European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 stars a and stripes March 26 2007 Page 17 death recommended in students murder Wilmington a jury unanimously recommended a death sen tence for James Cooke 36 of Newark the same panel convicted him in the rape and murder of University of Delaware Sophomore Lindsey Bonistall 20 of White Plains by Al her of Campus apartment in 2005 Superior court judge Jerome her Lily will have the final decision on the sentence he has not set a sentencing Date canadians death sentence upheld Helena a Federal judge upheld the death pen Alty for a Canadian citizen convicted of a 1982 double murder Ronald a Smiths attorney said he expects to Appeal us District judge Charles Lovell said Smiths guilty pleas authorized the death penalty Canada does not have a death penalty and has Long been at Odds with the United states Over its application to Canadian Citi Zens inmates Kin can sue Over High phone Bills new York the states highest court ruled that families forced to pay High phone rates to talk to loved ones in jail May proceed with a lawsuit seek ing refunds relatives of inmates claim the state illegally collected millions of dollars through exclusive Telephone service contracts with private carriers the court of appeals ruling reversed decisions by two lower courts apparently dogs dont have Freedom of speech Bismarck attention All dogs in Belfield and keep it Down the North Dakota supreme court rejected a dog owners claim that be Fields ordinance against Barking was unconstitutional the Law in Belfield in Southwest Ern North Dakota declares that excessive continuous or untimely dog Barking is considered a Public nuisance Fred Kilkenny got a ticket for his Barking dogs even though he was in Mississippi at the time help ing Hurricane katrina victims a neighbor complained that Kilk Ennys dogs were outdoors and Barking after 8 pm the night of oct 242005 court records say he had hired a caretaker who told police she had not put the Ani Mals inside because she had to work until 9 pm roman Catholic College to make dorms coed East Manchester Saint Anselm College a roman Catholic school with a growing enrolment especially among women has decided to make some dormitories coed for the first time in its 118year history starting next fall about 10 per cent of students will live in coed dorms but the buildings will be equipped with locked single sex entrances to different areas american Roundup Trees planted to try to protect Trail site Fol fort Hall hundreds Ulm of Willow cuttings have been planted near a historic Oregon Trail site in Hopes of protecting it from the Snake River which has been edging closer the original fort Hall site is marked by earthen berms that officials worry might disappear about 20 workers with the Shoshone Bannock tribes and the natural resources conserva Tion service worked on the Plant Ings exc Arnival Tiger has leg surgery for deformity Columbia a Bengal Tiger that once worked on the carnival circuit was recovering after surgery to Correct a badly de formed right front leg malnutrition As a cub had caused Sulley the tigers Bones to grow misshapen surgeon Jimi Cook said it was increasingly hard for the animals front legs to sup port his body which brought on joint malformations arthritis and pain three veterinary surgeons at the University of Missour Columbia spent six hours cutting and reorienting the leg Bones in Hopes of let Ting Sulley walk without limping Sulley and four other Tiger cubs had travelled the carnival circuit where people would pay to be photographed with them and were later displayed by a handler in car dampening the Blaze smoke Billows up and blocks out the Sun As firefighters Battle a Blaze at the Church of Latte Day saints in Anchorage Alaska fire department spokesman Tom Kempton said the fire burned most of the roof of one of two structures at the mormon Church parking lots the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals rescued the animals in 2004 and sent them to the wild animal Sanctuary near Denver Sulley was driven Back there after the sur Gery and is recovering nicely Sanctuary executive director Pat Craig said he is lying in the Sun in a recovery pen Craig said without the surgery Sulley would probably have been euthanized within a year Cook said guilty pleas in beating of nightclub Singer new people who were accused of brutally beating a nightclub Singer while Yelling ant Gay slurs pleaded guilty to assault charges the four began following Kevin Viance around am on june 10 2006 after he left a Gay bar in the cites East Village neighbor Hood calling him derogatory names police said the defendants punched and kicked Viance 39 breaking his jaw and causing other injuries police said the four will be sentenced in april and May in Exchange for their guilty pleas Gerard Johnson 17 will be sentenced to 15 years in prison Akino George and Jarell Sears both 21 will get Lightyear prison terms and Gregory Archie 19 will receive a six year sen tence Viance who performs in drag appeared on the billboard dance music charts in 2002 and 2004 with his songs give it up and alive throwing Marker brings new Job for professor Conway William Kordsmeier a University of Central Arkansas professor who threw a Marker at a student during class will do research for a year outside the classroom and then re tire the Uca president said Kordsmeier 58 told police that Cesar Francisco Orea was disrupting class and after trying several times to Start his lecture he threw the Marker at Orea to get his attention Orea said he was quietly taking notes when a Marker struck him in the face smuggling people into us brings sentence Rutland two new York City men nabbed while smuggling 21 illegal aliens into ver Mont from Canada last summer Are facing time behind bars Robert Clark 56 and Wilfred Nieves 44 pleaded guilty to charges stemming from their arrests by Border patrol agents in Derby line just South of the Canadian Border the men were driving two vans Clarks loaded with 11 illegal aliens and Nieves with 10 authorities said they said the passengers from Afghanistan Guyana India mexi co and Pakistan lacked the Docu ments they needed to be in the country assistant us attorney Eliza Beth Woodcock who prosecuted the Case wrote in court papers that the illegal aliens paid a Canadian smuggler up to each for the trip across the Border they know these Waters a pair off Oyster fishermen with