Americans Freed After Week With Colombian Paramilitaries
American writer Robert Young Pelton and hikers Megan Smaker and Mark Wedeven walked out smiling after almost a week in the custody of paramilitaries in Colombia. They were handed to church officials and headed toward Bogota as the ELN held two Los Angeles Times journalists.
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Colombia
Los Angeles Times
Robert Young Pelton
Megan Smaker
Mark Wederen
National Liberation Army
The
ELN
Scott Dalton
Conroe
Texas
Ruth Morris
Los Angeles
Francisco Santos
Pelton
Redondo Beach
Calif
Smoker
Brentwood
Wedeven
Bremerton
Wash
Darien Gap
Robert Pelton
Mark Wedeven
Daschle urges $300 tax cut and aid for states
Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle proposed a 300 per person income tax cut and billions for cash strapped states as part of an economic stimulus package. He called for small business health insurance tax breaks and aid for about 1 million jobless workers. The plan, announced in Cleveland, would expire after one year and cost about 140 billion.
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Senate
Tom Daschle
Bush
Daschle
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City Club of
Florida Death Row Inmate Freed After Prosecutors Decline Retry
Rudolph Holton walked free from Raiford prison after prosecutors cited strong evidence he did not commit the 1986 murder. He called it a relief and became Florida’s 23rd ex-death row inmate since 1973, as the state holds the most wrongful death row cases nationally.
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Holton
Death Penalty Information Center
Illinois
Man Shot During Beating of Dog in Virginia Mobile Home
Debbie Poore told police her husband Raymond Poore 43 was found dead from a gunshot wound in a Winchester Virginia mobile home after an alleged confrontation with their dog Bailey a 2 year old Shar Pei News reports the incident is being treated as accidental with autopsy results pending and the dog euthanized at the owner’s request Officers noted the weapon was a mixed rifle shotgun combo and Poore had a prior criminal record including a 12 month sentence for receiving stolen property
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Winchester
Raymond Poore
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Raymond “Raven” Poore
Poore
Greg Printz
Fairfax County
Printz
Bailey
Frederick County
Susan Bobinsky
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Bobinsky
Joyce Hanes
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Spotsylvania
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James Guiler
University of Kentucky
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