San Diego man ( Doing life in prison for murder- shot and killed by prison guards ) Susanville

Christopher A. Sanchez

A 23-year-old San Diego man who was fatally shot by prison guards while he was attacking another inmate was identified Tuesday as convicted murderer Christopher A. Sanchez, prison officials said.

Sanchez was serving a sentence of 85 years to life in prison for the 2009 murder of Marcella Peraza at an Encanto birthday party. He was also convicted of attempted murder for wounding a 19-year-old man.

He had fought with others outside the party, then later fired shots into a residential street, striking the victims.

Sanchez was serving time at High Desert State Prison in Susanville when he and another inmate attacked a third on Friday morning, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. The victim was stabbed with an improvised weapon.

Sanchez and his accomplice ignored numerous orders from correctional officers to stop, and one guard fired at Sanchez, prison officials said.

The 29-year-old victim suffered numerous stab wounds and injuries to his head. The other attacker was not wounded. Authorities have not released their names.

IRAN ( JUSTICE for blogger -3 suspects arrested for his death )

Iran: Dead blogger's interrogators arrested

Source: Radio Zamaneh An Iranian website linked to the Islamic Republic News Agency reported on Monday that three of Sattar Beheshti's interrogators have been arrested in connection with the probe into the prisoner's death while in custody. "Following the firm orders from the head of the judiciary for a speedy probe into the case of Sattar Beheshti's death, three of the officials in charge of the prisoner's interrogation have been arrested and handed over to the armed forces court," the report indicates. Yesterday, the judiciary finally announced that it is looking into the death of Sattar Beheshti, the 35-year-old blogger who died days after he was arrested on October 30. The Report in Iran Website gives no further details, but in an interview with the Asr-e Iran website, the head of the Tehran Police force announced that the cyber police had been in charge of Beheshti's arrest. Hossein Sajedinia said that the blogger was arrested on the charge of committing cyber crimes. Beheshti reportedly wrote a letter describing details of his torture, and his fellow inmates in section 350 of Evin Prison, who saw him two days after he was arrested, have written another letter confirming that they saw signs of torture all over his body. Today, the head of Parliament's National Security Commission, which has struck a committee to look into the death of Beheshti, said preliminary information about the case indicates there was no sign of torture on the dead prisoner's body.

TEHRAN ( Iran says it did not KILL BLOGGER who died last week ) In JAIL for blogging

Jailed Blogger Not Tortured Before Death, Iran Says

 

Published: November 12, 2012     

TEHRAN — An influential Iranian lawmaker said Monday that a blogger who died last week while in captivity had not been tortured during interrogations.

      

 

“According to a preliminary report, no traces of beating were seen on his body,” the lawmaker, Alaeddin Borujerdi, told the semiofficial Islamic Students News Agency. However, Mr. Borujerdi, who heads the National Security and Foreign Policy Committees in Parliament, called for further investigation into the case, a rare instance in which Iran’s Parliament and judiciary followed up a human rights complaint that was first raised internationally.

Iran’s judiciary also confirmed the death of the blogger, Sattar Beheshti, 35, acknowledging that five bruises were found on his body, but said the cause of death was still being investigated. He was held in the Kahrizak police prison south of Tehran, where three people died during the antigovernment protests in 2009.

“His body showed no fractures of bones, nor did his skull,” a judiciary spokesman, Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei, told reporters at his weekly news conference on Monday. He added that a doctor in Evin prison, where Mr. Beheshti was held temporarily before being transferred to Kahrizak, had reported that the blogger was “extremely exhausted” and had recommended a psychiatric evaluation.

The death of Mr. Beheshti, a government critic who was regarded as a relatively minor figure among Iran’s bloggers, has provoked outrage among both opponents and supporters of Iran’s leaders. Foreign-based opposition media have said he was tortured to death, while officials and pro-government bloggers were upset that state news media initially ignored the matter, creating a long silence that made the authorities appear indifferent.

The judiciary spokesman said Mr. Beheshti was arrested on Oct. 30 upon the request of Iran’s cyberpolice, known here as FATA.

Since its establishment in January 2011, FATA has arrested several bloggers who had been critical of Iran’s leaders, and also a group of youths who had created a “hot or not” contest on Facebook rating profile pictures of boys and girls.

Mr. Beheshti’s Web site, “My Life for My Iran,” criticized Iran’s financial contributions to the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon. On his Web site Mr. Beheshti posted pictures of Lebanese youths having parties alongside images of Iranians living in poverty.

