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		<title>Tony Conley, 16, Accidentally Strangles Himself With Dog Leash</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A Kentucky teenager known as a "jokester" was strangled by a dog lead he put around his neck while playing with friends at the start of summer vacation, just hours after finishing his freshman year in high school.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By By BRUCE SCHREINER AP</p>
<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. &#8212; A Kentucky teenager known as a &#8220;jokester&#8221; was strangled by a dog lead he put around his neck while playing with friends at the start of summer vacation, just hours after finishing his freshman year in high school.</p>
<p>Tony Conley, 16, died near his home in Estill County in eastern Kentucky on Friday when he apparently jumped off an outdoor deck staircase and the dog lead tightened around his neck, county Coroner Tony Murphy said Monday.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was just so tight that it cut his air and his blood flow off to his head,&#8221; the coroner said in a phone interview. &#8220;It&#8217;s a terrible, terrible tragedy.&#8221;</p>
<p>Friends tried but were unable to cut the metal cable, and Conley was pronounced dead at the scene, he said.</p>
<p>Conley had just finished his freshman year at Estill County High School hours before his death.</p>
<p>&#8220;He was a good kid,&#8221; said his football coach, Mike Jones. &#8220;He was kind of goofy at times, just a jokester.&#8221;</p>
<p>Conley was among a group of boys who had been playing basketball when the &#8220;freak accident&#8221; happened, Murphy said.</p>
<p>The other boys told investigators that Conley had picked up the dog lead and snapped it around his neck, the coroner said.</p>
<p>Conley was &#8220;just being a kid, goofing off&#8221; when he then decided to jump off the stairs leading up to the deck, he said.</p>
<p>&#8220;Looks like he maybe just started to flat foot and jump over the rail back down to the ground,&#8221; Murphy said. &#8220;Somehow the cable got hung on the inside of the post on the top, which caused it to cinch down tight on his neck.&#8221;</p>
<p>An autopsy showed that he died of strangulation, he said.</p>
<p>Murphy said that investigators found nothing to indicate the death was due to a &#8220;choking game,&#8221; which involves strangling oneself or another person to achieve a high.</p>
<p>&#8220;Nothing has really led us that way,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>His football coach said Conley had worked hard in the weight room during the off-season in preparation for next season. Conley had put on about 30 pounds and was primed for varsity playing time in the fall as a sophomore, Jones said. Conley, a receiver, played on the freshman and junior varsity teams last fall.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if I ever saw him in a bad mood,&#8221; Jones said.</p>
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		<title>Toddler Puts Gun in Mouth, Shoots</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 06:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Newser) – A North Carolina toddler found a handgun in his parents' bedroom Saturday afternoon, put it in his mouth ... and the gun went off, authorities say. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff</div>
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<div>(Newser) – A North Carolina toddler found a handgun in his parents&#8217; bedroom Saturday afternoon, put it in his mouth &#8230; and the gun went off, authorities say. The Asheboro boy is &#8220;extremely lucky,&#8221; a sheriff&#8217;s captain tells the <a href="http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/article_a6a96012-c151-11e2-8fac-0019bb30f31a.html" target="_blank"><em>Winston-Salem Journal</em></a>, because the bullet missed his vital organs (as well as his vital arteries and spinal cord, <a href="http://myfox8.com/2013/05/19/randolph-county-child-accidentally-shot-after-finding-gun/" target="_blank">My Fox 8</a> reports), and he is expected to survive. Deputies called it a miracle. The 2-year-old&#8217;s father, to whom the gun belonged, was home at the time, as were his mother and three older siblings. Authorities will decide whether to charge the parents.</div>
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		<title>Jennifer Kesse&#8217;s Parents Mark Missing Florida Woman&#8217;s Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 06:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jennifer Kesse should be celebrating 32 years of life today. She should be with friends and family, and she should be looking forward to many more birthday celebrations.

