European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 stars and stripes april is 2007 Page 21 Bandit lets clerk Call 911 for health help Altamonte Springs a gun Man robbing a convenience store allowed the clerk to Call 911 and apologized after the woman said she might be having a heart attack but he still took and cigarettes the masked Man entered the Kangaroo express store in this Orlando suburb and pointed what appeared to be a semiautomatic handgun at 60yearold clerk Mary Parker surveillance camera video released showed she started hyperventilating and pleaded with the gunman for help the gunman let Parker Call 911 she told the operator she was hav ing a heart attack but Doest men Tion the robber police said Parker is of recently paroled relative charged in fatal arson Quincy a Man who was recently paroled from prison was charged with setting a fire at his cousins House that killed five children and injured four other people the fire May have stemmed from a family dispute a relative said the childrens parents who tried in vain to save them were among the injured the relative said Zachary q Meeks 27 was charged with multiple counts of murder and aggravated arson the childrens aunt Michelle Gavin told we mtg that Meeks poured Gas on the front of her Sis ters House and set it on fire while the childrens parents were Down the Street autopsies on the Chil Dren showed they died of smoke inhalation Coroner Gary Hamilton said three people injured in Small plane Accident Marietta a Small plane crashed while trying to land on a closed love county air strip injuring three of the four peo ple aboard troopers said Dennis n Wilson 60 of piano Texas was piloting the Cessna 182e when he attempted the Landing on a runway that had been recently slowed making the soil Loose and extremely soft the planes nose Landing gear dug into the soil causing the air Craft to flip Over onto its top troop ers said that Wilson told them he did not see the markers on the run Way indicating that it was closed after senator complains a ends noguest7 policy Hampton since the fan of 2004 the psychiatric unit at the Hampton veterans affairs medical Center has had a no visitors policy which administrators said was intended to protect patients they cite two incidents in 2000 and 2001 in which contraband was sneaked into the unit causing Over doses and one death after the daily press of Newport news reported the policy one week ago it came under criticism now the policy will end visitors will now be allowed supervised visits As an organization we realize that there May be room to adapt a More flexible visitation policy under certain circumstances using american Roundup the standards of professional judg ment the centers top administrator Wanda Mims wrote to sen Jim Webb Eva who said he planned to investigate the policy woman misses getting crushed in her driveway la Crosse Friday the 13th turned out to be Lucky for one woman Sara Wrobel narrowly missed a 15to20 ton piece of construction equipment that be came unhinged from a dump truck and fell just in front of her As she backed out of her driveway she said she walked out of her House a few minutes Early and pulled out of her driveway and As she waited for her garage door to close the equipment a Rock the screen became unhinged from the dump truck hit a Tele phone pole flipped Over the embankment and landed on the drive Way she said school officials thank City visit fatal crash site Atlanta officials from the Ohio University devastated last month by a fatal bus wreck visited Atlanta to see the crash site and thank Hospital staffers for caring for the schools baseball team this is a very different Occa Sion than on March 2 when i arrived in Atlanta Bluffton univer sity president James harder told watering line race volunteers prepare a water station at the finish Fine in preparation for the 111th running of the Boston Marathon in Boston doctors and nurses at Grady memorial Hospital the Hospital had taken the most seriously injured victims after a charter bus carrying the team to Florida plunged off an overpass in Atlanta five students from the mennonite school and the bus Driver and his wife were killed Twenty eight other people were injured at the crash site harder and others examined the flow ers and notes still hanging in the Fence that lines the overpass tourists robbed in their City hotel room new York were hoping that images caught on Security cameras would Lead them to a Brazen Bandit who followed a family of three tourists to their downtown Manhattan hotel and robbed them of jewelry and other possessions Worth thou Sands of dollars police said the group an 8yearold girl and her parents were joined in the elevator by the suspect who Rode with them to the 40th floor there he Drew a Silver pistol and forced his Way into their room where he handcuffed the adults and bound the girl with duct tape before stealing Cash an Emer Ald ring two laptops and other items professor fish deafness caused by human noise Bowling Green an assistant biology professor at Western Kentucky University suspects an increase in manmade sounds underwater make fish deaf Michael Smith cited us Navy sonar and oceanic shipping As pos sible noise pollution for fish which use sound to find their Way around and listen for predators with help from student Reagan Gilley and a Grant Smith will study the auditory system Offish of duty Pilot arrested on a cocaine charge port Huron an of duty Northwest airlines Pilot was suspected of driving under the influence of cocaine when he headed the wrong Way on an interstate to avoid the scan Ada Border and led deputies on a Chase authorities said investigators said Walter l Dinalko a Veteran Pilot of 20 years had flown to Detroit metropolitan Airport then rented a Hummer that he drove about 70 Miles to port Huron Dinalko turned around three times on the Blue water Bridge apparently changing his mind about heading into Sarnia Ontario St Clair county sheriffs it a Fos Ter said court approves City Rule curbing sex Trade Sites Houston officials Are preparing for a crackdown on some Houston sex businesses now