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HOUSTON - A northwest Houston food store owner shot and killed a man he said was trying to rob him, but police did not find a gun on the man, investigators said Friday. Houston police said the 49-year-old owner of the New Land Food Store, 822 West Little York, called 911 at 9:30 p.m. Thursday and said a man was trespassing. Investigators said Terrance Hall, 33, was agitated when he entered the store and tried to get into a back room. When he couldn't, he climbed onto an ATM machine, over plexiglass and fell behind the counter, police said. During...

Ramblers and climbers have been banned from one of Dartmoor's most historic sites. The beautiful Vixen Tor has been closed off for good after landowner Mary Alford won an eight-year battle to keep walkers off her land. Her victory comes after a fight which included two planning inquiries and a series of mass trespasses to protest against the Tor's closure.

A criminal complaint alleges Chester Academy Principal Ernest Jackson entered the home without permission when the two boys didn’t come to school in late September, and actually tried to coax them out of their beds.

DAYTON, Ohio -- Dayton Police said they won't be charging a landlord who shot a trespasser at his apartment complex on Smithville Road Saturday afternoon. People who live in the complex called police when they saw Charles Roye, who they said has been removed from the property before. One of the residents has a protection order against him, police said. "He wasn't even supposed to be around here," said Trae Brown, who lives nearby. Police said the landlord tried to block in Roye's car with his own so he couldn't leave before police arrived, but Roye hit the gas instead...

HONOLULU – In these divisive times, Census worker Russell Haas has come to expect some resistance when he goes door to door to count the residents of the rugged communities near Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. He didn't expect to get arrested. An attempt to get one resident, a county police officer, to fill out Census forms landed Haas in the back of a patrol car with a trespassing charge. The case is now in federal court, the latest example of disputes this year between Census workers and residents who don't want to deal with them. It has created a rare instance...

CONCORD, N.Y. (WIVB) - A suspected burglar got a lot more than he bargained for in the town of Concord. He was no match for a no-nonsense elderly couple. You don't mess with 68-year-old Kathleen Smith or her husband Charles. Neighbors are grateful to them for holding an alleged would-be burglar at gunpoint until State Police arrived. The "No Trespass" sign on this property in the town of Concord means business. State Police say 28-year-old Michael Smith of Hamburg learned that the hard way after he was confronted with the barrel of a gun by the caretakers of the property....

"My country has let me down." That's the assessment of an Arizona rancher who was sued by six illegal immigrants he detained on his property and turned over to the Border Patrol in 2004. On Tuesday an eight-member federal jury in Tucson threw out the claim brought by the six illegal aliens that Roger Barnett violated their civil rights when he detained them at gunpoint on his ranch nearly five years ago. The panel also ruled against the plaintiffs' claims of battery and false imprisonment. But the jury did find Barnett liable on four claims of assault and four claims...

Mamyrah Prosper steps gingerly over ankle-high grass strewn with plastic bags and empty soda bottles in the yard of a vacant redbrick house in Miami's Liberty City. She peers through a gap in a boarded-up window. "It looks in good shape," she says. "I mean, the walls aren't falling down. This is definitely one of our stronger options." Prosper means that if the place checks out, she and her colleagues from Take Back the Land, a local group that advocates for affordable housing, will break in, change the locks, paint and clean, innovate a way to connect water and electricity,...

TUCSON — Two priests who trespassed on Fort Huachuca last November as part of a protest about alleged torture being taught on the post will spend five months in federal prison. The Revs. Stephen Kelly and Louis Vitale both pleaded no contest Wednesday to two misdemeanor charges stemming from Nov. 19 when they tried to enter the fort as part of a protest against interrogation training done at the Intelligence Center. A no-contest plea means a defendant is not admitting guilt but is still subject to a guilty judgment. Both men faced 10 months behind bars, but U.S. Magistrate Héctor...

BARROW COUNTY, Ga. -- A Barrow County woman says an off-duty deputy handcuffed and had her strip-searched because of a simple dispute over a power line. snip Late last year, a letter from the Georgia Transmission Corporation told her a 230 Kilovolt power line was going to go through her property. When surveyors showed up, Worley said she went down the road to talk. She said she didn’t threaten anyone, but the Barrow County deputy working with the surveyors didn’t see it that way -- the deputy called for backup. “I saw two sheriff’s cars drive up,” said Worley. She...

