Trial resumes for man charged with killing woman, 2 daughters in Conn. home invasion

Testimony Resumes in Deadly Home Invasion Case
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CBS/AP) The trial of Connecticut Home Invasion Murder suspect Steven Hayes has resumed after the presiding judge was forced to declare a two-day recess for medical purposes. PICTURES: Petit Family Murders State Police Sergeant Karen Gabianelli testified Wednesday in New Haven Superior Court that the two men charged with killing the wife and daughters of Connecticut doctor William Petit and setting their Home on fire were found in possession of the Victims' belongings....

Court Hears Chilling Testimony In Cheshire Home Invasion Trial
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WCBS 880 / CBS 2)- Chilling Testimony came on Wednesday in Cheshire Home Invasion Murder trial. Pained jurors were forced to endure a grizzly narrative, describing details of what the defendant allegedly told police about the day a mother and her two daughters were murdered. The Connecticut courtroom was packed with stunned faces. If there was ever a case worthy of the death penalty, they say, this is it. I think he should definitely get the death penalty, and if...

Home invasion trial resumes with crime scene photos
William Petit testifies in the trial of the man accused of killing his wife and daughters. Testimony is scheduled to resume Wednesday in the trial of a man accused of killing the wife and daughters of a Connecticut doctor and setting their Home ablaze in a 2007 Home Invasion. Steven Hayes is charged with Capital Murder, Kidnapping, Sexual Assault, Burglary and Arson in the July 2007 deaths of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, Hayley Petit, 17, and Michaela Petit, 11. Hayes and...

Judge In Cheshire Invasion Trial Out Of Hospital
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — The Connecticut judge presiding at the trial of a man charged in a deadly Home Invasion has been discharged from the Hospital. Yale-New Haven Hospital spokesman Mark D’Antonio says 61-year-old Judge Jon Blue was released Monday. The trial of Steven Hayes, which began last week, is scheduled to resume Wednesday in New Haven Superior Court. He and another man are charged in the killings of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters at their Cheshire Home in...

"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...

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'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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Teens arraigned, judge picked in elderly woman's assault trial
Anthony Hardy, 18, and Maurice Randall, 17, were arraigned this morning by Circuit Court Judge Wade McCree on charges of first-degree criminal sexual conduct and Home Invasion for the August incident on the west side of Detroit. The case was assigned to Evans on a blind drawing. Both men are being held at the Wayne County Jail.

Parishioners reeling from van crash that killed pastor, five others: 'God doesn't make mistakes'
Members of a small Bronx church gutted by a horrific highway accident gathered Sunday to mourn their bishop and friends - but did not question their loss. "We know God never makes mistakes," said Jay Goving of The Bronx, a close friend of Bishop Simon White. White, 55; his wife, Zelda, 53, and four others died Saturday when their church van blew a tire on the New York State Thruway and flipped several times. The eight other parishioners aboard the Joy Fellowship Christian Assemblies van...

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...

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: ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Iran's Ahmadinejad Harks Back To Koran, Cold War To Turn Tables On The West
Visiting New York this week for the annual opening session of the United Nations General Assembly, he has contrasted the extensive Western media coverage of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for Adultery, to that given to a Virginia woman, Teresa Lewis, who faces imminent execution for ordering the Murder of her husband and stepson. "A woman is being executed in the United States for Murder but nobody Protests against it," the...

Virginia Could Execute 1st Woman in Nearly a Century
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 By Steve Szkotak, Associated Press This 2007 file photo provided by newsPRos shows Teresa Lewis, 41, is scheduled to die by injection Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010 for trading sex and money in the hired killings of her husband and stepson in October 2002. (AP Photo/newsPRos, File) (AP) - A woman convicted of two hired killings is scheduled to die by injection Thursday and become the first woman put to death in Virginia in nearly a century, after the U.S. Supreme...

Egg exec apologizes, but House panel blasts company
WASHINGTON — A member of the family that owns one of two egg farms linked to the recent, massive Salmonella outbreak apologized to its Victims and pledged not to resume selling fresh eggs until its farms are free from disease. "While we always believed we were doing the right thing, it is now very clear that we must do more," Peter DeCoster, chief operating officer of the Wright County Egg operations, told the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. Rep. Bart Stupak , D-Mich,...

Man accused of killing Taylor cop bound over for trial
Delpiano is charged with second-degree Murder in the Sept. 7 death of Lt. Dan Kromer, 54. Kromer was struck on I-94 at Pelham in Taylor where he had stopped to help lost motorists. District Judge Geno Salomone continued bond for Delpiano at $5 million. He remains at the Taylor Police Department and will be transported to the Wayne County Jail. An arraignment in Wayne County Circuit Court is scheduled for 9 a.m. Sept. 29.