Should be, could be, would be -- these words all evoke pain and heartache for her family.]]></description>
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<p>Jennifer Kesse should be celebrating 32 years of life today. She should be with friends and family, and she should be looking forward to many more birthday celebrations.</p>
<p>Should be, could be, would be &#8212; these words all evoke pain and heartache for her family.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there have been no joyous birthday celebrations for Jennifer since she turned 24, though there have been many vigils and prayer circles.</p>
<p>In 2006, Jennifer vanished in Orlando, Fla., without a trace. For seven long years, her parents have spent every waking minute of every single day waiting and hoping for answers in her disappearance.</p>
<p>However, there will be no celebration today. For the Kesse family, Jennifer has not aged in their eyes since the day that she vanished.</p>
<p>&#8220;She will remain 24 forever,&#8221; Jennifer&#8217;s father, Drew Kesse, told The Huffington Post.</p>
<p>The daily pain endured by the Kesse family is rooted in the events of Jan. 24, 2006. On that day, the Kesses learned their daughter did not report for work at Central Florida Investments and did not call in sick. Her co-workers said it was completely out of character.</p>
<p>Calls by Jennifer&#8217;s parents to her cellphone went directly to voicemail.</p>
<p>Drew Kesse contacted Orlando police, and then he and his wife made the two-hour drive from their home in Bradenton to Orlando.</p>
<p>Inside their daughter&#8217;s apartment, the Kesses found nothing out of order. The shower had been used and a few items of clothing were laid out on the bed, but there were no obvious signs of foul play.</p>
<p>By 4 p.m. that day, family and friends of Jennifer had launched a full-scale hunt. Searches were conducted of the area, and fliers were made and distributed within the immediate area of her condominium, located next to the Mall at Millenia in Orlando.</p>
<p>A promising lead developed on Jan. 26, 2006, when Jennifer&#8217;s car was found abandoned at a condominium complex roughly one mile from where she lived. Valuables were found inside the vehicle, leading police to believe she was not the victim of a robbery or carjacking. Police bloodhounds tracked a scent from where the car was found to Jennifer’s condo, but the trail ended there.</p>
<p>Police received another clue from surveillance footage from the condo complex where Jennifer&#8217;s car was found.</p>
<p>On the video, an unknown person <a href="http://findjenniferkesse.com/" target="_hplink">can be seen parking the car and waiting approximately 30 seconds</a> before exiting the vehicle and walking away without looking back. Despite intense media coverage of the video, the gender and identity of the driver remain a mystery.</p>
<p>Prior to her disappearance, Jennifer Kesse had confided in friends that construction workers at her condominium made her feel uneasy. The building was new when she moved in, and only about half of the 447 units were occupied. Work was still being completed on the building, and some of the workers were permitted to stay inside unoccupied units. However, no evidence has ever been found linking any of the workers to her disappearance.</p>
<p>For seven years, the search for Jennifer Kesse has continued without a major break. Jennifer Kesse&#8217;s family members said they have spent their life savings on the search, but won&#8217;t give up.</p>
<p>But for now, seven long years into their living nightmare, Jennifer&#8217;s family has only the memories of their beautiful daughter.</p>
<p>&#8220;Joyce and myself welcomed Jennifer into our world with our unconditional love,&#8221; Drew Kesse told HuffPost. &#8220;Jennifer has given us so many things to remember her by and try and live up to. She is our firstborn and our love for her will never wane — it will only increase as we go on in this life without her present in ours.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Kesse family is asking people to celebrate their daughter&#8217;s birthday today by donating blood in her name.</p>
<p>&#8220;We, her family, are active blood donors, and it does save lives,&#8221; Kesse said.</p>
<p>At the time of her disappearance, Jennifer Kesse was 5 feet 8 inches tall and 135 pounds. She had shoulder-length sandy blonde hair and green eyes. Anyone with information or who would like to donate to search efforts may do so at <a href="http://www.findjenniferkesse.com/" target="_hplink">Findjenniferkesse.com</a>. Tipsters may also call the crime line anonymously at 800-423-8477.</p>
<p>&#8220;After the events of the past two years, as we have seen five long-term missing loved ones return home,&#8221; Drew Kesse said, &#8220;it gives this family renewed hope that &#8230; Jennifer [will be] found. She is loved and missed beyond what words can tell or convey. Please keep her in your thoughts and prays.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Susan Powell Case Update: Police End Search For Utah Mom (UPDATE)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah — For the first time, Utah police said Monday they believe Susan Powell's brother-in-law was "heavily involved" in getting rid of her body, even as they announced they couldn't solve the sensational case of a mother's disappearance after a nearly 3 1/2-year investigation.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By PAUL FOY AP</p>
