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US: Newbury Man Among 4 Killed in California

Laura Mccrystal
Concord Monitor
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00 UTC
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© Google PlusMatthew Saturley
Family suffers two losses in six months

A man from Newbury was among four people killed in a murder-suicide on New Year's Day in California, family members confirmed yesterday.

Matthew Saturley, 31, died of multiple gunshot wounds early Sunday morning at a home in Coronado, Calif., according to the San Diego County, Calif., Sheriff's Department.

Saturley grew up in Newbury but had lived in Chula Vista, Calif., for the past several years with his wife, 7-year-old stepson and 5-year-old daughter, said a cousin, Ellen Saturley of Concord. The family also lived in Massachusetts and New York while Matthew Saturley was growing up, but she said the family always spent summers and vacations at their Newbury home on Lake Sunapee.

"Sunapee was, I think they all considered it their home base," Ellen Saturley said.

Matthew Saturley's father, Robert, died in an accident in June. He was cycling in Newbury when he was hit by a car and died at the scene. He was 64. Another cyclist was seriously injured in the accident.
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People

US: 'Wild Old Women' Close San Francisco Bank Of America Branch


CBS San Francisco
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:40 UTC
A group calling themselves ‘Wild Old Women’
© CBSA group calling themselves ‘Wild Old Women’ protest outside the Bank of America Bernal Heights branch in San Francisco, January 5, 2012.
It was a slow-moving Occupy Wall Street protest, but it was an effective one. A dozen senior citizens calling themselves "the wild old women" succeeded in closing a Bank of America branch in Bernal Heights Thursday.

The women, aged 69 to 82, who live at the senior home up Mission street from the Bernal Heights Bank of America branch, decided to hold their own protest by doing what they called a "run on the bank."

Tita Caldwell, 80, who led the charge of women with walkers and wheelchairs, said that they're demanding the bank lower fees, pay higher taxes, and stop foreclosing on, and evicting, homeowners.

"We're upset about what the banks are doing, particularly in our neighborhood and neighboring areas, in evicting people and foreclosing on their homes," said Caldwell. "We're upset because the banks are raising their rates because it really affects seniors who are on a fixed income."

As they arrived, Bank of America closed and locked its doors, to the surprise and delight of the elderly protestors, who said that they had no intention of storming the bank.

The women waved signs, but didn't march or chant, with one woman on supplemental oxygen adding that the group was too old for that.
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Stormtrooper

Michigan Family Alleges Harrowing Misconduct by Prosecutors, Police

Thomas Berman and Jonathan Balthaser
ABC News
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:04 UTC
In a quiet suburban community north of Detroit, one Michigan family thought it was witnessing a miracle: After years of silence, their autistic daughter seemed to be finally communicating and even excelling in school. Little did family members know that the technique that seemed to open their daughter's world would provide fodder for an aggressive police investigation that nearly tore the family apart.

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American Father Fights to Bring Children Home From Egypt

Shana Druckerman and Hoda Emam
ABC News
Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:56 UTC
Colin Bower
© Courtesy Colin BowerColin Bower, of Boston, alleges that his sons, ages 9 and 7, were kidnapped by his ex-wife and taken to Egypt.
Colin Bower said he still remembers the shock and horror he felt during a phone call he received in August of 2009. A male caller informed him that his children had been taken to Egypt, Bower says, and that if he made any attempts to contact authorities, he would never see them again.

He was supposed to pick up his two boys, Noor and Ramsay, 9 and 7 at the time, from a scheduled visit in Boston with their mother, Mirvat El Nady, Bower says. A U.S. judge had granted him sole legal custody after the couple's divorce in 2008, and El Nady, a British and Egyptian citizen, had limited visitation. Those restrictions, Bower says, along with findings in the divorce proceedings raising doubts about her truthfulness, angered El Nady and prompted the kidnapping.

Bower, a financial consultant from Boston, said he later learned that El Nady had taken the children to John F. Kennedy airport in New York, purchased one-way tickets to Cairo with cash, and allegedly used Egyptian passports with false identities to get the boys past security and onto an EgyptAir flight.
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People

Why a teen who talks back may have a bright future

Patti Neighmond
National Public Radio
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:43 UTC
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© iStockphoto.comGood arguments can provide lessons that last a lifetime. But psychologist Joseph P. Allen's research shows that yelling isn't the answer. "The teens who learned to be calm and confident and persuasive with their parents acted the same way when they were with their peers," he says.
If you're the parent of a teenager, you likely find yourself routinely embroiled in disputes with your child. Those disputes are the symbol of teen developmental separation from parents.

It's a vital part of growing up, but it can be extraordinarily wearing on parents. Now researchers suggest that those spats can be tamed and, in the process, provide a lifelong benefit to children.

Researchers from the University of Virginia recently published their findings in the journal Child Development. Psychologist Joseph P. Allen headed the study.
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US Air Force charges three cadets with sex crimes

Keith Coffman
Reuters
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:50 UTC
Denver - The Air Force charged three of its cadets with sexual misconduct on Thursday, including one accused of rape, just over a week after the government revealed a rise in reports of sexual assault at military academies.

