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Video: Woman Murders Husband's Lover's Child with Vehicle

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In Linyi, China, Zhang Shih is facing the death penalty after she ran over her husband's lover, Wang Lu, and Lu's 4-year-old daughter, and then stripped naked to block an ambulance from taking them to the hospital.

According to the Daily Mail, the mistress, Lu, was carrying her daughter on the back of her bike when Shih allegedly hit them with her car.

A police spokesman explained: "She kept everyone who tried to help them away. Then when an ambulance turned up she stripped off all her clothes and lay down in front of the vehicle to stop it taking the victims to hospital."

In a cellphone video (below) posted to the Chinese video sharing website YouKu.com, Shih can be seen at one point trying to pull the 4-year-old girl from the ambulance. Reports said she also punched a paramedic, causing him to drop the girl.

Alarm Clock

Video: Daycare Teacher Bullies 3 Year Old

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In Hamden, Connecticut, Tyesha Reese is outraged after being e-mailed a video (below) of her 3-year-old toddler Michael Reese being bullied by his daycare teacher.

Tyesha Reese told WTNH-TV that the cell phone video "got into someone's hands who actually saw the video and was like, 'Wait a minute, I recognize whose son this is,' and that's when they forwarded it to me and said, 'I need you to see this. And when I saw my son's face it was just unbelievable, you know.'"

The daycare teacher has been identified as Lindsay Cavallaro, who works at the Sleeping Giant Day Care in Hamden, Connecticut, according to WTNH-TV.

Bad Guys

Unauthorized Exorcism Leads to Rape From Priest

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A Virginia woman identified only as "Jane Doe" filed a lawsuit this week alleging that a former Catholic priest from the Diocese of Arlington Virginia molested her during an unauthorized exorcism ceremony. Her lawsuit names, in addition to the priest, the diocese itself and its Bishop and claims $5.35 Million in damages.

According to the complaint, Jane Doe, a resident of Warren County, appealed to the Reverent Thomas Euteneuer for council, saying she believed she needed an exorcism. Euteneuer then agreed to serve as her "deliverance minister," and proceeded to preside over a 2-year-long exorcism to resolve Doe's "severe" case of "unclean spirits."

Doe's complaint describes multiple incidents of inappropriate touching over the course of the prolonged ceremony. "He kissed the corners of her mouth; stroked her legs, breasts and thighs; caressed her face; laid his body on top of hers; and frequently explained full, passionate kisses as 'blowing the Holy Spirit into her.'"

Light Saber

MegaUpload Scores a Big Win in Court Case

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Kim DotCom and MegaUpload continue to chalk up victories in the piracy case brought against them by U.S.
The big news today on the antipiracy front is that a New Zealand court has ruled that police enforced illegal search warrants when they seized the assets of MegaUpload founder Kim DotCom.

What hasn't been made clear in the initial press reports is that this is not a final victory. Far from it. The ruling as it stands today does not impact DotCom's extradition hearing on August 6 or the charges facing him in the United States, according to legal experts. A hearing on the MegaUpload case is scheduled for tomorrow in U.S. District Court.

On January 19, New Zealand police, at the request of the United States, raided DotCom's rented mansion just outside Auckland and seized most of his property and assets. The U.S. Attorney's office has charged the managers of MegaUpload, a once-popular cyberlocker service, with conspiracy and criminal copyright violations along with other related crimes.

The case is being watched closely. If DotCom goes to prison, it will set a precedent that allowing people to share media files via a cloud storage locker can land you a cell. If the U.S. government fails to make its case, it stands to be an embarrassing loss for the Obama administration, which has said it wants to get tough on piracy. A MegaUpload victory would also be the latest in a string of setbacks involving antipiracy efforts for the film and music sectors.

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Julian Assange Rejects Police Request to Surrender for Breaking Bail Terms

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WikiLeaks founder tells BBC he will stay at Ecuadorean embassy as he fears the US has secret extradition plans

Julian Assange, the founder of the WikiLeaks website, has said that he will ignore a request by the police to give himself up because he fears that the US has secret plans to extradite him to Washington.

He said he had been advised that he was within his rights to ignore an extradition notice that was presented to him at the Ecuadorean embassy on Thursday.

During a telephone interview on BBC2's Newsnight, he was asked if he intended to give himself up. "Our advice is that asylum law both domestically and internationally in the UK takes precedence to extradition law, so the answer is almost certainly not," he said.

Assange has been asked to present himself to police on Friday to begin the process of extradition to Sweden over allegations of rape and indecency.

Health

Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Law


In a dramatic victory for President Barack Obama, the Supreme Court upheld the 2010 health care law Thursday, preserving Obama's landmark legislative achievement.

The majority opinion was written by Chief Justice John Roberts, who held that the law was a valid exercise of Congress's power to tax.

Roberts re-framed the debate over health care as a debate over increasing taxes. Congress, he said, is "increasing taxes" on those who choose to go uninsured.

UFO

Most Americans Believe Government Keeps UFO Secrets, Survey Finds

Survey for National Geographic finds extraterrestrial visits not that crazy an idea to most Americans


Either Americans don't trust their government, or they have a lot of respect for aliens' stealthiness.

Thirty-six percent of Americans think aliens have visited Earth, and almost 80 percent believe the government has kept information about UFOs a secret from the public, a new survey finds.

The survey, conducted ahead of National Geographic's new series Chasing UFOs, asked 1,100 Americans 18 and older for their extraterrestrial opinions.

Stormtrooper

Soldier Killed, Two Injured in Fort Bragg Shooting


Fayetteville, North Carolina - A soldier from the 525th Battlefield Surveillance Brigade is dead and two others are wounded following a shooting incident at Fort Bragg on Thursday.

During a unit safety brief, a soldier shot another member of the unit and then turned the weapon on himself.

The shooter was injured and is in custody.

A third soldier who was in the area was also slightly wounded in the shooting.

"This is a tragedy for our community. We don't yet know the reasons for the shooting, but are working with the unit and the affected Families to help them through this difficult period," said Col. Kevin Arata, XVIII Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg Public Affairs Officer.

Airplane

Researchers find icy tomb on glacier of aircraft that crashed, killing all 52 on-board, SIXTY years ago

Wreckage found on an Alaskan glacier is the remains of a missing Air Force plane that crashed in the 1950s, killing all 52 people on board.

Authorities revealed today the site has been identified after it was discovered on Knik Glacier near Anchorage earlier this month.

It means the victims' families may finally get answers as to why their loved ones died nearly 60 years on from the tragedy.

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Specialised team: Team members from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and Northern Warefare Training Center, searches for aircraft wreckage on Knik Glacier near Anchorage, Alaska

Mr. Potato

Eight TSA airport screeners fired for SLEEPING in baggage rooms while on duty in latest in string of blunders

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Hiccup: Airline travellers stand in line to get through security at Newark Airport last August
Eight Transportation Security Administration screeners were fired after they were captured by surveillance cameras sleeping on the job, or violating other standards.

The former employees, who all worked at the Newark Liberty International Airport, were caught napping in a baggage room

This is the latest round of firings in the trouble-ridden TSA, only weeks after seven workers in Philadelphia were fired for bribery.

'The decision to take disciplinary action, including the proposed immediate removal of eight individuals from the TSA reaffirms our strong commitment to ensure the safety of the traveling public and to hold all our employees to the highest standards of conduct and accountability,' the statement read.

An organiser with the Association of Federal Government Employees Union said that they would appeal all eight of the TSA's terminations.

By request of Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-New Jersey), the Office of the Inspector General in the Department of Homeland Security is looking into the TSA of Newark, following several security breaches at the airport.