Massachusetts ( Teen gets 2 yrs in prison for texting and killing someone in crash )

A Massachusetts teen faces prison time and other repercussions after killing someone while texting and driving.

Teen Sentenced to Prison for Texting-While-Driving Death

Harsh punishment is warning to others not to text and drive.

By: Jena Kehoe

Web2Carz Staff Writer

Published: June 11th, 2012

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Massachusetts teenager was sentenced this week to two years in prison and loss of his license for 15 years after being convicted of motor vehicle homicide. Aaron Deveau, 18, is the first driver in the state to face such charges. On February 20, 2011, Deveau was driving and his vehicle swerved across the center line, crashing head on into Daniel Bowley's truck, causing life-ending injuries.
Bowley, a 55-year-old father of three, sustained massive head trauma from the accident and spent 18 days in a Boston hospital before passing away. Deveau pleaded not guilty to texting while driving, and claimed in his testimony that he was distracted by the amount of homework he had and had sent his last text message in the parking lot of the grocery store where he worked. He said he had left the phone on the passenger's seat the whole time, but phone records showed that Devea sent a text message at 2:34 p.m. and received a response at 2:35 p.m.—the time of the crash.

Texting while driving is a crime in 38 states, but the illegality doesn't seem to deter many people, as watching rush-hour traffic can seem like watching bumper cars as people drift in and out of lane lines.

District Court Judge Stephen Abany said that the maximum sentence for motor vehicle homicide was doled out to send a message of deterrence to the state's drivers.
Deterrence "really seems to come to play in this case. People really want to be safe on the highways," he said. People need to "keep their eyes on the road."
David Teater, senior director of the transportation initiative at the National Safety Council, agreed with the ruling.
"People can violate these laws and there really isn't much of a deterrence without examples like this. Clearly, being distracted is an extremely deadly thing that's going on in this country and people need to understand they just can't do it," Teater said.
Texting while driving is a crime in 38 states, but the illegality doesn't seem to deter many people, as watching rush-hour traffic can seem like watching bumper cars as people drift in and out of lane lines.
"This is a threat that did not exist just a few years ago, and we've never had to understand how being connected to a mobile world was dangerous," Teater said. "Unfortunately, now the way we're beginning to understand the danger of it is by people getting hurt and dying. And that needs to change."

World Series poker news ( " Fossilman " busted in prostitution sting )

Former World Series of Poker winner busted in prostitution sting

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A former winner of the World Series of Poker was arrested in a male prostitution sting at a North Carolina hotel earlier this week, reports WTVD, a Raleigh-Durham, N.C. television station.
A Wake Forest Police Department spokesperson said Greg Raymer was one of six men who went to the hotel when they responded to an advertisement posted by undercover police on a website often used by prostitutes.
Raymer, 48, who is nicknamed “Fossilman” and known for wearing lizard-eye hologram glasses during poker events, won the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event.

“The locations prostitutes choose for this type of criminal activity vary and seldom remain the same for more than a couple of days at a time, which makes enforcement difficult,” Police Chief Jeffrey Leonard said in a statement. “In this instance, we conducted the operation at a local hotel with its full cooperation. We are not aware of this type of criminal activity ever occurring at the hotel. Our officers selected the hotel for the undercover operation at random.”

Bond for the men was set at $1,000 and they due to appear in court on April 18.

Human Rights Iraq - ( Woman in prison tells story of being raped over and over -punishment )

Maliki's Iraq: Rape, executions and torture

Iraq is wracked by detentions, torture, and executions, and fingers are pointing at Prime Minister Maliki. Dahr Jamail Last Modified: 19 Mar 2013 14:41 inShare3 Email Print Share Feedback

Untold numbers of Iraqis have been detained by the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, which is also accused by human rights organisations of ongoing torture [GALLO/GETTY]

Baghdad - Heba al-Shamary (name changed for security reasons) was released last week from an Iraqi prison where she spent the last four years. "I was tortured and raped repeatedly by the Iraqi security forces," she told Al Jazeera. "I want to tell the world what I and other Iraqi women in prison have had to go through these last years. It has been a hell." Heba was charged with terrorism, a fate faced by many Iraqis who are detained by security forces. "I now want to explain to people what is occurring in the prisons that [Prime Minister Nouri al-] Maliki and his gangs are running," Heba added. "I was raped over and over again, I was kicked and beaten and insulted and spit upon." Heba's story, horrific as it is, unfortunately is but one example of what a recent report from Amnesty International refers to as "a grim cycle of human rights abuses" in Iraq today. The report, "Iraq: Still paying a high price after a decade of abuses", exposes a long chronology of torture and other ill-treatment of detainees committed by Iraqi security forces, as well as by foreign troops, in the wake of the US-led 2003 invasion. One Iraqi woman, speaking on condition of anonymity, said her nephew was first detained when he was just 18. Held under the infamous Article Four which gives the government the ability to arrest anyone "suspected" of terrorism, he was charged with terrorism. She told, in detail, of how her nephew was treated: "They beat him with metal pipes, used harsh curse words and swore against his sect and his Allah (because he is Sunni) and why God was not helping him, and that they would bring up the prisoners' mothers and sisters to rape them," she explained to Al Jazeera. "Then they used electricity to burn different places of his body. They took all his cloths off in winter and left them naked out in the yard to freeze." Her nephew, who was released after four years imprisonment after the Iraqi appeals court deemed him innocent, was then arrested 10 days after his release, again under Article 4. This law gives the government of Prime Minister Maliki broad license to detain Iraqis. Article four and other laws provide the government the ability to impose the death penalty for nearly 50 crimes, including terrorism, kidnapping, and murder, but also for offenses such as damage to public property. While her nephew was free, he informed his aunt of how he and other detainees were tortured.

