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Prosecutors warn on 'brink of dismissal' due to lack of cooperation Oklahoma prosecutors have warned Attorney General John Ashcroft a lack of cooperation by the federal government has ''hamstringed'' the prosecution and jeopardized the state bombing case against Terry Nichols to the point that it's on ''the brink of dismissal.'' In a letter to Ashcroft released on Friday, Oklahoma County District Attorney Wes Lane says an Oklahoma judge may dismiss the case against Nichols because his defense team has not been allowed to depose federal government witnesses. ''It is an unfortunate circumstance that the state finds itself in the...

The Grand Forks Police Department was alerted to a piece of construction equipment being operated in an erratic manner early Saturday morning. Upon arrival at the 3400 block of 32nd Ave. S., police found the equipment, a John Deere Crawler/Loader, parked on top of a vehicle. The operator of the vehicle had fled the area on foot. A damaged vehicle was parked in the Branigan's Restaurant parking lot, police reported. Investigation revealed that the equipment was stolen from a construction site in the 3300 block of 36th Ave. S. The parked vehicle, a few street signs, and a small tree...

SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 12, 2003 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- President Roh Moo-hyun plans to hold a national referendum to determine whether he has the public's trust around Dec. 15, and intends to step down if the vote goes against him, a television news station reported Monday. The presidential Blue House said it could not confirm the report by YTN, an all-news cable channel. YTN did not cite a source. It is unclear whether a referendum is legal. On Saturday, Roh rejected an offer from his Cabinet and presidential aides to resign amid a crisis over his leadership....

<p>Korea envoy needed Former Secretary of State George Shultz said the Bush administration should appoint a high-ranking special envoy for North Korea.</p> <p>In an interview at his office at the Hoover Institution, Mr. Shultz said the nuclear crisis with Pyongyang, which a year ago revealed a covert uranium-enrichment program for arms, needs a specialist to address the problem. He said it would be similar to what former Defense Secretary William Perry did for the Clinton administration after leaving the Pentagon.</p>

The media frenzy over the alleged outing of Valerie Plame, a CIA employee, could be taking a new turn. Circumstantial evidence now suggests that Plame and her hubby, Joe Wilson, are not only using the incident to embarrass the Bush administration but they planned to embarrass it some time ago. What the media is deliberately overlooking is that it was Plame who recommended that Wilson be sent to Niger to determine whether Saddam was trying to buy uranium from that country. Both Plame and Wilson are partisan Democrats, with Wilson nursing an intense hatred of President Bush that runs so...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - Robbers hijacked a truckload of chocolate near Johannesburg after posing as traffic officers, with fake uniforms and a car with a blue light on the roof, a police spokesman said. Superintendent Andy Pieke said the driver of a Swaziland-registered truck with a load of chocolate and dairy products was flagged down on Thursday by three men, south of the city centre. "The driver, 39, and his mate were forced out of the truck and into the car at gunpoint and taken to an unknown destination where they were kept blindfolded for about five hours," Pieke told the...

Iraq's central bank fired up its furnace yesterday and consigned thousands of banknotes bearing the smiling face of Saddam Hussein to the flames ahead of a massive currency swap to start next week. Deputy Central Bank Governor Ahmed Salman Mohammed said the bank had already absorbed a "good portion" of Saddam banknotes still in circulation and would carry on with the systematic destruction in coming weeks. Iraqis have three months from October 15 to swap the estimated four trillion dinars of Saddam banknotes in circulation for new bills bearing pictures of an ancient Babylonian ruler and a 10th century...

A 22-year-old Fort Benning soldier suffered cuts, bruises and a broken shoulder Thursday night after being beaten by over a dozen males, in what Columbus police describe as a gang-related incident in Oakland Park. Freddy Hougley, of Headquarters and Headquarters Co., 3rd Brigade, was transported by emergency personnel to Martin Army Community Hospital following the 7 p.m. incident outside a home on Mesa Street. Authorities said Hougley and a friend were walking in the area when they were met by an estimated 20 men. Once near the home, Hougley and the witness said the men began calling out to him,...

