European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 25, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 stars and stripes March 25 2007 Page 25 Asylum seekers deportation blocked Minneapolis a Federal appeals court has blocked the deportation of a ugandan woman who was seeking Asylum be cause she was persecuted in her Homeland for being a lesbian sending her Case Back to the Board of immigration appeals for fur ther proceedings a three judge panel of the 8th circuit court of appeals said the Bia misapplied the Law and Over stepped its authority in the Case of Olivia a Bulgala who sought Asylum after the us government tried to Deport her for overstaying her visitors visa courts have established that homosexuals can qualify for Asylum because of persecution or a Well founded fear of persecution the 8th circuit panel noted Man trapped under car that crashed into House Roanoke As an Auto Mechanic Dean Blevins has spent a lot of time under cars but he haunt figured on doing that when he went to bed in his apart ment Blevins was awakened about am and told the Roanoke times he could see a vehicles engine above him and feel hot anti freeze splashing onto his face Blevins 58 was trapped under a jeep that crashed through the Wall of his apartment and pinned him in his bed firefighters freed him about an hour later the Driver Wesley Dewayne Smith 34 of Roanoke was charged with driving under the in fluence police want tougher Law against drugged driving Montpelier with drugged driving cases Ris ing sharply Vermont police Agen cies Are seeking a tougher Law that would lower the Standard of proof to that used with alcohol impaired Drivers in 2000 Vermont prosecutors filed 19 charges of driving under the influence of prescription pain killers and illegal Street drugs the the first half of 2006 they filed 67 weve seen a dramatic Rise in the numbers said Vermont state police spokesman sgt John Flanni Gan its a concerning figure from a traffic safety perspective police still Nab far More Drunken Drivers than those impaired by other drugs with about 5000 arrests a year for driving under the influence of alcohol Orlando to screen All entering secure areas cites air port will begin screening All employees who enter secure areas action that follows the arrest of bag Gage handlers accused of smug gling guns onto a commercial flight officials said Orlando International Airport joins the company of Miami the Only other us Airport to physically screen All employees who can enter secure areas Miami began american Roundup the practice in 1999 after its own smuggling incident Tsa officers will continue screening employees with secure Access for 90 Days after which the Orlando Airport will use a Security company virus outbreak sickens dozens at county jail Las nor virus outbreak sickened at least 150 inmates and seven guards at the county jail authorities said As Crews tried to decontaminate the building most of those sickened complained of stomach related Dis Tress such As diarrhoea vomiting and cramps said Brian Labus senior epidemiologist with the South Ern Nevada health District in Las vegas none were hospitalized monuments Bill draws emotional debate Austin slave owner ship and Confederate Fig ures spilled into a tense debate on the House floor Over a Bill aiming to safeguard historical markers against possible removal or Renam ing emotions Over the Bill which its author ultimately pulled after two hours of debate peaked when two digging for a life safety personnel pull construction worker Malcolm Ferguson from a 10foot Trench after he was trapped when soil caved in on him while digging around a Home foun Dation in Reminderville Ohio at least 20 firefighters and rescuers pulled dirt from the Trench to free the 51yearold Man said police dispatcher Kathy Buck lawmakers were Sepa rated during a spat Over How the Bill even made it to the House floor under the Bill statues of figures like Confederate Gen Robert e Lee or buildings named after Fig ures such As civil rights activist Cesar Chavez that Are on state land could Only be re moved or renamed with approval from the legislature Texas historical commission or state preservation Board current state Law Only protects monuments of texans honoured for military service state offers Cash to kill predatory wolves Anchorage the state is offering Cash for people to kill wolves in an Effort to boost a predator control program that has not met expected numbers officials said the incentives include offering 180 Volunteer pilots and Aerial gun ners for turning in legs of freshly killed wolves gov Sarah palins office announced state biologists want 382 to 664 wolves killed by the time Snow melts As of mid March 98 wolves had been killed Hollywood Christmas Parade cancelled los Angeles the cur Tain has closed on a Holly Wood tradition officials have announced that after 75 years the Hollywood Christmas Parade has been can celeb due to rising costs and loss in Revenue this is a very difficult thing for us to have to do said Jeff Briggs chairman of the Hollywood Cham ber of commences Board of directors were disappointed and sad but were out of the Parade Busi Ness but in recent years the Parade struggled to attract celebrity participants and a National television audience Kroger accused of blocking Pill Access Atlanta two weeks after Kroger co said it was clarifying its policy on stocking the so called morning after Pill activists say dozens of stores continue to Block sales of the emergency contraceptive representatives of Naral pro Choice America an Abor Tio rights group that also works on other reproductive health is sues sent a letter to Kroger officials asking them to carry the drug at All of their pharmacies charges dismissed in Hospital extortion Case Chicago a Federal judge has dismissed charges against a businessman accused of helping a state official pressure a Hospital to hire a favored contractor for a million project p Nicholas Hurtgen a former managing director in the Bear Stearns co Chicago office was charged with extortion and mail fraud in the Federal corruption investigation involving the Illinois health facilities