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Judge rules against AZ sheriff on racial profiling « Result #1 Yesterday at 1:32pm »
SOURCE: Reuters via Yahoo! News
PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio violated the constitutional rights of Latino drivers in his crackdown on illegal immigration, a federal judge found on Friday, and ordered him to stop using race as a factor in law enforcement decisions.
The ruling against the Maricopa County sheriff came in response to a class-action lawsuit brought by Hispanic drivers that tested whether police can target illegal immigrants without racially profiling U.S. citizens and legal residents of Hispanic origin.
U.S. District Court Judge Murray Snow ruled that the sheriff's policies violated the drivers' constitutional rights and ordered Arpaio's office to cease using race or ancestry as a grounds to stop, detain or hold occupants of vehicles - some of them in crime sweeps dubbed "saturation patrols."
"The great weight of the evidence is that all types of saturation patrols at issue in this case incorporated race as a consideration into their operations," Snow said in a written ruling.
He added that race had factored into which vehicles the deputies decided to stop, and into who they decided to investigate for immigration violations.
The lawsuit contended that Arpaio, who styles himself "America's toughest sheriff," and his officers violated the constitutional rights of both U.S. citizens and legal immigrants alike in their zeal to crack down on people they believe to be in the country illegally.
The ruling came days after a U.S. Senate panel approved a landmark comprehensive immigration legislation that would usher in the biggest changes in immigration policy in a generation if passed by Congress.
The bill would put 11 million immigrants without legal status on a 13-year path to citizenship while further strengthening security along the porous southwestern border with Mexico.
Arpaio declined to comment on the ruling. An attorney representing the sheriff's office said his clients were "deeply disappointed by the ruling" and would lodge an appeal.
"The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office has always held the position that they never have used race and never will use race in making a law enforcement decision," attorney Tim Casey told Reuters.
"We do disagree with the findings and my clients do intend to appeal, but at the same time ... we will work with the court and with the opposing counsel to comply fully with the letter and the spirit of this order," he added.
'ILLEGAL AND PLAIN UN-AMERICAN'
Cecillia Wang, director of the American Civil Liberties Union Immigrants' Rights Project and plaintiffs' counsel, called the judge's ruling "an important victory that will resound far beyond Maricopa County."
"Singling people out for traffic stops and detentions simply because they're Latino is illegal and just plain un-American," Wang said after the ruling was made public.
"Let this be a warning to anyone who hides behind a badge to wage their own private campaign against Latinos or immigrants that there is no exception in the Constitution for violating people's rights in immigration enforcement."
During testimony in the non-jury trial last year, Arpaio said he was against racial profiling and denied his office arrested people because of the color of their skin.
The sheriff, who won re-election to a sixth term in November, has been a lightning rod for controversy over his aggressive enforcement of immigration laws in the state, which borders Mexico, as well as an investigation into the validity of President Barack Obama's U.S. birth certificate.
The lawsuit was brought against Arpaio and his office on behalf of five Hispanic drivers who said they had been stopped by deputies because of their ethnicity.
The plaintiffs, which include the Somos America immigrants' rights coalition and all Latino drivers stopped by the sheriff's office since 2007, were seeking corrective action but not monetary damages.
Arpaio has been the subject of other probes and lawsuits. In August, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Arizona said it had closed a criminal investigation into accusations of financial misconduct by Arpaio, and it declined to bring charges.
A separate U.S. Justice Department investigation and lawsuit relating to accusations of civil rights abuses by Arpaio's office is ongoing.
Arizona has been at the heart of a bitter national debate over immigration since Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed a 2010 crackdown on illegal immigration.
The federal government challenged the crackdown in court and said the U.S. Constitution gives it sole authority over immigration policy. The U.S. Supreme Court, however, has allowed to stand the part of the law permitting police to question people they stop about their immigration status.
Snow scheduled a hearing in the case for June 14 at 9:30 a.m. at the Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Federal Courthouse in Phoenix.
