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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 2004
Page
3
Noted children's author Bill Martin Jr. who penned over 300 books including Brown Bear Brown Bear and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom has died at his Commerce Texas home. He was 88 and died of natural causes, according to neighbor and collaborator Michael Sampson.
Redwood City California. Scott Peterson continued to pursue his former mistress Amber Frey a week after his wife disappeared and the search persisted. Frey questioned him about the disappearance as Peterson lied and apologized while remaining evasive about the untruths.
More than a hundred men were busted for betting on cricket fights in Hong Kong. Police seized about 300 crickets and $1,025 in cash in a building housing a cricket lovers association. The operation involved 115 people and the gamblers await charges while illegal betting carries up to $1,280 and three months in jail.
Kenneth Day, 25, was sentenced in Providence to four consecutive life terms plus 30 years after being convicted in June of nine counts including murder and robbery for the June 2000 carjacking deaths of Amy Shute and Jason Burgeson.
A 60 member delegation chosen at a national political conference heads to Najaf to press Muqtada al Sadr to disband his militia and leave the Imam Ali shrine, aiming to avert forceful action and include him in the political process.
In Najaf heavy fighting persisted for a second day after a pause for negotiations. U S Marines reinforced Army patrols in a vast cemetery where two soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division were killed. Armored patrols neared the shrine to raid militia gathering points while artillery pounded suspected militia positions. A political conference with over 1,100 Iraqis aimed at forming an interim assembly but shifting toward resolving the Najaf standoff between al Sadr's militia and U S forces.
In Nasiriyah, two armed men abducted Micah Garen, a U.S.-French journalist, and his Iraqi translator Amir Doushi in a busy market. Police opened an investigation after the translator’s family reported him missing. Garen worked for Four Corners Media on an antiquities project near Nasiriyah.
Afghan National Army recruit Mohammed Salan, 18, reaches Shindand Airport in Herat province as government forces deploy from the U.S. trained units to western Afghanistan. The move follows a weekend surge of factional violence that left at least 20 dead and tests security before national elections.
Iran and Saudi Arabia urged the United Nations to intervene in Iraq to halt fighting between U.S. forces and Shiite militants in Najaf. IRNA quotes Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi and Kofi Annan discussing the crisis as the Imam Ali mosque siege continues.
About 1,600 Palestinian detainees join a large hunger strike across Israel's 7,500 prisoners demanding family visits and greater outside contact. Officials consider jailhouse cookouts to tempt prisoners into eating while aiming to avoid force-feeding, amid warnings of possible death if demands go unmet.
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