The world's first cloned cat just became a mother _ and she even did it without test tubes. Copy Cat, who was cloned by Texas A&M University researchers in 2001, had three kittens in September. Mother and kittens are doing well, said Duane Kraemer, an A&M veterinary medicine professor who helped clone her and has been taking care of her since.
"They're cute and we thought people ought to know about the birth," Kraemer said. "But we're hoping it doesn't cause the same frenzy CC did."
CC got worldwide attention after she was cloned at Texas A&M, which has cloned more species than any institution in the world, including cattle, swine, goats, horses and a deer.
The father is Smokey, a naturally born tabby who was brought in to mate with CC. Two of the kittens take after their mother, while the third has a gray coat like his father.
CC is not the first cloned cat to give birth, Kraemer said. In New Orleans, two cloned wild African cats successfully mated to produce kittens.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Saturday, December 16, 2006
Children's Christmas choir told to shut up
A children's Christmas choir was left in tears after shopping centre security guards told them to shut up.
The 23 children - aged three to five - were ordered to stop singing carols because they were too noisy.
Nursery school teachers had taken the kids to entertain shoppers at Nottingham's Exchange Arcade, reports the Sun.
Claire Ellis, 38, mother of three-year-old singer Harrison, said: "It's disgusting. Christmas is a time for hearing little ones sing. Naturally they get excited but this was a special day for them."
Sharon Hastings, supervisor at Jesters Child Care Nursery, in Gedling, Notts, said: "I couldn't believe it when we were asked to leave. We hadn't caused any disruption and we weren't being loud."
And store manager Lorraine Harvey said: "None of our customers complained about the kids."
But security staff said the children were being noisy and had already been asked to quieten down before they intervened.
Exchange Arcade manager Joe Joseph said: "I was told by the security guards that they were making a noise - and not singing."
The 23 children - aged three to five - were ordered to stop singing carols because they were too noisy.
Nursery school teachers had taken the kids to entertain shoppers at Nottingham's Exchange Arcade, reports the Sun.
Claire Ellis, 38, mother of three-year-old singer Harrison, said: "It's disgusting. Christmas is a time for hearing little ones sing. Naturally they get excited but this was a special day for them."
Sharon Hastings, supervisor at Jesters Child Care Nursery, in Gedling, Notts, said: "I couldn't believe it when we were asked to leave. We hadn't caused any disruption and we weren't being loud."
And store manager Lorraine Harvey said: "None of our customers complained about the kids."
But security staff said the children were being noisy and had already been asked to quieten down before they intervened.
Exchange Arcade manager Joe Joseph said: "I was told by the security guards that they were making a noise - and not singing."
Burglars gave money to victim
Romanian police are looking for two burglars who broke into an woman's apartment - and left her some money.
Filofteia Stefan, 86, from Constanta, told police two young men, wearing masks, trashed her apartment.
She said they rummaged for money or valuables but found only her wallet with the equivalent of 50p inside.
The burglars then gave the woman all of their loose change - and left without taking anything.
The victim handed the money - more than £1 - to the police for fingerprint analysis.
Filofteia Stefan, 86, from Constanta, told police two young men, wearing masks, trashed her apartment.
She said they rummaged for money or valuables but found only her wallet with the equivalent of 50p inside.
The burglars then gave the woman all of their loose change - and left without taking anything.
The victim handed the money - more than £1 - to the police for fingerprint analysis.
Apple could sell 9 million Macs in 2007
Was it just five years ago that Apple Computer was struggling with a major shift in platform architecture and facing a new and improved version of Windows? It was, and back then more than a few technology commentators and anonymous nerds on the Internet were predicting the end for Apple Computer. Well, the more things stay the same, the more they change. Five years later Apple Computer is again challenged by a shift in platform architecture and a new and improved version of Windows, but that's where the similarity ends. Rather than doomsayers predicting the end, we have soothsayers projecting a big year for Apple in 2007. Credit Jeff Gamet at the MacObserver for the jaw-dropping quote from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.
"We believe Mac market share can grow by 1 percent again in CY07, ending the year at around 4 percent, with an average for the year of 3.5 percent. In our estimation, an increase in Mac market share to 3.5 percent would lead to upside to Street CY07 EPS of $0.34 or 11.6 percent."
That would be a jump from around 2.8 percent of the market now, and could work out to a staggering 9 million Macs sold in 2007. Even the most zealous Mac enthusiast might have a hard time believing that, if it weren't for the fact that last quarter Mac sales surged to 1.6 million, and it is looking increasingly possible that Apple could sell 2 million Macs this holiday quarter.
What is behind this good news for the Mac? Scott Ferguson at eWeek attributes it to four factors in Munster's analysis, even though I only counted three.
* Transition to Intel
* iPod Halo Effect
* Boot Camp
Certainly each of those would make sense, and another possibility would be the popular perception that Windows has security issues. Unfortunately, it's unlikely the reason for the Mac's resurgence can ever be definitively proven, due both to a lack of public information and likely overlap between possibilities, but one point can no longer be debated.
The Mac is back.
"We believe Mac market share can grow by 1 percent again in CY07, ending the year at around 4 percent, with an average for the year of 3.5 percent. In our estimation, an increase in Mac market share to 3.5 percent would lead to upside to Street CY07 EPS of $0.34 or 11.6 percent."
That would be a jump from around 2.8 percent of the market now, and could work out to a staggering 9 million Macs sold in 2007. Even the most zealous Mac enthusiast might have a hard time believing that, if it weren't for the fact that last quarter Mac sales surged to 1.6 million, and it is looking increasingly possible that Apple could sell 2 million Macs this holiday quarter.
What is behind this good news for the Mac? Scott Ferguson at eWeek attributes it to four factors in Munster's analysis, even though I only counted three.
* Transition to Intel
* iPod Halo Effect
* Boot Camp
Certainly each of those would make sense, and another possibility would be the popular perception that Windows has security issues. Unfortunately, it's unlikely the reason for the Mac's resurgence can ever be definitively proven, due both to a lack of public information and likely overlap between possibilities, but one point can no longer be debated.
The Mac is back.
Nintendo to recall 3.2 million Wii hand straps
Nintendo has said it will recall 3.2 million hand straps for its new Wii games console after reports of enthusiastic users inadvertently throwing the motion-sensing controller into their TV screens.
