European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 stars and stripes March 312 007 Page 21 overnight camping on Beach stopped Honolulu City workers watched As the last of hundreds of homeless people left tents where they had camped out on a stretch of Beach and Many of the homeless moved into a new gov Enmen sponsored emergency shelter officials had taped notes onto the scores of tents at Maili Beach Park West of downtown Honolulu a month ago to inform Beach dwell ers that overnight camping would be prohibited beginning this week the City plans to renovate the 40acre Park the plight of the estimated 700 or More homeless at the Beach has drawn attention to homelessness on the Island of Oahu where Beach Side hotel rooms go for hundreds of dollars a night and the median Home Price is rabbi 83 set to have Well overdue bar Mitzvah Chicago rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf is 70 years older than most bar Mitzvah hopefuls the 83yearold is planning the traditional jewish rite of passage ceremony usually performed at age for saturday the retired head of the ram Isaiah Israel congregation in Chica gos Hyde Park neighbourhood did not have his bar Mitzvah in 1937 when he turned 13 in those Days Reform jews didst do it he said so this week he is practising he brew with a Cantor and getting ready to recite passages of the torah in Public for the first time Wolf became a rabbi in 1948 since then he has been a Navy chaplain philosophy professor at Yale University and the Leader of Chicago oldest synagogue its crazy but i am a Little Ner Vous he said residents use plows to clean up Tumbleweed Bozeman Montana residents Are used to dig Ging themselves out after heavy snowstorms but residents of one neighbourhood had to put a Snow plow to different use Clearing Mounds of Tumbleweed from their driveways winds flooded a neighbourhood with Tumbleweed covering Sheds burying mailboxes and blocking a Street and driveways residents of shooting Star Lane in Springhill were forced to use Snow lows and pitchforks to Clear the debris Cindy Bowker who has lived in the neighbourhood for 12 years woke to find tumbleweeds sur rounding her Home blanketing her Back deck and windows both garages were covered Bowker said we got the real dense stuff out and just drove through it it was up Over the head lights it was All the Way up the Steps and covered our front door Goa painting charges dropped against Man Mahopac criminal charges have been dropped against a Man accused of breaking into a barn Spray painting three pet goats and scattering pages of pornographic magazines on the floor who pushed for the Law this is the first Bill signing this Legisla Tive session by the re publican governor the Law takes effect sept 1 american Roundup Drew Gagnon 37 was charged with burglary and animal cruelty after the november incident Dou Glas Bisio 34 who police said drove Gagnon to the barn was charged with criminal facilitation Gagnon and Bisio agreed to give the Putnam humane society in Exchange for the charges being dropped said Lisa Laqui Dara the clerk at Carmel town court the goats owner Bryce Fiero offered to withdraw the charges in Exchange for the donations say ing my family and i just want to put this ordeal behind us and we believe that a donation to the humane society would be helpful texans can respond to threats with deadly Force Austin gov Rick Perry signed into Law a Bill that gives texans a stronger Legal right to defend themselves with deadly Force in their Homes cars and workplaces both Chambers of the Legisla Ture overwhelmingly approved the measure earlier this month the Bill backed by the National Rifle association states that a person has no duty to Retreat from an in Truder before using deadly Force the right to defend oneself from an imminent act of harm should not Only be clearly defined in Texas Law but it is intuitive to human nature you ought to be Able to protect yourself Perry said surrounded by lawmakers Wheeling the dog Pat Calabrese walks his 14monthold dog co co while driving his Power chair Down a sidewalk in Nazareth a flip parakeets found in apartment Seattle after receiving complaints from neighbors Seattle Ani Mal shelter staffers found 110 parakeets in a Cage in the living room of a on bedroom apartment you could hear the noise from the Street animal control officer Neil Deruyter said the Birds were being kept in unsanitary conditions and were sur rendered by their owner an unidentified Man in his 50s who had been collecting them for about five years the owner told the officers he previously tried to give the Small Birds to another shelter but said he had been told Only five would be kept and the rest would be euthanized the Birds will be offered to Quali fied adopters the Seattle animal shelter said no animal cruelty charges were expected to be filed against the owner because of his cooperation Seattle animal shelter executive director Don Jordan said cop appears in court to face assault charges Chicago prosecutors dropped a Misdemeanour count against a police officer accused of beating a female bartender from Poland in an attack caught on surveillance camera leaving him still facing a felony charge if convicted Abbate faces up to five years in prison Cook county states attorneys office spokesman Andy Conklin said the videotape shows Anthony Abbate 38 who was off duty punching kicking and throwing 24yearold bartender Karolina Obrycka to the floor after she Alleg edly refused to continue serving him drinks Obrycka suffered bruises on her head neck Back and lower body said her attorney Terry Ekl Abbate a 12year police Veter an appeared before a judge for about 30 seconds As prosecutors dropped the charge of simple Bat Tery jury spares spouse killer from the death sentence Dalton jurors spared the life of a former Georgia emergency dispatcher convicted of poisoning her Boyfriend with Antifreeze the same Way she had killed her husband six years earlier Lynn Turner could have faced the death penalty for the 2001 Mur Der of Randy Thompson a fire fighter and father of Turners two children instead the jury sentenced her to life in prison without parole she was already serving a life term following her 2004 conviction in the Antifreeze death of her police officer husband Glenn turn or in 1995 Lynn Turner had maintained her innocence in both cases and did not testify at trial or during her sentencing hearing prosecutors said she was motivated by greed for the victims life insurance Money tt1 a