European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 stars an d St i p april s 2007 Page 25 bus car crash sends 18 to the Hospital me bus and a car collided in downtown Houston sending 18 people to the hos Pital authorities said fourteen people from the bus and four passengers from the car sought medi Cal attention metro spokeswoman Raquel Roberts said the extent of their injuries was not known the car ran a Stop sign Roberts said the sign might have been twisted the wrong Way police said a Power line was hit during the Accident temporarily knocking out Power to the neighbourhood oops mayors son steals family Sun initially insisting that a thief was driving his family sport Utility vehicle when it crashed into two parked cars mayor Byron Brown said that his 16yearold son was behind the wheel Browns wife reported the Chev Rolet Equinox stolen when the Inci Dent took place feb 24 and Brown said at the time that he was baffled by the fact that the Driver apparently had a key Brown said his son Byron i repeatedly denied being the Driver yesterday the truth came out our son took the vehicle Brown said during a news Confer ence Hes certainly going to be grounded on an indefinite basis the mayor said Brown said his son admitted that he had sneaked out of the House to go see a Friend and panicked and fled the scene after hitting a Patch of ice and skidding into two parked cars he did not Tell his parents be cause he did not want to damage his relationship with them the mayor said Byron i finally con fessed under questioning by police he said the younger Brown who has a learners permit was ticketed for driving without a License and Leav ing the scene of an Accident lawmakers to reconvene for Queens trip to states Richmond so there will be another session of the general Assembly after All a session fit for a Queen the House of delegates unanimously approved a Resolution Dur ing its on Day reconvened session to hold a joint legislative session in May during a visit by Queen Eliza Beth in to Virginia the Resolution is contingent on the British monarchs itinerary she is scheduled to visit the state in Early May with stops Likely in Richmond Williamsburg and Jamestown which celebrates the 400th anniversary of its 1607 found ing this year peeping Tom flees leaving ladder behind Baraboo a peeping Tom seen peering into a Sec on floor window of a mans apart ment fled before the police could catch him but he left a key piece of evidence behind his ladder Matt Edgerton 24 said he and a Date were at Home when he noticed a Shadow move across his bedroom window and went to investigate when he pulled Back the curtain he was facet face with a american Roundup Middle aged Man peering in my nose was actually touching the window and it was like Boom his face was right there edger ton said it was like a horror movie police it Rob Sinden declined to give More details because the investigation is ongoing we have had similar instances in the past but i cannot say weve Ever had an individual use a lad Der he said that s an individual who is working very diligently at peeking schools to review bus Drivers driving records Wichita Durham school services will allow the Wichita school District to re View files on its bus Drivers on a regular basis after an investigation revealed several spotty records one Driver was involved in five crashes from 2001 to 2005 while driving a school bus company derailment caused by broken Bolt train derailment that ignited a Large toxic Blaze that forced Resi dents from their Homes for Days was caused by a broken Bolt the rail company said the National transportation safety Board has the final say Over the investigation but has not deter mined the cause of the Jan 16 derailment said Gary Sease spokes Man for Florida based Cox corp the results of the company investigation were reported to the s Jis to m it Row april showers rain drops cling to unfurled Tulip blooms in front of the West Wing of the White House in Washington after thundershowers passed through the Washington area Federal Railroad administration he said the broken Bolt Al Lowed a plate on the 18th car of the 80car freight train to shift and prevented the wheels from negotiating a slight curve Sease said the derailment just South of Louisville involved some cars that were carrying chemicals the fire which burned for several Days re leased toxic smoke and shut Down a nearby interstate for half a Day study drug users were treatment no shows los Angeles a study of an initiative to treat drug users instead of jailing them found More than a Quarter of offenders sentenced under the program failed to show up for treatment the study by Urcla also found that almost half never completed the required rehab the initiative passed in 2000 Cost the state More than million during its first two years the study said suspect identified in 1998 murder Case Marion a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Gilmore grocer and former mayor in 1998 is waiting to be extradited from Texas where he was serving a sentence for a parole violation according to a Crittenden county investigator Melvin Boyd 55 faces charges of capital murder and aggravated robbery stemming from the slay ing of grocer Emmitt Luther sheriffs investigator Thomas Martin said a warrant from Arkansas seek ing Boyds arrest arrived in Texas As he was set to be released after serving his parole violation sen tence Martin said the investigator said Boyd had also served time in Arkansas Illi Nois and Kentucky on other convictions Hes a chronic criminal mar tin said Boyd a Gilmore native came to investigators attention after they began reviewing the cold Case and interviewing people who were Able to place Boyd at the scene of the crime Martin said Luther owner of Luthers Lucky Dollar store was found dead in Side his store on feb 31998 police said and Bills were miss ing from the Cash Register police say attic used to grow marijuana plants father and his two teenage sons have been charged with growing marijuana in the attic of their Long Island Home according to Suffolk county police Fred Barbi Masaro 46 and two of his sons Michael 19 and Tho Mas 18 were taken into custody after officers with a search War rant discovered 20 marijuana plants in their attic police said during the raid detectives seized the 20 marijuana plants an additional Pound of marijuana and in Cash from the House which had been under surveillance the department said All three suspects were charged with criminal Possession of Mari Juana the father was additionally charged with endangering the Wel fare of a child his two younger children Ages 12 and 13 getting close to the circus