Two Bay-area Catholic priests facing prison time for trespassing at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista pleaded innocent in federal court in Tucson on Tuesday morning. The priests — the Rev. Louis J. Vitale and the Rev. Steve Kelly — are scheduled to go to trial June 6 and June 4, respectively. The pair are accused of trespassing at Fort Huachuca, about 75 miles southeast of Tucson, on Nov. 19 while protesting military intelligence training. They were set to deliver a letter to the post's top commander, Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast, stating that the facility trains personnel in torture methods, a...

Top News Back Four People Arrested Protesters Heckled During Graduation At St. J. Academy BY GARY E. LINDSLEY, Staff Writer Tuesday June 6, 2006 ST. JOHNSBURY VERMONT A line of about 50 protesters in front of Colby Hall evoked a range of reactions -- and emotions -- from both pedestrians and people driving by as they headed to the St. Johnsbury Academy graduation Monday morning. Some of the drivers yelled profanities or displayed their middle fingers as they drove by; others gave a thumbs up or honked their horns in support. People walking by, including some of the Academy's soon-to-be...

HUDSON — The attorney general has written to all of New Hampshire’s law enforcement officials, instructing them not to charge illegal aliens with violating the state’s criminal trespass statute, according to documents obtained yesterday by the New Hampshire Union Leader. On Aug. 12, Jaffrey-Peterborough District Court Judge L. Phillips Runyon III dismissed criminal trespass charges Hudson police filed against seven alleged illegal aliens. CHAMBERLAIN “Having carefully examined the Court’s decision and the relevant case law, this office has determined that there is an insufficient basis for appeal,” Attorney General Kelly Ayotte wrote in a memo dated Aug. 15. “Accordingly, New...

JAFFREY, N.H., July 12 - One day in April, Jorge Mora Ramírez stopped his car on the side of a road in the small southern New Hampshire town of New Ipswich and was making a cellphone call when a police officer approached him. The officer questioned Mr. Ramírez, a 21-year-old Mexican who acknowledged that he was in the country illegally, and the New Ipswich police tried to get federal immigration authorities to arrest him. But when immigration officials demurred, not considering him a priority given scarce enforcement resources, the police acted on their own. They took the highly unusual step...

I hope some of the Freepers can help me out with a problem that has risen in our Family. My Son and Daughter in Law live in a small town in Western Montana. They recently bought a six acre + or - piece of property on a lake. They plan to build a home on the property, the problem they have is that the neighbors who live across the road and above the kids property has been coming over when no one is around, and cutting down trees that obstruct their view. The neighbor on the other side of the...

Shearman & Sterling sees things differently. Last month, the law firm filed a trespass and breach of contract action in San Francisco Superior Court involving an e-mail sent to a staff manager’s Shearman.com account. The communication forwarded a post about the manager from Craigslist.org, an online community billboard. The writing, since removed, was posted on the site’s "rants and raves" section. Filed as a "Jane Doe" action, the lawsuit alleges the sender is a current or recent Shearman employee who was under contract to use the firm’s computers only for legitimate business purposes. "The e-mail was hateful and racist, and...

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

Sheriff Warns Hage of Possible Cattle Confiscation and Arrest August 17, 2004 Nevada Live Stock Association For Immediate Release Contact: Ramona Morrison 775.424.0570 rhmorrison@sbcglobal.net Nye County, Nevada - According to Nye County Sheriff, Tony DeMeo, the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in the midst of finalizing post-trial briefs in a thirteen-year old lawsuit with Nye County rancher, Wayne Hage, and in a move of apparent direct defiance of the several recent court decisions, are preparing to confiscate Hage’s cattle on his ranch in Nye County, Nevada. Hage was notified Friday, August 13, 2004, by Sheriff DeMeo,...

ERIE, Pa. -- A man who soiled his underwear and tried to dispose of the evidence by tossing it over the fence of the city's largest reservoir has been fined $5,000. The city bomb squad and hazardous materials crew responded after an Erie Water Works employee spotted a black bag near the 33-million gallon Sigsbee Reservoir last month. The reservoir was shut down for several hours while the bomb squad X-rayed the bag and hazardous materials crews waited to test it. Police tracked down Troy Musil, 18, of Erie. He told police he'd been ill and soiled his underwear. He...

Woman Gets Criminal Record for Petting Dog SAN JOSE, Calif. - All Tamar Sherman wanted to do was pet a dog and give it some water. Sherman's act left her with a criminal record. A few months ago, Sherman was walking near her South San Jose home and encountered a dog left outside in the cold while its owners were inside. Sherman, a member of a national group called Dogs Deserve Better, decided to pet the dog on a few occassions [SIC] and once gave it water. That didn't please the dog's owner. "When I went out there to fill...