TRAFFIC ADVISORY

Road Conditions, Sunday, 12:15 pm, December 13, 2009

Location: New Castle County, Kent County, Sussex County, DE

Resume: Road conditions in New Castle, Kent, and Sussex Counties, are improving as the temperatures begin to rise.

Roadways are reported as being mainly wet, with no major areas of ice developing.

The Delaware State Police advises if you need to travel today to take things slowly, and be extra careful on bridges and overpasses. These areas cause the most problems during winter weather, and tend to freeze first.

After Crash, Orphans Torn Between Countries

Brain-damaged girl and her brother caught in grandparents' custody battle

Writing a will is an unusual act for a couple in their mid-30s, but Karl and Marisa Heiss did not do ordinary things.

An American carpenter and an Argentine social worker, they lived for a year in a teepee in a northern Idaho forest. She homeschooled their two children, teaching in Spanish and English to give them a future in both countries. They had no TV or video games but read books constantly, and the kids created art and music when they weren't outside playing.

Bilingual and bicultural, the family didn't quite fit with either country's mainstream culture. Theirs was a "hippie, peace and love" community in the wilderness, as Marisa's mother, Violeta Conti, saw it — a place where family and friends could reinforce their values.

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WASHINGTON COUNTY MOTHER & SON INDICTED ON MURDER FOR HIRE

(Hancock, MD) A Washington County woman and her son, who is currently incarcerated on previous murder convictions, has been indicted on charges involving a murder for hire plot.

The Washington County Grand Jury issued indictments for Grace Marie Fink, 67, of the unit block of West Main Street in Hancock, Maryland and her son, Clarence F. Meyers, 39, of the 200-block of Old Route 40 in Hancock, Maryland. Both are charged by indictment with conspiracy to commit first degree murder, felony witness intimidation and obstruction of justice. Meyers’ additional charges include solicitation to commit first degree murder. Fink’s additional charges include solicitation to commit first degree assault and solicitation to commit malicious destruction of property over $500.

At 8:30 a.m. yesterday, Maryland State Police investigators from the Criminal Investigation Division served Meyers the indictment at the North Branch Correctional Institute in Cumberland. Meyers is currently incarcerated on convictions resulting from the murders of two sisters and the arson that caused their deaths on February 20, 2009.

At 11:00 a.m. yesterday, criminal investigators arrested Fink at her home. She was processed at the Hagerstown Barrack and transported to a district court commissioner in Hagerstown. She is currently being held at the Washington County Detention Center without bond.

Since July, 2009, the Maryland State Police Criminal Investigation Division, with the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Washington County Detention Center had been investigating a murder for hire plot involving Meyers and Fink. Police believe that Meyers was conspiring with Fink to murder his alleged former girlfriend, who is the mother of two young girls he was charged with murdering earlier this year.

In December, state police criminal investigators testified before the Washington County Grand Jury, who later came back with a total of nine indictments on Meyers and Fink. With the assistance of the Washington County State’s Attorney’s Office, the arrests warrants were issued.

Oslo Police Chase Christians From Nobels

Message not welcome while Obama accepts peace prize

A Christian minister who has been arrested twice previously in Oslo for talking about Jesus in public now has been chased from the city center by police officers with the threat of yet another arrest if he returns, according to a lawyer who is working on his case.

Joel Thornton of the International Human Rights Group told WND today that Larry Keffer, who works through the Biblical Research Center in Tampa, Fla., was among a team of Christians trying to proclaim the message of Christ during the recent visit to the city by President Obama.

Obama was in Oslo to accept a Nobel Peace Prize for which he was nominated days after he took office in the United States. Obama admitted he had few accomplishments and used his speech to defend the use of war just nine days after ordering 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan.

Keffer, whose previous arrests came while he was working with Norwegian evangelist Petar Keseljevic and whose cases still are being challenged, was working with other American evangelists, including Ruben Israel, this week in Oslo.

Thornton reported the evangelists arrived with banners in front of the Nobel commission offices to proclaim the Gospel message before, during and after the Nobel presentation to Obama.

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DOES ANY ONE HERE LOOK FAMILIAR??

See the white guy in the white suit,,, see the blond with the white dress,,, see the guy in the middle,,,, this picture was taken a few years ago,,, it seems Obama has known these two phonies for awhile, at least when he was a senator,,they are getting all this press now as party crashers and the secret service is taking heat,,,, funny how this has not come out in the press.

