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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:56:42 -0400</pubDate>

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			<title>Cult Leader, Child Rapist Escapes Jail in Chopper</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Juliano Verbard
Image Source: Associated Press
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A  cult leader jailed for sex attacks on children has escaped in a helicopter from  a pri[...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Juliano Verbard
Image Source: Associated Press
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A  cult leader jailed for sex attacks on children has escaped in a helicopter from  a prison on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion.
Juliano Verbard was serving a 15-year term  for rapes and assaults on kids.
Two of his jailed followers were also hauled  on board the aircraft that was hijacked by three accomplices, said senior  official Jean-Frantois Moniotte.
&quot;All our search procedures have been put  into action to find them,&quot; said Moniotte, who is chief of staff to Reunion's  prefect and police chief on the island.

The helicopter landed on waste ground a few  hundred yards away and the gang escaped in a van that had been waiting for them,  he said.
The aircraft's two crew members were unhurt  and are helping police.
&quot;One of them put a gun to my temple while  another threatened to set fire to a bottle of petrol he had in his hand with a  cigarette lighter,&quot; the pilot told a local broadcaster.
Verbard was the guru of the self-styled  Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary on Reunion. The cult has no connection to  mainstream Catholic institutions.
He was jailed in February 2008 for attacks  on two children, aged nine and 13, whose mother was the sect's treasurer.
He is also under investigation in two other  cases &mdash; another alleged sex attack and the kidnap of a 12-year-old.
Verbard launched his cult in 2002 after  convincing hundreds of followers that the Virgin Mary appeared to him every  month.
Authorities attempted to dismantle the sect  after it was implicated in the kidnap of a 12-year-old boy who Verbard claimed  was destined to become his successor.
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			<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:32:34 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Craigslist CEO feels 'terribly' about Craigslist killer</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Craigslist chief executive Jim Buckmaster told a CNN cable TV news program this morning that the  company feels terribly that an accused killer in Bos[...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Craigslist chief executive Jim Buckmaster told a CNN cable TV news program this morning that the  company feels terribly that an accused killer in Boston allegedly used the  online service to target his victims.
&quot;We feel terribly, and it's quite sad that anyone would lose their life,&quot;  Buckmaster told CNN. &quot;And we're horrified that use of Craigslist could in any  way be connected with a violent crime of this nature. It just causes us to  redouble our efforts to try to get across to users to take a few common sense  precautions that eliminate most of the risks.
A story in this morning's Globe noted that Craigslist, an online bulletin  board where many classified ads are posted, has its critics as the service  pursues a dual role of promoting sex trade advertising and assisting police  helps solve crimes linked to erotic ads on the site.
A second Globe story noted that Boston University medical student Philip  Markoff (right) was arraigned yesterday on charges of murder, kidnapping, and  armed robbery.]]></content:encoded>			<link>http://www.instantbreakingnews.com/article/701/Craigslist_CEO_feels_'terribly'_about_Craigslist_killer_</link>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:53:42 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Teen Disrupts Twitter with Mikeyy Worm</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend, the micro-blogging site Twitter became the victim of two major exploits on the site's code[...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Over the weekend, the micro-blogging site Twitter became the victim of two major exploits on the site's code. On Saturday, StalkDaily.com worm irritated Twitter users, who were enticed to click on a link, which resulted in infected user profiles. Nevertheless, the Twitter tech team fixed the hole on Saturday after it compromised about 90 accounts. 

Following that, on Sunday, a worm named 'Mikeyy' savaged user profiles and sent updates from the infected users' accounts. A 17-year-old teen who called himself Michael 'Mikeyy' Mooney came out clean and boldly accepted responsibility for planting XSS (cross-site scripting) exploits. The cross-site scripting exploit will allow a person to inject malicious code in a webpage being viewed by someone else. 
Mikeyy is a JavaScript-based exploit that spreads when a user visits a friend's user profile. The worm infects the user profile and sends out Twitter updates from the infected accounts like:

Twitter please fix this, regards Mikeyy
How TO remove new Mikeyy worm! RT!! http://bit.ly/yCL1s

In an interview with CNET, Mooney said, &quot;I thought about it later, and basically did it because I was bored.&quot; The Mikeyy worm typically spread the infection when the user name or image of the infected account holder is being clicked on; then the worm infects the followers of the infected account holder.

The Mikeyy worm infected about 100 accounts and gave out 10,000 updates, which were deleted later by Twitter's security engineers. Also, on Monday, 13 April, Mikeyy topped the search queries at http://search.twitter.com.

The nature of the attack was merely to reveal the holes in Twitter.

Twitter said in a statement on Saturday, &quot;No passwords, phone numbers, or other sensitive information were compromised as part of this attack.&quot; However, in case you're infected, then head to Twittercism, which will help you remove the infection.

In order to protect yourself, make sure you use a third-party Twitter client like Twhirl or TweetDeck. Firefox users can download the NoScript extension and install it for stopping any further JavaScript exploits.

Simultaneously, users are also advised to change their passwords at regular intervals, maybe on a monthly basis. Meanwhile, avoid visiting any of your friends' or new followers' profile on the web interface.

What a 17-year-old kid did out of boredom could trigger more social engineering attacks on Twitter's website. However, Twitter has been constantly optimizing and tweaking the web interface. It's surprising that several Twitter account holders still get the old web user interface while many lucky ones enjoy the snazzy newest version. 

Twitter is widely used as a website/blog traffic generating as well as a promotion and marketing tool. But such Mikeyy attacks will inject doubts in users' minds on whether they should click on links or not. Our message is loud and clear: avoid checking user profiles and avoid clicking on links posted in updates.]]></content:encoded>			<link>http://www.instantbreakingnews.com/article/678/Teen_Disrupts_Twitter_with_Mikeyy_Worm</link>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:50:52 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Book tells of  Female U.S. Soldiers Raped By Comrades</title>
			<description><![CDATA[&lsquo;The horror is that it is their own side that is doing this to them,&rsquo; says writer
Reuters updated 11:26 a.m. ET, Thurs., April  16, 2009[...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&lsquo;The horror is that it is their own side that is doing this to them,&rsquo; says writer
Reuters updated 11:26 a.m. ET, Thurs., April  16, 2009


