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US: Attorney: Arizona SWAT raid found guns, body armor

Fernanda Echavarri
Arizona Daily Star
Fri, 20 May 2011 17:16 UTC
Michael Storie, Christopher Scileppi
© David Sanders, Jill Torrance/Arizona Daily Star
Attorney representing the officers Michael Storie, right, and Christopher Scileppi, who is representing the Guerena family
The man shot and killed by Pima County SWAT officers was linked to a home-invasion crew, the attorney representing the officers said Thursday.

Attorney Michael Storie said authorities found rifles, handguns, body armor and a portion of a law-enforcement uniform inside the house where Jose Guerena was shot by officers serving a search warrant May 5.
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US: Blagojevich Trial To Resume On Wednesday

Todd Feurer
CBS News
Fri, 20 May 2011 17:04 UTC
Rod Blagojevich
© CBS
Deposed Gov. Rod Blagojevich arrives at court Thursday, May 19, for another day of testimony in his retrial.
No testimony was heard and jurors were not present Friday in the retrial of former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, but there were plenty of developments from the defense team.

Blagojevich's attorneys met with the judge Friday morning to discuss their strategy and a list of potential witnesses.

Originally, the defense was told to be ready to begin on Monday, but late Friday afternoon, the Clerk of the Court announced that there would be no trial on Monday and the trial would resume on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge James Zagel already had a prior commitment for Tuesday, so the trial was already taking that day off.
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Couple Accused Of Starving 5 Children


KPTV
Sat, 21 May 2011 16:56 UTC
Longview, Washington -- Cowlitz County sheriff's deputies said they arrested a Longview couple after discovering their five adopted children were severely malnourished.

Investigators said Washington State Children Protective Services contacted the sheriff's office in early March.

Detectives said Jeffrey and Rebecca Trebilcock's adopted 13-year-old was taken to Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland for broken bones and severe malnourishment. The boy was 4 feet 4 inches tall and weighed just 49 pounds.

Investigators said the couple's four adopted girls, ages 10 to 12 years old, were also underweight and found to be in "neglect" by a pediatrician.
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Broadcaster silent as "Judgment Day" hours tick by

Gabrielle Saveri
Reuters
Sat, 21 May 2011 16:51 UTC
office closed

We're still here!
With no sign of Judgment Day arriving as he had forecast, the 89-year-old California evangelical broadcaster and former civil engineer behind the pronouncement seemed to have gone silent on Saturday.

Family Radio, the Christian stations network headed by Harold Camping which had spread his message of an approaching doomsday, was playing recorded church music, devotionals and life advice unrelated to the apocalypse.

Camping previously made a failed prediction Jesus Christ would return to Earth in 1994.
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Syrian Protests Draw Deadly Fire


Al Jazeera
Fri, 20 May 2011 16:38 UTC
Syrian security forces have killed at least 34 people, including an 11-year-old boy, according to witnesses, in the latest crackdown on anti-government protests.

Twelve people were killed in the central city of Homs, while 15 died in the town of Maaret al-Naaman, located near the western city of Idlib, activists said.

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Police: UPS Outlet Stole Gift Cards Meant for Tornado Victims

Ty Tagami
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Fri, 20 May 2011 17:10 UTC
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Edward Michael Copenhaven
The owner of a UPS store stole gift cards that were supposed to be mailed to tornado-ravaged victims in Alabama, and he then spent the money at a Target store, according to police.

Edward Michael Copenhaven, the owner of a UPS outlet in Johns Creek, was arrested and charged with multiple counts of felony theft, the Alpharetta Police Department said Friday. Also arrested and charged with felony theft was his employee, Margaret Kate Carlisle.

The Target gift cards were destined for storm victims in Tuscaloosa. A customer brought the donated cards to Copenhaven's UPS store at 3000 Old Alabama Road and was told they'd be boxed and mailed. Weeks later, when the customer learned from her relatives that the cards had not arrived, she went to the Target in Roswell where they'd been purchased and was told the cards had been used at an Alpharetta Target.
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Family

Georgian protests, TV building attacked

Margarita Antidze
Reuters
Sat, 21 May 2011 16:18 UTC
Protesters Georgia Tbilisi
© Reuters/David Mdzinarishvili
Anti-government supporters gather during an opposition rally in the centre of the Georgian capital Tbilisi, May 21, 2011.
Some 10,000 Georgians rallied in Tbilisi demanding President Mikheil Saakashvili resign, while in the southwestern town of Batumi a witness said demonstrators tried to break into a television building.

Tsira Abuladze, head of news at state television in the autonomous Adjara region on the Black Sea, told Reuters by telephone from Batumi that a crowd of up to 400 people had pushed at doors and threw stones at windows.
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Rapture Postponed? Doomsday Saturday So Far Pretty Quiet

Robert Roy Britt
LiveScience
Sat, 21 May 2011 15:27 UTC
Doomsday Clock
© LiveScience
So far, so good. No major global earthquake. No airline pilots or critical military personnel suddenly abandoning their posts to ascend into heaven. No rapture. No Apocalypse. No doomsday.

There's still time, of course. Harold Camping's prediction of Rapture today could still come, but time seems to be running out on this round of the beginning of the end of the world.

Camping had predicted that 200 million believers - about 3 percent of the world's population - would disappear today. Those left behind would face 5 months of living hell. So far, the only reported disappearances involve attempts at humor called "rapture bombing," in which people set clothes out to give the impression of a body gone; seems there's always someone conveniently there to snap a picture and post it on Flickr.
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Family

Spain: Huge Protests in Madrid


The Telegraph
Sat, 21 May 2011 16:10 UTC
With tents, mattresses, a kitchen, a workshop and even a pharmacy, a protest camp in Madrid has grown into a real 'urban village' for thousands of young people. Under blue plastic tarpaulins, demonstrators have gathered in the landmark Puerta del Sol square in the centre of the Spanish capital.

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Magic Wand

The world will end. Just not today...

Oakland Ross
Toronto Star
Sat, 21 May 2011 15:59 UTC
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© Carlos Osorio/Toronto Star
Sofi Papamarko, Joan Smith, Ryan Anning, Farrah Khan, Joshua Bowman, Egon Gardiner and Will Fox (left to right) pose for a photograph during Sofi's rapture party in Toronto on Friday night (May 20, 2011).
If the world were going to end today - as some Christian evangelicals insist - then chances are good that Qinya Liu would already have picked up on the signs.

As an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of Toronto, Liu understands the mechanics of the planet, but she doesn't seem inordinately concerned about fire and brimstone consuming her neighbourhood any time soon.

"I haven't seen in recent history any hazards that could wipe out life on Earth."

In Liu's view, there are five main mechanisms by which the planet could come to a sudden and sorrowful demise: Meteorites, volcanoes, earthquakes, nuclear wars and attacks by extra-terrestrials.
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