Authorities said alleged killer Felix D. Rodriguez was disarmed by the victim during a fight inside a Charlton Street basement, but returned the knife to Mr. Rodriguez after he refused to leave without the weapon.
The victim returned the knife to Rodriguez, who then immediately stabbed the victim in the chest with said knife, Detective Sgt. Mark J. Sawyer wrote in an arrest warrant for Mr. Rodriguez issued today in Central District Court.
The victim, identified in court records as 25-year-old Leslie Jones, was found by police about 7:20 last night in the driveway of 25 Charlton St. He had a single stab wound to the upper left chest. Mr. Jones was only in boxer shorts when police found him.
Mr. Jones was taken to UMass Memorial Medical Center University Campus, where he was pronounced dead at 8:10 p.m.
According to Sgt. Sawyer's statement of facts on file in Central District Court, Mr. Jones and two others were inside the basement at 25 Charlton St. when an argument occurred.
The argument was over a woman, the sergeant wrote.
Rodriguez pulled a folding knife and threatened the victim, at which time the victim was able to disarm Rodriguez, Sgt. Sawyer wrote. Rodriguez was ordered to leave the premises and agreed to do so only upon return of his knife.
Mr. Jones gave Mr. Rodriguez the knife back. That's when police allege Mr. Rodriguez dealt the fatal thrust.
Mr. Rodriguez then ran off.
Mr. Rodriguez was described in detail by a male and female witness, police said.
The male witness then positively identified the above named Felix Rodriguez from a photo array presented by Worcester Detectives, Sgt. Sawyer wrote.
Police located the 51-year-old about 10:30 this morning, according to police spokesman Sgt. Kerry F. Hazelhurst. Detective Chris Murphy made the arrest. This morning, a description of the suspect was transmitted to area police departments. Police said the man was armed.
He had a last known address of Howard Street in Lawrence. He is a suspect in other cases, including one in which a warrant was issued for assault and battery of a child under 14.
Singer Amy Winehouse was charged Wednesday in connection with an assault at a theatre after disrupting a Christmas pantomime, police said.
Thames Valley Police charged the 26-year-old with common assault and a public order offence following an incident at Milton Keynes Theatre on Saturday.
Winehouse is alleged to have attacked a theatre manager after disrupting a performance of "Cinderella", which stars US actor Mickey Rooney.
The singer was arrested after she voluntarily attended the police station in Milton Keynes, southern England.
Winehouse was freed and is due to appear at Milton Keynes Magistrates' Court on January 20.
Winehouse rocketed to fame after winning five Grammy awards off the back of her 2006 second album "Back to Black" and the hit single "Rehab", but has since been engaged in a well-documented struggle with drugs.
What have you learned in seventy plus years?...
that you followed your dick like it was a map all your life?
yay, team. And then you die.
How often does the planet Jupiter perform a Conjunction with the star, Regulus? I have measured that six times in my lifetime...witnessed it four times by memory.
And I am still alive after three wars, as well.
I am not stupid and I have five grandchildren as well. I have loved and been loved. The real meaning of life is in ordinary things...and Viagra isn t one of them.
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Thank you, Angleton9. Sometimes you say things too strongly for this little civilian housewife to handle, but that was as perfect as poetry. You have earnt the true joys you've received.
Consider the energy it takes to send a .50 cal bullet 1000 yards downrange. Consider the energy dissipated in flight, then the energy absorbed by the target plate. And there's supposed to be enough energy left over to come 1000 yards back, hit the dirt, fly up and put a good-sized nick in his earpiece?
I don't buy it. Somewhere here with much more education and experience in ballistics please educate me why I should.
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It's not ballistics, Doc, it's physics.
But you got it right.
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looks like Mr. Bobby is tapping the wi-fi at an Odessa Chuck-E-Cheese? Or perhaps I have that wrong :-)
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Here is what the vid creator says: 6-27-07: BOOM HEADSHOT! This is amazing. Willie, the father of Tina, who made the sandbag rests fires a .50BMG, an Armalite AR-50 and it ricochets off of a steel plate that it should have easily penetrated. The bullet comes straight back and hits him in the head. You can see it hit the dirt about 15 feet in front on him before it clobbers him. Luckily he was uninjured. He's a bit sore today, but otherwise fine. Lucky lucky bastard. He has been advised to buy lottery tickets while he still has so much luck. I don't know about the timing, but you can hear the hit on the steel plate. Time that till the impact on Willie's head... how fast is that 750 grain slug traveling? The range is 100 yards. Amazing.