NEW YORK - Female U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan have more to fear than roadside bombs or enemy ambushes. They also are at risk of being raped or sexually assaulted by fellow soldiers.
&ldquo;The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq,&rdquo; a book based on 40 in-depth interviews, recounts the stories of female veterans who served in combat zones and tells of rape, sexual assault and harassment by male counterparts.
Some were warned by officers not to go to the latrine by themselves. One began carrying a knife in case she was attacked by comrades. Others said they felt discouraged to report assaults.
&ldquo;The horror of it is that it is their own side that is doing this to them,&rdquo; said the book's author, Helen Benedict, a journalism professor at Columbia University in New York. The book was released in the United States on Wednesday.
One in 10 U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are female, and more women have fought and died in the Iraq war than any since World War Two, according to U.S. Department of Defense statistics cited in the book.
Benedict said the book's title comes from the isolation female U.S. soldiers experience when combining the trauma of their combat duties with sexual harassment by fellow soldiers.
&ldquo;Because women are under so much more danger now and actually in the battle, it's a particularly tragic situation because all soldiers are supposed to be able to rely on one another to watch their backs,&rdquo; Benedict said.
&ldquo;And how can you feel that way if your fellow soldiers are harassing you all day or trying to rape you or actually even raping you?&rdquo;
One such soldier, Marti Ribeiro, was a third-generation Air Force sergeant who served in Afghanistan in 2006 as a combat correspondent with the Army's all-male 10th Mountain Division. Her story includes an account of being attacked and raped by a U.S. soldier in uniform while guarding a post.
After completing the shift and not showering to substantiate the attack, she reported it to authorities, only to be told if she filed a claim she would be charged with dereliction of duty for leaving her weapon unattended. She left the military.
&ldquo;I had dreams of becoming an officer one day, like my father and grandfather,&rdquo; she says in the book. &ldquo;Unfortunately, because I'm female, those dreams will not come true.&rdquo;
Surveys underscore problem
The number of reports of sexual assault in the U.S. military rose by 8 percent in fiscal 2008 from the previous year and by 25 percent in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report released by the Pentagon in March.
There were 2,908 reports overall of sexual assault by members of the military. Such assaults include rape, indecent assault and attempted rape, the report said.
Of the 40 women Benedict interviewed who served between 2003 and 2006, 10 said they had been raped, five said they were sexually assaulted including attempted rape, and 13 reported sexual harassment.
A new play based on Benedict's work was performed in New York and may tour the United States. After a recent performance, real soldiers hugged the actors who portrayed them. Some wiped away tears.
U.S. officials said the increase in assaults was due to efforts to make it easier to report them.
Cynthia Smith, a Department of Defense spokeswoman, said the department was committed to eliminating sexual assault from the military through prevention and response policies and eliminating barriers to reporting assaults.
&ldquo;The Department of Defense's goal is to establish a climate of confidence that encourages victims to report sexual assault and get the care they need,&rdquo; she said in an e-mail.
Benedict and some researchers say U.S. government figures are much lower than their findings because the government only counts those brave enough to report the assaults.
The problem is not new to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
A 2003 survey of more than 550 female veterans who served in wars from Vietnam to the first Gulf war found that 30 percent said they suffered from rape or attempted rape and 79 percent reported being sexually harassed, according to the American Journal of Industrial Medicine.
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:32:03 -0400</pubDate>
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			<title>Female Texas Teacher, Coach Resigns After Allegedly Having Sex With Girl at School</title>
			<description><![CDATA[A female Texas teacher and coach indicted on charges of having sex with a 15-year-old girl at her school has officially resigned, according to local m[...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A female Texas teacher and coach indicted on charges of having sex with a 15-year-old girl at her school has officially resigned, according to local media reports.
The charges, stemming from an alleged sexual relationship between 39-year-old Jennifer Lea Burton and one of her junior high school students, include three counts of sexual assault and three counts related to an improper relationship between student and educator, KFDM.com reported.
The purported sexual encounters between Burton, who was a teacher and coach at Orangefield Junior High, and the teen lasted from September to November of 2008, according to the indictment filed last week.
The school district canceled a meeting this week intended to discuss Burton's future with the district after receiving her letter of resignation on Monday, KFDM said.
&quot;The letter of resignation will enable Orangefield ... to move forward and attempt to put this unfortunate incident behind us,&quot; said school district Superintendent Philip Welch. &quot;Every measure will continue to be taken to assure that students are educated in a safe and secure school environment.&quot;]]></content:encoded>			<link>http://www.instantbreakingnews.com/article/634/Female_Texas_Teacher,_Coach_Resigns_After_Allegedly_Having_Sex_With_Girl_at_School</link>
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			<title>POLICE REPORT: 13-Year-Old Robs Bank With Handgun</title>
			<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;PEORIA, Ill. &nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp; A 13-year-old boy used a handgun to rob a Peoria bank before police caught him hiding in a nearby garage after[...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&nbsp;PEORIA, Ill. &nbsp;&mdash;&nbsp; A 13-year-old boy used a handgun to rob a Peoria bank before police caught him hiding in a nearby garage after a foot chase.
Police say the teen used the gun to rob South Side Bank on Monday. They say he fled the bank with the weapon and a bag of money wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, black pants and a red bandana on his face.
Police apprehended him 36 minutes after the robbery was reported. They say the money bag contained a red dye package that had exploded. Police say the teen's sweatshirt was covered with red dye.
Authorities found the gun and money near where they arrested the boy]]></content:encoded>			<link>http://www.instantbreakingnews.com/article/629/POLICE_REPORT:_13-Year-Old_Robs_Bank_With_Handgun</link>
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			<title>Conficker worm begins updating itself via Internet download</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Last night, Conficker -- the computer worm that's had every computer user in a tizzy for weeks -- finally began to show signs of life. What exactly it[...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last night, Conficker -- the computer worm that's had every computer user in a tizzy for weeks -- finally began to show signs of life. What exactly it's doing, no one's quite sure.
Here's the scoop: On April 8, Conficker began updating itself via Internet download, a process which became possible on the April 1 launch date. Before April 8, Conficker had been searching for updates but hadn't found any such instructions. Now they are finally being delivered.
What's in those instructions, though, remains a bit of a mystery: The downloaded programs are heavily encrypted, so they can't be analyzed in detail. We do know that, after installation, the instructions we can see are relatively benign: They tell the computer to check one of five random websites -- MySpace, eBay, AOL, CNN, and MSN -- in order to verify the computer has internet access. It then confirms the date and time.
After this, the downloaded software seemingly deletes itself, along with every trace that it had ever been installed (right down to the registry keys).
That doesn't mean it does delete itself, though. Some speculate that the downloaded software installs an as-yet undetectable rootkit on the machine that leaves the computer open for further compromise.&nbsp; 
Curiously, the payload also includes instructions for Conficker to delete itself and stop running on May 3, though compromises already introduced -- and additional ones that may be downloaded over the next few weeks -- will leave any infected machine vulnerable to attack.
Research into exactly what's going on -- made difficult due to the encryption on the worm -- continues. (Trend Micro has more technical details if you're interested.) Stay tuned for more updates.]]></content:encoded>			<link>http://www.instantbreakingnews.com/article/618/Conficker_worm_begins_updating_itself_via_Internet_download</link>
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			<title>'Sexting' Lands Teen on Sex Offender List</title>
			<description><![CDATA[When Vanessa Hudgens' naked photos hit the Internet, the &quot;High School Musical&quot; star quickly apologized. But sending nude or seminude picture[...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When Vanessa Hudgens' naked photos hit the Internet, the &quot;High School Musical&quot; star quickly apologized. But sending nude or seminude pictures, a phenomenon known as sexting, is a fast-growing trend among teens.







Teen &amp; Unplanned Pregnancy, a private nonprofit group whose mission is to protect children, and CosmoGirl.com, surveyed nearly 1,300 teens about sex and technology. The result: 1 in 5 teens say they've sexted even though the majority know it could be a crime.






