European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 stars and stripes june 2007 Page 21 blast flattens House 1 3 injured Wauwatosa an explosion that sent a plume of fire and debris 75 feet High flattened a suburban Milwaukee kill ing an elderly woman in the House and injuring three authorities neighbors had re ported smelling a Strong odor just before the and fire chief Dean Redman said the evidence was consistent with a Gas we which provides natural Gas to the said there was no evidence of a leak from the area up to and including the meter on the the blast appeared to be Accident said Sherry spokeswoman for the Bureau of to firearms and the woman body was found in the Redman said she was Likely in the Kitchen during the prosecutors four billed firm for 20 surgeries new people billed a health insurance company for 20 brain operations that were never performed on sometimes for the same per son on multiple authorities one 36yearold Man from new York City claimed nine brain sur Geries for along with his wife and two receiving reimbursements from new Yor based group health incorporated total ing Federal investigators Ghi paid out More than in reimbursements to All four based on the besides the 36yearold an indictment filed in Federal court Al Leges that a 39yearold Man from mount a 42yearold woman and a 37yearold both from new York defrauded the insurance governor state to use for katrina Aid Baton Rouge Kathleen Blanco said her administration has found up to million in state Money to put into Louisiana Grant program for rebuilding Hurricane damaged which faces a deficit of As much As the announcement marked the first time Blanco has backed off from saying the Federal govern ment should pay for the entire Road Home which pro Vides rebuilding and buyout Grants to people whose Homes were dam aged by hurricanes katrina and Congress has forgiven some of our state obligations for this unprecedented in will now use state dollars for the Road Home we have currently identified Between Mil lion and million in state funds to put towards this Blanco said in a news she did not say where the Money would epee american Roundup police Man uploaded 24 episodes illegally Rel los Angeles Federal authorities have charged a Chicago Man with copyright violations for allegedly uploading sever Al episodes of Fox 24 on the in ternet before the shows season premiere earlier this Jorge used a web site to download the first four episodes of the sixth season of 24 and then uploaded them to according to a fed eral complaint filed in los Ange the episodes appeared online More than a week before their Tele vision debuts on 14 and Romero was charged with one felony count of uploading copy righted material to a publicly accessible computer network know ing the work was intended for com Mercial Fords theater closes for 18month renovation fail the Ater where Abraham Lin Coln was shot will be getting an million upgrade Over the next year and a the improvements to Fords the atre will include its first new restrooms and renovations to the air Light ing and sound the nation Al Park service hair raising Host extreme skier Glen Plath hosts television coverage at the Teva Mountain games in the 144yearold theater last under y went restoration in the Park service spokesman Bill line the repairs Are being done in part to improve Access for the Dis woman drives kills her Boyfriend new York a woman ran Down her Boyfriend As he bicycled along a City killing him As she repeatedly rolled Over him with a sport Utility according to police and Jeanine was arrested on charges of murder and criminal Possession of a weapon after turning herself police Harrington hit Jeffrey in Brooklyn Bedford Stuyvesant according to to witnesses said Harrington drove the wrong Way Down a Street and Over a curb to hit then backed up and ran Over him after pulling the crushed Bike out from under the she drove according to police found the vehicle a few blocks Driver leaves Hospital after Pond submersion Royal Oak a woman whose sport Utility vehicle crashed into a leaving her trapped inside for nearly two has been released from a Hospital More than a month Jennifer says she Doest remember the she apparently crashed the night of april 25 in Richmond township and was found in the partially sub merged Bova was released from William Beaumont Hospital in Royal where she had been recovering from a brain fractures to her face and broken Bones in her leg and a broken City not in contempt on panhandling arrests new York a judge declined to hold the City in contempt for continuing to enforce a panhandling Law ruled unconstitutional 15 years saying police had made Progress recently to Ward stopping the the cites longstanding apathy toward Liis problem was Offen District judge Shira Scheindlin said in a but she said the City was now striving to fully in recent the depart ment has enclosed reminders in officers pay stubs and otherwise emphasized the the judge she said the court would keep close watch on the depart ments Scheindlin said in March she would consider holding the City in contempt for what she described As a sorry tale of in october District judge Robert Sweet ruled that a state Law violated the first amendment by allowing the arrest of anyone who remains or wanders about in a Public place for the purpose of sweets ruling applied specifically to new York friends