Md. man arrested in ex-wife's death, arson

Students sickened by chemical fumes in Roosevelt lab
Several Roosevelt University Students were sickened, and three hospitalized, after experiencing Headaches and throat irritation from chemical fumes in a Loop laboratory Wednesday afternoon. A Level 1 hazardous materials response was called about 3:30 p.m. to Roosevelt Universitys Auditorium Building on the 430 block of South Michigan Avenue after a Student opened a container in a lab and other Students complained of Headaches and throat irritation, Fire Media Affairs spokesman Quention Curtis...

"Barbarians at the Gate: The GOP's Health Reform Plan"
My colleague Jeff Kluger, who covers Health and science, has penned an impassioned defense of the Affordable Care Act, inspired by his kids' reaction to his recent Outpatient surgery. An excerpt is below. Full piece here . Discuss. I had a bit of surgery last week. It wasn't much the kind of Outpatient operation that would once have had me hospitalized for three or four days, but with new, less invasive procedures, had me in and out in five hours. When I arrived home, my daughters (ages 7...

VIDEO: Mosque controversy takes strange turns
Controversy surrounding the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro took another unusual twist over the weekend as an outspoken Mosque opponent was briefly hospitalized following a verbal confrontation with a Documentary filmmaker on the Public Square. Mosque opponent Kevin Fisher can be seen in a video posted on the popular video website YouTube telling Murfreesboro Police dispatchers that he was being "racially harassed." Fisher, who is black, lodged the accusation against documentarian Eric Allen...

President Obama's Aunt Speaks Out About Living Illegally in U.S.
"If I come as an Immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen." Those are the words from 58-year-old Zeituni Onyango of Kenya in a recent exclusive interview with WBZ-TV.   Onyango is the aunt of President Barack Obama. She lived in the United States illegally for years, receiving public assistance in Boston.   'I KNEW I OVERSTAYED'   Aunt Zeituni, as she has come to be known, first surfaced in the public light in 2008, in the final days of the Presidential...

Obama's aunt says US obligated to make her citizen
Boston — President Barack Obama's aunt, who lived for years illegally in Boston, says in her first interview since being granted asylum that the United States has an "obligation" to grant her Citizenship. Zeituni Onyango (zay-TUH'-nee awn-YAHN'-goh) tells WBZ-TV that she came to the U.S. from Kenya in 2000 but couldn't afford to leave when she was originally denied asylum in 2004. She says she fell critically ill and was hospitalized. When she was discharged, she lived in a Homeless...

Obama's Aunt: 'United States Has The Obligation To Make Me A Citizen'
Zeituni Onyango is the native Kenya half-sister of President Obama ’s late father who suddenly finds herself back in the media spotlight. Last night, Boston’s WBZ-TV broadcast an interview which is sure to polarize many citizens concerned with the plight of Illegal Immigration in the United States. “If I come as an Immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen,” said Onyango, which is sure to be used over and over again by those looking to embarrass the...

Macomb County news: Exam today in embezzlement case
A pre-exam conference is set for 8 a.m. today. Curt Dumas, 53, is accused of bilking St. Clair Shores of about $27,000 by taking money from scrap metal sales, having a water bill for his wife's home waived and using a city Laptop AirCard for personal use at his Richmond Township home from 2006 to this year. Dumas is charged with embezzlement by a public official, a 10-year felony, and public money/safekeeping, a two-year Misdemeanor. The case was transferred to Eastpointe from 40th District...

Nevada governor hurt in fall from horse at ranch
Related Articles Reno, Nev. (AP) A spokesman for Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons says the Republican was thrown from a horse at a ranch and was taken by ambulance to a Reno medical center. Daniel Burns, the Governor’s Press Secretary, told the Reno Gazette-Journal late Tuesday that the extent of Gibbons’ injuries wasn’t clear. But he says the 65-year-old was moving his arms and legs and was coherent and alert. Burns says Gibbons was helping break a young horse at a ranch north of...

