Woman's Body Found in Suitcase After Husband Says He Killed Her
by BDB
Woman's Body Found in Suitcase After Husband Says He Killed Her
Saturday, December 12, 2009
HERNDON, Va. Authorities in Virginia are saying a man's wife has been found in a suitcase at the couple's apartment after he told police he had killed her.
Authorities say 34-year-old Jamie Kuhne came to police headquarters Friday with a note saying he had killed his wife. Officers went to his home and found a 36-year-old woman in a suitcase on the couple's balcony.
Investigators think the couple was arguing and she was strangled. She was not dismembered.
Kuhne has been charged with murder. Jail officials did not know whether he had an attorney but said he had a court appearance Monday.
The couple have a 1-year-old son. Police say the boy was driven to daycare by his father before he went to police.
Man Dies After Choking on Bag of Pot During Arrest
by BDB
Man Dies After Choking on Bag of Pot During Arrest
Saturday, December 12, 2009
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. Bay County deputies say a 23-year-old man who was shocked with a stun gun died after choking on a large bag of marijuana during an attempted arrest.
According to The News Herald, Andrew Grande ran from deputies who responded to the scene of a reported physical disturbance early Friday morning. Grande was later confronted by the investigators, who saw him try to put something in his mouth while he struggled with them.
Grande broke free from the deputies, who had managed to put one handcuff over his wrist. Authorities then used the stun gun.
After Grande was shocked, deputies noticed that he appeared to be choking. They couldn't clear his throat with the Heimlich maneuver. Grande was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
98-Year-Old Woman Indicted for Killing 100-Year-Old Roommate
by BDB
98-Year-Old Woman Indicted for Killing 100-Year-Old Roommate
Friday, December 11, 2009
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. A 98-year-old woman was indicted Friday on a second-degree murder charge that alleges she strangled her 100-year-old roommate in a nursing home.
Laura Lundquist was sent to a state mental hospital for a competency evaluation before she is arraigned on the murder charge. Her attorney, Carl Levin, said she has a "long-standing diagnosis of dementia, as well as issues of cognitive impairment."
The body of Elizabeth Barrow, with a plastic bag tied around her head, was found in her bed at a nursing home on Sept. 24. Police speculated initially it was a suicide, but a medical examiner ruled it a homicide after an autopsy indicated strangulation.
Barrow's son, Scott Barrow, has said Lundquist complained to nursing home officials about the number of visitors his mother received. He also said Lundquist had made "threatening" and "harassing" remarks to her.
He declined to comment on the indictment, which was handed up Friday by a Bristol grand jury.
The two women had been roommates for about a year. Barrow has said he asked nursing home officials to separate the women, but they assured him the two were getting along. He said his mother told him she did not want to leave her room because that's where she and her husband had lived for several years before he died in 2007.
A Superior Court judge, acting on a motion filed jointly by prosecutors and Levin, ordered Lundquist sent to Taunton State Hospital for an evaluation. Levin said that if someone is found not competent to stand trial, the state would likely move for a civil commitment.
"Her family is very saddened for the loss of Ms. Barrow, and they are also very saddened by what's happened," Levin said. "Without acknowledging her responsibility, it's a sad event for both families. It just really points to the issue of mental health with the elderly."
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. A white man accused of dragging a black woman out of a Colorado bar by her hair has been charged with a bias-motivated crime.
The Summit County district attorney filed assault and bias-motivated crime charges Wednesday against 37-year-old Dustin Meadows. Prosecutors say Meadows used a racial epithet against the woman, as well as other obscenities, during an argument at a bar in Summit Cove.
According to the Summit County sheriff's office, the argument began after Meadows spilled his beer on the woman while he was dancing. According to the report, the woman turned to him and said "What, no apology?"
The sheriff's office says the woman was missing hair on the right side of her hair.
New International Version
Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.
King James Version
"Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed."
1792 In Vienna, 22-year-old Ludwig van Beethoven received one of his first lessons in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn.
1896 Guglielmo Marconi gave the first public demonstration of radio at Toynbee Hall, London.
1913 It was announced by authorities in Florence, Italy, that the "Mona Lisa" had been recovered. The work was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1911.
1917 Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town outside Omaha, NE.
1955 It was announced that the Ford Foundation gave $500,000,000 to private hospitals, colleges and medical schools.
1984 In a telephone conversation with President Reagan, William J. Schroeder complained of a delay in his Social Security benefits. Schroeder received a check the following day.
1995 The U.S. Senate stopped a constitutional amendment giving Congress authority to outlaw flag burning and other forms of desecration against the American flag.