Damn lucky the bullet/frag hit his ear protector and not the forehead.
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A Galt teen is back home for the holidays after the successful, seven-month-long treatment of a brain tumor that was only discovered after he made a dangerous mistake before school one day.
Last May, 13-year-old Evan Hamilton took a dare from his friends at McCaffrey Middle School in Galt last May and downed eight shots of tequila as fast as he could.
He passed out and was rushed to the emergency room to be treated for alcohol poisoning, and a CT scan at the UC Davis Medical Center revealed a tumor in the brain of the unsuspecting eighth grader.
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A large winter storm with the potential to dump a foot or more of snow is grinding its way toward Minnesota, and its arrival is likely to mess up travel plans, complicate last-minute errands and ensure a very white Christmas.
"It's not definite yet, but it has an uncanny resemblance to the East Coast storm last Saturday," meteorologist Paul Douglas posted Monday on his Facebook page. "I want to see one to two more computer runs, but this could be the snowiest Christmas for Minnesota in 30 years."
According to a winter storm warning issued this afternoon for central and southern Minnesota and western Wisconsin, the mess is expected to begin Wednesday afternoon -- and go on and on.
"This is major," said James McQuirter, meteorologist at the Twin Cities office of the National Weather Service. "It might not get out of here until Saturday."
Douglas said in an interview that, depending on the temperature, freezing rain, sleet and/or ice could enter the picture, particularly to the east and south. Either way, "I think travel conditions Christmas Eve and Christmas Day may be pretty bad," he said, encouraging people to leave earlier on Wednesday if they have that option.
Computer models have been "all over the map," he said, and snow totals approaching 2 feet are not out of the question, though it's "way too early to know" exactly where in Minnesota that would happen.
The heaviest snowfall, 12 to 20 inches, likely will fall in a swath from Minneapolis to the Iowa border and west to the South Dakota border, said National Weather Service forecaster Jim Taggart. Duluth and the eastern part of the state also could see 6 inches or more of snow. The northwest part of the state will probably get clipped with 3 to 4 inches of snow, Taggart said.
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Iowa's getting freezing rain and sleet over the next few days, with winds up to 30 mph.
But look on the bright side....we're not burning up those horrid greenhouse gases visiting friends and relatives, and some of the Christianists might stay home instead of practicing their politically incorrect Dec 25th ritual.
This model also quickly incorporates data from radiosonde telemetry so it gets updated quicker that the other models. The rain snow line is about where the 0 degree isotherm is on the 850 mb map (near the Pac Coast, it needs to be about -4C at 850mb for snow, on the high plains, +2C at 850mb will still be snow most of the time).
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Don't worry. Just a few adjustments to the temperature readings and Gobal Warming will be fine.
Gives new meaning to "Save the hockey stick!"
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HIDE THE DECLINE!!
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that wasn't me...
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No, it wasn't, Frank -- you are someone else altogether. Besides, a Disco Franny would never wear Hawaiian shirts. ;-)
A man who encouraged his teenage son to marry and rape his 12-year-old cousin has been jailed. The 54-year-old organised a sham Muslim ceremony between his son, then 16, and the girl at his home in Woolwich, south-east London, in March last year.
At Wood Green Crown Court the boy got an 18-month supervision order for rape. 18 years would have been proper. 18 months? He'll be out in time to rape more cousins ...
The fathers of the boy and girl were both jailed for three years for inciting a child to engage in sexual activity following an illegal marriage.
The boy's mother, 54, was given a 12-month jail term, suspended for two years, for the same offence. She was also ordered to do 200 hours of community service.
The case came to light when the mother of the girl, who objected to the arranged "marriage", told police about it. Scotland Yard child abuse detectives then discovered several relatives of the boy had urged him to rape his cousin.
