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4 Houston Teens Kill Homeless Man For $1


CBS News Houston
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:54 UTC
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US - Houston police say four teens have been accused of killing a homeless man for all the money he had - a dollar.

Capital murder charges were filed Tuesday against Carlos Fernandez, 18, Marilyn Villarreal, 18, and Michael Correa, 17. A 16-year-old girl was held in juvenile custody on a capital murder count.

The body of 32-year-old Pedro Miguel Ramos was discovered April 4 in an alley. Houston police say the victim had been robbed and shot.

According to police reports obtained by CBS Houston, investigators initially thought the killing was over a bicycle or some chicken, but later determined the motive was cash.
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Toronto Man who Posed as Justin Bieber to Coax Sex from Young Girls Online Had Victims in 5 Countries

Michelle McQuigge
The Canadian Press
Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00 UTC
Lee Moir
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Lee Moir
Canada - A Toronto man accused of posing as teen idol Justin Bieber and coaxing a young girl to perform sex acts online may have victims in up to five countries, prosecutors in the United States said Wednesday.

Lee Moir, 34, is already facing a slew of child pornography charges in connection with his alleged interactions with a 12-year-old girl from New Jersey, but officials in that state suspect his activities had a much wider scope.

"It is an ongoing investigation for us, but we believe that there may be other victims both in the United States and beyond," Essex County prosecutor spokeswoman Katherine Carter said in a telephone interview.

He is believed to have been in contact with young girls in Canada, Australia, France and the Philippines, she said, adding there have been no charges laid in connection with those alleged contacts.

Moir is already facing a raft of charges in Canada since being arrested on April 4.
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Dick Clark, America's Oldest 'Teen' Dies at 82

Alan Duke
CNN.com
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:26 UTC

Los Angeles (CNN) -- Broadcast icon Dick Clark, the longtime host of the influential "American Bandstand," has died, publicist Paul Shefrin said. He was 82.

Clark suffered a heart attack while at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica for an outpatient procedure, his publicist said Wednesday. "Attempts to resuscitate were unsuccessful."

The family has not yet decided whether there will be a public memorial service for the multifaceted Clark, although Shefrin said, "There will be no funeral."

Clark suffered what was then described as "a mild stroke" in December 2004, just months after announcing he had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.

That stroke forced Clark to cut back on his on-camera work, including giving up the hosting duties for the "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" specials. He returned as a co-host with Ryan Seacrest on December 31, 2005.

Dick Clark's impact on race and music 2004: Clark tells King 'I love what I do' Cooper: Dick Clark's American tradition 2004: Clark on how he got his start

Clark anguished each year over whether to continue appearing on the annual show because of limitations on his speech from the stroke, U.S. Rep. David Dreier, a longtime friend, told CNN Wednesday.

"But then he would get deluged by people who were stroke victims and other people who had infirmities and they were such admirers of his fighting spirit," said Dreier, R-California.

Clark's "American Bandstand" work, which he began when it was a local TV show in Philadelphia in 1956, earned him the nickname "America's oldest living teenager." The dance show was picked up by ABC and broadcast nationally a year later.
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Freak Accident: Attack of Swans Causes Man to Drown

Brandie Piper and Mike Puccinelli
KSDK.com
Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:41 UTC
Cook County, IL - An Illinois man drowned Saturday caring the beloved swans of an apartment complex near Des Plaines.

Witnesses say it was a freak accident.

"His kayak wasn't upside down, but it was, like, upwards. You could see the tip of it," said witness Daniel Gamanov.

Gamanov talks about a tragedy he saw right outside his family's apartment.

"There was a do not cross line and they were pulling him out right there," he said.

He was referring to Anthony Hensley. It was his job to care for the swans at the Bay Colony Drive complex near Des Plaines. Something went wrong, and there was an altercation with the birds.

"They just attacked him," said Gamanov.
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Man's Airport Protest 'Nude, Not Lewd'


Associated Press
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:08 UTC
Naked Man
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Photo taken at Portland International Airport of John E. Brennan standing naked after he stripped down while going through a security screening area, as a protest.
A man who stripped naked at Portland International Airport as a protest against airport security screeners said he was being "nude but not lewd," and characterised his act of defiance as protected political speech.

John E. Brennan, 49, of Portland was charged with disorderly conduct and indecent exposure after taking off far more than this belt and shoes during the screening process before a Tuesday evening flight to San Jose, California.

The incident report from the Port of Portland, which operates the airport, said some passengers covered their eyes and the eyes of their children.

Others laughed and took photos.

Brennan, in an interview at his home, said he did not arrive at the airport with the intention of getting naked. He said the Transportation Security Administration crosses the line between privacy and security. He decided to protest after he was pulled aside after going through the metal detector and a pat down, he said.
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Grandmother fights off robber with toy horse

Brett Whitmarsh
WCSH
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 17:04 UTC
US: A grandmother used a toy horse to fend off a robber in her Washington, DC home Tuesday.

