Jackson accuser details alleged molestation in trial
In Santa Maria California the accuser testified of lewd remarks and acts by Michael Jackson during the trial day described as the most critical. The boy recalled visits with Jackson at Neverland, sexual talk and two encounters, including an alleged act in Jackson’s bed after they drank.
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Michael Jackson
Jackson
Thomas Mesereau Jr
Rodney S. Melville
Melville
Neverland
Tom Sneddon
Apartment fire kills 11 in La Mississippi style
MARRERO La Eleven family members died in a suburban apartment after a mattress caught fire and blocked the only escape as they tried to drag it out. The fire started by candles the family used due to no electricity since moving in hours earlier. Four family members escaped. Victims ranged from 6 months to 42 years old and died from smoke inhalation or burns according to Sheriff Harry Lee.
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Marrero
Harry Lee
Three Die In Forest Service Helicopter Crash
A Bell 206B-3 helicopter under contract to the U S Forest Service crashed during prescribed burning in an east Texas national forest, killing three aboard. Pilot Jose Victor Gonzales and passengers John Greene and Charles Edgar died at the scene about 60 miles northeast of Lufkin.
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Shelbyville
Texas
U.S. Forest Service
Jose Victor Gonzales
John Greene
Charles Edgar
Heather Crustner
Texas Department of Public Safety
Lufkin
Gay Ippolito
Forest Service
England Faces May Trial Over Abu Ghraib Detainee Allegations
Fort Hood based Pfc Lynndie England will stand trial May 3 with a May 2 pretrial hearing. She faces up to 16 1/2 years for conspiracy to maltreat detainees four counts of cruelty and maltreatment two counts of indecent acts at Abu Ghraib in 2003. Meanwhile Alabama Senate backs same sex marriage ban for June 2006 primary. The measure would prevent recognition of out of state same sex marriages.
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Texas
Lynndie England
England
Fort Ashby
W Va
Abu Ghraib
Montgomery
Ala
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Senate
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Massachusetts
California
Oregon
New York
Sen
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Death penalty sought in 12 slayings case
Kansas City prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against Lorenzo J. Gilyard 54 for the strangling deaths of 12 women between 1977 and 1993 most of them prostitutes. Jackson County Prosecutor Mike Sanders cited aggravating circumstances including torture and a violent history after a 10 month evidence review and family consultations.
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Jackson County
Mike Sanders
Lorenzo J. Gilyard
Gilyard
Sanders
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