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		<title>Lisa Grant, Mom, Jailed For Mooning School Bus Full Of Kids In Virginia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lisa Grant, a Virginia mom, will spend her upcoming weekends behind bars because she mooned a school bus full of 45 children in Suffolk, Fox News reports.

The 34-year-old admits that she had a heated exchange with the bus driver, who sent a note home saying that Grant's son was misbehaving. A school spokesperson said the note was a warning.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes the moon isn&#8217;t too bright.</p>
<p>Lisa Grant, a Virginia mom, will <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/05/25/virginia-mom-jailed-for-allegedly-mooning-son-school-bus/" target="_hplink">spend her upcoming weekends behind bars</a> because she mooned a school bus full of 45 children in Suffolk, Fox News reports.</p>
<p>The 34-year-old admits that she had a heated exchange with the bus driver, who sent a note home saying that Grant&#8217;s son was misbehaving. A school spokesperson said the note was a warning.</p>
<p>Grant wasn&#8217;t going to take that from the bus driver &#8212; no ifs, ands, or butts about it. She was accused of showing skin in the school bus&#8217; general direction last November, though she still denies she mooned the driver.</p>
<p>&#8220;I did not moon the bus. I did not flash,&#8221; she told WAVY. &#8220;I take full responsibility for my actions, for my disorderly conduct, for my arguing with her. I take full responsibility for that, but she also deserves the same thing I got.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wjla.com/articles/2013/05/lisa-grant-virginia-mom-sentenced-for-mooning-school-bus-89221.html" target="_hplink">The Associated Press reports</a> that she was convicted this week of disorderly conduct and sentenced to six months in jail, with five months of her sentence suspended. She&#8217;ll be serving her time on the weekends only.</p>
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		<title>Armando Villalobos Guilty: Former South Texas DA Convicted Of Corruption</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 08:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) -- A former Texas prosecutor and one-time candidate for Congress was convicted Friday of accepting bribes in exchange for court favors, including an $80,000 payment in a scheme that allowed a convicted murder to escape.]]></description>
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<p>BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) &#8212; A former Texas prosecutor and one-time candidate for Congress was convicted Friday of accepting bribes in exchange for court favors, including an $80,000 payment in a scheme that allowed a convicted murder to escape.</p>
<p>Jurors convicted former Cameron County District Attorney Armando Villalobos on racketeering, bribery and extortion charges. They acquitted him on two extortion charges.</p>
<p>Villalobos is the highest-profile target to stand trial in an FBI investigation into legal corruption in Cameron County. The former prosecutor was accused of taking more than $100,000 in bribes from attorneys.</p>
<p>Villalobos denied any wrongdoing and testified during his trial that he did not request money from lawyers in exchange for appointments with him.</p>
<p>Among the allegations were that Villalobos participated in a scheme involving Amit Livingston, who was convicted of killing his girlfriend, Hermila Hernandez, in 2007. Prosecutors alleged former state District Judge Abel Lima agreed to work with Villalobos and Villalobos&#8217; former law partner, Eddie Lucio, in criminal and civil cases involving Livingston. The trio&#8217;s target was the $500,000 bond put up for Livingston&#8217;s release before trial.</p>
<p>Federal prosecutors alleged Villalobos set up Lucio to represent Hernandez&#8217;s three children in their lawsuit against Livingston, and the criminal and civil cases both landed in Limas&#8217; courtroom. In the criminal case, Limas agreed to convict and sentence Livingston on the same day, thereby freeing up his bond to be used as the settlement in the civil suit.</p>
<p>However, Limas also agreed that day to Livingston&#8217;s request that he would have 60 days to get his affairs in order before reporting to prison. That meant Livingston was released without bond &#8211; highly unusual for a convicted killer already sentenced to decades in prison. Livingston didn&#8217;t report to prison as scheduled and hasn&#8217;t been seen since.</p>
