GOLD ALERT GREENWOOD MAN

Location:

·         14000 block Mile Stretch Road, Greenwood, DE

Date of Occurrence:  

·         Saturday, June 25, 2011 3:30 p.m.

Gold Alert Subject:

·         Paul R. Edwards Jr.-37 Greenwood, DE (Photo Above)

·         White male, 6’0”, 220 lbs, blue eyes, brown hair

·         Last seen wearing grey sweat pants (No further description available)

·         Last seen operating a 1997 Ford Mustang, black in color, DE Registration #43508

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Greenwood-The Delaware State Police are issuing a Gold Alert for Missing/ Suicidal subject Paul R. Edwards Jr.-37 of Greenwood, DE.

Delaware State Troopers have been unable to make contact with Edwards or check on his welfare.  Attempts to locate Edwards have been unsuccessful.

Edwards suffers from depression and his mental status is such that there is a concern for his welfare.    

If anyone has any information in reference to this incident, they are asked to contact Troop 5 at 302-337-1090

Salisbury Police Department Prostitution Operation

During the week of June 20, 2011, the Salisbury Police Department began an undercover operation targeting prostitution throughout the city. The investigation focused on both the females involved in prostitution and the prospective male customers. The first segment of this investigation centered on the female prostitutes and was conducted as part of the City of Salisbury “Safe Streets” grant project. This initial segment was completed in conjunction with the Wicomico County State’s Attorney’s Office and will potentially result in the referral of the below listed arrestees to the “Project Hope” component of the Safe Streets project.

ARRESTED #1: Jennifer Marie Joseph, 30 years of age Salisbury, Maryland

ARRESTED #2: Barbara Elaine Spatz, 45 years of age Salisbury, Maryland

ARRESTED #3: Holly Lynn Hill, 40 years of age Delmar, Maryland

ARRESTED #4: Mairinita Leatherbury Polk, 43 years of age Fruitland, Maryland

CHARGES (All): Prostitution

DISPOSITION: All released to Central Booking
CC # 20110002408/201100024414/201100024399/201100024406

The second segment of the investigation targeted the prospective male customers. This segment was completed with the assistance of the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office and resulted in the below listed arrests:

ARRESTED #1: Kenneth Lee Wharton, 19 years of age Snow Hill, Maryland

ARRESTED #2: Ernest Chuck Cox, 37 years of age Berlin, Maryland

ARRESTED #3: Melvin Andrew Robinson, 42 years of age Salisbury, Maryland

ARRESTED #4: Vick Lamont Tankford, 36 years of age Exmore, Virginia

ARRESTED #5: Earle Maurice Brooks, 75 years of age Salisbury, Maryland

ARRESTED #6: Alan Bryan Eskridge, 57 years of age Mardela Springs, Maryland

ARRESTED #7: Bertram Lee Devonald, 61 years of age Salisbury, Maryland

ARRESTED #8: Orlando John Harrison, 58 years of age Newark, Maryland

ARRESTED #9: David Lamont Collins, 31 years of age Salisbury, Maryland

CHARGES (All): Soliciting for prostitution/assignation

DISPOSITION: All released to Central Booking
CC # 201100024543/201100024546/201100024549/201100024554/
201100024561/201100024567/201100024568/201100024569/201100024573

In addition to the above, the below listed suspect was arrested in a related incident:

ARRESTED: Joseph Janelle Bradley, 36 years of age Salisbury, Maryland

CHARGES:
Trespassing
Possession of marijuana
Possession of heroin
Possession of CDS/paraphernalia (2 counts)

DISPOSITION: Released to Central Booking CC # 201100024551

Check Out The Eastern Shore Veterinary Hospital Cat Adoption from 10 to 2 today

The Eastern Shore Veterinary Hospital directly on Rt. 13 south in Laurel, DE. is having an adoption clinic today  for Cats. There's a Band, Jumping Machine and free snow cones. They also have a yard sale, bake sale and free nail trims on cats and dogs for a donation. They're also holding and auction but they're only open until 2 PM today. They even have BBQ Chicken for sale.

The adoption fee is only $20.00 which includes all updated shots and spayed and neutered.

If you've never been to see Dr. Dykstra, we use him for ALL of our animals.

