European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 22, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 24 stars and s tripes april 22 2007 Page 25 dad sentenced for poisoning kids soup geor Gia Man who admit Ted that he poisoned his Chil Drens soup in an attempt to get Money from the Camp Bell soup co was sentenced to five years in Federal prison us District judge Julie games also or dered William Allen Cunningham 41 of Stockbridge to have no further con tact with the children or his a wife Cunningham pleaded guilty feb 6 to a charge of communicating false claims by putting in a Call to Campbell soup threatening to sue because the soup was contaminated his 3yearold son and 18monthold daughter were hospitalized twice in january 2006 authorities said the first time he had forced them to eat soup laced with hot peppers and lighter fluid and the second time he used the prescription drugs prozac and Ami Tri Tyline both used to treat de pression to Poison the children Cunningham was arrested two months later his wife Rhonda filed for divorce and served Cunningham the papers at the Clayton county jail republicans want silo named for Reagan Dakota republicans want to turn an abandoned nuclear missile silo into a tourist attraction named after former president Ronald re Agan historic preservationists have been pushing the legislature for to acquire the site of the silo and a nearby launch Center in East Central North Dakota the air Force will demolish the site by years end if the state Doest want to take it Over said Merl Paaverud superintendent of the state historical society of North Dakota the state Senate passed a Bill appropriating the Money for what would be called the Ronald re Agan peace through strength mis Sile silo historic site the Bill now goes to the House police say baby buying Rumor was a hoax los Angeles reports that a Man was roaming around a neighbourhood Park ask ing to buy babies from nannies was a hoax the los Angeles police department said department spokesman it Paul Vernon said that the Nanny who originally told police about the Man admitted she made up the Story in Hopes she no longer would have to go to the Park with the baby she cared for authorities said the woman tale was spread by other nannies and mothers on various web Sites causing widespread concern in the neighbourhood and beyond police beefed up patrols at Enci no Park also known As Genesta Park in the san Fernando Valley the woman whose name was not released claimed to police that a Man walked up to a Nanny who was near the Park swing and offered to buy the baby in her care police said the next Day the Nanny claimed she saw the Man a american Roundup proach a different baby Sitter who was caring for another child sick boy from Mexico to get heart in Arkansas Little Rock an 8yearold boy from North Ern Mexico is hospitalized in a Kansas awaiting a possible replace ment for his diseased heart Adrian Flores Saucedo and his Mother flew to Little Rock by Jet from san Antonio where he had stayed for 60 Days at methodist childrens Hospital of South Texas residents of the Texas City raised about for the boy who suffers a viral infection that is eating away at his heart tissue Arkansas childrens Hospital agreed to accept Adrian after Sev eral hospitals rejected him As a patient the Little Rock hospitals 25bed heart unit already has More patients than Beds after also taking in cases from Louisiana in the Wake of Hurricane katrina but the Hospital said admitting the boy put too much Strain on its program Uncle and Nephew born seven minutes apart Mansfield they May be Uncle and Nephew but two newborns May feel More like Brothers after being born just min utes apart Theresa grouse 39 gave birth to a son at Hospital at am at under cover the few pedestrians out and about hurry through rain falling on empty tables and furled umbrellas in Santa Monica Calif her daughter Carrie my Gresh had her own baby boy at the same Hospital and delivered by the same Doc Tor Gresh 21 said the two women suffered through morning sickness together and thought their babies would arrive hours apart grouse said she went into induced labor because of a medi Cal condition and her Daugh ters labor was induced at the same time grouse called her Little boy Caleb Imus grouse a Miracle i was told i be Able to have any More children she said Gresh said if s going to be inter Esting watching new brother and her boy Landin grow up and go to school together the extended fam ily currently lives in the same duplex i think this will be great grouse said grow up like Brothers wolves endangered status May change Cody several Hundred people packed a meeting Hall for one last highly charged Public hearing on the Federal governments proposal to take wolves in the Northern Rockies off the endangered species list the sometimes raucous crowd tilted heavily in favor of removing Federal protections for the Ani Mals one speaker told Federal Modera tors to take your wolves Back to Canada another wore a Vest embroidered with the message Why does a Wolf howl because it feels the Bullet but others warned the move was premature and said there Are still too few wolves to ensure Lon term survival particularly Given the Strong local sentiment behind kill ing wolves to curb wildlife and live Stock losses an estimated 1300 wolves now roam Central Idaho Northwest Wyoming and Western Montana More than a decade after they were first reintroduced to the Region Public comment on the North Ern Rockies relisting proposal will be accepted through May 9 submissions can be sent to us fish and wildlife service Wolf relisting 585 Shepard Way Helena Mont 59601 Drain cleaner poured on playground slide teen agers will be charged As adults for allegedly coating a play ground slide with Drain cleaner mat severely burned a toddler the states attorney said the new charges come from Evi Dence found at tie playground and Analysed by a crime lab Scott d Shellenberger said he declined to elaborate police said the youths who Are both 16 and live in the Essex area broke into a school storage area in Middle River and found bottles of caustic Drain cleaner which they poured on a slide at the school play ground to see whether the plastic would Burn when it did not they departed leaving the chemical on the slide police said Payton Potochney 2 suffered third degree Burns after he went Down the slide the youths also face juvenile charges of reckless end Angennett and burglary a i Nam workers Are reflected in standing