Phillip Alpert found out the hard way. He had just turned 18 when he sent a naked photo of his 16-year-old girlfriend, a photo she had taken and sent him, to dozens of her friends and family after an argument. The high school sweethearts had been dating for almost 2&frac12; years. &quot;It was a stupid thing I did because I was upset and tired and it was the middle of the night and I was an immature kid,&quot; says Alpert.
Orlando, Florida, police didn't see it that way. Alpert was arrested and charged with sending child pornography, a felony to which he pleaded no contest but was later convicted. He was sentenced to five years probation and required by Florida law to register as a sex offender.
&quot;You will find me on the registered sex offender list next to people who have raped children, molested kids, things like that, because I sent child pornography,&quot; says Alpert in disbelief, explaining, &quot;You think child pornography, you think 6-year-old, 3-year-old little kids who can't think for themselves, who are taken advantage of. That really wasn't the case.&quot;
Alpert's attorney Larry Walters agrees and he's fighting to get Alpert removed from Florida's sex offender registry. The law lags behind the technology, he says. &quot;Sexting is treated as child pornography in almost every state and it catches teens completely offguard because this is a fairly natural and normal thing for them to do. It is surprising to us as parents, but for teens it's part of their culture.&quot;
In many states, like Florida, if a person is convicted of a crime against children, it automatically triggers registration to the sex offender registry. Thirty-eight states include juvenile sex offenders in their sex offender registries. Alaska, Florida and Maine will register juveniles only if they are tried as adults. Indiana registers juveniles age 14 and older. South Dakota registers juveniles age 15 and older. Most states allow public access to sex offender registries via the Internet and anyone with a computer can locate registered sex offenders in their neighborhoods.

A number of states have elected not to provide Internet access to registries; Florida is not one of them. There is no hiding for Alpert, whose neighbors, he says, all know. &quot;I am a sex offender. If you type my name into the search engine online, you will find me.&quot;
As sexting incidents pop up around the country, prosecutors are trying to come to terms with how these cases should be handled. George Skumanick Jr., a district attorney from Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, took a novel approach when 20 students from Tunkhannock High School were caught allegedly sexting. 

He gave them a choice: probation and re-education classes or be charged with sexual abuse of a minor. &quot;An adult would go to prison for this,&quot; says Skumanick, adding, &quot;If you take the photo, you've committed a crime. If you send the photo, you've committed a different crime, but essentially the same crime.&quot;
Critics, however, say child pornography laws on the possession or dissemination of graphic images were never meant to apply to teen sexting and that these teenagers usually have no criminal intent when they send pictures to each other.
Fifteen-year-old Marissa Miller of northeastern Pennsylvania was 12 when she and a friend snapped themselves wearing training bras. &quot;I wasn't trying to be sexual,&quot; she says, &quot;I was having fun with my friends at a sleepover, taking pictures, dancing to music.&quot; The picture recently surfaced on a student's cell phone and Marissa's mom, MaryJo Miller, was contacted by Skumanick. &quot;He told me that he had a full nude photo of my daughter,&quot; says MaryJo Miller, who calls the picture innocent.
Although the district attorney maintains the program is voluntary, the letter he sent to parents notes, &quot;Charges will be filed against those who do not participate.&quot; Seventeen of the 20 students caught in the sexting incidents have completed the 14 hours of classes.
Skumanick won't comment on the Miller case, but says, &quot;You can't call committing a crime fun or a prank. If you do that, you can rob a bank because you think it's fun.&quot; In the majority of sexting cases, it's usually girls sending pictures to boys, who then send them to their friends. Though teens may think it's funny and a way to flirt or even seek revenge after a breakup, there can be dangerous consequences.
Last year, Jessica Logan, a Cincinnati, Ohio, teen, hanged herself after her nude photo, meant for her boyfriend, was sent to teenagers at several high schools. For months after, her father says, she was the subject of ridicule and taunts. &quot;Everyone knew about that photo,&quot; Bert Logan says. &quot;She could not live it down.&quot; On July 3, his wife found her. &quot;She had been getting dressed to go out. The curling iron was still warm. It was so unexpected,&quot; Logan says. &quot;I heard my wife scream, I ran up to Jessie's room, but it was too late.&quot;
No charges had been filed against Jessica's 19-year-old boyfriend, who disseminated the photo, nor had the school taken any action, Logan says. He says he and his wife want to warn parents and students of the dangers of sexting. The Logans are fighting to raise awareness nationally and to advocate for laws that address sexting and cyber-bullying.

As for Alpert, life is not easy as a registered sex offender, a label he will carry until the age of 43. He's been kicked out of college, he cannot travel out of the county without making prior arrangements with his probation officer, he has lost many friends and is having trouble finding a job because of his status as a convicted felon. He says he feels terrible about sending the photo of his ex-girlfriend, especially since they were once so close.
At the same time, Alpert says, &quot;I'm being punished for the rest of my life for something that took two minutes or less to do.&quot; Says attorney Walters, &quot;Some judges have the good sense and reasonableness to treat this as a social problem and others are more zealous in their efforts to put everybody away and I think it's time as a society that we step back a little bit and avoid this temptation to lock up our children.&quot; 

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			<title>3 Officers Killed in Pittsburgh</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Three Pittsburgh police officers were killed Saturday after they responded to a call about a domestic dispute, two CNN affiliate news stations reporte[...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Three Pittsburgh police officers were killed Saturday after they responded to a call about a domestic dispute, two CNN affiliate news stations reported, quoting police sources.





Police officers respond after a shooting Saturday in Pittsburgh.


WTAE-TV and WPXI-TV reported the shooting deaths. A suspect is in custody.



Police spokeswoman Diane Richards said five officers were wounded and would not confirm any deaths, saying &quot;there are several families affected here.&quot;
Richards, who spoke at a news conference, said medics were unable to reach the wounded officers while the standoff was under way. She said she didn't know what prompted the shootings.
Police Chief Nathan Harper planned to hold a news conference to release more details at 3 p.m. ET at police headquarters.
Harper, who spoke briefly to reporters, said the suspect is in his early 20s, was firing from the window of his home with weapons that included an assault rifle and had lots of ammunition.
His mother was inside the house at the time, Harper said.
&quot;Our negotiators finally spoke to him and he did surrender,&quot; the police chief said.The suspect was taken to a hospital, and Harper said he didn't know the extent of his injuries.
The standoff began shortly after 7 a.m. and ended about four hours later at a home in the Stanton Heights neighborhood of the western Pennsylvania city. Up to 80 shots were fired at a time, Richards said.
City, county and state police officers -- some clad in riot gear -- were on the scene as a police chopper hovered overhead

