Former mixed martial arts light heavyweight champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson was arrested Tuesday after a series of collisions allegedly involving the pickup truck he was driving.

Jackson was booked into Orange County Jail for investigation of felony evading, hit and run and reckless driving, according to Lt. Paul Dondero of the Costa Mesa Police Department. Bail was set at $25,000.

Police received a report of an accident on the 55 Freeway near 19th Street in Costa Mesa involving a large pickup truck that had struck other vehicles and fled the scene, Dondero said.   MORE>>>

Most folks who live along Cascade Road on Atlanta’s southwest side know the shaded sidewalks and inviting front porches mask the real story of their neighborhood: Drugs and petty crime, they say, are rampant. In a recent two-week period, residents reported 73 burglaries and 19 cases of aggravated assault.

On Tuesday morning, the violence reached a new level when two police officers, apparently trying to clean up the streets, were shot. Police returned fire, killing one suspect and wounding another.

Neither officer suffered life-threatening injuries, Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington told reporters at Grady Memorial Hospital, and the officers were released from the hospital late Tuesday afternoon. The department refused to release the officer’s names or any other information about them.

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Jurors in the death penalty trial of Lawrence Rice will begin to hear testimony in the sentencing phase of the case on Tuesday.

The jurors found Rice, of Tucker, guilty Monday morning of two counts each of murder and felony murder and one count of burglary in the April 2003 deaths of an east Cobb mother and her son.

Jurors will be sequestered until they reach a decision on the sentence.

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WASHINGTON — The affordability and growing popularity of color laser printers is raising concerns among civil liberties advocates that your privacy may not be worth the paper you’re printing on. More manufacturers are outfitting greater numbers of laser printers with technology that leaves microscopic yellow dots on each printed page to identify the printer’s serial number — and ultimately, you, says the San Francisco Electronic Frontier Foundation, one of the leading watchdogs of electronic privacy. The technology has been around for years, but the declining price of laser printers and the increasing number of models with this feature is causing renewed concerns.The dots, invisible to the naked eye can be seen using a blue LED light and are used by authorities such as the Secret Service to investigate counterfeit bills made with laser printers, says Lorelei Pagano, director of the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group.

Privacy advocates worry that the little-known technology could ensnare political dissidents, whistle-blowers or anyone who prints materials that authorities want to track. SOURCE>>>>

“Alice” lost custody of her children because she holds precious certain beliefs. You can listen to “Alice” & Paul Fromm- July 7, 2008, Pt 1&2 CLICK HERE>>>>

There are plenty of bad parents in the world. But how bad do you have to be before they take your kids away? In Manitoba, thought crimes can make you bad enough. Three months ago, Child-welfare officials removed a seven-year-old girl and her two-year-old brother from their home because their parents are White Supremacists. The trouble started when the girl showed up at school one day with a swastika inked on her arm The next day, when her mother came to pick her up, she was greeted by welfare workers and police. The kids are in protective custody until the case is heard in court (She lost custody of her children soon after this impartial article). READMORE>>>>

(World Net Daily) — SEN BARRACK OBAMA, speaking to the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza yesterday, pumped up the crowd by describing how Hispanic communities are “terrorized” by government immigration officers. “When communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids,” Obama said, “when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal council, when all that is happening, the system just isn’t working, and we need to change that.” MORE>>>>>

MEXICO CITY - Mexico’s health secretary says a team of health and agriculture officials has traveled to the United States to demand that Mexican tomatoes be cleared of any suspicion in a recent salmonella outbreak.

Jose Angel Cordova says the group will meet with U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials in Washington. Cordova’s comments were included in an FDA statement released Monday.

A salmonella outbreak that began in April has affected more than 1,000 people in the United States. Mexico said last week that its tests found no salmonella in Mexican tomatoes.   MORE>>>

RAYNHAM, Mass. — A Rhode Island man is accused of inappropriately touching a 4-year-old boy in a bathroom at a local grocery store.

Police said Market Basket employee, Valerio Rodriguez, 71, of Providence, R.I., was charged with indecent assault and battery. Rodriquez was accused of reaching underneath a bathroom partition and touching the boy on his leg while the boy was standing on a bucket using a urinal.

The boy’s father, Jason R. Beatrice, 31, of Raynham, who was also in the bathroom, told police he forced open the stall and punched Rodriguez several times. Read more »