European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 stabs and St r is april As 2007 Page 21 Exco joined twins celebrate birthday new York twin Jig filipino boys born joined at the top of then Heads celebrated their improbable fifth birthdays years after doctors Sepa rated them in a series of difficult surgeries until 2004 Carl and Clarence Aguirre could not sit up stand straight or look each other in the Eye because of their unusual link but at a party at Montefiore med ical Center in the Bronx they romped like healthy kids Carl stuck his hand in the birthday cake Clarence Hung on Bis Mother Arlene Aguirre and ran about with a toy the Brothers still Are not done with what will Likely be years of treatment for problems associated with their former link couple shot to death inside luxury hotel spa Laguna Beach a Man and a woman were found dead in a hotel room at a Lux Ury oceanfront resort after police were called to intervene in a Domestic dispute authorities said police were called to the Mon Tage resort and spa by a Security guard who said a Man and a woman were engaged in a domes tic dispute authorities said a sub sequent caller said there was a crazy woman with a gun in the hotels parking garage officers tried to resolve the Situa Tion peacefully police said but the two adults refused to cooperate and the fatal gunshots were fired it was unclear whether an offic ers gun was discharged police said girl stops Van after mom goes into diabetic Shock Peru an 11yearold girl stopped a Van that went out of control when her diabetic Mother became ill police said Indiana state police senior trooper Joe Swisher said Abigail parkers actions were nothing Short of heroic besides stopping the Van Abigail kept her Mother and 8yearold brother Calm and informed Para medics about her mothers Condi Tion Swisher said state police dispatched an ambulance and troopers to us 31 South of Peru after the girl called 911 and another person reported a reckless Driver officers say supervisors made Imus like remark new York several female police officers have accused sergeants of insulting them by echoing the remarks that led to the firing of radio Host Don Imus a narcotics detective who is a 15year Veteran of the new York police department said a sergeant told her on april 12 not to give him lip or hed Call her a Nappy headed to the same phrase used on the air by Imus the comment Cut me to the Core detective aretha Williams said i find it disrespectful racist american Roundup sexist it cant be tolerated police commissioner Raymond Kelly condemned any use of the terms another sergeant has been reas signed pending an investigation after being accused of referring to several female officers As hos said Michael Collins assistant chief of Public information for the police department officials seek agreement for new Border Bridge Laredo Laredo and Webb county have decided to drop competing lawsuits and in tend to cooperate in building a new Bridge spanning the Rio Grande top officials said plans for a fifth Laredo Bridge connecting the Texas City with Nuevo Laredo in Mexico stalled As the two local governments devel oped competing plans and then sued to derail each others projects but a new slate of local leaders elected last year on a platform of cooperation said  work to Gether to push the Bridge plans for Ward officials said a settlement was possible cuts possible for whale count program Honolulu a popular program that sends More Chicken dinner an Alligator leaps out of the water to grab a piece of Chicken during feeding time at Gat Orama in Palm Dale Fla than a thousand Volun Teers out to count whales and another that sends help to whales entangled in deadly fishing lines Are in danger of getting Cut Back As the hawaiian Island Humpback whale nation Al Marine Sanctuary con tends with another budget crunch last year the Sanctuary budget was slashed by 17 per cent and this year the budget lost an additional 10 percent add ing up to about less than what the Sanctuary had to spend in 2005 said Naomi Mclntosh the Sanctuary superintendent Retiree enters top level of Rock paper scissors Burly 64yearold Retiree who resembles Jolly old St Nick will be going Mano a Mano with other contestants in a National title Rock paper scissors Ray Scott won the new Hamp Shire title by advancing through eight rounds of tournaments at Manchester bars and pubs with his White Beard and spectacles fans cheered go Santa go Dur in the new Hampshire finals earlier this month next month Scott Heads to Las vegas to compete in the Usa Rock paper scissors leagues National Competition if he makes the right move he wins the contest will be broadcast on esp firm works to allay fears about nerve agent waste port Arthur a com Pany with a us army con tract to incinerate chemical waste from the deadly vex nerve agent will open its doors to the Public in an Effort to allay concerns about the project Veolia environmental services received its first shipments of vex Hydrolysate in trucks from Indi Anas Newport chemical depot where the vex was destroyed in chemical reactors earner this month the army finalized a million contract for Veolia to Burn about 2 million Gal Lons of the chemical waste Over the next three years Exla maker survives icy swim after Accident Anchorage a former state lawmaker and prominent attorney was found hypothermic but conscious on an Island monday a Day after his boat was discovered cruising unmanned in a Juneau Bay Bruce Weyhrauch 54 was re ported missing after another ves Sels Crew spotted his 15foot bos ton whaler on sunday evening with its motor running and nobody on Board ninety minutes earlier Weyhrauch had dropped off his teen age son on the Beach near their Home and had been headed for a Harbor less than a mile away he told troopers that he slipped on some Oil hit his head and fell out of the moving boat he said it took an hour to swim to the Island in the 40degree water Weyhrauch was in the state House from 2003 to 2006 Tough