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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Australian Open ( Kangaroo delay - Before golfer hits her shot ) see photo
There was a kangaroo delay at the Women’s Australian Open because of course there was
Karrie Webb — Getty ImagesI know the USGA has rules against borrowing animals holes, reptiles, and ant hills but what do you think the call is on kangaroos?
Britain ( Three men arrested in horsemeat scandal )
Three men arrested in horsemeat scandal
Associated Press | Updated: February 15, 2013 00:38 IST
Political artist Kaya Mar poses for photographs with his horsemeat scandal painting which depicts French President, Francois Hollande, and British Prime Minister, David Cameron, in London.
Paris: British police say three men have been arrested by officers investigating the burgeoning horsemeat scandal in Europe.
Police in Wales said Thursday's arrests on suspicion of fraud offenses occurred at two plants that were inspected earlier this week by the UK's Food Standards Agency.
Police said two men - ages 64 and 42 - were arrested Farmbox Meats near Aberystwyth, in Wales, while a 63-year-old man was arrested at the Peter Boddy Slaughterhouse in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
The arrests come after Britain's food regulator said six horse carcasses that tested positive for an equine painkiller may have entered the human food chain in France and that horsemeat tainted with the medicine may have been sold to consumers "for some time."
Police in Wales said Thursday's arrests on suspicion of fraud offenses occurred at two plants that were inspected earlier this week by the UK's Food Standards Agency.
Police said two men - ages 64 and 42 - were arrested Farmbox Meats near Aberystwyth, in Wales, while a 63-year-old man was arrested at the Peter Boddy Slaughterhouse in Todmorden, West Yorkshire.
The arrests come after Britain's food regulator said six horse carcasses that tested positive for an equine painkiller may have entered the human food chain in France and that horsemeat tainted with the medicine may have been sold to consumers "for some time."
Miami ( Dad killed protecting 11 yr old daughter - home invasion ) suspects wanted
CRIME
Father killed in Miami home invasion robbery while protecting little girl
Man killed in Miami home invasion while protecting little girl
Two heavily armed men stormed into a Miami home, killing a man who was trying to protect his young daughter. Police are still looking for the suspects.
Walter Michot/Miami Herald Staff
By Maria LaMagna
mlamagna@MiamiHerald.com
As she slept Tuesday night, a real-life nightmare unfolded in an 11-year-old girl’s home.
Two men, heavily armed, broke into her family’s Model City home, demanded cash and then shot Maurice Renard Harris, 36, several times as he tried to protect his family.
The killers, with bandanas covering their faces, then fled.
“These men are beasts,” Miami police spokeswoman Kenia Reyes said Wednesday. “A little girl was asleep when she was surprised by the gunfire. The father was just trying to protect her.”
Watching the whole thing: Harris’ wife of six years, Shakila Stewart.
“He meant everything to me,” Stewart said. “He was my provider.”
During an emotional news conference at police headquarters Wednesday afternoon, Stewart pleaded with anyone who might have information about her husband’s slaying to come forward.
“It would mean the world to me and it would give [our] kids closure,” she said.
The couple also have a 15-year-old son who was not home at the time of the invasion.
Her husband had no enemies, Stewart said. “Everybody loved him.”
Neighbors said the family had moved into the home about six months ago.
Miami Police Sgt. Confesor Gonzalez said the intruders targeted the home, but didn’t know the residents.
Harris had been out earlier and might have been followed home, police suggested.
According to police, the armed men entered the home at 4315 NW 16th Ave. just before midnight and demanded cash. When Harris said he didn’t have any money, the men grabbed an unidentified item and headed toward a bedroom where the 11-year-old girl was sleeping.
That’s when Harris, trying to defend his family, wrestled one of the men to the floor and was shot several times, police said. The armed men ran out the door and vanished.
Miami Fire-Rescue took Harris to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Unit. He died minutes later.
“To say this is a senseless death would be a huge understatement,” Gonzalez said. “The sanctity of their home was violated.”
Police said they are looking at other recent home break-ins to see if there is a pattern.