<p>Lucio received $200,000 in attorney&#8217;s fees for handling the civil case. Prosecutors said he kicked $80,000 back to Villalobos and together they gave about $10,000 to Limas to keep quiet. Lucio also faces charges in the case. Lima, who was one of the main witnesses at Villalobos&#8217; trial, pleaded guilty to racketeering and awaits sentencing.</p>
<p>Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Wynne told jurors in his opening statement that the cash payments Villalobos accepted from attorneys in exchange for his prosecutorial discretion amounted to &#8220;having a district attorney on retainer.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You pay him in advance so when you need him, he&#8217;s there,&#8221; Wynne told jurors at the federal courthouse in Brownsville.</p>
<p>Prosecutors allege the activity took place from October 2006 through May 3, 2012. Villalobos, a two-term district attorney, served from 2005 through the end of 2012. He ran for Congress last year, losing in the Democratic primary.</p>
<p>Villalobos remains free on bond. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison for each of the seven counts on which he was convicted. Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 26.</p>
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		<title>Karen Harrelson, Gregory Stambaugh Allegedly Stabbed Each Other Over &#8216;American Idol&#8217; Finale</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 08:47:09 +0000</pubDate>
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When a couple in Pennsylvania couldn't agree over which contestant -- Candice Glover or Kree Harrison -- should win this year's American Idol finale, they allegedly stabbed each other. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>The Huffington Post</strong>  |  By Megan Griffo</p>
<p>You are under Seacrest.</p>
<p>When a couple in Pennsylvania couldn&#8217;t agree over which contestant &#8212; <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/american-idol-winner-candice-glover_n_3288608.html" target="_hplink">Candice Glover or Kree Harrison</a> &#8212; should win this year&#8217;s American Idol finale,<a href="http://www.yorkdispatch.com/ci_23303006/york-county-couple-stabbing-incident-over-american-idol" target="_hplink"> they allegedly stabbed each other. </a></p>
<p>Only now, The York Dispatch reports, the two can&#8217;t agree on who stabbed whom first.</p>
<p>Karen Elaine Harrelson, 48, and Gregory L. Stambaugh, 57, were arrested after the drunken fight Wednesday, May 15.</p>
<p>According to the affidavit obtained by CBS 21, Stambaugh told authorities that Harrelson started drinking at 5 a.m., <a href="http://www.whptv.com/news/local/story/NEW-INFORMATION-Two-arrested-for-stabbing/Cr2vBhoQpkey7N-Iy3W0SA.cspx" target="_hplink">&#8220;and was drinking beer and a lot of tequila throughout the day.&#8221;</a> He, on the other hand, claims he did not start drinking until noon and that he &#8220;was drinking beer and had a pint of Scotch.&#8221;</p>
<p>Both alleged that the other went into the kitchen during the argument, grabbed a knife, and began the stabbing.</p>
<p>When police responded, the pair were on the front porch, bloody and still arguing, CBS 21 reported.</p>
<p>Harrelson and Stambaugh are now <a href="http://yorkcountypa.gov/images/pdf/prison-female.pdf" target="_hplink">being held in York County Prison,</a> according to an inmate roster.</p>
<p>The Associated Press reported that authorities <a href="http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/police-couple-stabbed-each-other-over-american-idol/" target="_hplink">slapped the two with assault charges.</a></p>
<p>According to the Dispatch, both were <a href="http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/police-couple-stabbed-each-other-over-american-idol/" target="_hplink">treated at a local hospital for minor injuries. </a></p>
<p>Seacrest out.</p>
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		<title>William Zervakos, Jodi Arias&#8217; Jury Foreman, Says &#8216;System Is Flawed,&#8217; Death Decision Unfair</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 08:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHOENIX -- They were 12 ordinary citizens who didn't oppose the death penalty. But unlike spectators outside the courthouse who followed the case like a daytime soap opera and jumped to demand Jodi Arias' execution, the jurors faced a decision that was wrenching and real, with implications that could haunt them forever.

