European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 16 stars and stripes Mideast edition april 1 20o7 Page 17 odor in the court dog sniffs lawyers Roanoke ing at the podium in a Roanoke Terry Grimes was in the midst of arguing a Fine Point of the Law when he was startled by the dog sniff ing at his pants your Grimes told judge James theres a dog in the the judge said in a mat Tero fact please Grimes resumed his Only to learn later that the portly Little dog had a baby girl an judge Turk and an Honor bestowed on precious few pooches free roam of a Federal it started a few years when Turk began to bring his mixed Breed Dachshund to work with him on when his wife does Volunteer work at a hos now the dog is a family faces trial in enslavement of girl Greensburg five members of a family were ordered to stand trial on charges that they held a woman captive As their slave for six months and beat her for not doing her chores or for no reason at Emily testified that the family considered her their and that they repeatedly told her she could leave once her bruises attorneys for the family argued unsuccessfully that the alleged Vic Tim was not held As their they say the physical violence was simply the result of Domestic Dis Putes involving nicely and their 17yearold and that she was free to leave at any Mark 43 his can 41 and their three teenage children Are charged with Kidnap terroristic threats and related governor vetoes budget after being shut out Oklahoma City Brad Henry vetoed nearly All of a billion appropriations claiming he had been shut out of a budget process that failed to address several key is the Bill passed unanimously in the state where democrats and republicans share but democrats in the Gouled House complained that they were left out of negotiations As All the players should have a seat at the said a you cant be bipartisan and shut out the democratic governor and the democratic members of the degree revoked Over school cheating scandal Columbus Ohio University revoked the Mas ters degree of a mechanical Engi Neering student accused of using others work in a the most severe action yet in a review of Doz ens of research the school the University would not identify the student or give details about american Roundup the questioned portions of the the citing academic privacy the University said it was finish ing up a sweeping review of dissertations and theses it started last year after a graduate student re ported to administrators that he found plagiarized passages while doing research using archived the ses in a University officials said 38 cases Are Pend headmistress convicted of sex with a student new York a headmistress and teacher at an exclusive private Manhattan Montes Sori accused of having sexual relations with two Young teen was convicted of sodomizing one of them when he was Lina showed no Emo Tion As the jury Foreman reported a partial decision of 11 guilty and two not guilty verdicts on various other the jurors had re ported earlier they were dead locked on the six rape counts against besides the sodomy and witness bribery Sinha was convicted on several counts of criminal impersonation and falsely reporting an All misdemeanours punishable by up to a year in new cop flashlights give out not beatings los Angeles police will soon be outfitted with a cutting Edge flashlight that is not baby Sitter an Ebony langur born on 25 is held by an adult langur in new Yorks Bronx the arboreal primates Are found exclusively in Only brighter than oth but too Small to be used As a the idea for the 7060 led flashlight was conceived just Days after news cameras broadcast images of land officers beating car theft suspect Stanley Miller with a Twofoot Long Stan Dard Issue police police chief William brat ton banned the Large Flash lights after Millers 2004 beat ing and called for manufacturers to create a brighter Flash restaurant scofflaws gets his just deserts Bloomington a scofflaws who came to be known As the Gin and tonic Bandit went to the same restaurant each ordered two drinks and a rib Eye then skipped out on his his drinking and dashing Days May be police arrested the Man on preliminary charges of theft and resist ing Law he was being held at the Monroe county jail on authorities each wednesday night for four weeks the same Man came into the same Ocharles restaurant and ordered the two drinks and the restaurant manager Teresa Tolbert told to at the end of each the wait staff would present him with his Bill for and he would excuse himself to use the then skip out without homeless men Settle suit Over sleeping charges Las vegas three homeless men mistakenly arrested last year on charges of sleeping too close to a pile of fees have settled a lawsuit against the City for Eastman David Hicks and Jerry Halfpap each received a Check for in the settlement of their Federal civil rights according to american civil Liber ties Union of which sued on their City spokesman Jace Radke con firmed the the men were arrested in no vember for violating a provision of a Las vegas ordinance no longer on the tour helicopters hard Landing closes runway Honolulu a tour Heli copter made a hard Landing on closing one of the run ways at Kahului Airport for about 40 the who reported trouble 10 minutes before Landing just off the and six passengers were not the operated by had mini Mal the Federal aviation administration no flights were affected by the closure of one of the the cause of the helicopters problems has not yet been the incident follows two tour helicopter crashes on Kauai last month that killed five from Bob Ron Don Jeff Dave Acker Crystal Heather Hunt and Dan Hunt carry a big reticulated toward its new exhibit at the Columbus zoo in Snake handlers to  the Western Honey or Europe in a Abb an Honey collects