Iran ( Two Mothers and babies go to prison - Charge setting up illegal group ) Babies going to prison ?

Two Infants along their mothers in grave danger in Semnan Prison, Iran

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HRANA News Agency – Two Baha'i citizens, Zahra Nik-A’in and Taraneh Torabi with their infants in Semnan Prison are in grave danger and need immediate medical care.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Zahra Nik-A’in and Taraneh Torabi, Baha'i citizens who were sentenced to 23 and 20 months in prison, respectively, are serving their sentences at Semnana Prison despite being mothers of infants. Zahra has a 11-month old son, and Taraneh has a five-month old son. All of them are severely sick and need immediate medical care.

Zahra Nik A’in: 14 Mar 2011; Arrested, 03 Apr 2011: Released on 100 millions Tomans bail, 16 Apr 2011: Summoned and interrogated, 15 Dec 2011: Sentenced to seven year in prison, but sentenced by Semnan Court of Appeals to 23 month in prison.


Taraneh Torabi: 20 Feb 2011; Arrested, 23 Feb 2012: Sentenced to 5 years and 10 months in prison on charges of "setting up and running an illegal group, 02 Jul 2012: Reported sentenced by Semnan Court of Appeals to 20 months.

South Lake Tahoe ( 19 yr old girl missing from Bar- Last seen tuesday ) Alyssa byrne of Petaluma

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(01-03) 10:05 PST SOUTH LAKE TAHOE -- Authorities were searching the South Lake Tahoe area Thursday for a Petaluma woman who disappeared after attending a music festival on New Year's Eve.
Alyssa Byrne, 19, was last seen by friends at a bar at the Horizon Casino Resort in Stateline, Nev., about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday after attending the three-day SnowGlobe Music Festival at Lake Tahoe Community College, authorities said.
Byrne last used her cell phone before midnight Monday, said Douglas County sheriff's Sgt. Pat Brooks.
"The circumstances of her disappearance are unknown," Brooks said Thursday.
Byrne's mother, Kim Byrne, 49, said Thursday that she was optimistic that her daughter would be found.
"I've convinced myself that we're going to bring her home today," she said. "My best-case scenario right now is that she's having the time of her life with some friends that she's made and that time just got away from her. I just have to focus on that. Today, hopefully, she's just going to come barreling through that door."
Kim Byrne said her daughter has never gone missing before and that she didn't know what has happened to her. "We just have no idea," she said. "That's the million-dollar question."
She said she is staying positive "because I have no other choice. There is a door that I cannot walk through right now."
Alyssa Byrne's father, Kevin Byrne, 44, is in South Lake Tahoe assisting in the search.
Family members and friends passed out fliers Wednesday and law-enforcement officials examined surveillance video, including from cameras at the hotel, Maura Duggan, a cousin of Byrne, wrote on a Facebook page dedicated to the search.
"Keep spreading the love, we will find you Alyssa," Duggan wrote.
Byrne is white, with black hair and blue eyes, 5 feet 3 inches tall and 125 pounds. She has an "infinity" sign on her left wrist and wears glasses. She was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, black yoga pants and black snow boots.
A reward of up to $1,000 is being offered for information leading to Byrne's whereabouts. Anyone with information is asked to call South Lake Tahoe police at (775) 782-9905.

Henry K. Lee is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: hlee@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @henryklee

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San Diego ( Homicide - Woman found mortally wounded in Lemon Grove ) See story

Woman mortally wounded in Lemon Grove

LEMON GROVE — Sheriff's detectives are investigating their first homicide of 2013 following the death of a woman who was found with head injuries on a Lemon Grove street early Thursday.

Deputies were going to drive a prisoner to the downtown San Diego jail about 2 a.m. when they noticed a woman lying in the roadway on Pacific Avenue at Olive Street, homicide Lt. Glenn Giannantonio said.

The woman, who appeared to be in her 30s, had head injuries but was conscious, Giannantonio said. She was in front of an apartment complex parking area.

Giannantonio said investigators believe they know who the woman was, but they were withholding her name until it was confirmed and her family was notified.

Paramedics took the woman to Scripps Mercy Hospital in Hillcrest, where she died at 2:37 a.m., Giannantonio said. He declined to say whether the woman made any statements before she died.

He said the case is his agency's first homicide of the new year.

Deputies found one shell casing not far from the woman, but Giannantonio said it wasn't clear if it was connected to the homicide or came from a gun fired some other time. He did not say what caused the woman's head injuries.

The lieutenant said investigators don't know when the woman was wounded or how long she had been lying in the road. They were going door-to-door through the morning, looking for witnesses and security camera video.

The street is lined with a mix of houses, apartments and small businesses around the corner from the Lemon Grove sheriff's substation.

