European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 9, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 stars and strip e s april 9 2007 Page 21 More judges needed to resolve backlog Las vegas court administrators in nevadas fast growing Clark county Are asking the state legislature for More family court judges to help re solve backlogged cases about 34 percent of family court cases Are re solved within three months and 55 per cent within six months far below the american bar association standards of 90 percent in three months and 98 percent with in six Good Samaritan accused of hitting girl he helped Manchester when 7yearold Alecia Ladd was hit by a car her parents thanked the Man who helped her the Young Man had pulled Over just As a neighbor came to the door to investigate a scraping noise Karen Avard found the Little girl on the front curb there was terror in her face Avard said i said Are you of and she said 1 was bit by a car Avard said the Man told her he stopped to help the injured child police said he called 911 to report a i Landrun Accident police now say the Good Samari Tan John Sturdevant of Goffstown was More than a passerby Hes charged with hitting the girl then lying about it 9monthold girl killed in Sun during Chase Alvarado a 9month old girl was killed Friday night when she was ejected from the sport Utility vehicle her Mother was driving while trying to flee authorities Alexxus Riza was thrown from the Sun when it crashed into a con Crete median and rolled several times under an interstate 35 Over pass said trooper dub Gillum of the Texas department of Public safety her Mother Amy Riza 37 of Keene sustained minor injuries Riza faces manslaughter Evad ing arrest resisting arrest and reckless driving charges Gillum said Art critic loses head kicks Hole in painting Man accused of kicking a Hole in an expensive 17thcentury paint ing of David and Goliath told police he was bothered by the depiction of a Man carrying a severed head authorities said Friday Timothy l Kubena 21 continued to kick at the painting on Dis play at the Milwaukee Art museum even after a museum designer tried to pull him away from the painting prosecutors said Ottavio Vannini 1620 painting the Triumph of David depicts David carrying the severed head of the giant Goliath Kubena told police he made a mistake but was disturbed by the painting show ing one Man carrying another mans head the criminal com plaint said Kubena was charged with felony damage to property a charge that carries up to years in prison american Roundup and a Fine lawsuit backers less pollution better View Tal and health experts sup porting North Carolinas lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley authority Are offering glimpses of How they think the country would look if More pollution controls were added to the authority Power plants some say the views in the great Smoky mountains would improve by More than 10 Miles on the smog Giest Days others think children in the state would miss 2300 fewer Days of school each year and fewer people would die pre maturely in the East and mid West that would be about 1400 fewer a year the reports and the statistics they contain Are All included in the lawsuit scheduled for trial this fall Schwarzenegger aide May get big pay boost Sacramento the top aide to gov Arnold Schwarzenegger could earn a state salary exceeding a year As part of a round of raises the governor is preparing to award his senior deputies the raises could lift some Sala Ries among the 185 people working wears his views on his sleeve University of Arizona student Zach Glover demonstrates in favor of intellectual diversity on Campus in Tucson Ariz the demonstration represented College students who Felt their grades would suffer due to their conservative or Liberal views in the governors of fice to in certain cases with the governors chief of staff Susan p Kennedy eligible for up to presently Kennedy collects a state salary of while the most senior aides beneath her earn about Bill aids firefighters stricken with cancer state Senate has approved a Mea sure aimed at helping firefighters stricken with some forms of can cer to qualify for compensation from towns the Bill which mirrors Legisla Tion passed in More than two dozen other states would require employ ers of firefighters diagnosed with certain cancers to prove that the ill Ness want caused by the work firefighters who died or suffer a disability from certain cancers would be presumed to have contracted them As a result of ont Ejob exposure to carcinogens according to the Bill which was unanimously approved and now goes to the state House to qualify firefighters would have to have worked in the Job in Vermont for five years undergo routine cancer screening and be diagnosed with leukaemia Lymphoma or multiple myeloma or cancers of the brain bladder Colon gastrointestinal tract kidney liver pancreas skin or Testicles if they had used tobacco products within 10 years of their diagnosis they  qualify Accord ing to the Bill Delta blues museum gets expansion Grant Clarksdale the Delta blues museum will use a million Grant from the Mississippi department of transportation to fund a significant expansion the museum housed in the former Clarksdale Railroad depot since 1999 will add 2700 Square feet of permanent exhibition space part of the new space Likely will be used to House Muddy Waters Cabin which is too tall to Dis play in the current building the museums director said two arrested at least so immigrants found Phoenix authorities found at least 80 suspected illegal immigrants in a House West of Phoenix and arrested two suspected smugglers a police official said authorities shot tear Gas into the House forcing one of the suspected smugglers out they found the other suspect hiding in the attic Peoria police spokesman Mike Telle said he said authorities became aware of the drop House after a Michigan resident called us immigration and customs enforce ment saying one of their relatives had called because the