Bailout Breakdown: Losses Likely To Be Larger Than Treasury Estimates

This week, the administration has been trumpeting the news that the $700 billion TARP is likely to ultimately cost much less than early estimates. That’s true, but far from the whole story.

The government’s best estimate, released Wednesday, is that the bailouts of AIG and the auto companies will ultimately cost taxpayers about $61 billion. It also forecast that other parts of the TARP will end up making taxpayers money. Put it all together, and the final estimated loss from the bailout’s first full year (thru September 2009) is about $41.6 billion.

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Not Everybody Loses On Bank Failure Friday

Three more banks failed on Friday, bringing the year’s total to 133. The FDIC estimates Friday’s failures will cost its insurance fund a combined $252.1 million. While the failures represent another hit to the FDIC’s depleted fund, they are a boon to three companies that acquired the assets and deposits of the closed institutions.

The first to go for the day was Republic Federal Bank of Miami, Florida. The bank had total assets of approximately $433 million and deposits of approximately $352.7 million. 1st United Bank of Boca Raton assumed all the deposits of the failed bank, paying the FDIC a premium of 1.2 percent for them. It also purchased $267.1 million of the failed bank’s assets including loans, cash and marketable investment securities.

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RAND Corporation Blueprint For Militarized “Stability Police Force”

The RAND Corporation, one of the most fecund research arms of the Military-Industrial-Homeland Security Complex, has released a study entitled A Stability Police Force for the United States: Justification and Creating U.S. Capabilities.

The SPFOR (to use the inevitable acronym) would be a “hybrid” military/law enforcement unit created within the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) for use “in a range of tasks such as crowd and riot control, special weapons and tactics (SWAT), and investigations of organized criminal groups” — both abroad, in UN-directed multilateral military operations, and at home, as dictated by the needs of the Regime.

Initially as small as 2–6,000 personnel, the SPFOR’s size “could be increased by augmenting it with additional federal, state, or local police from the United States” as necessary.

The RAND study, which was conducted for the U.S. Army’s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, recommended using the Marshals Service rather than the US Army’s Military Police as host for the SPFOR in order to avoid conflicts with the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids (albeit in principle more than in practice) the domestic use of the military as a law enforcement body.

“The USMS hybrid option … provides an important nondeployed mission for the force: augmenting state and local agencies, many of which currently suffer from severe personnel shortages,” states the report without explaining how the SPFOR could at once “augment” those under-manned agencies while at the same time being “augmented” by them if necessary.

That little lapse in logic is one of several indications that the report’s authors weren’t so much addressing a “problem” as making a case for a preordained “solution” — in this case, creating the vanguard of a militarized internal security force.

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Global Warming?

Dear Friends,

You owe to yourself and your loved ones to open your minds and watch these
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Hope N Change

Did you happen to catch Glenn Beck's show yesterday? He had a graph up that showed past presidents and the percentage of each president's cabinet appointees who had previously worked in the private sector. You know a real life business, not a government job? Remember what that is? A private business???

Roosevelt - 38%

Taft - 40%

Wilson - 52%

Harding - 49%

Coolidge - 48%

Hoover - 42%

FDR - 50%

Truman - 50%

Eisenhower - 57%

Kennedy - 30%

LBJ - 47%

Nixon - 53%

Ford - 42%

Carter - 32%

Reagan - 56%

GHWB - 51%

Clinton - 39%

GWB - 55%

And the Winner Winner Chicken Dinner is.........................

Obamanos - 8%

YEP, EIGHT PERCENT!!!!!!!!!!!! And these are the guys holding a "job summit" this week? This ought to go really well!!!! I'm gonna go out on a limb here, I know, but I'm gonna go ahead and predict.... WE'RE SCREWED!!!!!

So, HEY, how's that "Hope n Change" workin' out for ya?

Senior Citizens And The City?

How would I post this on your site SBYNews?

Has anyone heard about the form that was being given to city employees asking them fill it out and give their opinion on if they think that senior citizens should be employed at the City of Salisbury? Also they wanted to know if they think that the senior citizens that are already employed, if anyone thinks that they are not capable of doing their job and if they should continue to be employed.What plan do they have up their sleeves? A way to get rid of people that are to receive retirement soon and this way they will not have to pay out retirement?Of course this will only concern the employees low on the totem pole and not the ones that hold a higher office, right?Someone needs to find out who circulated this. Whose idea this was.Did not work the way they wanted to though, I heard that most of the forms ended up in the trash.