"We are announcing the recall of 3.2 million straps for the Wii computer remote controllers," Nintendo spokesman Yasuhiro Minagawa said.
"The decision comes after reports that some users in the United States threw their controllers when playing with Wii sports software," he said.
By waving or swinging the controller, it can serve as a sword, tennis racket or car steering wheel.
But websites dubbed "Wii have a problem" and "Wii damage" have chronicled injuries and wreckage reportedly inflicted by Nintendo game controllers sent awry in the heat of play by wild swipes, loose grips or snapped wrist straps.
"We are announcing the recall of 3.2 million straps for the Wii computer remote controllers," Nintendo spokesman Yasuhiro Minagawa said.
"The decision comes after reports that some users in the United States threw their controllers when playing with Wii sports software," he said.
By waving or swinging the controller, it can serve as a sword, tennis racket or car steering wheel.
But websites dubbed "Wii have a problem" and "Wii damage" have chronicled injuries and wreckage reportedly inflicted by Nintendo game controllers sent awry in the heat of play by wild swipes, loose grips or snapped wrist straps.
Friday, December 15, 2006
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Even if they're off, cellphones allow FBI to listen in
It should come as no surprise that cellphone calls may be tapped by law enforcement.
But authorities also can use cellphones to eavesdrop on suspects, even when the devices are off.
The FBI converted the Nextel cellphones of two alleged New York mobsters into "roving bugs," microphones that relayed conversations when the phones seemed to be inactive, according to recent court documents.
Authorities won't reveal how they did this. But a countersurveillance expert said Nextel, Motorola Razr and Samsung 900 series cellphones can be reprogrammed over the air, using methods meant for delivering upgrades and maintenance. It's called "flashing the firmware," said James Atkinson, a consultant for the Granite Island Group in Massachusetts.
"These are very powerful phones, but all that power comes with a price. By allowing ring tones and stock quotes and all this other stuff, you also give someone a way to get into your phones," Atkinson said.
Privacy advocates called such use of roving bugs intrusive and illegal. Webcams and microphones on home computers soon may be fair game for remote-control gumshoes, too, they said.
"This is a kind of surveillance we've never really seen before. The government can and will exploit whatever technology is available to achieve their surveillance goals. This is of particular concern, considering the proliferation of microphones and cameras in the products we own," said Kevin Bankston, a lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Converting cellphones into stealth microphones violates the Fourth Amendment protection against overly broad searches, Bankston said. FBI spokesman James Margolin said the bureau's use of roving bugs is monitored closely by the courts.
"The operative thing for any concerned citizen is, we only do this when we get authorization from the judiciary, when we meet the probable-cause threshold," he said.
Legally, he said, bugging cellphones differs little from placing microphones "in a chair or a wall or behind a picture."
"It's not a situation where we just turn the tape on and we gather everything," Margolin said. "By law, we only listen to what the warrant authorizes us to listen to."
However, hackers probably can pull this off, too, said Lauren Weinstein, who warned of the possibility in 1999 on his online Privacy Forum. "A lot of people know an awful lot about the inner workings of these phones," he said.
The roving bugs came to light last month in an opinion by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York.
Kaplan's opinion, reported online by CNET, upheld FBI bugging of cellphones used by John "Buster" Ardito, allegedly a high-ranking member of the Genovese crime family, and his lawyer and associate, Peter Peluso.
A listening device in Ardito's phone "functioned whether the phone was powered on or off, intercepting conversations within its range wherever it happened to be," Kaplan wrote.
Investigators got permission for the bug from another judge in 2003, after learning that Ardito's associates had discovered FBI bugs planted in restaurants where they gathered.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York declined to comment.
Margolin declined to say if an eavesdropping device was planted in Ardito's cellphone or if agents remotely programmed the phone for real-time eavesdropping or for recording audio to transmit at specified times.
"For obvious reasons, we don't discuss what we are or are not capable of doing, technologically," Margolin said.
Sprint Nextel spokesman Mark Elliott said the company cooperates with authorities when they have warrants and subpoenas. "In this case, we were not aware of any investigation and were not asked to participate," Elliott said.
Samsung spokesman Jose Cardona said he had not heard of any privacy issues with 900 series phones.
Nextel phones are made by Motorola, which also makes the popular Razr. Motorola spokeswoman Molly Sheehan said the company's phones were not designed or intended to violate privacy rights or laws, "and Motorola neither supports nor condones such use." She referred further questions to the FBI.
While all commercial mobile services can be tapped, Nextel is the easiest because its network uses a technology called TDMA, said the Granite Island Group's Atkinson, who was trained by the government and advises corporations about security.
TDMA conveys a constant audio stream to cell towers. That stream can be monitored surreptitiously with another Nextel phone, Atkinson said.
A walkie-talkie feature has made Nextel popular with businesses. But Atkinson said more convenience can mean less security.
That goes for Nextel-toting FBI agents, too, he said. If they gather in Washington, "I can tell you from a few blocks away where the FBI agents are, and how far apart they're sitting in the building."
Asked if the FBI uses Nextel phones, spokeswoman Cathy Milhoan said, "We use a variety of phones and providers."
Atkinson said the only sure way to shield a mobile phone from the prying ears of police, hackers and jealous spouses is to remove the battery. But don't get cocky.
"A smart eavesdropper will bug the battery," he said.
But authorities also can use cellphones to eavesdrop on suspects, even when the devices are off.
The FBI converted the Nextel cellphones of two alleged New York mobsters into "roving bugs," microphones that relayed conversations when the phones seemed to be inactive, according to recent court documents.
Authorities won't reveal how they did this. But a countersurveillance expert said Nextel, Motorola Razr and Samsung 900 series cellphones can be reprogrammed over the air, using methods meant for delivering upgrades and maintenance. It's called "flashing the firmware," said James Atkinson, a consultant for the Granite Island Group in Massachusetts.
"These are very powerful phones, but all that power comes with a price. By allowing ring tones and stock quotes and all this other stuff, you also give someone a way to get into your phones," Atkinson said.
Privacy advocates called such use of roving bugs intrusive and illegal. Webcams and microphones on home computers soon may be fair game for remote-control gumshoes, too, they said.
