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The Woodburn priest accused of sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy now has a prominent lawyer in his corner.
Angel Perez has hired attorney Marc Blackman and the Archdiocese of Portland has made him an open-ended loan to pay for the legal fees according to The Oregonian.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (R)
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (R)
The officers allege that Emmanuel replaced them with officers who volunteered for his 2010-2011 mayoral campaign - a violation of the city's Shakman decree, which forbids politically motivated appointments in city hiring decisions.
The officers, who are white and hispanic, also allege that Emmanuel discriminated against them, favoring African-American officers with less seniority. Six of the plaintiffs had previously filed a complaint with Chicago's inspector general's office last year, citing the alleged Shakman violations. The investigation is still ongoing, according to The Chicago Tribune
While grain prices fell in New York on Tuesday because of rain across most of the Mid-West, prices will persist around current high levels, economists from Standard Chartered said in a report published this week. This is especially the case should high temperatures persist across much of the U.S. well into August, they said.
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Tom Morello and Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan
Tom Morello and Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan's love of Rage Against the Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades. Charles Manson loved the Beatles but didn't understand them. Governor Chris Christie loves Bruce Springsteen but doesn't understand him. And Paul Ryan is clueless about his favorite band, Rage Against the Machine.
Ryan claims that he likes Rage's sound, but not the lyrics. Well, I don't care for Paul Ryan's sound or his lyrics. He can like whatever bands he wants, but his guiding vision of shifting revenue more radically to the one percent is antithetical to the message of Rage.
I wonder what Ryan's favorite Rage song is? Is it the one where we condemn the genocide of Native Americans? The one lambasting American imperialism? Our cover of "Fuck the Police"? Or is it the one where we call on the people to seize the means of production? So many excellent choices to jam out to at Young Republican meetings!
Police have little information about discovery that comes a month after a human head was found in a Montreal park.
A severed human head and foot have been discovered in a park near Toronto, police in Canada said Thursday.
Peel police acting inspector Randy Cowan said officers discovered the head Thursday morning in the Credit river in Mississauga.
Cowan said it's not clear whether the foot belongs to a man or a woman, but investigators believe it was severed in recent weeks. Police have not said if the foot and head are from the same person.
"Without a cause of death we can't call it homicide, but certainly foul play, there's definitely something amiss," said Cowan.
The right foot was found in the Credit river near the Hewick Meadows Park by hikers and the police marine unit found the head later Thursday.
A severed human head and foot have been discovered in a park near Toronto, police in Canada said Thursday.
Peel police acting inspector Randy Cowan said officers discovered the head Thursday morning in the Credit river in Mississauga.
Cowan said it's not clear whether the foot belongs to a man or a woman, but investigators believe it was severed in recent weeks. Police have not said if the foot and head are from the same person.
"Without a cause of death we can't call it homicide, but certainly foul play, there's definitely something amiss," said Cowan.
The right foot was found in the Credit river near the Hewick Meadows Park by hikers and the police marine unit found the head later Thursday.
"We went down in Syria where there were lots of soldiers. We thought there were some problems and that there was no money to pay for the fuel," News.com.au quoted Najib, who was a passenger on the flight, as saying.
"They asked if the passengers could contribute for the refueling," he added.
Najib claimed that the flight from Paris was diverted to Damascus because of tensions in Beirut and then flew on to Larnaca.
"There were some negotiations going on to buy fuel because Air France doesn't fly to Damascus at the moment," another passenger said.
In its 2012 Fall Seller Update, the online marketplace said it was banning all sales of supernatural goods and services, exiling its witchy and wizardly clientele to the wilds of Craigslist and other Web-based Diagon Alleys.
Among the prohibited items: "advice; spells; curses; hexing; conjuring; magic services; prayers; blessings; Psychic, Tarot, Reiki, and other metaphysical readings & services; magic potions; healing sessions."
EBay representatives did not immediately respond to questions as to why Harry Potter wannabes were no longer welcome or whether they contributed substantially to eBay transactions.
But beginning Aug. 30, attempts to list such enchantments for sale will be blocked, according to the website.
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The organizer of the youth event Mikhail Yakovlev, said the city administration named three reasons for their decision.
"Firstly, I supposedly failed to notify them in time. Secondly, I did not submit a program of the event. I did both things, though. But the third reason is most shocking: they said the Zombie Parade contradicts the Russian Constitution and the Human Rights Declaration," he told Metromsk news portal.
However, in a private conversation with an employee of Omsk's district administration, Yakovlev found out that the 'raising of the dead' was frowned on by a number of organizations, including the local Orthodox Church and the Muslim Community.
"The' Zombie Parade' bears no ideological or protest meaning: it is simply an entertainment for youngsters," Yakovlev told RIA Novosti.The event - which was planned for August 19 - was officially announced as a costume exhibition. About a hundred people - disguised as zombies and smeared with artificial blood - were to march through Omsk's central street and then have a photo shoot.
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Pop singer Madonna performs at the Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex in St. Petersburg.
Pop singer Madonna performs at the Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex in St. Petersburg.
The activists will sue the singer on August 17 in the Moskovsky District Court in St. Petersburg, they said. They are seeking compensation of 333 million roubles (over $10 million) from Madonna, and from the company that organized the concert.
"She insulted the believers' feelings, she promoted homosexuality when there were children at the concert and this is forbidden in St Petersburg. We, the residents of the cultural capital, suffered a colossal moral damage," union spokesperson Darya Dedova told the press.
The activists plan to demonstrate video records of Madonna stepping on the Russian Orthodox Cross and asking the public to raise their hands with pink bracelets, supposedly a sign of solidarity with the LGBT community, Dedova said.
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A policeman gestures in front of some of the dead miners after they were shot outside a South African mine in Rustenburg, 100 km (62 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, August 16, 2012.
A policeman gestures in front of some of the dead miners after they were shot outside a South African mine in Rustenburg, 100 km (62 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, August 16, 2012.
The incident is believed to have occurred after police, in the process of laying down barricades of barbed wire, were outflanked by a crowd of 3,000 demonstrators.
Nine people had been killed prior to Thursday's clashes in a spate of protest in the mining town, located northwest of Johannesburg. The platinum mine, owned by Lonmin PLC, has been the focal point of protests over wage disputes since last Friday.
Fighting intensified over the weekend when two police officers were killed. Striking workers and local security guards have also been caught up in the violence.