In a statement, the girl's mother said: "What happened to my daughter was a nightmare. These convictions will help us move on."
Speaking after the case, Det Insp Noel McHugh, who led the investigation, called it a "really awful crime".
He said: "This has been an exceptionally challenging investigation and we are grateful to all those who assisted with the case and ensured the convictions. The offences are incomprehensible and the victim is a truly brave girl who suffered at the hands of those who should have offered her protection."
The girl's father, 29, and the boy, now 17, were ordered to sign the sex offenders register. Neither the victim nor any of the guilty parties can be named for legal reasons.
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Sham musim ceremony??. heck, to muhammoud muhammud mohammed, this is an old lady. he married a 6 y/o and was boning her when she was 9. ((what a STUD!!!)
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Not West Virginia, Sarge, they have a more .. direct .. way of dealing with rape.
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According to the article, it was Woolwich, south-east London, Cyber Sarge. And the BBC reported it. Note they also used the word Muslim in the first paragraph. What brought that on, I wonder?
A BRITISH judge said today that men who beat women should be paraded through the streets so the public can pelt them with rotten vegetables.
Judge Esmond Faulks called for the medieval punishment as he jailed a man who attacked his girlfriend so badly she later miscarried their baby.
After seeing photographs of 19-year-old Andrew Harrison's assault on Lisa Dinsdale, 17, he said, "It's a pity a judge cannot order someone like this to have these pictures hung around his neck saying, 'I did this to my girlfriend,' and be paraded down the high street so people can throw rotten vegetables at him."
Harrison admitted assault and was jailed for 18 months at Newcastle Crown Court in northern England.
President Barack Obama on Monday touted the federal government's efforts to become more efficient, highlighting a new report that shows billions of dollars in savings on contract costs.
The report by the Office of Management and Budget shows that agencies have identified more than $19 billion in contract savings for fiscal year 2010, which began Oct. 1. Mr. Obama said that puts the government on track to meet its goal of saving $40 billion annually by fiscal year 2011.
The administration has said the savings will come from terminating unnecessary contracts, ending an over-reliance on contractors and reducing the use of high-risk contracts. Federal spending on contracts has doubled since 2002, reaching $540 billion last year.
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[Dawn] Turkey has reached an agreement with Israel to purchase 10 Heron drones from Israel and a deal would be announced within one or two days, Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) said on Tuesday.
'We've reached agreement with procurement office. We expect to announce an agreement within a few days,' TAI Chief Executive Muharrem Dortkasli told reporters.
Turkey and Israel signed a deal in 2005 for the supply of the unmanned aircraft, worth $185 million.
Turkish Defence Minister Vecdi Gonul in July denied reports published in the Israeli media that the deal would be cancelled due to the delay in the project.
Speculation about the project's cancellation had mounted amid escalating tensions between regional allies Israel and Turkey, which had sharply criticised Israel's Palestinian policies, especially the Gaza offensive it launched in December 2009.
TAI is partners in the venture to build the Herons with Air Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Israeli defence manufacturer Elbit.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Germany has refused Egypt's request that it return the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti, with German officials saying it was acquired legally by the Prussian state nearly a century ago.
However, Zahi Hawass, the Secretary General of the Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, rejects the German claims, saying the bust was smuggled out of Egypt by a German archaeologist in 1913. He said repeated requests by the Egyptian government since 1930 have been ignored by successive German governments.
Hawass says archaeologist Ludwig Borchardt disguised its true value by covering it in a coating of clay.
Queen Nefertiti, the wife of Pharaoh Akhenaton, was renowned as one of ancient history's great beauties. In 1346 BC, Akhenaton started to openly worship Aten and began a religious revolution, in which Nefertiti played a prominent role.
The bust is the star attraction of the Egyptian collection at the Neues Museum in Berlin.
Earlier this month Hawass said he would drop a similar demand for the permanent return of the Rosetta Stone if the British Museum agreed to loan it. The stone is a basalt slab dating back to 196 BC which was key to the modern deciphering of hieroglyphics.
