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Police: Man Swung From Crane Into Side Of BuildingBOULDER, Colo. -- A 22-year-old man was killed early Tuesday morning when he swung from a large crane and hit a building. According to University of Colorado police, the accident happened about 3:13 a.m. in the area of 18th Street and Colorado Avenue. Police said the victim and another man climbed a construction crane at the CU-Boulder ATLAS Building site and attached climbing ropes to it. The man who was killed swung across 18th Street and hit the side of the CU power plant building. Police said a wind gust might have...

NAPLES, Italy (NNS) -- Military Sealift Command (MSC) ship USNS Red Cloud (T-AKR 313) is carrying generators and a crane to the U.S. Gulf Coast region to support Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts. Donated by the Department of Defense, the $1.9 million worth of equipment was loaded aboard the ship at Naval Station Rota, Spain, Sept. 9-10. The equipment will be offloaded in southern Texas, where it will be transported by ground to hard-hit areas of Louisiana and Alabama. Two large diesel generators will be used to power hospitals in Louisiana, while two others will power hospitals in Alabama. Five other...

ATLANTA - A homicide suspect remained perched on an 18-story construction crane for a third day Friday, holding police at bay and causing a spectacle in the heart of the city's entertainment district. A plea from his sister, offers of food and a plan to have him jump onto air bags hadn't resolved the standoff. The man, identified as Carl Edward Roland, got onto the crane around 5 p.m. Wednesday and told police he was thinking of killing himself by jumping, police spokesman Sgt. John Quigley said. "When he's ready to come down, he'll come down — one way or...

Crane climber shuts down PeachtreeMan identified as murder suspect from Florida By MIKE MORRIS , BILL MONTGOMERY, BILL TORPYThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionPublished on: 05/26/05 The sister of a Florida murder suspect perched 350 feet above a Buckhead intersection pleaded for her brother to surrender this afternoon.Tawana Roland, who said she is the younger sister of 41-year-old Carl Edward Roland, appeared at the condominium construction site after receiving a call from detectives. Carl Roland   John Spink/AJC A man identified as Carl Roland stands atop a crane high above Buckhead as police officers try to talk him into coming down.    ...

The lanquid voices of NPR's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED were celebrating the defeat of longtime conservative Republican Phil Crane. This information was mentioned twice during a twenty minute span of covering the outcome of the election. While many of us would consider that anyone who had served over three decades in the House had served long enough we would have to make an exception for Phil Crane who has been one of the greats of conservative activism. He is also a very nice fellow, a handsome man, has a great sense of humor, and goes the extra mile to make us...

Incumbents who lost their bid for re-election: Georgia House 12. Republican Congressman Max Burns defeated by Democrat John Barrow Illinois House 8. Republican Congressman Philip Crane defeated by Democrat Melissa Bean Indiana Governor. Democratic Governor Joe Kernan defeated by Republican Mitch Daniels Indiana House 9. Democratic Congressman Baron Hill defeated by Republican Mike Sodrel New Hampshire Governor. Republican Governor Craig Benson defeated by Democrat John Lynch South Dakota Senate Class 3. Democratic Senator Tom Daschle defeated by Republican John Thune Texas House 1. Democratic Congressman Max Sandlin defeated by Republican Louis Gohmert Texas House 2. Democratic Congressman Nick Lampson defeated...

DENVER, CO – Today Cindy Crane, a military mom, released the following statement: “President Bush's speech in Greeley today makes me feel more strongly than ever that he is the man America needs in the Oval Office. He has shown us his strength in the War on Terror. He will lead my three boys and the rest of our troops to victory. “John Kerry continues to demonstrate that he is weak -- he still can't even decide whether Saddam Hussein was a threat to the United States. I want my friends and neighbors here in Colorado to remember that this...

For 35 years, Ronald Cerotzke and his wife, Joanne, have cast their ballots for U.S. Rep. Phil Crane, but this year the Arlington Heights couple are thinking it's time for a change. Sitting in the Wauconda American Legion, in the center of Crane's hometown and just blocks from his campaign office, the Cerotzkes said they had heard enough about problem stories about Republican candidates this year. They were particularly bothered about Crane's habit of taking lobbyist-sponsored trips and staying away from his own district. "He doesn't live here. He lives in Virginia," Ronald Cerotzke said. ....snip.... Despite Crane's considerable advantages,...

ATLANTA (AP) -- Mike Crane carried more than 3,000 signatures to the state Capitol in hopes of becoming the first Southern Party of Georgia candidate on the ballot. Wearing a baseball cap with the old Georgia flag and its Confederate battle emblem, Crane guarded closely the petitions gathered during more than 200 hours of standing outside grocery stores and going door-to-door across a seven-county north Georgia state Senate district. Crane rubbed his beard and gave a sad grin after getting the news. Rejected. The Secretary of State's office, after weeks of review, deemed Friday that not enough of the signatures...

EXETER, ME – Today, Maine Farm Families for Bush-Cheney ’04 State Chair Walt Whitcomb, state Sen. Betty Lou Mitchell, state Rep. Jeff Tardy and local farmers gathered to announce the Central Maine leadership members of the statewide Bush-Cheney ’04 farming coalition. “Maine farmers work hard day in and day out to earn a living, and they know President Bush is working hard to support our industry and our way of life,” Whitcomb said. “President Bush’s strong record and steady leadership is rallying farmers across the state who are eager to support President Bush and work together for his re-election...

From S. Stephen Powell, Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies, 1987, 65-66: Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate, and CounterspyPhilip Agee and Victor Marchetti, along with members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, launched the journal CounterSpy, under the aegis of the Organizing Committee for a Fifth Estate (OC-5). OC-5 stated that its purpose was to develop an "alternative intelligence community. . .with the flexibility of employing both revolutionary and reformist methods. In an early CounterSpy article, "Exposing the CIA", Agree spelled out the OC-5 program: "The most effective and important systematic efforts to combat the CIA...

For years, Kennewick-based crane company Lampson International has flown a Confederate flag, along with an American flag, a Washington state flag and a corporate flag in front of its building in the Big Pasco Industrial Area.Lampson employees put up the Confederate flag as an expression of Southern pride, said Bill Lampson, company president. He said he's never received any complaints about it."We have some people who are damn fine Americans that are proud of their heritage," he said. "There's nothing else that's meant by it, and there never will be."But to Albert Wilkins, pastor of Morningstar Missionary Baptist Church in...

When I was a GOP activist, every election season all I heard was "We have got to beat the Democrats." Finally I wised up to the fact that we no longer have a two-party system, we have a one-party system -- Demopublicans. They pass laws for us but make themselves exempt. Read: The Demopublican Party Wins Again. Former Congressman Bob Dornan (R-Ca), a strong pro-life advocate, on his radio talk show on June 2, 2003 interviewed Gary Aldrich, author of his newest book Thunder on the Left. Gary also is author of Unlimited Access about his experience as an FBI...