1997 The U.S. Justice Department ordered Microsoft to sell its Internet browser separately from its Windows operating system to prevent it from building a monopoly of Web access programs.
1997 Denver Pyle received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1998 The House Judiciary Committee rejected censure, and approved the final article of impeachment against U.S. President Clinton. The case was submitted to the full House for a verdict.
2000 The U.S. Supreme Court found that the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court in the 2000 U.S. Presidential election was unconstitutional. U.S. Vice President Al Gore conceded the election to Texas Gov. George W. Bush the next day.
2000 Timothy McVeigh, over the objections of his lawyers, abandoned his final round of appeals and asked that his execution be set within 120 days. McVeigh was convicted of the April 1995 truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Fedal Building in Oklahoma City, OK that killed 168 and injured 500.
2000 The Texas Rangers signed Alex Rodriguez to a record breaking 10-year, $252 million contract. The contract amount broke all major league baseball records and all professional sports records.
2001 The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would implement minimum federal election standards and provide funding to help states modernize their voting systems.
2001 Gerardo Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison for being the leader of a Cuban spy ring. His conviction was based on his role in the infiltration of U.S. military bases and in the deaths of four Cuban-Americans whose planes were shot down five years before.
2001 In Beverly Hills, CA actress Winona Ryder was arrested at Saks Fifth Avenue for shopliftng and possessing pharmaceutical drugs without a prescription. The numerous items of clothing and hair accessories were valued at $4,760.
2002 North Korea announced that it would reactivate a nuclear power plant that U.S. officials believed was being used to develop weapons.
I hope those 5 Americans that foolishly went to Pakistan to participate in Jihad enjoy their many years in a Pakistan jail. Ought to be fun guys!
Those Nobel Peace Prize folks didn't count on getting a lecture from Pres. Obama about fighting a "just war."
A walk on the beach this time of year is worth a million times more than being in Atlanta any day!
Stop hating because of color? Absolutely! But why did you have to offer an alternative target for hate?
Headline: "Crime continues at Georgia Tech. Stabbing, robberies are latest incidents to shake campus." Shouldn't the Georgia Tech mascot be changed from the "yellow jackets" to the "flak jackets" ?
What will Tiger do when his wife and children move to Sweden and leaving his sorry golfing self alone?
To the venter who resents paying school taxes: are you also the one complaining about our jobs going overseas?
Turns out Brian Kelly is a liberal Democrat, so it's no surprise he lied through his teeth to the Cincinnati football team.
So glad I went out of town so my boyfriend would realize I'm not at home!
Voting for Bush twice...isn't that the definition of stupid? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?
8 cups romaine lettuce leaves, torn into bite-size pieces
4 hard- boiled eggs
4 ounces smoked or grilled salmon, skin removed, then flaked with fork into bite-size chunks
1/2 avocado, pitted, peeled and diced
6 strips center- cut bacon, cooked until crisp and crumbled
Preparation:
* In medium bowl, combine dressing ingredients with whisk. Cover and keep in refrigerator until needed.
* Place lettuce pieces in the bottom of a large salad serving bowl. Discard two of the yolks from the hard-boiled eggs, coarsely chop whats left and sprinkle chopped egg over the top of the lettuce. Top with salmon pieces, avocado, and bacon bits.
* Drizzle dressing over the top and toss salad to blend well. Portion into 4 bowls and serve.
Yield: 4 servings
WebMD Weight Loss Clinic members: Journal as: 1 cup entree salad with seafood and light dressing OR 1 portion frozen dinner light OR 1 cup hearty stew
Nutrition Analysis: Per serving: 233 calories, 15 g protein, 11 g carbohydrate, 14.5 g fat, 3.3 g saturated fat, 6.5 g monounsaturated fat, 4 g polyunsaturated fat, 130 mg cholesterol, 4 g fiber, 775 mg sodium. Calories from fat: 56%.
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
NBC: Saturday, December 12 7:00 PM
1946, NR, ****, 02:09, B & W, English, United States,
Ruined by a miser (Lionel Barrymore) on Christmas Eve, a suicidal family man (James Stewart) sees life anew thanks to his guardian angel.
The Polar Express (2004)
ABC: Saturday, December 12 7:00 PM
2004, G, ***, 01:40, Color, English, United States,
A train conductor (Tom Hanks) guides a boy who doubts the existence of Santa Claus to the North Pole. Animated.
