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BISBEE — An employee of American Border Patrol, a non-governmental organization, was threatened on Thursday by a suspected smuggler near the U.S.-Mexico border near Palominas. At about 2:15 p.m. Thursday, Mike Christie was driving a quad on the group’s ranch toward Border Monument Road on his way to Highway 92. Christie saw a white pickup truck heading north and he suspected the driver was involved in nefarious activity. “As he approached it, the fellow turned around and went back to the border,” said Glenn Spencer, president of American Border Patrol. A short time later, the man revved the engine of...

A little after 7 p.m. I was in was in my backyard being interviewed by two student film makers. We were surrounded by my seven German Shepherds and had been talking on camera for about a half hour when a shot rang out, then another, then another, about a second apart. The shots were coming from the southwest. The shots seemed to come from a location very nearby. I and the film makers heard bullets whistle over our heads. We immediately took cover behind my house. I began yelling at Star and her pups to come to me as I...

HEREFORD — The local civilian anti-illegal immigration group American Border Patrol has expanded its operations to a 100-acre ranch here that fronts both Mexico and the San Pedro River. The group says it will use the property as a base to continue demonstrating how inexpensive technology can help secure the border. During a Friday night fund-raising barbecue for Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo, ABP founder Glenn Spencer showed off the ranch’s six-camera surveillance system to a crowd of approximately 150 people. As Spencer displayed a split screen projection of the views from four of the cameras, Mike King, ABP’s technical...

Some commentators like to point out that many of the most passionate and bravest defenders of the West are women, citing Italian writer Oriana Fallaci and others as examples. But women like Ms. Fallaci, brave as they might be, are not representative of all Western women. If you look closely, you will notice that, on average, Western women are actually more supportive of Multiculturalism and massive immigration than are Western men.

Denice Dee Denton, chancellor of the University of California-Santa Cruz, apparently jumped to her death Saturday morning from the 44th floor of a San Francisco building where she shared an apartment with her partner... The nationally recognized educator had been in the eye of controversy since she arrived at UC-Santa Cruz less than a year and a half ago. But Denton had been under fire almost since the day she was named to the Santa Cruz post in December 2004 at a salary of $275,000... The UC system did not initially reveal it had also hired Kalonji to a newly...

Gay couple jailed for abusing their foster children Two homosexual men who sexually abused young children placed in their foster care were jailed yesterday. Ian Wathey, 41, and his partner Craig Faunch, 32, were found guilty of a string of offences against four boys aged between eight and 14. The pair used the boys for sexual gratification within months of being approved as foster carers by Wakefield council. A mother of eight-year-old twins raised concerns about them with social services after finding a photograph of one of the boys as he used the lavatory. The authorities chose to take no...

CAPE TOWN Up to 23% in SANDF have HIV/Aids Posted Tue, 15 Feb 2005 Between 17 and 23 percent of SA National Defence Force members may be infected with HIV/Aids, Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota said on Tuesday. "We encourage members of the SANDF to go for voluntary testing but can't compel them once they are already in (the service)," Lekota told reporters during a briefing at Parliament. He said the estimated figure was based on the percentage found on a survey done among volunteers. He said comprehensive testing of recruits was done before they entered the service to judge a...

By Peter Ferrara AARP released a poll last month purportedly showing that the public agrees with it on a personal-account option for Social Security — opposing the idea by 48 percent to 43 percent. That poll seemed odd, since it was way out of line with polls going back over ten years now consistently showing large majorities supporting personal accounts. So USA Next, the rapidly growing organization for future-looking, 21st-century seniors, asked nationally renowned pollster John McLaughlin to look into the AARP poll. What he found might remind you a little of what bloggers found when they looked into the...

Cop given hamburger laced with glass NEW YORK, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- A New York police officer suffered cuts to his mouth and throat when he was given a glass-laced hamburger at a fast-food restaurant. The officer, who was not identified other than being 39 years old and a 17-year NYPD veteran, ordered a meal from a McDonalds in the Bronx late Saturday. After he bit into his Big Mac, he began coughing blood and was taken to a Long Island hospital, the New York Daily News reported Monday. Police set up an operation to determine who put the glass...

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CHICAGO (Reuters) - The owner of a Michigan company who forced his employees to either quit smoking or quit their jobs said on Wednesday he also wants to tell fat workers to lose weight or else. A ban on tobacco use -- whether at home or at the workplace -- led four employees to quit their jobs last week at Okemos, Michigan-based Weyco Inc., which handles insurance claims. The workers refused to take a mandatory urine test demanded of Weyco's 200 employees by founder and sole owner Howard Weyers, a demand that he said was perfectly legal. "If you don't...