The three cadets all attended the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, but were involved in separate incidents over the past 15 months, the military said.

"Sexual misconduct is a particularly egregious offense and we have a zero tolerance policy in the Air Force," Colonel Tamra Rank, vice superintendent of the academy, said in a statement. "We expect the best from our cadets, and do not tolerate unacceptable behaviors."

The charges came after the Department of Defense said last week that U.S. military academies had seen reports of sexual assaults rise sharply to 65 in the last academic year from 41 previously, and announced new policies to help victims.

In September, the U.S. Government Accountability Office had said the military needed greater leadership and oversight to prevent sexual harassment in its ranks.

Rank said that while the three Colorado cases were separate, the men were charged simultaneously because investigations in their cases were recently completed.
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US: Immigration officials investigate circumstances under which Texas teen deported to Colombia


Associated Press
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:20 UTC
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© WFAA-TV/Associated PressThis undated file photo provided by WFAA-TV News shows Jakadrien Lorece Turner, a Texas teen who ran away more than a year ago, her family said.
El Paso, Texas - The grandmother of a Dallas teen who was deported to Colombia is hoping the 15-year-old can come back soon and says U.S. officials should have done more to identify the girl after she gave a fake name and claimed to be an adult.

U.S. immigration officials say they're investigating the circumstances of the case involving Jakadrien Lorece Turner, but that they followed procedure and found nothing to indicate she wasn't who she claimed to be - an illegal immigrant from Colombia.

The girl, who ran away from home more than a year ago, was recently found in Bogota, Colombia, by the Dallas Police Department with help from Colombian and U.S. officials.

The Colombian government said the U.S. embassy on Thursday submitted the necessary documents for Jakadrien to return, but it wasn't clear exactly when she might be back in the U.S.

U.S. immigration officials deferred questions about when the teen might return to the State Department, which said it was aware of the case but declined to comment further, citing privacy reasons.
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US: Police warn Southern California homeless people about serial killer after 3 men found dead


The Washington Post
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:00 UTC
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Anaheim, California - Police and advocates on Thursday warned homeless people in Orange County not to sleep alone on the streets because a serial killer has already killed three homeless men.

The Orange County Rescue Mission is handing out flashlights and whistles to the homeless, in an effort to help them protect themselves, said Jim Palmer, the group's president.

Palmer's group is encouraging area homeless to sleep in groups, or better yet, come inside to a shelter.

"Our goal is to get them into those beds and fill those beds," he said.

Darryl Bossier, 49, said he sleeps outside the Orange County administration building in downtown Santa Ana - one of a dozen transients who use the benches that zigzag across the courtyard as a place to rest each night.

"I'm a watchdog. I don't want them to get anybody," Bossier said of the killer, adding he sleeps only about four hours a night. "Who wants to wake up next to somebody dead?"
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Sherlock

'Murder-suicide' involving 2 Navy pilots rocks elite community of aviators


The Washington Post
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:41 UTC
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San Diago - The two Navy fighter-jet pilots were in their prime, having made the cut into one of the military's most competitive programs.

Their deaths in a murder-suicide on New Year's Day has rocked the tight-knit community of Naval aviators as investigators try to find out what happened in the condominium on the picturesque peninsula of Coronado, an enclave of 24,000 just across the bay of San Diego that recorded only one homicide in 2010.

There were no eyewitnesses, investigators say, and they have found no motive yet for the eruption in gunfire that also killed one of the pilot's sisters and a 31-year-old man the group had just befriended at a nightclub only hours before the incident.

John Robert Reeves, 25, shot himself in the head, and the three others with him were murdered, the San Diego County Sheriff's Department said, citing autopsy results. Fellow Navy pilot David Reis, also 25, was killed by a gunshot wound to the torso, and his 24-year-old sister, Karen, suffered a gunshot wound to the head and chest, officials said. Matthew Saturley, 31, of suburban Chula Vista, was shot multiple times.

Sheriff's Capt. Duncan Fraser said there were no outstanding suspects in the case, and police have found no evidence indicating there was an exchange of gunfire, although he declined to say if Reeves was the shooter, explaining that "we don't have forensic evidence yet to say that definitively."
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Health

US: Doctors Going Broke

Parija Kavilanz
CNN Money
Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:37 UTC
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© Dr. Mike GormanDr. Mike Gorman has taken out an SBA loan to keep his rural solo practice running in Logandale, Nev. "If things don't improve fast, I will have no choice but to close my doors," he said.
Doctors in America are harboring an embarrassing secret: Many of them are going broke.

This quiet reality, which is spreading nationwide, is claiming a wide range of casualties, including family physicians, cardiologists and oncologists.

Industry watchers say the trend is worrisome. Half of all doctors in the nation operate a private practice. So if a cash crunch forces the death of an independent practice, it robs a community of a vital health care resource.

"A lot of independent practices are starting to see serious financial issues," said Marc Lion, CEO of Lion & Company CPAs, LLC, which advises independent doctor practices about their finances.

Doctors list shrinking insurance reimbursements, changing regulations, rising business and drug costs among the factors preventing them from keeping their practices afloat. But some experts counter that doctors' lack of business acumen is also to blame.
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