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NAPLES, Fla. -- A 6-year-old special education student who kicked a Naples teacher's aide and spent several hous in juvenile jail is facing felony battery charges. Her mother, however, wants to know why the case has gone so far. Takovia Allen suffers from behavioral problems and attends a special class at Lely Elementary in Naples. According to an arrest report, on May 2, a teacher was trying to line up students to go to music class. Takovia refused to go and kicked the teacher's aide in the ankle. After a discussion among school officials and two law enforcement officials called...

President Bush plans to address the nation on Monday night at 8 PM to con the American public into buying into his ludicrous immigration policies. His approval ratings are at an all-time low, with only 31% of Americans approving of his job performance, while "68% believe the United States is worse off today than it was before Mr. Bush became president." Bush's immigration policies would open the floodgates to illegals, and Americans do not approve -- and it looks like the Senate agrees. Another poll shows support for the House's tough and very sensible immigration legislation, HR 4437: ...69 percent...

President Clinton will attend a fundraising event for Rep. Jim McDermott in Seattle on June 3. Rep. Jim McDermott doesn't need to raise money for another term in the House. It's his Queen Anne home that could be in financial jeopardy.

(AP) MILWAUKEE Four Democratic presidential campaign workers were sentenced to jail time ranging from four months to six months Wednesday for puncturing the tires of Republican vehicles on Election Day 2004. The men had pleaded no contest in January to misdemeanor property damage. A fifth worker was found not guilty. Those who pleaded no contest were Sowande A. Omokunde, the son of Democratic U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Milwaukee; Michael Pratt, the son of former acting Milwaukee Mayor Marvin Pratt; and Lewis Caldwell and Lavelle Mohammad, both from Milwaukee. They originally were charged with felony property damage but accepted plea deals...

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert today said efforts to establish criminal penalties for illegal presence in the United States would not be part of any final immigration bill, a position the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee made clear a week ago. The statement by Frist, R-Tenn., and Hastert, R-Ill., pointed out — as did the April 5 letter by F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., R-Wis., to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops — that 191 Democrats voted against an amendment to House immigration legislation (HR 4437) in December that would have reduced the...

The following statement was issued to clarify the felony provision in H.R. 4437. America is a nation with borders and borders matter. We are a nation of citizens and citizenship matters. We are also a nation of laws and laws matter. We have an important immigrant heritage and honoring that heritage matters. In December, the House of Representatives passed a strong border security bill aimed at securing our borders and preventing illegal immigration. However, on December 16, 2005, there were 191 House Democrats who voted to oppose House Republican efforts to reduce the crime of unlawful presence in the United...

Any immigration legislation passed by Congress this year will not include the inflammatory provisions approved by the House last year that make it a felony to be in the United States illegally, Republican leaders on Capitol Hill said yesterday. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said in a joint statement that "it remains our intent to produce a strong border security bill that will not make unlawful presence in the United States a felony." The commitment removes a primary concern held by many Democrats who say that the yearlong imprisonment carried by a felony conviction...

Any immigration legislation passed by Congress this year will not include the inflammatory provisions approved by the House last year that make it a felony to be in the United States illegally, Republican leaders on Capitol Hill said yesterday. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said in a joint statement that "it remains our intent to produce a strong border security bill that will not make unlawful presence in the United States a felony." The commitment removes a primary concern held by many Democrats who say that the yearlong imprisonment carried by a felony conviction...

Representative Cynthia A. McKinney and her legal advisers blamed racial bias Friday for her run-in with a Capitol police officer as the incident ballooned into a political furor. At a news conference at Howard University, Ms. McKinney, a Georgia Democrat, said her physical altercation with the unidentified officer, who was screening visitors to a House office building on Wednesday, was the officer's fault. "Let me be clear," Ms. McKinney said, surrounded by supporters at the historically black university. "This whole incident was instigated by the inappropriate touching and stopping of me, a female black congresswoman. I deeply regret this incident...

