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LOCAL NEWS
ERIE
An Erie County judge up
held the decision on
Wednesday to convict Erie
County Councilman Ebert
G. Beeman for the fifth time
of driving without a license.
Reddinger, an Erie City
detective, explained how he
witnessed Beeman drive
away from a court hearing
on Oct. 20, even though his
license was already sus
pended for a fourth time
when he drove away from
the courthouse. Beeman
faces a $2OO fine.
MEADVILLE
A Crawford County man,
William King, has pleaded
guilty on Wednesday to a
third-degree felony count of
unlawful contact and com
munication with a minor.
Prosecutors presented evi
dence that shows King send
ing sexually oriented online
chats to a undercover police
officer posing as a 14-year
old girl, and in one chat
sending the officer a video
of him performing a lewd
act. King will be sentenced
on June 8.
Police Report
A coordinator reported
criminal mischief in Senat
Hall at 11:25 a.m. on Feb.
23.
A theft from a motor vehicle
in the G Lot was reported at
9:30 p.m. on Feb. 23.
A report of items stolen
from the REDC building
was recieved at 12:00 p.m.
on March 3.
A theft was reported by a
Senat Hall resident at 7:25
p.m. on March 5.
A report of douglas fir trees
being damaged in front of
both Perry and Senat Hall
was received at 12:00 p.m.
on March 11.
On March 15 at 8:00 p.m.. a
Perry Construction Super
intendent reported that dur
ing the weekend, one of his
trailers was broken into.
Officer McCaslin assisted
staff workers with resetting
an alarm in the Logan
House at 5:40 p.m. on
March 15.
National News J!Z*IS
I.Thai protesters
throw blood at
president's house
BANGKOK. Thailand - Anti
government protestors in Thai
land known as the “Red Shirts”
threw blood on the lawn of
Thailand's Prime Minister, Ab
hisit Vejjajiva, on Wednesday.
While the Prime minister was
visiting areas in Thailand that
were affected by heavy
drought, "Red Shirt” protestors
who are known for wearing red
shirts overwhelmed police bar
ricades and proceeded to throw
MILITARY
US soldier honored and reprimanded
ERIC PEIRCE
Jssf. IK'W s editor
In July 2008, U.S. army cap
tain Matthew Myers was in
volved in one of the deadliest
ground wars in Iraq in the
Wanat region.
Myers, along with other Li.S.
troops, fought and defended a
military outpost from a coordi
nated attack of over 200 Tal
iban fighters.
Along with his comrades,
Myers defended their position
by calling in air strikes, some
times within 10 meters of
where he gave out the coordi
nates.
During the battle, nine US
troops were killed and w'hile
about 100 Taliban were killed.
Myers recieved the Silver
Star for his actions during the
battle. But this w'ould not be the
end of the story.
After the battle, military offi
cials began investigating how
the enemy was able to get as
close as they did, coming
within grenade throwing dis-
World
bags of blood donated by fellow
protestors onto the lawn.
The incident was in response
to the prime minister's refusal
to dissolve parliament and hold
new elections after he took
power in 2008 after the former
prime minister fled the country
in 2006 while he faced corrup
tion charges.
2. Three men dead
after historic site
bums
KAMPALA, Uganda - Three
men were killed by police after
the men, who were part of a
Besides enemy fighters, US soldiers face difficult terrain.
tance of U.S. troops. Some Tal- four star General Charles C.
iban fighters even managed to Campbell gave out a letter of
enter the compound through reprimand to Capt. Myers for
the broken wall. failing to prepare the base for
After further investigation, an attack.
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major tribe, rushed to the his
toric burial site of the Buganda
Kings, which was destroyed
in a fire on Wednesday. The
cause of the fire is unknown
and is being investigated by
both the Ugandan government
and members of the
Buganda Tribe, which has had
tense relations with the govern
ment since the President Yow
eri Museveni is not a
member of the tribe.
3.lsraeli moves to
ban fur trade
JERUSALEM -
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ABUSE/ ENDANGERMENT / H AZING
OF A PERSON:
Physically harming or threatening to harm any
person, intentionally or recklessly causing harm
endangers the health and safety
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any mental or physical hazing
activity.
The Israeli government
started legislation to ban the
fur trade within the country on
Wednesday.
Controversey over the trade
reached a turning point when a
documentary on Israeli TV
aired the cruel conditions of an
imals whose pelts were used in
the trade. The Israeli governe
ment started to draw up plans
to ban the fur trade within the
country, excluding only animals
such as cattle, camel, goats,
and sheep. The plan has met
with public approval after a poll
found four out of five Israelis
agree with the ban.
Myers' two senior command
ers were also given the same
letters for reasons unknown.
In the military', letters of repri
mand are career ending, bar
ring military personnel from
advancing in rank. But accord
ing to investigators, Myers had
the odds.stacked against him
before theibattle.
Army officials who ,knew the
base’s location acknowledged
its poor defensive location.
The base was located at the
edge of the town of Wanat at
the bottom of a valley, sur
rounded on all sides by high
hills, an impossible position to
defend.
One official, who knew the
reprimanding general, com
mented, “He saw the evidence
and made an decision based on
that."
“Unless you've been there,
you don't know how hard those
places are to defend."
to any person or reasonable
apprehension of such harm or
creating a condition that
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Alcohol and Abuse: Are they
connected?
"Alcohol may encourage aggres
sion or violence by disrupting nor
mal brain function. According to
the disinhibition hypothesis, for
example, alcohol weakens brain
mechanisms that
[normally restrain impulsive
[behaviors, including inappropriate
iaggression. By impairing informa
tion processing, alcohol can also
lead a
person to misjudge social cues,
thereby overreacting to a per-
ceived threat,
Simultaneously, a narrowing of
attention may lead to an inaccu
rate assessment of the future
risks of acting on an
immediate violent impulse."
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