European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 stars and stripes april is 2007 search on for Man mauling grizzly Tetonia Idaho game wardens tried traps snares and fresh bait but still came up empty in their first attempt to capture a grizzly Bear that mauled an Eastern Idaho Man there is evidence Sug Gesting the Bear re turned to the scene of the attack wardens found one of the traps sprung and signs that a freshly planted Deer carcass had been eaten said Steve Schmidt supervisor for the Idaho fish and game upper Snake River Region Timothy Henderson 33 was re covering from wounds he received when the Bear attacked him outside his Rural Tetonia Home he was re ported to be in Good condition at an Idaho Falls Hospital with deep bite and claw Marks on his head Shoul Ders Back and buttocks Schmidt said Henderson did the right thing when attacked he stayed on the ground curled in a fetal position to protect vital or Gans and didst engage the Bear officials illegal Torch use sparked mine blast illegal use of a cutting Torch ignited an underground methane Gas explosion that killed five Coal miners last year and the mine operator was fined for the violations Federal investigators said Kentucky Darby mine no 1 Vio lated six safety and health Laws including the Torch and flawed construction of the safety Barrier that caused the blast according to the report violations of mandatory mine safety Laws led to the fatal Accident taking the lives of five min ers at the Darby mine Richard e stickler assistant Secretary of labor for the mine safety and health administration said in a statement Man scalped by Cougar mending of being Bald Fortuna a hiker whose wife saved him As he was being mauled by a Mountain lion has mostly recovered after four surgeries including a Scalp transplant Jim Hamm 70 and his wife Nell 65 were hiking at Prairie Creek redwoods state Park in Jan uary when the Mountain lion pounced on Jim Hamm the lion scalped him mauled his face and inflicted other wounds Nell Hamm smashed the cat with a log and stabbed it in the Eye with a pen trackers later shot and killed the animal and its mate doctors in san Francisco took muscle from hamms Back and put it on his Skull along with a vein then covered it with skin from his thigh Hamm says he has accepted being completely Bald and right away they were caught again Hun dred lobsters have a new lease on life thanks to an Anonymous group that secured their re lease in Maine the episode unfolded in the midst of a lobster shortage and record prices when a group of 10 Young people arrived at new Meadows lobster Pound talking about the need for gods creatures to be free owner Pete Mcaleney told american Roundup the Portland press Herald the group paid nearly in Cash to buy a of his on claw lob sters known As culls at a Cost of apiece Mcaleney said we told them there going to get caught again and they said thars of we just want them to have a Chance before they get caught Mcaleney said court ordered Fine paid to the last Penny Howell township a Michigan Man was awarded in pennies in what the Man he sued said was a gesture of con tempt Bob Wilson was Given the pen Nies by Karl Stepen owner of ask motor sports in Fowlerville after a judge ruled in Wilsons favor and awarded him Stepen said he paid Wilson in pennies to show his contempt for Wilson we paid him in Legal us currency Stepen said anti Castro activist still in jail despite ruling Elpaso an appeals court blocked anti Castro cuban militant Luis Posada car Illes release from jail just As he began the process to be freed on Bond the 5th circuit court of appeals in new Orleans issued the order after he had already been transferred from the Otero county Light up the sky firefighters Battle a fire at the former Liberty Rice Mill in Kaplan la about 200 residents were evacuated from the area the ver milion Parish sheriffs office said no jail to the Feder Al courthouse in Elpaso to sign paper work that would have freed him Posada 79 was escorted Back to new Mexico wearing a red prison uni form and shackled at the Waist and feet he was to be turned Over to immigration officials because he has a pending order for Dell por tation fake id card ring catered to immigrants bogus Docu ment operation that catered to illegal immigrants advertised its services in Spanish language news papers and snapped head shots for the fake documents near a Virginia Beach Taco stand according to a Federal indictment this was a Well oiled machine assistant us attorney Joseph e Depadilla said wednesday at a us District court hearing they had samples and you could pick out what ids you wanted to get Depadilla said the government has evidence of 246 completed transactions for various phony identification cards such As social Security cards the operation also produced a permanent residence card and other documents Accord ing to the indictment auction of purported King papers called off Atlanta a Small col Lection of letters notes and speeches once believed to belong to Martin Luther King or was taken off the auction Block amid protests from the civil rights Lead ers family the documents were set to be sold on behalf of an Anonymous woman said to be Kings childhood Friend the woman kept the documents in a faded Green folder for 40 years before trying to sell them Maine College students accused of music theft five Bates College students Are targeted in the latest online music pirating Case involving Maine colleges and the state University the Bates students who Are accused of illegally sharing music on line Are being told to either Settle out of court with the recording Industry or face being sued penal ties could be or More for each pirated song r the record Industry Doest know the identity of the targeted students it traced internet service provider addresses and times Back to Bates and asked the school to Trace those Back to the individual students which it can in most cases Bates is not releasing the Stu dents names Only Public Hospital in vegas faces budget cuts Las vegas Clark county commissioners Are considering deep budget cuts at University medical Center the re Gions Only Public Hospital faced with a projected deficit of Mil lion