New Mexico ( Woman busted with 127 pounds of marijuana in car speakers ) Agents seize 770 pounds during week-end

US Border Patrol agents in El Paso seize 770 pounds of marijuana

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U.S. Border Patrol agents in the El Paso area seized more than 770 of pounds of marijuana during the New Year's Day holiday period, officials said Wednesday.
The seizures were made in separate cases from the desert near Fabens to Southern New Mexico.
On New Year's Day, Deming station agents on all-terrain vehicles arrested two men from Mexico who were allegedly trying to smuggle 90 pounds of marijuana, Border Patrol officials said.
On Sunday, officials said agents patrolling the deserts near Fabens and in Southern New Mexico found several bundles of marijuana.
The marijuana was found hidden under rocks and plants at different locations in three incidents.
Smugglers will sometimes hide marijuana loads

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to be picked up later during desert crossings. In another case also on Sunday, agents seized 127 pounds of marijuana found in the speaker box in a vehicle at the Highway 70 checkpoint near Alamogordo.
A woman traveling with her two children in the vehicle was turned over to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
The children were handed over to a relative.
Daniel Borunda may be reached at dborunda@elpasotimes.com; 546-6102. Follow him on Twitter @BorundaDaniel

Tehran ( 6 Sunni Kurdish prisoners hanged in Ghezelhesar prison ) Salafist group

IHR Strongly Condemns Executions of Salafi Kurd Prisoners In Iran Wednesday 2 January 2013 [English] [فارسى]   Iran Human Rights, January 2, 2013: According to unofficial reports Iran Human Rights (IHR) has confirmed, at least six Sunni Kurdish prisoners were executed in Ghezelhesar prison in Karaj (west of Tehran) on December 27. The group, Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) identified the prisoners as Bahram Ahmadi, Asghar Rahimi, Behnam Rahimi, Mohammad Zaher Bahmani, Keyvan Zand Karimi and Houshiar Mohammadi. The prisoners allegedly belonged to a Salafist group. Their official charges were, "Membership in Salafi groups" and "Participation in terrorist acts, such as the assassination of a Friday prayer Imam in Sanandaj (Iranian Kurdistan) in 2009". The Kurdish Salafist group did not claim responsibility for the assassination. Additionally, several other prisoners allegedly belonging to the same group are in danger of execution. IHR strongly condemns the execution of the Salafi prisoners and urges the international community to react. Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, the spokesperson of IHR said: "These prisoners were subjected to unfair trials, and we have reason to believe that their death sentences are solely based on their religious belief and affiliation to the Salafist groups. We urge the international community to condemn these executions and intervene to stop the execution of the remaining imprisoned members of this Salafist group."

INDIA ( Police are seeking death penalty- Brother of victim has called for accused to be hanged )

CHARGES EXPECTED

Five men and a teenager have been detained over the attack and police sources on Tuesday said charges would likely be filed on Wednesday or Thursday.

Police are seeking the death penalty against four of the accused, one senior police source told Reuters.

They will also likely be charged with gang rape, abduction and destruction of evidence, the source said. The juvenile cannot be executed under Indian law, although the victim's brother has called for all the accused to be hanged.

Anger at the brutality of the assault and the slow footed response from authorities spilled into the streets before Christmas, with police and protesters fighting running battles near the heart of government in Delhi.

The Indian Medical Association has questioned the decision to move the victim, who was suffering a massive blood infection and organ injuries, to Singapore, where she died.

On Tuesday police said they arrested a man who attempted to plant a low intensity explosive device near the house of one of the accused. The device was safely detonated, the force said.

(Additional reporting by Suchitra Mohanty in NEW DELHI; Writing by Frank Jack Daniel; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

Navajo Nation ( New Jail to open - Tuba city opens in February )

Jails opening soon in Tuba City, Crownpoint

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Special to the Times

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The Tuba City Detention Center begins to take shape in Tuba City. The new detention center will house 132 inmates from all over the reservation and will have a grand opening on February 15.