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Earlier this month Hawass said he would drop a similar demand for the permanent return of the Rosetta Stone if the British Museum agreed to loan it.
I suspect if this is a "loan" with no return provision.
Scolds of the world, unite!
Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle. That could also be an indication that gas guzzling SUVs aren't as 'orrid as reported. "My SUV has less than half the environmental impact of the average schnauzer. So shuddup and go hawk yer carbon credits elsewhere!"
But the revelation in the book "Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living" by New Zealanders Robert and Brenda Vale has angered pet owners who feel they are being singled out as troublemakers. I'd say the authors have draped themselves in the bright colors characteristic of dishpits.
The Vales, specialists in sustainable living at Victoria University of Wellington, analysed popular brands of pet food and calculated that a medium-sized dog eats around 164 kilos (360 pounds) of meat and 95 kilos of cereal a year. Eating! Oh, noze!
Combine the land required to generate its food and a "medium" sized dog has an annual footprint of 0.84 hectares (2.07 acres) -- around twice the 0.41 hectares required by a 4x4 driving 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) a year, including energy to build the car. How many hectares does your average African herder take up? Maybe they should be killed... No. Wait. I guess they are. I just didn't realize it was eco-friendly to do so.
To confirm the results, the New Scientist magazine asked John Barrett at the Stockholm Environment Institute in York, Britain, to calculate eco-pawprints based on his own data. The results were essentially the same. "Owning a dog really is quite an extravagance, mainly because of the carbon footprint of meat," Barrett said. The Hmong in Laos, on the other hand, raise doggies for food. On the third hand, the Hmong on Laos were hunted out pretty well in the Plain of Jars, so I guess they've got a carbon surplus for their depleted numbers. Who keeps score for this nonsense?
Other animals aren't much better for the environment, the Vales say. They eat guinea swine in Ecuador, so I guess their eco-pawprints even out in the end.
Cats have an eco-footprint of about 0.15 hectares, slightly less than driving a Volkswagen Golf for a year, while two hamsters equates to a plasma television and even the humble goldfish burns energy equivalent to two mobile telephones. Which I'd say means that we've descended deep into the realm of the meaningless statistic.
But Reha Huttin, president of France's 30 Million Friends animal rights foundation says the human impact of eliminating pets would be equally devastating. "Pets are anti-depressants, they help us cope with stress, they are good for the elderly," Huttin told AFP. I dunno. We've got a new Labrador retriever at home. Depending on what Fido's chewed it can be pretty stressful.
"Everyone should work out their own environmental impact. I should be allowed to say that I walk instead of using my car and that I don't eat meat, so why shouldn't I be allowed to have a little cat to alleviate my loneliness?" Because if you can make your own decisions somebody else is deprived of the mean-spirited little pleasure of telling you what to do.
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the Vales have a huge carbon footprint. I'd suggest a vote by each of them on which should get whacked...for the planet. Better yet, they could volunteer for suicide, if they're really dedicated
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After we clean out the Animal Shelters, and the Livestock pens and the barns, we can visit the Day Care centers.
What's the name of the President's little dog? Bring a shovel. Tiffany and little Bruce, get in the car, we are going to the Lake.
The Orphanages are NEXT!
You didnt really mean it, you say? Then why say it, if you dont mean it? Getting rid of a problem means "getting rid" of a problem. Or did you just want someone "else" to do it?
You gonna gas 'em, or shoot 'em? Then there have to be bulldozers and Mass Graves. Will the people in Hollywood volunteer for a worthy cause?
Benji gets it! And Lassie too. A .38 in the ear.
Killing is not an abstraction. Its always PERSONAL. They dont go away by magic, y'know.
MOST of the pets at the Animal Shelter are put in a large Trash can full of water by a teenager who isnt too gentle about it.. and then they bolt the lid down and drown the animal inside by connecting a water hose to a screw in outlet in the lid and turning it on full.
I dont know how you are going to go around Suburbia picking up the pets. You want to use the National Guard? Do you suppose maybe a few families own guns and will "resist"? How much is it worth to you?