The state House approved a bill Thursday to expand Arizona's trespassing law to make illegal immigrants' presence in Arizona a crime and to enable local authorities to arrest them. Under the bill, an illegal immigrant anywhere in Arizona would be guilty of a felony. A law officer arresting someone for investigation of a crime also would be authorized to question the person's immigration status.

Would someone please inform me if the laws have changed? Otherwise, why are some politicians acting as though making illegal immigration a felon would be a new law? Federal Immigration and Nationality Act Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii)Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A): A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he: * assists an alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or * encourages...

NEW HAMPTON — A high school teacher guilty of making advances on a student via the Internet received a five-year suspended sentence today and must register as a sex offender. Lee Ayers, 50, initially was charged in October with sexual exploitation by a school employee, a Class D felony. The former social studies teacher pleaded guilty in January. He will be on probation for two to five years. A judge today in Chickasaw County District Court also sentenced Ayers, a former basketball and volleyball coach, to pay a $1,000 fine, seek mental health counseling and to receive a substance abuse...

Congress is working toward passage of a new round of immigration reforms. What do you think the top immigration reform priority should be? Tighten border security. Deport everyone who lives and works in the country illegally. Toughen penalties for employers who hire undocumented workers. Offer a program for willing workers and employers.

Bernabe Rivas of Carson City, Nevada, was busted for trafficking in methamphetamine, reports the Nevada Appeal. A felony. But rather than prosecute the illegal drug dealer on the felony charge, District Judge Bill Maddox sent him to drug court…over the objections of the drug court committee which reviews and approves such cases. By having his case heard in drug court, Rivas avoids the possibility of being convicted of a felony. Instead, he simply has to take frequent drug tests, keep a job and not get busted again for the next two years. Now here’s the kicker… The reason Judge Maddox...

The disciplinary arm of the N.C. State Bar dropped charges of felonious misconduct against two former Union County prosecutors Friday because of a 1999 clerical error at the state Supreme Court. The State Bar had charged Kenneth Honeycutt and Scott Brewer with lying, cheating and withholding evidence in a 1996 death penalty case. The ruling Friday marks the second time that Honeycutt and Brewer won on procedural grounds before the bar's Disciplinary Hearing Commission, which sits as judge and jury in disciplinary cases. . . . Prosecutors around the state are concerned that the case is damaging their reputation and...

In an unexpected twist in the Election Day tire slashing trial, four former Kerry-Edwards campaign staffers, including the sons of U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Milwaukee) and former Acting Mayor Marvin Pratt, have agreed to plead no contest to misdemeanors. The plea agreements came in the middle of jury deliberations after an eight-day trial on felony property damage charges that carried potential 3 1/2 year prison terms upon conviction. Michael Pratt, 33, Sowande Omokunde, 26, Lewis G. Caldwell, 29, and Lavelle Mohammad, 36, have all pleaded no contest to misdemeanor counts of criminal damage to property. Omokunde is Moore's son. Prosecutors...

The N.C. State Bar has challenged the dismissal of disciplinary charges against two former Union County prosecutors, saying they committed felonies to win a death penalty conviction. Kenneth Honeycutt and Scott Brewer were charged with lying, cheating and withholding evidence in the 1996 murder trial. Honeycutt, the former district attorney in Union County, has since returned to private practice; Brewer is now a District Court judge in Richmond County. Last week, the bar's Disciplinary Hearing Commission cited a missed deadline in dismissing the case against them. But the bar's lawyers say there is no deadline to bring charges because the...

Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime.It's no joke. Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity. In other words, it's OK to flame someone on a mailing list or in a blog as long as you do it under your real name. Thank Congress for small favors, I guess. This ridiculous prohibition, which would likely imperil much of Usenet, is buried in the so-called Violence Against Women and Department of Justice Reauthorization Act. Criminal penalties include stiff fines and two...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 - Churches, social service agencies and immigration groups across the country are rallying against a provision in the recently passed House border-security bill that would make it a federal crime to offer services or assistance to illegal immigrants. ...The measure would broaden the nation's immigrant-smuggling law so that people who assist or shield illegal immigrants would be subject to prosecution. Offenders, who might include priests, nurses or social workers, could face up to five years in prison. The proposal would also allow the authorities to seize some assets of those convicted of such a crime. ...Speaking for...

Before sentencing a Whitefish Bay art dealer on her second conviction stemming from an initial crime, a federal judge said Monday he hadn't really seen a "clear portrait" of the defendant and that what he did see was "impressionistic." But U.S. District Judge Charles N. Clevert Jr. said he had enough perspective to throw the book at Marilyn Karos, concluding that she had once more thumbed her nose at the law in the case that comprised a Libyan businessman, Renaissance-era astronomical devices, a hidden-camera videotape made at the Pfister Hotel and a Mob-style beat-down in the North Shore. Clevert sentenced...

A Dallas man will likely be sentenced today, one day after a jury convicted him of sprinkling feces on pastries at a grocery store. Prosecutors charged 49-year-old Behrouz Nahidmobarekeh with two felony counts of tampering with consumer products. During the trial, the jury saw store surveillance videotapes of the man tainting the food. Customers had complained the fresh-baked items smelled and tasted like manure. Nahidmobarekeh could get anywhere from 10 years probation to two to 20 years in prison.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2005 – Saddam Hussein is getting something he didn't give his victims - a fair trial. Saddam's trial, which began in Baghdad today, is being held under the rule of law and is in accordance with international norms, U.S. State Department and National Security Council officials said on background here today. The Iraqi courts are handling the prosecution, Iraqi investigative judges are handling the evidence, and Saddam is being charged under laws passed by the Transitional National Assembly. Iraqi laws will be followed, officials said. However, both the prosecutors and defense lawyers are receiving outside help, as...

The Hennepin County Sheriff's Department is investigating allegations of criminal sexual conduct by Minnesota Vikings players after a boat cruise on Lake Minnetonka turned into an out-of-control party that included lap dances and sexual acts, an attorney for the charter boat company said Tuesday. Stephen Doyle, a lawyer representing the owners of Al and Alma's, a company that charters cruises on the lake, said cornerback Fred Smoot and another Vikings player, whom he declined to name, reserved a charter for a night-time excursion Thursday. "From our end, I don't know the name of the other primary person, but we turned...

Four Central Florida middle school students were arrested Monday for allegedly ripping off the clothes off classmates and then snapping photos with their cell phones, according to a Local 6 News report. Investigators said the boys, ages 12, 13 and 14 years old, attacked the girls Friday at Tavares Middle School in Lake County, Fla., in the back of a school bus. The boys then allegedly groped the girls and took pictures of them. Cell phone video allegedly showed one of the girls screaming for help while the boys touch her breasts, according to the report. Police said the attack...

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) - A 420-pound man was charged with felony robbery, accused of stealing beer from the same store he stole from in January, authorities said. Levi Timbana, 23, of Fort Hall was accused of walking into the Cowboy Oil store Aug. 9 and taking a swing at a clerk who refused to sell him beer after hours. Prosecutors say the clerk held Timbana at bay with a metal pipe until police arrived; Timbana's companion allegedly fled with two cases of beer. Police said Timbana punched a different clerk at the store during a January beer heist. He spent...

...''The kids basically stumbled through an open rabbit hole and found Wonderland,'' Polly, a library technology administrator, said of the Kutztown 13. The trouble began last fall after the district issued some 600 Apple iBook laptops to every student at the high school about 50 miles northwest of Philadelphia. The computers were loaded with a filtering program that limited Internet access. They also had software that let administrators see what students were viewing on their screens. But those barriers proved easily surmountable: The administrative password that allowed students to reconfigure computers and obtain unrestricted Internet access was easy to obtain....