f Fri print students from Kearny elementary school wave Philadelphia civic flags and dance f id 11ccuu111 a ceremony in Philadelphia the event marked the 112th birthday of the i flags adoption Spring nesting ospreys Trade spots in a nest As they search for food and building materials for their new Home from a tree in the Pasquo tank River next to the Camden causeway in Camden no not yet ready to ride men build the Middle rail of the flying turns roller coaster at Knoebel amusement resort in Elysburg a the rail will support the wooden Chute through the first set of curves of the Oneo faking ride flying feet Kent Boudreaux right loses his second shoe while rounding the Corner during the first leg of the fat Man relay at the Terrebonne Parish track meet at South Terre Bonne High school in Gray la boys who compete in the shot put and discus Are Given the Chance to run a 400yard relay where the winning team earns a dozen doughnuts Kite Clumsy Isabelle Russenberger 8 finds herself in a tangle As two kites find a gust of wind during a kit flying Outing in Drake Park in Bend Ore top groundskeeper Crawford county master gardeners Diane Horn left and Becky cunning Ham clean out old ground cover from a Butterfly learning Garden outside the Public Library in Pittsburg Kan k twist i i y for Aii a 1 a n pm Power lines blown Down by nigh winds trap a Motorist m Prescott Ariz a woman 31 Olio idl co was trapped in the red car for about 50 minutes before the Power was Cut four policemen charged with assault on a tourist Riverhead Nick named the land of no be cause of Odd ordinances intended to keep once banned eat ing cookies on Public walkways Ocean Beach is a popular Long is land summer resort Village and the former setting of a failed reality to show but the police department of the order obsessed Village is out of control a prosecutor said As the acting chief and three other offic ers were charged in a grand jury indictment for viciously 2005 beat ing a tourist who had been ticketed for littering the most serious charges in the indictment were filed against George Hesse 38 the acting chief he was released on bail after pleading not guilty to gang As Sault and other charges in an arraignment before Suffolk county court judge Barbara Kahn the three Par time officers were charged with a variety of other offences those officers Paul Carollo 46 Arnold Hardman 51 and William Emburey 42 posted bail sewage disappearance is a mystery to officials Sand Lake about 15 million Gallons of partially treated sewage water disappeared from a 250000 Square foot storage Lagoon into a sinkhole but officials dont know where it went Kent county Utility operator Nathan Danenberg who runs the sewage treatment system for Sand Lake discovered the leak in the 8footdeep Lagoon while taking samples it want Clear when or Why the leak occurred i dont know if maybe there Are old mines in the area Danenberg told the grand rapids press its an Odd Case a sinkhole gob bled up All the water and we dont know where it went it seems to have just gone Down into the Earth we dont smell anything and we dont see anything mail Carrier gets jail term for stealing letters former Han cock county mail Carrier was sentenced to two weeks in jail for stealing letters that contained prepaid calling cards retail gift cards and Cash at her sentencing in us District court Angela Young of East Brook was also fined ordered to pay in restitution and placed on three years of super Vised release after serving her sen tence Cool Calm 911 operator helps Mother deliver Roanoke the baby screaming what do i do Lorna Wanner sounds urgent but remarkably Calm on the recorded 911 Call shed just Given birth to a 6pound 1ounce daughter in the living room of her Bent Mountain Home and she did it assisted Only by the guidance of Roanoke county emergency services dispatcher Christy Gorth they were on the phone with each other for 12 minutes when Hannah Danielle decided she  wait any longer to make her Entrance it was a Little after pm on March 21 dispatchers have a flip Chart reference guide to help talk callers through medical emergencies but Wanner insists goths manner helped her through a scare authorities charge Man with shooting policeman new York a Man has been charged with wound ing a police officer who confronted him about smoking marijuana out Side a Brooklyn Beauty parlor authorities said officer Rory Mangra was hit in his right ankle in Park slope he was listed in stable condition at new York methodist Hospital the suspect Kingsley Newland 34 was charged with attempted murder assault criminal posses1 Sion of a weapon and criminal pos session of marijuana police said Mangra and his partner were patrolling in an unmarked car when they spotted Newland smoking what appeared to be a joint and when Mangra who was in uni form got out of the car Newland fled police said in the Chase and struggle that followed Newland shot Mangra with a 22caliber Pis Tol police said the officers were Able to hold him and handcuff him prosecutors decision wrong in Eagle Case Cheyenne a Federal judge in Wyoming was wrong to dismiss criminal charges against a Northern Arapaho Man who shot a Bald Eagle for use in his tribes Sun dance Federal prosecutors argue us judge William Downes last october dismissed criminal charges against Winslow Friday Friday and the Northern Arapaho tribe had argued that the charges against him should be dismissed on the grounds that the us fish and wildlife service generally re fuses to Grant permits allowing trib Al members to kill eagles for religious ceremonies even though fed eral regulations say the permits should be available train Engineer turns self in following derailment in Smethport an Engi Neer at the controls of a train that derailed polluting a Pris Tine Trout Stream turned himself in to face criminal charges Michael Seifert surrendered voluntarily at the office of Smethport District judge Bill Todd Siefert 45 of Buffalo by was arraigned on two counts of causing or risking a catastrophe and one count Reck less endangerment he remained in Mckean county jail in lieu of bail about 42000 Gallons of the Caus tic chemical sodium hydroxide also known As Lye or caustic soda spilled into the sinn Mahon in Portage Creek near Gard eau after 32 cars derailed on june 30 the Norfolk Southern train reached 77 Mph in a 15 Mph zone before jumping the tracks Accord ing to a criminal complaint cleanup at the site continues nine months after the derailment stories and photos from wire reports