In an interview Friday, jury foreman William Zervakos provided a glimpse into the private deliberations, describing four women and eight men who struggled with the question: How heinous of a killing deserves a similar fate?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By BRIAN SKOLOFF AP</p>
<p>PHOENIX &#8212; They were 12 ordinary citizens who didn&#8217;t oppose the death penalty. But unlike spectators outside the courthouse who followed the case like a daytime soap opera and jumped to demand Jodi Arias&#8217; execution, the jurors faced a decision that was wrenching and real, with implications that could haunt them forever.</p>
<p>In an interview Friday, jury foreman William Zervakos provided a glimpse into the private deliberations, describing four women and eight men who struggled with the question: How heinous of a killing deserves a similar fate?</p>
<p>&#8220;The system we think is flawed in that sense because this was not a case of a Jeffrey Dahmer or Charles Manson,&#8221; Zervakos told The Associated Press.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was a brutal no-win situation. &#8230; I think that&#8217;s kind of unfair,&#8221; the 69-year-old added. &#8220;We&#8217;re not lawyers. We can&#8217;t interpret the law. We&#8217;re mere mortals. And I will tell you I&#8217;ve never felt more mere as a mortal than I felt for the last five months.&#8221;</p>
<p>Zervakos said the most difficult time of the entire trial was hearing directly from victim Travis Alexander&#8217;s family as his brother and sister tearfully explained how his killing has shattered their lives.</p>
<p>&#8220;There was no sound in that jury room for a long time after that because you hurt so bad for these people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But that wasn&#8217;t evidence. That&#8217;s what made it so hard. &#8230; This wasn&#8217;t about them. This was a decision whether we&#8217;re going to tell somebody they were going to be put to death or spend the rest of their life in prison.&#8221;</p>
<p>Zervakos described a deliberations room full of tears and spinning moral compasses as each juror struggled to come to grips with their own beliefs about what factors – including Arias&#8217; young age at the time of the killing and her lack of criminal history – should cause them to show mercy and spare her life.</p>
<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve got Travis Alexander&#8217;s family devastated, that he was killed, that he was brutally killed. You&#8217;ve got Jodi Arias&#8217; family sitting in there, both families sitting and seeing these humiliating images and listening to unbelievably lurid private details of their lives, and you&#8217;ve got a woman whose life is over, too,&#8221; Zervakos said. &#8220;I mean, who&#8217;s winning in this situation? And we were stuck in the middle.&#8221;</p>
<p>Zervakos declined to discuss his thoughts or those of other jurors on whether Arias should have been sentenced to death or life. But he said he was torn between her two personas: a killer and an average young woman struggling through life.</p>
<p>&#8220;You heard (prosecutor Juan) Martinez say she was only 27. &#8230; She&#8217;s old enough that she should have known better,&#8221; Zervakos said. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t look at it that way. I&#8217;m looking at 27 years of an absolutely normal everyday young woman that was living a life that was perfectly normal. Then something changed the trajectory of her life after meeting Travis Alexander, and it spiraled downhill from there.&#8221;</p>
<p>The same jury on May 8 convicted Arias of first-degree murder in Alexander&#8217;s killing, but couldn&#8217;t reach a decision Thursday after about 13 hours of deliberations on whether she should live or die.</p>
<p>Judge Sherry Stephens was forced to declare a mistrial of the penalty phase and dismissed the panel.</p>
<p>A conference with the judge and attorneys is set for June 20 to determine how both sides want to proceed. In the interim, Stephens set a July 18 retrial date.</p>
<p>The mistrial set the stage for a whole new proceeding to determine whether the 32-year-old former waitress should get a life sentence or the death penalty for murdering Alexander five years ago.</p>
<p>Arias stabbed and slashed him nearly 30 times, slit his throat slit and shot him in the forehead. Prosecutors said she attacked Alexander in a jealous rage after he wanted to end their relationship and planned a trip to Mexico with another woman. Arias contends it was self-defense.</p>
<p>Prosecutors now have the option to take the death penalty off the table and avoid a new penalty phase. The judge would then determine whether to sentence Arias to spend her entire life behind bars, or give her life with the possibility of release after 25 years. Given Arias could not afford her own defense, taxpayers footed the bill for court-appointed attorneys at a cost so far of nearly $1.7 million, a price tag that will only balloon if the case moves forward.</p>
<p>Should the state decide to seek death again, jury selection alone could take months, given the difficulty of seating an impartial panel in a case that has attracted global attention and become daily cable TV and tabloid fodder with tales of sex, lies and violence, said jury consultant Jo-Ellan Dimitrius.</p>
<p>&#8220;Will it be impossible? No. Will it be tough? Absolutely,&#8221; she said.</p>
<p>Dimitrius noted that jury selection in the widely publicized trial of infamous serial killer Richard Ramirez, known as the &#8220;Night Stalker,&#8221; who is on death row in California, took six months as attorneys weeded through more than 2,000 prospective jurors.</p>
<p>If Arias faces a new penalty phase, her murder conviction would stand, leaving the new panel tasked only with sentencing her. However, the proceedings could drag on for several more months as the new jury reviews evidence and witness testimony.</p>
<p>If the second jury cannot reach a unanimous decision, the judge would then sentence Arias to one of the life-in-prison options. The judge cannot sentence Arias to death.</p>
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		<title>Missing Person Searches: French Authorities Won&#8217;t Look For Missing Adults Anymore</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 08:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missing in France? Don’t expect police to come looking.

