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(Franklin Square, Long Island-AP) -- A Franklin Square man is under arrest on charges he set several American flags on fire as they hung from poles in people's yards. Nassau County police say 20-year-old Lawrence Wan was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with numerous counts of arson. Police accuse Wan of setting the flags on fire between May 13th and June 17th. Wan is scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning.

The delegation of Arab people's forces led by Mr. Sa'ad Qaasim Hamoudi and delegation of Chinese Society for the international understanding started talks in Peking on Saturday. Mr. Hamoudi reviewed latest developments in relations between Iraq and the Security Council and the next round of talks with the U.N Secretary General. He called on China to practice its role in demanding lifting embargo without conditions, canceling the illegitimate no-fly zones and stopping US-British aggression against civilians and installations. He also called to void the Zionist entity of weapons of mass destruction in accordance with para 14 of resolution 687. Mr....

<p>SACRAMENTO (AP) - For 20-year-old Sadie Gardere, it just makes sense to call home on her cell phone. Instead of paying 9 cents a minute through Sonoma State University, she pays a flat fee of $45 a month to call her family in the Bay area.</p>

Check the last sentance. The more the police keep quiet, the more the uncle seems to rush to fill the void. The police may just be handling this brilliantly. MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- Police interviewed Bret Michael Edmunds as he lay in a hospital bed here Saturday, but refused to say if he revealed anything about the disappearance of Elizabeth Smart. Edmunds was alert and coherent during police questioning, although he remains in serious condition at City Hospital's intensive-care unit, said hospital spokeswoman Teresa McCabe. Edmunds is being treated for an apparent drug overdose, but hospital officials are refusing to disclose...

Guns...For the Children By: Lewis J. Goldberg Published 06. 20. 02 at 20:37 Sierra Time "Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." -- James Madison, The Federalist Papers "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." --Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers Roots The Second Amendment sealed into the law of the land the fact that American society is a society that not only tolerates guns, but was built upon their ownership. The...

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Doctor who carried gun returns to work Jefferson Hospital stripped him of a director's title. He had brought a Civil War replica to a meeting. By Stacey Burling Inquirer Staff Writer A Thomas Jefferson University Hospital doctor who brought a replica of a Civil War revolver to a meeting with residents has been allowed to return to work, hospital spokeswoman Phyllis Fisher said. Following the recommendation of the Faculty Affairs Committee, Dr. Thomas J. Nasca, dean of Jefferson Medical College, allowed the doctor, who has been on leave since May 31, to return to his office yesterday. He will begin...

Revolver for civilian use launched in Kolkata An Ordnance factory in Kolkata manufactures a .22 inch revolver, the first of its kind in the country for civilian use. A recently developed revolver that is just making its appearance in Kolkata is the .22" revolver, the first of its kind in the country for civilian use. Indigenously manufactured by Ishapore rifles factory, a unit of India's ordnance factory, the revolver was launched on Wednesday (June 19). It took authorities 8 months to come up with the revolver. Growing demand for a light weight, user friendly revolver made Ishapore rifles factory come...

Palestinian police have arrested members of radical groups Hamas and the Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, officials said. Among those arrested was Mohammed Shihab, a Hamas leader in Jebaliya refugee camp and Jamal Saleh, the head of an Islamic group that supports Hamas. Hamas condemned the arrests. "It comes at a time when the occupation government practices brutal aggression against our people, these arrests will harm Palestinian national unity," said Ismail Abu Shanab, a Hamas spokesman. Police scoured areas of Gaza City and nearby Jebaliya, rounding up militants. Orders had been issued for members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad...

Destroying gun used to kill Selena blames an inanimate object By J.R. LABBE Fort Worth Star-Telegram The .38-caliber Taurus revolver that was used to kill Tejano music sensation Selena lies in pieces at the bottom of Corpus Christi Bay. Thought to be lost after the 1995 trial of Yolanda Saldivar, the singer's former fan club president who is serving a life sentence for shooting the Grammy-winning artist, the gun was found last month in the Harris County home of the court reporter who worked the trial. State District Judge Jose Longoria ordered the destruction of the handgun on June 10;...

June 23, 2002Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Psalm: Sunday Week 29 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Reading II Gospel Reading IJer 20:10-13 Jeremiah said:"I hear the whisperings of many:'Terror on every side!Denounce! let us denounce him!'All those who were my friendsare on the watch for any misstep of mine.'Perhaps he will be trapped; then we can prevail,and take our vengeance on him.'But the LORD is with me, like a mighty champion:my persecutors will stumble, they will not triumph.In their failure they will be put to utter shame,to lasting, unforgettable confusion.O LORD of hosts, you who test the just,who probe mind and...