“These guys may have done this before and may do it again,” Gonzalez said.
A man who identified himself as Harris’ landlord but said he didn’t want to be named called the family “excellent tenants.”
“It’s a sad, sad situation,” he said, adding that his family has owned property in the neighborhood for 49 years. “[The incident] is very strange for this strip [of houses] right here.”
Neighbors say Harris had a medical condition which prevented him from working.
According to a Miami Herald records search, Harris had been arrested several times, charged with selling cocaine, drug possession, loitering, resisting arrest and battery. He was convicted on the drug and loitering charges.
Protecting his family from harm was in her husband’s nature, Stewart said. “He was a devoted father; he loved me and his kids.”
A family member said the 11-year-old girl talked of the “demons” who came into the home and how much she missed her father, but knows how much he loved her.
“We never get used to seeing a daughter lose her father,” Gonzalez said
Two men, heavily armed, broke into her family’s Model City home, demanded cash and then shot Maurice Renard Harris, 36, several times as he tried to protect his family.
The killers, with bandanas covering their faces, then fled.
“These men are beasts,” Miami police spokeswoman Kenia Reyes said Wednesday. “A little girl was asleep when she was surprised by the gunfire. The father was just trying to protect her.”
Watching the whole thing: Harris’ wife of six years, Shakila Stewart.
“He meant everything to me,” Stewart said. “He was my provider.”
During an emotional news conference at police headquarters Wednesday afternoon, Stewart pleaded with anyone who might have information about her husband’s slaying to come forward.
“It would mean the world to me and it would give [our] kids closure,” she said.
The couple also have a 15-year-old son who was not home at the time of the invasion.
Her husband had no enemies, Stewart said. “Everybody loved him.”
Neighbors said the family had moved into the home about six months ago.
Miami Police Sgt. Confesor Gonzalez said the intruders targeted the home, but didn’t know the residents.
Harris had been out earlier and might have been followed home, police suggested.
According to police, the armed men entered the home at 4315 NW 16th Ave. just before midnight and demanded cash. When Harris said he didn’t have any money, the men grabbed an unidentified item and headed toward a bedroom where the 11-year-old girl was sleeping.
That’s when Harris, trying to defend his family, wrestled one of the men to the floor and was shot several times, police said. The armed men ran out the door and vanished.
Miami Fire-Rescue took Harris to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Unit. He died minutes later.
“To say this is a senseless death would be a huge understatement,” Gonzalez said. “The sanctity of their home was violated.”
Police said they are looking at other recent home break-ins to see if there is a pattern.
“These guys may have done this before and may do it again,” Gonzalez said.
A man who identified himself as Harris’ landlord but said he didn’t want to be named called the family “excellent tenants.”
“It’s a sad, sad situation,” he said, adding that his family has owned property in the neighborhood for 49 years. “[The incident] is very strange for this strip [of houses] right here.”
Neighbors say Harris had a medical condition which prevented him from working.
According to a Miami Herald records search, Harris had been arrested several times, charged with selling cocaine, drug possession, loitering, resisting arrest and battery. He was convicted on the drug and loitering charges.
Protecting his family from harm was in her husband’s nature, Stewart said. “He was a devoted father; he loved me and his kids.”
A family member said the 11-year-old girl talked of the “demons” who came into the home and how much she missed her father, but knows how much he loved her.
“We never get used to seeing a daughter lose her father,” Gonzalez said
Florida ( Security Guard shoots and kills man over loud music )
Police: Security guard shoots man over loud music in Lauderdale Lakes
A man was shot dead by an off-duty security guard in the parking lot of Whispering Pines Apartments, 4530 NW 36th Street, after a confrontation over loud music.
Miami Herald Staff Report
An off-duty security guard shot and killed a man at a Lauderdale Lakes apartment complex early Thursday after a confrontation over loud music, police said.
Two off-duty security guards approached a man sitting in his car in the parking lot at Whispering Pines, 4530 NW 36th St., because he was playing his music too loudly, said Keyla Concepcion, a spokeswoman for the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
After one of the security guards approached the man and asked him to turn down the music, the three got into a confrontation and one of the guards shot the man, she said.
