European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 14, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 stars and stripes april 14 2007 Page 21 rent in do exceeds nations average Washington apartment renters in the Washington area Are paying an average a month for a moderately priced apartment up 52 percent from a year ago and Well Over the nation Al average of according to real Tate reports at the end of March Only 29 percent of apartments in the District of co Lumbia were vacant Man accused of robbing Barber Over bad haircut Chicago a Man is accused of robbing Bis Barber at gunpoint because of a bad hair Cut prosecutors contend lon Mclendon 20 pulled a 38caliber revolver and took from the bar Ber who gave him a Bald spot last month Mclendon was arrested Over the weekend audit shows Agency misspent i Taffil rated Agency Raat provides Job training funding for the poor misspent million in Grant Money according to a Federal audit the us department of labor found  didst follow Federal rules regard ing Money received Between 1998 and 2002 Agency officials disputed the findings and said they worked with Federal regulators to Monitor spending lawmakers propose Bill against Volunteer suits Island lawmakers Are pushing for a Bill to prevent any volunteers from suing if there Hurt trying to eradicate invasive Coqui frogs originally from puerto Rico the tiny frogs Are a major nuisance in Hawaii hundreds of volunteers equipped with sprayers struggle through thick and often Slippery terrain in Pursuit of the noisy amphibians groups want to attract More nature enthusiasts i Edenton groups promoting nature tourism Are developing paddling trails and plat form camping Sites along Rivers and streams in northeastern North Carolina to attract More outdoor enthusiasts supporters Hope bicyclists hikers campers cancers kayaker and Bird watchers will take Multi Day trips in the Region helping bolster the local Economy residents say they want limit on size of Homes Minneapolis some residents of Southwest min Neapolis and other parts of the City want curb the size of new and re modelled Homes City Council Mem Ber Betsy Hodges has proposed a monster House ordinance aimed at preserving the smaller scale and character of neighbourhoods Amer can Roundup under the proposal the total Square footage of a House would be limited to 50 percent of its lot size Man gets three years in prison for planting bomb Missoula Stephen Young 56 was sentenced to three years in Federal prison for planting a pipe bomb in his us Forest service vehicle last year in an apparent suicide attempt Young of Libby said he hoped his family could collect on his life insurance Young removed the de vice after a seasonal employee at Kootenai National Forest told him she had to move his truck investigators said Banda id Bandit found guilty in Bank robberies Man known As the Banda id Bandit for wearing bandages to hide a distinctive mole was found guilty of steal ing More than from Florida Banks along with his Broth Erin Law the Federal jury convicted Rafael Angel Rondon 51 and Broth Erin Law Emeregildo roman 54 in the robberies of 11 Banks in West and Central Florida Over five which Way is South a Meadowlark sings from a Snow covered Fence Post on near great Falls Mont the Meadowlark is the state Bird of Montana years after Rondon was arrested last july agents searching his Home in the Orlando sub Urb of Clermont found adhesive bandages a distinctive Silver revolver similar to the one used by the ban Dit and almost s90000 some wads still wrapped in Bank bands Rondon and roman face up to life in prison no sentencing Date was set agents believe that Rondon robbed 39 Banks in nine counties Between december 2000 and july 2006 sometimes with the help of an accomplice the indictment focused on cases with the strongest evidence snowmobiler killed after crashing into tree Norway a Man was killed after driving his snowmobile into a tree at Aleigh rate of Speed Richard Fratianne 61 was Riding in a Field in Norway with a Friend at about 9 am when he passed his friends snowmobile at High Speed and drove into some Woods at the Edge of the Field said Maine Warden service spokesman Mark Latti Fratianne who was not wearing a helmet died at the scene Latti said Latti said wardens Are investigating whether the Accident May have been caused by a medical Condi Tion Given the victims medical tory and the Way he drove his machine into a tree without turning there have been six snowmobile fatalities in Maine this Winter Latti said panel drops ultrasound requirement for abortion a legislative panel dropped a measure from an abortion Bill that would have required women to review an ultrasound image of the fetus before terminating a pregnancy proponents believe women would change their minds after see ing an ultrasound and choose to keep the child or offer it for adoption critics consider it a Way to intimidate women who already have made an agonizing decision the Senate subcommittee unanimously approved the amended bib which now Heads to the Senate medical affairs committee pipeline firm ordered to revamp safety rules com Pany mat operates one of the worlds longest Oil pipelines must revamp several of its safety standards following a fire near a crude Oil storage facility Accord ing to the state and Federal joint pipeline office no one was injured by the fire in january at a tank farm run by the Alyeska pipeline service co but the company has been told to pro vide pipeline safety officials with plans to prevent future accidents by Early May the wind Man Melissa Obrien right a team Leader for the wildlife medical clinic re Lilc w my mail pages to the fractured Wing of a Eagle As Julia Whittington Clini assistant professor in wildlife