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			<title>NY Gunman Was Angry And Depressed Over A Job Loss</title>
			<description><![CDATA[BINGHAMTON, N.Y. &ndash; The man who police say killed 13 people in a shooting rampage at an immigrant community center was depressed and angry over l[...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[BINGHAMTON, N.Y. &ndash; The man who police say killed 13 people in a shooting rampage at an immigrant community center was depressed and angry over losing his job and about his poor English skills, friends and officials said Saturday.
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AP&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;People gather for a prayer vigil at a church in the aftermath of a shooting, in Binghamton N.Y., Friday,&nbsp;&hellip; 
The gunman, believed to be 42-year-old Vietnamese immigrant Jiverly Voong, had been complaining that he couldn't find work and that his unemployment checks were only $200 a week, a friend told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Hue Huynh, a Binghamton grocery store proprietor whose husband worked with Voong years ago, said the man had driven a truck in California before recently returning to Binghamton, then losing a job there.
&quot;He's upset he don't have a job here. He come back and want to work,&quot; she said. Her husband tried to cheer him by telling him he was still young and there was plenty of time to find work, but he complained about his &quot;bad luck,&quot; she said.
On Friday, he barricaded the American Civic Association community center's back door with his car, walked in the front and started shooting with two handguns. Within minutes, a receptionist, 12 immigrants taking a citizenship class and the gunman were dead.
Another receptionist, 61-year-old Shirley DeLucia, played dead after she was shot in the abdomen and called 911 to get police to the scene within two minutes.
Zikuski said the injured receptionist stayed on the phone for 90 minutes, &quot;feeding us information constantly,&quot; despite a serious wound in the abdomen.
&quot;She's a hero in her own right,&quot; he said.
DeLucia was in critical condition at a hospital Saturday, along with another victim in the same condition and another in serious condition. A fourth victim was in stable condition at another hospital.
Thirty-seven others made it out, including 26 who hid for hours in a basement boiler room while police tried to determine whether the gunman was still alive and whether he was holding any hostages, Zikuski said.
Investigators said they had yet to establish a motive for the shooting. It was at least the fifth fatal mass shooting in the U.S. in the past month, and the nation's deadliest since April 2007, when 32 people and a gunman died at Virginia Tech.
The suspected killer carried ID with the name of 42-year-old Jiverly Voong, of nearby Johnson City, N.Y., but that was believed to be an alias, said a law enforcement official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
The man was found dead in an office with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, a satchel containing ammunition slung around his neck, authorities said. Police found two handguns &mdash; a 9 mm and a .45-caliber &mdash; and a hunting knife.
A second law enforcement official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said the handguns were registered to Jiverly Wong, another name the man used. Both officials were not authorized to speak publicly.
A woman who answered the phone at a listing for Henry D. Voong said she was Jiverly Voong's sister but would not give her name. She said her brother had been in the country for 28 years and had citizenship.
Huynh said that the man's sister regularly shops at her store and that the family is ethnically Chinese but from Vietnam, like herself. The family came to the U.S. in the early 1990s, she said.
Police Chief Joseph Zikuski told NBC's &quot;Today&quot; that people &quot;degraded and disrespected&quot; the gunman over his poor English. Mayor Matthew Ryan, speaking on ABC's &quot;Good Morning America,&quot; said the man was angry about his language problems in addition to his lack of employment.
The mayor told ABC that the gunman &quot;had lost a job recently and was somewhat angry.&quot;
&quot;He had language issues, didn't speak English that well, and was really concerned about his employment situation,&quot; Ryan said.
Accounts varied about the suspect's work history. Zikuski told &quot;Today&quot; that the shooter had worked in Binghamton for Shop-Vac, which closed in November. The sister told the AP on Friday that her brother worked at a company where &quot;they make the vacuums.&quot;
Initial reports suggested Voong had recently been let go from IBM, which has roots in the region, but a person at IBM said there was no record of a Jiverly Voong ever working there. His father, Henry Voong, does work there as a contractor.
Huynh said her husband had worked with Voong years ago at IBM and that he had recently been let go from IBM again after returning from California.
The attack at the American Civic Association, which helps immigrants settle in this country, came just after 10 a.m. as people from all over the globe &mdash; Latin America, China, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Africa &mdash; gathered for English and citizenship lessons in an effort to become a bigger part of their new home.
The gunman parked his car against the back door before barging through the front and opening fire, apparently without saying a word. He then entered a room just off the reception area and fired on a citizenship class while terrified people scrambled into a boiler room and a storage room.
Abdelhak Ettouri, a Moroccan immigrant who lives in nearby Johnson City, told the Binghamton Press &amp; Sun-Bulletin he found the back door locked when he tried to flee, then ran to hide in the basement as he heard 12 to 14 shots: &quot;Tak-tak-tak-tak.&quot;
Hoi Nguyen of Binghamton said his 36-year-old daughter Phuong Nguyen, who survived the massacre, was taking an English class in the basement when the gunfire started.
&quot;She said it sounded like a firecracker and everyone in the class was startled,&quot; he said. &quot;Then the teacher locked the door, called the police, then told everyone they couldn't leave the room.&quot;
Police arrived in minutes, heard no gunfire and waited for about an hour before entering the building to make sure it was safe for officers. They then spent two hours searching the building. They led a number of men out in plastic handcuffs while trying to sort out victims from the killer or killers.
The police chief said the suspected gunman &quot;was no stranger&quot; to the community center and may have gone there to take a class. He said he had no idea what the shooter's motive was.
On Friday evening, police searched Voong's house and carried out three computer hard drives, a brown canvas rifle case, a briefcase, a small suitcase and several paper bags.
The shootings took place in a neighborhood of homes and small businesses in downtown Binghamton, a city of about 47,000 situated 140 miles northwest of New York City.
The region was the home to Endicott-Johnson shoe company and the birthplace of IBM, which between them employed tens of thousands of workers before the shoe company closed a decade ago and IBM downsized in recent years.
A string of attacks in the U.S. in the last month left 44 people dead in all.
A gunman killed 10 people and himself in Samson, Ala.; shootings that began with a traffic stop in Oakland, Calif., left four police officers and the gunman dead; an apparent murder-suicide in Santa Clara, Calif., left six dead; and a gunman went on a rampage at a nursing home Sunday, killing seven elderly residents and a nurse who cared for them.
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			<title>NFL Receiver Charged with DUI Manslaughter</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth was charged in Florida on Wednesday with killing a pedestrian while driving under the influence, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade County state attorney's office said.





Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth has been charged with DUI manslaughter


Authorities charged Stallworth, 28, with DUI manslaughter in the death of Mario Reyes, said the spokesman, Ed Griffith.



Stallworth is expected to surrender in court Thursday, Griffith said. The charge is a bondable offense, and bail is expected to be set at $200,000.
According to Griffith, Stallworth's blood-alcohol level after last month's accident was measured at 0.126 percent, higher than the state's legal limit of 0.08 percent.
Stallworth was drinking at a Miami Beach, Florida, club early March 14, court documents say. He later left the club and went to a Miami residence for about 45 minutes before leaving in his black Bentley GT at 7:07 a.m.
He was driving east on the MacArthur Causeway, which connects Miami to the South Beach area of Miami Beach, when he struck Reyes, prosecutors said. Reyes, 59, a construction worker, was crossing the eastbound lanes of the causeway. CNN affiliate WSVN reported that he was heading to a bus stop after leaving work.
Reyes was struck by the right front and fender of the car and suffered critical head, chest and abdominal injuries, according to an affidavit. He died a short time later at a hospital.
Stallworth told the arriving officer, &quot;I hit the man lying in the road,&quot; the affidavit said. He told authorities that he had time to honk his horn and flash his headlights to alert Reyes, according to the documents. Police smelled alcohol on his breath, the documents said, and Stallworth provided a blood sample at the scene.
Stallworth released a statement four days after the incident saying he and his family were &quot;grief-stricken.&quot;
&quot;My thoughts and prayers are with the Reyes family during this incredibly difficult time,&quot; he said.Among the expected conditions of Stallworth's bail are that he consume no alcohol or drugs, submit to random drug and alcohol testing, abide by a curfew between midnight and 6 a.m., surrender his passport and not drive, according to an agreement setting conditions of his release. He will be allowed to reside in Ohio and Florida as needed, but must notify authorities 24 hours in advance when planning to travel between locations.

If convicted, he could face up to 15 years in prison.
Stallworth and his attorney have been cooperating with authorities, Officer Deborah Doty, spokeswoman for Miami Beach police, said Wednesday.
Stallworth, a former University of Tennessee player, has also played professionally for the New England Patriots, the New Orleans Saints and the Philadelphia Eagles.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska has been &quot;cleared&quot; by the Justice Department's request to dismiss his federal corruption convictions and drop all charges against him, his lawyer said Wednesday.


