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A Bosnian Serb ex-police chief who pleaded guilty to crimes against humanity has been sentenced by the UN war crimes tribunal to 10 years in prison. Stevan Todorovic, 43, admits murdering, torturing and sexually assaulting Muslims and Croats in 1992-93 while chief of police in the Bosnian town of Bosanski Samac. Presiding Judge Patrick Robinson said Todorovic's crimes were "very grave" and the sentence would have been much longer if he had not co-operated with prosecutors. He originally pleaded not guilty in 1998, but reversed the plea last December in a deal with prosecutors. At the same time he ...

Condit Gets Physical Condit gets into a shoving match with an Associated Press photographer who "accidentally collided" with him while staking out the congressman's Washington apartment. The Associated Press reports that a Condit aide has filed a complaint with police about the freelance photographer, Stephen Boitano. John Hall, AP's Washington photo honcho, tells the wire service: "Stephen was taking pictures outside the congressman's apartment Monday afternoon when the two men brushed arms in a narrow space between cars--it was totally inadvertent." Condit "then pushed at Boitano before leaving in the car," according to Hall. 'Fox News Channeling' They must ...

Cold Comfort The Washington Post reports that the FBI has concluded that Otis "OC" Thomas was telling the truth when he said he was lying when he said his daughter, then 18, had an affair with Rep. Gary Condit. We've said it before: This is by far the most bizarre subplot in the whole Condit story. What made the Modesto minister's story seem plausible in the absence of corroboration from the daughter (who Thomas said was "in hiding") was that Thomas said he had told Chandra Levy's mother, Susan, of the putative affair in April, before Chandra disappeared, which ...

Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski's brother to head New York anti-death penalty groupALBANY, N.Y. (AP) David Kaczynski, who helped authorities identify his brother as the Unabomber and then fought to save him from a death sentence, has been chosen as the executive director of an anti-death penalty group. Kaczynski, of Schenectady, was to be formally introduced Wednesday in his new role with the nonprofit group New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty, spokeswoman Colleen Ryan said. Theodore Kaczynski pleaded guilty in 1998 to three mail bomb murders and 23 nonfatal mail bombings he said were part of an anti-technology campaign. He is serving ...

There is no truth to a minister's claim that his daughter had an affair with Rep. Gary Condit when she was 18, the FBI has concluded.Otis "O.C." Thomas, a Pentecostal minister in Condit's hometown of Ceres, Calif., told the story to the FBI in May, then recanted it two weeks ago."We've concluded that the allegations made by O.C. Thomas are unfounded," FBI spokesman Chris Murray said Tuesday.Thomas acknowledged in an interview Sunday with The Washington Post that he had made up the story. The fabrication began in April, when Susan Levy told him that her daughter, Chandra, was having ...

Deputy DC police Chief Terry Gainer says authorities probably will not administer another law detector test to Representative Gary Condit. Gainer continues to say the congressman "is not the central figure" in the investigation of Chandra Levy's disappearance.Police have interviewed Condit four times, and at one point suggested they may seek their own polygraph in addition to a private one the lawmaker's lawyers turned over to authorities.  But Gainer said in an interview on CNN -- quote -- "I don't think that's going to happen."In the private lie detector test, which Condit passed, he denied any knowledge or involvement ...

William La Jeunesse asks; "What really happened at the 30 mile fire? Well, investigators from two federal agencies are trying to find outOne of the questions they're asking is this. Did a policy to protect fish endanger firemen? District Ranger John Newcom says, "We have Chinook Salmon, we have Steelhead, we have Bull trout, um all three of those species are in the Chewuch and they all are a consideration as we fight fire.William La Jeuness: "A consideration but not an obstacle insists Ranger John Newcomb. But two veteran fighfighters with intimate knowledge of this fire and the river that ...

Police academy cadets have wrapped up their search for clues in the Chandra Levy case.  About 25 recruits spent the morning searching an area behind the U.S. Naval Observatory.Unlike other recruits who spent more than two weeks searching parkland, the recruits involved in today's effort were experienced law enforcement officers who recently joined the DC police department from other law enforcement agencies.Sergeant Joe Gentile says today's search concluded that aspect of the probe until such time as new leads or developments trigger a need for additional searches.Meantime, two Metropolitan Police Department detectives and an FBI lead investigator spent over ...

Rep. Martin Frost, the Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, had a major problem. Unions, which contribute significantly the coffers of the DCCC, were demanding to be heard on the issue of President George W. Bush's energy program. By and large they favor it. Frost ended up providing them with a forum to speak to the Democratic Caucus. But he then brought in leading environmentalists to present the opposition to the Bush energy program. As the House of Representatives prepares to vote on the Bush program, it will be interesting to see which group has the greatest influence on ...

s Gary Condit in the clear? Maybe not, but the D.C. police are claiming that they no longer have any interest in administering their own lie-detector test to the slippery California congressman. "I don't think that's going to happen…. I think we're really past the polygraph stage," deputy police chief Terrance Gainer told CNN, adding that "I really think it's important to point out that the congressman, although interesting to a lot of people, is not the central figure in this, nor is his wife." And on a day when police were scaling back their thus-far fruitless searches of ...

