MISSING GIRL ( Autumn Pasquale Body FOUND) Clayton N.J

Autumn Pasquale, 12, of Clayton was reported missing Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012.

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CLAYTON — Authorities are asking for help finding a 12-year-old Clayton girl reported missing on Saturday.
Autumn Pasquale was last seen leaving her home on West High Street around 12:30 p.m. Saturday, borough Police Capt. Lisa MacDonald said.
She was riding her white Odyssey BMX bicycle, MacDonald said, adding her relatives reported her missing around 9:30 p.m.
Pasquale is white, about five feet, two inches tall (although a Facebook post says she's five feet, four inches tall) and weighing about 120 pounds. She has blue eyes and blonde hair, which she was wearing in a pony tail or bun when last seen, police said.
                                                   BODY FOUND

CLAYTON, N.J. (AP) — The small New Jersey town where a missing girl's body is believed to have been found has turned from desperate searching to mourning.

Officials say a body preliminarily identified as 12-year-old Autumn Pasquale (pas-KWAHL'-ee) was found in a recycling bin in Clayton around 10 p.m. Monday.

That was about 48 hours after her family reported her missing and two hours after community members gathered blocks away for a candlelight vigil filled with both tears and hope.

On Tuesday morning, Clayton Mayor Thomas Bianco asked that the family be given room to grieve.

An autopsy was to be conducted Tuesday. No arrests have been announced in the case.

FRANCE ( Will move surveillance DRONES into WEST AFRICA )

PARIS (AP) — France will move surveillance drones to West Africa and is holding secretive talks with U.S. officials in Paris this week as it seeks to steer international military action to help Mali's feeble government win back the northern part of the country from al-Qaida-linked rebels, The Associated Press has learned.

 

France and the United Nations insist any invasion of Mali's north must be led by African troops. But France, which has six hostages in Mali and has citizens who have joined al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, is playing an increasing role behind the scenes.

Lone wolf  "kills 800 terrorists a year"

 

Many in the West fear that northeast Mali and the arid Sahel region could become the new Afghanistan, a no-man's-land where extremists can train, impose hardline Islamic law and plot terror attacks abroad. And France, former colonial ruler to countries across the Sahel, is a prime target.

"This is actually a major threat — to French interests in the region, and to France itself," said Francois Heisbourg, an expert at the Foundation for Strategic Research, a partially state-funded think tank in Paris. "This is like Afghanistan 1996. This is like when Bin Laden found a place that was larger than France in which he could organize training camps, in which he could provide stable preparations for organizing far-flung terror attacks."

TUCSON Az ( BABY found in duffle bag ) Left with Apartment manager

An infant girl, who was in good condition, was placed in a duffle bag and left at a northside apartment complex Saturday night.
Police responded about 8 p.m. to an apartment complex in the 200 block of East Prince Road after a 911 call about the abandoned infant, said Sgt. Maria Hawke, a Tucson Police Department spokeswoman, on Monday.
Investigators learned that the newborn — about four to six days old — was left outside of the manager’s apartment, Hawke said.

The manager reported that someone rang the doorbell, and when the manager opened the door, the “duffle bag was found with the baby inside of it,” said Hawke.
Tucson Fire Department paramedics took the baby to a hospital for evaluation, and the baby appeared to be in good health, said Hawke.
The infant is now in the custody of Child Protective Services.
Police do not know the identity of the mother, but “would like to conduct a check of her welfare to ensure that she is not in need of medical attention or other services,” Hawke said.
Anyone with information about the mother’s identity or whereabouts is asked to call 911 or 88-CRIME, Hawke said.
Police would like to remind the public that newborns can be anonymously handed off to health care workers at all Tucson-area hospitals, Tucson Fire Department stations and Casa de los Niños.

CYPRUS (FAN throws bomb at player ) Soccer Game

 

An Anorthosis player was receiving treatment from medical staff during a match against Omonia Nicosia in Cyprus on Sunday when a fan apparently decided that the delay wasn't up to his standards of entertainment, so he threw an explosive directly at the downed player. The blast cleared the scene as players and physios all rolled away covering their ears.

There seemed to be some debate as to whether the original player receiving treatment was faking and maybe the explosive was some sort of test for that. Luckily, the result of the explosion appeared to be more shock and terror than physical harm.
It's unclear whether the person who threw the explosive was caught, but there should be punishments to come.

NOGALES ( HEROIN Bust - strapped to womans body ) 77,000 worth -see photo

 

Heroin smuggling

Photo courtesy of Customs and Border Protection

Packages of heroin were found strapped to a woman's body as she attempted to cross into the U.S. at the Dennis DeConcini Port Entry in Nogales.

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A Mexican national was arrested Friday for attempting to smuggle more than $77,000 worth of heroin through the Dennis DeConcini Port in Nogales.
Customs and Border Protection officers selected Beatriz Adriana Torres-Valenzuela, 28, for an additional inspection when she attempted to enter the U.S. through a pedestrian lane, the agency said in a news release.
During the search, a female CBP officer found nearly six pounds of heroin wrapped around Torres’ mid-section, the release said.
Torres-Valenzuela was turned over to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

MOSCOW (Punk ROCK band members get 2 years in JAIL ) For protesting

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Two female members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot convicted of protesting against President Vladimir Putin in a cathedral have been sent to prisons far from Moscow despite requesting to serve out their terms in the capital, a lawyer said on Monday.

Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, were convicted of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" in August and sentenced to two years in jail, a punishment that many in the West said was too harsh.

Their stunt - bursting into Moscow's main Russian Orthodox Cathedral to urge the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of Putin - infuriated the church and many Russians. But Kremlin critics said their trial was part of a crackdown on dissent orchestrated by Putin, who began a six-year presidential term in May.

The two women lost their appeals on October 10.

The women's lawyers said they had tried to argue that they should be allowed to remain in jail in Moscow, saying it would have permitted them to be closer to their small children. They had also cited health and safety concerns at far-flung penal colonies.

RUSSELL Means ( AIM Leader past away ) Throat cancer

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Russell Means never shunned attention. Whether leading Native Americans in railing against broken federal treaties, appearing in a Hollywood blockbuster or advocating a sovereign American Indian nation within U.S. borders, the activist who helped lead the 1973 uprising at Wounded Knee reveled in the spotlight.

But it was only on his terms. Openly critical of mainstream media, the onetime leader of the American Indian Movement often refused interviews and verbally blasted journalists who showed up to cover his public appearances. Instead, he chose to speak to his fan base through YouTube videos and blog posts on his personal website.

When he did speak out publicly, he remained steadfast in his defense of AIM. He found himself dogged for decades by questions about the group's alleged involvement in the slaying of a tribe member and the several gun battles with federal officers during the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee, but denied the group ever promoted violence.

"You people who want to continue to put AIM in this certain pocket of illegality, I can't stand you people," Means said, lashing out an at audience member question during an April gathering commemorating the uprising's 40th anniversary. "I wish I was a little bit healthier and a little bit younger, because I wouldn't just talk."

Means, who announced in August 2011 that he had developed inoperable throat cancer but told The Associated Press he was forgoing mainstream medical treatments in favor of traditional American Indian remedies, died early Monday at his ranch in in Porcupine, S.D., Oglala Sioux Tribe spokeswoman Donna Salomon said. He was 72