<p>WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah — For the first time, Utah police said Monday they believe Susan Powell&#8217;s brother-in-law was &#8220;heavily involved&#8221; in getting rid of her body, even as they announced they couldn&#8217;t solve the sensational case of a mother&#8217;s disappearance after a nearly 3 1/2-year investigation.</p>
<p>West Valley police said the focus shifted to Michael C. Powell after Josh Powell killed the couple&#8217;s two boys and himself in a deliberately set house fire 15 months ago.</p>
<p>Police announced Monday they were closing the investigation of Susan Powell&#8217;s disappearance, citing a lack of leads coupled with Michael C. Powell&#8217;s suicide months ago. They also released the case file, which shows Josh Powell had an affair with a woman he met through a dating service.</p>
<p>The file includes other details, and contained emails from Susan Powell&#8217;s father, Chuck Cox, who expressed hope his daughter might be found in the days after her December 2009 disappearance.</p>
<p>Cox believed Josh Powell poisoned his wife&#8217;s pancakes before she was taken from the couple&#8217;s house.</p>
<p>&#8220;The question is, where did he put her and will we find her before she does die?&#8221; Cox wrote in an email to Utah authorities, according to the police file. &#8220;One possibility is that she is still alive, but we need to find her before she does die, if the poison was not a fatal dose, she may &#8230; be found.&#8221;</p>
<p>The police file contains tens of thousands of pages of documents, photographs and video, and interview notes and voice mail messages.</p>
<p>In one file, police revealed they interviewed a West Valley City woman who said she made contact with Josh Powell on the dating service Live Links six or seven months before Susan disappeared. The woman, identified only as Kourtney in police files, said she knew Powell by the name John Staley, and didn&#8217;t know he was married.</p>
<p>The woman said Powell gave her $800 over the course of their relationship – for reasons that weren&#8217;t detailed in police reports – and that she only discerned his real identity after news broke of Susan&#8217;s disappearance. The woman was interviewed by police in August 2010.</p>
<p>Police said they based their suspicion of Michael C. Powell&#8217;s involvement partly on a car he left at an Oregon junkyard only weeks after Susan Powell disappeared. The junkyard is about 200 miles from a forest outside Salem, Ore., where authorities searched last week, looking for a body. The search turned up nothing, and police said they ran out of clues.</p>
<p>Deputy West Valley Police Chief Mike Powell – no relation – said authorities believe Josh Powell killed his wife, and that his brother later got involved in a cover-up. Michael C. Powell denied any wrongdoing while under investigation.</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t until last August that Utah police discovered Michael Powell&#8217;s Ford Taurus at the junkyard outside Pendleton, Ore. DNA recovered from the upholstery inside the car&#8217;s trunk proved inconclusive, they said.</p>
<p>The Powell brothers used sophisticated computer encryption to communicate, according to West Valley City Deputy Chief Phil Quinlan. Investigators have been unable to decipher that encrypted communication, he said.</p>
<p>Investigators said they focused on the brother last year, when Josh Powell changed his insurance policy to list Michael Powell as a primary beneficiary, rather than his wife or children.</p>
<p>Michael Powell, an ardent supporter of Josh Powell, killed himself Feb. 11 by leaping from a parking garage in Minneapolis. He was interviewed numerous times last year after investigators determined he had sold his car for salvage value – a discovery that came nearly two years after Susan Powell&#8217;s disappearance. Officials said he offered evasive answers about why he got rid of the car and how he had used it in the weeks after her disappearance.</p>
<p>His suicide left investigators without any person of interest in the case. While authorities believe the brothers were responsible for Susan Powell&#8217;s disappearance, they said repeatedly Monday that they never had enough evidence to bring charges.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a circumstantial case, yes,&#8221; Quinlan said. His fellow deputy chief, Mike Powell, added, &#8220;We didn&#8217;t have a body. We don&#8217;t have a crime scene.&#8221;</p>
<p>Susan Powell was reported missing more than three years ago after failing to show up for work. Her husband, Josh, maintained his innocence and said he had taken the couple&#8217;s young boys on a midnight camping trip in freezing temperatures the night she was last seen.</p>
<p>Josh Powell eventually returned to the couple&#8217;s hometown of Puyallup, Wash., where he got caught up in a battle with Susan Powell&#8217;s parents for custody of the boys, 7-year-old Charlie and 5-year-old Braden.</p>
<p>On Feb. 15, 2012, he locked a social worker out of a rental home at the start of a supervised visit, attacked the boys with a hatchet and set the house afire. All three were killed in the blaze.</p>
<p>Days earlier, a court had ordered Josh Powell to undergo an intensive psychosexual evaluation in the custody dispute.</p>
<p>Josh Powell was never charged in his wife&#8217;s disappearance, but unsealed documents say authorities found drops of Susan Powell&#8217;s blood on a floor next to a sofa that appeared to have been recently cleaned, with two fans set up to blow on it.</p>