that a Federal court has Al Lowed a Rule that restricts the Busi Nesses from locating within a Quad termite of sensitive Sites us District judge Nancy Atlas recently decided that the City can enforce the 1997 ordinance which doubled to 1500 feet the required distance Between sex businesses and Sites like schools Parks and churches bucking Bull Gardnerville Nev to Ethridge gets trampled by Bull during the Bull Riding Competition at the Douglas county Fairground during the Nevada state High school Rodeo association Rodeo in crimp Hinry Block tax adviser William Lucas Center works with clients on their taxes at the Block offices in Mountain View Calif Sandy discovery grains of Sand fall through the fingers of Kevin Shin left along the Shore of Lake Huron in port Huron Mich Kevin and his brother Jacob came to Light House Beach with their parents to sightseer arid enjoy the Sunshine called for rain shattering Speed Greg Coverdale sprint car flips after shearing a Utility pole during a Warmup run at the Bridgeport no Speedway Coverdale of Milford Del was taken to a nearby Hospital after the wreck a Lone Man passes empty seats As he walks along the Kee Neland race track in a steady rain prior to Rac ing in Lexington by jousting Good time a red Gold Knight portrayed by Dusty Mattel right strikes the Green Knight portrayed by Dustin Stephens who misses daring the jousting Competition at the four winds Renaissance Faire near White House Texas show and touch time Daniel Torres touches a at Hedricks Aiki cops recapture prisoner mistakenly released Bridgeport a suspect in two fatal shootings who been mistakenly released from a Federal prison in Rhode is land was captured in Bridgeport Anthony Rogers 24 of Norwalk was arrested at gunpoint nearly two weeks after he was released from the Donald w Wyatt detention Center where he served time on a firearm charge Rogers was then supposed to have been transferred to connect Cut custody to face murder charges authorities concerned Park will attract bandits cites expansion toward the de schutes National Forest has increased con Cern about crime affecting recreation in the area officials say Law Breakers of All kinds from teens holding Beer parties to people peddling meth seek Refuge in the for est if s a hot spot Law enforcement Wise recreation forester Marv Lang said longtime grocery worker killed outside store super Market employee was fatally shot outside the store where he worked in the produce department for 30 years police said Wendall a Anderson 58 was wounded in the Chest in the Kroger parking lot and died a Short time later at a Hospital police said a store Security camera showed Anderson speaking to a Man who emerged from a White car after Anderson arrived at work said a police spokesman it Doug Scheffel there were two other people in the car it almost appears that Hes giving directions he said Hes pointing you can see his Arm War heros statue taken outside boyhood Home Coventry somebody made off with most of a 3foot Bronze statue of revolution Ary War hero Nathan Hale from in front of his boyhood Home Hale was hanged by the British As a spy his statue was Cut off at the Ankles Hale is Best remembered for say ing at his hanging i Only regret that i have but one life to lose for my country court upholds conviction of elderly murderer 75 Little Rock the a Kansas court of appeals up held the conviction of a Man de scribed by a prison official As the oldest person to enter the state Pris on system on a murder charge the court rejected the argument of Billy Allred 75 that his Sec on degree murder conviction in the shooting death of Jamarcco Hickman in 2005 should be Over turned because of insufficient Evi Dence property owners to get tax Relief in the fall Trenton property tax Relief to homeowners and tenants will come As a rebate Check in the fall gov Jon Corzine had wanted a direct credit against tax Bills instead of the checks say ing the credits would be cheaper to administer but logistical complications and privacy concerns led him to reconsider vandals attack memorial of civil rights Champion Are investigating vandalism at a Martin Luther King or memorial Here an Africa american Flag was burned and an american Flag stolen police said jew Cleary president of the local Branch of the a act said the group plans to hold a Community ceremony to officially replace both flags transportation needs double for state system Jefferson Souris transportation sys tem needs about twice As much Money As ifs expected to get in coming years according to a new 20year projection the Cost for needed maintenance and improvements to High ways Bridges bus systems air ports railroads and River ports comes to More than billion projected transportation reve Nues Over that time amount to billion Church accuses nun of stealing Omaha the roman Catholic Church Omaha archdiocese is suing a nun it accuses of stealing the civil lawsuit is separate from a criminal charge of theft by deception that sister Barbara Markey already faced police say Markey used archdiocese Money to cover Gam bling forays gifts credit card debt and trips she was fired in Janu Ary bomb squad is called in to help out at pharmacy Columbus its not often that a bomb squad is asked to help clean up a pharmacy but experts say a 2ounce Sam ple of picnic acid in the basement of Sharrow drug store packed the punch of nearly half a stick of Dyna mite store employees found the Sam ple As they were cleaning out old chemicals store owner Nick Shar Row is relieved that the local bomb squad safely destroyed the Sample saying its explosive capability was stunning court lets Man off Hook after weapons dilemma Albany a Man who had to turn Over All his guns in a Domestic violence Case face an illegal weapons charge the states highest court ruled the court of appeals decided William Havrish was in an impossible dilemma if he didst turn Over the unlicensed 44 magnum pistol he faced criminal contempt charges if he did turn it Over he faced a weapons charge the court said that violated his fifth amendment Protection against self incrimination stories and photos from wire services