Though the United States and Canada have bolstered their missing person organizations with the help of the Internet, France has suddenly taken a step in the opposite direction. Law enforcement agencies in the country have ended missing person's searches for adults.]]></description>
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<p>Missing in France? Don’t expect police to come looking.</p>
<p>Though the United States and Canada have bolstered their missing person organizations with the help of the Internet, France has suddenly taken a step in the opposite direction. Law enforcement agencies in the country have ended missing person&#8217;s searches for adults.</p>
<p>The news came in the form of a <a href="http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/F1193.xhtml" target="_hplink">press release that was posted earlier this week</a> to a government website.</p>
<p>“Taking into account the development of means of telecommunications and in particular the Internet, the number of [requests] … in the interest of families has considerably dropped these last years, such that this [system has essentially devolved],” wrote Laurent Touvetthe, Director of Legal and Administrative Information for the Prime Minister’s office.</p>
<p>As a result of the change, authorities will no longer search for adults who have been reported missing by family members. The changes took effect on Friday.</p>
<p>The only exception to the rule is minors, individuals who have expressed a desire to commit suicide, and cases in which there is a clear indication that the victim disappeared as a result of foul play.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://www.cabinetmartin.info/en/" target="_hplink">Cabinet Martin, a private detective agency in Cannes</a>, approximately 15,000 people disappear each year without trace in France. The number of those recovered each year is not known, but with the new policy in effect the number of those recovered will likely decrease.</p>
<p>“It saddens me to learn that the authorities in France are taking a step backward in their work to resolve missing person cases,” Kelly Murphy, founder of the Omaha, <a href="http://projectjason.org/" target="_hplink">Nebraska-based Project Jason</a>, told The Huffington Post.</p>
<p>Project Jason offers resources to families of the missing and has successfully organized grassroots efforts to pass missing-persons legislation.</p>
<p>Murphy started Project Jason after her 19-year-old son, Jason Jolkowski, disappeared in June 2001. He remains missing today.</p>
<p>“We understand the difficulty in conducting a full and proper investigation with the number of cases, but I believe they&#8217;re not looking at the whole picture,” said Murphy, who, in 2010, was presented with the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/17/jason-jolkowski-kelly-jolkowski_n_1099529.html" target="_hplink">Volunteer for Victims award</a> in Washington, D.C. by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder.</p>
<p>“It&#8217;s not always evident that a missing person may have been the victim of a crime,” Murphy continued. “When the case is not investigated and then solved, the perpetrator will likely go on to commit other crimes, creating even more work for law enforcement and impacting more lives. Besides that, families are suffering daily without answers. It&#8217;s traumatic to deal with ambiguous loss, and this leaves those families with a huge gap in their ability to retain hope since this avenue of assistance has been closed to them.”</p>
<p><center><em>HuffPost Crime thanks Tanay Tewani for translating research materials for this article.</em></center><center></center></div>
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		<title>Skylar Neese Murder: Rachel Shoaf&#8217;s Plot To Kill Classmate Shocks Town</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2013 08:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[STAR CITY, W.Va. — For nearly nine months, the people of this small West Virginia town saw the face of missing 16-year-old honors student Skylar Neese everywhere – beaming at them from fliers on utility poles, in gas stations, even at the local tattoo parlor.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By VICKI SMITH AP</p>
<p>STAR CITY, W.Va. — For nearly nine months, the people of this small West Virginia town saw the face of missing 16-year-old honors student Skylar Neese everywhere – beaming at them from fliers on utility poles, in gas stations, even at the local tattoo parlor.</p>
<p>She had been missing since she slipped out of her bedroom window one night last summer, but some in this town of fewer than 2,000 people never believed she had run away.</p>