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Jeb Burton takes the pole at Charlotte « Result #2 Yesterday at 1:17pm »
SOURCE: NASCAR.com via Yahoo! Sports
Jeb Burton continued his mastery of NASCAR Camping World Truck Series qualifying, claiming the pole position for Friday night's N.C. Education Lottery 200 by scooting to a fast lap of 181.372 mph at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
The pole was Burton's third in just five races this season and the third of his career. The second-generation driver -- who was also the fastest qualifier at Martinsville and Rockingham -- will start first in the 201-mile event, which will be televised live on SPEED at 7:30 p.m. ET.
Ty Dillon qualified second-fastest in a Richard Childress Chevrolet at 180.294 mph on the 1.5-mile track. His speed was identical to Timothy Peters' qualifying lap, but Dillon will start second in the race based on his higher status in the series points standings (fifth to Peters' 13th).
Kyle Busch and Miguel Paludo completed the top five in Friday afternoon qualifying.
Justin Lofton -- last year's Charlotte winner, making just his second truck start this season -- qualified sixth. German Quiroga qualified 10th before smacking the wall and damaging the right-rear fender on his Red Horse Racing Toyota.
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New Orleans cops searching for mentally ill woman « Result #3 Yesterday at 1:12pm »
SOURCE: FOX 8 New Orleans
New Orleans, La.- The New Orleans Police Department needs your assistance in locating 54-year-old Patricia Brumfield, who is diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and is desperately in need of her medication.
Brumfield was last seen on Friday around 9:55 p.m. walking in the 4700 block of Shalimar Drive.
Police say she was last seen wearing black pants and a pink shirt, but it is possible that Brumfield has changed her clothing.
Brumfield is described as an African American female, about 300 pounds with a dark complexion and a scar above her right eye and a cut on the left side of her neck.
Police say Brumfield is diagnosed may become violent without her medications.
Anyone with any information on Brumfield's whereabouts is urged to call CRIMESTOPPERS at 822-1111.
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Connecticut to open parks, forests this weekend « Result #4 Yesterday at 12:57pm »
SOURCE: Boston Globe
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut park officials say all 107 state parks and 32 state forests will be open for the Memorial Day weekend, the start of the summer season.
The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said visitors will notice various improvements.
They include 22 new rustic camping cabins available for rent at Black Rock State Park in Watertown, Hammonasset Beach State Park in Madison, Housatonic Meadows State Park in Sharon, Kettletown State Park in Southbury and Lake Waramaug State Park in Washington.
There has been no increase in park pass fees for 2013. Season passes cost $67 for residents and $112 for out-of-state residents. The pass covers the cost of parking at major state parks where daily parking fees are charged. Those without season passes must pay entrance fees.
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Spokesman denies Pope performed exorcism « Result #5 Yesterday at 12:30pm »
SOURCE: FOX 6 Milwaukee
(CNN Belief Blog) — A Vatican spokesman on Tuesday refuted claims that Pope Francis performed an exorcism on a man in St. Peter’s Square after Mass on Sunday. But he did not altogether deny the encounter.
“The Holy Father had no intention to perform any exorcism,” the Rev. Federico Lombardi said in a statement. “Instead, as he frequently does for the sick and suffering persons who approach him, he simply meant to pray for a suffering person who was presented to him.”
Speculation that Francis performed an exorcism began to ricochet around the Internet when video of the encounter from TV2000, a Catholic television station in Italy, was posted online.
In the video, Francis smiles and takes the hand of an unnamed man in a wheelchair. After a priest whispers in the pope’s ear, his demeanor changes and he places his hands on the man’s head. The video shows the man in the wheelchair convulsing before his body goes limp with his mouth agape.
The pope also places his hands on two other people in wheelchairs, but neither has the same dramatic reaction.
Performing an exorcism is the act of “casting out” evil spirits from a person’s body. The power to perform exorcisms, wrote the Rev. Thomas Rosica in an e-mail to reporters, “was conferred by Jesus on the apostles, and it is understood that this power passes to the bishops who are the successors to the apostles, and priests the co-workers.”
