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.

GO HERE to read more.

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
two videos. Everyone deserves truth.


http://www.youtube.com/taxpayerdotcom#p/a/u/2/Vlnm3IvisPU

http://www.youtube.com/taxpayerdotcom#p/a/u/0/gNnqKVGA1LA

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.

Delmar Christmas Parade Cancelled

Hi Joe,

The Delmar Christmas Parade, sponsored by the Greater Delmar Chamber of Commerce has been CANCELLED.
The forecast is for an 80-90 percent chance of heavy rain during the parade time.
The Chamber will not attempt to do another date for the parade this year.

We know there will be some disappointed people but we just do not have the funds or the resources to keep rescheduling.

Hopefully we can have a great parade in 2010.

We'd appreciate you helping us to get the word out once again.

Thank you,

Diane Johnson
Greater Delmar
Chamber of Commerce

"The Joe Albero Show"

Folks, this is by far THE BEST SHOW we've done yet. Be sure to watch the videos on the right hand side of the Blog to catch this week's Show if you don't get it on cable.

I got the final product in last night and it could be up sooner than 10:30 AM but let me assure you, you're going to truly like what we have delivered this week.

Remember, you can see it at 10:30 on WRDE Comcast Channel 9 or Mediacom Channel 99. If you're still not getting in your basic Comcast Channel 9, call me or e-mail me and I'll walk you through what you need to do to get it. It is a BASIC Channel and you get it for free. However, when they switched over to digital broadcast they changed the boxes and you need to call Comcast for a new free digital box. Again, it's FREE from Comcast. If you have Comcast, you should get channel 9. If you don't, call them and tell them you want the new digital box.

That being said, tell us your thoughts after the show airs.

UPDATE: We were having technical difficulties with today's show so we pulled it down temporarily. Once you see Show 5 up on the bottom left hand corner it will be available again. Please be patient while we make the proper corrections.

HISTOICAL COMMENTS BY GEORGE CHEVALLIER

(From the 1908 Business Supplement to the Wicomico Advertiser)


FARMERS AND PLANTERS COMPANY

FERTILIZERS, COAL, LIME, HAIR, FARM IMPLEMENTS,

SEEDS, SHINGLES, BRICKS, ETC.

Among the many big enterprises of Salisbury, there is none that stands higher in her business life or keeps in closer touch with the builders and planters of the Eastern Shore than the Farmers’ and Planters’ Company, of which Mr. Glen Perdue is manager. For many years this company has been supplying the needs of thousands of patrons and they are familiar with the requirements of every kind of soil, and of every locality. The goods handled by them are of the very best and especially adapted to the Eastern Shore. Their fertilizers are manufactured from formulas that years of experimenting have brought the best results in the products peculiar to the Peninsula, and these include “Truckers’ Mixture”, “Special Fish”, “Fish Mixture”, “General Crop Grower”, “Bone and Potash”, “Standard Mixture”, “Special Wheat”, Dry Fish, Dissolved Bone, Raw Bone Meal, High Grade Tankage, Muriate Potage, Nitrate Soda, Dissolved S.C. Rock, and Kamit. In farm implements, they are agents for the world famous Deering Harvesting Machinery, Ideal Binders, Ideal Mowers, Ideal Steel Rakes, Deering Sicle (sic) Grinders, Deering Binding Twine, Imperial Chilled Plows, Imperial Disc Harrows, Hallock Success Weeders, Tiger Corn Planters, Tiger Transplanters, Tiger Disc Harrows, Tiger Riding and Walking Cultivators, McWhorter Fertilizer Distributors, Keystone One-Horse Corn and Pea Planters, Keystone Fertilizer Distributors, Superior Single and Double Disc Drills, Superior Disc One-Horse Corn and Pea Planters. The building materials comprise Lump Lime, Texas Alum lime, Cements, plaster hair, long coat, and winter cow hair, and the company are also selling agents for the Peninsula Brick Company’s red, arch, salmon, and paving bricks. It will be seen from this partial list of specialties handled that the business conducted is very extensive. No contract is too great or too small for this company to undertake, and the trade extends throughout the Eastern Shore country, Delaware and Virginia. The business was established many years ago, and in 1898 Mr. Perdue became the sole proprietor, and under his able direction it has won a place of distinction unexcelled by any enterprise of its kind in this section of Maryland.