Murphy school left talks with big Apple circus performer Johnny Peers who holds sir Winston the dog after the circus performance at City Hal Plaza in Boston children with sensory impairments were invited into the circus ring for a touch session after the performance Art in the a crowd gathers to watch As Sand sculptor i 111 Lluc John Kruer puts the finishing touches on a 110footlong Dinosaur on cresent Beach on siesta key in Sarasota Fia Kruer enlisted the help of volunteers to move Over 30 tons of Sand for the sculpture then painted it with a thin coat of water soluble Dye raising awareness Montpelier it the students sought to raise awareness of the genocide taking place in Darfur by wearing shirts about the Issue a week ago the students showed some posters about Darfur to the principal Peter Evans who approved them before the students taped them on the school Walls the next morning the administration took Down the posters Evans said no objection has been raised to the shirts move away Wayne Donelson garbed As the easter Bunny while does in the Florida keys National Marine Sanctuary off key Largo Fla Donelson hid hard boiled eggs in preparation for an underwater easter egg Hunt for divers a t n i i h p in 111uu a Park Bench along St James Lake near St James Minn is encrusted in ice the result of recent frigid weather and win driven Waves icing smokescreen a Man watches from the deck of a shrimp boat As the Sun is partially blocked by plumes of smoke from a fire along Little River Road in Bayou la Bare Ala a Peacock spreads its Tail As it walks around an Entrance of the Cincinnati zoo botanical Garden in Cincinnati giant alaskan Rockfish weighs in at 60 pounds Anchorage a com Mercial fishing boat has pulled up what could have been one of the oldest creatures in alas a a giant Rockfish estimated to be about a Century old the 44inch 60pound female Short Raker Rockfish was caught last month by the Catcher prices Sor Kodiak Enterprise owned by Trident seafood South of the Pribilof islands in the Bering sea the 275foot Seattle based ves Sel was trawling for Pollock at 2100 feet on one drag the ships big net pulled up an estimated 75 tons of Pollock plus 10 Brighton Ange Rockfish crewmen alerted Michael Myers factory manager of the Kodiak Enterprise he has fished in the Bering sea since 1988 but never saw a Rockfish that big Myers is a regular at show and Tell time at his sons school he immediately thought that hed save the fish for Federal researchers after the elementary school Chil Dren got a look at it i thought there going to love that he said from his Home in Marysville Wash Myers ordered the big Rockfish to be Frozen whole Condor sighting brings cheers from researchers san Diego if s been a Heady few Days for scientists involved in the Complex Effort to restore the California Condor to its once native habitat to begin with researchers spot Ted the first California Condor egg Laid in Baja California since con Dors were reintroduced into the Sierra san Pedro de Martir National Park in 2002 and now a Condor known As no 321 was tracked flying across the mexican Border near Jacumba and then continuing to the Anz Borrego area the sighting was the first of a California Condor in san Diego county since 1910 binational Joy reigned first at the egg and then the flight of con Dor no 321 the reintroduction of the Cali fornia Condor in Mexico is a Story of Success said Adrian Fernan Dez Bre Mauntz president of mexi cos Institute de ecologic this is a momentous occasion said Mike Wallace Condor project Leader and scientist with the san Diego zoos Center for conserva Tion of endangered species Boulder on tracks causes coat train to derail St Albans a Boulder the size of a City bus is blamed for a train derailment that left a locomotive partially sub merged in the Coal River near St Albans no injuries were reported in the Accident but diesel fuel leaked into the water and 10 train cars plus a second locomotive were completely off track a mudslide caused the Rock to fall on the Edge of the track and the Cox Coal train  Stop in time said Lakewood Volunteer fire capt Bill Price Price said both engineers escaped unharmed the mudslide Likely occurred minutes before the train came through according to Price be cause another train passed unimpeded along the track shortly be fore the Accident suspicious powder causes false alarm Princeton a suspicious powder found in a mail truck led authorities to evacuate a Post office and several businesses and close streets tests revealed it was nonhazardous Calcium and pos Phat based powder fire chief Gary Hanna said he said he didst know of its commercial uses or where it came from Zimbabwe dictator May lose honorary degree Springfield the University of Massachusetts has awarded nearly 2000 honorary degrees to world leaders renowned scholars and writers since 1885 now for the first time the University is considering taking one Back from Robert Mugabe president of Zimbabwe when Mugabe received an honorary doctorate of Law from the Campus in 1986 he was hailed As a humane revolutionary who ended an oppressive White Rule to establish an Independent Zimbabwe in 1979 but in the two decades since Mugabe has been condemned for attacks on dissidents and accused of running a corrupt government that has ruined the Economy some students at the Boston Cam pus have circulated a petition ask ing for the University to revoke Mugabe degree and officials say they Are considering doing so school locks Down during immigrants Chase Palmview a South Texas elementary school was locked Down for an hour after a Chase involving suspected illegal immigrants ended at the school no one was Hurt Border patrol spokesman Oscar Saldana said two of 19 immigrants were caught by Lajoya Independent school District police and the others were caught by City school District or Border patrol personnel nearby la Joya is spokeswoman Lizette Martinez said precaution Ary measures were taken at be Reyna elementary school in Palm View Saldana said the immigrants were in a Van that struck a parked vehicle teen arrested after 2 months on the run american Fork police arrested the second of three teens accused of fleeing a maternity Home after hitting the care taker with a frying pan a 17yearold Illinois girl was arrested in Chicago after a tipster saw her at her grandmothers House police said it is unknown if she was stay ing with her grandmother or who else May have assisted her while she was on the run for Over two months american Fork police sgt Shauna greening said in a statement a 15yearold from Cali fornia was turned in her by her Mother Jan 29 stories and photos from wire services