A day before his arrest, Mr. Beheshti published a post saying that officers had warned him in a telephone call that his “mother should soon don a black shroud because you refuse to shut your big mouth.” But, he added, “I will not remain silent even at the moment of my death.”

Victoria Secret ( NATIVE American groups lash out at war bonnet ) Cultural stereotyping

The annual Victoria's Secret fashion show taped last Wednesday caused a minor stir last week — but not because of any sexy underwear on display.

Model Karlie Kloss (pictured at left) set off some controversy when she walked the runway wearing a Native American headdress (also called a war bonnet), a culturally insensitive faux pas that led the company to pull the footage of the offending outfit from its planned Dec. 4 broadcast.
Several Native American groups called the lingerie company out for the blunder. Native Appropriations, a blog covering imagery of indigenous cultures, accused the retailer of "egregious cultural appropriation, stereotyping, and marginalizing of Native peoples." Ruth Hopkins, a columnist for a Native American news site, wrote that "after years of patronage and loyalty to the Victoria's Secret brand, I am repaid with the mean-spirited, disrespectful trivialization of my blood ancestry and the proud Native identity I work hard to instill in my children." Putting a headdress on a white model is particularly offensive, she wrote, because among the Sioux tribe, war bonnets are exclusively worn by men, with each feather symbolizing an act of valor.

CALIFORNIA ( 2 are Dead after eating soup with poisonous MUSHROOMS )

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Two residents of an elderly care center are dead and four people are in the hospital after a caregiver allegedly served soup made from poisonous wild mushrooms.

The deceased victims are 86-year-old Barbara Lopes and 73-year-old Teresa Olesniewicz, who lived at the Gold Age Villa in Loomis, Calif., according to the Sacramento Bee. A caregiver reportedly foraged mushrooms on the grounds of the senior living center before using them in a meal.

The poisonings are believed to be accidental, and the caregiver who allegedly prepared the soup is one of the people hospitalized, Sheriff's Lt. Mark Reed told the Associated Press. The three others hospitalized were elderly residents of the Gold Age Villa.

The variety of poisonous mushrooms that were used in the soup is yet unknown, but Dr. Todd Mitchell, a Santa Cruz, Calif., doctor who is reportedly consulting on treatment of one of the patients, told NBC News that the patient is suffering from amatoxin poisoning. [10 Most Common Poisonous Plants]

ARIZONA ( Woman runs HUSBAND over with family SUV ) Because he failed to vote

Police say a woman who was upset over the outcome of the presidential election ran over her husband because he didn't participate in his civic duty.

Police allege Holly Solomon ran over her husband after they had an argument over the 2012 presidential election.

/Maricopa County Sheriff's Office

Holly Solomon, 28, chased her 36-year-old husband Daniel Solomon with the family Jeep SUV on Saturday night over a political argument stemming from the fact he didn't vote, CBS station KPHO in Phoenix, Ariz. reported. She pinned him between the underside of the SUV and the curb when he tried to run for help.

The husband told investigators that Solomon believed her family was going to face hardship from President Barack Obama's re-election.

Witnesses told police that Solomon followed her husband in her car through a parking lot while screaming at him. He hid behind a light pole to protect himself while Solomon circled several times. She struck him as he tried to make a break for the main road.

There were no signs Solomon was impaired either by alcohol or drugs, KPHO said.

She was booked on an aggravated assault and domestic violence.

Her husband remains in critical condition at Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center, news outlet Arizona Republic reported.

It's not clear whether Solomon has a lawyer. She had no listed phone number.

CULVER City ( Woman Raped on Bus for 10 MINUTES ) L .A county

Woman raped for 10 minutes on Metro bus, authorities say

November 8, 2012 | 7:13pm

 

An 18-year-old woman was raped for about 10 minutes on a Metro bus as it drove through Culver City, authorities said Thursday evening.
The attack took place in the rear of the near-empty bus Wednesday evening and went unnoticed by the driver, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
"During the rape, an unknown witness, the only passenger on the bus, attempted to get the driver's attention," the department said in a statement.
But the suspect left the 217 bus before the driver became aware of the assault, according to the department. The suspect got off at the last stop where the bus makes its turnaround at Sepulveda Boulevard near Slauson Avenue.
The victim was described by authorities as having the mental capacity of a 10-year-old. She reported the attack to the driver after the suspect was gone.
Detectives said the attacker is African American and between 18 and 20 years old. He is 5-feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches tall with short-cropped hair and was wearing jeans and a hooded sweatshirt with narrow horizontal stripes, authorities said.
Detectives were also seeking the witness. Anyone with information is asked to call authorities at (866) 247-5877. Anonymous tipsters call call (800) 222-8477.