A former Medford man who converted to Judaism wants his 12-year-old son to do the same. That requires circumcision — something the mother adamantly opposes.The divorced couple has been battling over the issue for three years, including whether the boy wants to undergo the procedure. So far, Oregon courts have squarely sided with the father, who has custody. Read more »

Hundreds of families living in housing subsidized by Fairfax County taxpayers exceed income caps designed to ensure that only the neediest receive assistance, a review of county records shows.

In the most extreme cases, Fairfax is underwriting rents for families making well into six figures: One household getting help makes more than $216,000 a year; another, $184,000. Dozens of others — making $60,000, $70,000, $90,000 — exceed eligibility caps. And they do so with the tacit approval of county housing administrators, who do little to encourage occupants to move on when their fortunes improve. Read more »

Marta proved the unlikeliest of FIFA Women’s World Cup villains in Shanghai as Germany made history by completing the first successful title defence in the tournament’s history.  Birgit Prinz and Simone Laudehr scored the all-important goals but it was Nadine Angerer who emerged as the German hero, saving a Marta penalty that would have brought Brazil level, while in the process preserving her unblemished record of six successive clean sheets at China 2007.

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After nine months of dating, Linc Bullard knew Amanda Brown was the one. So last Thursday, while the couple sat chatting in Brown’s home in Taylor after a fun-filled evening at a concert, Bullard made the declaration. “Let’s do it,” he recalled saying. “Let’s get married.”Brown, however, wouldn’t live to tell her parents the good news. Around 2:30 p.m. the next day, as she sat in a truck waiting on a friend who was inside the Henry Ford Health System Clinic on Holbrook Road in Hamtramck, a man rode up on a bicycle and shot Brown in the forehead and shoulder. He left her body there and took the truck. When Bullard got the call about the shooting, he left work and sped along I-75 to the scene. Brown’s body was already gone.

When he got to the hospital, she was on life support. “The doctor told me there was no hope,” he said. Source>>> Follow Up Suspect Caught>>>

A military spokesman has confirmed a US air strike on the Dora district of southern Baghdad on Friday, saying it had targeted men firing mortars into a neighbouring area.

Iraqi officials said that 13 civilians died in the air strike by US helicopters in the Al-Saha area of Dora.

Major Brad Leighton said: “Coalition forces surveillance elements observed a group of men setting up and firing mortars in… Dora.

“After they fired the mortars, the men hid the mortar tube nearby. Responding to this hostile action, coalition forces called for air support and engaged the men.”

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Syria’s deputy president has accused Israel of making excuses to start a war by spreading false reports that an alleged Israeli air raid targeted a site linked to weapons of mass destruction.

Damascus says Israel launched the air raid on September 6, bombing an empty area after air defence systems confronted the aircraft.

Farouq al-Shara said on Saturday that the Israelis “are making up things to justify an aggression in the future. They are playing on public opinion to mislead it.”

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LONDON - Britain’s largest union of college teachers said Friday that any boycott of Israeli universities would be illegal and cannot be implemented, following years of debate over whether to impose such a boycott.

The UCU, which represents around 120,000 employees, had been weighing whether to halt funding, visits and conferences with Israeli institutions. The union began debating a motion in May that accused Israeli scholars of being complicit in the 40-year occupation of the Palestinian territories, which it said had denied education to Palestinians. Read more »

Palmdale  –  It all started with a piece of birthday cake, but it ended up with a high school girl being beaten and expelled. The incident, which occurred last week at Knight High School in Palmdale, was caught on a cell phone camera. Michael Brownlee was live in Palmdale with what the girl and her mother plan to do now. VIDEO>>>>

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s parliament on Saturday approved a nonbinding resolution labeling the CIA and the U.S. Army “terrorist organizations,” in apparent response to a Senate resolution seeking to give a similar designation to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The hard-line dominated parliament cited U.S. involvement in dropping nuclear bombs in Japan in World War II, using depleted uranium munitions in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq, supporting the killings of Palestinians by Israel, bombing and killing Iraqi civilians, and torturing terror suspects in prisons. Read more »

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Seven chancellors and presidents of Iranian universities and research centers, in a letter addressed to their counterpart in the US Colombia University, denounced Lee Bollinger’s insulting words against the Iranian nation and president and invited him to provide responses for 10 questions of the Iranian academicians and intellectuals.The following is the full text of the letter.
Mr. Lee Bollinger
Columbia University President
We, the professors and heads of universities and research institutions in Tehran , hereby announce our displeasure and protest at your impolite remarks prior to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s recent speech at Columbia University.
We would like to inform you that President Ahmadinejad was elected directly by the Iranian people through an enthusiastic two-round poll in which almost all of the country’s political parties and groups participated. To assess the quality and nature of these elections you may refer to US news reports on the poll dated June 2005. Read more »

HOUSTON — A 5-year-old kindergarten student was suspended for three days and Child Protective Services is investigating how he learned sexual behavior after a teacher interrupted one boy performing a sex act on another.