Don't Forget Your Local Farmers Market Today In Downtown Salisbury

How To Remove Scratches From CDs and DVDs

If you lend a movie, CD or game to a friend and get it back with scratches, it isn't necessarily cause for rage. With the right technique you can easily remove the damage and have the disc playing as though it were new.

An ancient yet new-to-us post on Wise Bread tries out several ways to do it. Methods include filling in the scratches with toothpaste, a banana and metal polish, the latter of which the writer deems to be the most effective.

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World's Ugliest Dog

Pretty, I am not: Yoda wins World's Ugliest Dog title

2-pound dog was found abandoned and initially mistaken for a rat

Yoda's short tufts of hair, protruding tongue, and long, seemingly hairless legs were enough to earn it the World's Ugliest Dog title at a Northern California fair.

The 14-year-old Chinese crested and Chihuahua mix won the honor Friday night at the 23rd annual contest at the Sonoma Marin Fair.

Owner Terry Schumacher of Hanford, Calif., said the 2-pound dog had come a long way since she was found abandoned behind an apartment building.

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Current Caroline Budget on Track to End Year in Black

With the current fiscal year drawing to an end June 30, Caroline County officials are hopeful they will not have to dip into their back-up fund to end it in the black.

Caroline Finance Director Margaret Roe appeared before the county commissioners Tuesday to give an update on the $41.5 million fiscal year 2011 budget as it entered its final stretch, and the outlook she gave was promising.

According to Roe's spreadsheets, the county has received $40.3 million in revenue and spent about $41.4 million a difference of $1.1 million. Not all of the county's tax revenue has been received at this point though.

"Right now, expenses are over revenue. But it's really too early to say how we're going to finish," Roe said.

Roe said the county is still expecting more income tax to be doled out from the state, but is not confident the amount coming will meet budgetary estimates. She said while Caroline needs $2.9 million more to meet expectations, the county may only receive between $2 million to $2.5 million.

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Today's Survey Question

Do we prefer sons over daughters?

Md. Catholics Stand Up For Illegal Immigrant In-State Tuition

BALTIMORE (WJZ)—Opponents of Maryland’s immigrant in-state tuition law are just 8,000 signatures away from putting the issue on the ballot. Local leaders of the Catholic Church take a stand against the petition.

Kelly McPherson explains why Maryland Catholics won’t sign.

There’s a new voice in the intensifying debate over giving in-state tuition to illegal immigrants living in Maryland.

The Maryland Catholic Conference is saying “a statewide referendum on the issue of immigration will have a needlessly divisive impact on our state, and we urge Catholics and all Marylanders to refrain from signing on to this petition effort.”

State legislators passed the controversial bill this year, but conservative lawmakers are trying to stop it from becoming law by gathering signatures to force a referendum.

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Crossing The Bay Bridge And Entering Summer

The last Saturday in June was the day we said goodbye to Baltimore and packed it up for the summer. As a child, it was a day I anticipated all year, then remembered for its unforgettable set of rituals.

By the end of June the pace of our domestic life was slowing. The heat had set in, and, as a neighbor once observed, there was never an electric fan in our home. Baltimore was just different in the summer. The downtown department stores closed at noon on Saturdays. As you walked the streets you heard Orioles games on radios through all the open windows.

My relatives were industrious morning people who worked hard before the summer sun got going. For weeks before that June Saturday we collected cardboard boxes for packing. We went away for a month or more, sometimes the entire summer, and took necessities such as traveling steam irons and cast-iron frying pans.

At about 9 or 10 on that Saturday morning, we finally cast off from the alley behind our Guilford Avenue home, the neighbors assembled on back porches and waved us off for a happy departure; most neighbors indulged in the same practice a few weeks later when they called at our summer addresses and spent some time. Those without cars arrived via the Carolina Trailways bus, which served the Eastern Shore and Delaware on curiously zigzag routes that involved excruciating traveling times.

My elders traditionally dressed formally but not on a travel day. They acted as if crossing the Bay Bridge were crossing the meridian. For this arduous, 114-mile excursion of three hours (tops), my grandmother and great aunt wore elasticized turbans atop heavy hairnets. My grandfather, rarely seen without a suit and tie, produced a khaki shirt and khaki trousers, along with a matching canvas cap with broad visor. He could have been on an archaeological dig.