for life Carson Long military Institute senior Cadet Kirk cheers for a his classmate during the 171st commencement program in new Menvin in Lin Kaitlyn an eight grader from Jiuu v ill Uii up climbs a simulated Rock face during a Rock climbing class at the Adrian training school in the troop was learning about Rock climbing in preparation for a trip to West Virginia next near uvc1 Tanner of Mesilla competes in the steer wrestling portion of the old Chisum Days pro Rodeo at Eastern new Mexico state fairs Bob Crosby Arena in off his hitch Hrca inmate Chrlot Baler jul lug Oil 1us Illgon Lorse a Back flip off Moonshine during a horse auction at warm Springs correctional Center in Carson the inmates Saddle train the which Range in age from two to five for 120 color coordinated second grader Jaycie scoots through a colourful Tunnel while running through an inflatable obstacle course set up at the Pittsford elementary school carnival in the carnival is a part of the schools positive behaviour a Way to Reward pupils for Good behaviour throughout the Fri nabs 2 in robbery that left a Teller dead Chicago two suspects have been arrested in a Bank robbery that exploded into gunfire and left a Teller dead and two peo ple seriously Federal officials the Fri has been investigating since the gunmen burst into the Illi Nois service Federal savings and got into a gunfight with a guard and fled by car with what authorities called a Small amount of attorneys office spokesman Randall Samborn announced that two suspected Bank robbers were in Fri but he did not re lease their Samborn declined to comment when asked about a third the Fri statement said he remained at softball faces 86yearold rival Baldwin tween they had More than 150 years of but in the seniority might still have been an advantage when a 93yearold Pitcher took on an 86yearold rival in a seniors soft Ball the elder Mickey wern gave up just one run in three in helping his Long Island senior softball league team to a 96 opposing Pitcher and relative youngster Paul Rotter allowed nine runs in six each faced the other Only once at the Werner Drew a and Rotter Pinch runners replaced both on the not Only do i have fun its Good for said of a retired special education teach he has played Ball since 1936 and said he had no intention of giving up the game anytime smoking ban legislation passes Tough testing Nashville a Bill that would ban smoking in nearly All workplaces endured a key test As the traditionally Tobac co Friendly state House agriculture committee approved it while allowing More exceptions than the version the full Senate the exceptions would allow smoking in private clubs and businesses with up to three toddlers drown in Pond As the baby Sitter sleeps Waterford two toddlers wandered away from their Home in Northwestern Penn Sylvania while their baby Sitter slept and accidentally drowned in a nearby v the baby Sitter told authorities she put the for a Nap and that she took a when she woke Jenna Walker and Maggie missing from the baby Sitter she found their bodies floating in a manmade fishing Pond about 100 Yards away from the Home and frantically tried to help she was performing car cardiopulmonary and when i got i started car on the youngest said Chris bar chief of Stancliff Hose who was one of the first emergency workers on the they had no they were not authorities did not identify the 18yearold she was a rela Tive of Walker and lived in the which lies in a Rural area just South of Kovski was a neighbors governor tries to clarify Law on Flag desecration lbs Moines Chet Culver signed a Bill that clarifies the states Flag desecration its meant to address a Federal court ruling in March that said the Law was unconstitutional because it was too the Bill says that it is illegal to show disrespect to the Flag by defacing defiling mutilating it or trampling upon the aclus Iowa chapter says the revised version is still gang influence spreads at attorney says Cheyenne american civil liberties attorney Stephen Pevar said gang influence is spreading in the Wyoming state Penitentiary at he cited a report on the assault of an inmate who apparently tried to leave a corrections director Bob Lampert said officials try to keep ahead of attempts to organize gangs in police teen boy drowns in the Delaware River Middletown a 13yearold boy drowned in the Delaware police police did not know if the teenager was swimming alone or with friends when he he was transported to a nearby where he was pronounced the death has been ruled Acci Fitzpatrick defense attorney too sleepy at murder trial Memphis a defense at Torney tried a different argument to win his convicted client a new murder trial the attorney was too Charles Curbo wrote in a motion for a new trial that he could not properly represent the defend Tony because he was tired during the six Day trial in Jan the court constantly rushed de sense who the court knew had Little sleep on account of the hours that the court was keeping for no Good Curbo prosecutor David Zak said he saw no Lack of enthusiasm from the the defense attorney showed passion and Zeal in representing his there was never a moment when he was running put of Zak Wolfe was convicted of first de Gree murder in the fatal shooting of Leondus in septem Ber 2004 at a service station Park ing he was sentenced to life in stories and photos from wire reports