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A college student in California who stole a “Make America Great Again” hat off of another student’s head faces up to a year in jail, according to a Tuesday report.

Yo's:A discussion on another thread mentioned Joe Walsh (some congressman or something) so naturally I thinks of the great guitarist. I remembered a tune by his friend Joe Vitale which was a hit of sorts in 1982, called "Lady on the Rock." I can't even find a complete set of lyrics, but what little I remember is really great.She's still on the rock.Lady on the Rock, Joe Vitale.

Former House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi and three Beacon Hill power brokers have been indicted on corruption charges in connection with a State House scandal involving lucrative software contracts, the U.S. attorney announced today. DiMasi, his former accountant Richard Vitale, lobbyist Richard McDonough and software broker Joseph Lally have all been charged, according to a federal indictment. All four were released this afternoon on $10,000 bail each, but they will only have to pay if they skip any court hearings. All are due back in federal court in Boston Monday. The co-defendants were also ordered to hand over their passports...

The INDIANAPOLIS STAR reports on the NCAA "monitoring room" nerve center, which keeps tabs in real-time on all things NCAA Tournament - including officiating, webcasts, security, and commercials. The monitors are made up of the very top NCAA officers, and have "access to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and local law enforcement at each of the eight first-round sites. They had a 243-page operations manual and an administrative manual labeled 'confidential'".

MARTINEZ - The only person to provide an alibi for Scott Dyleski testified Wednesday he is no longer certain he saw the teenager at all on the morning Pamela Vitale was killed. "My testimony wasn't entirely truthful," Fred Curiel said about his earlier testimony at a February preliminary hearing. Curiel and his wife own the home where Dyleski was living at the time of the Vitale slaying. Prosecutors say the 17-year-old Dyleski killed Vitale on Oct. 15, 2005, as part of a scheme to use credit card information and purchase marijuana growing equipment. He has pleaded not guilty to murder...

MARTINEZ -- Accused killer Scott Dyleski engaged in sado masochism, talked about beating and breaking the necks of children and was curious about how the human body would function without certain organs, his girlfriend testified Thursday. A visibly uncomfortable Jena Reddy, 18, told jurors in Contra Costa Superior Court that Dyleski didn't admit to killing his Lafayette neighbor Pamela Vitale in October but didn't deny it either. After Vitale was killed, Dyleski had scratches on his face and his right hand and arm were swollen, she said. She added, however, that she was the source of scratches on his back...

MARTINEZ -- Scott Dyleski and a teenage friend exchanged e-mails about how to avoid detection while using other people's credit cards to order marijuana-growing equipment online, a computer expert testified today in the youth's murder trial. "Do not order all at once. Use separate cards for each purchase. The larger the order, prob(ably) the more likely it is to be noticed," Robin Croen, 17, e-mailed Dyleski in September, a month before the defendant allegedly killed his Lafayette neighbor Pamela Vitale, according to the testimony of Phil Venable, a Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy acting as a district attorney's inspector. "We...

As the high-profile murder trial of Scott Dyleski begins with opening statements today in a Martinez courtroom, a number of personalities will take center stage as the jury considers whether the teenager killed his Lafayette neighbor, Pamela Vitale. The trial will pit veteran Contra Costa County prosecutor Harold "Hal" Jewett, known as a formidable adversary in court, against Ellen Leonida, a lesser-known public defender with experience helping the homeless and refugees seeking asylum. Managing it all will be Superior Court Judge Barbara Zuniga, a former deputy probation officer and prosecutor with more than 20 years on the bench. After a...

Oct. 27 - ABC7 has confirmed that the mother of the prime suspect in the murder of a prominent East Bay Attorney's wife, is also under arrest. Scott Dyleski's mother, Esther Fielding, was arrested this afternoon as an accessory to murder after the fact. She is being held at county jail in Martinez on $500,000 dollars bail. Stay with abc7news.com for more information on this developing story as it becomes available. Scott Dyleski Appears In Court The 16-year-old accused of killing the wife of a prominent defense attorney and television commentator went to his girlfriend's house to have sex in...

The killer of Pamela Vitale, the wife of prominent defense attorney Daniel Horowitz, not only bludgeoned her to death but left her with a 4-inch-deep stab wound to the stomach and multiple leg wounds, and wore gloves during the attack, investigators wrote in documents released Monday. When Horowitz arrived at his Lafayette home on Oct. 15, he found his wife, 52, lying in a pool of blood on the living room floor of the couple's mobile home. He called the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office at 5:53 p.m. and screamed to a dispatcher, "Help me, she's dead," according to a...

MARTINEZ – A teenager described by former classmates as a brooding nonconformist with an interest in the occult was charged as an adult in the murder of the wife of a prominent defense attorney. Scott Dyleski, 16, was being held in Contra Costa Juvenile Hall after his first court appearance Friday in the beating death of 52-year-old Pamela Vitale. He did not enter a plea or speak as the judge set bail at $1 million. Defense lawyer and TV legal pundit Daniel Horowitz found his wife's body Oct. 15 at the couple's hilltop estate, where they were building their dream...

MARTINEZ, California (CNN) -- The teenage suspect in the beating death of a prominent lawyer's wife was described by classmates as a "gothic" loner who followed the occult and dressed in black from the polish on his fingernails to his trench coat. The young man is being held as a juvenile in the slaying of Pamela Vitale, wife of lawyer and television pundit Daniel Horowitz. Police say he apparently acted alone. Horowitz found Vitale's body when he returned to a trailer the couple shared while they built a dream estate on a hilltop in affluent Lafayette, east of Oakland. Authorities...

Investigators have arrested a 16-year-old boy in the slaying of Pamela Vitale, a Contra Costa Sheriff's Office spokesman confirmed today. ;;;;;;;;; The boy, who a law enforcement source said lived down the street from Vitale, was questioned and taken to Juvenile Hall. ;;; Detectives have yet to determine a motive for the slaying, he said. Lee refused to take questions from reporters or confirm the suspect's identity, although sources said the boy is a junior at Acalanes High School in Lafayette. Early Tuesday, the school was a grappling with the notion one of its own might be responsible for such...

Per Dan Abrams. Confirmed in ContraCosta Times

Veteran courtroom observers couldn't help but notice the irony. There in Monday's newspaper was defense attorney Daniel Horowitz holding up a hand to fend off reporters and photographers. Of course, Horowitz had every reason to decline interviews. His wife, Pamela Vitale, was found dead Saturday afternoon in their Lafayette home. The last thing he wanted to do was speak to reporters camped out at the edge of his property. And yet, there is the inescapable feeling that, under different circumstances, it was exactly the kind of case Horowitz would have rushed to join. A regular pundit on CNN, MSNBC, Fox...