<p>Investigators also found life insurance policies on Susan Powell and determined that Josh Powell had filed paperwork to withdraw her retirement account money about 10 days after her disappearance.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have searched high and low for what happened to Susan Cox Powell,&#8221; West Valley Mayor Mike Winder said. &#8220;What happened to Susan that night?&#8221;</p>
<p>Source: huffingtonpost.com<br />
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		<title>Jodi Arias Trial: No Witness To Speak On Convicted Murderer&#8217;s Behalf</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 06:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a stunning move Monday, attorneys representing convicted killer Jodi Arias announced they would not be calling a single witness to plea for her life in the penalty phase of her trial. The move means Arias will be the only person pleading for leniency.]]></description>
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<p>In a stunning move Monday, attorneys representing convicted killer Jodi Arias announced they would not be calling a single witness to plea for her life in the penalty phase of her trial. The move means Arias will be the only person pleading for leniency.</p>
<p>Arias was expected to take the stand after her lawyers were to call a former boyfriend and childhood friend.</p>
<p>However, that plan failed when one of the witnesses backed out at the last minute. In a last ditch effort, the defense asked the judge for a mistrial in the death penalty phase.</p>
<p>The motion was filed on Sunday after Patricia Womack, a childhood friend of Arias, decided she would not testify. She complained that she had been receiving death threats.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is constitutionally unacceptable,&#8221; defense attorney Kirk Nurmi told Judge Sherry Stephens.</p>
<p>According to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20/jodi-arias-death-threats_n_3307163.html" target="_hplink">the defense motion</a>, the threats Womack received included &#8220;threats on her life if she were to testify on Ms. Arias&#8217; behalf.&#8221;</p>
<p>Womack is not the first defense witness to complain of being harassed. Dr. Richard Samuels, a psychologist who testified that Arias suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, said he received so many threatening communications that he refused to answer his cellphone.</p>
<p>Alyce LaViolette, a domestic violence expert who said Arias abused, also claimed that she was being threatened.</p>
<p>Nurmi also complained to the judge about prosecutor Juan Martinez, whom he alleged intimidated defense witnesses throughout the trial.</p>
<p>&#8220;This cannot be a modern-day version of stoning or witch trials. When you have a prosecutor that this court allows to personally attack witnesses and counsel, it breeds this sort of environment where intimidating can take place,&#8221; Nurmi.</p>
<p>&#8220;And this has been happening throughout trial.&#8221;</p>
<p>When the judge denied the motion for mistrial, Nurmi renewed a previous request for himself and co-counsel Jennifer Willmott to withdraw from the case.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are in a position where we cannot provide effective assistance &#8230; We cannot present the complete picture,&#8221; Nurmi said.</p>
<p>Stephens denied the motion.</p>
<p>It was the second time during the Arias trial that the attorneys had asked to step down from the case. The first came <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/jodi-arias-attorneys-wanted-to-withdraw-denied_n_3286311.html" target="_hplink">immediately after she was convicted</a> of first-degree murder.</p>
<p>Legal experts had said that Arias complicated efforts for her defense when she gave an interview to Fox affiliate KSAZ after her conviction. During the interview Arias said she preferred death over life in prison.</p>
<p>&#8220;I believe death is the ultimate freedom, and I&#8217;d rather have my freedom as soon as I can get it,&#8221; Arias said.</p>
<p>Upon hearing the judge&#8217;s decision today, Nurmi announced the defense would not be calling a single witness to speak on behalf of Arias.</p>
<p>&#8220;Given the court&#8217;s ruling, and the incomplete picture, we will not be calling witnesses in the defense case,&#8221; attorney Kirk Nurmi told Judge Sherry Stephens.</p>
<p>Following the announcement, the attorneys went into chambers with the judge for a private meeting. Afterward, Stephens announced the trial would resume Tuesday. She did not elaborate on the reason for the delay.</p>
<p>Arias, 32, was convicted May 8 of first-degree murder. The capital murder verdict, reached after more than 15 hours of deliberations, was a clear rejection of both Arias&#8217; self-defense claim as well as defense psychologist Richard Samuels&#8217; contention that she suffered from PTSD and acute stress disorder.</p>
<p>Arias&#8217; attorneys did not put much effort into the aggravation phase. They offered no witnesses and gave only a brief opening statement and closing argument.</p>
<p>Last week, the same jury that convicted Arias declared she was eligible for the death penalty. The jury made their decision after less than three hours of deliberation.</p>
<p>With no witnesses to speak on her behalf, Arias is expected to take the stand Tuesday to address the jury herself. Her words could determine if she receives the death penalty or life in prison.</p>
