HOUSTON (25 yr old Woman dies on American Airlines Flight ) Brazil -Texas -Breaking news

Woman dies on Brazil-Texas airline flight

 

Posted: Jan 02, 2013 10:46 AM PSTUpdated: Jan 02, 2013 10:46 AM PST

By Alexander Supgul, Web Producer - email

HOUSTON (FOX 26) - A woman who boarded an American Airlines flight bound for Dallas-Fort Worth from Brazil was pronounced dead on the plane.
Flight 962 from Sao Paulo to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport was diverted to Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston after 6:30 a.m. Wednesday when a medical emergency was reported inside the Boeing 777 aircraft.
After the 25-year-old woman's body was taken to the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences to be examined, the flight departed from Bush IAH after 9 a.m. Wednesday and landed at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport before 10:30 a.m.
More than 200 passengers and a 14-person crew were aboard the flight when the woman died.
A medical examiner will determine what caused the woman's death, though a spokesman for the Houston Police Department told FOX 26 News that there were no visible signs of trauma on her body

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ARIZONA mesa ( Jodi Arias Murder trial- Accused of stabbing boyfriend 27 times )

Prosecutors in Arizona will begin arguing today that 32-year-old Jodi Arias should die for the especially brutal murder of her one-time boyfriend, Travis Alexander, who was found dead in his shower over four years ago.

Investigators say Arias stabbed Alexander 27 times, slit his throat and shot him in the head at his Mesa, Ariz., home in June of 2008. Arias, who has been locked up since her arrest, has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.

"I didn't hurt Travis. I would never hurt Travis," Arias said in a jailhouse interview after she was arrested in July 2008. "I would be shaking in my boots right now if I had to answer to God for such a heinous crime."

Arias and Alexander met at a work conference six years ago. Arias says they fell in love, traveled the country together, and to strengthen her ties to the devout Mormon, she even converted to his religion. But Alexander's friends say after dating a few months he tried to break it off.
"There's nothing about her that I see in marriage material -- or wife material," Alexander said, according to his friend, Dave Hall. "But it's hard to say no to a woman that sneaks into your house, crawls in your bed and tries to, you know, seduce you."

Alexander's family and friends say Arias was stalking him in the months before the murder -- something she denies.

At first she also denied being at his house in the night of the murder. Then police found a camera in Alexander's washing machine containing pictures of the two having sex that day. There were also pictures of Alexander after he was killed.

Faced with that evidence, Arias then told the television show "Inside Edition" that she was there, but didn't kill Alexander.

"I witnessed Travis being attacked by two other individuals," she said on "Inside Edition." "Who were they? I don't know. I couldn't pick them up in a police lineup."

Now the accused killer is admitting to the court that she did kill Alexander, but that it was in self-defense. She claims he was sexually and physically abusive throughout their relationship.

Steven Alexander, Travis Alexander's brother, said that he can see Arias' true colors.

"It makes me sick because I know her true side," he told ABC News. "And I ask people to please not buy into this sweet innocent personality that she puts on."

Arias told "Inside Edition" that she believes she will walk away from the trial a free woman.

"No jury is going to convict me," she said. "Why not? Because I'm innocent. You can mark my words on that. No jury will convict me."

San Francisco ( Pekingese dog killed by man robbing woman ) Low Life

(12-29) 20:39 PST San Francisco -- Police are trying to find a Tenderloin man who mugged a woman and then killed a 12-year-old, 18-pound Pekingese named Roxie Friday evening when he grabbed the dog and hurled the animal onto the pavement.
The woman pulled over in the first block of Leavenworth Street around 5 p.m. when a suspect approached her and demanded money, said Officer Gordon Shyy, a police spokesman.
The victim, a 30-year-old San Francisco resident, told The Chronicle she had pulled over to search for her cell phone. As she walked around to the passenger side of her car to look under the seat for her phone, a man approached her, said the woman, who asked that her name not be used because she feared retaliation.

"He grabbed me by my collar and pushed me toward the car and said 'Give me all your f-ing money,'" the woman recalled from her San Francisco home Saturday. "With one hand he had me by my collar and with the other he was digging through my pockets."
Seeing this, Roxie began barking at the man through the passenger side window of the car.
The man, whom police have been unable to identify, turned away from the woman. "He said, 'I'm going to kill your f-ing dog,'" the woman said.
"I ran after him as he was walking to my car, I said 'Stop, stop, I'll give you all my money, stop, stop," she said. "He tried to open the door, but I was holding it closed, trying to stop him. But he was punching my arm so I had to let go."
The man opened the door, reached in and grabbed Roxie by her collar and threw her into the street.
"She landed next to a car tire that was parked and she screamed," the woman said.
"I ran toward her and I literally had to pull her and drag her from underneath the tire," the woman added. "When I pulled her out, her right eye was (hurt) and she wasn't moving and she couldn't stand. And she was screaming."
Police, alerted by two passersby, quickly arrived on scene and told the woman to immediately take Roxie to the emergency veterinary hospital at 18th and Alabama streets. But the veterinarians were unable to save the dog.
"They told me that she was in critical condition and she was not going to be well because of (damage to) her leg, her pelvis and her eye was going to get removed," the woman said. "I had to put her under."
The woman returned to the Tenderloin police station, where officers said they had been unable to generate any leads.
The man is described by the woman and police as clean-shaven, lean, 6-foot, 1-inch black man in his 20s, who was dressed all in black and wearing a hoodie or beanie.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call police at (415) 575-4444 or send a text message to that mentions "SFPD" to TIP411.
The victim, who has owned Roxie for two years, said she would offer a $1,000 reward.
"I just want someone to say something and that's it," she said. "We don't need your phone number, your name, nothing. We just want someone to speak up. I want justice. He killed my dog on purpose."