Cops (New)
FOX: Saturday, December 12 7:00 PM
Reality, Crime
Ho! Ho! Ho! No. 7
Police departments in Oregon, Texas and Nevada respond to calls involving prostitution and possession.
Cops (Repeat)
FOX: Saturday, December 12 7:30 PM
Reality, Crime
Ho! Ho! Ho! No. 6
Officers set up a prostitution sting; sheriffs in Harris County, Texas, patrol a truck stop known for illicit activity.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
CBS: Saturday, December 12 7:00 PM
Children, Special, Animated Christmas
The reindeer with the incandescent nose guides Santa's sleigh through a bad storm on Christmas Eve. Based on the song by Johnny Marks.
America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back (New)
FOX: Saturday, December 12 8:00 PM
Reality, Crime
The Flight Before Christmas (2008)
CBS: Saturday, December 12 8:00 PM
2008, G, 01:21, Color, English, Unknown,
A flying squirrel shows a young reindeer how to soar into the sky. Animated.
Castle (Repeat)
ABC: Saturday, December 12 9:00 PM
Crime
Fool Me Once
The mysterious circumstances surrounding an Arctic explorer's death take Castle and Beckett to the halls of the CIA; Castle believes the killer may be fooling the investigators.
48 Hours (New)
CBS: Saturday, December 12 9:00 PM
Newsmagazine
The Lost Children
One of America's largest adoption scams tears apart families.
If Navy beats Army today then we're going to the Eagle Bank Bowl in Wash DC to play Temple. If Army wins, we ain't doing nuttin'.
And...our baskeball teams SUCKS! They are in such internal termoil right now it isn't funny. The number one recruit of last year was basically given his walking papers 2 weeks ago. He was becoming such a cancer on the team it wasn't funny. So the coach told him to hit the road. There are two more (possibly three) that may be forced off the team by the end of the year. So this is not only a rebuiling year for basketball...it is a season in full collapse less than a 3rd of the way through the season. It is going to be a VERY long basketball season.
Tiger Woods to take 'indefinite' leave from golf
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Dec 11, 7:27 PM (ET)
By DOUG FERGUSON
Tiger Woods said Friday he is taking an indefinite leave from golf to work on saving his marriage, using the word "infidelity" for the first time in a statement posted on his Web site.
"After much soul searching, I have decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf," Woods said. "I need to focus my attention on being a better husband, father, and person."
Woods and his wife, Elin, have been married five years and have a 2-year-old daughter and 10-month-old son.
The announcement came two weeks after a car accident that set in motion a shocking downfall for the world's No. 1 player, which has included sordid allegations of numerous extramarital affairs. One woman even shared a voicemail she said Woods left her two nights before his Nov. 27 accident.
Woods has not been seen in public since the accident.
"I am deeply aware of the disappointment and hurt that my infidelity has caused to so many people, most of all my wife and children," Woods said. "I want to say again to everyone that I am profoundly sorry and that I ask forgiveness. It may not be possible to repair the damage I've done, but I want to do my best to try."
The PGA Tour said it supported the decision by its biggest star.
"His priorities are where they need to be, and we will continue to respect and honor his family's request for privacy," PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem said in a statement, the tour's first public comment since Woods mentioned his "personal failings" on Dec. 2. "We look forward to Tiger's return to the PGA Tour when he determines the time is right for him."
How long Woods will stay away from golf was unclear.
A year ago, he was out of golf for eight months while recovering from reconstructive knee surgery, and television ratings dropped 50 percent during his absence.
it's probably way too late to repair his marriage. Elin doesn't semm like the type to just roll over and excuse his behavior and take himback. She seemed genuinely betrayed and pissed...enough to take after him with a golf club. I love it! I'm still wondering if the facial bruises and bloody mouth he had were from her punching his lights out or from crashing the car. Not that I believe in marital violence...but...he sure as hell had it coming....and more!
One mistress was one too many...2 or 3 is completely over the line...but ELEVEN so far??? Hello???? That is not only being unfaithful to your wife...that is being in total denial about even being married and having a wife!...not to mention the kids. And theses "ladies" (I use that term loosely) are saying he didn't even bother to practice safe sex??? HELLO??? What kind of idiot are you Tiger? Not only taking the chance of one of these "ladies" getting pregnant...BUT, more importantly, exposing yourself AND your wife...and obviously her unborn children to God knows what kind of STD's.... Again, what kind of idiot are you Tiger????
Kudos for Mrs. South Carolina for dumping her SOB husband....I'd love to see Elin do the same!
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas couple featured on the reality TV show "18 Kids and Counting" now has 19.