commissioners May close nevadas Only Burn care unit and a regional his wellness Center among other facilities the hospitals chief executive was fired in january amid allegations of financial mis management for two a couple of show sculptures appear comfortable at a table outside Bob loons cafe Lui leu in Escana Ballreich Bob loons owner Mark Ammel who built the snowmen said he thought they looked Happy outside in the cold weather and wanted to give people a smile watch that step a member of flyaway productions rappers Down the Side of the Westin san Francisco Market Street hotel the acrobatic team Rappel led Down 15 stories of the san Francisco hotel As part of a promotional performance to announce the hotels renovation and reopening hard Landing firefighters extinguish flames on a sin Gle engine aircraft shortly after it crashed while taking off from Sarasota Bradenton International Airport in Sarasota Fia both occupants were taken to local hospitals with injuries that were not life threatening at least its warm in California a Pink Rose in Bloom stands out amid the morning Sunshine in downtown Bakersfield Calif play David Lozano braves the cold and Snow while waiting to see if the sky sox baseball game would be cancelled at Security service Field in Colo Rado Springs Colo it was Lozano first time at a sky sox game which was eventually cancelled due to bad weather in the spin zone Malia Marks performs during the miss Aloha Hula Competition at the Annu Al Merrie Monarch Hula festival in Hilo Hawaii purse snatching suspect caught in toilet hideaway Moundsville police looking for a purse snatcher were Able to flush the suspect out from the portable toilet where he was hiding port potty is not a Good place to hide police chief James Kudlak said theres Only one Way out Johnny Snodgrass 21 apparently matched the description of a Man caught on videotape at a store where an 89yearold woman purse was stolen in March and from a nearby video poker establishment where her Wallet was found police said acting on a tip police went to a construction site where Snodgrass was working to question him but he ran into the portable restroom officers yelled for Biro to come out and he soon complied police said player pleads not guilty in hockey mooning Case Salt Lake City the College hockey player who Drew a Misdemeanour charge in the mooning of a crowd at Eccles ice Center pleaded not guilty to a lewd Ness charge police said Michael Meyer a player for the University of South Ern California Rode his stick like a horse dropped his pants mooned the crowd and slapped his buttocks during a feb 17 tournament game against Brigham Young University Meyer was ejected and ticketed for lewdness after an officer who was working Security at the North Logan ice rink said he witnessed the scene exhausted horse freed from Quicksand mud horse mired up to its belly in a mud Hole was freed thursday afternoon in an hours Long Rescue Effort that included heavy equipment Champ was Able to stand on its own after being hauled from the muck following a More than six hour ordeal it was like Quicksand out Here Jeff Radabaugh owner of the 1200 Pound horse told the Corsica a daily Sun we dug until we  dig anymore a Backhoe was eventually brought in to haul away buckets of mud while neighbors and other volunteers tried to ease the exhausted animal out ropes and straps eventually were put around the horse to lift it out of the mud that poor horse if All those peo ple haunt showed up to help he surely would have perished said Dawson police chief Nicole mama Han Kkt leaders conviction upheld in 64 killings Jackson the missis Sippi supreme court up held the manslaughter convictions of former Kun flux klan Leader Edgar Ray Killen in the slayings of three civil rights workers in 1964 Killen 82 was convicted on june 21 2005 exactly 41 years after Michael Schwerner James Chaney and Andrew Goodman were killed he was sentenced to three consecutive 20year prison terms the three victims had been help ing Blacks to Register to vote in Neshoba county when they were killed their bodies were found two months later buried in an earthen dam witnesses testified that Killen helped plan the slayings the Case was portrayed in the 1988 movie Mississippi burning everything must go but dog cat a few clothes St Paul Lisa Perry wants a fresh Start so Shes decided to sell nearly All of her belongings in one massive auction on Ebay Perry 45 said the top bidder in the auction will get More than 300 items including snowshoes a Futon a bed a Village people album seashells and More Perry is keeping just a few things her dog her cat photo Al bums and some clothing this might be midlife but if s not a crisis its midlife excite ment she said i dont need it All i dont use it All i just have it All actually it has me Perry has worked As a lawyer in Montana a communications pro Fessor in Mankato Minn and a bookseller in North Carolina she currently delivers subpoenas and Legal documents in june she plans to move West possibly to take up creative writing or holistic Healing mom of toddler exposed to cocaine faces charges Mother of a 3yearold boy who tested positive for cocaine has been brought Back to South Carolina to face charges of unlawful conduct toward a child Carol Ann Cannaday 37 and her son tested positive for cocaine in january after undergoing tests ordered by the Richland county family court police have said Cannaday and her Boyfriend 46yearold Morris e Porter were arrested at a san Antonio hotel in february after a two week search Porter who also tested positive for cocaine and is the boys father has been charged with unlawful conduct toward a child the child who was found with his parents has since been placed in his grand mothers custody Drivers stealing special stickers from hybrids West san its have been stealing the limited edition car Pool Lane stick ers the state awarded to Drivers of hybrid fuel vehicles the department of motor vehicles estimates up to three dozen Drivers a month have requested re placement stickers since the department stopped awarding them in january the state capped the number of hybrids with special driving privileges at 85000 stories and photos from wire services