Both children attend kindergarten at Dunn Elementary, located at 2003 W. W. Thorne Drive in the Aldine Independent School District, near Bush Intercontinental Airport.

The teacher thought that both 5-year-olds were taking too long in the bathroom when she interrupted the act. Read more »

It’s a situation no parent wants to face: telling your son he’ll never be able to move or breathe on his own again. 

The son has to decide between life and death. 

Daren Dieter, 24, was shot as he sat in his car outside a restaurant in West Oak Lane Saturday. Read more »

Federal agents fanned out in early-morning raids across Pennsylvania yesterday and charged nine Vietnamese with intent to distribute 60,000 ecstasy pills and more than 100 pounds of marijuana since the start of the year.After nine months of stakeouts, phone taps and aerial surveillance, Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents hit suspected “stash” and “grow” houses, primarily in Philadelphia and Berks Counties, where it is alleged that marijuana was grown indoors under artificial lights. Read more »

ANOKA, Minn. (AP) - De’Andre June told police he woke up Wednesday morning to find the charred outline of a cross burned in the lawn of his home. June now is accused of burning the cross in the lawn himself.The 47-year-old Anoka man was charged Friday with falsely reporting a crime. He also is charged with disorderly conduct and obstructing the legal process stemming from an altercation when police arrested him Thursday afternoon on a felony warrant from Hennepin County in connection with a financial fraud case. Read more »

GREENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A 10-year-old boy accused of deliberately setting a house fire that killed his mother, sister and three other children was coerced into confessing, his lawyer said.

The boy is charged with five delinquency counts of murder and one delinquency count of aggravated arson in the September 16 fire at a duplex apartment about 30 miles northwest of Dayton.

The fire killed the boy’s mother, Chanan Palmer, 31, and her 8-year-old daughter, Kaysha, who is the boy’s half-sister. Also killed were the children of housemate Christy Winans: Kayla Winans, 6; Je’Shawn Davis, 5; and Jasmine Davis, 3. Read more »

Three of the suspects charged with the murder of a 12-year old Moore County girl were given suspended sentences for other crimes and were free on probation at the time of her slaying.

Also charged are Sherrod Nicholas Harrison, 19, Michael Graham Currie, 18, and Van Roger Smith, 16, all of Cameron in Harnett County.

Two of the suspects, Mr. Harrison and Mr. Currie, were repeat probation violators. Only Mr. Smith had no prior criminal record. Read more »

DETROIT - A federal judge sentenced Robert “Tractor” Traylor to three years of probation Friday after the former NBA player and Michigan star admitted to preparing a false tax return that hid the assets of a convicted drug dealer.

Traylor, 30, pleaded guilty in January to a charge of aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return. He could have been sentenced to up to 14 months in federal prison.

Traylor, who now plays professionally in Puerto Rico, will serve the first three months of his probation in a halfway house and the next three months in home confinement. His sentence will be served in the offseason, the court said. Read more »

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — On the morning this week when the Rutgers football team reached No. 10 in the national rankings, Prof. William C. Dowling retreated four centuries to a favorite poem. It was John Donne’s “Valediction Forbidding Mourning,” the day’s topic in English 219, an introductory course in lyric literature. Dr. Dowling had set aside all 80 minutes for plumbing Donne’s 36 lines.

But now, just as Rutgers’s recent triumphs in football and basketball might seem to have justified the university’s investment of tens of millions of dollars, Dr. Dowling has answered in his own subversive way. His memoir of the decade-long campaign against high-stakes athletics at Rutgers, “Confessions of a Spoilsport,” has just been published by Penn State University Press. It is his valediction, and its tone, far from mournful, is defiant. Read more »

Christian Science Monitor, New York - Here’s a quick news quiz: What do the Jena 6, San Diego Padres outfielder Milton Bradley, and the protests against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s appearance at Columbia University have in common?

In all three cases, Americans appear to have forgotten the difference between hateful speech and hateful action. And when we lose sight of that distinction, we lose what should be most distinctive about America itself.

