European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 Volcano offerings must Stop Hawaii Volca noes National at Hawaii volcanoes National Park Are launching a program to Stop people from leaving religious offerings at the sum Mit of Kilauea visitors leave Flowers Money incense candles and crystals at the top of the Volca no rangers say they remove some 45 pounds of such offerings from Hal Maumau Crater each week the accumulation of rotting food and foliage attracts rats flies ants and cockroaches a Park state ment said recently a Ranger found a whole cooked Piglet in a card Board Box at the Summit some hawaiians believe lava is the physical representation of the fire goddess Pele making the vol Cano Summit sacred we look to our partners and local communities to assist us in communicating the value of re source Protection and cultural sensitivity said Park superintendent Cindy Orlando Auto control children could be handcuffed Ries of violent incidents on school campuses the Milwaukee school Board voted to begin train ing Security staff members to use flexible plastic Handcuffs on out control students in october a 15yearold female student attacked a Milwaukee High school principal who sustained a concussion and a compression Frac Ture in her Back when her head was slammed against a Wall in no vember a female teacher at Madi son High school was sexually assaulted by a 17yearold male Stu Dent in front of a class earlier in the school year an assistant Princi pal was assaulted by a student opponents often cite the risk of injury from the process of putting on the Handcuffs accidentally choking or asphyxiating the subject while trying to restrain him or her or that the cuffs would be used too tightly interfering with blood circulation or cutting the skin Timber company state at loggerheads san Francisco two former state forestry officials Are suing Pacific lumber co and its owners accusing them of defrauding California out of tens of millions of dollars the lawsuit alleges that the Tim Ber company and its owners failed to live up to their obligations under the 1999 headwaters agreement that spared some of the worlds old est and largest Trees under the headwaters Deal Pacific lumber sold 5600 acres of ancient red Wood forests in Humboldt county to the state and Federal govern ments for More than million the company also agreed to sub Mit and gain approval for a sustained yield plan to regulate log Ging on its remaining Timberland the lawsuit alleges that the com Pany obtained state approval of the 100year logging plan by submit Ting false data Pacific lumber spokeswoman Andrea Arnot said the lawsuits allegations Are false and the company has fulfilled its obligations stars and s t r 5 p is april 23 2007 Page 21 american Roundup window washers get Diamond studded Rescue poll new York firefight ers used a Diamond stud ded saw to slice through Glass and Rescue two window washers trapped outside the 37th floor of an office building the workers were trapped about 400 feet above a Manhattan ave nue because their movable scaffolding was stuck and Tilting dangerously firefighters went to the roof of the 40story building and threw Down ropes to secure the window washers in Case the scaffolding started to fall after a 4foot Hole was Cut in the Glass the workers were pulled in Side the building firefighters said diamonds Are Able to Cut through Glass More easily than steel is in the past firefighters removed windows during High Rise rescues but it has been increasingly difficult because windows Are now being put into buildings from the outside they said emaciated infant found dead parents arrested Phoenix two parents were arrested in the death of their 4monthold son whose gaunt body was found in a swing in Side their filthy apartment authorities said Strum away cancer breast cancer survivor Lindy Ray from Eureka Springs Ark sings and plays her guitar before participating in the Susan g Komen race for the cure in Fayetteville Ark Ray said playing the guitar helped her through her illness Daniel Bechtel weighed just four pounds and Bones jutted out of his skin police sgt Joel Tranter said obviously this Condi Tion didst happen Over night Tranter said this child had not been fed or cared for very much at All in its very Short life and it took some time for this child to die Katherine Hatten 22 and Thaddeus Adam Bechtel 29 were arrested a court document said ants and cockroaches were crawling All Over the apartment and on Daniel police also removed a 4yearold boy and a 2yearold girl from the apartment and placed them in the care of child protective services police shoot kill knife wielding kidnapper Klamath lice officer shot and killed a Man who took his girlfriends infant son hostage and threatened to kill him with a knife authorities said Jesse Lee Johnson told officers surrounding the Home in this town near the California state line that he was drunk High on methamphetamine and ready to kill the 11monthold boy the officer shot him in the head after the Man walked outside the Home holding a knife to the baby Throat said Klamath county District attorney de Caleb Johnson 27 died at a Hospital the baby was not Hurt Caleb said 7year prison convict officially cleared of rape Dallas a Man who served seven years in prison for a rape he was later cleared of has been formally exonerated by an appeals court his attorneys said Andrew Gossett is the 28th per son since 1994 exonerated through Dan in Texas according to the innocence project a new Yor based Legal Center that specializes in Over turning wrongful convictions Gossett is the 12th person exonerated by Dan testing since 2001 in Dallas the inno Cence project of Texas is being Given unprecedented Access to re View the cases of hundreds of in mates Gossett was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the february 1999 sexual assault of a woman who identified him As her attacker police suspect set fire that killed 5 children pm St Louis a parolee admitted setting an Illinois House fire that killed five children and said he was sorry about it according to a police report Zachary Meeks 27 said he did not believe the children were Home when he set the Blaze in Quincy Al according to an investigators statement Quincy police detective Adam Yates wrote in the report that Meeks confessed to setting the Blaze As part of a feud with Mem Bers of the family Over his plans