<p>Will Arias apologize, accept responsibility and express remorse? Or will she remain defiant to the end, maintaining her innocence in the brutal slaying? Courtroom watchers have seen the many faces of Arias throughout the trial, so her next move is anyone&#8217;s guess.</p>
<p>The trial resumes Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. EDT.</p>
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		<title>5 dead in Illinois van crash</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 06:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>(CNN)</strong> &#8212; Five occupants of a church van were killed when it crashed Monday morning in Vandalia, Illinois, according to Deputy Shawn Carter with the Fayette County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.</p>
<p>According to a preliminary report from the Illinois State Police, the 15-passenger van was headed east on Interstate 70 when it veered off the roadway and flipped several times. Several occupants were ejected from the van.</p>
<p>There were 11 men in the one-vehicle crash. The other six passengers were transported to hospitals. Their conditions are unknown.</p>
<p>Why the van left the highway is still under investigation, the state police said.</p>
<p>CNN&#8217;s Carma Hassan contributed to this report<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[BOSTON –  A judge approved a request Monday by Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense attorneys to receive records compiled on him in federal prison.]]></description>
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<article>BOSTON –  A judge approved a request Monday by Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev&#8217;s defense attorneys to receive records compiled on him in federal prison.</p>
<p>U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler said in her order that prison officials should give attorneys the daily activity logs, suicide watch logs, psychology data files, photographs, commissary files they requested, and other records.</p>
<p>The judge said prosecutors also are entitled to the records, turning down a defense request that the records not be provided to the government until the defense had a chance to file objections to a judge. She also found no reason to keep private the defense&#8217;s sealed request.</p>
<p>Bowler ruled Friday that defense lawyers couldn&#8217;t take their own photos of Tsaraev in prison, but said prison officials could take photos of Tsarnaev with his lawyers present. Those also would be shared with prosecutors.</p>
<p>She said that defense lawyers contended Tsarnaev&#8217;s &#8220;injuries over time&#8221; could provide evidence of his &#8220;evolving mental and physical state&#8221; and whether his statements were voluntary.</p>
<p>Also Monday, prosecutors and defense attorneys filed a joint motion to delay a May 30 probable cause hearing at least until July 2, saying they need more time to obtain and review evidence. They also cited the complex legal issues in the case. Federal prosecutors had said Friday they would ask for more time to indict Tsarnaev than the 30-day period prescribed under the Federal Speedy Trial Act.</p>
<p>Tsarnaev is accused of carrying out the April 15 attack with his brother Tamerlan, who died days later in a shootout with police. The bombings killed three people and injured more than 260.</p>
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		<title>Florida mom alleges anti-gay bias after daughter expelled, arrested</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 06:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A teenage girl in Florida faces criminal charges for an alleged sexual relationship with a 15-year-old female student in a case the defendant’s family says stems from anti-gay prejudice.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>By Daniel Arkin, Staff Writer, NBC News</div>
<p>A teenage girl in Florida faces criminal charges for an alleged sexual relationship with a 15-year-old female student in a case the defendant’s family says stems from anti-gay prejudice.</p>
<p>Kaitlyn Hunt, 18, has been charged with two felony counts of “lewd and lascivious battery of a child 12 to 16 years old” related to conduct with a minor she met while they were both students at Sebastian River High School in Sebastian, Fla., according to an Indian River County Sheriff&#8217;s Office arrest affidavit obtained by NBC News.</p>
<p>The younger girl&#8217;s parents pressed charges against Hunt earlier this year, according to Thomas Raulen of the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office.</p>
<p>But Kelley Hunt Smith, Kaitlyn&#8217;s mother, said in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/FreeKate/doc/192326077586085/">statement</a> on Facebook that 15-year-old&#8217;s parents “were out to destroy my daughter” because “they feel like my daughter &#8216;made&#8217; their daughter gay.”</p>
<p>Police have not identified the minor or her parents.</p>
<p>According to the arrest affidavit, Hunt told investigators that she began dating the girl last November, when she was just 14. By December, the affidavit says, the two girls were involved in a sexual relationship.</p>
<p>In a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/FreeKate/">statement</a> uploaded to Facebook, Smith said that her daughter’s friendship with the underage girl began when they were both players on the school basketball team and was at first platonic, but the two “eventually expressed their affection for one another in intimate ways.”</p>
