Published: Friday, June 29, 2007
S.D. tribal police break up beer blockade
S.D. tribal police
break up beer blockade
PINE RIDGE, S.D. — Tribal police Thursday shut down a volunteer blockade aimed at keeping beer out of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where alcoholism is rampant, and arrested three organizers who refused to leave. Only a few vehicles had been checked for alcohol by the time Oglala Sioux tribal police told the volunteers to stop because of safety concerns. After several minutes of arguing, police arrested actor and American Indian activist Russell Means; Duane Martin Sr.; and Frank LaMere, a Winnebago activist. Means' nephew, Deynon Means, above, participated in the blockade. Martin was arrested after it appeared he fought with officers over a spear he was carrying. He spoke in Lakota as more than a half-dozen officers wrestled him to the ground.
Congress alters spending
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are cutting President Bush's marquee foreign aid program to help emerging democracies and funneling more money to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world. The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday reduced Bush' $3 billion request for the Millennium Challenge Corporation to $1.2 billion. The program assists countries in putting in place economic and political reforms, but it has slow to spend prior appropriations.
More than half won't vote
for Clinton, poll reveals
WASHINGTON — More than half of Americans say they wouldn't consider voting for Sen. Hillary Clinton for president if she becomes the Democratic nominee, according to a new national poll made available to McClatchy Newspapers and NBC News. The poll by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research found that 52 percent of Americans wouldn't consider voting for Clinton, D-N.Y. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, was second in the can't-stand-'em category, with 46 percent saying they wouldn't consider voting for him.
Abortion provider charged
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison filed charges against abortion provider George Tiller on Thursday, alleging Tiller and a physician who signed off on 19 abortions had an improper financial relationship. Morrison rejected different charges filed by his predecessor Phill Kline, saying they were based on political ideology and shoddy, potentially unethical legal work. While Morrison said he considers his investigation over, the charges are unlikely to settle the debate over Tiller, Kline's investigation, or the medical justification for late-term abortions. The new charges allege that Tiller and physician Ann Kristin Neuhaus had financial ties when both signed off on late-term abortions performed at Tiller's Wichita clinic in 2003.
Wrestler's Wikipedia entry
altered before scene found
ATLANTA — Investigators are looking into who altered pro wrestler Chris Benoit's Wikipedia entry to mention his wife's death hours before authorities discovered the bodies of the couple and their 7-year-old son. Benoit's Wikipedia entry was altered early Monday to say that the wrestler had missed a match two days earlier because of his wife's death. A Wikipedia official, Cary Bass, said Thursday that the entry was made by someone using an Internet protocol address registered in Stamford, Conn., where World Wrestling Entertainment is based. Also Thursday, federal drug agents said they had raided the west Georgia office of a doctor who prescribed testosterone to Benoit.
2 sentenced in corruption
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy got nearly seven years Thursday in a bribery and corruption case that the judge said damaged public trust in state government.
Pope to allow Latin Mass
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI is going ahead with his plan to allow more churches to use the old Latin Mass, a concession to traditionalists that has caused concern among those fearing a rollback of one of the Vatican's key liberalizing reforms. The pope explained his plans to a group of prelates from Europe and the United States, the Vatican said Thursday, in what was considered an unusual meeting underlining the resistance created by his proposal.
Combined dispatches
Friday, June 29, 2007
S.D. tribal police
break up beer blockade
PINE RIDGE, S.D. — Tribal police Thursday shut down a volunteer blockade aimed at keeping beer out of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where alcoholism is rampant, and arrested three organizers who refused to leave. Only a few vehicles had been checked for alcohol by the time Oglala Sioux tribal police told the volunteers to stop because of safety concerns. After several minutes of arguing, police arrested actor and American Indian activist Russell Means; Duane Martin Sr.; and Frank LaMere, a Winnebago activist. Means' nephew, Deynon Means, above, participated in the blockade. Martin was arrested after it appeared he fought with officers over a spear he was carrying. He spoke in Lakota as more than a half-dozen officers wrestled him to the ground.
Congress alters spending
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are cutting President Bush's marquee foreign aid program to help emerging democracies and funneling more money to fight AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis around the world. The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday reduced Bush' $3 billion request for the Millennium Challenge Corporation to $1.2 billion. The program assists countries in putting in place economic and political reforms, but it has slow to spend prior appropriations.
More than half won't vote
for Clinton, poll reveals
WASHINGTON — More than half of Americans say they wouldn't consider voting for Sen. Hillary Clinton for president if she becomes the Democratic nominee, according to a new national poll made available to McClatchy Newspapers and NBC News. The poll by Mason-Dixon Polling and Research found that 52 percent of Americans wouldn't consider voting for Clinton, D-N.Y. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, was second in the can't-stand-'em category, with 46 percent saying they wouldn't consider voting for him.
Abortion provider charged
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas Attorney General Paul Morrison filed charges against abortion provider George Tiller on Thursday, alleging Tiller and a physician who signed off on 19 abortions had an improper financial relationship. Morrison rejected different charges filed by his predecessor Phill Kline, saying they were based on political ideology and shoddy, potentially unethical legal work. While Morrison said he considers his investigation over, the charges are unlikely to settle the debate over Tiller, Kline's investigation, or the medical justification for late-term abortions. The new charges allege that Tiller and physician Ann Kristin Neuhaus had financial ties when both signed off on late-term abortions performed at Tiller's Wichita clinic in 2003.
Wrestler's Wikipedia entry
altered before scene found
ATLANTA — Investigators are looking into who altered pro wrestler Chris Benoit's Wikipedia entry to mention his wife's death hours before authorities discovered the bodies of the couple and their 7-year-old son. Benoit's Wikipedia entry was altered early Monday to say that the wrestler had missed a match two days earlier because of his wife's death. A Wikipedia official, Cary Bass, said Thursday that the entry was made by someone using an Internet protocol address registered in Stamford, Conn., where World Wrestling Entertainment is based. Also Thursday, federal drug agents said they had raided the west Georgia office of a doctor who prescribed testosterone to Benoit.
2 sentenced in corruption
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy got nearly seven years Thursday in a bribery and corruption case that the judge said damaged public trust in state government.
Pope to allow Latin Mass
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI is going ahead with his plan to allow more churches to use the old Latin Mass, a concession to traditionalists that has caused concern among those fearing a rollback of one of the Vatican's key liberalizing reforms. The pope explained his plans to a group of prelates from Europe and the United States, the Vatican said Thursday, in what was considered an unusual meeting underlining the resistance created by his proposal.
Combined dispatches
Friday, June 29, 2007
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