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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 07, 1995, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 the stars and stripes . Thursday september 7. 1995 runaway teen arrested in slaying of his parents  associated press Leitchfield by Only hours after he was brought Back from a shelter for runaways a 16-year old allegedly killed his parents and ran away again. Derek Mcstoots was arrested tuesday More than 800 Miles from Home driving his Mother s car outside a Pawn shop in Sulphur Springs Texas. He was charged with murder. Police had been looking for the boy since his parents Brad Mcstoots 45, and Colleen Mcstoots 44, were found beaten and shot Early monday in their Home in Leitchfield about 75 Miles Southwest of Louisville. They had returned late sunday from Florida with their son who had been found at a shelter in Daytona Beach. Derek Mcstoots had been allowed to quit school last week after a year of wrangling with his parents. Car swerve costs teen s life Morgan a. A High school student died tuesday after hitting his head on a Roadside Mailbox when the car he was Riding in swerved. Nathan Ostrowski 16, of South Fayette township outside Pittsburgh became ill at football practice monday and was getting a ride Home when the Driver swerved to avoid hitting a groundhog on the Road. Ostrowski who had been resting his head on his Arm on the car s front seat window ledge struck his head on a Mailbox on the Side of the Road said South Fayette township school District superintendent Joel d. Carr. -. Ostrowski was taken to Allegheny general Hospital where he died tuesday. 1 _ x Marks spot for mail Mesa Ariz a letter made it from Norway to a Mesa residence despite having no Street address and Only a rough map with an x to Mark the. Intended destination. And it Only took eight Days to make it Here from so far said recipient Tamara Larsen the letter for Larsen and her husband Daniel came from Tanja Finneson and Christian zeil who were the larsons neighbors three years ago but have had no Contact with them in the interim. The Larsen moved about two blocks away shortly before their friends relocated to Norway however. Denneson had visited the Larsen new Home Only once but remembered enough to provide something of a map along with a zip code. " Frisco trips up fugitives Berkeley Calif. If you want to walk the walk you be got to talk the talk. Two escapees from a Utah prison blew their cover by breaking an unwritten local Law on acceptable nicknames for san Francisco. Anthony Scott Bailey and Eric Neil Fischbeck both said they were from Frisco when questioned by University of California officers who found them sleeping on Campus monday. Use of the name loved by tourists but loathed by residents set off the alarm Bells that their prison break did  " " no one from Here Ever says that Campus police sgt. David Eubanks said. Pressed further about which schools they attended one said he could t remember and the other said he never went to school. A when one provided two alternate Spellings for his purported last name officers took them in fingerprinted them and discovered their True fugitive status. Bailey 27, and Fischbeck 21, escaped saturday by crawling under a Fence at a minimum Security prison in Bluffdale about 20 Miles South of Salt Lake City authorities said. Both were serving time for burglary and Bailey was serving a sentence for drug Possession. Four months away from parole they now face up to 15 More years for escape authorities said. Anybody who escapes with that Little time left can t be very smart Utah corrections spokesman Jack Ford said.  u n Washington a appearing before a sympathetic Senate subcommittee White separatist Randy Weaver appealed wednesday for accountability for the killings or my wife and son during a 1992 standoff wit Federal agents at his isolated Cabin in Ruby Ridge Idaho. Agents of the Fri have been part of a cover up of what really happened Weaver said. I Weaver was the opening witness at eight Days of hearings before a Senate judiciary subcommittee chaired by Republican presidential hopeful sen Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. The hearings open with the backdrop of a criminal investigation into a possible Fri cover up that already has resulted in the suspension of several agents. Weaver appeared in a Blue been Collar shirt to his right was the Cabin door through which an Fri sniper s Bullet passed and killed his wife Vicki. Also killed in the standoff was his 14-year-old son Samuel. On August 21st, 1992, Federal marshals shot my son Manly wife pleads guilty Farmington Utah a a Man who posed As a woman during a 3vyear marriage pleaded guilty tuesday to defrauding the unsuspecting husband Felix Urioste 34, entered guilty pleas to one count of communications fraud Andone count of forgery. He faces up to five years in prison and a $5,000 Fine on each count at his sentencing oct. 24. Judge Rodney Page ordered Urioste free on $5,000 bail to undergo a full psychological evaluation. Urioste posing As a woman named Leasa married Bruce Jensen in 1991. He was arrested in Las vegas earlier this year after using credit cards issued in the. Name of Leasa Jensen _ _. _ i _ i at the time he was travelling As a Man and police had to break the news of his sexual identity to Jensen. Jensen a 39-year-old medical lab technician who i described by authorities As naive is seeking an a nov mint. Urioste has urged the judge to Grant it. Prosecutors claim Urioste defrauded Jensen of More than $40,000 in credit card and other expenses. The guilty plea involved a $1,500 pre approved loan by household finance co that had arrived in the mail at the couple s Bountiful apartment. Urioste endorse the loan Check using Jensen s signature. Prosecutors contend Urioste tricked Jensen into marrying him. Urioste denies that he duped Jensen but admits he claimed to be pregnant with twins before their 1991 marriage. Prosecutor Bill Mcguire has said Jensen Marrie Urioste because he Felt responsible and the marriage was essentially celibate. He said Urioste later told Jen sen that the twins were stillborn. During tuesday s hearing Urioste was  had a Mustache when he was arrested. Samuel in the Back and killed him. He was running Home to me. His last words were i m coming dad,1"Weaver said in his prepared testimony. On the killing of his wife Weaver said she was not wanted for any crime. There were no warrants for he arrest. At the time she was gunned Down she was help less. She was standing in the doorway of her  sen. Herbert Kohl of Wisconsin the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee said the shootings Mark a sad chapter in the history of american Law enforcement the incident began when Federal agents went to Ruby Ridge to apprehend Weaver after he failed to appear in court on charges of Selling a sawed off Shotgun to an informant for the Bureau of alcohol . If i had it to do Over again knowing what i know now i would make different choices Weaver said. I would come Down from the Mountain for the court a  Felix Urioste right leaves court in Farmington Utah with his attorney Marlin Criddle after pleading guilty to Fraind Urioste pretended to be a woman and married. 7n River just stage props san Antonio a the City s municipal auditorium solved a mystery when it took responsibility tuesday for homemade mines found Bobbing below the surface of the sail Antonio River. The devices had baffled police who feared they might have been meant to damage tourist barges that began operations under new ownership Friday actually the objects were made to create simulated explosions for plays at the auditorium and workers later tossed them into the River operations manager Yolanda Jensen said. They thought it was harmless she said Trey were throwing them in the River thinking if anything happens they re under water " the devices were made by sealing dry ice in soda bottles which would explode once the gases emitted by the ice ran out of room to expand. Jensen said she did no know the names of the subcontractors who made them. Paper checks up on lawmakers mall new York a writing to your congressional representative you May want to include a Small Dona Tion if you want a response. That advice was dispensed tuesday by the daily news which said it conducted a sting to find out How responsive new York City s representatives on Capitol Hill were to their constituents. The paper mailed two letters june 21 to each of the 14 lawmakers with districts in the City asking for advice on medicare policies. One contained a $50 Check theother did to. The Bottom line 11 of the requests with Money brought responses but Only five of the 14 representatives responded to requests made without checks. Only four answered both letters democrats Carolyn Maloney and Charles Schumer appeared to give them roughly equal attention the news said while democrats Floyd Flake and Gary Ackerman replied to the Check letter More quickly. _ Republican Susan Molinari and Democrat major Owens answered neither letter. Owens still cashed the Check however  
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