Map reading and parking may prove difficult for some women because they were exposed to too little testosterone in the womb, researchers suggest. The study, in the journal Intelligence, fuels the age-old male myth that women are deficient in these skills. Scientists from the University of Giessen, Germany, found a lack of the hormone affects spatial ability. Low testosterone levels are also linked to shorter wedding ring fingers, they say. The research looked at the spatial, numerical and verbal skills of 40 student volunteers. Spatial skill is the ability to assess and orientate shapes and spaces. Map reading and parking...

PHOENIX - A pamphlet put out by the Mexican government that purports to be a safety manual for those who cross the border illegally is harming Arizona, Gov. Janet Napolitano said Tuesday. The government of Mexico is interfering with the state's security, she said in a telephone interview with the Herald/Review. "It's a how to illegally cross, not how to legally enter (the United States)," she said. The pamphlet prepared by the Mexican government is being inserted into a popular comic book and handed out to Mexican citizens living in some of the poorer states of Mexico. Francis McWilliams, a...

When the U.S. Border Patrol launches its two new remote-controlled, camera-equipped aerial vehicles later this month to help in the search for illegal border crossers, it won't be the first border watch group to do so in the state. American Border Patrol, a private group based in Cochise County, recently marked a year of unmanned aerial vehicle patrols ....

On Friday, Mario Villarreal, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, announced that the agency plans a major operation to add manpower and equipment to the busiest parts of the Arizona-Mexico border. While the announcement didn't say where the equipment would go, we assume that Cochise County would be at the top of that list. The county has continually been the state's and nation's hotspot for illegal immigration. And the numbers since last October show that this year border apprehensions have increased, some in part to the agency's increased operations in this area. October is when...

SIERRA VISTA -- A progress report, equipment display and briefings will take place Saturday when the American Border Patrol shows its high-tech capabilities. Glenn Spencer, founder of the organization, said the theme of this year's event is "Illegal Immigration: What Citizens Are Doing." To show the public the success of the American Border Patrol, a volunteer group that is not affiliated with the U.S. Border Patrol, Spencer said there will be static displays of a ground control station that controls unmanned aerial vehicles, ground sensors and other items in the organization's arsenal. The group monitors the illegal activities -- people...

Spencer now facing only one charge for incident By Nate Searing Herald/Review SIERRA VISTA -- American Border Patrol President Glenn Spencer will be arraigned in Justice Court 5 in Sierra Vista Tuesday after a being formally charged with felony disorderly conduct last week. Spencer, 66, picked up his summons for the charge from the Cochise County sheriff's office in Sierra Vista on Wednesday. A grand jury indicted him on Aug. 22. The charge stems from an incident on Aug. 1 in which Spencer allegedly fired a gun near his home at Equestrian Avenue and Yaqui Street. The shots, which came...

For discussion and information. SIERRA VISTA -- The president of the American Border Patrol said today that his group is accelerating its plans to move its headquarters from an upper middle class neighborhood south of Sierra Vista to a rural ranch. "It has always been our ultimate goal to move," Glenn Spencer said this morning. The number of instances the organization's high-tech equipment has been stolen has moved up the relocation by a couple of months, he said. Because of the loss of a large mobile satellite Internet transmitter, some of the operations for gathering and transmitting information about illegal...

SIERRA VISTA -- The president of American Border Patrol was released from jail Sunday after being arrested Saturday morning on three counts of disorderly conduct with a weapon, a count of endangerment and a count of criminal damage. Glenn Spencer, 66, was released from county jail on his own recognizance Sunday morning after an initial court appearance, said Carol Capas, a spokeswoman for the Cochise County Sheriff's Department. "I should have been released Saturday, but the judge never showed up," Spencer said today. The arrest stemmed from an incident Friday night in which two gunshots were heard near Spencer's home...

Nation & World 7/28/03 Between Two Lands America's border still beckons to thousands of Mexicans, but today it's a life-and-death trip By Bay Fang U.S. News & World Report IN THE SONORAN DESERT--It's a typical summer night in the Arizona desert, but it feels like the end of the world. Bolts of lightning flash here and there, illuminating the sky for seconds, then fading to black. Thunder crashes in surround sound. Craig Howard, a heavyset 57-year-old, packs two guns and sports a baseball cap. Sitting in a lawn chair behind a bush, he is stock-still as he listens for...