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January 25, 2007 -- The wife of alleged black power radical cop-killer Francisco Torres is a member of the NYPD. Carolyn Torres, 58, whose husband is accused of taking part in a raid on a San Francisco police station 35 years ago during which Sgt. John Young was killed, works as an assistant traffic-enforcement agent supervisor in Queens, sources said.

The growing unpopularity of the war in Iraq gives Democrats an unprecedented chance at changing the political leadership in the state and nation, California Democratic Party chairman Art Torres said Thursday. Speaking at the Green Valley Grill, before a room jammed with an appreciative audience of party activists from across the Central Coast, Torres urged the local Democratic leaders to register voters and get them to the polls in November. A high turnout, driven by displeasure over Iraq, could affect state races, even helping Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides oust Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Torres said. Introducing Torres, 28th District Assembly...

Arlington, Va., Aug. 03, 2005 (CNA) - Susan Torres, a brain-dead woman who was kept alive for almost three months to give her unborn baby time to develop has given birth to a girl two months premature. The baby is being monitored at the neo-natal intensive care unit at a hospital in Arlington, Virginia. Torres, a devout Catholic, suffered a stroke on 7 May after an undiagnosed cancer spread to her brain. Doctors said she was brain dead but they offered to keep her alive for the sake of the baby. She was four months pregnant with her second child....

White players urged to black faces to fight racism The president of a Spanish club wants his white players to paint their faces black to combat racism. Angel Torres, of Getafe, made the call after racist chanting at the game between his club and Barcelona, reports Sporting Life. Barcelona's Samuel Eto'o and Ronaldinho were the victims of taunts in Getafe's Coliseum Alfonso Perez. Torres suggested the Getafe squad showed solidarity with black players by painting their faces black for their next game. "I have spoken to one of the club captain and I am certain that the players want to...

Did Nichols and Yousef meet? Closer analysis of Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef timelines creates a compelling, if still circumstantial, case — and offers clues to where the smoking guns may be found By J.M. BERGER INTELWIRE.com In November 1994, Terry Nichols and Ramzi Yousef both walked on the grounds of the same college campus in the Philippines. Whether their paths crossed is a question that still dogs researchers. But it's increasingly clear that what separates their respective itineraries is sometimes a matter of yards, feet or even inches, within a span of days, hours and sometimes mere minutes. They...

<p>SAN JOSE, Calif. - Delegates to the California Democratic Party convention delayed a decision Sunday on whether to support Proposition 57, the statewide bond measure championed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as the key to his economic recovery program.</p> <p>The proposition, which goes before voters at the March 2 primary, would allow the state to borrow $15 billion to pay off debts which come due June 30.</p>

Lockyer apologizes for `frat boy' description (booed for voting for Arnold) *** Calif. Democrats Pledge to Re-Elect Boxer (Bush officials compared to vegetables) *** State Demos fix sights on 2004 (Lyndon LaRouche Jr. stages sit-in) *** Posted on Sat, Jan. 17, 2004 Lockyer apologizes for `frat boy' description By Dion Nissenbaum Mercury News Standing before a large group of skeptical Democratic women, Attorney General Bill Lockyer apologized Friday night for describing allegations that Arnold Schwarzenegger had sexually harassed several women before he became governor as ``frat boy behavior.'' ``Anyone that I offended I apologize to,'' Locker told more than 300...

<p>Countering charges that retired U.S. Rep. Esteban Torres was treated like "a migrant worker," Gov. Gray Davis reversed himself and reappointed Torres to the state Transportation Commission, a spokesman said Thursday.</p> <p>The East Los Angeles Democrat said he was "incensed" when the governor's aides asked him to step down from the panel and become a trustee of the California State University system or a member of the State Board of Education.</p>

An important but little-noticed Federal lawsuit is scheduled to go to court in February. Nearly six years four agents of the Pennsylvania Bureau of Narcotics Investigation(BNI) filed a civil rights complaint in the US DIstrict Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. The lawsuit alleged that "certain persons in the State Department and the CIA" had obstructed an investigation of the Dominican narcotics cartel, which controlledmuch of the trade in cocaine and heroin along the eastern seaboard. There is also evidence that the Dominican narcotics cartel may have indirectly financed the terrorist network that carried out the first World Trade...

Fifteen thousand feet high in Kashmir and armed with a Kalashnikov–that was not how friends thought Jibreel al-Amreekee would end up. All of 19, the restless kid from Atlanta had grown up in a wealthy family attending Ebenezer Baptist Church, the home pulpit of Martin Luther King Jr. A soft-spoken youth with long dreadlocks, al-Amreekee had a passion for sky diving and reading books on the world's religions. One religion that drew his interest was Islam, and while he was at North Carolina Central University, that interest grew into a calling. By 1997, he had converted and was spending his...