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - An 11-year-old girl arrested on a deadly weapon charge for throwing a rock during a water balloon fight is scheduled to be tried Wednesday after talks between her attorney and prosecutors failed to produce a plea bargain. Maribel Cuevas was arrested in April for throwing a two-pound rock at a neighborhood boy who had pelted her with a water balloon. The rock gashed the boy's forehead, and the girl spent five days in Fresno's juvenile hall and a month under house arrest after police said she resisted arrest and scratched an officer's arm. Since then, the...

JOURDANTON, Texas -- Some city officials in Jourdanton, Texas, are outraged that a public works supervisor ordered employees to drown six stray dogs at the city sewer plant, rather than having the animals properly euthanized. For punishment, the supervisor was ordered to attend classes with animal control officers. City councilman Darrell Richter said the workers took the dogs from the pound to the sewer plant and dropped their cages into the water. A child saw the drownings and told his mother, who complained. Richter told the San Antonio Express-News that he's disgusted by the incident and upset with the supervisor...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - An 11-year old girl faces felony assault charges after seeking emergency help for a boy whom she says she accidentally injured after he bullied her with water balloons. Maribel Cuevas was arrested, handcuffed and taken by police to juvenile hall, where she spent five days with only minimal contact with her parents. Her family says Maribel meant no harm when she accidentally hit the Elijah Vang, the 9-year-old neighborhood boy, in the forehead with a rock. They say she was simply defending herself after Vang and several other boys pummeled her with water balloons outside her...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Six current and former trustees of the board that oversees San Diego's beleaguered pension fund pleaded not guilty Monday to felony conflict of interest charges. The case against Ron Saathoff, John Torres, Sharon Wilkinson, Mary Vattimo, Terri Webster and Cathy Lexin contain the first criminal charges in the pension-fund scandal that prompted the resignation of Mayor Dick Murphy. The San Diego County District Attorney's office filed the charges last month. "Our clients have been singled out inappropriately in a very highly charged political climate in this city," Frank Vecchione, Webster's attorney, told reporters outside the courthouse....

Authorities in Ahoskie, North Carolina dropped a disturbing bombshell yesterday with the news that they had charged two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) with 31 felony counts of animal cruelty. PETA's Andrew Cook and Adria Hinkle were arrested late Wednesday night after police saw them dump bags containing seven dead puppies and 11 other dead animals in a grocery store's dumpster. Their PETA-owned van, seized by police, contained another 13 animal bodies. Ahoskie's police chief told reporters: "We've been investigating animal cruelty and illegal disposal of dead animals within our city for the last four...

Boys Slapped With Felonies in Bus Fight Mon May 23, 1:15 PM ET PUNTA GORDA, Fla. - The mother of two boys whose fight with a substitute school bus driver was captured on videotape has questioned why the boys are charged with a felony while the driver faces a less serious charge. Sherri Shaw said Monday on NBC's "Today" that she's not satisfied with the punishment facing driver Albert Taylor. He has been charged with misdemeanor battery and could spend a year in jail if convicted. Mark Ernest Dickinson, 15, and his stepbrother, Corey Gene Hendershot, 13, were arrested last...

Public funds and facilities have been used to produce and distribute to middle and high school students a booklet that graphically describes deviant sex acts. The Little Black Book — Queer in the 21st Century features vulgar language, explicit photos, and a list of addresses of bars where teens can go to be picked up by homosexuals. It was made available at a "safe sex conference" April 30 at Brookline High School in a Boston suburb sponsored by the Gay-Lesbian-Straight Education Network (GLSEN), on an exhibition table belonging to the Fenway Community Health Center. The school, GLSEN, and the Massachusetts...