"This is a kind of surveillance we've never really seen before. The government can and will exploit whatever technology is available to achieve their surveillance goals. This is of particular concern, considering the proliferation of microphones and cameras in the products we own," said Kevin Bankston, a lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Converting cellphones into stealth microphones violates the Fourth Amendment protection against overly broad searches, Bankston said. FBI spokesman James Margolin said the bureau's use of roving bugs is monitored closely by the courts.
"The operative thing for any concerned citizen is, we only do this when we get authorization from the judiciary, when we meet the probable-cause threshold," he said.
Legally, he said, bugging cellphones differs little from placing microphones "in a chair or a wall or behind a picture."
"It's not a situation where we just turn the tape on and we gather everything," Margolin said. "By law, we only listen to what the warrant authorizes us to listen to."
However, hackers probably can pull this off, too, said Lauren Weinstein, who warned of the possibility in 1999 on his online Privacy Forum. "A lot of people know an awful lot about the inner workings of these phones," he said.
The roving bugs came to light last month in an opinion by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York.
Kaplan's opinion, reported online by CNET, upheld FBI bugging of cellphones used by John "Buster" Ardito, allegedly a high-ranking member of the Genovese crime family, and his lawyer and associate, Peter Peluso.
A listening device in Ardito's phone "functioned whether the phone was powered on or off, intercepting conversations within its range wherever it happened to be," Kaplan wrote.
Investigators got permission for the bug from another judge in 2003, after learning that Ardito's associates had discovered FBI bugs planted in restaurants where they gathered.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Southern District of New York declined to comment.
Margolin declined to say if an eavesdropping device was planted in Ardito's cellphone or if agents remotely programmed the phone for real-time eavesdropping or for recording audio to transmit at specified times.
"For obvious reasons, we don't discuss what we are or are not capable of doing, technologically," Margolin said.
Sprint Nextel spokesman Mark Elliott said the company cooperates with authorities when they have warrants and subpoenas. "In this case, we were not aware of any investigation and were not asked to participate," Elliott said.
Samsung spokesman Jose Cardona said he had not heard of any privacy issues with 900 series phones.
Nextel phones are made by Motorola, which also makes the popular Razr. Motorola spokeswoman Molly Sheehan said the company's phones were not designed or intended to violate privacy rights or laws, "and Motorola neither supports nor condones such use." She referred further questions to the FBI.
While all commercial mobile services can be tapped, Nextel is the easiest because its network uses a technology called TDMA, said the Granite Island Group's Atkinson, who was trained by the government and advises corporations about security.
TDMA conveys a constant audio stream to cell towers. That stream can be monitored surreptitiously with another Nextel phone, Atkinson said.
A walkie-talkie feature has made Nextel popular with businesses. But Atkinson said more convenience can mean less security.
That goes for Nextel-toting FBI agents, too, he said. If they gather in Washington, "I can tell you from a few blocks away where the FBI agents are, and how far apart they're sitting in the building."
Asked if the FBI uses Nextel phones, spokeswoman Cathy Milhoan said, "We use a variety of phones and providers."
Atkinson said the only sure way to shield a mobile phone from the prying ears of police, hackers and jealous spouses is to remove the battery. But don't get cocky.
"A smart eavesdropper will bug the battery," he said.
Assata Shakur honored at CCNY...Whitefolks outraged
These days, Joanne Chesimard is known as Assata Shakur, but she's had dozens of other aliases in a life on the run.
She now lives in Cuba, a guest of dictator Fidel Castro, and carries a $1 million price tag for her capture and return to prison in the U.S.
She's a convicted cop killer who left behind a lifetime of pain for the family of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster.
But in at least one corner of City College, Chesimard is a hero, honored and remembered.
Her latest alias enshrines theGuillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community Center at the City University of New York's flagship campus.
It's a punch to the gut that has furious police groups demanding the publicly funded institution strip away the Black Liberation Army militant's name.
"We use tax dollars to support an institution that indemnifies a cold-blooded terrorist?" asked Dave Jones, president of the New Jersey State Troopers Fraternal Association.
"She's a cowardly, cold-blooded convicted murderer who's part of a murdering sect," he said. "She's no different from those people who flew those planes into those towers and destroyed all those innocent lives."
Shakur was sentenced to life for her role in the the 1973 murder of Foerster.
Foerster was shot twice at point-blank range with his own weapon when he pulled over a car carrying Chesimard and other activists on May 2, 1973, on the Jersey Turnpike.
His partner, James Harper, was wounded.
She was freed in a daring 1979 prison break and fled to Cuba. Last year, the feds put her on the terrorist watch list with a $1 million reward for her capture.
The Morales/Shakur Center got its name in 1989, a reward to radical students who took over City College's North Academic Center to protest a proposed tuition hike.
Guillermo Morales was a member of the FALN, a violent group advocating independence for Puerto Rico. He fled to Mexico after breaking out of Bellevue Hospital even after losing his fingers while making a bomb. He now also lives in Cuba.
Today, the center named for Morales and Shakur is shared by three groups - Students for Educational Rights, the Student Liberation Action Movement and Dominicans 2000. CCNY says it has no intention of renaming the center.
A spokeswoman also said the complaints from cops are the first the college has heard.
"This is not the college or the administration's idea of a good name for this room, but we believe the university is a place to discuss and argue ideas, some of which are not widely supported," said school spokeswoman Mary Lou Edmondson.
But police groups said Shakur was not about ideas - she was about killing.
"It's disgusting that an institute of higher learning whose main goal is to educate people would dedicate a room to a person whose main goal in life was to take lives, especially those of people who wear the uniform," said Patrick Lynch, president of the New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.
Students who use the center today were a little fuzzy on who it's named for.
Freshmen Jeimy Gutierrez, 18, and Angela Morel, 17, members of the Student Liberation Action Movement, said they did not know Shakur is a wanted terrorist who killed a New Jersey trooper.
"I'm surprised," said Angela. "I didn't know. I'm going to do some research."
"I'm going to look into it," Gutierrez echoed.
But the center's older advisers know who she is.
Center Director Rodolfo Leyton argues that Shakur was framed.
"The legal system makes mistakes all the time," he said, insisting many black activists were jailed on trumped-up charges.
"She's seen as a hero to most of the people in her community - Harlem, the South Bronx, Brooklyn, wherever people of color are," Leyton said.
The New Jersey State Police said Chesimard is no hero.