CAIRO ( Egyptians drag Muslim brotherhood supporter through street )

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's political groups blamed one another on Saturday for one of the year's worst bouts of violence between supporters and opponents of the president's Muslim Brotherhood group.

The powerful Brotherhood said it holds the opposition partly responsible for giving "political cover" to "thugs" who attacked and beat hundreds of the group's members outside its Cairo headquarters.

Opposition groups said President Mohammed Morsi is to blame. They accuse Morsi of polarizing the country and of failing to provide stability nine months after being elected in the country's first free presidential race.

Egypt is reeling from a number of crises, including a diesel shortage that has crippled life for millions, an economic downturn, widespread poverty and a lack of security. The interior ministry, which oversees police, has lost much of its powers since the uprising and many policemen are striking for better pay and protesting what they say is the politicization of the force under Morsi.

Leading opposition figure Mohamed ElBaradei wrote on Twitter that the violence is due to the regime's failure to address root causes of anger.

Protesters vented their frustrations Friday at the doorstep of the Muslim Brotherhood, from which Morsi hails. He is a member of the group's political party. Since the fall of longtime leader Hosni Mubarak in early 2011, the Brotherhood has emerged as the most organized political group, winning all elections at the ballot box.

The violence outside of the Brotherhood's headquarters in the sprawling Cairo neighborhood of Muqattam led to around 175 hospitalizations, including around two dozen serious injuries.

Six Brotherhood offices were also ransacked Friday in different governorates. At least one of the offices was torched, while others were broken into and had computers stolen. Ten of the group's buses were torched after protesters suspected Brotherhood members had been ferried to the site of the clashes.

Mexico City ( 18 women rescued from Sex traffickers in Mexico )

18 Women Rescued from Sex Traffickers in Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Authorities rescued 18 women who were being forced to work as prostitutes in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexico’s interior ministry said Friday.

Eight people, including two women, were arrested in connection with the forced prostitution scheme and three vehicles were seized.

The trafficking victims, five of them Central American migrants, told authorities they were abducted, held incommunicado and forced to render sexual services.

Once rescued, the 18 women were taken to a shelter where they received medical and psychological attention in accord with the protocol for treatment of sex-trafficking victims, the interior ministry said.

In a separate operation, Chiapas police and the federal INM migration agency detained 41 undocumented migrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.

The migrants were discovered inside a vehicle during a police stop in Tuxtla Gutierrez, the state capital. EFE

Mesa Az ( Dogs attacked by killer Bees- One dog dies )

By: Angie Holdsworth

A swarm of bees attacked four dogs at their Mesa home. One of the dogs died and the three others are fighting for life.

It happened in Christiane Giovanetti's backyard near Ellsworth Road and University Drive on Thursday.

"The dogs were just banging on the window and trying to get away," she said. "It is devastating because there is nothing you can do."

Giovanetti's 7-year old lab-mix "Belle" died during the attack. The other dogs were stung hundreds of times each and are being treated. It is too soon to tell if they will survive.

The dogs are being treated by vets at Caring Hearts Animal Clinic in Gilbert. Vets there tell ABC15 that most animals that get stung that many times often do not survive.

The dogs appear to be improving, but it will be several days before they are in the clear.

The stings cause severe allergic reactions that create breathing problems, and swelling and can also cause muscle damage.

Giovanetti was stung about 10 times herself and was helpless watching at the animals suffered.

"You just can't do anything when there are that many," she said.

Giovanetti said less than a half hour before, her children and niece were playing out in the yard. She is just thankful they didn't get hurt.

The hive was found in the chimney of the abandoned house next door.

It is unclear what stirred the hive to spur the attack.

Read more: http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_southeast_valley/mesa/dog-killed-during-bee-attack-in-mesa#ixzz2OOGFZ3fT

American born Traitor ( Alabama bornTerrorist - mocks 5 million bounty on his head )

Jihadist jokes about U.S. bounty: How much for just one leg?

By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News

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American-born Islamist militant Omar Hammami, also known as Abu Mansur al-Amriki (Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP)An Alabama-born jihadist fighter thought to be in Somalia took to Twitter on Friday to mock the U.S. government’s $5 million bounty on his head—jokingly offering to raise some cash for his cause by selling off one leg.

Omar Hammami—who stars in his own YouTube videos, sometimes rapping his Islamist message, and has an aggressive Twitter presence—was reportedly added to the Rewards for Justice program that offers piles of cash for information leading to the capture or killing of high-profile extremists. CNN first broke the news.

Apparently unbowed, Hammami joked about the bounty on Twitter: