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A Wisconsin man raising his 18-month-old daughter alone tried to sell the little girl for $7,000 so he could make improvements to his house, police said Friday.
The Ashwaubenon man tried to sell his daughter to a Grand Chute couple, who helped authorities in the investigation, Grand Chute Police Chief Ed Kopp said. "He was having difficulties raising the child alone and wanted to use the money for some home remodelling," Kopp said.
Danny Vu, 37, was charged Friday with unauthorized adoption placement, a felony that carries up to six years in prison.
The daughter showed no signs of physical abuse, Kopp said. Brown County officials will probably place her in temporary foster care.
The man wanted to sell the girl "and didn't want anything to do with the baby after that," Outagamie County District Attorney Carrie Schneider said.
The man owns a nail salon in Green Bay. A s...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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With pomp, pagentry and an unplanned protest, President Bush welcomed Chinese President Hu Jintao to the White House on Thursday as the two leaders embarked on talks aimed at cooling tensions over a yawning U.S.-China trade gap.
Demonstrators massed outside to protest Beijing’s human-rights policies. And a woman who somehow got into the press area on the White House South Lawn shouted at Hu for several minutes before being escorted away. “The United states and China are two nations divided by a vast ocean yet connected through a global economy that is creating opportunities for both our people,” Bush said in welcoming Hu to his first visit to the White House as Chinese leader.
Bush was quick to serve notice on the Chinese leader that he would continue to press for China to move “toward a flexible market exchange rate for its currency.” Hu stood stiffly, as if at attention, as Bush...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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With the expected passage this spring of the largest emergency spending bill in history, annual war expenditures in Iraq will have nearly doubled since the U.S. invasion, as the military confronts the rapidly escalating cost of repairing, rebuilding and replacing equipment chewed up by three years of combat.
The cost of the war in U.S. fatalities has declined this year, but the cost in treasure continues to rise, from $48 billion in 2003 to $59 billion in 2004 to $81 billion in 2005 to an anticipated $94 billion in 2006, according to the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. The U.S. government is now spending nearly $10 billion a month in Iraq and Afghanistan, up from $8.2 billion a year ago, a new Congressional Research Service report found. Annual war costs in Iraq are easily outpacing the $61 billion a year that the United States spent in Vietnam between 1964 and 1972, ...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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An 8-year-old boy swiped his teacher's car keys and took her minivan for a joyride, cruising safely home and into the record books as the city's youngest auto thief, police said.
The third-grader told officers he "just wanted to drive around for a while" when he left the James Marshall School on Monday, officer Michael Amarillas said.
The diminutive driver snatched the keys from teacher Caren Brady's purse when she turned her back to the class. In order to operate the Dodge Caravan, he raised the driver's seat, lowered the steering wheel, adjusted the rearview mirror and turned off the radio.
"This is the smallest child you can ever imagine," said Brady, who noticed her vehicle missing a couple hours after school. "I don't think this kid is 4 feet tall. He's tiny; he's the tiniest kid in the class."
The boy, whose identity was not released, was suspended from sch...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Karl Rove, the president's most influential adviser and a dominant force in the Bush administration since its beginning, surrendered key policy responsibilities today while press secretary Scott McClellan announced his resignation.
Both moves were part of the makeover promised earlier this week by a White House seeking to reverse sagging public opinion ratings. Rove will remain deputy chief of staff to President Bush, but he will drop his portfolio as policy coordinator -- a job he assumed a year ago -- and once again concentrate his focus on politics as the 2006 mid-term elections approach, senior administration officials said.
The Bush administration's standing in the polls has plummeted to new lows in recent weeks as the war in Iraq has dragged on with little visible progress toward the formation of a new government in Baghdad. The Republican Party's standing has suffered as...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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The Easter Bunny has been fired - for losing his head. Arthur J. McClure, 22, who had been hired to play the Easter Bunny at a local mall has been accused of removing the head of the costume and hitting a customer, authorities said.
McClure punched Erin Johansson when she got upset that the photo exhibit was closing 10 minutes early Saturday night, police reports said. The incident was witnessed by dozens of people at the Edison Mall, including 15 children.
McClure said he never punched Johansson. He claims he was trying to stop a fight between his wife - exhibit manager Crystal Frechette - and Johansson.
He said he took the bunny's head off because he had been wearing it for nine hours and was hot.
"My shirt was soaked with sweat," McClure said. "I almost threw up."
Mall management issued an apology to parents and children. Golden, Colo.-based Noerr Programs Corp., w...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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She showed up at a school in a coastal city in China nearly five months ago and begged for help. Instead, she was deported to her native North Korea and never seen again.
Now the case of Kim Chun Hee has made its way to the desk of President Bush, threatening to complicate the first White House visit of China's leader tomorrow and further irritate an irritable relationship. Urged on by evangelical supporters from his home town and other activists elsewhere, Bush has taken a personal interest in human rights in North Korea and decided to make an example of Kim's asylum case. Alerted to her situation by a South Korean lawmaker, the White House issued a rare statement last month pronouncing itself "gravely concerned" about her fate and chastising China for sending her back.
The story of how an obscure instance of individual hardship came to figure in a meeting between two of the ...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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A local woman suffered minor injuries, including some hearing loss, after lightning struck her home and a nearby tree Sunday night.
With a severe thunderstorm looming, Liz Fulton went to the front door of her west side home shortly after 10 p.m. to call for her cat.
"I just happened to have my finger on the light switch when it blew up, and I was thrown to the floor," she said Monday. "I just saw this big flash in my face. I told my husband that at first I didn't know if I'd been shot. You just don't know. It felt like it exploded in my left ear."