smugglers were demanding More Money ice spokeswoman Virginia Kice did not confirm How the Agency be came aware of the drop House and declined to release further information a laundromat dryer bums in Maysville by no one was Hurt in the Blaze Claudette Soden left put a sign in front of her Naugatuck Conn business asking motorists to beep for Jesus in Honor of easter Phil Young right who owns a neighbouring business saw it As a sign of religious intolerance and countered with one of his own vote with your Horn Onri n of a a m q Djiji Lilg 111 Dell la Snow surrounds a Daffodil at the Lucille e i memorial Garden in Saginaw Mich just like summer University of Washington students Many members of the Lambda Chi Alpha Frater nity take advantage of warm temperatures to swim and Canoe in the Waters of Lake Washington in the Washington Park arboretum in Seattle dancing the night away colors appear to swirl As participants dance in the grand entry at Montana state University Billings inter tribal Indian club powwow in Billings Mont for Floyl 11 Iii firefighters Battle a fire at the rapids finishing h rape def John Vogel left and his wife Nancy Sathre Vogel right ride with their with 9yearold twin boys Davy and Daryl through Texarkana Ark on a family bicycling adventure across North America the family left Boise Idaho on june 18 and plan to be Back in Boise by mid August Quality time National guard must replace gear lost in wars Sioux state National guard needs to re place s20 million in equipment left behind during deployments to Iraq Afghanistan and other places guard adjutant maj Gen Michael Gorman said there Are inventory shortfalls of vehicles radios and night vision goggles vandals glue locks so High school cant open Carlsbad students could not get into a califor Nia High school after vandals plugged locks on All exterior Gates and doors with super strength glue a teacher who always gets there Early called me on my cell phone and said guess what said Carlsbad High school Princi pal Margaret Stanchi but i didst guess this roughly 100 doors were sealed shut Stanchi said surveillance video taken at the school overnight showed several people milling around the Campus but school officials and police were unable to identify any suspects immediately court says Black couple can proceed with suit St Federal appeals court ruled there is enough evidence for a jury trial in a lawsuit filed by a Black couple who say they suffered racial discrimination at a Dillards depart ment store a three judge panel of the 8th us circuit court of appeals said a Federal District court erred when it threw out Rodney and Charlan greens civil rights Case at the re quest of Little Rock Ark based Dillards inc the panel sent the Case Back to us District court in Kansas City to saying the greens had provided enough evidence to let a jury de cide whether Dillards was aware of a clerks racially hostile propensities and failed to Stop them school cites distraction in phasing out laptops Syracuse one of the first High school Laptop com Puter programs in the country will be phased out Over the next three years the Liverpool school Board agreed to end the program be cause teachers complained the machines had become a distraction in class with some students Down loading music and games Liverpool initiated its voluntary computer leasing Rentt own pro Gram seven years ago about 1550 of the High schools 1962 students were enrolled in the Laptop lease program said Maureen Patterson assistant superintendent for instruction despite a big Jackpot lotto sales declining Houston lotto Texas is starting to show its age now in its 15th year lotto Tex As sales jackpots and big winners Are on the decline according to state officials and lottery critics a recent s72 million Jackpot apparently want generating much Public interest the afternoon of the drawing sales for the biggest estimated Jackpot in 2v2 years were is 8 million according to the state Agency that runs the game most draws this year have generated Only about million by comparison a single drawing for an million Jackpot on March 7 2001 generated Mil lion in sales according to a lottery watchdog group Catholic school student accused of racial slurs Lafayette a 16yearold student at a mostly White Catholic school was arrested on charges of scrawling racial slurs in books and notebooks that two Black Public school Stu dents left on a bus police said the boy who is White and whose name was withheld because he is a juvenile was arrested at his parents House on two counts of simple criminal damage to property sgt Mark Francis of the Lafayette police department said the teen was released to his parents Francis said they Are just As sad As far As i can Tell As the victims in this Case he said Bill testimony leads to debate Over abortion Carson City a panel of Nevada lawmakers heard impassioned testimony from antiabortion rights and Prabor Tio rights activists about a Bill whose sponsor said he had no intentions of starting an abortion de Bate but that s what happened when the groups faced off during the sen ate judiciary committee hearing on sb299 sponsored by sen War Ren Hardy Las vegas the Bill would delete nevadas current Law on fetal homicide which says anyone who wilfully kills a fetus by injuring the Mother is guilty of felony manslaughter punishable by one to 10 years in prison Hardy said the current Law is in sufficient since it Only protects fetuses that have reached a viable stage under his proposal any injury or death to a fetus other than a Legal abortion would constitute a separate offence Indian tribes income from logging is Down great Falls Mont the blackfeet Indian tribe is hoping to make million to million from Salvage logging on 6000 acres of tribal land near Gla Cier National Park burned by re cent Forest fires tribal officials said however the tribes annual in come from logging operations will fall from a year to about and foresters say it could be a Century before the Lodgepole Pines Are replaced stories and photos from wire services