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Any citizen of the United States wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries out any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or any agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or any official or agent thereof, in relations to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States, shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more than three years, or both. – Logan Act, 1799 It is time...

Williams gambles to heal division over gays By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent (Filed: 13/10/2003) The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, will attempt to prevent the acrimonious collapse of the worldwide Anglican Church at a crisis summit on homosexuality this week by gambling on an appeal to the middle ground. To placate the conservatives, who are threatening a mass walkout, he will uphold the Church's traditional ban on gay marriages and the ordination of active homosexuals, despite his more liberal private views on the issue. But Dr Williams will resist pressure to expel the liberal American Episcopal Church over its...

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A former police officer was sentenced to 34 years in prison for raping and sexually assaulting women while on duty.

The homosexual agenda is being promoted in the new Jim Henson Productions children’s movie titled “Good Boy”. I took my niece and nephew to see this cute movie about dogs who talk. It’s a kids movie overall but I was shocked to find how the leftist Hollywood establishment tries in very subtle ways to get its cultural agenda across. I don’t know if the kids picked it up, but I suspect that it’s been done before and it will continue to happen in the future. It’s like a veiled form of conditioning – a brainwashing of sorts, designed to alter...

FBI agents investigating the disclosure of a CIA officer's identity have begun by examining events in the month before the leak, when the CIA, the White House and Vice President Cheney's office first were asked about former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV's CIA-sponsored trip to Niger, according to sources familiar with the probe. The name of Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, a clandestine case officer, was revealed in a July 14 column by Robert D. Novak that quoted two unidentified senior administration officials.

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - The United States is testing pilotless drone aircraft, used in Iraq and Afghanistan, on the U.S.-Mexico border where they might be deployed to detect drug traffickers and illegal immigrants, a government spokesman said on Friday. The Department of Homeland Security is conducting tests of the unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs, in remote areas of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, Mario Villarreal, spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, told Reuters. "The UAVs, which have played an important role for the military in Iraq and Afghanistan, are under consideration for use by the Department...

Former Police Chief Expected To Surrender To Authorities Fired Lipscomb Police Chief Charged Friday POSTED: 9:33 AM CDT October 12, 2003 BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A former Lipscomb police chief was expected to turn himself in to authorities Sunday. Chuck Hines is wanted on charges of harassment, theft and forgery. He's accused of harassing Spanish-speaking residents and forging checks from a migrant worker. Hines, 35, of Bessemer, was fired as Lipscomb's police chief Tuesday. City Council President Helen Pettigrew said Hines was terminated for not doing his job. She said the action began before Council knew the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department...

Los Angeles Daily News Was it an earthquake or simply a shock? By Arnold Steinberg Saturday, October 11, 2003 - Was Arnold Schwarzenegger's election seismic? Let's talk about what really happened. Voter turnout was hardly a record. Sure, it was high for a special election. But it was barely average for a general election. Despite intense media coverage and high public interest, voting remained largely a spectator sport. Is there, then, a mandate? And if so, for what? A key lieutenant for Arnold put it this way: The outcome was preordained. Not really, of course. What he meant was...

President Bush and First Lady Laura returned to the White House today after a weekend at Camp David. In his weekly radio address, the President outlined the successes in Iraq, six months after a statue of Saddam Hussein came down in Baghdad. Later this week, Bush will head to the Manilla. Enjoy your daily dose of Dubya!

Jewish Cemetery Vandalized in Germany FRANKFURT, Germany - Vandals desecrated a Jewish cemetery and a memorial to concentration camp victims in two separate incidents over the weekend, officials said Sunday. Forty-two headstones in a Jewish cemetery near Gundesberg in central Germany were sprayed with graffiti including "Heil Hitler," "Sieg Heil" or simply "Hass," the German word for hate, police in nearby Kassel said. Separately, a memorial to the victims of a World War II-era concentration camp near the northeastern city of Ravensbrueck was sprayed with anti-Semitic graffiti, a state official said. Guenter Morsch, who heads the federation for memorials in...

Just wanted to start something... I mean, it's football season, and no one has made mention of the positive turnaround for the Cowboys? C'mon.