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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Third suspect picked up in Newark schoolyard slayings
Followup on the story of the 3 murdered and 1 wounded college students.
A third suspect wanted in connection with the execution-style killings of three college students Saturday night in a Newark schoolyard was taken into custody this afternoon, law enforcement sources said.

The suspect, a juvenile, was removed from a home in Morristown, the sources said. Paul Louriquet, a spokesman for the Essex County Prosecutor's Office, said "there have been developments with a third suspect, but not an arrest."

Investigators believe up to five people participated in the crime, which was chilling enough to thrust New Jersey's largest city into the national spotlight. Jose Larchira Carranza, a 28-year-old illegal immigrant from Peru and a 15-year-old boy are already in custody. Authorities are still looking to question one more adult and one juvenile, law enforcement officials with knowledge of the investigation said.

This morning, Larchira Carranza, who surrendered to authorities Thursday, pleaded not guilty to three counts of murder, attempted murder, robbery, conspiracy to commit robbery and weapons offenses.

During the proceedings at the Essex County Courthouse in Newark, Larchira Carranza's lawyer, Felix Lopez Montalvo, said the defendant does not have a Social Security number and is in the United States illegally. "My client has no documentation," Lopez Montalvo.

In a news conference afterward, Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow and other officials would not comment about whether prosecutors had reported Larchira Carranza's illegal status to federal authorities after his two previous arrests, which include a charge of child rape.
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Larchira Carranza, an Orange resident, is married and has a daughter described as 1 or 2 years old. He was facing two sets of criminal charges even before police identified him as a suspect in the Newark triple murder.

According to court records, he was charged with aggravated assault and weapons counts stemming from a bar fight last October. In the more serious case, when he was charged as Jose Larchira, he is accused of repeatedly raping a girl over a four-year period.

The assaults began when the child was almost 5 years old, according to an indictment handed up last month. The alleged attacks ended in January. Larchira Carranza was free on bail WTF!!! and awaiting trial in both criminal cases when he surrendered Thursday.
Rest at link.
Posted by: ed || 08/10/2007 18:47 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Damn New Jersey you are almost a police state and you let this illegal one man crime wave POS roam free? WTF?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 08/10/2007 19:06 Comments || Top||

#2  In a news conference afterward, Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow and other officials would not comment about whether prosecutors had reported Larchira Carranza's illegal status to federal authorities after his two previous arrests, which include a charge of child rape.

Anyone care to guess?
Got a feeling it's gonna be a loooooong week in the Essex County Prosecutor's Office...
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/10/2007 19:42 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Leonardo DiCaprio "endorses" Ron Paul, sort of
Jim Geraghty, "The Campaign Spot" at National Review

As far as DiCaprio's concerned, Ron Paul is the GOP frontrunner:

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has decided not to campaign for any of the 2008 U.S. presidential candidates, because none of the politicians in the running "inspire" him. The Blood Diamond star, 32, was a staunch advocate of Democratic hopeful Senator John Kerry during 2004's presidential election and even traveled across 14 states to rally support and raise funds for him. But DiCaprio admits the frontrunners for 2008's election - Democratic candidates Senator Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and Republican Ron Paul - have yet to catch his attention with their environmental policies.


New campaign song for the Ron Paul-ites: Near... far... whereever you are... I believe that the heart does go on...
Posted by: Mike || 08/10/2007 11:23 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The political equivalent of the sinking of the Titanic.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/10/2007 16:30 Comments || Top||

#2  You know, in some ways it would be cool to live in an America where Ron Paul could be a front runner. I certainly don't agree with him about the war, but slashing the size of government....

