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‘DEAR WAYNE’: GOP presidential hopeful Mick Huckabee wrote to Wayne DuMond. “My desire is that you be released from prison,” the governor wrote. ““I feel now that parole is the best way." Pastor Jay D. Cole had two close friends. One was an inmate in the Arkansas state penitentiary. There, the minister would sit with Wayne DuMond "and pray and read the Bible." For a while, the prisoner's wife even lived in Cole's home. Cole's friendship with Mike Huckabee ran deeper, back to when Huckabee was the youngest-ever head of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention. The two men produced Bible...

Bonjour, mes amis Freepers. Ceci peut sembler bizarre, mais je cherche les paroles aux chansons populaires françaises des années 1960s, en particulier les paroles à «Tournez Manèges» par Rika Zaraï. N'importe quelle aide que vous pourriez donner dans cet égard serait appréciée. Pouvez-vous m'aider? Merci!

BERLIN - A court paroled a one-time leader of Germany's notorious Red Army Faction Monday after 24 years in prison, amid bitter memories of the left-wing terrorist group's attacks on law enforcement and business leaders, which plunged the country into fear three decades ago. Brigitte Mohnhaupt, 57, is to leave prison March 27, the first day she becomes eligible for release, the Stuttgart state court ruled. Her case has set off a public debate about whether it is time to show mercy to those who showed none to their victims and has made Germans relive a tense time when their...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Adam Riojas waited 13 years for freedom before Arnold Schwarzenegger turned the key. Convicted in 1991 of murder, the former real estate agent maintained his innocence and turned down offers of a plea bargain. Then in 2002, relatives told the state parole board that they had heard Riojas' estranged father, a drug smuggler, confess to the killing shortly before his own death. The board, with no objection from the prosecutors who put Riojas behind bars, decided he deserved parole. Their recommendation was sent to Democratic Gov. Gray Davis, who, having publicly vowed to keep convicted murderers...