The then-new Bay Bridge was a talking point. Some days there weren't enough toll takers on duty. That occasioned my grandfather to give one of his sermons on the complete and totally inefficiency of all Maryland governmental agencies. He also paid the toll in silver dollars, just to get a reaction from the unsuspecting collectors.

A civil engineer, he habitually rapped the bridge's design, which he held should have been four lanes wide, with a pair of train tracks down the center. In 1954 it was one lane in each direction.

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Delaware Suspends License of Claymont Physician

State officials this week ordered an emergency suspension of Claymont doctor Timothy Wong’s medical license for committing serious violations of the Delaware Medical Practice Act.

Secretary of State Jeffrey Bullock and Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline President Raymond L. Moore, Sr. ordered the suspension based on a formal complaint issued by the Delaware Attorney General’s Office, Delaware Department of State spokesman Christopher Portante said.

The order maintains that Dr. Wong, who has been on licensure probation since March 1, 2011, has engaged in activities that present a clear and immediate danger to the public health, Portante said. Wong’s specialty is family practice, but he practices mainly pain management.

Wong has continually prescribed controlled substances to patients without conducting proper medical examinations, without creating and maintaining proper records or logs, without ordering tests, without requesting medical records, without contacting patients' primary care or other treating physicians, without obtaining patients' informed consent, and with little or no discussion or establishment of any underlying medical or psychiatric basis or need for medication, the Complaint and Motion for Emergency Suspension alleges, among other things. He also allegedly abandoned hundreds of patient medical files at his Claymont office, refused to provide medical records to treating physicians and patients and falsified patient medical records.

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Today's Wildlife Photo



Hi, Joe. 

I found a black squirrel in our yard this week and thought it was so unusual!  I had never seen one and everyone I told had also confirmed they had never seen one, either.  They are common in southern Canada.  This little guy must have hitched a ride on a logging truck.

Coons Endorses SAVEGO

U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) today called on Congress and the White House to include the Save As You Go mechanism in its negotiations to ensure that Washington can’t run away from making the hard choices that need to be made on our dangerous annual deficits and staggering national debt.

Coons is a member of the Senate Budget Committee.

“Under our current budget process, the path of least political resistance is to keep revenues low while offering a high level of services,” Coons wrote in an op-ed appearing Friday in POLITICO.com. “Balanced budgets are fundamentally against the short-term interests of politicians from both parties. Our growing national debt is neither a Republican nor a Democratic problem, but rather a shared, structural problem. We need a way to keep both parties at the table.”

Save As You Go, or SAVEGO, is a backstop designed to ensure that, if Congress and the White House cannot save enough money each year to bring our budget back under control, their inaction will not lead to devastating economic consequences.

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Read Sen. Coons’ Op-Ed in the POLITICO

Entries Open For Second Salisbury Super Soap Box Spectacular

SALISBURY, MD---Entries are being accepted for the second annual Salisbury Super Soap Box Spectacular, scheduled noon-3 p.m. Saturday, August 6, at the city parking garage on Market Street.

    

Co-sponsored by the Salisbury Jaycees and St. Francis De Sales Boy Scout Troop 185, the entry fee is $10 per racer. The winner receives a trophy, a $25 gift card to a local store and 50 percent of the registration fees. Teams may be comprised of children, adults or a combination thereof.

    

Cars entered in the derby must have a braking system and the ability to be launched from a 4-foot ramp. The wheel base of all cars must be at least 2.5 times the ground clearance to prevent overturning. Cars must be sturdy enough to compete in at least six competition heats. Drivers must wear helmets.

    

Admission for spectators is free, and the public is invited. Refreshments will be available for purchase. Proceeds benefit summer camp scholarships for members of Troop 185.

    

For entry packets and additional vehicle specifications, contact Race Commissioner Tom Taylor at 443-260-0790 or taylortok@yahoo.com. 

Greensboro Parade Cancelled

The streets of Greensboro will not be filled with fire trucks or marching bands this July after it was decided that there will be no parade during the town's annual carnival.

