European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 22 stars and stripes june 2007 Page 23 4 cats rescued from fire Pocatello fire fighters resuscitated four cats and an Albino rat from a charred apartment in Southeastern the animals received oxygen through a special mask designed for Small animals that the depart ment got two years electrical failure Likely caused the which resulted in at least in fire officials no people were one cat didst survive the police Gravedigger used Bones for ashtrays Fitchburg police say a Gravedigger stole body parts including a Skull and a thigh Bone from a broken Cas Ket at a Church cemetery and took them Home to make an while he was digging a a casket was broken so investigators believe he took the body parts to make an ashtray and a police Kevin Obrien told the Sentinel Enterprise of police discovered the theft when they went to his apartment after his wife complained that her Hus Keith killed her she said she found the body parts among his police charged with removing a body from a grave and cruelty to Man strangles attacking Bobcat that was Rabid Wesley Chapel Dale Rippy says he was acting on instinct when a Rabid 25pound Bobcat attacked him on his porch in this Central Florida endured the bobcats slashes and bites until it clawed into a position where he could grab it by the then he strangled Rippy said it was Clear the crazed Bobcat had to be i was bleeding the Vietnam Veteran said of the if that cat had attacked a it woul Dve been really it have we give this Guy a lot of credit for what he said Pasco county animal control manager Denise the Man was definitely using his head when he did if he let the cat we could have had More cops with 38 Pant size out of Luck for now Baltimore Balti More police Are looking for a few Good pairs of the police department has run out of two popular sizes of the Cus to made Navy Blue uniform pants it provides to every a department spokesman officers who Wear size 36 or 38 will have to wait for new pants until a special order comes we Are officially said officer Troy a police spokes were putting in an Emer gency order for those two the department attributed the shortage to the recent hiring of 240 new but police Union pres ident Paul Blair blamed a new i american Roundup Tia Tive that requires detectives to walk periodic foot uni cadets receive four pairs of pants when they leave the police when officers need a new they get them free but Are required to turn in their old if the pants can be be cleaned and put Back into Harris grandma in trouble for registering dog to vote Hub grand Moth Mimer wanted to prove her Point that it is too easy for citizens to cast ballots in washing ton so she to Regis Ter her australian Shepherd Terri or mix Duncan Macdonald to now she finds herself in Trou ble with the Jane Balogh said she did it to pro test a 2005 vote registration Law that she say makes it too easy for citizens to she put her phone Bill in Dun cans then used it As identification to Register him As a she said she submitted ballots in the dogs name in the september and november 2006 and May 2007 she wrote void on the ballots and did not cast any a Early Birds anglers fish at Isabella Tual prosecutors have offered the grand Mother and army vet eran a Deal plead guilty to a Misdemeanour charge of making a false state ment to a Public official and they will not file a felony charge of providing false information on a vote Regis traction Balogh said she does not plan to contest the charge be cause i know in Man who served 10 years in prison exonerated Austin a court has exonerated a Man who spent 10 years in prison for a gang rape that Dan evidence later proved he did not the state court of criminal appeals granted James Curtis Giles a writ of Hareas Corpus a right to protest ones detention making him the 13th Dallas county Man cleared of a crime since 2001 with the help of Dan the Riding clears Giles record and makes it possible for him to col Lect compensation from the said Eric a spokesman for the innocence police find 2 daughters dead in Home Montclair the bodies of a Man and his two Young daughters were found inside a Home hours after the girls Mother dropped them off for a authorities police went to the House after the Mother became concerned when the Man did not answer his phone or Deputy police chief Roger Terry officers forced open the door and found the Ages 5 and fully clothed and submerged in a Bathtub on the first they found the 46yearold Man hanged in a room on the third Terry it was not immediately Clear How Long the three had been no charges in Coli outbreak tied to spinach san Al prosecutors have decide that criminal charges Are not warranted in last years nation wide Coli outbreak linked to fresh California following the outbreak that led to the deaths of three people and sickened about 200 Fri agents raided two produce process ing plants and several farms for evidence of environmental and Foo safety the investigation did not find that growers or processors had deliberately skirted the Law or were negligent in preventing tainted foods from entering the Market attorney Scott schools authorities had searched plants run by growers express Lac in Salinas and natural selection foods Lac in san Juan As Well As farms in Santa Monterey and san Benito Federal officials warned Consumers not to eat bagged or bunched spinach for two weeks in septem As nearly 200 people fell ill after eating Leafy greens packaged by natural selection foods and sold under 34 Brand Winn i n f Hal 1 i pm contestants line up for the 11th annual water world belly Flop contest at