January 15, 2008
Episcopal Church Suspends Calif. Bishop for Secession Push
Fresno, California The Episcopal Church prohibited a California bishop from exercising his religious obligations until March after he LED his congregants to break away from the national church.
Bishop John-David Schofield Drew sharp unfavorable judgment from the U.S.-based designation when he pressed his conservative bishopric to break up its ties to the Christian church last calendar month in an engagement over the Bible and gayness.
New York AG to Lead Probe into 1988 Double Murder
NEW YORK New York’s lawyer general will lead a new probe into the 1988 murders of a Long Island couple whose boy served 17-years in prison house before an appeals court emphasised he mightiness be innocent.
Gov. Eliot Spitzer on Saturday appointive Attorney General Andrew Cuomo as a particular prosecutor in the example of Arlene and Seymour Tankleff, who existed bludgeoned and knifed to expiry in their Belle Terre home.
Man Avoids Criminal Charge for Writing Obscenity on Check
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. A adult male who composed a coarse message on the memorandum line of a bank check he victimised to give a USD 5 parking ticket has apologised in penning, leading police to drop down a jumbled conduct charge against him.
Clerks existed offended by the subject matter, and the piggledy conduct charge was registerred because the remark was detestable, police Chief James Donnelly emphasised.
Cops: Pop Sodomized Teen Stepson to Avenge Rape
FORT WORTH, Star State A male parent sodomized his 18-year-old stepson to revenge the teenager’s supposed rape of the man’s 8-year-old girl, police told.
The male parent, 32, sour himself into to government on Friday and was let go of from jail Saturday after card a USD 17,500 bond. He faces a complaint of provoked sexual assault.
Cops: Mammy Put Son, 7, in Oven as Punishment
AIRMONT, N.Y. Police nabbed an adult female Friday after her 7-year-old boy told regime she burnt him in an oven, and a daycare worker was nabbed for non reporting the onrush, authorities informated.
The female parent, 26-year-old Tiffany Fraser of Tallman, was supercharged with assault and threatenning a shaver, authorities told.
Preparation School President Jumps to His Death From Hotel Room
Capital of Georgia The democratic president of one of Atlanta’s most esteemed prep schools afforded a bestirring talk to the module about the new twelvemonth. Hours ulterior, he on the face of it jumped to his expiry from the eighth floor of a hotel.
Harry C. Payne, 60, went forth behind short missive to his menage and the plank chairman of the Woodward Academy.
Ill. Mother Says She Killed Autistic Daughter to ‘Fix’ Her
PEKIN, Ill. A adult female accused of voting down her autistic daughter took the stand Friday that she attempted to asphyxiate the 3-year-old with a pillow three years before she deliverred the goods with a plastic food waste bag.
Karen McCarron expressed she couldn’t go through with it victimization the pillow.
Bad Day: N.Y. Physician Delivers Baby, Watches House Burn Down
WEST HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. An accoucheur saved his married woman and six youngsters from a firing that raped their home, presented a babe while the firm was still smouldering and then acquired cited with edifice violations.
Dr. Woodrow Charles Herman Weiss told Friday “was merely my twenty.”
The 37-year-old awakenned around 3 a.
Bluegrass State Police Capture Man Suspected of Killing 2
MUSES MILLS, Ky. A adult male wanted in the shot deaths of two citizenry and the occupying of a surety was becharmed early Saturday, Kentucky State Police expressed.
Roy Pollard Jr. was nabbed about three land miles from the view of the shots in a remote country of Fleming County in easterly Kentucky, Cavalryman Gary Thompson expressed.
Minutemen ‘Adopt’ California Highway Near Mexico Border
SAN DIEGO The Minutemen anti-illegal migration group is travelling from picketinging to trash-picking on a slip of Southern California expressway.
State transit functionaries granted the group’s San Diego chapter an Adopt-A-Highway stretch of Interstate 5 that admits the Border Patrol’s dealings