It's for the Planet, right? You are either serious or you arent. The SS started out by shooting people in Mass Graves, then they graduated to using Police Vans with a hose attached to the Exhaust pipe. Then they built the camps like Belsen and Dachau, Jews, Gypsies, the Mental Hospitals...and now its the turn of Poochie and the Cat.
Its for the good of the Planet, after all. We could take the world population levels back to 1930 by the year 2050....if... we... REALLY... tried.
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look at all the people I employ by having my dog
And every one of them leaving their sooty footprints all over our previously carbon-free landscape. It is a little known fact that before the 1900s when America began to industrialze, our atmosphere was *completely* free of CO2.
(And to those of you who learned about the Carbon Cycle in 5th grade science class, I say "Just SHUT UP!".)
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That 164 kilos of meat and 95 kilos of cereal turns into 259 kilos of dog poop which is used by the grass and fire hydrants to grow and sequester carbon. ( OK not the fire hydrants )
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I agree with Broadhead. Even as they're sitting there breathing, they're massacring thousands of poor, defenseless microorganisms. Bleedin' savages!
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Dar, all I ask for is a little leadership by example... :)
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On the third hand, the Hmong on Laos were hunted out pretty well in the Plain of Jars, so I guess they've got a carbon surplus for their depleted numbers.
On the fourth hand, the North Vietnamese are ecological heros for destroying the Vietnamese economy, Cambodian economy and Laotian economy.
Think of how many carbon credits they've saved up!
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They can have my dog when they pry my cold, dead hands offa her leash. (Assuming she doesn't bite them in the ass first.)
[Straits Times] THAILAND'S fugitive former premier Thaksin Shinawatra has left Cambodia after spending more than a week stepping up his advisory role and meeting Thai supporters, an official said on Tuesday.
Thaksin, who arrived in Phnom Penh on Dec 13 for a second visit as an economic adviser to the Cambodian government, departed on Monday morning, said deputy cabinet minister Prak Sokhon. 'He left Cambodia yesterday at around 10am (0300 GMT, 11am Singapore time),' he said.
Officials would not disclose his destination. Thaksin, who was ousted in a 2006 coup, has based himself in Dubai and travelled widely since leaving Thailand in August last year to escape a two-year jail term for corruption.
During his stay in Cambodia, Thaksin addressed top government officials on how to boost investment, tourism and agriculture.
He also met scores of his 'Red Shirt' supporters from Thailand, where he remains a hugely influential figure, witnesses and officials said.
Relations between Thailand and Cambodia, who have fought a string of deadly gunbattles on their border since last year, plunged following Thaksin's appointment as an adviser last month.
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Take note here. There is also friction between Cambodia and China. The squeeze is coming.
The magistrate in the Rifqa Bary case ruled today that the 17-year-old who ran away from her Columbus home in July does not have to sit down for mediation with her parents. There were several issues resolved today at the hearing in Franklin County Juvenile Court, including:
Mediation. Magistrate Mary Goodrich said issues now being discussed would best be resolved with individual counseling instead of group mediation.
Third-party messages. Bary's parents don't want her to receive any cards or letters directly, and had filed a motion that any messages first go to Franklin County Children Services. Omar Tarazi, the family's attorney, withdrew that motion today.
Rifqa's mental health. Assistant County Prosecutor Chris Julian said that a counselor was trying to determine whether 17-year-old, whose full name is Fathima Rifqa Bary, has post-traumatic stress disorder.
In July, Rifqa ran away and moved in with two pastors -- a married couple -- in Orlando, Fla., whom she had met on the Internet. Rifqa said her father, Mohamed Bary, had threatened to kill her for leaving Islam -- the family religion -- for Christianity. Authorities in Florida and Ohio could find no credible threat to her safety, and she returned to Franklin County on Oct. 27 and has been living in a foster home.
A case plan that Franklin County Children Services filed recently with the court says the family should try to work out its differences, with the goal of having Rifqa move back in with her parents. But only Children Services signed the plan, which is not binding unless it becomes a court order. The next hearing is set for Jan. 19.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A large winter storm with the potential to dump a foot or more of snow is grinding its way toward Minnesota, and its arrival is likely to mess up travel plans, complicate last-minute errands and ensure a very white Christmas.