Group admits giving out 'gay' sex book High schoolers received 'hard-core porn' homosexual 'how-to' Posted: May 20, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com After strong denials, a homosexual activist group admitted it made available to middle school and high school students an AIDS handbook described by critics as a "hard-core pornographic homosexual 'how-to.'" The Boston Chapter of the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network, GLSEN Boston, said the distribution at an April 30 event at Brookline High School violated its policy that no sexually explicit materials be made available. A Massachusetts-based group involved in opposition to same-sex marriage, the Article...

Denton: Jury says man's record, behavior led to maximum sentence DENTON – The man who taped a 1-year-old black Labrador retriever's mouth shut in July, causing the dog's death from heatstroke, will serve two years in state jail, a Denton County jury decided Wednesday. "What he did was an unbelievably cruel act, and he deserved to be punished," lead prosecutor Tony Paul said after the trial. Richard Swift, 43, of The Colony was convicted Wednesday morning of animal cruelty. Jurors decided on the maximum jail sentence allowed and fined him $5,000, half the maximum. Some jurors said the crime combined...

INTRO 1 – Peter Paul to Make Big Announcement on Hannity 2 - Sorry, Alan Colmes, You Will Not Stop hillcap.org or the Truth 3 - Hillary’s Favorite Foreign Donor, Tendo Oto (Part 1) ================================================================================= Note: this is the fourth episode in a series of stories regarding the events surrounding the 2000 Fundraiser and the business relationship of entrepreneur Peter Paul, William Jefferson Clinton, and Hillary Rodham Clinton. In our last episode, we introduced Japanese businessman Tendo Oto, who gave 27 grand to the 2000 Fundraiser so that he could join the big party with the Clintons and the...

Peter Paul, the whistleblower who threatens to derail Hillary Clinton's presidential bid, will be interviewed by Frank Beckmann on Thursday, May 5 at 10:30 am Eastern. Beckmann is on WJR, the ABC radio affiliate in Detroit. LISTEN ONLINE: CLICK. Paul made appearances on Wednesday with Tony Snow and Sean Hannity. The interviews were in-depth and did an excellent job of explaining Hillary Clinton's problem with her Hollywood fundraiser put on by Paul in 2000. Had Hillary's campaign finance director David Rosen reported accurately to the FEC, it would have cost her dearly in hard money and threatened her campaign with...

David Rosen, former National Finance Director of Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign, is under a four-count federal indictment charging that he "knowingly and willfully caused to be made materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements" to the Federal Election Commission regarding more than $1 million in campaign contributions. Each of the four felony counts carries a possible penalty of five years in prison and $250,000 in fines. This is the most massive fraud ever charged against a political campaign by the U.S. Government. The criminal charges against Rosen stem from the largest fundraiser on behalf of Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign. The...

TURN, TURN, TURN Rosen, it's time...turn turn turn Here is your chance to...turn turn turn For that woman, why would you...go to prison If you protect her, you're really nuts We want to hear you spilling your guts Or your cellmate will like your butt Tell everything or you're in the slammer Rosen, it's time...turn turn turn Here is your chance to...turn turn turn For that woman, why would you...go to prison You know she would stab you in the back Of course, in the press, launch an attack Watch out or you could be whacked Tell everything or...

Inspector Columbo, we don't need you. The crime has been solved. For anyone having difficulty understanding the felonies surrounding the 2000 fundraiser, it can be very easily explained in song. Hillary needed hard money to fight Rick Lazio in New York. He had lots to spend. By underreporting regarding the combo Goodbye Scumbag/Hello Senator Clinton Fundraiser in Hollywood, she was able to raise more of the hard money she needed for the fight. David Rosen filed false reports. He has been indicted. Aaron Tonken told her chapter and verse what was going on. Hillary claims she didn't know. Another witness...