Start with the six African American teenagers who were arrested for attempted murder last December in the beating of a white classmate in Jena, La. The arrests came after several other racial incidents in Jena, including white students hanging nooses from a tree at their school to warn blacks against sitting under it. Blacks complained that the whites who hung the nooses were simply suspended from school, while the African Americans who beat their classmate faced criminal charges. Read more »

Now, a group of conservatives and Republicans with close ties to the White House have formed their own enterprise, Freedom’s Watch, landing on the political scene with a $15 million ad campaign to defend President Bush’s Iraq war strategy.

But this is just the start. Its organizers don’t see themselves as the single-cause Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, who aimed to sink John Kerry’s presidential bid in 2004. Instead, they hope to fill what they say is a void on the right, becoming a permanent, well-financed conservative voice on social, economic and national security issues.

“We decided to build something that transcends election cycles,” said Bradley Blakeman, the president of Freedom’s Watch and a former deputy assistant to Bush. “What we decided was to build an organization that is a never-ending campaign.”  Read more »

As the Jena 6 families drive around in new BMW and Jags, a doctor who doesn’t even know about the case decided to bail out Mychal Bell. 

NEW ORLEANS - When a 17-year-old at the center of a civil rights controversy in a small Louisiana town left jail, he had a stranger to thank.

Dr. Stephen Ayers, who lives about 135 miles away, said he felt compelled to help the family of Mychal Bell by posting the teen’s bond and allowing him to go home for the first time in 10 months. Read more »

DENVER - A body found Monday has been identified as Nevaeh Gallegos, sources tell 9NEWS and the Colorado Department of Human Services plans to conduct a fatality review.

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DANBURY, Connecticut (Reuters) - Ten Hispanic immigrants filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against a Connecticut city, its mayor and police chief, and federal agents who led a crackdown on illegal immigration last year.

The suit filed in U.S. District Court in New Haven, Connecticut, claims the arrests violated the civil rights of nine workers and a 10th man who was stopped at a traffic light, including their right to due legal process, free speech and freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, according to court documents.

It is the latest legal challenge to crackdowns on illegal immigrants, as localities nationwide grapple with how to handle their status. Read more »

A jury on Wednesday acquitted an anti-illegal immigration activist accused of beating up day laborers and shouting racial slurs during a brawl at a makeshift hiring site in Rancho Penasquitos in November.

John Matthew Monti, 36, was cleared on all charges, including three battery counts, three hate-crime counts, and one count of filing a false police report. The jury deliberated more than a day before reaching its verdict.

“I feel good,” Monti said after the verdict, which was read in a San Diego courtroom late Wednesday. He said he would return tomorrow to his job as a sixth-grade bilingual schoolteacher in East Los Angeles.

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King County prosecutors on Wednesday charged two Seattle teenagers in a sexual assault on a developmentally disabled female classmate in a Rainier Beach High School restroom in June — an incident that school officials never reported to police.

A Seattle P-I review of police and Seattle Public Schools records shows that case isn’t the only likely crime that wasn’t reported to police. While a majority of incidents on school campuses were recorded into the district’s safety and security logs and reported to police if necessary, some incidents weren’t — including cases of assaults and strong-arm robberies.

In a few cases, parents or victims say school officials urged them not to report the crimes to police at all. Read more »

TORONTO — The legal woes of former NFL superstar quarterback Michael Vick took an unexpected Canadian twist yesterday as the country’s biggest financial institution, the Royal Bank of Canada, revealed in court documents it’s suing the suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback for more than US$2.3 million.

The Toronto-based bank, which also does business in the U.S. South under its RBC Centura banner, is arguing Vick’s guilty plea on federal dogfighting charges and the resulting impact on his career have prevented him from repaying money he borrowed. Read more »

A volunteer with a Denver animal shelter has been arrested on suspicion of having sex with a dog, police said.

Gustavo Castanon, 33, of Denver is being held at the Denver Jail in lieu of $10,000 bail after being arrested Wednesday on suspicion of animal cruelty, a misdemeanor charge, said Sonny Jackson, a Denver police spokesman. Castanon is accused of coaxing the dog to perform oral sex.