to testify against one of them Meeks admitted pouring Gaso line from a plastic milk Jug and an other Container onto the front and Back porches and igniting it with a lighter Yates wrote when questioned by police Meeks said he was sorry and didst mean to kill the children Yates wrote Reid Stowe right and Soanya Ahmad stand aboard their 70foot Gaff rigged Schooner Anne in Hoboken no the two Are embarking sea voyage that is to last 1000 Days and nights nonstop Bryc digging deep University of Connecticut senior Thomas Butler competes in a mud volleyball game As part of on Campus activities for Spring weekend in Storrs Conn dust and fire in the Northwestern Border of Putnam county near the town of Bostwick Fla cleaning machine Dave Weiss Rolls a tire while Piek ing up trash near the downtown a a calf a Trail tracks in Burlington Iowa As smoke rises from a nearby Brush he was making it in k burning ton Beautiful an Earth Day cleanup Dominion University bhang a Pait Hankar dances during a practice of a routine that her 12person team was to perform at the taste of India festival at the Ted constant convocation Center at Odu in Norfolk a Cando Canoe Westfield River wild water races Danielle Prigmore of Wilmington mass and Tony Prigmore of Westerly i paddle through the Hill and Dale rapids in Russell mass during the developers await tax like Power for private cities Atlanta the House signed off on a plan that would give developers limited gov Ern Mentlik Powers to create so called private cities sponsors used new language that allowed developers to charge assessments to homeowners instead of the Power to Levy taxes the House mustered the two thirds vote needed and passed the constitutional amendment by a 13040 vote critics complained theres Little difference Between the two phrases i guess one persons assess ment is another persons tax said state rep Brian Thomas the measure would Grant developers the Power to assess residents the fees for roads sidewalks sewer lines and other infrastructure improvements when we took the word Taxa Tion out it changed it from Pri vate cities to a tool for managing growth said Dubose Porter the Chambers top Democrat if the Senate approves the changes it must also be signed by the governor and approved by a major Ity of voters before it becomes Law Man shoots kills woman 2 boys self Man fatally shot a woman and two boys before killing himself in an apparent Domestic dispute authorities said the four bodies were discovered in a first floor bedroom of a Home while police were responding to a Call regarding a missing persons report officers said the victims names were not being released pending autopsies but police believe the dead to be a 38yearold Man a 32yearold woman and two boys 11 and 8 1000 pot plants taken from quiet la suburb los Angeles crime and danger seemed so re moved from one family Friendly Hillside Community in Diamond bar 30 Miles East of downtown la the local neighbourhood watch disbanded out of Lack of need or so its members thought this week the same neighbors who let crime watching efforts lapse were jarred by los Angeles county sheriffs deputies descend ing on a two Story re tiled roof Home where manicured Pink roses lined the Walkway and quiet new neighbors Seldom had been seen As nearby homeowners looked on deputies removed nearly 1000 pot plants from the gutted Home where the bathrooms had been converted into storage space Interior Walls were removed and the electricity powering the massive grow ing operation had been routed directly from Power lines stealing kilowatts the operation was one of a dozen uncovered in the normally quiet upscale area the discoveries have yielded 10 arrests and More than 12000 plants cheer squad disqualified after no student helped Wichita cheerleaders from Wichita state univer sity have lost their National title thanks to video showing a no Stu Dent taking part in their prizewinning performance the video from the collegiate cheer and dance championship held in Daytona Beach Fla contradicted assertions by Wichita states cheer leading coach mat the no student had travelled with the squad but never participated in the Competition we determined with certainty that the individual in question did perform in both the qualifying and final round performances Cheryl Adams Wichita state Dean of students said the trophy in cheer division i now goes to Stephen f Austin state University of Nacogdoches Texas mutilated baby released from Hospital Al Houston an infant whose genitals were Sev ered in an attack his Mother blamed on the family miniature Dachshund has been released to the care of an aunt the nearly 3monthold boy will live with his fathers older sister until permanent custody is decided the aunt will supervise All con tact Between the baby and his father Camden Gothia according to child protective services the baby was found on a bed in his mothers suburban Houston apartment covered in blood with his genitals severed and a deep Cut in his upper leg the baby Mother has not been charged but was forbidden Contact with him after testing positive for drugs Gator found sunbathing near Long Island Pond we rent the Only species basking in the Northeast warm weekend weather As police helped capture a Small Alligator sunbathing by a Small Pond in this Long is land town it was a startling sight in a Community just 35 Miles from manhat Tan the american Alligator is native to the South and it is against new York Law to own one said Ray Gross chief of the Suffolk county society for the prevention of cruelty to animals Green with Yellowish stripes and roughly 2 feet Long the animal appeared to be about 3 years old Gross said the Spca is looking for whoever May have released the Alligator Man fleeing Security drowns in Casino Moat Kansas City a Man fleeing Security drowned after he leaped Over a railing into a Moat surrounding a Casino authorities said police said the Man ran away while being questioned about a fake identification card at the Isle of Capri Casino police said the Man was in his Early 20s in july 2005 police said a woman apparently jumped into the Isle of Capri Moat and later died Moats Are common fixtures at Missouri casinos Casino gambling in the state initially was restricted to floating riverboats but the states Constitution was amended to allow riverboat casinos to float within manmade Moats stories and photos from wire services