“The Church has had — for many hundreds of years, it ought to be added — a very precise ritual of exorcism: there are no evangelical-style tent revival theatrics, but careful, even methodical attention and faithful following of the prescribed prayers, gestures and use of sacraments such as holy water and the crucifix,” Rosica added.
Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, an American expert on exorcism who organized a conference on the topic in 2010, said what Francis did on Sunday was “clearly not an exorcism as most people understand it.”
“It is just too short,” Paprocki said. Most exorcisms, Paprocki said, take 20 to 30 minutes to complete and involve reciting prayers, reading scriptures and using sacramental objects such as crucifixes and holy water.
“I doubt the pope has it memorized,” the bishop said.
Paprocki’s 2010 conference on exorcism was seen as a peak of interest in the ancient practice — at least in the United States. According to experts, 100 bishops and priests attended the exorcism conference held in Baltimore.
“Since that conference, I think things have died down a little bit,” Paprocki said. “I think it kind of ebbs and flows and sometimes you get more of an interest in that than other times.”
Exorcism is not unique to Catholicism. Other Christian faiths, Hinduism and Islam all have forms of casting out evil spirits.
Jesus performs a number of exorcisms in the Bible, encounters that are recounted in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. One example: in Matthew 9:32-34, Jesus exorcises a mute shortly after healing two blind men.
“As they were going away, behold, a demon-oppressed man who was mute was brought to him,” reads the passage. “And when the demon had been cast out, the mute man spoke.”
The guidelines on Catholic exorcisms, “De Exorcismis et Supplicationibus Quibusdam,” or “Of Exorcisms and Certain Supplications,” are an 84-page document that was last revised in 1998.
Hollywood has also contributed to the public fascination with exorcism.
In 1973 “The Exorcist” captured America’s imagination about demons taking over a person’s body and profoundly shaped the public’s perceptions about the process of throwing those devils out. The movie was violent, vivid and for many people unforgettable.
More recently, in 2010, a movie titled “The Rite,” starring Anthony Hopkins, dramatized the life and training of the Rev. Gary Thomas, a California priest, as an exorcist in Rome.
To experts on exorcism, however, these movies are just a sensational look at a traditional Catholic practice.
“These portrayals in these movies tend towards sensationalism,” said Rev. Mark Morozowich, dean of theology and religious studies at the Catholic University of America. “It creates a hysteria among some people and it creates fantasies among other people. I think this has caused undue fascination with these things.”
Morozowich said in some cases exorcisms are legitimately necessary and solemn tasks taken on by a priest.
“While possessions do exist, they are meant to be something more private,” Morozowich said. “Sometimes it trivializes that experience by fantasizing it.”
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Ex-Guatemala president extradited to USA « Result #6 on May 24, 2013, 2:42pm »
SOURCE: Associated Press via Yahoo! News
GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Ex-Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo was extradited on Friday to the United States to face charges of laundering $70 million in Guatemalan funds through U.S. bank accounts.
The former president was taken from a military hospital where he was recovering from liver surgery and a heart condition and put on a plane, according to his lawyer Mauricio Berreondo. He said the plane was bound for New York after a stop in Miami.
"I blame the government for what could happen to him," Berreondo said. "Portillo is sick and there are several pending appeals."
He said one appeal had to do with establishing the state of Portillo's health.
Portillo, who was Guatemala's president from 2000-2004, was taken out of the hospital on orders of Interior Secretary Mauricio Lopez Bonilla, Borreondo said.
An Associated Press reporter saw a small white jet carrying Portillo take off late morning local time.
"This decision is an important affirmation of the rule of law and due process in Guatemala," the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala said in a statement. "We commend the Guatemalan authorities in the strengthening of rule of law and the fight against organized crime and corruption."
Portillo was turned over to U.S. authorities in the same week that the high court threw out a genocide conviction in another high-profile case against an ex-president, former dictator Efrain Rios Montt. That decision that has been widely questioned and criticized, including in the United States.
