From the Boston Globe:
International judges pledged Monday to push ahead with the much-delayed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal following the reduction of fees for foreign lawyers wishing to participate in the process.
From the Boston Globe:
Washington now has an official amphibian -- the Pacific chorus frog -- a lighthearted addition to a growing list of "official" things that now includes a state vegetable, ship, folk song and even grass, though not the funny kind.
Gov. Chris Gregoire, wearing a toy frog on her forefinger, signed the bill Monday, bantering with the Boston Harbor Elementary School third graders who brought the legislation forward as a class project.
From the Boston Globe:
Brooke's eyes are bluer than a summer sky as the 4-year-old looks out from behind locks of sandy blond hair and stares directly into the camera. Michelle, 12, unsuccessfully tries to use her hands to hide her toothy smile from the lens. And 10-year-old Austin leans a cheek full of red freckles on his hand, posing almost like a model for the photographer.
These three images are part of Faces and Voices of Autism, an exhibition of 18 photographs that made its debut today at Doric Hall in the State House.
From WHS's site:
Attention Juniors: Any juniors interested in participating in a Job Shadowing opportunity at Melrose Wakefield Hospital on May 23rd please see Mr. Beebe for details. Deadline for signing up is May 11. A maximum of 15 students can attend.
From the Boston Globe:
In a menu likely to be welcomed by the U.S. beef industry, cheeseburgers will be served at the luncheon President George W. Bush is hosting for Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday.
From the Boston Globe:
Fourteen anti-war protesters were arrested in a Senate office building Thursday after unfurling a banner calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
From the Boston Globe:
A global climate change initiative that is a top priority of Democratic legislative leaders has become entwined in a debate over whether the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant should be taxed to help pay for it.
From the Boston Globe:
Mexico's government renewed a deal with retailers and producers on Wednesday to cap prices of the food staple tortilla to control inflation and placate angry consumers.
From the Boston Globe:
Marijuana is getting a little more potent each year. A project at the University of Mississippi has tested samples of marijuana seized by law enforcement agents annually since the late 1970s to check levels of THC, the active ingredient.
From the Boston Globe:
Rhode Island lawmakers delay a vote on extending the state's medical marijuana program.
From the Wakefield Observer:
In an unusually low turnout, 17.95 percent, or 2,938 of the town’s 16,366 registered voters cast a vote in the April 24 Town Election.
In the most watched race, with four candidates running for three seats, school committee candidates Lisa Butler and Kevin Piskadlo were elected to three-year terms, while committee chair Carmen Urbonas was reelected to another term.
From the Boston Globe:
Italy will return to Libya an ancient Roman statue taken from its former North African colony, a gesture Rome hopes will help its own campaign to retrieve allegedly looted antiquities from museums worldwide.
From the Boston Globe:
A "full-scale riot" broke out Tuesday at a medium-security men's prison, according to the mayor, and pictures taken from television helicopters showed at least two fires burning in the courtyard.
Indiana Department of Correction spokeswoman Java Ahmed confirmed there was a disturbance at the New Castle Correctional Facility, about 43 miles east of Indianapolis.
From the Boston Globe:
Linda Ronstadt will open this year's Newport Folk Festival -- her first appearance at the summertime event.
The festival's organizers made that announcement today.
They also announced that vocalist Dianne Reeves will open the J-V-C Jazz Festival-Newport, along with the Count Basie Orchestra.
That's right, the Étudiant is one year old! Here's to many more years of bringing you the news.
From the Boston Globe:
Palestinian Finance Minister Salam Fayyad said on Thursday progress was being made on easing U.S. banking restrictions that have crippled the cashed-strapped Palestinian Authority.
From the Boston Globe:
Former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley is using leftover campaign cash to pay for the huge legal bills he's racking up defending himself in the congressional page scandal that led to his resignation.
From the Boston Globe:
Pepperidge Farm Inc. is helping to repair a rare functioning grist mill in Massachusetts.
From the AP:
Between his first and second bursts of gunfire, the Virginia Tech gunman mailed a package to NBC News containing what authorities said were video, photos of himself brandishng weapons, and a rambling diatribe about getting even with rich people.
From the Boston Globe:
Rafael Nadal extended his winning streak on clay to 63 matches, beating Juan Ignacio Chela 6-3, 6-1 in the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Wednesday.
