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GREEN BAY, Wis. - A state senator accidentally drove over his young granddaughter Friday, killing her, the senator said in a statement.
Sen. Dave Hansen said he was leaving to attend a meeting when his granddaughter ran out of the house and got behind his car. Hansen said neither he nor his wife knew the girl had run outside.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19752538
DECATUR, Ga. - A former Marine, already irritated about the disappearance of $100 from his bank account, tackled a suspected robber who came into the bank wielding a fire extinguisher and demanding cash.
Timothy Armstead was waiting at the Washington Mutual Bank branch on Tuesday to discuss the missing money when the man came in and told bank employees he had a bomb. The man gave them five minutes to get $2,000 in $50 bills, DeKalb County police said.
As the employees went to the vault to comply, the unidentified man began loudly counting down the minutes, which attracted Armstead’s attention, police spokesman Michael Payne said.
When the man then tried to walk out with the money, Armstead, 27, knocked him to the ground. He held the man down — lecturing him on his poor decision — until authorities arrived.
“I just told him it was a very stupid decision and now you get to spend 20 years of your life just for taking some money,” Armstead told WSB-TV.
The man was taken to the DeKalb County Jail on suspicion of armed robbery. Jail officials declined to comment on his case Friday. A call to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s office was not immediately returned.
~~ Associated Press ~~
LINCOLN, Neb. - Before a jury was even seated, a judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the sex-assault case where he had barred the words “rape” and “victim” among others.
Judge Jeffre Cheuvront of Lancaster County District Court said publicity surrounding the rape case against Pamir Safi, 33, would have made it too difficult for jurors to ignore everything they heard before the trial, which had been expected to begin next week. A jury was in the process of being selected when Cheuvront declared a mistrial.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19733842
NEW YORK - An angry Dennis Kucinich lashed out at John Edwards on Friday, saying his Democratic rival showed "a consistent lack of integrity" by suggesting fewer candidates should participate in presidential forums and then trying to explain his remark to reporters.
"This is a serious matter and I'm calling him on it," Kucinich, an Ohio congressman, said in a telephone interview Friday. "Whispering, trying to rig an election, then denying what's going on and making excuses. It all reflects a consistent lack of integrity."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19750182
LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown denied Friday a shift in foreign policy away from the United States after one of his ministers told an audience there that a country’s strength depended on alliances not military might.
International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander, in a speech in Washington on Thursday, said while Britain stood beside the United States in fighting terrorism, isolationism did not work in an interdependent world.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19741652
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