On Tuesday, Town Manager David Kibler said the Greensboro Volunteer Fire Company opted not to hold a parade during its carnival this year, set to run June 27 through July 2. Kibler said it will be the first time in quite a few years that there will be no parade.

GVFC President Richard Covert said the fire company members voted against a parade this year because of a lack of participation in the parades for the last three years. Covert said the fire company spent $700 on trophies for last year's parade, but had very few groups show up to take part.

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Queen Anne’s County Farmers Offer Tour

Yes, they did know how to use a level when they built the football-field-size cow barn at Patterson's Farm in Queen Anne's County. The concrete floor was built at a 3-degree slope on purpose, so that a water rinse would ease waste away from the dairy cows with minimal disturbance.

Farm knowledge is generally lacking these days since the majority of people don't spend life growing up on a farm anymore. Modern construction and environmental practices are uniquely shaping the farming industry, which is struggling with the dynamics of family succession and government oversight.

The Queen Anne's County Farm Bureau offered its latest effort in education outreach on a recent June morning, presenting a tour of the county's agricultural areas to local government officials in a comfortable air-conditioned coach, with stopovers showcasing some of county's diverse farming businesses.

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Civil Rights Group Demands Answers in Shooting

A local civil rights organization says it's asking questions and demanding answers in the case of a 69-year-old man killed last weekend in a shootout with police in his home.

The Coalition for Justice for Civil Rights says it wants to know why police found it necessary to break down William A. Cooper's door to execute a search warrant for prescription painkillers. The group says police could have waited for Cooper to get home and then executed the warrant.

"This could have been handled differently," said Rudy Langford, the coalition's president. "Why not just wait for the guy? It's ridiculous. It didn't have to cost a life."

Langford said he wants to know the circumstances of the shooting, such as more about the informant who provided information about Cooper; how much time elapsed between the police entry and the shooting and how many shots were fired.

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Veasey Named As Independent Counsel in DE Campaign Finance Probe

Former Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice E. Norman Veasey has been named independent counsel to lead a probe into possible violations of state campaign finance laws, state Attorney General Beau Biden said today.

“I am honored to be appointed to this position of independent counsel,” said Veasey, a registered Republican and senior partner at the prestigious firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges.

Veasey’s appointment is the result of a more than yearlong investigation into federal election violations by liquor executive Christopher J. Tigani. Earlier this month, Tigani, who ran the family’s lucrative N.K.S. Distributors Inc. in New Castle, pleaded guilty to two federal felony violations of campaign-finance law and two counts of tax fraud.

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Body of Man Missing for 3 Years Identified

The body of a Capitol Heights man missing since 2008 was identified this month and police are investigating his death as a homicide, announced Prince George's County police Friday.

Police identified Anthony Jerome Nelson, 30, of the 6900 block of Aquamarine Court as the person found dead in a community park in March.

Nelson’s family reported him missing on August 16, 2008, after he walked out of his family’s home saying he was going to meet friends and never returned. Just a few hours after he left, two burglars broke into the home, bound family members with duct tape and stole various items and money from the home, according to reports published at the time ofNelson’s disappearance.

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Wife of Former PG County Executive to Plead Guilty

The wife of former Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson is scheduled for a plea hearing next week.

Federal prosecutors announced Friday that Leslie Johnson will appear June 30 at a plea hearing in U.S. District Court in Greenbelt. Johnson was arrested in November on obstruction of justice charges after FBI agents said she tried to flush a $100,000 check from a developer down the toilet and stuff cash in her undergarments.

Johnson had previously signaled her intent to plead guilty, but a plea hearing set for earlier this spring was canceled without explanation.

Her husband pleaded guilty last month to federal corruption charges as part of a sweeping probe into wrongdoing in county government.

from the Washington Times

Postal Employee Charged With Stealing Money Meant for Charities

A Hyattsville woman working as a postal service mail processor was indicted in federal court on Friday on charges she stole mail addressed to charities and containing checks worth $9,000.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District said Lisa M. Hunter, 40, faces up to five years in prison if convicted of theft of mail by a government employee after she was indicted by a grand jury in U.S. District Court for the District on that charge and two counts of first-degree theft.