Cable network TLC says 43-year-old Michelle Duggar gave birth to a 1-pound, 6-ounce daughter Thursday night during an emergency cesarean section. She'd been due March 18.
TLC says the child is in stable condition at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock.
The network airs the show starring Duggar, her 44-year-old husband and their brood. It says the Duggars named their 19th child and ninth daughter Josie Brooklyn. The Duggars' first grandchild was born Oct. 8.
The family lives in a 7,000-square-foot house in Arkansas, where they manage commercial real estate property. The couple has said they'll continue welcoming children as long as Michelle is able to have them.
approximately a 26 weeker and a pregnancy is 40 weeks. Over 36 weeks is considered full term. If she has any brain cells left this will be the last one!!
Woman Sues Hospital After Drinking Binge Leads to Leg Amputations
by Saien
UNIONTOWN, Penn. A western Pennsylvania woman who drank herself unconscious celebrating her 20th birthday says a hospital didn't properly treat her, resulting in partial amputations of both of her legs.
Shanna Hiles' medical malpractice suit against Uniontown Hospital and one of its emergency physicians says she passed out while sitting on the floor with her legs tucked under her in May, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Hiles was in that position for more than 12 hours, and she claims hospital officials didn't properly diagnose her condition and work to restore circulation to her legs.
Instead, Hiles claims she was transferred to a Pittsburgh hospital several hours later where both legs were amputated at the knee.
A hospital spokeswoman has declined to comment on the suit filed Tuesday.
people really just don't take personal resposiblity anymore
by bugs
back in the day everyone would shake their heads call her a idiot and move on..but because she gets so shitfaced she can't move it's someone else' problem..
Salem parents get 7 years for abusing their children
by Saien
SALEM, Ore. - In what Department of Human Services officials called a "horrible" case of child abuse, the parents of seven kids were sentenced Thursday to more than seven years in prison.
The state recommended five years for 40-year-old Oleksander Kozlov and 39-year-old Lyudmila Kozlov, but the Salem judge instead gave them the longer sentence of 7 years and three months, each.
The Koslovs were found guilty last week, of nine counts of child abuse. It was their own children who turned them in, calling 9-1-1 from their Lancaster Drive home and telling officers they had been abused since their family arrived in the United States from the Ukraine in 2003. Marion County deputies said they saw "significant evidence" of abuse on the 15, 14 and 13-year-old, and the kids were taken into protective custody.
Following that investigation, police and DHS officials went to the home and took four other children, ages 11, 10, 9 and a six-day old infant in to custody and arrested the couple.
The children told police the abuse sometimes involved hitting them with a looped wire, a belt, spoons, a leather leash or even sticks from the yard.
The two were charged with assault, criminal mistreatment, coercion and unlawful use of a weapon.
The couple's attorney said there will be an appeal to the seven-year sentence.
PORTLAND -- A drug kingpin in the Northwest region, who put thousands of doses of heroin on the streets, was defiant in court when a judge sent him to prison.
Vidal Carillo-Carillo was convicted of running a drug ring that pushed massive amounts of heroin through Oregon and Southwest Washington. Investigators said he is also part of the Mexican mafia, along with his sister and brother, who are already in prison.
After the Clackamas County judge sentenced him to 15 years in prison, he demanded to know the judges name and when the defense attorney refused to give it to him, he started shaking in anger.
During the investigation, police learned that Carillo-Carillos group pushed seven pounds of heroin through the Northwest every week, or 6,000 doses of heroin for drug users.
Gary Cobb said he was one of countless addicts who used it.
Heroin will kill you it will rob you of everything that is positive literally stealing your soul," he said.
All the while, Carillo-Carillo led the high life, with hot cars, expensive homes and a lavish lifestyle shared with other members of his gang.
The Mexican mafia is nothing new in the United States. Its actually based in prison, a structured organization of hard-core men willing to sacrifice their lives and others for their loyalty to La Eme, Spanish for Mexican mafia.
Carillo-Carillos wife and brother are also serving time for pushing drugs, with sentences ranging from 13 to 15 years in prison.
After he reads the order sending him away for 15 years he'll figure out the judges name and then after he threatens him he can receive another 5 years.
For Stephanopoulos, It's Officially 'Good Morning' by David Folkenflik
by BDB
For Stephanopoulos, It's Officially 'Good Morning'
by David Folkenflik
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George Stephanopoulos at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner on May 9.