water Vav Limilla Ucol Lief in Federal Greg Hoffman Defeated Bryan Beard in a Flop Hoffman has won the contest two years in a up in flames flames and smoke billow from waste research and an Industrial chemical recycling company South of eau residents and businesses within a half mile of the Plant were new it attain after 12 Gallons of White Brian 1ow us 11 do Dell a maintenance worker for the Bloomsburg Hospital in finishes up his first of two Coats covering the Cross and Circle of the helicopter Landing pad at the Heads Cowboy Dustin Gilstrap is thrown during the bareback Riding event at the Idaho state High school Rodeo finals at the North Bannock county Fairgrounds in t Kpan it i a veep 1 t a member of the san Antonio fire department extinguishes hotshots on an Logan of pm cup a Wheeler semitrailer and other vehicles involved in an Accident in san Anto a Ghe a Butterfly in Nio the Accident caused the freeway to be shut Down for several five of the seven people injured were Flowers on flight the Butterfly at the Oklahoma City zoo taken to hospitals with and two others were treated at the said san Antonio in Oklahoma fire department District chief Tommy students plan own graduation after prank Montrose Nineteen High school seniors planned to hold their own ceremony after they were barred from graduation and charged with a felony Over what they called a a lawyer the students still will get Diplo but they were banned from the commencement ceremony at Hendrick Hudson High they had caused a bomb scare by duct taping alarm clocks to the setting them to go off simultaneously during they considered holding a com Peting ceremony but decided in Stead to hold a separate event at an unspecified later lawyer Jim Sarcone City to pay for not telling about Lead paint East Salem the Salem housing authority agreed to pay to resolve allegations it failed to notify Public housing tenants about Lead paint risks before they moved into apart the environmental Protection Agency the Salem Agency must cover the Cost to train Public housing officials statewide to comply with Lead paint it also must pay a burglar sentenced to death for murder Savannah a Man convicted in the murders of a woman and her daughter has been sentenced to Darryl also was sentenced to 140 years in prison on related Stinski stabbed Susan during a burglary in then burned her House to the killing her and the family two state now we built you this Nice new Windham the states first Tunnel designed for amphibian traffic int getting much use for some officials the state spent about to build the Tunnel under the new route 11 bypass to give salamanders and frogs a Safe skunks and muskrats use the Tunnel but the amphibians but environmental officials say they Haven give up Georgia turtles cooler than amphibians Jekyll Island the Georgia sea Turtle Center has giving the state its first facility devoted to sea Turtle re research and Educa along with providing the Center offers exhibits on sea turtles habits and the ribbon cutting ceremony Drew a crowd of about the Center currently is Home to three Loggerhead sea Cook county goes after Deadbeat dads Chicago More than 130 Deadbeat dads were rounded up in Cook county for collectively refusing to pay More than Mil lion in child sheriff Tom Dart says the in the week leading up to fathers included one Man who owes More than in child another Man was apprehended at Evanston Hospital where his Girlfriend had just Given there surrounded by water Honolulu rainfall across the islands is Down 60 percent from last prompt ing fears of a Tough season of Brush fires this the heavy rainfall in 2005 sup ported the growth of plants that have since dried and become potential fuel for we had some wet seasons so a lot of grass and Brush grew and a lot of that is not very Green any we Arent expecting substantial Relief until october when the wet season picks up said Kevin a hydrologist with the National weather officials Are also worried about a recent increase in the number of deliberately set arson cases on Oahu went up for the fourth year in a Row in police student feared mothers Wrath Riverside a former University of Riverside student threatened to bomb a graduation hoping it would be in order to keep his parents from discovering that he had dropped out of investigators allege in court Audley told his Mother that he was scheduled to graduate last prompting her to drive from to at according to an affidavit filed by us Riverside police Jessie but Yung last attended the University in summer 2006 and did not have enough credits to Grade University officials Yung then sent a letter and two emails to University administrators threatening to set off several improvised explosive devices Dur ing a commencement planned for june court records group elephant pen unsafe after death Birmingham an Ani Mal Protection group said the Birmingham zoo should shut Down the pen where an elderly asian elephant named Mona lived alone before being euthanized due to deteriorating believed to be the oldest ele Phant in Captivity at an accredited Mona was put to sleep by a lethal a group that previously criticized the animals treatment said her death was the perfect time to permanently close the pen where she we just feel like enough suffer ing has gone on said Victo Ria Nichols of Alabama wildlife and zoo spokeswoman katrina Cade said no decision had been made on whether to get a new elephant or to permanently close Monas the elephant lived in an enclosure that was roughly the size of two basketball she had been alone since another elephant died two years stories and photos from wire services