a b Tui 111 water As they try to boxes of rare historical documents and equipment after the David Sarnoff Library in Princeton nil took on nearly two feet of water in its basement in a Spring storm the water damaged a rare collection of Laboratory note books technical reports manuals and manuscripts from the Early Days of radio television and electronics real training Montgomery old county police detective Cpl Gary Lewis driving for advanced analysis and reconstruction inc strikes a Dummy during a class for Law enforcement crash investigators at of Dominion Speedway in Manassas a Farewell to his girls Deana Strickland takes a photo of her husband Hybert Strickland of the 218th enhanced separate brigade of the South Carolina army National guard As he holds their twin daughters Allie left and Ransome just before his unit loads the bus in Florence so to eventually be redeployed to Afghanistan Hangin around Vesper wis elementary students play outside on a warm afternoon que Neung the fire a helicopter drops a 2000galion Load of water on a hot spot South of Waycross a where a wildfire has burned an estimated 35000 acres her eyes have seen a lot Edna Parker 114 the oldest living american gets ready to let go of one of the 114 balloons released in Honor of her 114th birthday at the heritage House convalescent Center in Shelby Iii ind caught mid Roll Foury Earold Bryson Collins Rolls in Center City Park in Greensboro no accused killer faces More murder charges Belleville an Illinois bal baby Sitter already accused of killing a pregnant Friend was charged with drowning the Wom ans three children in a Bath tub and then biding the bodies in the family washing machine and dryer grand jurors indicted Tiffany Hall 24 on three counts of first de Gree murder in the East St Louis deaths last september of Demond Tunstall 7 Ivan Tunstal Louins 2 and Jinella Tunstall 1 a county coroners jury ruled the deaths of the children their Mother Jimella Tunstall and her fetus to be homicides during the coroners inquest Illi Nois state police investigator David Bivens testified that Hall admitted beating the pregnant Tun stall Over the head with a table leg then cutting her fetus from the womb in a Bathtub where she later drowned tuns Talts three children Man crashes his car into police station Philadelphia a Drunken Driver veered onto a sidewalk and crashed into a police station knocking bricks Loose from the building police said the Headquarters of the cites 18th police District was still structurally sound said it Joel Dales a District supervisor investigators said the 22year old Driver had been arguing with a woman in another car before the crash he was charged with driving under the influence Novelty phone causes postal bomb scare Wright City Tele phones typically ring not tick so a Man who went to the Post office to pick up a Novelty phone he ordered Over the internet was alarmed that the package was tick ing it turned out that the phone shaped eke Winnie the Pooh had a feature the customer didst know about an incoming Call causes Winnies head to spin and the feature apparently had been activated during shipping the ticking that prompted evacuation of the Wright City Post office was Winnies head repeatedly hit Ting the Side of the package said Cpl Julie Scerine a spokeswoman for the Missouri Highway patrol Salmons Home added to endangered Rivers list Anchorage a River that produces some of the largest King Salmon in Alaska made this years list of the 10 most endangered Rivers in the United states american Rivers a conservation group that compiles the annual list chose the Schuima River near Bel Uga because of plans by Parrim Coal a Delaware based limited partnership of Texas investors to build a surface Coal mining opera Tion on the West Side of Cook Inlet plans Call for extracting about 300 million metric tons of Coal from the site Over the next 25 years the mine is 12 Miles from the coast of Cook Inlet or about 45 Miles West of Anchorage mine opponents say the project would destroy Over 30 Square Miles within the Schuima water shed with millions of Gallons of mine waste dumped into the River each Day Mother gets 10 years for killing infant twins monks Corner a Mother who smothered her crying 9monthold twins with a Pil Low then went Back to sleep was sentenced to 10 years in prison Lakeia White 20 pleaded guilty but mentally ill to homicide by child abuse she said she put the Pillow Over sons Davion and Trevon Wilson on oct 11 to Settle them Down while she was staying with relatives in this town near the coast White left the Home when the boys were found dead prosecutor Blair Jennings said in sorry for what i did she told judge Roger Young in a soft voice psychiatrists said White knew her actions were wrong but suffered from depression with psychotic effects by Law people Are guilty but mentally ill if they could Tell right from wrong but suffered from mental illness chemical stays in water despite complaints Burlington the ver Mont health department will not order the Champlain water District to Stop using a chemical used to disinfect water that some people say is making them sick acting health commissioner Sharon Moffatt said that a preliminary Survey of physicians discovered few complaints about the chemical chloramine there is definitely a Public health concern Moffatt said is there a Public health risk not based on what information we have to Date about a year ago the Champlain water District which serves about 68000 customers in Chittenden county started using chloramine a combination of chlorine and am Monia to disinfect water More than 100 people in the nine town District Are blaming rashes Eye irritation and other problems on chloramine journalism Protection Bill fails in Texas Bill to protect journalists from being forced to testify or disclose confidential sources fizzled in the sen ate under concerns it could hinder criminal prosecutions the measures sponsor sen Rod Ney Ellis Houston thought he had the support needed to bring the Bill up for a vote but the measure withered after falling two votes Short under Senate rules two thirds of the senators must agree to allow a Bill to be brought to a vote Ellis needed 20 votes of sup port but he got Only 18 under state Law a journalist who promises confidentiality to a source and then refuses a Judi Cial order to identify the person could be jailed for contempt of court the Bill would require a judge to apply specific tests to 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