Authorities said that on June 2 at about 10:40 a.m., a Postal Service police officer saw Ms. Hunter pushing a mail cart through a turnstile at the employee exit of the Brentwood postal facility in Northeast Washington.

When questioned, she claimed that she had been authorized by a supervisor to remove the mail from the facility. But the man she said gave her permission told investigators he was not her supervisor and that he did not authorize her to take the mail.

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NJ Pediatrician Sent to Jail

A longtime Toms River pediatrician was sentenced today to 60 days in jail, put on probation for three years and ordered to perform 60 days of community service for surreptitiously taking nude photographs of a patient and giving expired vaccines to others.

Jose Romillo, 66, of Bay Point Drive, also was ordered to repay $1,246 to an insurance company that bore the cost of revaccinating the patients.

Superior Court Judge Stephanie M. Wauters, who imposed the sentence, said she had struggled with what punishment to give Romillo. She said she gave heavy weight to the need to deter him, and equally heavy weight to the fact that he voluntarily surrendered his medical license.

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Man Drowns in Boating Accident in Chesapeake City

Emergency crews recovered the body of a 25-year-old man who fell off a boat as it pulled into a dock in Chesapeake City Friday night.

Sgt. Art Windemuth of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources Police said the man fell in the Mooring Basin near the Chesapeake Inn at 8:37 p.m.

The body of the man, whose name is being withheld until his next of kin can be notified, was recovered around 10:15 p.m., Windemuth said.

Windemuth said the man’s body will be taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy. The Natural Resources Police’s special operation division will continue to investigate the incident, he said.

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Carney Votes Against Involvement in Libya

Breaking ranks with his Democratic colleagues, Rep. John Carney of Delaware opposed continuing U.S. military operations in Libya on Friday in votes that were considered a rebuke to President Barack Obama.

He was among 70 Democrats who joined Republicans in rejecting a measure 295-123 that would have authorized the yearlong limited use of U.S. forces, except for ground troops, in the NATO mission against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Most lawmakers weren't willing to ban funds for some U.S. operations there, rejecting that separate proposal 238-180. But Carney was one of 36 Democrats to vote in favor. That proposal came with several exceptions -- funds for search and rescue,intelligence, aerial refueling and operational planning would not have been affected.

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Deeds to Seek Re-Election

State Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, D-Bath, is seeking re-election to the Senate in the 25th District.

Deeds lost the 2009 gubernatorial race as the Democratic candidate.

Deeds said that if re-elected, he would continue to work to improve higher-education opportunities and the transportation system.

No one has stepped forward to oppose Deeds yet. He has served in the legislature for 20 years.

The 25th district includes Charlottesville and extends westward to the West Virginia line.

from Tyler Whitley @ the Richmond Times-Dispatch

Maryland Lawmakers Split on Libya Vote

Maryland’s congressional delegation split along party lines Friday over a resolution in the House of Representatives that would have authorized President Barack Obama to continue U.S. military involvement in Libya for one year, with the state’s six Democrats in support and two Republicans opposed.

The measure, similar to one pending in the Senate that is backed by Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, failed on a vote of 123-295. Seventy Democrats joined all but eight Republicans in opposition.

Lawmakers in both parties have grown increasingly restive about the administration’s approach to Libya, which began with a series of airstrikes in March to weaken forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi. Obama has maintained he does not need authorization from Congress to continue the effort because the military is not engaged in full-blown hostilities.

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Judge Blocks Indiana from Cutting Funds to Planned Parenthood

A federal judge on Friday blocked the parts of Indiana's tough new abortion law that cuts off most of Planned Parenthood's public funding in the state because the organization provides abortions.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt granted Planned Parenthood's request for an injunction in striking down the law's defunding provision as unconstitutional, and siding with federal Medicaid officials who have said states cannot disqualify Medicaid providers merely because they also offer abortions.

The U.S. Justice Department also had filed a brief siding with Planned Parenthood, with attorneys saying the law restricts Medicaid recipients' freedom to choose their health care provider.

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Sorry for the Delay …

We apologize for the delay in posts this morning.  Our internet service downtown went out at midnight so I went home early.

New posts are coming immediately.

- G. A. Harrison, Managing Editor