Fulton said she still has trouble hearing in one ear.
"It could have been a lot worse," she said. "I couldn't open the door because the wind was blowing so hard."
If she had opened the door and stepped onto the porch, Fulton would have been standing directly below the tree that took the brunt of the strike.
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A man who said he bought a device that let him change traffic lights from red to green has received a $50 ticket on suspicion of interfering with a traffic signal.
Jason Niccum of Longmont told the Daily Times-Call that the device, which he bought on eBay for $100, helped him cut his time driving to work.
"I guess in the two years I had it, that thing paid for itself," he told the newspaper Wednesday.
Niccum was cited March 29 after police said they found him using a strobe-like device to change traffic signals.
"I'm always running late," police quoted Niccum as saying in an incident report.
The device, called an Opticon, is similar to what firefighters use to change lights when they respond to emergencies. It emits an infrared pulse that receivers on the traffic lights pick up.
Niccum was cited after city traffic engineers who noticed repeated traffic-light disrup...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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A federal jury convicted former Gov. George Ryan today on all charges that as secretary of state he steered state business to cronies in return for vacations, gifts and other benefits for himself and his family.
Lobbyist Lawrence Warner, a close Ryan friend, was also found guilty on all charges against him in the historic trial. On their eleventh day of deliberations, the six-woman, six-man jury found Ryan, 72, guilty on 18 counts of racketeering, mail fraud, false statements and tax violations. Warner, 67, was convicted on 12 counts of racketeering, mail fraud, extortion, money laundering and evading cash-reporting requirements.
The verdict came three weeks after U.S. District Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer excused two jurors during deliberations following Tribune stories that both had apparently concealed arrest records during jury selection in September.
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A black bear was caught in a forest recreation area yesterday and was being sent to a veterinary school to determine whether it was the same animal that attacked a family, killing a 6-year-old girl. Authorities found a bear in the same trap where they found paw prints Saturday in the remote Cherokee National Forest Chilhowee Recreation Area, US Forest Service spokeswoman Sharon Moore said.
The bear, which was captured near the site of the attack, looked to be the same weight as the 350- to 400-pound bear that attacked a woman and her two children on a trail in the recreation area on Thursday, she said.
''We're very hopeful this is the bear," Moore said. ''It's basically the same size bear. There's truly not that many bears in the 5,000 acres we have closed off."
Moore said authorities planned to euthanize the bear yesterday and send its body to the University of Tennes...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Talk about lost in the mail. A postcard sent from a Stetson home to a man in Riverside, Calif., was returned this week with a "return to sender" stamp - and its 1956 postmark.
Mack McCormick, 59, did not send the postcard, but he lives in the home where the postcard originated. It was delivered to his mailbox Monday.
"The card apparently has been in the twilight zone for 50 years," McCormick said. "It's not wrinkled or anything."
He used the Internet to track down the author of the note, George Hitz, 64, who now lives in Sudbury, Mass.
"I had to keep asking questions and pull it out of Mack," Hitz said. "It wasn't obvious to me that he lived in our house."
Hitz, a former ham radio operator included his age on the postcard and information about a radio contact he made in February 1956 with someone he called "Chief Operator Dave." No street address was included...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Two more retired US generals called overnight on Donald Rumsfeld to resign as US defence secretary, adding to a deepening rift within the Pentagon.
Six generals - two of whom commanded troops in Iraq - have now called on Mr Rumsfeld to stand down over his leadership of the war.
Retired Major General Charles Swannack, who led the 82nd Airborne Division in Iraq, said Mr Rumsfeld, 73, had "micromanaged the generals who are leading our forces". He told CNN: "I really believe that we need a new secretary of defence because Secretary Rumsfeld carries way too much baggage with him."
Retired Major General John Riggs told National Public Radio that Mr Rumsfeld had helped create an atmosphere of "arrogance" among the Pentagon's civilian leadership. "They only need the military advice when it satisfies their agenda. I think that's a mistake, and that's why I think he should resi...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Nearly eight months after Hurricane Katrina triggered the nation's largest housing crisis since the Second World War, a hastily improvised $10 billion effort by the federal government has produced vast sums of waste and misspent funds, an array of government audits and outside analysts have concluded.
As the Federal Emergency Management Agency wraps up the initial phase of its temporary housing program -- ending reliance on cruise ships and hotels for people sent fleeing by the Aug. 29 storm -- the toll of false starts and missed opportunities appears likely to top $1 billion and perhaps much more, according to a series of after-action studies and Department of Homeland Security reports, including one due for release today. The government's costliest initiative -- $6.4 billion allocated to place storm survivors in temporary trailers and mobile homes -- has ground to a halt around N...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Authorities recovered a motorcycle that was stolen in 1971 and plan to return it to its original owner this week.
The 1970 Yamaha was about to be shipped overseas to a Finnish man who bought it for $1,725 on eBay in September, authorities said Monday. During the shipping process, the vehicle identification number turned up in the database of the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
Long Beach police still had the theft report and tracked down the original owner, Phillip McKeen, who lives in New England. Police officials plan to return the 360cc bike to McKeen on Wednesday.
"Incredible," said McKeen, an American Airlines pilot. "It's as if a friend you hadn't seen for 30 years walked back into your life but hadn't aged a day."
The 35-year-old bike has just 9,380 miles on the odometer.
Neither the Finnish buyer nor the seller, a Visalia resident, were suspected of wrongdo...Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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