females Bay Oyster co make their Way to Shore with their catch on Tomales Bay in Marshall Calif the Oyster company is the states oldest continuously run shellfish farm which dates from 1909 remembering a lost Petty officer Mother Claudia Stallworth stand on a chair As she tears the paper from the Street sign of the Street which was named for her daughter Marsha Ratchford in the Bessemer neighbourhood in Prichard Ala Ratchford a Navy Petty officer first class was killed in the terrorist attack on sept 112001 while working at the Pentagon in Arlington a also helping Are Charles Pharr behind Stallworth and Lisa Ephriam behind the sign dressed up while waiting to take her easter photographs Annabelle Mitchell 4 tiptoes through a Swath of daffodils in the Lyndon Baines Johnson memorial Grove on the Potomac River which overlooks Washington Flower girl netting fish Ner in for rain Julie Sandoval right helps her Antonino Sanfilippo of Gloucester my up 1u1 idyll daughter Grace Sandoval 2 put on mass repairs a fishing net along rain gear before leaving the childrens museum in Santa be no the docks in Gloucester the family nest an american Bald Eagle stands Sentinel in a tall Pine As its mate picks at the remains of a recent catch for their offspring a curious wee sold Dow covered eaglet in Punta Gorda Fla the pm 1 1 Phi 1 rancher Vic Pozzi gives his Brahma bulls a treat As he feeds them French bread on his ranch in Windsor Calif minister sues police Over drug raid at Church los Angeles a minis Ter who was arrested on charges of marijuana Possession has sued police for million con tending his civil and religious rights were violated because he Heads a Church that uses pot Dur ing worship the Rev Craig x Rubin 41 is the founder of Temple 420 which holds that pot is a religious Herb Rubin his son and another Man were charged last fall with two felony counts each of Selling or trans porting marijuana and possessing marijuana for Sale Rubins lawsuit contends that in november an undercover officer joined the Hollywood Temple and bought Grams of Maruyana to be used for religious purposes five Days later the strip mall Sanctuary was raided by officers who seized Money and marijuana Rubin appeared on the show time series weeds As the owner of a medical marijuana club woman gets for discrimination in store Melville a Federal jury awarded to a shopper who said a store manager singled her out for scrutiny and wrongfully accused her of trying to steal a shirt because of her race jurors earlier found that a mod Ells sporting goods manager in Riverhead discriminated against Carmen Cruz 34 who is Black a store lawyer said it May Appeal Senate votes to move next years primary Nashville the state House voted 912 to move next years presidential primary from feb 12 to feb 5 the Senate still must vote on the proposal which is supported by leaders of both parties an opponent demo cratic rep Mike Kernell argued against joining the Rush by several states to hold primaries feb 5 say ing candidates with less Cash would have difficulty competing 3 children left alone in Home die from fire Sheboygan three children left alone died in a House fire near random Lake their Mother was working when the fire broke out the victims were Cheyenne Groth 13 Hunter Groth 10 and Raeven Redinger 5 the youngest Childs father was out of town because his own father had died authorities said students sickened on bus hospitalized in my White Marsh fire officials in Maryland said one Massachusetts student was taken to a trauma Center in critical condition and 20 others were taken to area hospitals after they became ill on a charter bus travelling on interstate 95 Baltimore county fire battalion chief Mark Ewers said the bus pulled in at an Exxon station in White Marsh after several Stu dents complained of headaches and nausea and some vomited officials Arent yet sure what made the students sick but Ewers says county commercial vehicle inspectors Are looking at the bus Ewers says the students were travelling on the Way to Laurel my he said chaperones were trying to make arrangements to stay at hotels in the White Marsh area youth Center closing Over Lack of cleanliness Cherokee the Job corps Center a Job training site for teens and Young adults will close immediately because of Mold dirty restrooms and other health and safety concerns us department of labor officials said about 150 students at the Center in great Smoky National Park will be offered transfers to other centers fast spreading virus attacking Melon crops Yuma growers and re searchers in Yuma county Are scrambling to find a Way to contain a virus that caused the loss of up to 75 percent of the fall Melon crop the virus known As by adv attacks All types of melons plus Squash gourds and cucumbers growers have agreed to a voluntary Early end to the Spring season and late fall planting in an Effort to Stop its spread Gates foundation giving in scholarships Washington the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is giving million to help Send More than 2000 of the districts poorest students to College the Money will provide mentoring and scholarships Over the next 10 years just one in 20 High school graduates in the districts Lowin come neighbourhoods earns a col lege degree within five years statistics show court Grants state right to ban cyanide in mining Denver the state court of appeals said Colo Rado counties have the authority to ban the use of cyanide in Gold min ing to fight pollution a three judge panel upheld Summit county Rule against the technique reject ing a Challenge by the mining Industry which is considering whether to Appeal Conejos Costilla Gilpin and Gunnison counties have similar bans Fri arrests fire chief on obstruction charges Baton Rouge Fri agents arrested a Parish fire chief accused of trying to have a witness killed to prevent testimony in a Federal grand jury investigation Donovon r Mcmullen or 42 was arrested after he was indicted on two counts of obstruction of jus Tice by attempting to kill a witness according to the us attorneys of fice in Baton Rouge the details on the Case involving the witness testimony Are sealed Mcmullen chief of Caddo Par ish fire Protection District 3 in Greenwood agreed to pay some one to kill the witness and provided a semiautomatic handgun and ammunition the indictment alleges if convicted Mcmullen could face up to 40 years in prison photos and stories from wire services