Former Sen. Ted Stevens, 85, of Alaska lost his re-election bid in November.
&nbsp;Prosecutors accused Stevens of failing to disclose thousands of dollars in free work from an oilfield services company in his home state of Alaska on Senate ethics forms. But in December, an unnamed FBI whistle-blower accused prosecutors of withholding evidence from the defense, and the Justice Department asked a judge to dismiss the charges against Stevens on Wednesday.
&quot;His name is cleared,&quot; Stevens' lawyer, Brendan Sullivan, told reporters. &quot;He is innocent of the charges, as if they'd never been brought.&quot;
Stevens, 85, had represented Alaska in the Senate since 1968. He lost his bid for a seventh full term in November after his conviction on seven counts of lying on Senate ethics forms.
In a statement issued Wednesday morning, he thanked the Justice Department and Attorney General Eric Holder for requesting the charges be dropped.
&quot;I always knew that there would be a day when the cloud that surrounded me would be removed,&quot; Stevens said. &quot;That day has finally come.&quot;
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan has set a Tuesday hearing on the Justice Department's request. Sullivan excoriated prosecutors during Stevens' trial and held the prosecution in contempt at one point.
In December, two months after Stevens' trial, the whistle-blower alleged that prosecutors had withheld some evidence from the defense team and that someone with the government had had an inappropriate relationship with Bill Allen, an oil industry executive who was the government's key witness. And in the motion it filed Wednesday, the Justice Department acknowledged that Stevens was not given access to notes taken by prosecutors during an April 2008 interview with Allen, the former chairman of an oilfield services company at the center of a corruption probe in Alaska.
The notes show that responses by Allen, the prosecution's star witness, were inconsistent with testimony he gave against Stevens, and that information from the interview could have benefited Stevens at trial, the motion says.
&quot;In light of this conclusion, and in consideration of the totality of the circumstances of this particular case, I have determined that it is in the interest of justice to dismiss the indictment and not proceed with a new trial,&quot; Holder said in a written statement.
Brendan Sullivan said the &quot;extraordinary evidence of government corruption&quot; forced the government to drop the case.
&quot;Not only did the government fail to provide evidence to the defense that the law requires them to provide, but they created false testimony that they gave us and actually presented false testimony in the courtroom,&quot; he said.
The Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility will review the prosecution team's conduct in Stevens' case, Holder said. Asked whether the prosecutors should be charged themselves, Sullivan told reporters, &quot;That is not my job. I'm a defense lawyer.&quot;
During the trial, Assistant Attorney General Matthew Friedrich said Stevens hid &quot;hundreds of thousands of dollars of freebies&quot; he received from Allen's company, VECO, and from Allen himself. Many of the allegedly free services were given as part of the renovation of Stevens' Alaska home, prosecutors said.]]></content:encoded>			<link>http://www.instantbreakingnews.com/article/594/Feds_dropping_charges_against_former_senator_</link>
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			<title>Prevent the Conficker worm</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow -- April 1 -- is D-Day for Conficker, as whatever nasty payload it's packing is currently set to activate. What happens come midnight is a my[...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Tomorrow -- April 1 -- is D-Day for Conficker, as whatever nasty payload it's packing is currently set to activate. What happens come midnight is a mystery: Will it turn the millions of infected computers into spam-sending zombie robots? Or will it start capturing everything you type -- passwords, credit card numbers, etc. -- and send that information back to its masters?
No one knows, but we'll probably find out soon.
Or not. As Slate notes, Conficker is scheduled to go &quot;live&quot; on April 1, but whoever's controlling it could choose not to wreak havoc but instead do absolutely nothing, waiting for a time when there's less heat. They can do this because the way Conficker is designed is extremely clever: Rather than containing a list of specific, static instructions, Conficker reaches out to the web to receive updated marching orders via a huge list of websites it creates. Conficker.C -- the latest bad boy -- will start checking 50,000 different semi-randomly-generated sites a day looking for instructions, so there's no way to shut down all of them. If just one of those sites goes live with legitimate instructions, Conficker keeps on trucking.
Conficker's a nasty little worm that takes serious efforts to bypass your security defenses, but you aren't without some tools in your arsenal to protect yourself.
Your first step should be the tools you already have: Windows Update, to make sure your computer is fully patched, and your current antivirus software, to make sure anything that slips through the cracks is caught.
But if Conficker's already on your machine, it may bypass certain subsystems and updating Windows and your antivirus at this point may not work. If you are worried about anything being amiss -- try booting into Safe Mode, which Conficker prevents, to check -- you should run a specialized tool to get rid of Conficker.
Microsoft offers a web-based scanner (note that some users have reported it crashed their machines; I had no trouble with it), so you might try one of these downloadable options instead: Symantec's Conficker (aka Downadup) tool, Trend Micro's Cleanup Engine, or Malwarebytes. Conficker may prevent your machine from accessing any of these websites, so you may have to download these tools from a known non-infected computer if you need them. Follow the instructions given on each site to run them successfully. (Also note: None of these tools should harm your computer if you don't have Conficker.)
As a final safety note, all users -- whether they're worried about an infection or know for sure they're clean -- are also wise to make a full data backup today.
What won't work? Turning your PC off tonight and back on on April 2 will not protect you from the worm (sorry to the dozens of people who wrote me asking if this would do the trick). Temporarily disconnecting your computer from the web won't help if the malware is already on your machine -- it will simply activate once you connect again. Changing the date on your PC will likely have no helpful effect, either. And yes, Macs are immune this time out. Follow the above instructions to detect and remove the worm.]]></content:encoded>			<link>http://www.instantbreakingnews.com/article/589/Prevent_the_Conficker_worm</link>
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			<title>Man charged with drunk driving on bar stool</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[NEWARK, Ohio - A 28-year-old man has been charged with drunken driving after crashing his motorized bar stool, Ohio authorities said.
Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, say when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries on March 4, they found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower.
Police released the 911 tapes, revealing the calm exchange between the driver's friend and the dispatcher.