Florida father apologizes for school bus tirade, threats
(CNN) -- A Florida man apologized Tuesday for boarding his daughter's School Bus earlier this month and threatening the other Children and the Driver, saying he acted out of frustration over Students Bullying his daughter. "I handled it the wrong way when I went on the Bus," James Jones said. He said he does not condone storming on the Bus or his Profanity-laced tirade in front of Students. "I really strongly believe we should do it a different way," he said. "But at...

Eric Allen Bell: Anti-Mosque Protester Calls Police on Film Maker [Video]
Posted on 21 September 2010 by Garibaldi Kevin Fisher has been a staunch and vocal opponent to the planned Murfreesboro, Tennessee Islamic Cultural Center. In this video he responds quite strangely to a normal greeting from Documentary film maker, Eric Allen Bell. VIDEO: Mosque opponent hospitalized following verbal dispute with filmmaker A well-known opponent of the proposed Islamic Center of Murfreesboro was hospitalized over the weekend following a verbal confrontation with a Documentary...

Bud Selig won't expand use of instant replay for postseason
Related Articles Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig on Monday ruled out increased use of instant replay by umpires to review close calls during the postseason this season. Selig said he discussed the matter with the special committee of managers, management and ownership he appointed in December. “I brought the subject up, as I always do with everybody,” Selig said. “I don’t get the feeling that there’s a lot of support for it, at least their conversations with...

Obama aunt says US obligated to make her a citizen, she's been treated as 'public enemy No. 1'
Boston — President Barack Obama's aunt, who lived for years illegally in Boston before being granted asylum in May, said the United States has an "obligation" to grant her Citizenship. "If I come as an immigrant, you have the obligation to make me a citizen," Zeituni Onyango told WBZ-TV in an interview that first aired Monday. Onyango came to the U.S. from Kenya in 2000 and was denied asylum by an Immigration judge in 2004. She was granted asylum earlier this year by the same judge who...

Man shot after firing at cops in Detroit strip club
Police were called to Club 007 on the 5300 block of East Outer Drive around 6:35 a.m. today for a possible breaking and entering. Officers found a door ajar and entered the Club when a man inside opened fire on them. Police fired back, injuring the man. His injuries are not life-threatening, Detroit Police spokeswoman Sgt. Eren Stephens said. The officers were not hit in the exchange of gunfire. The suspect was hospitalized for his injuries, Stephens said. Contact MATT HELMS: ...

FDNY Arrests Woman In Bronx Arson Case
NEW YORK (AP) — Fire marshals have arrested a woman accused of setting a Bronx “revenge” fire that seriously injured four residents, including a 2-year-old child. The FDNY said Wednesday that 30-year-old Kristen Nixon was charged with Arson, reckless endangerment and four counts of first-degree assault. The name of her attorney was not immediately available. Authorities said Nixon was a squatter in the building. They said she set the fire last week as revenge after a dispute...

Woman Charged With Arson in Bronx Fire
Fire marshals have arrested a 30-year-old woman in connection with a blaze that seriously injured three adults and a 2-year-old boy in The Bronx last Wednesday. The woman, Kristen Nixon, was charged with first- and second-degree Arson, reckless endangerment and four counts of assault. Fire Department officials said Ms. Nixon set the Fire in a West Farms building, where she had lived as a squatter, after getting into a dispute with two female tenants a day earlier. Fire Department officials...

Jurors in murder trial hear conflicting stories from suspect
Just what happened the day Pamela Howat was killed in her Hanover Park Home? Jurors were told today they will hear several explanations given by her ex-boyfriend, who is on trial for her Murder. Prosecutors say Ronald O'Rourke, 47, went to Howat's Home on June 6, 2009 looking for "cash or something to barter for drugs." When Howat returned Home "and demanded to know why he was there, he went into an uncontrollable rage, hitting her head repeatedly and stabbing her as many as ten times in the...

