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Longtime Criminalist Uses ‘Old-School’ Technique to ID Victim in 50-Year-Old Murder Wednesday, April 8, 2020 Michelle Taylor Editor-in-Chief Share Email Longtime Criminalist Uses ‘Old-School’ Technique to ID Victim in 50-Year-Old Murder Want to know the key to fingerprinting and identifying human remains buried 51 years ago? Perseverance, Ivory dish soap and old-school techniques. Luckily, criminalist and fingerprinting expert Timothy Jackson at the New Hampshire State Police Forensic Lab had all of that when he identified the body of Winston “Skip” Morris by manually plotting the victim’s minutiae to generate a more defined fingerprint that finally lead to a hit. The...

March 21, 2019 (Live Action News) — Rev. Rosaire Bisson is the assistant pastor at Christ Community Alliance Church in Barre, Vermont. He also gives devotions before the Vermont Senate as many local religious leaders have done. According to TrueNorthReports.com, Bisson spoke about "everyone's right to life" in January, just a week before the State House held a public hearing on Vermont's expansive abortion bill H.57 (which passed in the House and is now in the Senate). Because what he said was deemed to be controversial and political by several senators, Bisson was banned from giving devotions for a full...

A state senator from Western Massachusetts is advocating for a bill that would expand a person's right to use deadly force in self-defense without first making an attempt at a retreat. Under the legislation by Sen. Stephen M. Brewer, a Barre Democrat, the state would expand its current "Castle Doctrine," which says a person has no duty to retreat from intruders at home before using deadly force. Brewer's bill would expand that Castle principle to using deadly force in public anyplace the person has a right to be. The principle is called the Stand Your Ground Principle. More than two...

Note: The following text is a quote: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASES Sunday, December 20, 2009 United States Transfers 12 Guantanamo Bay Detainees to Afghanistan, Yemen and the Somaliland Region Twelve detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Afghanistan, Yemen and the Somaliland region. As directed by the President’s Jan. 22, 2009 Executive Order, the interagency Guantanamo Review Task Force conducted a comprehensive review of each of these cases. As a result of that review, which examined a number of factors, including potential threat, mitigation measures and the likelihood of success in habeas litigation, the detainees were...

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - Plans to close Guantanamo are not sitting well with the Sept. 11 victims' relatives who sat stunned while two alleged terrorists declared they were proud of their role in the plot.

Former French Prime Minister Raymond Barre has died, aged 83. The centrist politician served in the post for five years from 1976-81, under the presidency of Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Earlier in his career he was vice-president of the European Commission and was also mayor of Lyon from 1995-2001. He died in a Parisian hospital. He had been receiving treatment for a heart condition since April. Barre was little-known until he was appointed by President Giscard d'Estaing to succeed Jacques Chirac in 1976. Dubbed "France's best economist" by the president, Barre cut thousands of jobs in the loss-making steel and coal...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A fundamentalist Muslim who is listed by the U.S. State Department as a suspected al-Qaida collaborator was named Saturday as the new leader of an Islamic militia that has seized control of Somalia's capital. The militia, which changed its name Saturday from the Islamic Courts Union to the Conservative Council of Islamic Courts, said in a statement it had appointed Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys as its new leader. The Bush administration says Aweys was an associate of Osama bin Laden in the early 1990s. The Islamic militia seized control of the capital Mogadishu and much of southern...