<p>Smith said that when the girls’ basketball coach found out about the relationship, she booted Hunt from the team, and then contacted the younger girl’s parents. They pressed charges in February, according to Raulen.</p>
<p>In her statement, Smith said that an Indian River County judge originally ruled Hunt was not “any threat at all” and could remain at school — but the unidentified girl’s parents appealed to the local school board and had Hunt removed from Sebastian River High School.</p>
<p>School district officials did not return a request for comment Monday afternoon.</p>
<p>Authorities arrested Hunt at her family’s home in February, but she was later released on bail, according to Indian River County Sheriff’s Office <a href="http://www.ircsheriff.org/community/online-tools/inmate-records-search/2013-00000708">records</a>.</p>
<p>The state attorney’s office has offered Hunt a plea deal that includes recommendations for two years of “community control” — a variant of house arrest in which Hunt would be permitted to work as well as attend school and church – followed by one year of probation, according to Indian River County State Attorney Bruce Colton.</p>
<p>Hunt’s family has launched a social media campaign in her defense, Smith told <a href="http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region_indian_river_county/sebastian/kaitlyn-hunt-teen-arrested-expelled-for-alleged-same-sex-relationship">NBC affiliate WPTV on Sunday</a>.</p>
<p>“I just put our story out there on Friday,” Smith said. “I wanted people to know what was going on.”</p>
<p>“Free Kate,” a public <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/FreeKate/">Facebook </a>support page started by Hunt’s family, had amassed over 20,000 members as of Monday afternoon while a <a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/assistant-state-attorney-brian-workman-stop-the-prosecution-of-an-18-year-old-girl-in-a-same-sex-relationship???">petition</a> on Change.org addressed to the Indian River County State Attorney&#8217;s Office had nearly 70,000 signatures.</p>
<p>Colton, said the signatures did not make much difference saying, &#8220;The law is the law.&#8221;<br />
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		<title>Cop in NY shooting that left hostage dead faced split-second decisions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 06:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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That scenario has a high success rate: FBI data show that in the vast majority of these volatile cases, the victim is released or rescued unharmed.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>By Tracy Connor, Staff Writer, NBC News</div>
<p>Patrol officers confronted with a hostage situation are taught to keep their distance if possible, set up a perimeter and wait for negotiators and SWAT teams to arrive.</p>
<p>That scenario has a high success rate: FBI data show that in the vast majority of these volatile cases, the victim is released or rescued unharmed.</p>
<p>Tragically, that&#8217;s not how it unfolded early Friday on Long Island when, police say, a home-invasion robber holding a Hofstra University student at gunpoint came face-to-face with a cop who fired eight times, killing the suspect and his captive, 21-year-old Andrea Rebello.</p>
<p>The incident is still under investigation with many details unknown, but experts in police tactics say the chance for a peaceful resolution diminished the moment police crossed the threshold of the Uniondale, N.Y., home and set eyes on ex-con Dalton Smith.</p>
<div id="vine-inlinePhoto__18379557" data-contentid="18379557"><img id="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130520-hofstra-shooting-325p.jpg" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/130520-hofstra-shooting-325p.380;380;7;70;0.jpg" alt="" width="304" height="380" />Nassau County Police Department via AP</p>
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<p>Dalton Smith, seen here in an undated police photo, was holding Andrea Rebello hostage when police confronted him and shot him and her dead.</p>
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<p>&#8220;Once they&#8217;re confronting a suspect with a gun, they have two options: back out and call SWAT or engage in negotiation or deadly force with the suspect,&#8221; said Stuart Meyers of the police-training firm OpTac. &#8220;You can&#8217;t really second-guess their decision.&#8221;</p>
<p>A key question will be why they decided to go inside the house.</p>
<p>At a press conference over the weekend, Nassau County police said the two officers who first arrived on the scene had no idea a hostage was involved.</p>
<p>They were dispatched after one of the home&#8217;s residents, sent out by the robber to get money from a cash machine, dialed 911.</p>
<p>When they arrived, Smith allegedly ordered Andrea&#8217;s twin, Jessica, to answer the door and say everything was fine. Instead, she ran from the home, screaming, &#8220;He&#8217;s got a gun.&#8221;</p>
<p>When the officers entered they found Smith, along with Andrea and a male student. The male managed to get away, but the gunman kept the young woman in a headlock, training his gun on her as he tried to back out a rear door.</p>
<p>&#8220;When he realizes there is a police officer behind a wall in the hallway, he now moves her even closer to the front of his body,&#8221; police Lt. John Azzata told reporters.</p>
<p>Then Smith pointed his gun at one of the officers, who fired eight rounds, Azzata said.</p>