Guatemala has been struggling to build a credible justice system, including with the help of a U.N.-sanctioned team of international prosecutors.
In the U.S. case, Portillo allegedly deposited the money in Miami and transferred it to a Paris account in the name of his ex-wife and daughter.
Guatemala's highest court upheld the extradition last August after it was granted by former President Alvaro Colom as he left office in 2011.
Portillo has called the proceedings a political reprisal by powerful Guatemalan businessmen and the U.S. government for not bending to their interests. He has also said the court agreeing to his extradition constitutes a violation of his human rights.
Upon leaving office in 2004, Portillo fled to Mexico, where he began working as a financial adviser for a construction materials company.
He was extradited from Mexico to Guatemala in 2008 to face embezzlement charges at home.
Portillo was found not guilty in 2011 in Guatemala of charges that he stole $15 million from the country's Defense Department during his presidency.
In 2010, police captured Portillo at a beach preparing to flee Guatemala by boat, a day after U.S. authorities charged him with laundering money.
While running for president in Guatemala in 1999, Portillo acknowledged he had killed two of his former students while a professor in the Mexican state of Guerrero in 1982.
He said the killings were in self-defense and he fled the state because he could not get a fair trial. The case has since been closed, and he can no longer be charged in those killings.
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Hollywood icon's wedding dress up for auction « Result #7 on May 24, 2013, 2:19pm »
SOURCE: Reuters via Yahoo! Canada Sports
LONDON (Reuters) - The wedding dress worn by film star Elizabeth Taylor for her first marriage to hotel heir Conrad Hilton in 1950 will go up for sale next month, auction house Christie's said on Friday.
The simple, but elegant garment created by Hollywood costume designer Helen Rose for the then 18-year-old Taylor is an oyster shell-colored, floor-length satin gown with a fine silk gauze off-the-shoulder illusion neckline.
The dress, which was a gift from MGM film studios, has a top estimate of 50,000 pounds ($75,300). Rose also designed Grace Kelly's wedding dress for her marriage to the Prince of Monaco.
By the time Taylor married Hilton she was already a veteran actress and was just a year away from her Oscar-nominated performance in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "A Place in the Sun".
The A-list of old Hollywood - Greer Garson, Gene Kelly, Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire, Esther Williams, and Van Johnson - were among the many stars who came to congratulate the bride.
The star of "Cleopatra" surpassed Michael Jackson as the highest-earning deceased celebrity in a survey released by Forbes in October 2012, with her estate pulling in $210 million, much of it from a 2011 auction of jewels, costumes and art work.
The auction of Taylor's jewels took in $116 million, more than double the record for a single collection, and set new marks for pearls, colorless diamonds and Indian jewels.
Taylor, who died in 2011 at the age of 79, was married eight times, twice to actor Richard Burton, and had a career spanning seven decades.
She first gained fame in 1944's "National Velvet" at age 12, and was nominated for five Oscars, winning best actress for "Butterfield 8" (1960) and "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966), which also starred Burton.
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British man sentenced to life for killing wife « Result #8 on May 24, 2013, 2:10pm »
SOURCE: Press Association via Yahoo! UK and Ireland News
A father who stabbed his adulterous wife to death as she prepared for a weekend break with her new lover has been jailed for life after being found guilty of murder.
Former football apprentice Andrew Parsons, 38, will have to serve a minimum of 20 years before being eligible for parole after being convicted of killing American Janee Parsons.
Parsons floored 31-year-old Mrs Parsons with a succession of punches after an argument as she got ready for her weekend break with boyfriend Daniel Hansens.
Oxford Crown Court heard Parsons left his wife dazed and prone on the landing of their home in Bicester, Oxfordshire, shortly after 9.30am on December 1, telling her he was going to fetch something.