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T he Navajo Nation is just three months away from having something it hasn't had in more than five decades - a decent jail system.Work is on schedule currently to open two new jails, one in Tuba City, Ariz. and another in Crownpoint, N.M.
"This is very exciting," said Delores Greyeyes, director of corrections for the division.
It's been her burden to maintain the tribe's existing jails, all of which have had problems and had to have major renovations at various times during the past decade.
But renovations could only go so far and as the tribe battled problems with overcrowding and a court order edict to keep jail populations at a certain level, efforts to get funding for new jails just didn't seem to go anywhere.
But that changed with the recent downturn in the national economy and the decision by the new president Barack Obama to spend more than $800 billion on stimulus projects to get people back to work.
As a result the tribe received $67 million to build a 132-bed facility at Tuba City. The Bureau of Indian Affairs kicked in some money that is allowing the building a smaller jail in Crownpoint for $48 million.
For a reservation that has seen unemployment rates hang around the 50 percent mark now for more than two decades, the opening of the jails means a lot of new jobs.
Greyeyes is now working with the tribe's office of workforce development to fill those positions, but said Tuesday, that it has been hard to find enough Navajo applicants who have the prerequisite one-year experience as a security.
As a result, she said, some of the people who have been accepted will have to go through extra training provided by the tribe to meet that requirement.
It has helped that the tribe has agreed to up the beginning salary for corrections personnel with the starting pay in the $30,000 range.
"With benefits, you are looking at about $38,000 a year," she said.

Miami homeowner shoots naked man choking family dog

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A naked man who showed up at this home on the 100 block of northwest 56th Street early Wednesday was shot when he began choking the family dog.

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A barking dog woke a homeowner out of his early morning sleep Wednesday. After grabbing his gun, the homeowner went to check and found a naked man outside choking the family pet.
When the homeowner tried pulling the naked man off the dog, the culprit quickly turned around and began biting the homeowner.
That’s when the homeowner used his gun, Miami Police said.
“The person was naked, on the front porch choking his dog,” said police spokeswoman Napier Valasquez. “That’s when the resident shot him in the foot.”
The injured man, who was identified as Jeffrey Delice, 20, was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital and treated for his gunshot wound.
But before he could be taken for treatment, Delice scuffled with the police officers who were called to the scene.
Delice faces was burglary with an assault, resisting arrest with violence, lewd and lascivious behavior and animal cruelty charges.
Delice, 20, has been arrested twice before, but never convicted.
It’s unknown what he was doing on the porch of the home at 175 NW 56th St. Delice lives a few miles away, at 407 NW 84th St., Miami.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/02/3164601/naked-man-arrested-after-choking.html#storylink=cpy

Sinaloa Cartel ( "El Chapo" and " Mayo" send email stating they were framed ) Complaint to -ICE -DEA others

US Murder Indictments: Chapo, Mayo, and 22 CDS Insist They Have Been Framed

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It is alleged that the leaders of Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquin Guzman Loera, Ismael Zambada Garcia and 22 others are indicted in Texas for murders they didn't commit. Their complaint says they were framed.

Editor: An email from a group representing the Sinaloa Cartel in Mexico, declares the innocence of particular individuals attacked during a wedding in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. The wedding groom, 2 of his family members were kidnapped and found murdered. One friend was shot outside of the Church wedding. The complaint alleges the Sinola Cartel Leaders and Members have been framed.
We are choosing to publish the letter in its complete form. We have received contact from Mexican cartels in the past, but the information contained here is unusual, as follows, note that the reference to "I" is from the person representing the group of attorneys' that are representing the Sinaloa Cartel

This is a complaint for Joaquin Guzman Loera and Ismael Zambada Garcia, leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel. This is a complaint for 22 other Sinaloa Cartel Members that were indicted with Ismael Zambada Garcia and Joaquin Guzman Loera. This complaint is also for Sergio Saucedo, La Linea Cartel Member.

This complaint is for Rafael Morales Valencia, Jaime Morales Valencia, Guadulupe Morales Arriola, Alonso Setelo Corral. Wedding groom and family kidnapped from a Church wedding in Ciudad Juarez Mexico. And the Bride and family members that were traumatized at the wedding, whose lives will never be the same.

This complaint is against Deputy Jesse Tovar El Paso County Sheriff, Chihuahua Govenor Cesar Duarte, President Barack Hussein Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr, Attorney General Marisela Morales, President Felipe Calderon, FBI Director Robert Mueller, DEA Administrator Michelle Leonhart, Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano...

ICE Director John Morton, Robert Pittman U.S. Attorney Western District, Joseph Arabit DEA Special Sgent in Charge El Paso Texas, Mark Morgan FBI Special Agent in Charge El Paso, ATF Special Agent in Charge Dallas Robert Champion, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State...

Stacia Hylton U.S. Marshalls Director, Ken Gonzalez U.S. Attorney in New Mexico, former Mexican Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna, Ramon Eduardo Pequeno Garcia Mexican Federal Police, Police Chief Greg Allen in Texas...

Sheriff El Paso Terry Maketa, Public Safety Texas Steve McCraw, U.S. Attorney John Murphy, David Cuthbertson FBI Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Border Marfa Sector Chief Patrol Agent Jon Esparza, Richard Wiles El Paso County Sheriff, former Chihuahua Attorney General Patricia Gonzalez, Chihuahua Prosecutor Jorge Gonzalez Nicolas, Jose Reyes Baeza Terrazas.