Even though this was written 101 years ago, the business is still thriving and is one of the few businesses still around in 2009 performing basically the same service. The ad pictured is from the First Great Fair in Salisbury in 1909. The Fair was held on the SE corner of Pemberton Drive and Parsons Road.)

A Local Family In Need

Hi Joe,

I am writing to you because I read your blog all the time and I know you do a lot of good works and reach a lot of people with the causes you champion.

There is a family that is in need of help right now and I thought you might be able to help with getting the word out.

Here is their story:

Tommy and Beth Phillips and their two children live in Fruitland. The children are now 10 and 12. About 7 years ago their son, Dustin, was diagnosed with cancer and had to have chemotherapy, his right hand was amputated and last year he had cancer on his tongue and the doctors had to remove 1/3 of his tongue. They have long since reached the maximum lifetime medical benefits of $1,000,000.00 and as a result they have to get insurance for him through the government. The only way to get that medical insurance is if they don’t make over a certain amount of money, as a result of all this, the mother had to quit her job, initially to be the primary caregiver to the child, and also because if she works then their son will not have any medical insurance. It is a terrible Catch 22.

They have tried to make the best of the situation and she is homeschooling the children. The salary that Tommy makes is budgeted to the penny for all their bills. They don’t have any extra money for anything. Last week we found out that they are really having a hard time right now. Tommy called a friend of ours last week asking for help. He had gotten a deer but didn’t have the money to take it to the butcher but he said they really needed the food. So, my husband and our friend helped Tommy butcher it so they wouldn’t be without food. We have helped them some but their needs are too great for us to make an impact. Just in the past few months they have had their heat pump go bad, the dryer died, their stove only has 1 burner that works and he had to get tires on his truck so that he could make it to work. As a result of the chemotherapy that Dustin had his baby teeth have never fallen out so his teeth are coming in all crooked. They have to have 11 teeth pulled at $100.00 per tooth. The insurance will not cover any of that, nor will it cover any portion of the braces that he needs. They said last weekend they had $22.00 leftover after they paid their bills and they got $10.00 in food and $12.00 in gas so he could get to work. They have to take Dustin to Johns Hopkins a few days after Christmas for a checkup and they don’t have the money for gas and parking for that. The list just goes on and on. They have had to declare bankruptcy and are 3 months behind in their mortgage payments.

These are good people that have had a rough time the last 7 years as a result of all the medical issues with their son. This could happen to any of us.

Joe, it would be a huge blessing if any of your readers could help this family out. I don’t know if there is a dentist out there that may be willing to donate their
services to this family to help out. It would be wonderful if anyone else would be able to help them out by monetary donations or gift cards for gas, grocery stores, Walmart, anything at this point would be a huge help to them.

If anyone can help them out they can mail their help to : Tommy and Beth Phillips, 104 Walden Drive, Fruitland MD 21826

Thanks for sharing this with everyone Joe.

Teresa H.

Brooke Mulford Update

Hello Everyone,

First of all, thank you so much for hanging in there with us after all this time. There is still such a long way to go. Thank you also for everyone that sent cards and gifts for Brooke's 5th birthday on 11/27. She was able to enjoy 3 mini birthday parties with family and Dr. Dave & Miss Liz (honorary family at this point)! She had a good couple weeks at home and was able to gain the 3 lbs she lost during her last treatment. Part of this phase of her treatment involves taking the drug Accutane (usually prescribed for severe acne) which only comes in pill form so she had to learn how to swallow pills. She has done remarkably well (not surprising to her proud mama) and has for the past 14 days been taking 4 pills a day.

