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Ohio man arrested for taunting police dog


RT.com
Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:56 UTC
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An Ohio man is asking law enforcement in Montgomery County to throw him a bone after he was arrested for barking at a police dog.

Cameron Dunn, 22, was placed in the back of a police cruiser earlier this week when a routine traffic stop caused cops to suspect that he was in possession of marijuana. By the end of the night, Dunn was looking at an entirely different type of criminal charge.

While detained in the backseat of a patrol car, Dunn noticed that the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office had called in a drug-sniffing dog, a K9 named Gunner, to give the suspect's vehicle a quick once-over. Before Gunner could get around to finding any contraband, though, Dunn dared to try and taunt the dog.

"As Gunner walked past the cruiser Dunn began barking at the dog and hitting the window of the cruiser," reports the Dayton Daily News, which broke the story on Tuesday.
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At least 18 murdered in Chicago within the first 10 days of the year


RT.com
Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:51 UTC
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With at least 18 homicides in the first ten days of 2013, Chicago, Illinois is on pace for more than 700 murders this year - a figure which would far surpass last year's 516 and leave New York City's murder rate in the dust.

In 2012, a total of 516 people were murdered in Chicago, most of which occurred in the city's notoriously dangerous West and South Sides. Last year's deadliest month was August, in which 57 people were murdered in the Windy City, many at the end of a gun barrel.

But this year there have already been 18 homicides in Chicago, six of which occurred throughout a single weekend. The city has already accumulated more than twice as many murders as Detroit, which saw a 20-year high in homicides in 2012. At the current rate of two or more murders per day, Chicago is on pace to accumulate more than 730 homicides this year, which would be a record high since 1997.

Of the 18 homicides that occurred in Chicago over the past ten days, 15 of the victims died from gunshot wounds, two were stabbed, and one was a victim of a fatal assault. More than half of the victims were under the age of 30 and nearly all of them were male.
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Man who burned woman in elevator gets 50-year sentence

Tim Stelloh
NY Times
Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:36 UTC
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At Brooklyn Supreme Court on Friday, Jerome Isaac was sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing an elderly woman by setting her on fire in an elevator in December 2011.
Calling the crime one of the most brutal he had seen in his judicial career, a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge on Friday sentenced a man who burned an elderly woman to death in an elevator to 50 years in prison.

On Dec. 17, 2011, surveillance footage showed the man, Jerome Isaac, who was wearing a gas canister and a surgical mask, cornering the woman, Deloris Gillespie, 73, in the elevator of Ms. Gillespie's apartment building in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Mr. Isaac doused Ms. Gillespie with accelerant, then tossed a Molotov cocktail into the elevator.

"This has to be one of the most horrific crimes I have ever seen," the judge, Justice Vincent Del Giudice, said. "I had to review that video of the horrible death of that woman suffering."

Justice Del Giudice added, "That is not something one can take from one's mind."

Wearing an orange jumpsuit, Mr. Isaac, 48, said nothing during the hearing. He tilted his head down and closed his eyes for much of it.

Mr. Isaac was sentenced to prison despite recent questions about his mental health.
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Man jumped into Arizona Meteor Crater - He liked to "appease the gods"


abc15.com
Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:57 UTC
Arizona crater
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Winslow, AZ - A man who jumped into a mine shaft at the Meteor Crater tourist attraction 35 miles east of Flagstaff Thursday has been pulled out, according to authorities.

He was rescued from the 100 foot deep hole early Friday morning.

Coconino County Sheriff's spokesman Gerry Blair said the sheriff's office got a call around 4 p.m. Thursday afternoon saying a man had made his way into the bottom of the crater where people are not permitted.

When the first deputy arrived he was told the man had just jumped feet first into the mine shaft, sheriff's officials said.

Additional resources were called in and the first rescuers to make it down to the bottom of the crater had to cut through a seven foot fence topped by barbed wire to get access to the mine shaft.
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Heart

Honesty of the long-distance runner

Carlos Arribas
elpais.com
Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:55 UTC
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Fernández Anaya helps Mutai toward the line
Is winning all that counts? Are you absolutely sure about that?

Two weeks ago, on December 2, Spanish athlete Iván Fernández Anaya was competing in a cross-country race in Burlada, Navarre. He was running second, some distance behind race leader Abel Mutai - bronze medalist in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the London Olympics. As they entered the finishing straight, he saw the Kenyan runner - the certain winner of the race - mistakenly pull up about 10 meters before the finish, thinking he had already crossed the line.

Fernández Anaya quickly caught up with him, but instead of exploiting Mutai's mistake to speed past and claim an unlikely victory, he stayed behind and, using gestures, guided the Kenyan to the line and let him cross first.