nectar from a Flower in River a suburb of new t a of Law rancher Dick appears to Uca ii Davv follow the Singletree Trail rules by leading his with a rope to get him Back Home after the Bull left his pasture in area Boulder county sheriffs deputies and the Colorado state patrol herded the Bull from a nearby Boulevard and into open where he was Spring blossoms visitors take a stroll under the Cher by blossoms along the tidal Basin in baseball Buzz three Earold Justin Anglin of has his and Buzz Lightyear to keep him company during a Spring training baseball game Between the Cleveland indians and the Atlanta braves in Lake Buena no pictures John Orellana months to taking his last ride r cries As his o attempts to take his photograph in a Field of bluebonnets planted along Spur 408 in a team of belgian horses driven by Tim and Jerry Wathke pull a Wagon carrying the casket of Les Anklam through the Rural Wisconsin county who owned draft horses much of his was buried after a three mile ride to Pauls cemetery near lightning strike kills teen at track meet Carbondale a Light Ning strike killed a High school runner As he left a pole vault pit shortly before a track the county Coroner Corey was return ing to the main track area from the pole vault pit when the lightning Bolt hit coaches and others tried to revive but he was declared dead by the time he reached a it came out of said Scott Carbondale Community High schools baseball whose team was preparing for a game there was a very Light it didst look any thing like a background checks on coaches go National Lawrenceville the National recreation and Park association has teamed up with several companies to Intro Duce a certification program for youth coaches and other volunteers that includes nationwide criminal background checks and photo identification cards for those who the called started in the fall and has screened turning away who had committed sex of violent crimes or other Felo organizers individual Park districts have conducted criminal background checks on volunteers for but the Park association says these checks Are often Only for a Fiat fee of and per tlc2 provides districts with a nationwide Back ground Check and photo id for each As Well As Volun Teer training videos and on legged marathoner loses bid to be nyc cop new York a lawsuit filed by a on legged ath Lete who has been trying for years to become a police officer like his father and older brother has been Brian Osullivan was told in july after passing a written police that he was not eligible for appointment to the new York police department because of the amputation of his lower right leg and his use of an artificial a police physician said the pros thesis would cause difficulty performing a number of essential functions of a police offic but not limited run jumping and defending him self or others in an in who has run a again passed the writ ten police exam but was disqualified he claiming unlawful in Janu Ary a judge allowed his Law suit to but the state supreme courts appellate division reversed that saying o Sullivan had a full and fair Opportunity to litigate his aftershocks of 2005 quake still being Felt Dillon a Small Earth quake that rattled South Western Montana caused no dam age but could be Felt about 90 Miles the earthquake was an aftershock of a tude quake that hit the same area in july said Tom who manages the University of Mon Tan westerns environmental sciences it was entered about 15 Miles Northeast of Dillon and could be Felt As far away As said Mike director of earthquake studies for the Montana Bureau of mines and about aftershocks have been recorded from the 2005 which cracked Walls and damaged Stickney the Region averages about five aftershocks a most too Small to be lawmakers to divest from firms with Iran ties Sacramento califor Nia lawmakers took the first step toward ending state in vestment in companies that do business with targeting the portfolios of the two largest Public pension funds in the the 41 vote by the state Assem Bly Public retirement and social Security committee advanced legislation that would Force the retirement funds to sell about billion Worth of sup porters who included both republicans and democrats said califor Nia taxpayers should not be sup porting a terrorist travel agents accused of helping illegal aliens Phoenix fourteen travel Agency owners or employees were indicted on human smuggling and other charges for allegedly Selling airline tickets they thought would be used by illegal officials while the charges against the employees were connected Only to the Sale of tickets to undercover officers conducting a authorities said their analysis of records shows that the six travel agencies sold tickets to an estimated illegal immigrants since the undercover officers made it Clear they were arranging travel for illegal immigrants and paid Cash for dozens of one Way tickets across the the travel Agen cies offered advice on being Dis Creet at authorities breakaway Church faces charges Over finances i Denver the Leader of a conservative breakaway anglican Parish will face allegations of financial misconduct in the Church diocese officials said amid an escalating dispute Over homosexuality and other is the Colorado diocese of the episcopal Church also said it May take action in state court to re claim the Parish property if Lead ers do not relinquish their claims to the episcopal Church is the Wing of the 77 million Mem Ber anglican leaders of Grace Church and Stephens Parish in Colorado the states largest Episco pal voted to leave the de nomination and join a conservative anglican Church based in they were upset Over what they considered the Liberal theological direction of the National particularly its acceptance of to stories and photos from wire services