Brooke was admitted to CHOP yesterday (Wed) and started the first part (IL2) of her second round of Immunotherapy this morning. So far she is tolerating it well but this is typically a pretty easy week while next week (thurs) when she starts the 2nd part of round 2 (IL2 + antibodies) is typically very difficult. Please keep her in your prayers. She hopefully gets a mini break between the 2 parts and may be discharged on Mon for about 48 hrs. If all goes well with the 2nd part she should be discharged on Mon 12/21 (hoping we make it home for Christmas)! From what I understand, most kids feel pretty cruddy for about a week after this round. It was Christmas Eve last year when her syptoms started and she felt pretty bad last Christmas day. Would love to see her feeling strong and great this year and really be able to enjoy herself. Knowing Brooke, she won't care where she is on Christmas day. She is just as happy being here at CHOP as she is at home! Either way we are just truly blessed that she is with us this Christmas. I know everyone is probably stressed at the moment and franticly trying to get ready for the holidays but try to take a deep breath and enjoy this time of year with your loved ones and remember the true meaning of Christmas
.
I will do my best to keep you posted but hoping for an uneventful week (2 uneventful weeks would be fantastic)!

Blessings,
Amy

Wicomico County Sheriff's Office Press Release

Incident: Flee and Elude / Resist Arrest
Date of Incident: 10 December 2009
Location: 800 block of Miami Avenue
Suspect: Ronnie L. Bivens, 48, Chance, MD

Narrative: On 10 December 2009 at 12:20 AM, a deputy from the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office attempted to stop a vehicle for suspicion of Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol on Naylor Mill Road. Instead of stopping, the operator, later identified as Ronnie Bivens of Chance, MD, continued without stopping. Additional Sheriff’s Office personnel attempted to also get Bivens to stop as he continued to elude law enforcement personnel. A stop stick device was deployed successfully by Sheriff’s Office personnel which caused one of the tires on Bivens’ vehicle to become deflated. Bivens managed to continue eluding in his vehicle until Miami Avenue, at which point Bivens exited his vehicle and attempted to flee on foot. WCSO personnel located Bivens hiding underneath a van parked nearby in a residential yard where Bivens did not live. Upon locating Bivens, he struggled and resisted the efforts of deputies to place him under arrest.

Based on Bivens’ actions and the observations of the deputies, Bivens was charged with Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol, Attempting to Flee and Elude and Resisting Arrest. Bivens was transported to the Central Booking Unit where he was processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. After an initial appearance, Bivens was detained by the Commissioner in the Detention Center in lieu of $25,000.00 bond.

Charges:
Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol
Driving While Impaired by Alcohol
Attempt by Driver to Flee and Elude
Resisting Arrest

Incident: Possession of Cocaine with the Intent to Distribute
Date of Incident: 11 December 2009
Location: Airport Road, Salisbury, MD
Suspect: Maurice A. Jackson, 31, Snow Hill, MD

Narrative: On 11 December at 9:43 AM, a deputy from the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office stopped a vehicle operated by Maurice Jackson for speeding on Airport Road in Salisbury. During the deputy’s contact with Jackson, the deputy discovered that Jackson did not have a valid driver’s license and was extremely nervous to be in the presence of a law enforcement officer. A WCSO drug K9 team arrived and scanned the vehicle for the presence of the odor of illegal drugs, during which the K9 alerted positively to that odor. Based on the alert, the deputy searched the vehicle. During the search, the deputy located two baggies containing what the deputy instantly recognized as cocaine. The amount located was indicative that it was destined for distribution and sale.

Jackson was placed under arrest and transported to the Central Booking Unit where he was processed and taken in front of the District Court Commissioner. After an initial appearance, Jackson was detained by the Commissioner in the Detention Center in lieu of $20,000.00 bond

Charges:
Possession of Cocaine
Possession of Cocaine with the Intent to Distribute