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Sharon Rocha and her exhusband are pressing forward with a wrongful death lawsuit against Scott Peterson, and on Monday a Stanislaus County Superior Court judge said the case will go to trial next spring. Their daughter's husband is on death row, Scott and Laci Peterson's Covena Avenue home in Modesto has been sold, and money from an insurance policy on Laci Peterson will go to Sharon Rocha. But the grieving parents don't want to leave any stone unturned. "We just want to make sure there's a very substantial judgment in there — that Mr. Peterson never sees any green from...

Margarito Origel has finished serving time in prison for his role in the beating death of Megan Mendez, a preschooler who authorities found buried in his south Modesto back yard four years ago. Now Origel wants to stay in the United States. But he is not a citizen, and, as a convicted felon, he is subject to deportation to his native Mexico.

Sacramento Teaching Intern Accused Of Having Sex With Student Police Think It Is Isolated Incident POSTED: 11:06 am PST February 23, 2005 UPDATED: 11:55 am PST February 23, 2005 SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A 30-year-old teaching intern has been arrested after police found her with a 16-year-old male student in her car as the woman's toddler was strapped into a car seat in the back. Margaret De Barraicua (pictured, right) and the student are believed to have been having "an ongoing consensual sexual relationship for several months," Sacramento police spokesman Sgt. Justin Risley said. The investigation began Saturday when police...

PATONG BEACH, Thailand - Many believe the tsunami that devastated this tourist hotspot and killed thousands had one positive side: By washing away rampant development, it returned the beaches to nature. Greg Ferrando glistened with sweat and sea water as he went for a barefoot jog up the immaculate white sand beach, where the tsunami has wiped away almost all signs of humanity. "This whole area was littered with commercialism," said the 43-year-old from Maui, Hawaii. "There were hundreds of beach chairs out here. I prefer the sand." The beauty of Thai beaches is the stuff of folklore: pristine, clean...

Joan of Arcadia is CBS' replacement saint for Touched By An Angel. Joan has finer writers and a more versatile cast than Touched ever had, but it is monotheism's worst nightmare. Not surprisingly, the new series has been hailed as a masterpiece by critics and writers on religion who want to see religion represented "positively" in the media. But no one has considered the cost to religion that will be exacted by every episode of this show that runs. My prayer is that it will not run for long. Maybe the rhetoric of those who put down religion in the...

DAVE KRIEGER: IOC ignores Iraq's atrocities Scripps Howard News Service (March 27, 2003 4:10 p.m. EST) - You might think the United Nations leads the mealy-mouthed parade, but the U.N. is a beacon of moral courage next to the International Olympic Committee. Institutional neutrality is generally a good thing for the IOC - its mission is to bring the world together, and it overlooks all sorts of grumbling, grievances and grudges to do it. But neutrality is not far from indifference, and the IOC is straddling this distinction as it continues to permit its most precious asset - the Olympic...

US military not aware of coalition attacks on human shields AS-SALIYAH (AFP) - A senior US commander in the war on Iraq (news - web sites) said here he was unable to confirm reports that a US warplane attacked a bus in weswtern Iraq carrying international volunteers acting as human shields. "I am not aware of any reports of human shields, I cannot confirm that and have no information at all," Brigadier General Vincent Brooks told reporters here Tuesday at US Central Command's forward planning base. Earlier Tuesday Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Said al-Sahhaf said in Baghdad that several people...

SUMMARY: An new poll suggests gay and lesbian Americans are more opposed to a war in Iraq (news - web sites) than the average heterosexual. An online poll conducted between Feb. 19 and Feb. 25 suggests gay and lesbian Americans are more opposed to a war in Iraq than the average heterosexual. Harris Interactive drew responses from 2,271 adults, including 142 who identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender. Two thirds of the GLBT group, 67 percent, declared themselves "not at all confident/not very confident" that President Bush (news - web sites) and his administration will make the right decisions...

Veteran war reporter Robert Fisk tours the Baghdad hospital to see thewounded after a devastating night of air strikesby Robert Fisk in Baghdad, London IndependentMarch 23rd, 2003 Donald Rumsfeld says the American attack on Baghdad is "as targeted an aircampaign as has ever existed" but he should not try telling that tofive-year-old Doha Suheil. She looked at me yesterday morning, drip feedattached to her nose, a deep frown over her small face as she tried vainlyto move the left side of her body. The cruise missile that exploded close toher home in the Radwaniyeh suburb of Baghdad blasted shrapnel into...

I just heard KFBK announce that San Francisco protestors were blocking up all the traffic in San Francisco. Any Bay Area freepers who know what's going on there? Is it another "Crital Mass" party or is it worse? Anyone have photos?

