Murders, shootings and home invasion mark violent week in Providence

Swedish Police Report Details Case Against Assange
LONDON — Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks who was released from a British jail late last week, is facing a new challenge: the leak of a 68-page confidential Swedish Police Report that sheds new light on the allegations of sexual misconduct that led to Mr. Assange’s legal troubles. Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, on Saturday. He faces sexual misconduct allegations. Marianne Ny, director of the Stockholm prosecutor’s office. The Swedish report traces events o...

Police Report: Julian Assange, 'Worst Screw Ever'
So what exactly went down between Julian Assange and the two women bringing Sexual Assault allegations against him? Assange has not been formally charged with a Crime, and his lawyer Mark Stephens attributed the allegations to a large-scale Conspiracy against Assange, using the unfortunate expression: "The honeytrap has been sprung," to describe the womens' claims. But Police Reports obtained by Guardian describe the encounters from the perspective of the two women: Her account to police, whic...

National Guardsman Killed While Defending Family In Home Invasion
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Jermaine Jackson: Thief stole$200,000 in valuables!
Brews and bacon draw the patrons into one Baltimore bar.  A Festivus for the rest of us? A convicted Drug Dealer in California thinks so.… A shaved ice company built the world's largest snow cone in Lubbock, Texas. Jermaine Jackson reports $200K theft at Calif. home Newscore - Jermaine Jackson has filed a Police Report stating that a thief made off with nearly $200,000 in valuables from his home in California, the New York Post reported Monday. Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials ...

Study: Christmas the deadliest day of year...
A new U.S. analysis of mortality rates during different times of year found that people are more likely to die during the holidays — notably on Christmas and New Year’s Day — and researchers cannot explain the yearly spike. After analyzing all official United States death certificates over the 25-year period between 1979 and 2004, a trio of sociologists identified an excess of 42,325 natural Deaths — that is, above and beyond the normal seasonal winter increase — in...

Remembering Tim Davlin
* My weekly syndicated newspaper column… Springfield mayors hold a unique position in Illinois. As the mayor of the state’s capital city, they have access to more state leaders more often and more intimately than just about any other local leader except for maybe Chicago’s mayor. Tim Davlin took advantage of that position better than most mayors his city has ever had. Davlin was a regular at state events and built surprisingly strong relationships in the General Assembly an...

L.I. Woman Arrested For Driving While Impaired
MIDDLE ISLAND, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) - Suffolk County Police arrested a woman for driving while impaired by a combination of Alcohol and Prescription Drugs after she was found driving the wrong way Long Island. The officer who noticed Tysz attempted to stop her, but Tysz instead drove onto the shoulder and continued driving 1/4 mile before stopping near Woodville Road, according to the Police Report. Police charged her with driving while ability impaired and issued her citations for driving th...

Harvard College investigating vandalized LGBT books as hate crime
Update, 12/14/10: Harvard College now says the urine-damaged books were the result of an “accident,” and not a suspected Hate Crime as University police originally suspected. Read the full article here. At least 40 books at a Harvard college library dealing with LGBT subject matter have been vandalized with what appeared to be urine, and University police are investigating the incident as a hate Crime. According to the Student Newspaper, The Crimson, staff at the Lamont Harvard Coll...

Heidi Jones scandal: NYPD cops spent untold hours probing weather forecaster's attack story
The investigation into the bogus attack on a popular weatherwoman pulled in detectives from across the city, who racked up loads of overtime, police sources said Friday. Some probed Heidi Jones' claims that a man dragged her off a jogging trail in Central Park, while others spent hours keeping a close eye on her in case the phantom struck again, the sources said. The NYPD detail was ordered to follow the WABC-TV forecaster from location to location, watching for the creep to resurface, the sou...

Woman wields knife, intruder flees, Des Moines police say
A woman reportedly threatened an intruder with a knife Sunday after he forced his way into her Des Moines apartment and threatened to take her baby. According to a Police Report, the alleged Victim was sleeping in the living room of her apartment in the 1200 block of Watrous Avenue around 1 p.m. when she heard a knock at her door. ...

Julian Assange Sweden Police Report Details Alleged Sexual Offenses
The New York Times: Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks who was released from a British jail late last week, is facing a new challenge: the leak of a 68-page confidential Swedish Police Report that sheds new light on the allegations of sexual misconduct that led to Mr. Assange's legal troubles. Read the whole story: The New York Times Get HuffPost World On Twitter and Facebook! Know something we don't? E-mail us at [email protected] ...

Swedish report details Assange sex case
Published: Dec. 19, 2010 at 3:22 PM India source of Bioterrorism? Stockholm, Sweden, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- WikiLeaker Julian Assange is facing a leak about him: the confidential Swedish Police Report on his sex charges. The police statement, reported by The New York Times, traces four days in August when Assange had what he says were consensual sexual relationships with two Swedish women. Their accounts, on which Sweden is trying to extradite him, state that the encounters began consensually, but cha...

Wrestler Sees Legal Move; Prosecutor Sees Assault
CLOVIS, Calif. — At 17 years old, Preston Hill is known around the Fresno area as an accomplished wrestler, a leader of his High School team, the Buchanan Bears, and a potential Candidate for a college Scholarship in the sport he loves. Preston Hill, 17, with his mother, Kirsten, and wrestling medals he has won since the fourth grade. He now faces sexual battery charges over a move he used on a teammate in practice. But over the past several months, Preston has been battling another oppo...