That's a whole different matter.
Posted by: Secret Master || 08/10/2007 23:39 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Segway Fan Club Disbands Due to Lack of Interest
SAN FRANCISCO — The device that was supposed to revolutionize urban transportation seems unable to even hold on to a proper fan club...
Posted by: Pappy || 08/10/2007 01:04 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  There's no question in my mind why it never caught on. They never came out with the proper accessories to make a bigfoot version or modify it with camo and gun rack.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 08/10/2007 8:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Because Segway were never able to solve the recoil problem.
Posted by: ed || 08/10/2007 8:45 Comments || Top||

#3  The old cruel joke about fat women and mopeds leaps to mind.
Posted by: no mo uro || 08/10/2007 8:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Nobody could figure out how to bring the coffee and doughnuts to the meetings.
Posted by: James || 08/10/2007 10:13 Comments || Top||

#5  The $egway is way too expensive.

They coulda $old ahell oflot more of these if they'd dropped the $price$ by dropping the entire engine and handle bar thingy..

Hey and added two wheels.. mmmm... 0h'wait that's a skateboard isn't it?
Posted by: Red Dawg || 08/10/2007 11:39 Comments || Top||


Overpass collapses in Phoenix
Bad week for spans, old and new, it would appear.
Posted by: lotp || 08/10/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Components Made in China, mayhaps?
Posted by: twobyfour || 08/10/2007 1:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Blame being placed by MSM on capitalism, global warming, and Bushitler in 5, 4, 3, 2......
Posted by: no mo uro || 08/10/2007 5:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Spans, why do they hate us?
Posted by: Mike N. || 08/10/2007 7:07 Comments || Top||

#4  It's from generations of abuse by pols who poorly prioritize and misappropriate billions in existing tax revenue flows for pet projects and down home pork. I'm surprised that more of this doesn't happen with greater regularity cause of that. In China some engineer or pol would be literally up against the wall with the Bejing Quality Assurance Program [tm].
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/10/2007 8:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Coming soon - the return of privately built-owned-maintained toll roads, bridges and canals...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 08/10/2007 10:02 Comments || Top||

#6  Initial reports are the supports may have been undercut by a a series of 'monsoon season' rainstorms (in case you don't live in the desert, think 'deluge').
Posted by: Pappy || 08/10/2007 10:03 Comments || Top||

#7  I Blame Bush.
Posted by: Shatner Thrick2337 || 08/10/2007 10:36 Comments || Top||

#8  I blame everyone.

That should take care of it.

Now for socialized medicine!
Posted by: Hillary Clinton || 08/10/2007 10:56 Comments || Top||

#9  But Hillary,
what about the children? They can't be to blame!
Posted by: Capsu78 || 08/10/2007 11:40 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Child marriage stopped thru' street protests
An 11-year-old girl was rescued yesterday from an attempted under-age marriage at Gopalpur village in Tala upazila as her fellow students took to the streets in protest. The students of Tala Model High School submitted a memorandum to Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Mohammad Waliullah Mia requesting him to save Putul Rani Das, a student of class six of the school, from an under-age marriage with a 20-year-old youth of a neighbouring village.

The UNO summoned the girl's father, Ganesh Chandra Das, a cobbler, to his office and asked him to cancel the wedding scheduled for next Sunday. Ganesh complied with the UNO's instructions and signed a bond stating that he would not arrange any under-age marriage in future.

Putul on Monday told her classmates that her father fixed the date of her marriage next Sunday, but she dared not protest it. Her classmates tried to persuade her father Ganesh to cancel the wedding in vain. Later, over 200 students of the school took to the streets and submitted a memorandum to the UNO requesting him to intervene on Wednesday. UNO Mohammad Waliullah Mia confirmed the incident.
Posted by: Fred || 08/10/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "And it would have worked too, if it wasn't for those meddling kids!"
Posted by: Ptah || 08/10/2007 18:32 Comments || Top||

