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Neighbors rejoice at deportation of 'North End Terrorist'By DANIEL TEPFER BRIDGEPORT -- Maria Costa, the North End woman who has harassed, threatened and assaulted her neighbors for more than a dozen years, was ordered out of the country Wednesday. "Everybody in the neighborhood is very happy,'' Debra Albert said. "We have a normal neighborhood again, where people can walk and children can play." Standing demurely before Superior Court Judge Burton Kaplan, the 59-year-old Costa pleaded guilty to risk of injury to a minor, threatening and disorderly conduct for threatening her neighbor's 6-year-old grandson, the latest case against her. But instead...

Ga. Crematory Operator Speaks Out Associated Press Last Updated: July 26, 2002 at 8:34:42 a.m. LAFAYETTE, Ga. - The operator of a crematory where investigators found hundreds of discarded corpses made his first public comments since the bodies were discovered, saying he was aware of the hostility he would face if he were released while awaiting trial. ``We live in the South and I'm a black man,'' Brent Marsh said Thursday, the day Cobb County Superior Court Judge James G. Bodiford set bond for him at $159,200. ``A lot of people don't like me because I am me.'' In February,...

      WASHINGTON, DC—Assuring the nation that "there is no need for alarm," the Office of Homeland Security issued all U.S. citizens life jackets for some unexplained reason Monday.   Above: Life-jacketed pedestrians cross a busy intersection in Manhattan.       "Everything is fine. You have nothing to worry about," said Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge during a televised press conference. "Still, just to be 100 percent on the safe side, I would urge all Americans to keep these life vests on at all times."       Ridge said he was not at liberty to divulge the...

COMPUTER VIRUS MAKING TO BE PROSECUTED AS HATE CRIME FOR TARGETING STUPID PEOPLE Systems Administrators Now On Front Lines of Bias Crime Washington, D.C. (SatireWire.com) — With yet another email virus spreading across the globe, 41 U.S. states and six European countries today announced that creating an attachment-based computer virus intentionally targets the very stupid and should be prosecuted as a hate crime. Hate crime victim Bob Fnork (center) is stunned to discover he has just opened another infected attachment. "In a hate crime, the offender is motivated by the victim's personal characteristics, and in the case of email ...