European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 stars and stripes m a r c h 1 7 2007 Page 21 cops Back pay shoots to Nashville those late fees can get you for Tennessee in the Case of a state trooper who was owed they total about a Davidson county Chancellor issued a Rul ing that ordered the pay ment to sgt James Chancy according to the troopers Law yer Brock Parks the Case dates to 2004 when the Tennessee Highway patrol sus Pended Chaney for shooting out the rear tires of a car chased by us marshals when Chaney appealed the suspension an administrative Law judge ruled on april 6 that the suspension was improper and Chaney should be reimbursed one Days pay or the state had 30 Days to make the payment and after mat faced a Penally of for each Day it was late in reimbursing Chaney rescuers free horse trapped in an icy Pond a horse that had fallen under the ice of a Small Pond is Safe after it was pulled from the water by firefight ers and a neighbor with a Backhoe a passerby spotted the 8yearold horse Santana Strug gling in the water after it had Bro Ken through the ice he got in from the Western Edge of the Pond and in trying to struggle he got wedged Halfway under the ice said Rutland town fire Constable John sly he had his right Side legs underneath the ice and his left Side legs on top of the ice he just get his footing Mother charged with killing toddler infant san Antonio a 19yearold Mother accused of stashing the bodies of her two Young children under her apart ment said she was sorry for every thing Valerie Lopez was being held on million Bond after being arrested and charged with capital murder in the death of her 14monthold daughter Nariyah Garcia police say Lopez admitted to beating the girl to death on Christ Mas eve and hiding her body be Neath the Home two months later according to police accounts of Lopez statements she put the body of her 5monthold son Sebastian Lopez under the House after she accidentally rolled Over him Bexar county District attorney Susan Reed said she plans to seek the death penalty against Lopez College student puts on homeless Experiment Philadelphia Steve Wood spent a week living on the streets of Philadelphia but Hes not homeless or even close to it the Temple University student from Washington township no was gathering material for a series of articles he hoped would put a face to the homeless Wood 21 is a senior and Fea Tures editor of the University school newspaper Temple news he had stopped shaving Days be fore to help him blend in and talked to a homeless Man who is often seen around his school for american Roundup tips five Days into his project Wood told the Philadelphia inquirer things were going differently then he planned i had plans of sleeping under the stars he said i thought id be buddy buddy with people who give me the scoop and id checked the weather everything said there was a 10 percent Chance of precipitation and no tempera Tures below 40 degrees but it was too cold too sleep in love Park a Park in downtown Philadelphia opposite City Hall his first night legislation could derail cites cleanup efforts Houston Houston mayor Bill Whites efforts to clean up the cites air could to be set Back by two state lawmakers White and the City Council have been debating a plan that would allow Houston to Fine any Industrial Plant in the area found contributing to unhealthy concentrations of certain pollutants inside the City but rep Wayne Smith Ebay town and sen Mike Jackson la Porte have filed Bills that would make it illegal for any municipality to enact an ordinance that could be used beyond its Borders the legislation bars municipalities from using a nuisance Ordi Nance to crack Down on air pollution from outside their boundaries we be doing this if the City of Houston want trying to impose its regulations and ordinances on other surrounding cities moms hugs Are Best a seven month old baby Koala clings to his Mother Colliet at the Cleveland metro Parks zoo in Cleve land the Joey is the Lith Koala birth since 1999 at the zoo and counties Jack son said ski reunion turns tragic Denver Long awaited reunion of three College friends turned tragic when a of massive Avalanche killed two of them during i Bac country siding trip in the Colorado mountains family members said wednesday Alexis Michel Dodin of Buenos Aires Argentina and Simon mar tin Ozanne of Maplewood no were killed tuesday afternoon when the category 5 Avalanche the most dangerous kind crashed Down on them about five Miles Southeast of Aspen authorities said the Pitkin county Coro Ner said both men suffocated after being buried by Snow their Friend Jason Luck from the Denver suburb of Aurora sur Vived and called for help All three had attended the Colo Rado school of mines outside Den ver for Ozanne 35 the trip was a Christmas gift from his wife Jenni Fer who is pregnant with their first child lawmakers try to level insurance playing Field Tallahassee a new business plan to make the stat created citizens property insurance corp More competitive with private companies won approval from gov Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet in the face of skyrocketing Pri vate insurance rates that followed a series of hurricanes in 2004 and 2005 the plan will allow the states largest insurer to sell a single policy covering wind damage and other perils including fire and theft in coastal areas affected policyholders Are expected to save about 10 percent citizens had been barred from Selling such combined policies in so called wind Pool areas where it has about 400000 customers Al though it could elsewhere in the state where it has about 900000 Phoc holders that prohibition was part of Citi Zens original concept of being the insurer of last resort to serve con Sumers who were unable to get Pri vate coverage for Hurricane and other wind damage authorities search for 3v2foot fugitive Gator mount let the Alligator out police said they we rent just looking for three men who ransacked a trailer Park Home in the Middle of the night while a terrified woman hid in a closet they also were looking for a 3v2foot Alligator that disappeared from the Home after they started investigating the woman told Haverstraw police the breaking occurred at the Mazzalene trailer Park Home she shared with two men who were out