From ABC News:
A Virginia district court found that Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho was "mentally ill" and an "imminent danger to others," according to a 2005 temporary detention order obtained by ABC News.
Virginia Tech police say Cho was taken to a nearby psychiatric hospital for evaluation in December 2005, after two female schoolmates said they received threatening messages from him and police and school officials became concerned that he might be suicidal.
From the Boston Globe
A University of Colorado student was arrested after making comments that classmates deemed sympathetic toward the gunman blamed for killing 32 students and himself at Virginia Tech, authorities said.
From the Boston Globe:
Media mogul Sumner Redstone is donating $35 million to Massachusetts General Hospital to improve its emergency care of burn and trauma patients.
From the Wakefield Observer:
As part of the national Step it Up campaign to compel Congress to enact legislation that would reduce carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050, more than 75 people from Wakefield and surrounding communities gathered April 14 at the bandstand on the Lower Common to show their support for the effort.
One of over 1,400 gatherings across the nation on this raw and blustery day in Wakefield, the photo was sent to the Step it Up 2007 Web site to become part of a streaming slide show of all the events that will be sent to members of Congress. (See www.stepitup2007.org for more information.) This Sunday is Earth Day, another opportunity to advocate for this issue
From the Boston Globe:
Child pornography on the Internet is becoming more brutal and graphic, and the number of images depicting violent abuse has risen fourfold since 2003, according to an Internet watchdog report published Tuesday.
From the Boston Globe:
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney says that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is wrong when she contends that "it takes a village" to raise a child, though he told a newspaper in 1998 that Clinton was "very much right."
From the Boston Globe:
A gunman massacred 32 people at Virginia Tech in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history Monday, cutting down his victims in two attacks two hours apart before the university could grasp what was happening and warn students.
From the Boston Globe:
An Iraqi militant group has highlighted the split in the ranks of the Iraqi insurgency by having its spokesman give a television interview in which he accuses al-Qaida and its umbrella organization of killing its members and pursuing the wrong policies.
From the Boston Globe:
A small collection of letters, notes and speeches once believed to belong to Martin Luther King Jr. was taken off the auction block on Thursday amid protests from the civil rights leader's family.
From the Boston Globe:
Supporters of hate-crimes legislation said Thursday they expect Congress to enact a law this year expanding federal penalties for acts of violence against homosexuals.Here's an interesting part of that article:
They have renamed their latest proposal in honor of Matthew Shepard, the gay college student who died after he was beaten and tied to a fence in Wyoming in 1998.
Asked about potential opposition from religious groups that disagree with homosexuality, Smith said that should not be a problem.
"This act is about the prosecution of crime, not prohibition of speech," Smith said. "Unless they believe part of their religion is the practice of violence against others, they should not be affected by this bill."
From the Boston Globe:
Benedict XVI, in his first extended reflections on evolution published as pope, says that Darwin's theory cannot be finally proven and that science has unnecessarily narrowed humanity's view of creation.
From the Boston Globe:
National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell said Wednesday that a landmark surveillance law needs to be updated to accommodate advances in technology.
From the Boston Globe:
A panel of health experts is calling on New Hampshire families, doctors, schools and communities to fight childhood obesity.
"It's critical for everyone in the community to take a role in combating the obesity problem," Dr. Mary McGowan, a panel member and director of the Cholesterol Treatment Center at Concord Hospital said Wednesday. "We know that we cannot implement all of these recommendations at once, but by creating healthier environments together one step at a time, we can improve the health of our children."
Last fall, the Foundation for Healthy Communities announced a study showing that nearly one-third of New Hampshire children are overweight or obese. The report gave doctors, educators and parents information they'd never had before about how widespread childhood obesity was in the state.
Based on the report, the Foundation convened the special panel of doctors, nurse practitioners, dietitians, behavioral health professionals, disease prevention specialists and public health experts to identify ways to improve children's health.
The New Hampshire Childhood Obesity Expert Panel presented its report Wednesday, offering advice including nutrition information, exercise guidelines and ways to encourage physical activity in children. It also offers lists of related material to help implement the suggestions.
From the Wakefield Observer:
In just over an hour, Town Meeting passed articles 5 through 23 of the annual warrant.
