TUCSON - A swarm of bees attacked a group of people at a children's party Saturday.
Firefighters responded to the Fort Lowell Park near Craycroft and Glenn just before 5pm.
Crews say about 20 children and adults were stung, most of them once or twice.
None had adverse reactions to the bee stings.
Firefighters dressed in protective gear moved the group's belongings to another area of the park, about 1,000 feet away so they could continue on with their festivities.
A professional exterminator company was called in to assist.
The bees were exterminated with foam.
No one was taken to the hospital.
Six pornography dealers in Osaka have been arrested after mailing their catalogues to the head of Osaka Police Department by mistake, according to local media.
Police last week arrested Toshiharu Hidaka, 27, and five other men on suspicion of possessing obscene material with the intent to sell it in Osaka, Jiji Press and other news reports said.
The suspects had been sending catalogues of illegal porn DVDs to random male customers by mail, and three sets were addressed to the police chief’s house accidentally, the reports said.
Police then raided Hidaka’s office in Osaka and seized some 280,000 uncensored discs as well as 7,000 erectile dysfunction pills, they said, adding that police also suspected they illegally possessed the pills.
The six men have admitted the allegations, Jiji added.
MEXICO CITY – Yaqui Indians have delivered more than 9,000 signatures to Mexico’s environmental enforcement office demanding a halt to construction of an aqueduct in the northern state of Sonora they say will leave them without water.
The petition was launched on the Web site Change.org by members of the Yaqui’s head town, Vicam.
A representative of that Indian community, Mario Luna, delivered the letters to the environmental enforcement chief, Francisco Alejandro Moreno Merino; the office’s delegate in Sonora, Jorge Carlos Flores Monge; and the federal government’s environment and natural resources secretary, Juan Jose Guerra Abud, the village of Vicam said in a statement.
On Feb. 23, 2011, the Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat, or Semarnat, authorized construction of the Independence Aqueduct without respecting indigenous peoples’ right to be consulted about projects affecting their resources, a court in Sonora ruled four months ago.
On Aug. 7, the Mexican Supreme Court ordered the Sonora government to halt construction of the aqueduct if it is found to cause “irreparable damage” to the Yaqui community.
In the wake of that ruling, Semarnat revoked the environmental permit that had been issued and announced that consultations would be held with the local community by the end of September or early October.
But the Sonora government has continued to build the aqueduct.
The goal of the project is to supply water to the booming manufacturing hub of Hermosillo, Sonora’s capital, by taking it from the Yaqui River, which “is drying up” as a result, the petition says.
The Yaqui tribe consists of some 45,000 people spread across eight small towns and 56 hamlets, none of whom currently has running water, according to the letter. EFE
The incident occurred in the community of Cicacalco , Tlaltenango Township when the driver of a four-ton truck attempted to flee to detect the presence of the checkpoint . BOM items were on Federal Highway 23 , section Tepechitlán - Tlaltenango , and found that about 200 meters a truck coming toward them made a move to return north to south direction . The unexpected action of the truck driver caused confusion among members of the BOM , so that elements of the State Preventive Police (PEP ) initiated a pursuit. The truck left the federal highway 23 to address Cicacalco community , where the driver got out of the unit and tried to flee but was caught by state police . In reviewing the van hidden behind boxes found 224 empty packages wrapped in masking tape , which contained green vegetable and odor characteristics typical of marijuana. The man ,a 53 years old and originally from Reynosa , Tamaulipas , said he was unaware what he had because he had been given the van only to take it to Tamaulipas . BOM members arrested the man, the drugs weighing 284 kilograms, the vehicle a 2000 Ram truck , model 2004, white box , license plates 452- IN -1 Federal Public Service the legend " Refrigerated Products ." Man , drugs and the truck were taken to the premises of the State Office of the Attorney General of the Republic in Zacatecas corresponding actions .
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Ninecommunitypolice in Aquila,Michoacanwere arrestedbecausetheyfoundriflesfor use by thearmy andfragmentationgrenades in a stolen van, informedthe secretaryof governance.
The citiizensmade theirpatrolswithriflesAk-47 andR-15andgrenades,so they werearrested and taken toMexicoCityto beturned over to thePGR. Detainees were taken into custody by the military,also the grenadesand a van thathasbeen reported stolen.
SAN DIEGO – The Southern Border Communities Coalition acknowledged that the Border Patrol’s decision to modify its regulations on the use of force is “a step in the right direction.”
The new policies were the result of pressure by border communities and lawmakers who asked that an end be put to the wave of incidents involving firearms and Border Patrol agents, which have resulted in the deaths of about 20 people since 2010, coalition director Christian Ramirez told Efe.
“The key moment in this process of raising awareness occurred in 2012 after a ... video was publicly released that documented the beating and death of San Diego resident Anastacio Rojas, 42, the father of five children, who was beaten in May 2010 by more than a dozen Border Patrol agents when he was going to be deported to Mexico,” Ramirez said.
The video, aired on PBS, showed how Rojas was beaten “while he was lying face down, handcuffed, at the same time that he was subjected four times to the impact of a taser without any regard for the fact that he was begging for his life, dying of a heart attack,” he said.
The co-president of the coalition, Andrea Guerrero, told Efe that activists will continue “with our advocacy to ensure ourselves that words are transformed into deeds.”
The announcement about the changes in the use of force policy occurred on the same day that a delegation of representatives from the border communities, including law enforcement personnel, businessmen, religious and community leaders met with top-level White House and Border Patrol officials, Guerrero said.
The attention brought by the Rojas case allowed five other incidents in which Border Patrol agents shot and killed people while they were on the Mexican side of the frontier to make it to the national level. EFE