Key West," authorities said. Jeffrey C. Anderson, 55, was charged with carrying a concealed firearm Monday after he brandished the flare gun, which was under a skirt he was wearing, Key West police spokeswoman Christie Phillips said.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli scientists said on Wednesday they had discovered a prehistoric ecosystem dating back millions of years. The discovery was made in a cave near the central Israeli city of Ramle during rock drilling at a quarry. Scientists were called in and soon found eight previously unknown species of crustaceans and invertebrates similar to scorpions. "Until now eight species of animals were found in the cave, all of them unknown to science," said Dr Hanan Dimantman, a biologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