AP
&quot;I got a friend who wrecked a bar stool,&quot; the caller said.
When asked by the dispatcher whether he hit his head inside the bar, the friend replied, &quot;Um, no, he was riding the bar stool ... a motorized bar stool.&quot;
Kile Wygle, the bar-stool rider, was hospitalized for minor injuries.
During an interview after his crash, Wygle told the reporter, &quot;I drank quite a bit after I wrecked.&quot;
Police say he was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated after he told an officer at the hospital that he had consumed 15 beers.
Wygle told police his motorized bar stool can go up to 38 mph.
Wygle has pleaded not guilty and has requested a jury trial.]]></content:encoded>			<link>http://www.instantbreakingnews.com/article/588/Man_charged_with_drunk_driving_on_bar_stool</link>
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			<title>Pimp Paid Teen Prostitute With Chicken Nuggets</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&nbsp;A 27-year-old Australian man who pimped a 16-year-old girl so he and his girlfriend could afford their apartment, would pay the schoolgirl with chicken nuggets, the Australian Associated Press reported.
Ronald Vikash Gander used the $4,500 the teen made for having sex with five middle-aged men in June of last year to pay the weekly $1,050 rent on his Brisbane apartment, the Brisbane District Court was told.
Gander and his 16-year-old girlfriend would pay the teen with an occasional box of chicken nuggets, the AAP reported.
&quot;The girl was used as if she was a piece of meat ... and your conduct can properly be described as that of a sleaze merchant,&quot; Judge Marshall Irwin told Gander.
Gander pleaded guilty to one count each of knowingly participating in the provision of prostitution with a circumstance of aggravation and procuring prostitution with a circumstance of aggravation, the AAP reported.]]></content:encoded>			<link>http://www.instantbreakingnews.com/article/579/Pimp_Paid_Teen_Prostitute_With_Chicken_Nuggets_</link>
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			<title>Man beheads 5 year old sister infront of police</title>
			<description><![CDATA[MILTON, Mass. (March 30) - With her long hair and model's poise, 17-year-old Samantha Revelus exuded confidence when she recited an original poem Satu[...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[MILTON, Mass. (March 30) - With her long hair and model's poise, 17-year-old Samantha Revelus exuded confidence when she recited an original poem Saturday afternoon about a strong woman who stood up to &quot;ignorant souls.&quot;
An hour after she finished rehearsal for an upcoming poetry reading, Samantha was dead on the floor of her family's home. She had been stabbed, police say, by her 23-year-old brother. Kerby Revelus then decapitated his 5-year-old sister as her birthday cake from the day before sat on the kitchen table, before turning on his 9-year-old sister, who called police.
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In a shocking rampage, a 23-year-old man stabbed his teenage sister to death and then decapitated his 5-year-old sister -- during the younger girl's birthday party Saturday in Milton, Mass. Cops shot and killed the man, identified as Kerby Revelus, as he moved toward a third sister, who was wounded. Here, police comfort a distraught woman outside the home on Saturday.
Responding officers broke down the door and shot him dead. The first one inside had witnessed Bianca's beheading.
Sarafina was hospitalized Sunday with defensive wounds to her hands and stab wounds in her abdomen and one of her legs.
&quot;In policing, we see the raw human emotion every day, but to think that a human being could afflict such an atrocious, violent act on his own family is unbelievable,&quot; Milton police Chief Richard G. Wells Jr. said Sunday. &quot;When I walked up to the first officer (on the scene), I could see the whole story right in his face. This just told me that this was something very bad.&quot;
Investigators believe Revelus had been agitated since Friday night, when he got in a fistfight with a neighbor in this tony suburb that is also home to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. Revelus, investigators believe, may have targeted Samantha in the fallout from the episode.
&quot;Blows were exchanged,&quot; Wells said. &quot;I don't know the cause of it, but we're confident that did happen. He had been agitated in the hours that followed that, going into the day and last night.&quot;
Samantha's classmates referred to her by her nickname, &quot;Princess,&quot; and remarked at her grace, class and friendliness. She had been one of about 20 students who had been at the high school Saturday afternoon to rehearse for a poetry jam on Thursday. Samantha also had practiced for a school fashion show earlier that morning.
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&quot;She had a stage presence like you couldn't believe,&quot; classmate Kassi Stein said.
Sobbing, she added: &quot;She had just a soft voice and everyone would lean in to hear what she was saying.&quot;
But Samantha's poetry was bold and assertive. In &quot;Acquaintance,&quot; she closed: &quot;So what lousy wind brought you here? What values you offer? She's a woman, a queen, a goddess. Don't treat her like any other.&quot;
Investigators believe Revelus attacked his siblings with a household knife while their grandmother, who neighbors say lives on the first floor, was doing laundry in the basement. The children's parents were away; their mother is a nurse at a Boston hospital, Wells said.
Sarafina, a student at the Tucker Elementary School, just behind the house, called 911 just before 5 p.m. An officer on patrol in the neighborhood arrived within a minute, Wells said, and could hear an altercation inside as he reached the second floor. The 911 operator tried to persuade Sarafina to open the door, but when she didn't the officer broke through.
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&quot;As the officer entered the door, (Revelus) decapitated (Bianca) in front of him,&quot; Wells said. &quot;He actually walked into a killing field. He walked into such carnage, as far as the atrocity of it, I've never seen it.&quot;
Within moments, four officers were inside and two of them shot Revelus as he tried to get to Sarafina, Wells said. Revelus fell, still clutching the knife.

Details about the number of shots and who killed Revelus were pending the outcome of an autopsy Sunday.
Revelus had recently served jail time on a gun charge, Wells said, but the details would not be released until courts opened Monday. Neighbors said Revelus was in a car that was pulled over by police and from which one occupant threw a gun into a sewer.
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Police had been called to the family's house in 2004 after a domestic violence report that Revelus had punched a woman living there, Wells said.nA neighbor, Norm Walsh, said his daughter Kate Walsh, a Hollis, N.H., police officer, reported hearing two shots as she went outside to bring in groceries from the family car. Moments later, a blood-covered officer emerged carrying Sarafina, seeking towels to stanch her bleeding.
&quot;It's shocking to me,&quot; said Norm Walsh, whose son is the same age as Revelus. &quot;He played a lot of pickup hoops in the driveway.&quot; Walsh said the family had lived in the neighborhood for over 20 years and was warm. They were of Haitian descent, like many in a neighborhood where Creole is spoken alongside English.
&quot;The family is a solid family. Both parents worked; good kids. Completely makes no sense,&quot; he said.
A two-hour grief counseling session was held at the school Sunday afternoon and will be offered Monday to students and employees. The officers involved in the case were placed on administrative leave and were receiving stress counseling from the Boston Police Department.
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			<title>14 Year Old Girl Charged For Sexting</title>
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The office investigated and discovered the Clifton resident had posted the &quot;very explicit&quot; photos of herself, sheriff's spokesman Bill Maer said Thursday.
&quot;We consider this case a wake-up call to parents,&quot; Maer said. The girl posted the photos because &quot;she wanted her boyfriend to see them,&quot; he said.
Investigators are looking at individuals who &quot;knowingly&quot; committed a crime, he said, declining to comment further because the case is still being investigated.
The teen, whose name has not been released because of her age, was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography. She was released to her mother's custody.
If convicted of the distribution charge, she would be forced to register with the state as a sex offender under Megan's Law, said state Attorney General Anne Milgram. She also could face up to 17 years in jail, though such a stiff sentence is unlikely.
Growing trend
Some observers &mdash; including the New Jersey mother behind the creation of Megan's Law &mdash; are criticizing the trend of prosecuting teens who send racy text messages or post illicit photos of themselves.
Maureen Kanka &mdash; whose daughter, Megan, became the law's namesake after she was raped and killed at age 7 in 1994 by a twice-convicted sex offender &mdash; blasted authorities for charging the 14-year-old girl.
The teen needs help, not legal trouble, she said.
&quot;This shouldn't fall under Megan's Law in any way, shape or form. She should have an intervention and counseling, because the only person she exploited was herself.&quot;
Called &quot;sexting&quot; when it's done by cell phone, teenagers' habit of sending sexually suggestive photos of themselves and others to one another is a nationwide problem that has confounded parents, school administrators and law enforcers.
Prosecutors in states including Pennsylvania, Connecticut, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin have tried stop it by charging teens who send and receive the pictures.
Racy pictures
In northeastern Pennsylvania, a prosecutor recently threatened to file child porn charges against three teenage girls who authorities say took racy cell-phone pictures that ended up on classmates' cell phones.
The MySpace case may be a first, though.
&quot;I'm not sure I've seen a prosecution like this coming out of a social networking site,&quot; said Seth Kreimer, a constitutional law professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Milgram, the attorney general, could not recall another such case in New Jersey. She cautioned parents to get on those sites and monitor what their kids are talking about and posting.
&quot;Unfortunately, youth don't have the same judgment as adults,&quot; she said, &quot;and often, adults don't have the same technical savvy as the youth.&quot;
'Very explicit'
The office investigated and discovered the Clifton resident had posted the &quot;very explicit&quot; photos of herself, sheriff's spokesman Bill Maer said Thursday.
&quot;We consider this case a wake-up call to parents,&quot; Maer said. The girl posted the photos because &quot;she wanted her boyfriend to see them,&quot; he said.
Investigators are looking at individuals who &quot;knowingly&quot; committed a crime, he said, declining to comment further because the case is still being investigated.
The teen, whose name has not been released because of her age, was arrested and charged with possession of child pornography and distribution of child pornography. She was released to her mother's custody.
If convicted of the distribution charge, she would be forced to register with the state as a sex offender under Megan's Law, said state Attorney General Anne Milgram. She also could face up to 17 years in jail, though such a stiff sentence is unlikely.
Growing trend
Some observers &mdash; including the New Jersey mother behind the creation of Megan's Law &mdash; are criticizing the trend of prosecuting teens who send racy text messages or post illicit photos of themselves.
Maureen Kanka &mdash; whose daughter, Megan, became the law's namesake after she was raped and killed at age 7 in 1994 by a twice-convicted sex offender &mdash; blasted authorities for charging the 14-year-old girl.
The teen needs help, not legal trouble, she said.
&quot;This shouldn't fall under Megan's Law in any way, shape or form. She should have an intervention and counseling, because the only person she exploited was herself.&quot;
Called &quot;sexting&quot; when it's done by cell phone, teenagers' habit of sending sexually suggestive photos of themselves and others to one another is a nationwide problem that has confounded parents, school administrators and law enforcers.
Prosecutors in states including Pennsylvania, Connecticut, North Dakota, Ohio, Utah, Vermont, Virginia and Wisconsin have tried stop it by charging teens who send and receive the pictures.
Racy pictures
In northeastern Pennsylvania, a prosecutor recently threatened to file child porn charges against three teenage girls who authorities say took racy cell-phone pictures that ended up on classmates' cell phones.
The MySpace case may be a first, though.
&quot;I'm not sure I've seen a prosecution like this coming out of a social networking site,&quot; said Seth Kreimer, a constitutional law professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Milgram, the attorney general, could not recall another such case in New Jersey. She cautioned parents to get on those sites and monitor what their kids are talking about and posting.
&quot;Unfortunately, youth don't have the same judgment as adults,&quot; she said, &quot;and often, adults don't have the same technical savvy as the youth.&quot;
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			<title>TI Gets Sentenced</title>
			<description><![CDATA[World-famous rap star T.I. was sentenced in Atlanta federal court Friday to one year and one day in prison and ordered to pay a $100,300 fine on weapo[...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[World-famous rap star T.I. was sentenced in Atlanta federal court Friday to one year and one day in prison and ordered to pay a $100,300 fine on weapons charges related to purchasing machine guns and silencers.