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DENVER ( Club 64 - Smoke some weed and do some Dancing ) Private club

It was marijuana instead of champagne this year for some New Year's Eve revelers in Colorado, who lit up in private smoking clubs allowed for the first time under the state's new pot laws.
In Denver, people filled out an online application and paid a $30 fee to become part of Club 64, a private marijuana club named after the new pot law, Amendment 64. Members were advised of a private location in downtown Denver where they could attend a New Year's Eve party with other smokers.

"It went really well," said Robert Corry, an attorney who serves as general counsel for the group and helped shape the language of Amendment 64. "We rented out a retail shop for the evening. We had a DJ, music, some dancing, there was a bar and people brought alcohol, people brought food. It was a very warm, fun, happy evening."
Corry said that the idea for a members-only club had been in the works for years, and that Amendment 64 had been crafted specifically to allow for groups of private smokers. The initial gathering drew hundreds of interested smokers, Corry said.

BOGOTA Colombia ( 9 killed in countryside farm - drug wars )

9 people killed in massacre on Colombian farm

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Posted: 12/31/2012 10:39:17 AM MST

BOGOTA, Colombia—Nine people have been shot to death in the countryside outside Medellin in a massacre police suspect is a settling of accounts between drug traffickers. Gen. Yesid Vasquez is commander of the Metropolitan Police Department in Medellin, Colombia's second largest city. He says that the five men and four women were killed on a farm, apparently in the early morning hours of Monday. Vazquez says the slayings following a Sunday afternoon party at the "extremely luxurious" country home, and the farm's owner is among the dead. The general says that the victims were apparently shot with guns that had silencers, explaining why no one nearby reported hearing gunfire. Santiago Londono, secretary of government for Antioquia department says one woman survived the massacre and is being questioned by investigators.

Pakistan ( Gunmen kill five female teachers- and two aid workers )

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen in northwest Pakistan killed five female teachers and two aid workers on Tuesday in an ambush on a van carrying workers home from their jobs at a community center, officials said.

The attack was another reminder of the risks to women educators and aid workers from Islamic militants who oppose their work. It was in the same conservative province where militants shot and seriously wounded 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai, an outspoken young activist for girls' education, in October.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest shootings.
The van was transporting teachers and aid workers from the center in conservative Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. It is an area where Islamic militants often target women and girls trying to get an education or female teachers.

Militants in the province have blown up schools and killed female educators. They have also kidnapped and killed aid workers, viewing them as promoting a foreign agenda.

Last month, nine people working on an anti-polio vaccination campaign were shot and killed.

The teachers were killed along with two health workers, one man and one woman. Their driver was wounded. They were on their way home from a community center in the town of Swabi where they were working at a primary school for girls and adjoining medical center.

Swabi police chief Abdur Rasheed said most of the women killed were between the ages of 20 and 22. He said four gunmen who used two motorcycles fled the scene and have not been apprehended.

The gunmen on motorcycles opened fire with automatic weapons, said Javed Akhtar, executive director of the non-governmental organization Support With Working Solutions. The NGO conducts programs in the education and health sectors and runs the community center in Swabi, he said. The group has been active in the city since 1992, and started the Ujala Community Welfare Center in 2010, he added. Ujala means "light" in Urdu.

The center is financed by the Pakistani government's Poverty Alleviation Program and a German organization, said Akhtar.
He said the NGO also runs health and education projects in the South Waziristan tribal area, as well as health projects in the cities of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan and the regions of Lower Dir and Upper Kurram. All of those cities and regions are in northwest Pakistan, the area that has been most affected by the ongoing fight with militants opposed to the current government.

Aid groups such as Support With Working Solutions often provide a vital role in many areas of Pakistan where the government has been unable to provide services such as medical clinics or schools. But in some areas like the northwest, they have had to work to overcome community fears that they are promoting a foreign agenda at odds with local traditions and values.

Akhtar said he has directed staff at all projects to stop working for the time being until security measures are reviewed but vowed that they would resume their work soon.

He said that the NGO had not received any threats before the attack.

In a case in the same province that gained international attention, a Taliban gunman shot 15-year-old Yousufzai in the head last October for criticizing the militants and promoting girls' education. She is currently recovering in Britain.

JAPAN ( Detained 3 Chinese fishermen in Japan waters - They were fined 49,000 dollars )

Japan releases 3 Chinese caught illegally fishing

CrimeJan. 01, 2013 - 05:16AM JST( 0 )

BEIJING —

Three Chinese fishermen detained for illegal fishing in Japan’s waters were released Monday after promising to pay a 4.28 million yen ($49,700) fine, China’s state news agency Xinhua said, citing the consulate general in Fukuoka.

Xinhua said the detention of the three fishermen for unauthorised coral fishing within Japanese waters was “peacefully resolved” within 48 hours.
The detention comes as tensions simmer between China and Japan over ownership of disputed islands near Taiwan, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China. The dispute had sparked waves of anti-Japanese protests in Chinese cities this year.
Chinese fishermen tend to fish in waters far east of China to get away from depleted stocks at home.
The captain of the Chinese fishing boat that was among those detained had admitted to being in Japanese waters, Xinhua said on Sunday.
Japanese news agency Kyodo said separately on Monday that the captain was arrested on Saturday for fishing in Japan’s exclusive economic zone without permission, charges that he admitted to.