FORT WORTH, Texas -- Due to high demand from viewers of NBC 5 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, we have made a clip from our live, Friday 10 a.m. news program available. In the original clip, NBC 5 Morning Anchor Michael Scott is speaking with Carl Franklin from Carl's Creepy Crawlies. Then, suddenly, our anchor is attacked ... by a gecko!

Three Varieties of Dissenter, Examined There are three distinct kinds of dissenters today. 1. The hysteric. Guess who made this statement: "I am literally comparing Bush and his cronies to Hitler, only Hitler had a smaller vision." A Saudi cleric? Saddam Hussein? Osama bin Laden, speaking via Ouija board in the breakroom at Al Jazeera? No. It's Patch Adams, a wacky doctor who heals the sick with madcap clowning. Robin Williams played him in a movie, so learning that Patch Adams called George W. Bush Hitler Plus is like learning that Mrs. Doubtfire believes there was a massacre at Jenin....

This was just announced on my local Fox news program. I went to the national website, but didn't find any more information than the title. Anyone hear any other news about this?

Fonda "visiting" Jane in Jerusalem http://www.jewishworldreview.com | On Monday, CNN called me and asked if Women in Green, of which I am a head, was planning to demonstrate against Jane Fonda once she arrived in Jerusalem. I answered we would not give that American traitor the time of day. Later, on my English and Hebrew radio show on the Artuz 7 network, I discussed the CNN call and our position and gave my listeners some background on Fonda --- how the nickname "Hanoi Jane" came about; the story of her betraying the POWs, etc. On Thursday, my mother-in-law, Ruth...

I couldn't find the original article from the Sac Bee website. But today there is a shopping fair at the Radisson Hotel, 500 Leisure Lane (off 160, near REI and Costco). Because Israel's tourism revenue has dropped from $4.3 billion in 2000 to only a projected $1.5 billion for 2002, the Sacramento Jewish community has invited Israeli merchants to come here to sell their products. "Shop Israel . . . in Sacramento" shoppers will be able to buy Dead Sea skin care products, artwork, jewelry, religious merchandise, backpacks and clothing. The merchants are flying in on their own expense, though...

"I can but thank you," he said, in a tone too respectful to be sincere, "for your kindness in letting me speak, for I have often noticed that our Liberals never allow other people to have an opinion of their own, and immediately answer their opponents with abuse, if they do not have recourse to arguments of a still more unpleasant nature."----------------"Excuse me," continued Evgenie Pavlovitch hotly, "I don't say a word against liberalism. Liberalism is not a sin, it is a necessary part of a great whole, which whole would collapse and fall to pieces without it. Liberalism has...

I realize that the attack on the Trade Towers and the Pentagon and the crashed flight in Pennsylvania overshadow any minor events of 9/11. I haven't had a chance to watch all the news coverage today, but so far all the coverage I've seen since the actual event took place has always left out one particular detail. And it's starting to make me wonder if I've been imagining it. So I'd appreciate it if anyone who watched the news coverage as the terrorist attacks were taking place last year can help me out. I started watching the news at about...

Cuckoo in Carolina By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN he ruckus being raised by conservative Christians over the University of North Carolina's decision to ask incoming students to read a book about the Koran — to stimulate a campus debate — surely has to be one of the most embarrassing moments for America since Sept. 11. Why? Because it exhibits such profound lack of understanding of what America is about, and it exhibits such a chilling mimicry of what the most repressive Arab Muslim states are about. Ask yourself this question: What would Osama bin Laden do if he found out that...

Jeff Jacoby Jews among Arabs, Arabs among Jews Israel's image got a black eye last week when its cabinet voted to advance a bill that would have barred Arab citizens from buying homes in some Galilee towns. The proposed law was denounced everywhere, above all in Israel, where it set off a wave of outrage. Voices across the political spectrum denounced it -- from right-wingers like former Cabinet minister Benny Begin, who condemned it as "undemocratic" and "unworthy," to Yossi Sarid of the hard-left Meretz party, who said that adopting it would be tantamount to "turning Israel into a racist...

Warning: Check your E-mail before deleting Yesterday I nearly deleted an e-mail that I got from petitiononline.com. I thought it was just junk mail, maybe inviting me to sign a petition. Then just as I was about to delete it, I realized that it was a confirmation that my signature was on the petition! This petition was to gain support for discontinuing kosher labels on canned food products. I had read an article about this topic only once before.... on a pro-Islamic/supposedly Mexican radical Leftist website that was full of neo-nazi type articles that were based on Jewish Conspiracy theories....