at the time she said she didst know Why the trailer was targeted by the intruders who were carrying what appeared to be As Sault rifles the woman told police the in truders who avoided the Alligator told her to stay in a bedroom closet police who were called to the trailer by the woman summoned the state department of Environ mental conservation to take custody of the Alligator but it want there a v in Chin Fred Nevarez 28 8uitar me siting in the Back of his pickup truck he and others a in Millie enjoy temperatures in the 60s along North Beach on the Lake Michigan Shoreline in Racine wis a Michigan Bluebird sits on a weather vane c4 Anre Fri Mic Man Usu Wini sons on Landing Mudra in Grattan township Mich Brush Tattoo you show in new York Down the Hatch Chloe Minton 2 enjoys lunch with a Model has an airbrush Tattoo applied to her warm tempera her Back during the International Beauty at Mcmanus Park in Betten Dorf Iowa Friendly shores j lilo chief Olsen Meanus or greets tribal Canoe families during a ceremony in Celilo Village Ore in which the canoes Are invited ashore with water so atom words of Welcome and sacred songs Troy Collum 19 of Mobile Ala rides a skim Board at the Public Beach in Gulf shores Ala overpopulation prompts Alligator Hunting season Rio Hondo listed As endangered a few decades ago alligators these Days Are keep ing game wardens Busy As they re Spond to Calls about the scaly rep tiles being spotted alongside High ways behind strip malls and in the manmade lakes of gated hous ing developments the states solution More Alligator Hunting april 1 Marks the beginning of the first Spring Alligator Hunting season in Texas allowing one Alli Gator per Hunter in areas beyond the traditional zone in the states swampy East and the new season comes with loosened restrictions which worry some longtime Hunters Hunters will be allowed to shoot alligators during nesting season and can shoot alligators in open water which can leave a wounded and now even More dangerous Ani Mal sitting in the Bottom of a Pond Snake in the press Box sends reporters running Winter Haven a 3foot Black Snake sent re porters scurrying in the press Box As the the new York mets Defeated the Cleveland indians 65 in a Spring training game As the Snake slithered across notebooks and Laptop computers in the Bottom of the fourth inning fans stood up and laughed As they gazed into the press area a grounds Crew member accustomed to such occurrences at Chain of lakes Ballpark was summoned he grabbed the Snake and released it in the parking area be Hind the Complex us family has no right to extremely rare coins fam ily that asked the us mint to authenticate 10 extremely rare coins cannot prove they were obtained legally and has no right to them government lawyers argue in court papers the 20dollar Gold coins 1933 double eagles that were never circulated could be Worth millions of dollars apiece a comparable one sold for million plaintiffs Joan s Langbord and her two sons say they discovered the Cache in 2003 in a safety depos it Box belonging to her late father Philadelphia jeweler Israel Switt they approached the mint the next year and agreed to turn them Over to be authenticated the Lang Bords say but the mint after vouching for them refuses to re turn them on grounds they were stolen us property plaintiffs fail to plead any fact to support their implication that Switt legally obtained the 1933 double eagles assistant us at Torney Joel m Sweet wrote lawmaker removes Art he deems inappropriate state lawmaker removed two pieces of Art from a Capitol exhibit organized by a group opposed to the death Penally because he found the images inappropriate and objectionable rep Borris Miles a Houston Democrat took Issue with a paint ing of a Man hanging from a rape and an illustration of a Man tied to an electric chair with the inscription doing gods work we should not prevent the Dis play of Art Miles said but there have to be limits Miles said in an email to his House colleagues that he encountered the images while walking through a Hall of the Capitol Exten Sion with his Young children state offers plan to save pets in evacuation an Emer gency that Calls for evacuation Helen Green is sure about one thing she leave her four dogs behind even if it meant risking her own life there my Best friends the Chesterfield county resident said there the glue that holds my life together a new statewide initiative Aims to prevent virginians from having to make such a Choice the state is working with veterinarians and an Ima welfare organizations to Cre ate a network for helping pet own ers find shelter with their animals in an emergency the network will help state and local officials plan for the worst and Supply them with information about Volunteer training shelters where people can take pets and equipment to care for animals citizens vote to prompt global warming action Concord voters in Many towns passed a non binding Resolution calling on the Federal government to take action on global warming by reducing emissions of greenhouse gasses Roger Stephenson project director for the Carbon coalition said the measure was being considered by about 180 towns in the state and about half of those voted at town meeting or in local elections the coalition was still gathering results but the Resolution passed in the 40 towns that had reported Back Stephenson said the coalition Hopes to use the re sults to press presidential primary candidates to support Concrete action on climate change nurse Boss charged with Gross neglect of patient Manassas a nurse supervisor is on trial in the Case of a disabled Man who was found in his apartment with his clothes drenched in urine and his feet infested with maggots Isatu a Wurie is charged with abuse and neglect of an incapacitated adult rescuers were called to Charles furry Triangle apartment aug 21 2003 and found him alone in a soiled Recliner he could not walk or talk the 55yearold furry who suffered from Amy trophic lateral sclerosis the degenerative nerve disease known As Lou Gehrig Dis ease was taken to a Hospital and died two weeks later As an employee of a private Home health care provider Wurie 57 oversaw furry care Joann Williams a 36yearold nursing aide has already pleaded guilty to the charge stories and photos from wire services