When deputies arrived, the man was dead.
The guards were returning to the complex after a “night out,” Concepcion said.
Neither the victim nor the security guards have been identified.
Two off-duty security guards approached a man sitting in his car in the parking lot at Whispering Pines, 4530 NW 36th St., because he was playing his music too loudly, said Keyla Concepcion, a spokeswoman for the Broward Sheriff’s Office.
After one of the security guards approached the man and asked him to turn down the music, the three got into a confrontation and one of the guards shot the man, she said.
When deputies arrived, the man was dead.
The guards were returning to the complex after a “night out,” Concepcion said.
Neither the victim nor the security guards have been identified.
Mexico Juarez ( DEA Confirms sinaloa cartel member killed by Juarez police ) Cop turns cartel member
DEA confirms Sinaloa cartel member killed in shootout with Juárez police
Posted: 02/14/2013 12:31:02 AM MST
Juárez police inspect a
handgun allegedly used by a Sinaloa cartel member, who was killed in a shootout
with police at a home in Juárez last month. (Courtesy of the Juárez Police
Department)
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photo to enlarge
Jesus Rodrigo Fierro Ramirez
aka "Huichi" (Courtesy of the DEA)
Jesus Rodrigo "Huichi" Fierro Ramirez was among 24 reputed Sinaloa cartel members indicted last year by a grand jury in U.S. District Court in El Paso.
Fierro, who was on the list of fugitives wanted by the DEA in El Paso, was killed in shootout with Juárez police Jan. 24. He had been sought on racketeering, drug and weapons conspiracy and criminal enterprise charges.
The Juárez Police Department said in a news release that police were responding to calls about shots fired when someone fired at police from the second floor
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During a 30-minute gunbattle, two police officers were wounded, several police vehicles were hit by bullets, and a fire broke out in the home.
Police eventually rushed the middle-class home and fatally shot a man armed with a .45-caliber handgun.
Juárez police didn't identify the man killed, but some news outlets reported the man was a high-level cartel member. A DEA official confirmed that the man was Fierro.
Fierro, a former Chihuahua state police officer, was "a large scale cocaine distributor in the Garduño cell who is known for his extreme acts of violence," the indictment stated.
United Nations ( Concerned over Hunger strike-Detainees in Israeli Prison )
UN 'Concerned' Over Hunger Striking Terrorists
A UN official expresses concern about the well-being of hunger-striking PA Arab terrorist prisoners.
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By Elad Benari
First Publish: 2/14/2013, 6:42 AM
Security prisoners
Flash 90
A United Nations official on Wednesday expressed concern about the well-being of Palestinian Authority Arab terrorist detainees in Israeli prisons and in particular about the condition of hunger striker Samer Issawi, AFP reports.
A UN statement quoted in the report said that Humanitarian Coordinator James W. Rawley met in Ramallah with the PA’s prisoner affairs minister, Issa Qaraqe.
During the meeting, Rawley "expressed the United Nations' continued concern about Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody," according to the statement.
"They discussed the situation of four Palestinian detainees currently on hunger strike and, in particular, the critical health condition of one Palestinian detainee, Samer Issawi, who has been on hunger strike for more than 200 days," it said, according to AFP.
Six terrorist prisoners held by Israel are currently on hunger strike, the report said, the longest serving being Issawi and Ayman Sharawneh who have been fasting for months in protest of their being kept in administrative detention.
Rawley called for an end to the practice of administrative detention, saying in the statement, “The Humanitarian Coordinator reiterated the position of the United Nations Secretary-General, namely that those detained should be charged and face trial with judicial guarantees in accordance with international standards, or released without delay.”
Hunger striking to bring about a release from Israeli prisons has become a common tactic among PA Arab terrorist prisoners in recent months.
In October, Israeli authorities released a hunger striker ended his strike after assurances they would be freed at the end of their current administrative detention term.
