LOS ANGELES - A jury recommended that a vice president of legal affairs at Sony Pictures Entertainment and his wife should pay more than $500,000 in damages to a woman who claimed that they kept her as an indentured servant.
A jury on Thursday found James and Elizabeth Jackson liable for subjecting Nena Ruiz to involuntary servitude and for negligence and fraud. Elizabeth Jackson was also deemed liable for assault and battery.
"Of course, we're very disappointed in the verdict," said their attorney, Jack Daniels. He said his clients were considering an appeal.
Ruiz, 60, claimed in a Superior Court lawsuit filed last year that she often worked at least 18 hours a day and was forced to do strange household chores such as heating chicken nuggets and cutting up bananas or pears for two dogs.
She said she was paid $300 for a year's work at the couple's Culver City condominium.
Ruiz also alleged that she had to sleep in a dog bed and that Elizabeth Jackson repeatedly slapped her and pulled her hair.
http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/?ArID=91801&SecID=33
Malone, who is gay and has lost friends to AIDS, told the San Francisco Chronicle he is relieved but angry at his doctor. The paper said Malone has retained an attorney and expects to file a malpractice claim against the VA Health Care System.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/27469.htm
NOW MUSEUM, NOW YOU DON'T
By DEVIN SMITH
August 25, 2004 -- A 20-year employee of the Nassau County Museums Division pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing more than 2,000 artifacts, including a small model of a Wright airplane that fetched more than $100,000 at auction.
The plea agreement called for Kappeler to serve 1½ to 4½ years in prison and pay full restitution in the amount of about $249,000. In exchange, Nassau prosecutors agreed to drop numerous charges from two indictments against Kappeler.
Here are a few Baghdad Bob classics from the spring of 2003 (courtesy of one of his many Web shrines), verbatim. See if you can imagine them coming out of the mouth of our president speaking to the press today.
"I will only answer reasonable questions."
"No, I am not scared, and neither should you be."
"Be assured: Baghdad is safe, protected."
"We are in control, they are not in control of anything, they don't even control themselves!"
"The battle is very fierce and God made us victorious."
"They mock me for how I speak. I speak better English than they do."
"The same situation happened with the other lady, the Vietnamese one," said Felicia Maraseseu. "That's too much."
（先日、警官がベトナム人のおばさんを射殺して問題になった。もちろんサンノゼ警察は反省してない。）
Edward R. Cookらは木の年輪に関する過去1200年分の膨大なデータを調査した。その結
果、過去1000年の間に繰り返し起こった乾期と比較して、現在の干ばつがそれほど厳しい
ものではないことが判明した。西暦900年頃に始まり、400年もの間続いた極度の乾燥は、
ほぼ「中世温暖期」に起こっていることから、少なくとも米国西部では、乾燥状態が高い
気温によって自然に起こる結果であることが示唆される。
Long-Term Aridity Changes in the Western United States
Edward R. Cook, Connie Woodhouse, C. Mark Eakin, David M. Meko, and David W. Stahle
Published online October 7 2004; 10.1126/science.1102586 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1102586v1
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1078452004
The state's first attempt to outlaw necrophilia, in response to a case of a man charged with having sex with the corpse of a 4-year-old girl in Southern California, stalled last year in a legislative committee.
"Prosecutors didn't have anything to charge these people with other than breaking and entering. But if they worked in a mortuary in the first place, prosecutors couldn't even charge them with that," Ochoa said.
(CBS) When envelopes of routine government paperwork arrived at Huffman Aviation school, the names on the forms immediately stuck out: Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi.
Those men are believed to have been two of the hijackers of the two jetliners that slammed into the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11, killing almost 3,000 people.
(not in 2ch yet, apparently) http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20041123/ts_alt_afp/us_crime_hunting_041123211210
HAYWARD, United States (AFP) - The Loatian-born deer hunter accused of killing six members of a hunting party during a rampage in woodland in northwest Wisconsin at the weekend, has told US authorities that he was fired on first, according to court papers released Tuesday.
Chai Vang told investigators that members of the party verbally abused him, calling him "chink" and "gook," and that one man fired on him as he was preparing to leave the private estate that was the scene of Sunday's deadly shooting spree.
Chai Soua Vang, 36, was surrounded by angry hunters who found him trespassing on their land on Sunday and at least one called him a "gook, chink, fucking Asian," according to a document filed by investigators in Sawyer County Circuit Court.
痛い馬鹿ニュースを２ｃｈより早くキャッチ！
ニセ産婦人科医者の男：懲役４年 http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/2916123
Nov. 23, 2004, 5:15PM
Fake gynecologist sentenced to 4 years in prison
Associated Press
DALLAS -- A storage facility manager who posed as a gynecologist was sentenced to four years in prison today after pleading guilty to practicing medicine without a license. ADVERTISEMENT
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CBS Shooting Suspect Had Army Service Ribbon For Sharpshooting
Nov 23, 2004 6:19 pm US/Central
St. Paul (AP) The man suspected in the shooting deaths of six Wisconsin hunters spent six years in the California National Guard, and earned a
sharpshooter qualification badge, according to military records obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
Chai Soua Vang also earned an expert qualification badge for hand grenade during his time in the Guard, from 1989 to 1995.
But his primary role for the Guard in Sacramento was as a "patient administration specialist," a mostly clerical role. After his discharge, he spent two more years in the Individual Ready Reserve.
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Lt. Jonathan Shiroma, a spokesman for the California Guard, said sharpshooter is a middle qualification level for a basic trainee, above marksman but below expert.
The sharpshooter qualification requires hitting 30 to 35 out of 40 targets at distances ranging from 50 to 300 meters, Shiroma said.
Shiroma said trainees have to shoot at least at the marksman level to make it out of basic training. Dov Schwartz, an Army spokesman in Washington, said
the qualification was "not an extraordinarily special thing" for a shooter.
Since moving to Minnesota, Vang appears to have led a quiet life, playing soccer and raising roosters at the St. Paul home he shared with his family. He wasn't widely known in the city's Hmong community.
Acquaintances viewed him as cordial, but his past includes a brush with Minneapolis police after Vang threatened his wife with a gun.