He returned moments later with a large kitchen knife and stabbed her 17 times - with the whole episode captured on a secret dictation machine he used to snoop on her, the court heard. Parsons, of Lucerne Avenue, pleaded guilty to manslaughter but was convicted of murder following a two-week trial, Thames Valley Police said.
Court staff wept and jurors were left visibly distressed as the harrowing audio was played. Parsons had fastened the recording device underneath his wife's bed in the hope of discovering details about her private life.
The audio footage, lasting around 45 minutes, began with Parsons telling his wife that she looked "fantastic", as she prepared for a weekend away with Mr Hansens. But the jury then heard an argument brew, with Parsons saying to her: "I can't believe you're going straight from me to this guy (Mr Hansens)."
Some minutes later, the tape is filled with the sound of thumping, followed by screams, after Parsons demanded his wife talk to him, the court heard. Mrs Parsons, said to have been prone on the floor by this point, asks: "Are you going to kill me?" The couple's young son could then be heard yelling "mummy!" hysterically, adding: "I don't like it!" Prosecutors said Parsons soon left the scene to take his boy to a neighbour's house before returning to dump his wife's body in the bathroom and calling the police.
Giving evidence, Parsons admitted he killed his wife, but said he was "retaliating" after he spotted her crouching down with the blade moments after a heated row between the pair. He said he had "completely lost control", adding: "I just lost it. I don't know what I did or said."
Following the case, Mrs Parsons's parents, Mary and Phil Brady, said: "Janee was a lovely, caring person. She was a wonderful mother, daughter, sister and friend. The US and the UK have both unnecessarily lost a truly unique woman. We appreciate all the hard work and efforts that the Thames Valley Police department gave to bring justice to her and her family."
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Campfire ban in effect in much of Arizona « Result #9 on May 24, 2013, 1:59pm »
SOURCE: KTVK 3TV Phoenix
PHOENIX -- Too much wind whipping through too many dry trees means high fire danger in much of Arizona.
That's why this Memorial Day weekend, red flag warnings mean no campfires at many campgrounds, including the Manzanita Campground in Oak Creek.
As Megan Asper cooked grilled cheese sandwiches for her family, she said the absence of a campfire ruined their camping adventure. She says not being able to have her children roast marshmallows takes away from the experience of pitching a tent and enjoying time outdoors.
At another Manzanita campsite, Maria Gonzalez also isn't happy about not being able to have a campfire, but she understands why the campfire ban is in effect.
It was Memorial Day in 2010 when an unattended campfire sparked the Wallow Fire, Arizona's largest wildfire. More than a half million acres of the White Mountains in Eastern Arizona were torched and two cousins from Tucson spent time in jail and face large fines for not putting their campfire completely out.
It's hoped this year's campfire ban will keep a repeat of that devastating fire from happening.
Before you head out this Memorial Day weekend, check with the National Forests, Bureau of Land Management, State Land Department, State Park's Department and other agencies to learn what fire restrictions are in place.
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Boy Scouts of America lifts ban on gay scouts « Result #10 on May 24, 2013, 1:48pm »
SOURCE: Reuters via Yahoo! News
GRAPEVINE, Texas (Reuters) - The Boy Scouts of America voted on Thursday to lift a century-old ban on openly gay scouts in a major victory for gay rights activists, but the decision means a sea of change for an organization that depends heavily on faith-based groups.
More than 60 percent of the group's National Council, comprised of some 1,400 delegates, voted in favor of ending the ban, effective January 1, 2014, the group said in a statement. A prohibition on openly gay adult leaders remains in place.
The decision followed weeks of intense lobbying by gay rights activists and members of conservative organizations, many of them church groups that have traditionally formed the backbone of one of the nation's largest youth organizations.
"I'm a happy camper," said Mike Harrison, 71, a former chairman of California's Orange County Boy Scout Council who voted to end the ban at a meeting of the National Council in Grapevine, Texas.
"The process was a very civil debate... There wasn't any uncivilized behavior. People stated their case, passionately and from many different angles," he said, adding that by Thursday it had become clear that "the younger generation of scouting just don't see it the way the old guard did."