Last April, Israel released Hana Shalbi, a female terrorist, after a 43-day hunger strike.
Shalbi, a terrorist from the Islamic Jihad organization, was arrested for terrorist activity in 2010. She refused to cooperate with interrogators and was violent towards them. This violence included threatening their lives, trying to attack one of them, spitting at police officers, and even biting a policewoman.
Another famous case of a hunger striking terrorist being released is that of Khader Adnan, who had gone a on a hunger strike for 66 days to pressure the State to release him. The hunger strike resulted in Adnan being admitted to hospital.
The State later caved in to the pressure and agreed not to renew Adnan’s administrative detention order. He, in turn, agreed to end his hunger strike.
Last year, between 1,600 and 2,000 terror prisoners in Israel took part in a collective hunger strike which ended with an agreement with prison administrators on May 14.
On Tuesday, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas called on the international community to intervene urgently in support of the hunger striking prisoners, warning that “things may get out of control” if it does not intervene.
On Wednesday, Egypt expressed "concern" for the well-being of the hunger strikers in Israeli prisons and warned that endangering their lives could inflame tensions in PA-assigned areas.
Egypt's Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr "expressed his concern over reports about the deteriorating health of Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails, especially Samer Assawi and Ayman Sharawneh," a ministry statement quoted by AFP said.
"Amr warned that endangering their lives could lead to an increase in prevailing tensions, with consequences in Palestinian lands," he added, demanding the international community intervene.
A UN statement quoted in the report said that Humanitarian Coordinator James W. Rawley met in Ramallah with the PA’s prisoner affairs minister, Issa Qaraqe.
During the meeting, Rawley "expressed the United Nations' continued concern about Palestinian detainees in Israeli custody," according to the statement.
"They discussed the situation of four Palestinian detainees currently on hunger strike and, in particular, the critical health condition of one Palestinian detainee, Samer Issawi, who has been on hunger strike for more than 200 days," it said, according to AFP.
Six terrorist prisoners held by Israel are currently on hunger strike, the report said, the longest serving being Issawi and Ayman Sharawneh who have been fasting for months in protest of their being kept in administrative detention.
Rawley called for an end to the practice of administrative detention, saying in the statement, “The Humanitarian Coordinator reiterated the position of the United Nations Secretary-General, namely that those detained should be charged and face trial with judicial guarantees in accordance with international standards, or released without delay.”
Hunger striking to bring about a release from Israeli prisons has become a common tactic among PA Arab terrorist prisoners in recent months.
In October, Israeli authorities released a hunger striker ended his strike after assurances they would be freed at the end of their current administrative detention term.
Last April, Israel released Hana Shalbi, a female terrorist, after a 43-day hunger strike.
Shalbi, a terrorist from the Islamic Jihad organization, was arrested for terrorist activity in 2010. She refused to cooperate with interrogators and was violent towards them. This violence included threatening their lives, trying to attack one of them, spitting at police officers, and even biting a policewoman.
Another famous case of a hunger striking terrorist being released is that of Khader Adnan, who had gone a on a hunger strike for 66 days to pressure the State to release him. The hunger strike resulted in Adnan being admitted to hospital.
The State later caved in to the pressure and agreed not to renew Adnan’s administrative detention order. He, in turn, agreed to end his hunger strike.
Last year, between 1,600 and 2,000 terror prisoners in Israel took part in a collective hunger strike which ended with an agreement with prison administrators on May 14.
On Tuesday, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas called on the international community to intervene urgently in support of the hunger striking prisoners, warning that “things may get out of control” if it does not intervene.
On Wednesday, Egypt expressed "concern" for the well-being of the hunger strikers in Israeli prisons and warned that endangering their lives could inflame tensions in PA-assigned areas.
Egypt's Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr "expressed his concern over reports about the deteriorating health of Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli jails, especially Samer Assawi and Ayman Sharawneh," a ministry statement quoted by AFP said.
"Amr warned that endangering their lives could lead to an increase in prevailing tensions, with consequences in Palestinian lands," he added, demanding the international community intervene.
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