December 10, 2009
On Thursday, ABC News moved to fill one of its most important vacancies, naming George Stephanopoulos to replace Diane Sawyer as the leading host of Good Morning America.
It is yet another remarkable transformation for the 48-year-old Stephanopoulos, a one-time political strategist and heartthrob who overcame his partisan ties to become a respected political journalist. Now, he will take on a new role: helping to headline a daily two-hour news show that generates hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues for ABC News.
"No one can ever replace Diane, but George has a level of intelligence and curiosity and warmth and overall breadth that rivals even Diane Sawyer," ABC News President David Westin said in a telephone interview.
The move might seem counterintuitive for two reasons. First, Stephanopoulos has spent just about his entire professional career in Washington politics one way or another. And second, colleagues and associates say once he was established at ABC News, he aspired to be host of the more prestigious evening World News, not the quirkier morning show, which flits from news of war to Hollywood gossip to new trends in parenting.
"I'm trying to imagine George Stephanopoulos whipping up a souffle and it's not coming to me," said former ABC News correspondent Judy Muller. "I think there's actually in many ways more skill involved in a two-hour morning show going from one kind of segment to another quickly, changing gears," than in anchoring the evening news, she said.
Typically, hard news dominates the first half-hour of the morning shows, and then those stories yield to frothier subjects. Earlier news reports suggested Stephanopoulos had been seeking to wrest concessions from Westin to reconfigure the show around his more serious interests. Not so, Westin said Thursday. Even before World News anchor Charles Gibson announced that he would leave earlier this year the decision that led to Sawyer's appointment to the evening anchor desk Westin had been prodding producers to take the show in a more sober direction, he said.
"It is a matter of degrees and emphasis rather than a 180-degree change," Westin said. "These are pretty serious times. There are some very big, serious issues facing not only the country but the people who are watching our show."
So Stephanopoulos will move from Washington to New York to join co-anchor Robin Roberts on the early morning couch. His runner-up, Chris Cuomo, leaves his position as the show's newsreader to become the co-host on ABC's weekly news magazine 20/20. Correspondent JuJu Chang becomes the show's newsreader. Stephanopoulos says he won Westin's approval to remain the network's chief political correspondent.
The only empty slot remaining is the anchor's spot on the Sunday morning public affairs show This Week. Stephanopoulos will continue to host that program until a replacement is made. Over his seven years, he helped close the ratings gap between This Week and the Sunday morning leader, NBC's Meet the Press.
"It was a difficult decision" to join GMA, Stephanopoulos said in a telephone interview Thursday afternoon. But he said he appreciates the opportunity to serve millions of viewers for two hours, five days a week. And he said the choice was made easier by Westin's push for more serious fare and his continued status as chief political correspondent.
"I get the challenge of Good Morning America, with all kind of stories, but I also get to continue to work on the issues that I know and love, on matters of politics and public policy," Stephanopoulos said.
Stephanopoulos was a Capitol Hill aide who catapulted to fame as a boy-wonder strategist on Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign for president. He became a senior presidential adviser, and his place as a cultural reference point was assured by his starring role in the election documentary The War Room and by inspiring characters in the novel Primary Colors and the movie The American President.
When he left the White House in 1997, Stephanopoulos' prominence helped lead to an offer to become a political analyst for ABC News. He wrote a memoir indicating disgust at President Clinton's deceit about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. He then joined ABC News full-time to become a political reporter and host.
The stakes for ABC, in naming Stephanopoulos, could hardly be more important.
"The networks tend to promote the evening news anchor as the so-called face of the network," said former CBS News President Andrew Heyward, who serves as a consultant to NBC News on an initiative for its local stations. "In fact, the morning programs, for quite a few years now, have been much more important in sustaining the news divisions. If they didn't have the morning programs, they really wouldn't be able to exist. That's not an exaggeration."
Good Morning America runs second in the ratings to NBC's Today Show, but both help to subsidize their respective news divisions by generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Sawyer had served ABC News loyally for more than a decade on Good Morning America; her reward will be to follow Gibson at the anchor desk of World News.
It sounds as though that ambition may not be altogether gone from Stephanopoulos' mind. In Thursday's interview with NPR, Stephanopoulos named respected network evening news anchors plucked from the ranks of morning show hosts including John Chancellor and Tom Brokaw at NBC; Katie Couric at CBS; and Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer at ABC.
Asked if that meant the road to World News was not closed off to him, Stephanopoulos answered with a single word: "Right."