GOP fund-raising strategy targets physicians Republican campaign committee invites doctors to join its "Physician's Advisory Board" as a hook for soliciting contributions. By Amy Snow Landa, AMNews staff. July 30, 2001. Washington -- Julie Isaacson, MD, was surprised and flattered when she received a phone call inviting her to join a select panel of doctors who advise congressional Republicans on health care issues. The "Physician's Advisory Board" counsels GOP leaders on such topics as HMO reform and reducing government interference in medicine, explained the caller, who said he was a representative of House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R, Texas). ...

SAN JOSE – A woman who repeatedly left her young children in the trunk of her car while she was at work was sentenced to three months in jail and five months of home detention Tuesday. Rosemarie Radovan also was sentenced to five years of probation. She pleaded no contest in March to two counts of felony child endangerment. Radovan was arrested in November after a co-worker told police he heard her 5-year-old son crying while he and Radovan drove to get ice cream. Radovan turned up the car's radio and kept driving – a fact that Judge Robert Ambrose ...

got this link fight4choice.com in my email today...I thought I'd share it with all of you... Here is an excerpt of what is on the above site... His Own Words "The promises of the Declaration of Independence . . . are for everyone - including unborn children." -- Statement by President Bush read on Jan. 22, 2001. When asked by Katie Couric of NBC whether Roe v. Wade should be overturned, First Lady Laura Bush said, "No, I don't think it should be overturned." -- "Laura Bush Discusses her Feelings about Moving into the White House, the Election, Inauguration, and ...

The infection is very bad and has continued to depress Christian's immune system to dangerous levels. The doctors have decided to take a more aggressive approach and amputate the leg tomorrow morning at 7:00am EST. The bone in his right leg has begun to add its own toxins to his already weakened body and doctors fear that this new threat could be a deadly blow to all of Christian's miraculous progress. I humbly ask that everyone take time tomorrow morning when you wake up to please pray for Christian while he is in surgery. The doctors have been quite honest ...

July 31 — Washington police called off an intensive two-week search of area parks Tuesday, a high-profile hunt that ended without uncovering any clues that could help them determine missing intern Chandra Levy’s whereabouts. “THE SEARCH TODAY ends the search of parklands within the District of Columbia at this time, pending any possible future developments in the course of the investigation,” department officials said in a statement issued after a team of police recruits combed Normanstone Park, across the street from the vice president’s mansion. The conclusions of the search come as police officials have been making increasingly pessimistic ...

ASHINGTON -- Police began scaling back their investigation of Chandra Levy's disappearance, ending an intensive three-week search of woods and abandoned buildings in areas near the federal intern's apartment. About two dozen police recruits spent two hours Tuesday morning in the woods behind the Naval Observatory, which includes the vice president's residence. "This is the last such search until there are leads or clues indicating they should resume," said Sgt. Joe Gentile, a District of Columbia police spokesman. The search produced no clues on the whereabouts of Levy, a 24-year-old from Modesto, Calif., who vanished sometime after logging off ...

This partial transcript from Hannity & Colmes, July 30, 2001 was provided by the Federal Document Clearing House. Click here to order last night's entire transcript. Send your comments to: hannity@foxnews.com or colmes@foxnews.com SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: Welcome to HANNITY & COLMES. We're glad you're with us. I'm Sean Hannity. Coming up tonight: Former attorney general Ed Meese weighs in on the Chandra Levy investigation. And tonight you'll meet a man who thinks that Gary Condit has been treated unfairly.Also later: Former president Bill Clinton moves to a new office in Harlem. Not everyone in town is happy about it. And then Alan ...

This is a partial transcript from The Edge with Paula Zahn that aired on June 30, 2001. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SUSAN LEVY, CHANDRA LEVY'S MOTHER: I'm not giving up, but my heart aches. And I — our heart aches, and it's just very hard. It's very hard. Every day is very hard. And we just want — if anyone's out there and has our daughter, please reconsider. Let her go. Let her come home to us. (END VIDEO CLIP) PAULA ZAHN, HOST: We're back with more on the search for Chandra Levy. Joining us now is Bill O'Reilly. You know this ...

WASHINGTON — A Washington, D.C., hardware store employee said he believes Chandra Levy ordered keys from him at least a day after she was last confirmed being seen. On Tuesday, three agents interviewed John Woodfolk, a 16-year employee of W.J. Candey Hardware, located across the street from the missing former intern's health club. Police have said the last confirmed sighting of Levy was April 30, when she canceled her membership at the club. Woodfolk said he believes Levy was in the store sometime during the first week of May. He said she ordered what he thought were house keys and said ...

Police may have new lead in Levy caseWASHINGTON (CNN) -- Investigators on Tuesday turned to what may be a new lead in the Chandra Levy case -- the first reported sighting of the missing former intern after April 30.A District of Columbia police detective and an FBI investigator interviewed John Woodfolk, who makes keys at a downtown hardware store across the street from the health club where Levy was reported seen April 30 when she canceled her membership.Woodfolk said he saw Levy sometime in May when she came into his store to have keys made."It had to be May, ...