T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, has mentored at-risk students as part of his community service.


The rapper, whose real name is Clifford Harris, reached the terms of the sentence in a plea agreement with prosecutors last year.



He also was sentenced to some property forfeiture, supervised release for three years after his prison sentence, 365 days of home confinement (he has already served 305) and 1,500 hours of community service (1,030 served).
He also must undergo DNA testing, drug counseling, cannot own firearms and must submit to reasonable searches and a financial audit.
The plea agreement, which federal authorities called unique, allowed the rapper to remain out of prison for a year while he performed community service.
In that time, he mentored at-risk students at 58 schools, 12 Boys &amp; Girls Clubs, nine churches and many other nonprofit organizations, according to court documents.
Meanwhile, T.I., 28, has released his sixth CD, &quot;Paper Trail,&quot; which has sold close to 2 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The multiplatinum rapper also has starred in the MTV reality show, &quot;T.I.'s Road to Redemption: 45 Days to Go,&quot; which chronicles his efforts to shave years off his sentence by completing his community service. The show features him talking to students and community groups &quot;about how to avoid the trouble he now finds himself in,&quot; according to the network's Web site.
&quot;It's been rewarding in the sense that it takes my mind off my own personal circumstances when I focus the attention on helping others,&quot; he said about his time spent doing community service. &quot;And that way, I've definitely been able to appreciate the ability to turn my negative part of my life into a positive.&quot;
&quot;You shouldn't take the things that I've gone through and the negative parts of my life and admire me for that,&quot; Harris said. &quot;If anything, admire me for how I've accepted responsibility for the part I've played in placing myself in these situations and what I've done to recover from it.&quot; Harris starred in the film &quot;ATL&quot; and could be seen in Chevy commercials with NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. Harris was named to the Forbes list of top-earning rappers in 2006, banking an estimated $16 million.
Later, Harris' fall from grace was sudden and dramatic. He was arrested in October 2007 in an Atlanta parking lot hours before he was to perform at the BET&nbsp;Hip Hop&nbsp;Awards.
Harris was caught in a federal sting after his bodyguard-turned-informant delivered three machine guns and two silencers to him, prosecutors said.
Harris had provided the bodyguard with $12,000 to buy the weapons. Harris was not permitted to own any guns, however, because he was convicted in 1998 on felony drug charges, including possession of crack cocaine with intent to distribute in Cobb County in suburban Atlanta.
For his court hearing Friday, Harris' attorneys submitted more than 100 letters from officials who thanked him for his community service since the weapons arrest.

One of the letters was from Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice Leah Ward Sears, who said Harris did an &quot;outstanding job&quot; talking to a group of teenagers about not breaking the law.
&quot;If only one young person in that courtroom listened to Mr. Harris, and I believe they all did, we are all better for it,&quot; Sears wrote. &quot;He was honest, humble and inspirational.&quot; 

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			<title>Dallas Police Chief: Someone made a  BIG mistake.</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle stood in front of a dozen news cameras this afternoon at police headquarters to apologize for the behavior of an offi[...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle stood in front of a dozen news cameras this afternoon at police headquarters to apologize for the behavior of an officer who stopped a family outside a hospital emergency room.




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Unedited dash camera video documents entire incident (Dallas Police Department)
03/26/2009