ALGIERS Three gunmen fired on a group of youths playing soccer at an Algerian seaside resort, killing six and injuring three, the North African nation's official news service said Sunday. The attack Saturday evening at Zeralda, a busy Mediterranean resort 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of the capital Algiers, threatens to unsettle the start of Algeria's summer holiday season. One of the three injured was in a serious condition, the APS news agency said. It said the shootings took place near Zeralda's tennis club, where a similar attack last September killed seven people. More than 120,000 people have been killed...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has been asked by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works to study nine regional dams to assess the threat of terrorism and other risks. "It's not like we think we're a big target but you never know," said Ken Pellman, the county's public works spokesman. "We're taking precautions just in case. Why wouldn't our dams be taken out? They're there for a reason." Big Dalton, Big Tujunga, Cogswell, Morris, Pacoima, Puddingstone, San Dimas, San Gabriel and Santa Anita dams will be studied at the request of county officials. Santa Fe Dam in...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill urged the House on Sunday to follow the Senate's lead and raise the federal debt limit to ensure that the government won't run out of borrowing room this week. "We need the House of Representatives to come together in a bipartisan, nonpartisan way and do the thing that's necessary so we can not have this shadow over our ability to pay our fair and true debts," O'Neill said on ABC's "This Week." "They need to do it, without doubt, and I can't believe they're going...

Freepers: We have our country to save. We must win control of the US senate. In 1998 with less than 1/4 the Freepers we have now, we impeached a president. ( The House Managers said without FR it never would have happened.) Retaking the senate ought to be a breeze for this crowd. We must do this if we are going to get our judges confirmed. Grab your friends, relatives, coworkers and anyone else with a warm body and a brain and start a chapter. Anytime two or more Freepers get together you are at least informally a chapter. JimRob...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Scientists working in Brazil's central Amazon have discovered two new monkey species that are about the size of small cats, Conservation International announced Sunday. The monkeys were discovered by Marc Van Roosmalen, a Dutch scientist working at Brazil's National Institute for Amazon Research in Manaus, 1,800 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro. Van Roosmalen works in a little-explored region of the Amazon near the confluence of the Madeira and Tapajos rivers. Full scientific descriptions of the monkeys, Callicebus bernardi and Callicebus stephennashi, were published by the...

EVERETT -- Susan Lemery cupped her face in her hands and wept yesterday as a court clerk read the jury's verdict: The second-grade teacher was guilty of fondling and raping a 14-year-old boy. She turned to her husband, Dan Lemery, a Boeing Co. engineer, hugged him and cried briefly in his arms before corrections officers led her to jail. "Susan has maintained her innocence all along, and she still does," defense attorney David Allen said later. The jury of six men and six women deliberated for more than 23 hours over a span of four days before finding Lemery, 38,...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Al-Qaida terrorists appear to be regrouping as a lethal threat with or without Osama bin Laden, congressional leaders said Sunday. Lawmakers cited recently publicized warnings from U.S. officials and a bin Laden spokesman to underscore the persistent danger from terrorists chased from their Afghan havens. They appear to be more capable of attacking Americans than they were a month or two ago, said Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. He said bin Laden might be in Pakistan's western tribal lands. Added Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the committee's top Republican, "They could hit...

<p>SHOW LOW - Two huge wildfires raging through northeastern Arizona have exploded to a total of nearly 300,000 acres, fire officials said Sunday morning, with the larger blaze expected to hit Show Low by Sunday afternoon or Monday morning.</p> <p>Noting the shifting winds and the intensity of the inferno, operations section chief Buck Wickham cautioned, "That's a projection, and this fire has done nothing that we've projected yet."</p>

A King County deputy was shot and killed Saturday in a confrontation with a naked man on a busy arterial in the suburban Newcastle area. A suspect was arrested about an hour later. "The deputy's gun was used to shoot the deputy several times,'' Sheriff Dave Reichert said. The officer responded to a report of a naked man disturbing traffic in the 7300 block of Coal Creek Parkway, said spokesman Greg Dymerski of the King County Sheriff's Department. At one point during the struggle, Dymerski said the officer used pepper spray in an attempt to stop the suspect. The deputy...