<p>Police chased numerous leads with no luck. The break finally came when one of Neese&#8217;s friends admitted plotting with another girl to kill her – shocking even the investigators working the case.</p>
<p>The two girls were charged with luring the straight-A student at University High School out of her family&#8217;s apartment in the middle of the night, stabbing her to death at an agreed-upon moment and hiding her body under branches in a Pennsylvania township about 30 miles away from her house, according to court documents.</p>
<p>The pair – one of whom has now pleaded guilty – had spent time with Neese&#8217;s mother after the slaying and even helped with the search.</p>
<p>The cold calculation and brutality of the plot shocked a community already frustrated by the slow pace and secrecy surrounding the case. Investigators have said little since announcing the charges three weeks ago. Court documents offer no insight into the motive.</p>
<p>People sit in the chairs at John&#8217;s Barber Shop, gaze at Neese&#8217;s photo on a bulletin board and wonder: How could anyone so young plot to kill a classmate and friend?</p>
<p>&#8220;They look as normal as any other kid that you could ever see,&#8221; said barber BJ McClead. &#8220;Not kids you would think would have anything to do with anything like this.&#8221;</p>
<p>A newly released transcript of a secret plea hearing reveals that 16-year-old Rachel Shoaf said she and the second girl carried out a plan to kill Neese.</p>
<p>Shoaf, a red-haired student actress and singer with sparkling blue eyes, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in Monongalia County Circuit Court on May 1 and awaits sentencing in a juvenile detention center.</p>
<p>The other girl&#8217;s identity is, for now, shrouded by the confidentiality of juvenile court. Though McClead says most people in town have figured out who it is, it&#8217;s unclear how long the three girls had been friends or just how close they were.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also unclear whether prosecutors will try to have the second suspect charged as an adult, as Shoaf was.</p>
<p>&#8220;People are confused. They&#8217;re like, `What is taking so long?&#8217;&#8221; said McClead, whose daughter Hayden had been friends with Neese since junior high.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s ridiculous. Who&#8217;s protecting these girls?&#8221; said the barber, who still hands out red-and-yellow bracelets bearing the victim&#8217;s name. &#8220;Three families&#8217; lives are now ruined because of this heinous crime that these girls committed.&#8221;</p>
<p>Monongalia County Prosecutor Marcia Ashdown has refused to return repeated calls seeking comment.</p>
<p>The mystery began July 6, 2012, when Neese climbed out of her bedroom window. Surveillance video showed her getting into a car at the end of her street in a quiet residential neighborhood near West Virginia University. With no sign of fear, no money and no contact lenses, she apparently expected to return.</p>
<p>When she didn&#8217;t, Dave and Mary Neese worried. Police initially suspected their daughter was a runaway, but they knew better. They walked up and down Crawford Street with Neese&#8217;s photo, then plastered fliers everywhere.</p>
<p>&#8220;You couldn&#8217;t go 5 feet without seeing her,&#8221; said 24-year-old Brittany Crouse, who moved in around the time of the disappearance. &#8220;Everybody really, really wanted her to come home.&#8221;</p>
<p>For months, police chased down tips to no avail. The transcript from Shoaf&#8217;s hearing shows the break came Jan. 3, when she finally told investigators the truth – and where to find the body.</p>
<p>But it wasn&#8217;t until March that authorities confirmed it was Neese, and silence followed until the day of the plea hearing.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think police who were involved in the front lines of that interview and that part of the investigation were stunned at Rachel Shoaf&#8217;s confession,&#8221; Ashdown told Judge Russell Clawges that day. &#8220;She confessed to a plan and conspiracy with another juvenile to kill Skylar Neese. A plan carried out.&#8221;</p>
<p>The three girls drove to Wayne Township, Pa., got out of the car and the suspects pretended to socialize with Neese.</p>
<p>&#8220;And, at a planned and agreed upon moment,&#8221; Ashdown said, the girls &#8220;attacked and stabbed Skylar to death, and they left her there.&#8221;</p>