<p>One shot hit Rebello in the head, killing her. Her godfather, Henry Santos, told the Associated Press the news she was struck down by a police bullet was a &#8220;second shock&#8221; for the grieving family.</p>
<p>David Klinger, a former officer and expert on police-involved shootings, said investigators will want to find out exactly what the officer who pulled the trigger knew before entering.</p>
<p>If he believed the only person inside was the gunman, there may have been no reason to go in without heavy backup, he said. If he suspected someone was being held at gunpoint, waiting for negotiators might have been more prudent.</p>
<p>But, Klinger noted, if he knew both the suspect and victims were in the house but was unsure of what was happening, going through the door could have been the right move.</p>
<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s say there&#8217;s an armed robber in the house and a woman hiding in the closet &#8230; if I can get in there and help this woman, then I do it,&#8221; said Klinger, an associate professor of criminology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.</p>
<p>In this case, it&#8217;s unclear if the 911 caller, the dispatcher, the officers themselves or a combination of all three added to the confusion.</p>
<p>Experts agreed that once the cops were inside and saw there was a hostage, their options were severely limited.</p>
<p>Despite the terrible outcome, the officer who fired — who has 20 years of law-enforcement experience — broke no laws in using deadly force and may not have violated police guidelines.</p>
<p>&#8220;When a gun is pointed at your face, second-guessing goes out the window,&#8221; said Charles Key, former head of firearms training for the Baltimore Police Department and a consultant in police-involved shootings.</p>
<p>&#8220;Officers are trained to fire as many shots as necessary,&#8221; Key said. &#8220;And you can fire eight rounds in less than two seconds.&#8221;</p>
<p>Unlike tactical units who fire 50,000 practice rounds a year, a patrol officer usually has firearms training just twice a year, he said. In Uniondale, cops with the extra training were on their way but didn&#8217;t get there before Rebello and Smith were dead.</p>
<p>The officer who shot Rebello is on sick leave. Law-enforcement trainers said it&#8217;s impossible to predict if he will return to active duty. Even cops who kill criminals are sometimes too shaken to think about firing their gun again.</p>
<p>As police and prosecutors try to determine what missteps &#8212; if any &#8212; were made, no one will be trying harder to find answers than the cop who fired the eight shots, Key said</p>
<p>&#8220;This officer is going to second-guess himself until it eats him alive,&#8221; he said.<br />
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		<title>At least 51 killed, including 20 children, as tornado tears through Oklahoma, leaving miles of debris</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 06:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An enormous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, killing at least 51 people, including 20 children Monday. The twister pulverized entire city blocks, left behind miles of mangled cars and splintered wood, and destroyed an elementary school where seven children were found dead.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>By Erin McClam, Staff Writer, NBC News</div>
<p>An enormous tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, killing at least 51 people, including 20 children Monday. The twister pulverized entire city blocks, left behind miles of mangled cars and splintered wood, and destroyed an elementary school where seven children were found dead.</p>
<p>Crews frantically searched the wreckage and were only beginning to get a sense of the destruction when night fell hours later. Officials warned the death toll could climb. At one hospital, 85 patients, including 65 children, were being treated for minor to critical injuries.</p>
<p>“The whole city looks like a debris field,” said Mayor Glenn Lewis of the city of Moore, which appeared to be the hardest hit.</p>
<p>At least seven of the dead <a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/20/18381078-confirmed-casualties-at-oklahoma-school-flattened-by-tornado-fire-chief-says?lite">children were killed at Plaza Towers Elementary School</a>, where the tornado tore the roof off the school about 3 p.m. A teacher told NBC affiliate KFOR that she draped herself on top of six children in a bathroom to shelter them. Officials said the dead children drowned in a pool of water at the decimated school.</p>
<p>It was not clear how many children still were missing. Students in fourth, fifth and sixth grade were evacuated to a church, but students in lower grades had sheltered in place, KFOR reported. More than two hours after the tornado struck, several children were pulled out alive.</p>
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<p>NBC&#8217;s Brian Williams and NBC&#8217;s Al Roker report on the aftermath of a tornado, which is believed to have been up to a mile wide, and left a huge path of destruction as it cut across Moore, Oklahoma.</p>
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<p>The twister was a mile wide at its base, according to The Weather Channel, and a reporter for KFOR said the tornado kicked up a cloud of debris perhaps two miles wide. The National Weather Service initially classified the storm as an EF4, the second-strongest type, with winds of 166 to 200 mph.</p>
<p>“It seems that our worst fears have happened today,” said Bill Bunting, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Norman, Okla.</p>