"I would hope these college students do the appropriate research in terms of what transpired with regards to the murder of Werner Foerster," said Capt. Al Della Fave, a spokesman for the New Jersey State Police. "I think if they did, they'd think twice about supporting her. Basically, she's a terrorist."
She now lives in Cuba, a guest of dictator Fidel Castro, and carries a $1 million price tag for her capture and return to prison in the U.S.
She's a convicted cop killer who left behind a lifetime of pain for the family of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster.
But in at least one corner of City College, Chesimard is a hero, honored and remembered.
Her latest alias enshrines theGuillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community Center at the City University of New York's flagship campus.
It's a punch to the gut that has furious police groups demanding the publicly funded institution strip away the Black Liberation Army militant's name.
"We use tax dollars to support an institution that indemnifies a cold-blooded terrorist?" asked Dave Jones, president of the New Jersey State Troopers Fraternal Association.
"She's a cowardly, cold-blooded convicted murderer who's part of a murdering sect," he said. "She's no different from those people who flew those planes into those towers and destroyed all those innocent lives."
Shakur was sentenced to life for her role in the the 1973 murder of Foerster.
Foerster was shot twice at point-blank range with his own weapon when he pulled over a car carrying Chesimard and other activists on May 2, 1973, on the Jersey Turnpike.
His partner, James Harper, was wounded.
She was freed in a daring 1979 prison break and fled to Cuba. Last year, the feds put her on the terrorist watch list with a $1 million reward for her capture.
The Morales/Shakur Center got its name in 1989, a reward to radical students who took over City College's North Academic Center to protest a proposed tuition hike.
Guillermo Morales was a member of the FALN, a violent group advocating independence for Puerto Rico. He fled to Mexico after breaking out of Bellevue Hospital even after losing his fingers while making a bomb. He now also lives in Cuba.
Today, the center named for Morales and Shakur is shared by three groups - Students for Educational Rights, the Student Liberation Action Movement and Dominicans 2000. CCNY says it has no intention of renaming the center.
A spokeswoman also said the complaints from cops are the first the college has heard.
"This is not the college or the administration's idea of a good name for this room, but we believe the university is a place to discuss and argue ideas, some of which are not widely supported," said school spokeswoman Mary Lou Edmondson.
But police groups said Shakur was not about ideas - she was about killing.
"It's disgusting that an institute of higher learning whose main goal is to educate people would dedicate a room to a person whose main goal in life was to take lives, especially those of people who wear the uniform," said Patrick Lynch, president of the New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association.
Students who use the center today were a little fuzzy on who it's named for.
Freshmen Jeimy Gutierrez, 18, and Angela Morel, 17, members of the Student Liberation Action Movement, said they did not know Shakur is a wanted terrorist who killed a New Jersey trooper.
"I'm surprised," said Angela. "I didn't know. I'm going to do some research."
"I'm going to look into it," Gutierrez echoed.
But the center's older advisers know who she is.
Center Director Rodolfo Leyton argues that Shakur was framed.
"The legal system makes mistakes all the time," he said, insisting many black activists were jailed on trumped-up charges.
"She's seen as a hero to most of the people in her community - Harlem, the South Bronx, Brooklyn, wherever people of color are," Leyton said.
The New Jersey State Police said Chesimard is no hero.
"I would hope these college students do the appropriate research in terms of what transpired with regards to the murder of Werner Foerster," said Capt. Al Della Fave, a spokesman for the New Jersey State Police. "I think if they did, they'd think twice about supporting her. Basically, she's a terrorist."
Teacher Allegedly Tapes Student's Mouth Shut
(AP) BAKERSFIELD, Calif. A high school science teacher was placed on paid leave after allegedly duct-taping a noisy freshman's mouth shut in an incident reportedly captured by students' cell phone cameras.
Bakersfield High School teacher Carol Humphrey was placed on leave last week, district spokesman John Teves said Monday.
A student in Humphrey's class was making a sound by thumping his fingers against his cheeks, Teves said.
The teacher then taped the boy's mouth shut and taped a few of his fingers together, students told officials.
"I think the teacher may have thought this was a humorous way to address it," Teves said. "It was not humorous. Putting hands on a student is not acceptable."
Humphrey, a 35-year veteran of the Kern High School District, has not had any disciplinary problems before and was once voted by students to be the female teacher "Most Like a Parent."
Bakersfield High School teacher Carol Humphrey was placed on leave last week, district spokesman John Teves said Monday.
A student in Humphrey's class was making a sound by thumping his fingers against his cheeks, Teves said.
The teacher then taped the boy's mouth shut and taped a few of his fingers together, students told officials.
"I think the teacher may have thought this was a humorous way to address it," Teves said. "It was not humorous. Putting hands on a student is not acceptable."
Humphrey, a 35-year veteran of the Kern High School District, has not had any disciplinary problems before and was once voted by students to be the female teacher "Most Like a Parent."
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Illinois teen to be arrested for spiking HS cafeteria salad dressing with his SEMEN
(CBS) WHEATON, Ill. A student at Wheaton North High School is accused in a vulgar case of food tampering. Police say he put his bodily fluid into salad dressing in the school cafeteria.
CBS 2 news partner The Naperville Sun had the tip on the story. CBS 2's West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli reports a letter is going home to parents warning about the possible health hazard.
The student, a senior, is not in school at this time. School officials first learned of the case of food tampering late Tuesday.
At Wheaton North High School the mission is to create self-directed students who make sound decisions. Last week one of those students decided to do the unthinkable when officials say he spiked a container of cafeteria salad dressing with his own semen.
Police say an attempted aggravated battery arrest is imminent.
"An act occurred that could have physically harmed someone at the school, but no one was physically harmed," said Commander Joseph Eversole of the Wheaton Police Department.
Police were called into the investigation by District 200 superintendent Gary Catalani. He did not want to talk on camera and asked us to hold the story so parents would learn what happened in letters that were put in first class mail today.
But students say it's too late, and everyone knows about the incident already.
And everyone is universally repulsed.
"The whole school is disgusted," said senior Brian Corcoran.
"That's got to be the sickest thing I've ever heard in my life," said Nick Anderson, also a senior student.
"It's just pretty gross that someone would actually do that," said senior Edward Lee.
"It's been going on for a month. That's what we've all been hearing," said senior Katie Muir, but school officials say their investigation has shown that it happened just once, last Wednesday.
They say the student admitted he put the semen into a container of ranch dressing in the student commons dining area. And officials have determined that the contents could have been ingested during the last lunch period on Wednesday and during all five lunch periods on Thursday.
The superintendent sought to reassure saying, "We want to make sure every precaution is taken and we're doing that. We've changed protocols with food service containers to ensure this never happens again."
From now on the condiments in all 20 schools in the district will only be available in individual packets or in large containers, making them very difficult to tamper with.
The district notified the DuPage Department of Health, who did not return calls for comment Thursday. Many of the students are concerned, as ingesting semen can spread HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases.
Source: CBS2Chicago
CBS 2 news partner The Naperville Sun had the tip on the story. CBS 2's West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli reports a letter is going home to parents warning about the possible health hazard.
The student, a senior, is not in school at this time. School officials first learned of the case of food tampering late Tuesday.
At Wheaton North High School the mission is to create self-directed students who make sound decisions. Last week one of those students decided to do the unthinkable when officials say he spiked a container of cafeteria salad dressing with his own semen.
Police say an attempted aggravated battery arrest is imminent.
"An act occurred that could have physically harmed someone at the school, but no one was physically harmed," said Commander Joseph Eversole of the Wheaton Police Department.
Police were called into the investigation by District 200 superintendent Gary Catalani. He did not want to talk on camera and asked us to hold the story so parents would learn what happened in letters that were put in first class mail today.
But students say it's too late, and everyone knows about the incident already.
And everyone is universally repulsed.
"The whole school is disgusted," said senior Brian Corcoran.
"That's got to be the sickest thing I've ever heard in my life," said Nick Anderson, also a senior student.
"It's just pretty gross that someone would actually do that," said senior Edward Lee.
"It's been going on for a month. That's what we've all been hearing," said senior Katie Muir, but school officials say their investigation has shown that it happened just once, last Wednesday.
They say the student admitted he put the semen into a container of ranch dressing in the student commons dining area. And officials have determined that the contents could have been ingested during the last lunch period on Wednesday and during all five lunch periods on Thursday.
The superintendent sought to reassure saying, "We want to make sure every precaution is taken and we're doing that. We've changed protocols with food service containers to ensure this never happens again."
From now on the condiments in all 20 schools in the district will only be available in individual packets or in large containers, making them very difficult to tamper with.
The district notified the DuPage Department of Health, who did not return calls for comment Thursday. Many of the students are concerned, as ingesting semen can spread HIV or other sexually transmitted diseases.
Source: CBS2Chicago
Wisconsin hunter hit a deer with 7 legs
FOND DU LAC, Wis. - Rick Lisko hunts deer with a bow but got his most unusual one driving his truck down his mile-long driveway. The young buck had nub antlers — and seven legs. Lisko said it also had both male and female reproductive organs. "It was definitely a freak of nature," Lisko said. "I guess it's a real rarity."
He said he slowed down as the buck and two does ran across the driveway Nov. 22, but the buck ran under the truck and got hit.
When he looked at the animal, he noticed three- to four-inch appendages growing from the rear legs. Later, he found a smaller appendage growing from one of the front legs.
"It's a pretty weird deer," he said, describing the extra legs as resembling "crab pinchers."
"It kind of gives you the creeps when you look at it," he said, but he thought he saw the appendages moving, as if they were functional, before the deer was hit.
Warden Doug Bilgo of the state Department of Natural Resources came to Lisko's property near Mud Lake in the town of Osceola to tag the deer.
"I have never seen anything like that in all the years that I've been working as a game warden and being a hunter myself," Bilgo said. "It wasn't anything grotesque or ugly or anything. It was just unusual that it would have those little appendages growing out like that."
Bilgo took photos and sent information on the animal to DNR wildlife managers.
John Hoffman of Eden Meat Market skinned the deer for Lisko, who wasn't going to waste the venison from the animal.
"And by the way, I did eat it," Lisko said. "It was tasty."
He said he slowed down as the buck and two does ran across the driveway Nov. 22, but the buck ran under the truck and got hit.
When he looked at the animal, he noticed three- to four-inch appendages growing from the rear legs. Later, he found a smaller appendage growing from one of the front legs.
"It's a pretty weird deer," he said, describing the extra legs as resembling "crab pinchers."
"It kind of gives you the creeps when you look at it," he said, but he thought he saw the appendages moving, as if they were functional, before the deer was hit.
Warden Doug Bilgo of the state Department of Natural Resources came to Lisko's property near Mud Lake in the town of Osceola to tag the deer.
"I have never seen anything like that in all the years that I've been working as a game warden and being a hunter myself," Bilgo said. "It wasn't anything grotesque or ugly or anything. It was just unusual that it would have those little appendages growing out like that."
Bilgo took photos and sent information on the animal to DNR wildlife managers.
John Hoffman of Eden Meat Market skinned the deer for Lisko, who wasn't going to waste the venison from the animal.
"And by the way, I did eat it," Lisko said. "It was tasty."
Man kills his daughter because she turned off his Xbox
This was Tyrone Spellman's explanation to police: He "snapped" after he thought his daughter had broken a $600 Xbox game console.
Alayiah Turman was only 17 months old, born March 29, 2005. Spellman beat her to death, prosecutors say.
In an alleged confession read at his preliminary hearing yesterday, Spellman, 25, said he was playing one of Tom Clancy's "Ghost Recon" games - a violent combat epic - in a front bedroom of his family's Brewerytown home that Thursday morning, Sept. 7. He had taken Alayiah into the room so her mother, Mia Turman, could rest.
"She pulled the cord and the whole game console fell over," Spellman said in his statement, read by Homicide Detective John Cummings. "I thought it was broken. I popped her in the face. I picked her up and tossed her in a chair."
Later that day - at 12:37 p.m. - Alayiah was pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital.
Spellman, also known as Anwar Salahuddin, was held for trial by order of Municipal Court Judge Gerard A. Kosinski on charges of murder, endangering the welfare of a child, and related offenses.
Alayiah's slaying was one of several child deaths examined by The Inquirer in an October article on the city Department of Human Services and its oversight of child-abuse and neglect cases.
DHS visited Spellman's rowhouse on the 1500 block of North 29th Street twice in August - each time seeing only the baby's mother, Mia Turman, 21, and Alayiah, inside. Turman told the agency that no one else lived there.