<p>They tried to bury Neese, she said, but covered her with branches when they couldn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Crouse, who lives a block from the Neeses&#8217; apartment, was horrified by the revelation.</p>
<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t imagine my friends deceiving me like that,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Tragedies happen. Accidents, things like that. But not predetermined murder of a 16- or 17-year-old.</p>
<p>&#8220;It baffles me that somebody so young could do something like that,&#8221; Crouse said. &#8220;All of their lives were just starting out.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the five-page court file on Shoaf, prosecutors say they plan to recommend a 20-year prison sentence. But she could get as many as 40 years under the law.</p>
<p>Shoaf&#8217;s family issued a public apology through a lawyer but has made no further statements.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is no way to describe the pain that we, too, are feeling,&#8221; they said. &#8220;We are truly sorry for the pain that she has caused the Neese family, and we know her actions are unforgivable and inexcusable. Our daughter has admitted her involvement and she has accepted responsibility for her actions.</p>
<p>&#8220;Our hearts are broken for your loss,&#8221; they told the Neese family, &#8220;and we are still trying to come to terms with this event.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mary Neese has declined interview requests.</p>
<p>But the family has tried to spare others their agony, persuading legislators to pass &#8220;Skylar&#8217;s Law&#8221; earlier this year.</p>
<p>Under the law, Amber Alerts are no longer limited to kidnappings in West Virginia. Even when authorities suspect a child is a runaway, information is turned over to Amber Alert officials.</p>
<p>But BJ McClead says his family knew the girl they&#8217;d taken to amusement parks and had in their home for sleepovers hadn&#8217;t run away.</p>
<p>&#8220;When school went back in session and she wasn&#8217;t there, we knew something was wrong because she wouldn&#8217;t miss school,&#8221; he said. &#8220;She was a really, really smart kid.&#8221;</p>
<p>The transcript of Shoaf&#8217;s hearing shows other students also had suspicions, chattering on social media about all three girls.</p>
<p>A few overheard a conversation between the suspects about the plot but waited to report it. The teenagers thought it was a joke, Ashdown told the judge, &#8220;but only later decided and believed it was all too true and all too prophetic.&#8221;</p>
<p>McClead marvels that two teenage girls could maintain their deception from July to January.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some of the criminals that are locked up for life aren&#8217;t that hard.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>L.I man arrested for DWI with daughter in car</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suffolk County police arrested a man who was driving drunk with his daughter in the car after he caused a three-car crash on Long Island Friday afternoon.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By GLENN WILBURN, MyFoxNY.com Producer</p>
<div id="WNStoryBody">NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) -Suffolk County police arrested a man who was driving drunk with his daughter in the car after he caused a three-car crash on Long Island Friday afternoon.</p>
<p>Police say 41-year-old Kyle Wilm of Huntington, was driving a pickup truck on East Main Street in Huntington around 5:05 p.m. when he hit into the back of a Ford SUV. The Ford SUV then struck a Toyota SUV.</p>
<p>A police officer at the scene noticed that Wilm was under the influence of alcohol and arrested him. His 6-year-old daughter was in a booster seat in the back of the vehicle.</p>
<p>No one was injured in the crash and Wilm&#8217;s vehicle was impounded.</p>
<p>Wilm&#8217;s daughter was released to her mother and Child Protection Services was notified, according to police.</p>
<p>Wilm was charged with Aggravated Driving While Intoxicated with a Passenger 15-years old or uounger (Leandra&#8217;s Law), Driving While Intoxicated and Endangering the Welfare of a Child.</p>
<p>He was arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Saturday, May 25.</p>
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		<title>Oregon teen planned to blow up his school in &#8216;Columbine-style&#8217; attack, authorities say</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Oregon teenager was arrested Saturday after he allegedly built bombs with the intent of waging a "Columbine-style" attack on his high school, authorities say. 