<p>Even before the death toll began to climb, television footage showed a landscape shattered — not the arbitrary damage of a tornado that leaves some homes untouched, but vast and utter obliteration.</p>
<p>Emergency workers stepped gingerly around piles of wreckage left on the foundations of homes. Other people simply walked around dazed, marveling that nothing was left of their houses — and in many cases that they themselves were alive. Fires broke out in several places.</p>
<p>“I lost everything,” one man said as he walked through the ruins of a horse farm. “We might have one horse left out of all of them.”</p>
<p>Tiffany Thronesberry told The Associated Press that her mother, Barbara Jarrell, called her and screamed: “Help! Help! I can’t breathe! My house is on top of me!”</p>
<div id="vine-inlinePhoto__18385341" data-contentid="18385341"><a href="http://slideshow.nbcnews.com/id/51938586/displaymode/1247/?wbSlideShowId=51938586&amp;wbSection=news&amp;wbSlideShowTeaseId=51938604" target="_blank"><img id="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/ss-130520-tornadoes-plains/gss-130520-moore-tease.jpg" src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Slideshows/_production/ss-130520-tornadoes-plains/gss-130520-moore-tease.380;380;7;70;0.jpg" alt="" width="380" height="285" /></a>Sue Ogrocki / AP</p>
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<p>A monster tornado hit Moore, Okla., Monday afternoon, leaving scores dead as the threat for more storms continues.</p>
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<p>At one hospital in Moore, cars were “piled like Hot Wheels” in the parking lot, and police were searching them one by one and spray-painting X’s to mark them clear of victims, said Kurt Gwartney, news director for radio station KGOU.</p>
<p>An Oklahoma emergency management spokesman said a hospital was being evacuated after sustaining severe damage, and 16 ambulances were being sent to move patients. It was not clear whether it was the same hospital.</p>
<p>The tornado struck at mid-afternoon and tore a 20-mile path, said Rick Smith, another weather service meteorologist. He said it was on the ground for 40 minutes. Much of the storm’s rampage was captured on live television, perhaps alerting people in its path to seek shelter.</p>
<p>President Barack Obama declared a major disaster, making federal aid available to people in fove counties. Gov. Mary Fallin asked the people of Oklahoma for patience and promised: “We will bring every single resource out that we can.”</p>
<p><a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/20/18381508-how-to-help-tornado-victims?lite">Relief efforts sprang up.</a> The Red Cross said it was opening a shelter, and the University of Oklahoma opened some of its housing for displaced families.</p>
<p>In addition to Plaza Towers, Briarwood Elementary School was heavily damaged, KFOR reported.</p>
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<p>An aerial view of some of the destruction caused by Monday&#8217;s tornado.</p>
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<p>Search and rescue teams converged on a staging area at the Warren Theater, which was also damaged, as the tornado churned toward other Oklahoma towns. The storms were expected to continue through the evening.</p>
<p>Grasping for comparisons, some people said it looked like Joplin, the Missouri town virtually wiped off the map two years ago when a tornado — this one an EF5 — blew through and killed 158 people.</p>
<p>Joplin city officials said Monday they were sending a team of 10 officers and three firefights to Moore to help. “Giving back in whatever way we can,” the mayor said on Twitter.</p>
<p>For those living in Oklahoma, the ferocity was reminiscent of May 3, 1999, when a tornado registered wind of more than 300 mph, left 46 dead and damaged or destroyed more than 8,000 homes.</p>
<p>The tornado Monday also came one day after another cluster of storms in Oklahoma that killed two elderly men in the town of Shawnee. Tens of millions of people from Texas to the Great Lakes — an area covering 55 million people — had been warned to brace for more severe weather Monday.</p>
<p>The Sunday storms destroyed mobile homes, flipped trucks and sent people across 100 miles running for cover. In Kansas, a weather forecaster was <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nbc-news/51939563">forced off the air</a> as a tornado bore down on his station.</p>
<p>“You can see where there’s absolutely nothing, then there are places where you have mobile home frames on top of each other, debris piled up,” Mike Booth, the sheriff of Pottawatomie County, Okla., told The Associated Press. “It looks like there’s been heavy equipment in there on a demolition tour.”</p>
<p>Fallin declared a state of emergency for 16 counties on Sunday and added five Monday.</p>
<div id="vine-inlineCode__18381036" data-contentid="18381036"> <a href="https://twitter.com/GovMaryFallin"> Governor Mary Fallin @<strong>GovMaryFallin</strong> </a></p>
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<p>Please keep all those impacted by today&#8217;s storm in your thoughts &amp; prayers. <a dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23okwx&amp;src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click">#<strong>okwx</strong></a></p>
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<p><em>Jeff Black and Tracy Connor of NBC News contributed to this report.</em><br />
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