Attempted Murder 2nd, Domestic Related

Location: 1648 DuPont Highway, Smyrna, DE

Date of Occurrence: 12/12/2009, at approximately 5:10 am

Defendant: Talmadge W. Watkins, 33, of Goldsboro, NC


Resume: Troopers responded to the Smyrna Police Department and made contact with the 36 year old female victim who provided the following account.

She stated that she and the defendant had been dating for approximately one and a half years, and have been staying at a local hotel. She told Troopers that she and the defendant are not from Delaware and had recently moved from North Carolina due to the defendant’s job. She stated that the defendant had been drinking and became angry that he has not been able to visit his kids from a past marriage. She stated when she attempted to contact one of the defendant’s family members to speak to him; the defendant became enraged and struck her in the face several times. She told investigators when she attempted to leave, the defendant grabbed her by the hair forcing her to stay in the room as the defendant continued to strike her.

She advised Troopers that she was in fear of her life due to the threatening statements made by the defendant. She stated that she eventually got away from the defendant; however he followed her outside where the beating continued.

Citizens who observed the assault made several calls to 911. Smyrna Police, who were the first on scene, took the defendant into custody. The victim was transported to Smyrna Police Department where she received initial medical treatment for her injuries. The victim was then transported to Kent General Hospital were she was admitted for further treatment.

Mr. Watkins was charged with: Attempted Murder 2nd (f), Assault 1st (f), Reckless Endangering First (f), Unlawful Imprisonment 1st (f), Terroestitc Threatening (m). Mr. Watkins was arraigned and committed to James T. Vaughn Correctional Center in lieu of $250,000 cash bail pending trial.

Fatal Vehicle Fire Investigation

Location: 25317 John Drive, Piney Grove Manor, Georgetown, DE

Date of Occurrence: 12/12/2009, at approximately 6:08 am

Vehicle:

1996, Mercury Sable

Resume: On the aforementioned date and time, the Georgetown Fire Department responded to John Drive, in Piney Grove Manor, Georgetown, DE, for a vehicle fire. Upon the firefighters arrival the vehicle was fully engulfed in flames. After firefighters extinguished the flames, the body of a deceased man was discovered in the driver’s seat of the vehicle.

The exact cause of the fire has not been determined at this time; however the fire is not being demined suspicious by investigators. The identity of the man is not being released until all family members of the deceased can be contacted.

The Delaware State Fire Marshalls are the lead investigating agency in this case, and can be contacted with any questions in reference to the case.

The Delaware State Police is assisting in the investigation with making notifications to the family of the deceased.

Endangering The Welfare Of A Child

Location: 4737 Concord Pike, the parking lot of Concord Mall, Wilmington, DE

Date of Occurrence: 12/11/2009, at approximately 5:43 pm

Defendants

Latasha Tynes-Kirton, 32, Darby, PA
Beverly Smith, 24, Clifton Heights, PA

Resume: Troopers responded to Boscov's parking lot at Concord Mall, in reference to a report of children being left unattended in a motor vehicle. When the Troopers arrived on scene they were approached by a concerned citizen who brought them to a vehicle with unattended children in it. The Troopers observed that the vehicle was not running and four young children were in the vehicle. The Troopers took immediate action, entered the vehicle and took custody of the children.

The Troopers then attempted to contact the parents of the children who were in the mall shopping for approximately one hour. The Troopers did make contact with the parents when they finally answered their cell phone.

Latasha Tynes-Kirton, who is the mother of the 6 year old boy, 7 year old boy, and the 9 year old boy left in the vehicle, was charged with three counts of Endangering the Welfare of a Child. Upon arraignment, Latasha Tynes-Kirton was released on $750.00 unsecured bail until trial.

Beverly Smith, who is the mother of the 2 year old female left in the vehicle, was charged with one count of Endangering the Welfare of a Child. Upon arriangment Beverly Smith was released on $250.00 unsecured bail until trial.

The children were not injured during the incident, and ordered to be turned over to a family member per the Delaware Department of Family Services.