planning Board to of d us i pm Hir Ull a cyclist rides past guitar players Michael Lauderdale left and Jacob Calderon in Bakersfield Calif slips Lidin away Corey Weiss 18 left and Shawn Johnson 18 of Fredericktown Ohio shout As they slide off of the Awakening a sculpture in Haines Point in Washington do during their senior trip to the capital i Xvi Juu Pablo Vasquez prunes peach Trees at Bush Fern View farms in Elmira Ore the first peaches usually arrive in the last week of july according to owner Dwayne Bush min a have work Ben Sutton an employee of Alvarez in a aay s wont steel erectors indie Yome a tightens bolts on the steel beams of the new ramp to the Leetsdale Industrial Park Over route 65 in Leetsdale a balancing act Alan Foster and his son Lynal 8 try to keep their balance As they walk on a beam at Cleveland Park in Spartanburg so mothers love in Tulsa okla Jodi a Mother Chimpanzee holds her Onemo Thold baby at the Tulsa zoo the sky is reflected off the water As Brian Loomis of Clarkston Wash and Kelly Fairish of Lewiston Idaho fish on the docks at the Southway boat ramp on the Snake River in Lewiston Idaho Rohi tin i e us till factory smoke forces evacuation of Homes Plainfield a factory fire spewing what authorities initially believed was toxic smoke prompted evacuations of Homes and farms near this North Ern Iowa town authorities later determined the smoke did not contain toxic Chemi cals and no one was Hurt officials said the fire erupted in the afternoon at the environmental lubricants manufacturing inc Plant which produces soybean based grease plumes of thick Black smoke spread across the area and could be seen As far As 30 Miles away family sues school District Over accusation family of a first Grade boy who was suspended for allegedly sexually harassing a female classmate at his Brockton elementary school is suing the City and the school com Mittee the suit filed earlier in Federal court is seeking unspecified dam Ages from the City for violating the civil rights of the boy who was sus Pended from the Downey Elemen tary school in january 2006 the boy 6 years old at the time was suspended for three Days after the principal said he had violated sexual harassment policy by put Ting two fingers inside the Waist band of the girls pants the family said it was nothing More than innocent horseplay and the girl had poked him first the boy was later transferred to another school at his parents re quest and the schools sexual harassment policy was modified to be More age appropriate 2 suicides in 2 months at state mental Hospital Atascadero two patients have killed them selves at the states mental Hospital in the past two months after More than a year without a suicide and officials say a severe staff shortage is eroding care Mel Hunter executive director of Atascadero state Hospital said he could not directly tie the suicides to staffing shortages but he said patient care is suffering in an institution running Short Ages from 52 percent to 80 percent on our clinical staff we Are bound to Start seeing some bad out comes Hunter said until february the Central coast psychiatric facility had not had a suicide since August 2005 Over the past six years it averaged fewer than one suicide attempt per month and suicides were rare a Penny for avoiding drugs and alcohol Fargo Beer would Cost a Penny More in North Dakota under a proposal from a Stu Dent group that urges Young peo ple to avoid drugs and alcohol the state chapter of students against destructive decisions is starting a petition drive to put its Beer tax plan before voters in no vember coordinator Lee Erickson says the extra Penny would raise More than million a year for Al Cohol and drug prevention pro Grams across the state High voltage warning signs posted at Purdue West Lafayette Pur due University will update warning signs at All High voltage areas including the one where the body of an electrocuted freshman was found the school said the University will bring the signs on older buildings to the new est standards for High voltage facilities school spokeswoman Jeanne Norberg said buildings constructed or renovated after 1981 Are required to Post signs on doors of rooms con taming More than 600 volts of electricity according to Federal safety codes broker admits helping to defraud Bank Newark a mortgage broker admitted he helped a real estate Developer cheat a Bank by falsely pledging to cover a million Check the Developer had de posited from a closed account the broker Joseph Kohen 37 pleaded guilty to a single charge of Bank fraud which carries up to 30 years in prison and a million Fine he was released on Bond pending a june 27 sentencing hearing Developer Solomon Dwek is accused of cheating pc Bank out of about million by depositing two million checks drawn on a closed account then withdrawing nearly half the Money he was arrested in May on Federal Bank fraud charges swans expected to stay two weeks for migration of Large and Graceful Tundra swans Are making their often unnoticed migration through the Inland Northwest this month at Calispell Lake near Usk Large flocks of swans arrived and Are expected to remain about two weeks their arrival often coincides with the end of Winter and they re main at the Remote Lake typically until the end of March or Early april when they Fly off toward the Arctic John Stuart an Audubon society member estimated 4000 Birds were on the Lake Book Fine still on his record years later Superior Jeff Rolson is just relieved he didst get sent to the principals office the 40something Rolson dropped by Superior senior High school where he graduated in 1977 to get a copy of his transcript for a plumbing apprenticeship that when he found out he had two outstanding debts for a missing algebra Book and for an unpaid physical education fee a Secretary told him he had to pay up before he could get his Tran script Rolson says he Doest under stand Why the school didst Contact him earlier after All he still lives in Superior and his daughter at tends the school nobody contacted me so i ended up paying the to get my transcript he said photos and stories from wire services