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Kunkle said Officer Robert Powell has been placed on paid administrative leave in connection with an incident last week in which he stopped a family rushing to visit a dying mother, detaining them for 13 minutes to write a traffic ticket.
&ldquo;His behavior in my opinion, did not exhibit the common sense, discretion, the compassion that we expect our officers to exhibit,&rdquo; the chief told a packed audience of media outlets that included Inside Edition.
During the traffic stop, caught on the officer&rsquo;s in-car camera, Powell berated the driver, 26-year-old NFL running back Ryan Moats, and threatened him with arrest for running a traffic light.
&ldquo;I can screw you over,&rdquo; said Powell, 25. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d rather not do that.&rdquo;
At one point during today&rsquo;s news conference, Kunkle seemed to restrain himself from being even more candid with his views on the incident.
&ldquo;When we in the command staff reviewed the tapes,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;we were embarrassed, disappointed &mdash; it&rsquo;s hard to find the right words and still be professional in my role as a police chief.&rdquo;
The chief also praised Moats and his family for how they handled the officer&rsquo;s behavior.
&ldquo;They exercised extraordinary patience, restraint, dealing with the behavior of our officer,&rdquo; Kunkle said. &ldquo;At no time did Mr. Moats identify himself as an NFL football player or expect any kind of special consideration. He handled himself very, very well.&rdquo;
Moats rolled through a red light as he and his wife were en route to Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano. A Dallas police squad car pulled their SUV over near the hospital's emergency entrance.
Moats and his wife implored the officer to let them hurry on to the bedside of her ill mother.
&ldquo;You really want to go through this right now?&rdquo; Moats pleaded. &ldquo;My mother-in-law is dying. Right now!&rdquo;
His wife, Tamishia Moats, said Powell &quot;was pointing a gun at me as soon as I got out of the car. It was the weirdest feeling because I&rsquo;ve never had a gun pointed at me before under those circumstances.&rdquo;
Powell then spent long minutes writing Moats a ticket and threatening him with arrest.
Powell could not be reached for comment.
Kunkle, asked about Powell&rsquo;s reaction to the investigation, said the officer told a member of the command staff that he was just doing his job.
&ldquo;My understanding is that Officer Powell, even when he saw the videotape, believed he had not acted inappropriately,&quot; Kunkle said.
&ldquo;I've read some of the comments in some of the publications, and the majority of the comments reflect my position &mdash; that at the point the officer was told that they were responding to a dying family member, that should have been his concern: to allow those people to get access to that family member.&quot;
The scene, captured by the officer's dashboard video camera, prompted apologies and the promise of an investigation even before Kunle met the media.
&ldquo;There were some things that were said that were disturbing, to say the least,&rdquo; said Lt. Andy Harvey, a police spokesman.
Harvey said Powell told his commanders that he drew his gun but did not point it at Moats or his wife.
The lieutenant said it's not unusual for officers to draw a gun in traffic stops if they feel threatened.
Moats&rsquo; mother-in-law, Jonetta Collinsworth, was struggling at 45 with breast cancer that had spread throughout her body. Family members rushed to her bedside from as far away as California.
On March 17, the Moatses had gone to their Frisco home to get some rest. Around midnight, they received word that they needed to hurry back to the hospital if they wanted to see Collinsworth before she died.
The couple, along with Collinsworth&rsquo;s father and an aunt, jumped into the SUV and headed back toward the hospital. They exited the Dallas North Tollway, just down the street from the hospital.
Moats turned on his hazard lights. He stopped at a red light, where, he said, the only nearby motorist signaled for him to go ahead. He went through.
Powell, watching traffic from a hidden spot, flipped on his lights and sirens. In less than a minute, he caught up to the SUV and followed for about 20 more seconds as Moats found a parking spot outside the emergency room.
Tamishia, 27, was the first out. Powell drew his gun and yelled at her to get back in.
&ldquo;Get in there!&rdquo; he yelled. &ldquo;Let me see your hands!&rdquo;
&ldquo;My mom is dying,&rdquo; she explained to him.
Powell was undeterred.
&ldquo;I saw in his eyes that he really did not care,&rdquo; Tamishia Moats said. &ldquo;Honestly, I don&rsquo;t think I cared that he had a gun pointed at me. My train of thought is that I&rsquo;m going to see my mom in the hospital before she dies.&rdquo;
Tamishia Moats and her great-aunt ignored the officer and headed into the hospital.
&ldquo;It was almost like a movie,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;It felt like we had robbed a bank or something.&rdquo;
Ryan Moats, who stayed behind with the father of the dying woman, said Powell also pointed his gun at him. He said he put his hands on the car because he was afraid that he might get shot.
&ldquo;I put my hands on the car so he couldn&rsquo;t say I reached for something,&rdquo; Ryan said. &ldquo;He didn&rsquo;t ask me to put my hands on the car. I just did it to try to protect myself. I was pleading with him.&rdquo;
He tried to explain the situation to the officer.
&ldquo;I waited until no traffic was coming,&rdquo; Moats told Powell, explaining his passage through the red light. &ldquo;I got seconds before she&rsquo;s gone, man.&rdquo;
Powell demanded his license and proof of insurance. Moats produced his license but said he didn&rsquo;t know where the insurance paperwork was.
&ldquo;Just give me a ticket or whatever,&rdquo; he said, beginning to sound exasperated and a little argumentative.
&ldquo;Shut your mouth,&rdquo; Powell told him. &ldquo;You can cooperate and settle down, or I can just take you to jail for running a red light.&rdquo;
There was more back and forth.
&ldquo;If you&rsquo;re going to give me a ticket, give me a ticket.&rdquo;
&ldquo;Your attitude says that you need one.&rdquo;
&ldquo;All I&rsquo;m asking you is just to hurry up.&rdquo;
Powell began a lecture.
&ldquo;If you want to keep this going, I&rsquo;ll just put you in handcuffs,&rdquo; the officer said, &ldquo;and I&rsquo;ll take you to jail for running a red light.&rdquo;
Powell made several more points, including that the SUV was illegally parked. Moats replied &ldquo;Yes sir&rdquo; to each.
&ldquo;Understand what I can do,&rdquo; Powell concluded. &ldquo;I can tow your truck. I can charge you with fleeing. I can make your night very difficult.&rdquo;
&ldquo;I understand,&rdquo; Moats responded. &ldquo;I hope you&rsquo;ll be a great person and not do that.&rdquo;
Hospital security guards arrived and told Powell that the Moatses&rsquo; relative really was upstairs dying.
Powell spent several minutes inside his squad car, in part to check Moats for outstanding warrants. He found none.
Another hospital staffer came out and spoke with a Plano police officer who had arrived.
&ldquo;Hey, that&rsquo;s the nurse,&rdquo; the Plano officer told Powell. &ldquo;She said that the mom&rsquo;s dying right now, and she&rsquo;s wanting to know if they can get him up there before she dies.&rdquo;
&ldquo;All right,&rdquo; Powell replied. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m almost done.&rdquo;
As Moats signed the ticket, Powell continued his lecture.
&ldquo;Attitude&rsquo;s everything,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;All you had to do is stop, tell me what was going on. More than likely, I would have let you go.&rdquo;
It had been about 13 minutes.
Moats and Collinsworth&rsquo;s father went into the hospital, where they found Collinsworth had died, with her daughter at her side.
The Moatses, who are black, said Wednesday that they can&rsquo;t help but think that race might have played a part in how Powell, who is white, treated them.
&ldquo;I think he should lose his job,&rdquo; said Ryan Moats, a Dallas native who attended Bishop Lynch High School and now plays for the Houston Texans.
Powell was hired in January 2006. Assistant Chief Floyd Simpson said Powell told police officials that he believed that he was doing his job. He has been re-assigned to dispatch pending an investigation.
&ldquo;When people are in distress, we should come to the rescue,&rdquo; said Simpson. &ldquo;We shouldn&rsquo;t further their distress.&rdquo;]]></content:encoded>			<link>http://www.instantbreakingnews.com/article/568/Dallas_Police_Chief:_Someone_made_a__BIG_mistake.</link>
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			<title>White House steps up anti-drug cartel efforts</title>
			<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - The Obama administration said on Tuesday it was planning to send more agents and equipment to the southwestern border to fight Mexican[...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - The Obama administration said on Tuesday it was planning to send more agents and equipment to the southwestern border to fight Mexican drug cartels. 
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Deputy Attorney General David Ogden were at the White House to announce that they were stepping up efforts to keep violence from spilling over the U.S. border. 
Violent turf battles among the cartels have wracked Mexico in recent years, and led to a spate of kidnappings and home invasions in some U.S. cities. 
Authorities said they would increase the number of immigrations and customs agents, drug agents and anti-gun trafficking agents operating along the border. 
Prosecutors said they would make a greater effort to go after those smuggling guns and drug profits from the U.S. into Mexico. 
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