In September, Cheryl Ransom-Garner, then DHS commissioner, told The Inquirer that a social worker had reported the child looked happy and had no bruises. But Turman's mother, Marvine Turman, told The Inquirer that she had seen bruises on the child.
Yesterday's hearing focused on the injuries Alayiah suffered on the day she died.
In his statement, Spellman said that after he tossed his daughter in a chair, he put her on a bed. He then went to tell Turman, who was eight months pregnant and sleeping in a different bedroom, that he was going to a store to get "something to smoke and something to eat."
When he returned, Spellman said, Keith Walker - identified after the hearing by Spellman's supporters as a tenant in the house - told him that Alayiah "fell and had blood on her nose."
Spellman called 911 while Walker tried to resuscitate her.
Mia Turman testified yesterday, her voice at times nervous, as Spellman stared at her. Turman and Alayiah had moved into Spellman's house about a month before the child's death.
Turman testified that Spellman woke her about noon Sept. 7 and that, when she saw Alayiah, the baby's nose was bleeding, "the side of her face was bruised," and "she wasn't breathing."
Under cross-examination by Spellman's lawyer, Bobby Hoof, Turman agreed that Spellman had told her Alayiah had fallen off a bed and had been found lying on a barbell.
Edwin Lieberman, the city assistant medical examiner who performed Alayiah's autopsy, testified that in addition to bruises around her head, Alayiah suffered "tremendous injury" inside her head "caused by at minimum three separate blows" to the right side, top and back of her skull.
Alayiah's skull was fractured to the point that a piece of bone had fallen out, he said.
When asked by Assistant District Attorney Yvonne Ruiz what could have caused Alayiah's internal head injuries, Lieberman testified that a fist could have caused them or her head could have struck a smooth surface, such as a tabletop, wall or floor.
Under cross-examination, Lieberman dismissed Hoof's suggestions. "A simple fall as you are suggesting from a bed would not cause a skull fracture," he said. Nor, he said, would falling on a weight.
After the hearing, Turman, surrounded by relatives, let off her anger toward Spellman, who she said showed no remorse.
"My baby don't deserve that," she said.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Alayiah Turman was only 17 months old, born March 29, 2005. Spellman beat her to death, prosecutors say.
In an alleged confession read at his preliminary hearing yesterday, Spellman, 25, said he was playing one of Tom Clancy's "Ghost Recon" games - a violent combat epic - in a front bedroom of his family's Brewerytown home that Thursday morning, Sept. 7. He had taken Alayiah into the room so her mother, Mia Turman, could rest.
"She pulled the cord and the whole game console fell over," Spellman said in his statement, read by Homicide Detective John Cummings. "I thought it was broken. I popped her in the face. I picked her up and tossed her in a chair."
Later that day - at 12:37 p.m. - Alayiah was pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital.
Spellman, also known as Anwar Salahuddin, was held for trial by order of Municipal Court Judge Gerard A. Kosinski on charges of murder, endangering the welfare of a child, and related offenses.
Alayiah's slaying was one of several child deaths examined by The Inquirer in an October article on the city Department of Human Services and its oversight of child-abuse and neglect cases.
DHS visited Spellman's rowhouse on the 1500 block of North 29th Street twice in August - each time seeing only the baby's mother, Mia Turman, 21, and Alayiah, inside. Turman told the agency that no one else lived there.
In September, Cheryl Ransom-Garner, then DHS commissioner, told The Inquirer that a social worker had reported the child looked happy and had no bruises. But Turman's mother, Marvine Turman, told The Inquirer that she had seen bruises on the child.
Yesterday's hearing focused on the injuries Alayiah suffered on the day she died.
In his statement, Spellman said that after he tossed his daughter in a chair, he put her on a bed. He then went to tell Turman, who was eight months pregnant and sleeping in a different bedroom, that he was going to a store to get "something to smoke and something to eat."
When he returned, Spellman said, Keith Walker - identified after the hearing by Spellman's supporters as a tenant in the house - told him that Alayiah "fell and had blood on her nose."
Spellman called 911 while Walker tried to resuscitate her.
Mia Turman testified yesterday, her voice at times nervous, as Spellman stared at her. Turman and Alayiah had moved into Spellman's house about a month before the child's death.
Turman testified that Spellman woke her about noon Sept. 7 and that, when she saw Alayiah, the baby's nose was bleeding, "the side of her face was bruised," and "she wasn't breathing."
Under cross-examination by Spellman's lawyer, Bobby Hoof, Turman agreed that Spellman had told her Alayiah had fallen off a bed and had been found lying on a barbell.
Edwin Lieberman, the city assistant medical examiner who performed Alayiah's autopsy, testified that in addition to bruises around her head, Alayiah suffered "tremendous injury" inside her head "caused by at minimum three separate blows" to the right side, top and back of her skull.
Alayiah's skull was fractured to the point that a piece of bone had fallen out, he said.
When asked by Assistant District Attorney Yvonne Ruiz what could have caused Alayiah's internal head injuries, Lieberman testified that a fist could have caused them or her head could have struck a smooth surface, such as a tabletop, wall or floor.
Under cross-examination, Lieberman dismissed Hoof's suggestions. "A simple fall as you are suggesting from a bed would not cause a skull fracture," he said. Nor, he said, would falling on a weight.
After the hearing, Turman, surrounded by relatives, let off her anger toward Spellman, who she said showed no remorse.
"My baby don't deserve that," she said.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Thursday, December 14, 2006
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The New Honda NSX (Exclusive Pictures)
* It will arrive in ’08, together with the introduction of the Acura brand in Japan.
* Honda will give a clear design clue in Detroit in the Acura PR event (that apparently that man has seen).
* V10 powerplant will be a 4.5L, smaller than current BMW’s M5 and the upcoming Lexus V10. They also say that it would have a V angle of 95º, similar to F1 engines, and that for that reason the body will have to be wider. It should reach around 120PS/L with max output of 550Hp. Power is said to come to the wheels through a Semi-AT transmission
* Platform is said to be a newly developed FR+SH-AWD setup, together with a new suspension design, and inheriting an all aluminium body construction from past-gen NSX.
* Style is said to be more in the line of British GT’s than Italian Ferraris. According to the source, he can’t really find similarities with other cars on the road, although he says that you could say it’s a Honda (Acura), but that you couldn’t think of it as a NSX successor.