#2  OK, the unasked question kere, Just what is "Legal Age"? 12?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 08/10/2007 20:36 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
Socially Progressive Laws have to apply to straight folks too? Really?
Posted by: 3dc || 08/10/2007 19:25 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: Culture Wars
Blogger Finds Y2K Bug in NASA Climate Data - oops global warming
Blogger Steve McIntyre of Climate Audit.org noticed a strange discontinuity, or "jump" in many locations while inspecting temperature graphs, which later revealed a Y2K bug in the NASA program. 5 of the 10 warmest years on record now all occur before World War II.
Posted by: 3dc || 08/10/2007 01:06 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  IOW, Fascists + Grandpa-Papa Dubya are still responsible???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/10/2007 1:47 Comments || Top||

#2  It may in fact be the case that a) we are in a warming period and b) it is accelerated or enhanced to some (perhaps significant) degree by human activity.

But the data being used and the models that have been constructed aren't nearly as clearcut as the Gorebots feel they should be. The whole issue has been politicized to the point of being nearly hopeless to untangle.

Been re-reading William Ruddiman's Plows, Plagues & Petroleum this summer. Ruddiman (a highly respected paleo-climatologist) argues that humans have been influencing the climate since the start of agriculture 8000 years ago - to the point of having cut short an impending cold age. But he makes his case through careful review of a variety of data and by showing how it improves the ability of climate models to 'predict the past', i.e. to make sense of what we know did happen. Which (unlike data 'smoothing') is responsible science.
Posted by: lotp || 08/10/2007 5:23 Comments || Top||

#3  the bug was only for US Climate data

it has a negligible effect (2nd digit to the right of the decimal point) on the standard global records

Still, the adjusted record now shows that 1934 was the warmest year on record for the US
Posted by: mhw || 08/10/2007 8:51 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 the bug was only for US Climate data

it has a negligible effect (2nd digit to the right of the decimal point) on the standard global records


Which demonstrates how tiny the difference is between the warmest year on record, the coldest year on record and the length of our entire dataset in geologic terms. The problem, of course, is that people without scientific training - or scientists angling for research grants - have little valid perspective from which to make policy.
Posted by: Excalibur || 08/10/2007 8:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Truth be damn, it's the grant money that's the thing. I wonder if the world would end if we had a five year moratorium on any research grant monies?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/10/2007 9:01 Comments || Top||

#6  I don't know about the world ending, but our troops would have a lot less in the way of useful equipment.
Posted by: lotp || 08/10/2007 13:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Hansen's opinions and his science have been suspect for some time because of his politics and his connections to rock stars like Gore, et. al.. This is first time someone caught a systematic flaw in his methodology. The error does not explain all of the "trend". However, if you add the "heat island" effect regarding the siting of modern instrumentation, and the measured increase in the solar constant that explains 35-50% of the rise in temperature....CO2/man-made warming dissolves into the noise.
Posted by: anymouse || 08/10/2007 20:06 Comments || Top||



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Fri 2007-08-10
  Saudi police detain 135
Thu 2007-08-09
  2,760 non-Iraqi detainees in Iraqi jails, 800 Iranians
Wed 2007-08-08
  11 polio workers abducted in Khar, campaign halted
Tue 2007-08-07
  Suicide bomber kills 30 in Iraq, including 12 children
Mon 2007-08-06
  Benazir willing to join Musharraf in govt
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  Explosives + ME men near Naval Station in SC, FBI on scene
Sat 2007-08-04
  Afghan airstrikes kill ‘100’ Taliban
Fri 2007-08-03
  Algerians zap Islamic mastermind
Thu 2007-08-02
  Qaeda in Maghreb's second-in-command surrenders
Wed 2007-08-01
  Eight terrorists killed, 40 suspects detained in Coalition operations
Tue 2007-07-31
  Taleban kill second SKorean hostage
Mon 2007-07-30
  ISAF: Chairman of Taliban military council banged in Helmand
Sun 2007-07-29
  Perv to retire as Army Chief, stay as President, Bhutto to be PM
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  New PA platform omits 'armed struggle'
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  50 Iraq football fans killed in car bombs


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