Australia shipping alert over massive iceberg AFP/Australian Antarctic Division/Ho A NASA satellite image of iceberg B17B (C), floating southwest off the West Australian coast. Australian
Fri Dec 11, 2:34 am ET
SYDNEY (AFP) Australian authorities Friday issued a shipping alert over a gigantic iceberg that is gradually approaching the country's southwest coast.
The Bureau of Meteorology said the once-in-a-century cliff of ice, which dislodged from Antarctica about a decade ago before drifting north, was being monitored using satellites.
"Mariners are advised that at 1200 GMT on December 9, an iceberg approximately 1,700 kilometres (1,054 miles) south-southwest of the West Australian coast was observed," it said, giving the iceberg's coordinates.
"The iceberg is 140 square kilometres in area -- 19 kilometres long by eight kilometres wide."
Experts believe the iceberg -- known as B17B -- is likely to break up as it enters warmer waters nearer Australia, creating hundreds of smaller icebergs in a hazard to passing ships.
"It's still 1,700 kilometres away, so it's quite a long way away, it's not really on our doorstep yet but it's been heading steadily towards us," glaciologist Neal Young said Thursday.
Young earlier told AFP that an iceberg of that size had probably not been seen in the area since the days when 19th century clipper sailing ships plied the trade route between Britain and Australia.
The iceberg has been floating around Antarctica since shearing off the icey continent but had lately begun heading north because of ocean currents and weather conditions.
Its discovery comes after two other large icebergs were spotted further east, off Australia's Macquarie Island, followed by more than 100 smaller chunks heading towards New Zealand.
Young described the icebergs as uncommon, but said they could become more frequent if sea temperatures rise through global warming.
2 Dead as Desperate Search for Stranded Hunters in Arizona Ends
by bugs
2 Dead as Desperate Search for Stranded Hunters in Arizona Ends
Thursday, December 10, 2009
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. Northern Arizona authorities say they have resolved all reports of stranded or overdue hunters who were caught in deep snow and freezing temperatures.
In all, authorities received 22 reports either from hunters themselves or families concerned about their loved ones. Coconino County Sheriff's Office spokesman Gerry Blair says 50 hunters were offered assistance, some of whom declined.
At least two bodies were found.
A powerful winter storm dumped between 2 and 3 feet of snow in northern Arizona earlier this week, and wind gusts reached up to 78 mph.
Blair says no injuries had been reported. Searchers focused on retrieving hunters who might have been low on food and heating fuel.
Falcons' Jonathan Babineaux jailed on drug charges
by BDB
9:52 a.m. Friday, December 11, 2009
Falcons' Jonathan Babineaux jailed on drug charges
By Rhonda Cook
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta Falcons defensive tackle Jonathan Babineaux was arrested on charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute after a police officer said he smelled marijuana in the player's SUV during a routine traffic stop Thursday night.
Babineaux, 28, was released from the Gwinnett County jail shortly after 5 a.m. Friday after paying a $5,700 bond, according to jail records.
The team is aware of the arrest, and Babineaux is set to meet with team offiicials Friday morning.
Babineaux was with another man, 25-year-old Aaron Robinson Minneapolis, who also was arrested. Robinson was charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, a felony.
Babinaeux and Robinson were stopped around 10:45 p.m. Thursday as they drove north on I-85 in Babineaux's 2005 Cadillac Escalade EXT.
"It's cut and dry," Gwinnett police spokesman Cpl. David Schiralli told the AJC. "He was stopped for a traffic violation."
Schiralli said the officer searched the SUV because he smelled marijuana. The officer found three bags containing a total of 40 grams of marijuana, Schiralli said.
In addition to the possession charges, Babineaux is charged with having no tag light and driving without a license and with an expired tag. He also was charged with tinting his car windows too much.
The Falcons drafted Babineaux in the second round out of Iowa in 2005.
He signed a five-year, $25 million contract extension with the team in November 2008.
Babineaux has been arrested before in Gwinnett County. In 2007, he was charged with killing his girlfriend's dog, a pit bull-mix , but the animal cruelty case was dismissed nine months later.
Investigators had verified that the dog had a history of unprovoked attacks and that a dog trainer had told Babineaux to spin the dog around by swinging the leash when it became aggressive, District Attorney Danny Porter said when he dropped the charge.
An autopsy ruled the dog, Kilo, died of blunt force trauma to the head.
Babineaux has denied intentionally hurting the dog. His lawyer said the dog was behaving aggressively that night, and Babineaux was trying to protect himself and his daughter, Jonea, who was 5 months old at the time.
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Staff writer D. Orlando Ledbetter contributed to this report.
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