Castanon also has been suspended from his volunteer position for “inappropriate behavior with a dog,” a shelter official said. Read more »

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Navy barracks in Southern California that resemble a swastika from the air is to get a $600,000 make-over after spawning myriad conspiracy theories and concerns by Jewish groups. On the ground, the four L-shaped buildings are simply part of the U.S. amphibious base at Coronado island in San Diego. But the growing popularity of satellite images from Google Earth alerted people to the fact that they are shaped like a swastika when seen from above. Continued>>>

If you are still dumb enough to get your news from the mainstream corporatist Jewish-as-ritual-murder-media, then you are really asking to have your brain pickled and what’s left of your intellect mugged, aren’t you? Never in my life have I seen a more one-sided presentation of a foreign leader’s visit to the United States. Then, as usual, on all the 24-7 news channels, CNN (Cabbala News Network) and FNC (Fox Neo-Con Channel) did their dutiful worst to portray this man, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a Hitler reincarnation, come back to avenge the Jews who have now bled Germany dry and destroyed her equilibrium and pride as a nation.First, the Iranian President was treated like a sub-human by the head of Columbia University, Lee Bollinger, before he even got to approach the podium. Bollinger then ambled onto CNN dressed like a cheap lawyer running a practice from the back of a store. He was a mess and in need of a good haircut and for someone to teach him the basics in tying a half Windsor knot in a necktie. Read more »

Boaz Manor, 33, and Michael Mendelson, 41, face 12 counts of fraud over $5,000, money laundering, and possession of property obtained by crime.
Manor is also charged separately with another count of fraud over $5,000, two counts of money laundering and one count of obstruction of justice. Police say more than 26,000 Canadians and 700 offshore investors pumped about $800 million into Portus starting in March 2003. Manor left Canada for Israel in March 2005, the same month KPMG was appointed as receiver for the collapsing Portus fund. Continued>>>

Now if this story doesn’t make you sick enough, it soon will. The media is actually questioning whether or not the victims should have been driving or not! The local jewspaper reads “Under Florida law, 17-year-olds like Mary Cornell are not allowed to drive between 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. unless there is a licensed driver at least 21 years old in the passenger seat or they are driving to or from work.

Cornell has a valid driver’s license, but it is unclear where she was coming from or where she was going. Her brother, Steven, did not have a valid license. A family member said Steven graduated from Seminole High and was attending St. Petersburg College, where Mary was also a student. The Cornell family declined to comment further.”

Did you catch that, please take a moment and let it sink in a bit. These parasites are actually wondering if the victims are to blame! This piece of filth was driving up the highway against traffic after trying to mow down some police officers. Hicks has a long criminal record that includes arrests on charges of aggravated assault with a motor vehicle and cocaine possession. Read more »

Holy Shiite, this is scary! 

SALT LAKE CITY - Utah has stopped issuing concealed-gun permits to foreigners because of the rising number of applicants and the difficulty of conducting background checks.

Utah had become the state of choice for people who did not live in the United States but wanted to carry a gun in the country,” said Richard Wyss, attorney at the Utah Bureau of Criminal Investigation. State authorities “became alarmed,” he told lawmakers Tuesday.

About 1,000 citizens of other countries have permits that allow them to carry a concealed gun in Utah and 30 states that have an agreement with Utah. Most are Canadians; others are from countries including Japan, Switzerland, Aruba, Mongolia, Mexico and the Republic of Congo. Read more »

NEW YORK - A college student with a rifle and wearing a George Bush Halloween mask was apprehended Wednesday after walking through a campus of St. John’s University, police said.

Security officers and another student tackled the man, who was carrying a single-shot rifle that was sticking out of a bag, as he walked toward a library, police said. No injuries were reported.

It was unclear “why on this particular day he brought a gun on campus,” police spokesman Paul Browne said.

Police identified the student as Omesh Hiraman, 22, a freshman at St. John’s, a Catholic university of about 20,000 students. Charges were pending. Read more »

NEW YORK (CNN) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday his overall experience at Columbia University was a good one, even though he was introduced as a “petty and cruel dictator.”

“What really mattered was that several thousand students came to meet a teacher who doesn’t teach there, but they sat down with me for over one hour,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.

“We debated, we talked, they heard and thought about the issues that I raised and that, to me, was most valuable.” Read more »

50 years after Central High was forcibly integrated, the surrounding neighborhoods have become boarded up crackhouses and high school students are graduating with middle school reading and math skills.  Who was right?

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (AP) – Fifty years after federal troops escorted Terrence Roberts and eight fellow black students into an all-white high school, he says the struggles over race and segregation still are unresolved.

This country has demonstrated over time that it is not prepared to operate as an integrated society,” said Roberts, who is a faculty member at Antioch University’s psychology program. Read more »

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