* Price would be in line with past-gen NSX (priced around 10 – 12 Million yen), which would be considerably cheaper than Lexus targeted price of 15-20 MYen for their GT-car
HOT rating site - New Girls added
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Basic On-Page Organic Search Engine Optimization
Header of the HTML Document:
1 )Title Tag – 8 to 10 words, most important keywords first. Must be relevant to page, readable and keyword rich. Focus on 1-3 concepts and no more.
2 )Meta Description Tag – 20 to 25 words with most important keywords first. Must be relevant to page, readable and keyword rich. Focus on 1-3 concepts and no more. It should be an elaboration of the Title tag.
3 )Meta Keyword Tag – 1 to 40+ keywords in a comma delimited list. These phrases should exist in the title, or on the page. Most important phrases first. Misspellings should be included here, even if no on the viewable page.
4 )JavaScript and CSS – Put them in external files to reduce the amount of data the search engine spider has to go through before arriving at the on-page text.
Viewable Page
1 )Most important keywords should be placed high up on the viewable page. Ideally a tag is used to determine a page or paragraph heading. Search engines do not recognize CSS defined font sizes the same as tags.
Header of the HTML Document:
1 )Title Tag – 8 to 10 words, most important keywords first. Must be relevant to page, readable and keyword rich. Focus on 1-3 concepts and no more.
2 )Meta Description Tag – 20 to 25 words with most important keywords first. Must be relevant to page, readable and keyword rich. Focus on 1-3 concepts and no more. It should be an elaboration of the Title tag.
3 )Meta Keyword Tag – 1 to 40+ keywords in a comma delimited list. These phrases should exist in the title, or on the page. Most important phrases first. Misspellings should be included here, even if no on the viewable page.
4 )JavaScript and CSS – Put them in external files to reduce the amount of data the search engine spider has to go through before arriving at the on-page text.
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2 )Logo – Should always link to the site home page and include an alt tag with the site’s most important keyword phrase.
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3 )Image Alt text – These are most useful for SEO when the alt text is meaningful for the page being linked to. Alt text: “red ducks” which links to the page, red-ducks.htm and where “Red Ducks” is in the Title tag, the page heading, Meta tags, on-page text, etc.. Keep it simple. Do NOT stuff multiple keyword concepts into an image Alt attribute.
4 )Internal Links – Search engine spiders do not generally follow JavaScript links used in mouseovers or links in image maps. They do not follow links from dropdown menus. Use plain text links. Appearance can be modified through CSS. Placing a few keyword rich text links in the footer of each page can also build internal link popularity.
5 )Site map - Link to a site map page from your home page and from other pages. The site map is a collection of static text links to all other pages of your web site. Do not place more than 100 links on any one page. More info on site maps.
6 )Validate - Search engine spiders may not index a page fully or at all if it encounters certain types of HTML errors. Run your pages through an HTML validator such as http://validator.w3.org/
7 )Link Building - On page keyword optimization and inclusion in a search engine’s database used to be sufficient for high ranking on competitive phrases. Do not underestimate the need for one way links into your site from authoritative sites. Quality is more important than quantity, although they are both important. Link building is an ongoing task that you should allocate time to in proportion to the aggressiveness of your campaign and competitiveness of your category.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Jada Pinkett Smith Gives $1 Million, Asks To Rename School After Tupac
Actress Jada Pinkett Smith has given an early Christmas present to students and faculty at Smith's alma mater, the Baltimore School for Arts.
Smith donated $1 million to the high school from which she graduated and started her successful acting career. It is the largest cash gift ever from a gradaute of the performing arts school.
The Baltimore School for the Arts announced the donation for renovation and further expansion on Monday, and wanted to name its new theater for her. Smith declined and asked that the theater be dedicated to murdered rapper Tupac Shakur, a fellow classmate.
The donation is from the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation, based in Baltimore. Previously they had given $112,500 to the school reported the Baltimore Sun.
When the expansion program is finished, the school plans to increase enrollment and instrumental music production programs.
"It means a lot when you're a teacher and your most famous alumnus comes back to give a donation," said Donald Hicken, head of the school's theater department since its founding in 1980 and Pinkett Smith's former theater teacher. "It really says a lot to the community that the school matters in people's lives."
Karen Banfield Evans, the executive director of the Smith Family Foundation and Smith's aunt, said Jada was moved by the school's advances since she graduated in 1989.
"She credits the School for the Arts for really giving her her start and was impressed by the things they've been doing and the way they've grown," Evans said. "When they came up with this (expansion campaign) and all they're doing, she felt like this is what she needed to do." Reported the Baltimore Examiner.
Smith donated $1 million to the high school from which she graduated and started her successful acting career. It is the largest cash gift ever from a gradaute of the performing arts school.
The Baltimore School for the Arts announced the donation for renovation and further expansion on Monday, and wanted to name its new theater for her. Smith declined and asked that the theater be dedicated to murdered rapper Tupac Shakur, a fellow classmate.
The donation is from the Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation, based in Baltimore. Previously they had given $112,500 to the school reported the Baltimore Sun.
When the expansion program is finished, the school plans to increase enrollment and instrumental music production programs.
"It means a lot when you're a teacher and your most famous alumnus comes back to give a donation," said Donald Hicken, head of the school's theater department since its founding in 1980 and Pinkett Smith's former theater teacher. "It really says a lot to the community that the school matters in people's lives."
Karen Banfield Evans, the executive director of the Smith Family Foundation and Smith's aunt, said Jada was moved by the school's advances since she graduated in 1989.
"She credits the School for the Arts for really giving her her start and was impressed by the things they've been doing and the way they've grown," Evans said. "When they came up with this (expansion campaign) and all they're doing, she felt like this is what she needed to do." Reported the Baltimore Examiner.
Black Women And Girls Raped By White Men With KKK Affiliation
Accused rapists have ties to KKK, investigators say
(Manning) July 10, 2006 - Investigators now say the alleged sexual assault and stabbing of a teenage girl in Manning was a hate crime.
Jeremy Sweat and Dustin Evans are charged with raping and stabbing a 15-year-old girl one week ago.
Sweat and Evans are white. The alleged victim is black.
The sheriff says officers believe Sweat and Evans targeted her because of her race, and may have been targeting any African-American woman.
As a teenager, investigators say Jeremy Sweat liked the Ku Klux Klan.