The Boy Scouts' long-standing ban on gay scouts had become a polarizing issue at the center of the debate on gay rights in the United States, where gay soldiers may now serve openly in the military and where gay couples can wed in a number of states.
For months, the Boy Scouts have been caught between two sides in an emotionally charged debate that has seen both supporters and opponents of lifting the ban threaten to withdraw support.
The Boy Scouts has faced heavy pressure on one side from gay rights supporters and some of the major corporate sponsors who provide much of the group's annual funding, and on the other by a variety of major national church groups, who sponsor and support the large majority of troops nationwide.
"I just resigned from my troop," said Chris Collier, 41, a former troop leader in Alabama and Florida who said he would send his Eagle Scout award back to the organization's national office.
"My grandfather earned his eagle award in 1938. I earned mine in 1990. I was hoping my son could earn his when he grew up. I'm sad, but this is their cross to bear. I'm no longer part of the organization. I'll move in a different direction."
John Stemberger, an Orlando lawyer, Eagle Scout, former scoutmaster and founder of an organization that opposes lifting the ban said the decision marked "a sad day for America."
He said he would be never again wear the Boy Scout uniform and would work to create a new scouting organization "based on timeless values."
Thursday's vote came about three months after the organization's leadership delayed a decision on changing its membership policy to research attitudes toward admitting gays.
FAITH-BASED GROUPS
About 70 percent of the group's 100,000 Boy Scout units are chartered by faith-based organizations, according to Boy Scouts membership data. Some 22 percent of the units nationwide are chartered by civic organizations, and 7 percent are chartered by educational groups.
One of the major turning points in the debate came earlier this year when the Mormon church - the largest sponsor of scouting troops nationwide - expressed support for ending the ban. The Mormon church charters nearly 38,000 scout troops representing nearly a quarter million scouts.
The next largest faith-based sponsor is the United Methodist Church, which charters about 11,000 troops representing about 363,000 scouts. They, too, issued a statement supporting an end to the ban. The Catholic church, which sponsors about 8,400 troops, has taken no official position on the controversy.
While national polls show a growing acceptance of gay rights, an online survey of about 200,000 Boy Scouts members, parents and leaders indicated strong support for maintaining the ban, by a margin of almost 2-1.
But the Boy Scouts' top leadership endorsed the change and encouraged delegates to support it.
"Our vision is to serve every kid and give them a place where they grow up and feel protected," BSA President Wayne Perry told a news conference. "Our view is that kids are better off in scouting."
Acknowledging division within the organization's ranks, top Boy Scouts officials said they believed those unhappy with the change would eventually return to the organization.
"We will continue to work through these issues," said Tico Perez, the Boy Scouts' national commissioner. "In time people will decide that the best place for kids is in scouting."
Zach Wahls, an Eagle Scout raised by two lesbians, said the time had come for change.
"There is nothing Scout-like about exclusion of other people, and there is nothing Scout-like about putting your own religious beliefs before someone else's," Wahls, founder of Scouts for Equality, told a news conference on Wednesday.
Gay rights advocates gathered petitions with more than 1.8 million signatures in support of ending the ban while opponents collected about 250,000 signatures urging delegates to vote down the change.
Intel Corp, one of the largest corporate sponsors of the Boy Scouts, said last September it would stop supporting troops that continue to ban gay scouts. Intel donated about $700,000 in 2009, according to the American Independent magazine.
That announcement followed pressure from gay groups that launched a nationwide campaign on Change.org urging Intel to withdraw its support. United Parcel Service Inc, another major sponsor, followed suit in November, as did Merck & Co, according to the gay rights group GLAAD.
Some of the nation's largest gay rights groups cheered the move to end the gay scout ban, and predicted the organization's ban on openly gay adult leaders would soon end as well.
"Today's vote is a significant victory for gay youth across the nation and a clear indication that the Boy Scouts' ban on gay adult leaders will also inevitably end," GLAAD spokesman Rich Ferraro said.
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