From the Boston Globe:
Unusually high Pacific waves battered beaches from El Salvador to Mexico and carried people out to sea, prompting authorities in some places to order swimmers out of the water Tuesday.
From the Boston Globe:
In the first purchase of his collection, Sellam Ismail loaded the trunk of his car with old computers he stumbled upon at a flea market for $5 apiece. Soon he had filled his three-car garage with what others would consider obsolete junk.
Years later, his collection of early computers, printers, and related parts is piled high across shelves and in chaotic heaps in a 4,500-square-foot warehouse near Silicon Valley. And it is worth real money.
From the Boston Globe:
Michael Skakel plans to call his cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and his celebrity trial attorney as witnesses for an appeal of his murder conviction that starts next week on a claim that two other men may have committed the crime.
From the Boston Globe:
Some 400 illegal migrants have been intercepted entering the U.S. Virgin Islands over the past six months, officials say.
From the Boston Globe:
Shaky testimony and prejudice by the jury foreman should be enough to grant a new trial to a Lodi man convicted last year of terrorism-related charges, a defense lawyer argued Friday.
Attorney Dennis Riordan told a federal judge that jury foreman Joseph Cote was biased against his client because he is Pakistani-American, a Muslim and was charged with terrorist activities.
"We really have a question if we had 12 fair jurors," Riordan said during a hearing in U.S. District Court. "We know that one of them was not fair."
Hamid Hayat's sentencing has been postponed while Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. considers a defense motion seeking a new trial. The judge delayed making a decision.
Hayat, 24, was arrested in June 2005 and convicted last April of lying to federal agents when he denied attending a terrorist training camp in Pakistan in 2003.
"Did Hamid Hayat receive a fair trial?" Tice-Raskin said during the hearing. "The answer is yes -- absolutely yes."
From the Boston Globe:
A 16-year-old boy charged with fatally stabbing a fellow high school student may be close to regaining his memory of the alleged crime and could eventually be fit to stand trial, his lawyer said Friday.
John Odgren, of Princeton, is charged in the Jan. 19 killing of James Alenson, 15, inside a bathroom at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School. He has pleaded not guilty.
On March 26, a court-appointed psychiatrist told the Middlesex Superior Court that Odgren was found competent to stand trial, but defense lawyer Jonathan Shapiro noted then that the report also said his client did not remember the killing.
Since then, Shapiro told The Boston Globe on Friday, his client has been working with mental health specialists in an effort to recover from his amnesia.
From the Boston Globe:
A Canadian court Thursday granted one of China's most-wanted men a delay in any decision on his deportation to face smuggling and corruption charges.
From the Boston Globe:
A man breached security at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Thursday, forcing parts of two terminals to be evacuated, authorities said.
The man, who had not been found by Thursday evening, circumvented security at Terminal 3 at about 4:15 p.m., the Transportation Security Administration said in an announcement.
From the Boston Globe:
Nathan Gerbe scored the go-ahead goal with 4:06 to go, leading Boston College to a 6-4 victory over North Dakota in the Frozen Four semifinals Thursday night.
Boston College (29-11-1) will take a 13-game winning streak into the championship game Saturday night against Michigan State (25-13-3).
From the Wakefield Observer:
With no debate on the $64 million budget, the Wakefield Town Meeting instead focused on what officials planned to do about the ongoing goose problem and the prospects of adding a crematorium near Lake Quannapowitt.
However, many residents raised concerns about Article 3, a $15,000 proposal by the town’s Goose Committee to hire a professional border collie service to address the town’s ongoing goose problem.
“The hard reality is that short of drastically altering the landscape, a permanent solution to the goose control problem does not yet exist,” said Goose Committee Chairman Bronwyn Della-Volpe.
Residents also debated Article 4, an amendment to the town’s bylaws to prevent a crematorium from being built in Wakefield. This article was sponsored by Meg Michaels, an environmental advocate who filed a lawsuit against Lakeside Cemeteries in hopes of preventing them from building a crematorium inside the Lakeside Church basement near Lake Quannapowitt. Michaels said burning dead bodies would release mercury and other pollutants into the air.
I know what you're thinking, "Where the hell have you been?" Around, but really busy. But enough about me, let's get to the news.
From the WHS website:
Attention Students: If you are seeking employment, need help with a resume; are interested in a job internship or want help exploring careers the Career Center is the place to go.