Deputies showed News 10 a report from a camp for troubled teens in Louisiana, stating he "frequently makes references to his involvement in the KKK."
The 1997 report also said Sweat "threatens to kill specific staff members."
Since moving to Clarendon County a year ago, deputies believe Sweat's violent feelings grew.
"He doesn't make references to the KKK, but he does make references to the lack of value he places on the young woman's life. Basically he said, she's just a black whore-- no one's going to care about her," says Tommie Burgess.
Lieutenant Tommie Burgess says officers also believe Sweat and Evans raped a black woman from Summerton last month.
Both women said the men talked about killing them.
"The first victim ... They talked about throwing her to the alligators ... The second one, they discussed tying blocks to her legs and throwing her in the lake," Burgess says.
Investigators believe Sweat and Evans may have approached more black women. A group of girls told deputies the men came up to them at this Waffle House, and asked if they wanted to go to their house and drink beer. The girls said no.
As of Monday night, both men remained in jail after a judge denied bond.
Charges, background and timeline
21-year-old Dustin L. Evans was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping and assault and battery with intent to kill. He was taken into custody without incident at approximately 9:05 Thursday morning at his mother's home in Manning. He's now at the Clarendon County jail.
Evans' wife says he'd been gone for three days, but gave up, saying he couldn't run anymore. "All he could do was cry. Like he was just really scared. He let them handcuff him. He didn't try to fight."
24-year-old Jeremy Shay Sweat was arrested last Monday afternoon and faces the same charges.
Investigators say inside the mobile home, the victim was choked and had her neck cut with a knife before she was repeatedly raped by the two men.
They then forced her into a shower, told her to turn around and began stabbing her. The teenager fell into the bathtub and played dead.
She played dead and overheard the men talking about getting some trash bags and dumping her body in a lake. That's when her attackers left.
Then she ran away, climbing over the back fence to get help next door. Oather Webster tells what happened next, "I could hear somebody stumbling and banging on the wall as they were going down the porch."
The girl was soaked in blood and pounding on Webster's house, begging to be let in, "I had this blood-soaked figure come bolting in the house."
"She was starting to go into shock. I'm assuming from loss of blood. I mean the amount of blood that she had left on the walls and the spot where she had sat in my dining area, was tremendous."
A sheriff's spokesman says the victim is recovering from her wounds, and doing well. Authorities said Thursday she has been released from the hospital.
The case will be prosecuted by the 3rd Circuit Solicitor's Office. As always, officials stress all defendants are innocent until proven guilty.
That's important to Evans' wife Crystal. Two years ago, Dustin Evans was a proud new father of his first child with Crystal, who's now pregnant with the couple's second baby. "He was a gentle guy. I mean he'll appear to be kind of rough to people, but he's really gentle. I mean, because of the tattoos and his body build, I mean he appears to look rough, but he's just always been real gentle."
Investigators say they have also linked Sweat and Evans to the rape of a 45-year-old Summerton woman June 20th. She was also black.
(Manning) July 10, 2006 - Investigators now say the alleged sexual assault and stabbing of a teenage girl in Manning was a hate crime.
Jeremy Sweat and Dustin Evans are charged with raping and stabbing a 15-year-old girl one week ago.
Sweat and Evans are white. The alleged victim is black.
The sheriff says officers believe Sweat and Evans targeted her because of her race, and may have been targeting any African-American woman.
As a teenager, investigators say Jeremy Sweat liked the Ku Klux Klan.
Deputies showed News 10 a report from a camp for troubled teens in Louisiana, stating he "frequently makes references to his involvement in the KKK."
The 1997 report also said Sweat "threatens to kill specific staff members."
Since moving to Clarendon County a year ago, deputies believe Sweat's violent feelings grew.
"He doesn't make references to the KKK, but he does make references to the lack of value he places on the young woman's life. Basically he said, she's just a black whore-- no one's going to care about her," says Tommie Burgess.
Lieutenant Tommie Burgess says officers also believe Sweat and Evans raped a black woman from Summerton last month.
Both women said the men talked about killing them.
"The first victim ... They talked about throwing her to the alligators ... The second one, they discussed tying blocks to her legs and throwing her in the lake," Burgess says.
Investigators believe Sweat and Evans may have approached more black women. A group of girls told deputies the men came up to them at this Waffle House, and asked if they wanted to go to their house and drink beer. The girls said no.
As of Monday night, both men remained in jail after a judge denied bond.
Charges, background and timeline
21-year-old Dustin L. Evans was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct, kidnapping and assault and battery with intent to kill. He was taken into custody without incident at approximately 9:05 Thursday morning at his mother's home in Manning. He's now at the Clarendon County jail.
Evans' wife says he'd been gone for three days, but gave up, saying he couldn't run anymore. "All he could do was cry. Like he was just really scared. He let them handcuff him. He didn't try to fight."
24-year-old Jeremy Shay Sweat was arrested last Monday afternoon and faces the same charges.
Investigators say inside the mobile home, the victim was choked and had her neck cut with a knife before she was repeatedly raped by the two men.
They then forced her into a shower, told her to turn around and began stabbing her. The teenager fell into the bathtub and played dead.
She played dead and overheard the men talking about getting some trash bags and dumping her body in a lake. That's when her attackers left.
Then she ran away, climbing over the back fence to get help next door. Oather Webster tells what happened next, "I could hear somebody stumbling and banging on the wall as they were going down the porch."
The girl was soaked in blood and pounding on Webster's house, begging to be let in, "I had this blood-soaked figure come bolting in the house."
"She was starting to go into shock. I'm assuming from loss of blood. I mean the amount of blood that she had left on the walls and the spot where she had sat in my dining area, was tremendous."
A sheriff's spokesman says the victim is recovering from her wounds, and doing well. Authorities said Thursday she has been released from the hospital.
The case will be prosecuted by the 3rd Circuit Solicitor's Office. As always, officials stress all defendants are innocent until proven guilty.
That's important to Evans' wife Crystal. Two years ago, Dustin Evans was a proud new father of his first child with Crystal, who's now pregnant with the couple's second baby. "He was a gentle guy. I mean he'll appear to be kind of rough to people, but he's really gentle. I mean, because of the tattoos and his body build, I mean he appears to look rough, but he's just always been real gentle."
Investigators say they have also linked Sweat and Evans to the rape of a 45-year-old Summerton woman June 20th. She was also black.
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