Swedish police report details case against Assange
LONDON — Julian Assange, the founder of the Wikileaks anti-secrecy organization who was released from a British jail late last week, is facing a new challenge: the leak of a 68-page confidential Swedish Police Report that sheds new light on the allegations of sexual misconduct that led to Mr. Assange’s legal troubles. The Swedish report traces events over a four-day period in August when Mr. Assange had what he has described as consensual sexual relationships with two Swedish w...

Swedish police report details case against Assange
Source: MSNBC LONDON — Julian Assange, the founder of the Wikileaks anti-secrecy organization who was released from a British jail late last week, is facing a new challenge: the leak of a 68-page confidential Swedish Police Report that sheds new light on the allegations of sexual misconduct that led to Mr. Assange’s legal troubles. The Swedish report traces events over a four-day period in August when Mr. Assange had what he has described as consensual sexual relationships with two Swedish wome..

Julian Assange's police report detailing rape charges leaked, WikiLeaks' head's lawyer furious
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's lawyers and supporters are up in arms that someone leaked the confidential Police Report detailing graphic Rape allegations against him. Irony is not their strong suit. Assange's Swedish lawyer, Bjorn Hurtig, plans to lodge a Formal Complaint and demand that Swedish cops investigate how such sensitive material was leaked, according to the Australian newspaper. "I do not know who has given these documents to the media, but the purpose can only be one thing: tr...

Weather Anchor Claims She Didn't Say "Rape" To Cops
Suspended WABC 7 weather anchor Heidi Jones is taking issue with reports that she falsely claimed she was nearly raped. Jones was arrested for filing a false Police Report, and both the Post and Daily News have spoken to police sources who say that she claimed she was grabbed by a Hispanic man while running in Central Park—a man who later stalked her. But Jones' lawyer said, "The press accounts that say she alleged Rape or attempted Rape are inaccurate." Jones' lawyer did not say what Jo...

WikiLeaks' Assange Slams Friends, Foes
(NewsCore) - Julian Assange, the man behind Wikileaks, Monday launched a wide ranging series of attacks on both his enemies and allies as he defended his public and private conduct. In his first UK newspaper interview since releasing hundreds of secret diplomatic cables last month, Assange told The (London) Times he predicts the United States will face reprisals if it attempts to extradite him on Conspiracy charges. He accused his media partners at The Guardian newspaper, which worked with him t...

NYT concedes the case against Assange less flawed than his supporters have claimed (UPDATED)
Swedish Police Report Details Case Against Assange Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks who was released from a British jail late last week, is facing a new challenge: the leak of a 68-page confidential Swedish police report that sheds new light on the allegations of sexual misconduct that led to Mr. Assange’s legal troubles. [...] But the details in the police report and dozens of interviews in recent months with people in Sweden linked to the case suggest that the Swedish case could be...

Assanges lawyer wants investigation of leaks (about Assange) (The Cutline)
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is a big believer in leaks as a way to shed light on Corruption, backroom diplomatic deals and war. But his lawyers aren't happy to see information now being leaked about Assange. The Guardian published new details Friday night about the Rape and Sexual Assault claims made in Sweden against Assange, who still has not actually been charged with Crime.  The New York Times — which, like the Guardian, recently published diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks cache —

Jacko bro lost bling of pop
Jermaine Jackson is singing the blues over a huge theft from his California house. News surfaced yesterday that Michael Jackson's famous Big Brother filed a Police Report declaring that a mysterious thief made off with nearly $200,000 in valuables. Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials confirmed the report. Jermaine Jackson said a Louis Vuitton bag -- filled with clothes, jewels and furs -- was lifted from his ritzy Calabasas, Calif., mansion on either Sept. 17 or 18. Jackson claims he cam...

Confidential Police Report Leaked in Julian Assange Sex Assault Case
At The Australian, "Lawyers cry foul over leak of Julian Assange sex-case papers" (via Memeorandum). Plus, at NYT, "Confidential Swedish Police Report Details Allegations Against Wikileaks Founder." And at WSJ, "New Details Reveal More About Problems Assange Faces": New details of the Swedish sexual-misconduct accusations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange shed more light on the deepening and complex legal problems he faces over his conduct with two women during a short stretch in August....

Fee dispute delays payments to athlete's family
A fee dispute among attorneys involved in a Lawsuit over the 2001 death of a top New York Mets Baseball prospect has delayed settlement payments to his family. The family of Brian Cole, a former Meridian High School standout killed in a 2001 car crash, has asked a judge to sanction the attorneys, according to The Clarion-Ledger. The family wants settlement money not in dispute to be disbursed to them immediately. In September, Ford Motor Co. reached a confidential settlement with the family afte...

Ford bringing C-Max small minivan to U.S. market
The C-Max minivan built on the same platform as the Focus small sedan will be unveiled at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January. "When you look at the C-Max, it's really for young families, those folks that are moving up from a compact sedans and those kinds of things," said Mark Fields, president of Ford in North and South America. The U.S. and Canadian versions of the C-Max are an adaptation of the C-Max Ford has sold in Europe. Derrick Kuzak, Ford vice president fo...

Ford minivan will have new hands-free liftgate
Ford's C-Max minivan will have an exclusive feature when it goes on sale in the U.S. next year: A hands-free liftgate. The minivan's liftgate opens when someone holding the key fob passes his or her foot under the back of the van. Ford says the C-Max will be the first vehicle to have this technology when it goes on sale in the U.S. next fall. The C-Max marks a return to the minivan market for Ford, which stopped selling the family haulers in 2006. It seats seven, which makes it unique in the sma...