This complaint is about the Leaders of Sinaloa Cartel Joaquin Guzman Loera, Ismael Zambada Garcia and 22 others indicted in Texas for murders they didn't commit. And the officials listed above knowing they didn't commit these murders. I am alleging the officials mentioned above conspired to have Rafael Morales Valencia and family and Sergio Rene Saucedo murdered so they could frame the Sinaloa Cartel.

The police suspected another cartel was responsible for the murder of Sergio Saucedo in 2009. Sergio Saucedo was murdered for a drug debt. I emailed you before and said he was stopped with the drugs by border patrol. But I am not sure of that. 4 other men were stopped with the drugs in a tractor trailer.

I am not sure how Sergio Saucedo was involved in this drug transaction. But I do know that three men have been convicted of this kidnapping and I believe murder of Sergio Saucedo. These men were not the ones stopped with the drugs. One man Omar Obregon Ortiz received 100 months, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy. I am not sure if the conspiracy was related to the murder or drugs.

Two men, Rafael Vega and Cesar Obregon Reyes, were sentenced to life in prison, but they proclaim there innocence. I believe they are innocent. One will never know, the governments lied about the Sinaloa Cartel involvement, then they could have lied about everything related to these murders.

There were many questionable acts in the trial of these two men.

One person said they bragged at a party. Family members said they were never at a party. One of the men were living in a halfway house. There was a log signed by one of the staff that said he was at the half way house.

But the worker that signed the log said she didn't get to work until 3:30. But the log was signed at 3:00 that the young man was present. Two men in the halfway house testified that you could sneak out of the halfway house anytime.

I have never seen that in a halfway house. A cousin of one of the men alleged to have kidnapped Sergio Saucedo,was a prison detention officer. The cartel that is accused of murders of consulate members, the Juarez cartel murdered a Texas detention officer, he was the Husband of a u.s. consulate member.

Cartel members said he was murdered because he was too strict on cartel members in Texas prison. The cousin detention officer,testified that his cousin showed him a magazine with Sergio Saucedo on it and folded it and put in back in his pocket. He could of said that out of fear.

Or apart of there sick game. you don't mess with certain gang and drug dealers that law enforcement favor, they will make you pay. I know this from experience. A prosecution witness told the courts he had a vendetta against the young men.

The wife of Sergio Saucedo couldn't identify the men that were charged with the kidnapping of Sergio Saucedo. As I say, there were a lot of questionable acts at there trial. Sounds like railroading. The u.s. and Mexican government covering for the true murderers. As they have done, accusing the Sinaloa Cartel Members of murders they know they didn't commit.

The mexican and united states government said Jose Acosta Torres Marrufo was a Sinaloa Cartel Member. But they lied. There is no way a Sinaloa Cartel Member or Leader would have killed Sergio Rene Saucedo, a LaLinea Cartel Member for a drug debt owed to the La Linea or Juarez Cartel. Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez gave a interview to the police that said he killed Sinaloa Cartel Members and there associates

.They were enemies. Also, Jose Acosta Torres Marrufo and Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez Juarez or La Linea Cartel leader, a reward for there capture was offered by the Chihuahua attorney general in 2009 for the massacre at Casa Aviliane rehab. Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez admitted to the massacre of 18 people at Casa Aviliane.

And Federal Officer Ramon Eduardo Puqueno Garcia gave a press conference in which he states Jose Acosta Torres Marrufo was wanted for the Casa Aviliane massacre. The same massacre Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez, Juarez Cartel Leader admitted he

ordered.Which means that Jose Acosta Torres Marrufo is a Juarez or La Linea Cartel Member. Sergio Saucedo is a La Linea Cartel Member. In the indictment someone alleged that Sergio Saucedo was kidnapped from Texas and taken to Jose Acosta Torres Marrufo.

This is murder, conspiracy to murder, perjury, killing in a foreign country, crime against humanity, abuse of power, cruel and unusual punishment, kidnapping, genocide, running a criminal enterprise.

We are seeking justice. We are asking that all indictments on Joaquin Guzman Loera, Ismael Zambada Garcia and all Sinaloa Members are dismissed, in all states in the United States. The other indictments charge them with drug trafficking, they are national security assets, a title given to Sinaloa Members by the federal bureau of investigations.

We are asking the true co conspirators of these murders, U.S. and Mexican government officials are brought to justice.

The U.S. government denied Sergio Saucedo involvement with any cartel, knowing he belonged to the La Linea Cartel, because they wanted to frame the Sinaloa Cartel. This also proves a conspiracy to murder, accessory before and after the fact of murder, by the U.S. government to murder Sergio Saucedo.

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.