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TV is the Best Pet Sitter

Davis MacMillan
Minyanville
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:16 UTC
Pet TV
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In a move that has already spawned hundreds of uses of the phrase "going to the dogs," cable channel DogTV plans to go national in the next several months. In case the name wasn't self-explanatory, DogTV is TV designed for dogs.

According to an AP story reported yesterday, DogTV comes in eight-hour blocks specifically designed to keep dogs relaxed and entertained. Filmmakers got down on their knees to shoot from a dog's perspective and producers muted colors, changed the sound (for example, high frequency noises, which irritate dogs, have been removed) and added music written for man's best friend.

The channel already has a million subscribers in the San Diego area, and its owners expect it to do well nationally. The service will run for about $5 a month.

As far as products for dogs go, that's pretty cheap. Marvel Comics-themed dog clothes sell for between $10 and $20 apiece on PetSmart. This doggy tuxedo retails in the same range. For big spenders there's the much touted "Collection de Bijoux" line of dog collars, whose pieces run for between $150,000 and $3.2 million.
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Briefcase

Circumcision Damages: Dean Cochrun Sues Hospital For Circumcising Him As Newborn


The Huffington Post
Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:36 UTC
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A South Dakota prison inmate is suing the hospital where he was circumcised as a newborn, saying he only recently became aware that he'd undergone the procedure and that it robbed him of his sexual prowess.

Dean Cochrun, 28, is asking for $1,000 in compensatory and punitive damages. He also asks in the lawsuit that his foreskin be restored "in the hopes I could feel whole again," though he acknowledged that he didn't expect such a restoration to be anything more than aesthetic.

Cochrun, who is imprisoned in Sioux Falls on a kidnapping conviction, filed the federal lawsuit Friday against Sanford Hospital. Cochrun claims that an "unknown doctor" at the then-named Sioux Valley Hospital misled his mother to believe that the procedure was medically necessary. Cochrun argues that the procedure was unnecessary, unethical and without medical benefit.
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Female soldier missing from Fort Bragg


MSNBC
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:45 UTC
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Kelli Bordeaux, a soldier who recently joined the army, has been missing since Saturday from Fort Bragg, NC. She was last seen leaving a local bar.
Authorities are searching for a 23-year-old Army soldier who was last seen early Saturday morning leaving a bar in North Carolina.

PFC Kelli Bordeaux didn't turn up to her post at Fort Bragg on Monday, prompting Army officials to report her missing, NBC News reported.

Bordeaux was last spotted leaving a bar, Froggy Bottoms, in nearby Fayetteville about 1:30 am on Saturday. A bar employee gave her a ride home, but he is not considered a suspect, a military official told NBC.

Bordeaux, a health services specialist originally from St. Cloud in Central Florida, has been married for two years but is estranged from her husband, Mike, the official said.

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"Supposedly when the guy that was giving her a ride home, was taking her to her apartment, he got to her apartment and something spooked her so ... she said, 'No, no, no just let me out here,' instead of taking her like around the corner to her apartment," her mother, Johnna Henson, told wptv.com. "I don't understand that."

An Army investigator told wptv.com that, at some point, two text messages were sent from Bordeaux's phone, including one that said she got home safely.

"Being a soldier to Kelli is something she wouldn't jeopardize for anything. Missing work is something that is not in character for Kelli," her sister, Olivia Cox, told reporters. Asked how Mike Bordeaux was doing, she said:"Mike is holding up the best he can with his wife missing."
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Mr. Potato

Norway's Mass Killer Complains He Being Ridiculed

Alistair Scrutton and Victoria Klesty
Reuters
Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:59 UTC
Anders Behring Breivik
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Anders Behring Breivik
Norwegian anti-Islamic fanatic Anders Behring Breivik complained on Wednesday he was being subjected to personal ridicule in court and demanded his killing of 77 people last summer be judged as a battle against immigration.

"I hope you will focus on the issue, not the person," the 33-year-old Breivik told the court, visibly irritated and swiveling a pen in his hand.

Breivik, who killed eight people with a car bomb in Oslo on July 22 and then shot 69 at a Labour Party summer camp, went on trial on Monday.

Asked how he had changed from a teenage vandal on Oslo's prosperous west side to a methodical killer, he said he helped found a militant group called the "Knights Templar" in 2001 and chafed at prosecution suggestions that it was largely imaginary.

"Your intention is to sow doubt whether this network existed," he said at one point, after repeatedly objecting to the way prosecutors phrased their queries.

The original Knights Templar were a medieval brotherhood of knights that prosecuted and financed anti-Islamic crusades.

Breivik has pleaded not guilty to terrorism and murder charges on grounds of "necessity". He called his victims "traitors" with immigrant-friendly ideas.
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