oversees the procedure at the wildlife medical clinic in Urbana Iii fishing for a Lucky catch Luck at Salmon fishing on Lake Winspe Sukee in Alton no w8tpr Fri Tifis a pair of kayaker watch As a Baiei Ili Cruft pair of dolphins approach on the Tomoka River in Ormond Beach Fla Bucky Eddy left and Greg Birchell unload Brown crab into a tote from the hold of the frigid and in Petersburg Alaska bonding emus a baby Emu stands with its father Leonard at the Roger Williams Park zoo in Providence re the Chicks hatched March 18 after female emus Lay their eggs the male incubates the eggs and cares for the Chicks after they Hatch Stoddard the goal keeper for the olympic High school soccer team practices his throwing during halftone of a game against Peninsula High school in Purdy Wash xray vision recreation Center in Roswell no sixth grader Mark Jones studies xray film at fee Eastern new Mexico medical Center exhibit during Goddard Days an event held at the Yucca suspect in heist loses prosthetic leg in escape Pomona a Man accused of using a Chain and pickup truck to yank a 1500pound atm from a Market failed to escape police when his prosthetic leg fell off during the getaway Gregory Daniels 48 was arrested on suspicion of burglary for the attempted heist from Pomona ranch Market police said authorities say Daniels and an other Man drove up to the Market about 3 am one morning smashed a window wrapped a Chain around the atm and used the pickup to rip it from the floor after loading the Cash machine into the truck the pair drove off officers chased the truck into a residential neighbourhood where the men drove into a Deaden Street Daniels alleged accomplice fled but police said Daniels want Able to escape Daniels was on the ground near the vehicle in an attempt to flee from officers sgt e Vazquez said however he was unsuccessful As his prosthetic leg fell off 3 held during protest of antiabortion display Durham three female students were arrested for alleged disorderly conduct during a protest against an antiabortion display on the univer sity of new Hampshire Campus the women were part of a group of More than 50 students who were pushing up against a barricade at an outdoor antiabortion display called the genocide awareness project which placed photos of aborted babies that had been abort Eda Longside photos of victims of genocides such As the holocaust and the killing Fields of cambo Dia protesters chanted comments such As get off our Campus and shame on you the project put on by the Cali Forn abased Center for bioethical Reform was brought to Cam pus by the Una students for life an 80member group of Una Stu dents opposed to abortion the Dis play was set up for two Days in front of Thompson Hall officer accused of sex assault while on duty new Cumberland a Veteran sheriffs Deputy has been charged with abducting and sexually assaulting a woman while he was on duty authorities said Hancock county Deputy Mark Smith 53 was indicted on three Fel ony charges alleging he attacked a woman dec 13 along a Highway near Newell he is free on a 330000 Bond the Deputy did not know the woman sheriff Mike White said an 18year Veteran Smith has been on administrative leave since dec 16 and remains on the county payroll pending an administrative hearing the sheriff said he will seek his Deputy dismissal Smith is charged with abduction with intent to defile seconded Gree sexual assault and first de Gree sexual abuse tangle proves deadly for base jumper twin Falls the base jumper who died after leap ing off Perrine Bridge Over the Snake River Canyon possibly got his hand tangled in the device used to release the Parachute his widow said Yegor Drozdov of Revere mass died when his Chute failed to deploy after jumping from the 486foothigh Bridge in Southern Idaho a popular spot for base jumpers who Parachute from High fixed objects base is an acronym for building Antenna Span Earth in an interview with the time news Katerina Drozdov said twin Falls county sheriffs deputies gave her details of her husbands death his hand got tangled in the Bri dle of the Pilot Chute she said deputies told her when they found him it was still tangled around his hand they said it was very Windy and must have got tangled while he was falling because if s about five seconds that you have to open fugitive i disguised myself As state trooper Dannemora by a Man who escaped from jail and eluded authorities for More than five months said he disguised himself As a state trooper and spoke with a real trooper during his time on the run a newspaper re ported Ralph Bucky Phillips who is serving 40 years to life in prison for killing a state trooper and wounding two others told the new York times in a Story that his time As a fugitive want bad i enjoyed those few months More than Ive enjoyed any other time in my life said Phillips who is serving his sentence at the Clin ton county correction facility after escaping from the Erie county correctional facility april 2 the former fugitive led police on a massive manhunt before being captured in a Field just across the Pennsylvania line on sept 8 catch a thief with excessive friendliness Seattle whats the Best Way to make a Bank robber turn around and walk out the door empty handed try a handshake and a smile excessive friendliness is the key to the Safe catch system created by Fri special agent Larry Carr the premise is that an overdose of Courtesy will unnerve would be robbers and get them to rethink the crime if youre a legitimate customer you think this is the friendliest person Ive met in my life if youre a bad Guy it scares the lights out of you said Drew Ness a vice president of Bellevue based first Mutual Bank who advocates the approach stories and photos from wire services