"I didn't deserve to win it," says 24-year-old Fernández Anaya. "I did what I had to do. He was the rightful winner. He created a gap that I couldn't have closed if he hadn't made a mistake. As soon as I saw he was stopping, I knew I wasn't going to pass him."
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Police trick entire high school into signing 'anti-violence pledge' to gather handwriting samples


Daily Mail
Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:32 UTC
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Northampton High
Police are accused of tricking students at a high school into signing their names on a fabricated 'anti-violence pledge' so they could gather handwriting samples and match it with a threatening note found in the school shortly after the Sandy Hook shootings.

Northampton High School was evacuated on December 19 when the note was found in the bathroom - just five days after Adam Lanza gunned down 20 elementary school students and six teachers before turning the gun on himself.

Authorities are now hoping the handwriting samples taken from the students will give them a new lead in their investigation as they hope to match it to the threatening note.

The statement has been described as a joint effort by police, the high school administration and the Northwestern District Attorney's Office, according to The Republican.

Police Chief Russell P. Sienkiewicz said District Attorney David E. Sullivan have confirmed the method is valid and legal - despite the handwriting samples being taken from the students under false pretenses.
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Decorated emergency medical technician who 'used his FDNY key to shut down elevators to trap and rape young girls' faces first victim in court

Nina Golgowski
Daily Mail
Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:26 UTC
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A decorated former emergency medical technician accused of using his FDNY key to shut down elevators to trap and rape young girls appeared in court on Wednesday to face testimony by the first of his five alleged victims. Among Angus Pascall's alleged victims, prosecutors say the 35-year-old raped an 11-year-old girl after using his fireman's key to stop her elevator. Another similarly alleged victim was aged 19.

He is now charged with five sexual assaults carried out in Brooklyn between 2001 and 2010, all of which he has pleaded not guilty to. Prosecutors say DNA evidence, however, connects him to every single crime.

On Wednesday one of his first victims who was 22-year-old at the time of her alleged attack offered the first harrowing testimony against him.

Trembling before the court, the woman claimed Pascall approached her at her apartment's door in Flatbush in 2001 while asking if he could leave a package with her for her next door neighbour.
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Indiana boy abducted in '94 found in Minnesota


Salon
Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:28 UTC
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Authorities have identified a 24-year-old man recently discovered living in Minnesota under an assumed name nearly two decades after his grandparents abducted him from Indiana.

The Todd County Sheriff's Office says Richard Wayne Landers Jr. now lives in the small northern Minnesota town of Long Prairie under the name Michael Jeff Landers.

Indiana State Police announced Thursday that Landers had been found, but didn't give his new name. They said Landers' paternal grandparents took him because they were upset over custody arrangements.
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Arrow Down

Rhino poaching at record high in South Africa


LiveScience
Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:13 UTC
Dead Rhino
© Michel Gunther / WWF-Canon
Dehorning of a rhinoceros by a field researcher
Rhinoceros poaching soared to a record high level in South Africa last year. The country's government said 668 rhinos were killed within its borders in 2012, up from 448 in 2011, according to the World Wildlife Fund, an international conservation group.

A whopping 425 of those deaths last year occurred in Kruger National Park, a top safari destination and home to South Africa's largest population of both black and white rhinos. That figure marks a sharp increase from the 252 rhinos killed in the park in 2011.

The poaching boom is largely due to heightened demand for rhino horns in Asia, where the grim prizes are believed to have medicinal properties and are seen as highly desirable status symbols, especially in Vietnam. TRAFFIC, a nongovernmental global network that monitors wildlife trade, recently issued a report describing how some affluent Vietnamese individuals often use the horn as a hangover cure and general health tonic, grinding it up and mixing it with water or alcohol.
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Ohio school board votes to arm janitors, who are not exactly armed guards

Alexander Abad-Santos
Atlantic Wire
Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:40 UTC
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The White House may be signaling to gun-rights advocates that it will offer funding for police in schools, and more teachers may be signing up for gun training, but this could not be what anyone had in mind, could it? The school board in charge of a large K-12 school in northwestern Ohio has voted unanimously to allow its four custodians to carry firearms. As Montpelier superintendent Jamie Grime told The Toledo Blade, the board sees the move as a way to prevent incidents like the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut: "Sitting back and doing nothing and hoping it doesn't happen to you is just not good policy anymore. There is a need for schools to beef up their security measures," Grimes said. "Having guns in the hands of the right people are not a hindrance. They are a means to protect."

But are custodians "the right people," the kinds of "good guy with a gun" pushed by the NRA in its plan to put armed guards in every school in America? In nearby Lima, Ohio - about two hours away - an editorial letter pushing the idea of arming custodians ran in The Lima News on Tuesday. Loyd Harnishfeger pointed out the idea:
Why the custodian? The choice is obvious. First, they do not have a classroom full of children as their first responsibility as teachers do. Secondly, they are free to roam the halls and have the keys necessary should the need arise to enter a locked down room or area. Thirdly, unlike the administrators, they are not needed for quick decisions regarding evacuation, coordination with first responders, etc.
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