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Unsanctioned pruning at Oak Cliff park drew complaints, but 67-year-old's arrest makes neighbors uneasy 06:46 AM CDT on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 By ROY APPLETON / The Dallas Morning News rappleton@dallasnews.com Sandra McFeeley tugged at a dead vine along Bizerte Avenue in Oak Cliff on Monday. The attorney, 67, has been celebrated for other cleanup efforts, but thinning thickets at Wynnewood Parkway Park got her arrested last month. She says she's been doing it for about three years. "I met some neat people," she said of her nine hours at Lew Sterrett Justice Center. "I'd never been in a perp...

NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Jewish settlers cut down and uprooted hundreds of olive trees on Palestinian farms near the West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday, residents and Israeli police said. Settlers from the most radical enclaves in the occupied West Bank have often attacked farms since the start of a Palestinian uprising in 2000, in which settlers have often been targeted by militants. Settlers say that the land, which Palestinians want for a state, is theirs by biblical birthright. Residents of Salem said dozens of settlers from Elon Moreh chopped down hundreds of the town's olive trees, the...