trash task Volunteer Harlan Stientjes of Cedar rapids picks up trash during the keep Linn county Beautiful 1380 cleanup Day in Cedar rapids Iowa Hin fim Magnolia Trees Bloom along Commonwealth u1uu111 Avenue in Boston Spring like weather finally arrived in the Boston area with Sun and temperatures in the 60s horse h 03p Al a n p a Genevieve Saunders rear and her Jitae Udo la Friend Brittany Evans play with Evans sprinklers and water Hose on a warm Day outside of Evans Home in deca tur Ala Apollo a Spanish and Arusian horse with Bobbie Patterson in the sad dle demonstrates a vertical jump at the four winds Renaissance Faire near Whitehouse Texas mayoral i May i Ai i Rachel Wein dressed gov Sarah crashes into a Pool of water during the slush cup at the annual Spring carnival at Alyeska resort in Girdwood Alaska whats missing from this regatta wind Marina in Poulsbo Wash the Competition was slow going due to the Lack of wind professor among Crew of mock Mars Mission Honolulu a University of Hawaii computer Sci ence professor will be among seven scientists to participate in a simulated Mission to Mars the researchers will be living in a research station on Canadas Devon Island about 900 Miles from the North pole from May to a gust participants will Wear space suits As they journey outside in temperatures Well below Zero and their research will be similar to what they would study on Mars including climate Topography and daily changes in temperature victim accidentally left off of memorial Valhalla the name of a victim of the sept 11 2001 attacks was accidentally left off a memorial and will be added the memorial a sculpture called the rising has 109 inter Twining steel rods to symbolize each local resident killed in the terrorist attacks but after the memo rial was dedicated in september 2005 the family of a 110th person Michael Packer approached county officials to say he should have been included Packer who led Merrill Lynch Commerce initiatives was speak ing at a conference at the world Trade Center when it was at tacked he was 45 and had lived in the Westchester Community of Hartsdale since 1990 said Bis wife Rekha Packer express club chief says Shes Witch hunt7 target press club of Dallas former president who arranged the judging for journalism awards now under suspicion of being rigged has a criminal record and history of delusional be Havior according to a newspaper report Elizabeth Albanese a fou time Winner at the 2006 Katie awards said Shes the target of a Witch Hunt and that her previously undisclosed past has no relevance to her role with the Katies Tom Stewart the clubs new president has called last years judging bogus and believes none took place Albanese says entries were properly judged but that confidentiality agreements preclude her from revealing names according to the Dallas morn ing news Albanese past includes a criminal record in three states on theft and forgery charges teen wins in Tex messaging contest new thir teeny Earold Morgan Pozgar of Claysburg a was crowned la National testing Champion after she typed super  from Mary Poppins in 15 seconds in going to go shopping and buy lots of clothes the teen said after winning her prize from the electronics company la Morgan Defeated nearly 200 other competitors at the Roseland ballroom in Manhattan to become East coast Champion and then beat West coast Champion Eli Tirosh 21 of los Angeles she estimated that she sends More than 8000 text messages a month to her friends and family Gas explosion strikes an electric Power Plant fort Worth a pillar of fire More than 100 feet High erupted at an electric Power Plant towering Over a major inter state for about 20 minutes before abruptly going out Texas department of transportation cameras on nearby inter state 820 showed the flare at the Exselon corp Handley Plant the flare happened when a re Lief valve tripped on a 24inch Natu ral Gas transmission line that feeds the Gas fired Power Plant said it Kent Worley a fort Worth fire spokesman Worley said a spark ignited the Gas plume and state and local officials will now investigate where the spark came from demand outstrips Supply for free cancer vaccine Concord demand for the vaccine against Cervi Cal cancer is outstripping Supply As new Hampshire offers the shots for free new Hampshire was the first state to approve free distribution of the Gar Dasil vaccine which protects against four strains of a sexually transmitted infection called human papilloma virus or Huv that can cause cervical cancer the program started in january and the state expected to vaccinate Only about on Quarter of eligible girls this year but advertising has stimulated demand said the state Public health director school fire forces entire District class shutdown Needville an Over night fire heavily damaged a Small Southeast Texas towns High school forcing cancellation of classes throughout the District the predawn fire destroyed about 20 percent of the Needville High school including the offices of the principal and other administrators a computer lab and some classrooms school superintendent Curtis Rhodes said the schools archives and files also were destroyed no injuries were reported teen says he regrets his role in rape murder teenager who admitted to police that he raped a woman tied to a bed Slit her Throat and helped his Uncle Burn her remains also said he regretted what he did a video taped interview played for jurors shows Brendan Dassey now 17 is on trial for raping and killing 25yearold Teresa Halbach and burning her body near the family Rural Auto Salvage lot a jury convicted Dasseos Uncle 44yearold Steven last month of killing Halbach rejecting his Contention that he was framed by the same sheriffs department that helped wrongly put him be Hind bars for a 1985 rape Halbach disappeared after going to the Yard in Rural Manito Woc county to photograph a mini Van that averts sister was Selling through Auto trader Magazine stories and photos from wire reports