17-year-old Grant Acord will be charged as an adult with attempted aggravated murder and also faces six counts of manufacturing and possessing a destructive device after investigators found six bombs in a secret compartment in his bedroom, Benton County District Attorney John Haroldson said.]]></description>
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<article>An Oregon teenager was arrested Saturday after he allegedly built bombs with the intent of waging a &#8220;Columbine-style&#8221; attack on his high school, authorities say.</p>
<p>17-year-old Grant Acord will be charged as an adult with attempted aggravated murder and also faces six counts of manufacturing and possessing a destructive device after investigators found six bombs in a secret compartment in his bedroom, Benton County District Attorney John Haroldson said.</p>
<p>Acord was taken to a juvenile jail Thursday night after police received a tip that the youth was making a bomb to blow up West Albany High School, located about 75 miles south of Portland.</p>
<p>He said Acord had written plans, a checklist and a specific timeline for the attack. The bombs investigators found included pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails, a Drano bomb and a napalm bomb, Haroldson said.</p>
<p>Police found no bombs during a search of the high school.</p>
<p>Haroldson declined to provide the specific date Acord allegedly planned to attack the school, but said it would be included in court paperwork to be filed after the Memorial Day weekend.</p>
<p>&#8220;That said there were also some indications that it could happen at any time, too,&#8221; Haroldson said. &#8220;So you have &#8211; A -the methodical planning and then &#8211; B &#8211; I suppose he could get really excited about it and go early.&#8221;</p>
<p>Acord is a junior. Haroldson said he&#8217;s not aware that the youth had any major problems, such as a suspension, at school.</p>
<p>&#8220;In any case that you have a young person that in essence plans to take a video game approach to killing people at school, you have to take a close look at the mental health issues,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And the process will certainly provide for that once he&#8217;s represented by counsel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Students at the high school tell Fox 12 they are stunned by the allegations.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d say &#8216;hi&#8217; to him in the hallway because I was kind of like I should probably talk to this kid, make sure he feels okay,&#8221; senior Dennis Reilly said. &#8220;So I talked to him sometimes, and he seems like a pretty nice guy.&#8221;</p>
<p>The district attorney said it did not appear the teen was targeting a specific person or group of people. He said Acord will likely be arraigned Tuesday in Benton County Circuit Court in Corvallis.</p>
<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t say enough about how lucky we are that there was an intervention,&#8221; the district attorney said. &#8220;When I look at the evidence in the case, I shudder to think of what could have happened here.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Police are investigating after the body of a 26-year-old paralegal was found in a bathtub in the upscale home of a well-know Philadelphia attorney.

MyFoxPhilly.com reports a maintenance man found the body of Julia Law around 10:00 a.m. Saturday in the home of Charles Peruto Jr. Law worked at Peruto's firm at the time of her death.]]></description>
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<p>Police are investigating after the body of a 26-year-old paralegal was found in a bathtub in the upscale home of a well-know Philadelphia attorney.</p>
<p>MyFoxPhilly.com reports a maintenance man found the body of Julia Law around 10:00 a.m. Saturday in the home of Charles Peruto Jr. Law worked at Peruto&#8217;s firm at the time of her death.</p>
<p>Police say the death is not considered suspicious at this time, and a source tells MyFoxPhilly.com Peruto told investigators he was away from his home when the body was discovered.</p>
<p>An autopsy has been scheduled to determine the woman&#8217;s cause of death.<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[The TSA announced a dubious record this week, reporting that it had seized 65 firearms at airport security checkpoints.

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<p>The TSA announced a dubious record this week, reporting that it had seized 65 firearms at airport security checkpoints.</p>
<p>The seizures buried the previous mark of 50 guns, the TSA reported, and included 54 loaded weapons &#8212; 19 of which at rounds chambered.</p>
<p>Among the seizures was a firearm strapped to the prosthetic leg of a male passenger at Salt Lake City International Airport.</p>
<p>Authorities said the passenger received a pat-down after an anomaly was detected during advanced imaging technology screening.</p>
<p>During the pat-down, officers discovered a fully loaded .22 caliber firearm inside the passenger&#8217;s boot and strapped to his prosthetic leg.</p>
<p>The man was arrested by Salt Lake City Airport Police on a state charge of &#8220;carrying a concealed weapon in a secure area.&#8221;</p>
<p>The transportation lobbying group AAA estimates that 2.3 million travelers were expected to fly during the Memorial Day weekend.</p>
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