Sunderland player Bramble arrested
AFP Sunderland footballer Titus Bramble was Arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of Rape, Police said. The 29-year-old defender was questioned by detectives investigating an alleged attack on a young woman at a hotel in Newcastle, northeast England, near the home of the English premiership club. "Police received a report of a Rape of a woman at a city centre hotel in Newcastle in the early hours (of Wednesday). Two men, aged 29 and 30, have been Arrested on suspicion of Rape," a Northumbria...

Man arrested over van Gogh painting
AP A man wanted in connection with a stolen drawing believed to be by Vincent Van Gogh has been Arrested. Authorities say the Texas man, who was Arrested in the northern state of Vermont, is wanted for selling the $US1 million ($A1.05 million) sketch of Van Gogh's painting The Night Cafe, which shows a nearly empty cafe with a few customers seated at tables along the walls. The sketch turned up at a New Mexico antiques shop after being stolen from a home in 2009. Police say they believe the man...

Criminal Records Raise More Questions About DOJ and Black Panthers
New information about the violent Criminal history of the Philadelphia Black Panthers once again calls into question the Department of Justice handling of this Racist Hate Group. Records obtained from the Philadelphia Courts document arrests for Assault, Robbery, Domestic Violence, and drug dealing by King Samir and Jerry Jackson. According to one of his Victims, King Samir does more than intimidate voters with his baton. He beat the man in the head with the same type weapon he was seen...

'Mommy Had a Mistake'
Ricki Lake tries desperately to calm down her Children as she calls 911 to report that she's burned her house down ... and TMZ has obtained the tape. In the call, an extremely panicked Ricki tells the dispatcher, "The couch is on fire ... please hurry," after she tells her kids, "Mommy had a mistake."  In fact, the house was on fire and burned down after Ricki attempted to refuel a portable heater and started the fire. L.A. County Sheriff's Arson investigators have concluded the whole...

Gaza: Assailants set fire to water park
Unknown assailants set fire to a water resort park on Sunday west of Gaza City, causing extensive damage, owners said. Ala Al-Araj, the chairman of the Crazy Water resort's board, said assailants poured fuel around the resort at 3 a.m and set fire to it, after tying up and blindfolding the park's Security Guards. Gaza police and the Attorney General closed the park off after the Arson, he said, but accused police of failing to provide sufficient protection. He said the lucrative parts of the...

DEARBORN TRIAL OF CHRISTIANS ARRESTED FOR PROSELYTIZING ARABS ON PUBLIC STREET GETS UNDERWAY.......
This is really a landmark trial for many reasons, one of course being the right for anyone to hand out material on any given street corner in the US and not be harassed, let alone, being Arrested for it. The Dearborn Four who were Arrested in July for handing out Christian material to passers-by on a city public sidewalk adjacent from an Arab festival. Here's the video of their attempt at proselytizing (read = exercising free Speech) on a public sidewalk: Trial to open for Christian...

Figures. AP Stringer Arrested for Working With Taliban
An AP and Aljazeera photographer was Arrested for working with Taliban this week. He photographed the execution of two Women by the Taliban Terrorists. Local people watch two Afghan Women shot and killed by Taliban in Ghazni province, Afghanistan, on Sunday, July 13, 2008. ( AP /Rahmatullah Naikzad) Aljazeera is upset over the arrest of another one of their reporters. This is not the first time we’ve seen something like this. Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein was ...

Justice, delayed and denied
t was once a staple plot of TV westerns: There's been a vicious killing. Everybody knows who did it -- or thinks they know -- and the posse wants to string the varmint up. No need for the bother of a trial. The Crime was outrageous, people are furious. So get the rope, find a tree. Watching, you'd be glad we've moved beyond frontier justice, glad the howling of the mob can no longer stampede us into condemning an innocent man. Anthony Graves would beg to differ. In 1992, he was Arrested for a...

Waukegan man arrested for alleged sexual relationship with 13-year-old Gurnee girl
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