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LEESBURG, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia judge sentenced a spammer to nine years in prison Friday in the nation's first felony prosecution for sending junk e-mail, though the sentence was postponed while the case is appealed. Loudoun County Circuit Judge Thomas Horne said that because the law targeting bulk e-mail distribution is new and raises constitutional questions, it was appropriate to defer the prison time until appeals courts rule. Advertisement A jury had recommended the nine-year prison term after convicting Jeremy Jaynes of pumping out at least 10 million e-mails a day with the help of 16 high-speed lines, the...

Arrest Made In Greensboro Bomb Threats 33 minutes ago WXII ThePiedmontChannel.com Police in Greensboro said Wednesday that a 16-year-old has been arrested in connection with a series of recent bomb threats. Tony Wayne Moore was arrested late Tuesday night at a residence on Cranbrook Street, police said. He is charged with 20 felony counts of making false reports concerning a destructive device, according to authorities. More than 50 bomb threats have been called in to various businesses and government buildings since March 24. Police said the bomb threats are not terrorist related. "We did look at this and found no...

My friends: It does not take a court order to save Terri Schiavo from dehydration and starvation. It does not require an order from Governor Jeb Bush or the Florida DCF to place her under protection. It does not require permission of Terri Schiavo's husband and legal guardian, Michael Schiavo, to give her food and water. Michael Schiavo's legal guardianship only extends to medical and financial decisions, not basic human rights such as feeding or water given by mouth, since eating and drinking are basic human rights necessary to survive. Terri Schiavo has the basic right to eat and...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP)3-16-05 -- A bill making it a third degree felony to aim a laser beam at an operating plane, train or car was approved today by the Senate Criminal Justice Committee. The bill is inspired by the recent incidents of pilots reporting lasers being aimed into cockpits over other states. Pointing a laser at a car would be a third degree felony and carries a penalty of up to five years in prison. It would be a second degree felony if someone is injured and a first degree felony if someone is killed. National Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta...

IN the wake of their election defeat, Democrats have promised to mend their ways by emphasizing moral values. So, in their first major legislative initiative of the year, what are the party's two top senators offering? A bill to guarantee that millions of convicted murderers, rapists and armed robbers can vote. This week, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Kerry will officially introduce the Count Every Vote Act, which she claims is "critical to restoring America's faith in our voting system." Among the provisions: A measure to insure that voting rights are restored to "felons who have repaid their debt...

In-store video of a two separate assaults. The perps make a lovely, gracious couple, don't they? Who wants to guess their political affiliation? Below, I have it separated here from the link.

On Election Day, people often tell their friends — in jest — to vote early and often. But a Brooklyn Park man is accused of taking that advice to heart. A felony charge filed Tuesday in Hennepin County District Court accuses Darin Randall Johnson, 34, of registering to vote and casting ballots in three different places in the November election. Johnson refused to comment when contacted by a reporter. The criminal complaint alleges he filled out same-day registration forms and voted once in Brooklyn Park and twice in Minneapolis. The alleged voter fraud was uncovered by a member of the...

A top Republican legislator called Monday for every suspect arrested on a felony charge in Minnesota to be subjected to a DNA test that would be analyzed and made part of a database to assist police in future investigations. "DNA is the fingerprint of the 21st century," House Majority Leader Erik Paulsen, R-Eden Prairie, said in a statement. "This legislation will help us solve and prevent crimes. It will put guilty criminals in jail, exonerate the innocent and seek more immediate justice for victims." Under current state law, which is scheduled to expire in June, defendants convicted of felony offenses...

A Cheektowaga teenager, a whiz kid on the computer, has been arrested in Los Angeles and accused of bombarding Internet users with more than a million spam e-mails. Not only is the 18-year-old accused of computer hacking and violating federal spam laws, but he allegedly threatened to wreak more havoc on a California Internet company if it didn't give him exclusive marketing rights to its customers, federal authorities said. Anthony Greco, a former Erie Community College student, is accused of creating thousands of accounts on MySpace.com, an online meeting place, and using them to send about 1.5 million unsolicited commercial...