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The Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office received a call about a woman driving around with a body in her trunk and officers pulled over Sara Parker, 24, shortly after. Logan Kyle, 24, and her two children, 1 and 2, were also in the car.
Kyle, stationed at Fort Polk, admitted to police that the body belonged to his wife and that he had killed her, according to the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office. Parker, he said, was helping him dispose of the body.
Kyle was detained and will be investigated by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division.
“What disturbs us about that as law enforcement officers is, you know, when we come in contact it would not be abnormal for us to draw our weapons on what we consider a felony stop. If we had to shoot into this car or they shot back at us or for some reason we could have injured two innocent children,” Mancuso said at ...
Outside of the recent news of Zack Synder’s Superman reboot, Man of Steel, being pushed back by Warner Bros. half a year to the summer of 2013, and that of the film's script being reworked, it's been relatively quiet on the Superman front as of late, made that much more strange by Comic-Con coming and going without a p...
Christopher Meloni (Law & Order: SVU, Oz) was the last name to be attached to Man of Steel and speculation had him potentially in the role of Perry White, Editor-in-Chief of Daily Planet. Later it was reported that he'd likely be playing a General in the film, possibly even the father of Lois Lane, and now we know who'...
Fishburne is a familiar face of Warner Bros., having worked for them in The Matrix trilogy. With his role in CSI coming to an end and his only upcoming project being the TV film, Have a Little Faith, the man with the powerful voice is open for business and his next feature film will hopefully be the start of another mu...
Fishburne is another talented, recognizable star, who will help strengthen the already impressive supporting cast for Henry Cavill's ultimate leading role. And on that note, some trivia for you: Russell Crowe, who's playing Jor-El in Man of Steel turned down the role of Morpheus in The Matrix, which allowed Fishburne t...
Superman: Man of Steel will be directed by Zack Snyder off a script by Kurt Johnstad, David S. Goyer and Jonah Nolan. It will open in theaters June, 2013.
PARIS (Reuters) - France’s foreign minister on Tuesday sidestepped questions on whether his country should end weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates because they were being used in Yemen, saying that Iran also had “lots” of weapons there.
The kingdom is leading a coalition formed in 2015 to fight the Iran-aligned Houthi group that controls most of northern Yemen and the capital Sanaa, in a war that has killed more than 10,000 people and displaced more than three million.
The French administration under President Emmanuel Macron has drawn criticism in particular from rights groups over its support of the kingdom’s actions and allowing weapons it has sold to Riyadh potentially to be used in its Yemen operations.
When asked specifically why France continued to sell weapons to Saudi and the Emirates in the current context, Jean-Yves Le Drian skirted the issue and said the priority was to find a political solution to the Yemen crisis.
Iran has denied supplying the Houthis weapons.
The two Gulf Arab states are among France’s main weapons’ clients receiving tanks, armored vehicles, munitions, artillery and in the case of the Emirates, fighter jets.
However, Paris has grown increasingly concerned by the worsening humanitarian situation and in December Macron called for a “complete lifting” of a Saudi blockade on Yemen.
Albion's record signing, who sustained hamstring damage in the 3-1 defeat at Everton in October, is not fit for Iran’s opening match .
Team Melli have been scheduled to meet Yemen in Group D of the competition in Abu Dhabi, the UAE on Monday.
“From a medical and technical point of view, we have a strong belief that he will be able to recover for the competition, although possibly not for the first stage,” Queiroz had already said.
Iran go into the tournament as one of the favorites, but injuries to a number of key players including Saeid Ezatolahi, Ali Golizadeh and Sadegh Moharrami could impact their run in the competition.
Team Melli begin their campaign against Yemen before squaring off against Vietnam and Iraq as they chase their first Asian Cup title since 1976.
Home for the holidays in this spacious brick 4/2. Your family can gather together for quiet evenings or lively fun times in the spacious great room. A crackling fireplace will add to the ambiance with friends and family. Beautifully landscaped oversized backyard full fenced w/dog pen on side. Home is perfectly placed o...
Last week (this week?) was the NYT magazine's architecture issue and there is a nice Q&A with James Corner of Field Operations.
Field Operations is the firm working on Shelby Farms Park, and there's a little mention of the project.
That landscape architects play a minor role in a project, dealing only with plants.
The site is an inspiration. My work on the High Line park came from the High Line itself. The place had its own presence and sense of melancholy. We didn’t want to kill that.
Sameness. What makes cities great is their difference and variety. For me the best public spaces are eccentric, unique and of their time, and they don’t tend toward bland populism."
I love that last bit. I just think it's so true.
Thanks, Leonard, for pointing this out to me!
In a proposal made to Lockheed last week, union leaders asked for a longer contract — from July 2016 to April 2021 — that increases pay 38 percent. The machinists also want $7,500 in cost-of-living adjustments and a $5,000 signing bonus, among other things.
While one union member said the wage offer, the first one to be made, will likely be whittled down during negotiations, the union’s local leader said it may not be enough given the other things Lockheed’s management is seeking, including possible shift changes.
“What we told the company, with the kind of things they have on the table right now ... if they expect this membership to buy into those, this may not be enough money to buy it,” said Paul Black, District Lodge 776 president and chief spokesman.
Kenneth Ross, a Lockheed spokesman, said that the strike authorization vote is a matter of procedure and not unexpected and that the company will keep talking in good faith in the coming weeks.
“Our negotiations are continuing with both sides working together to craft a fair and competitive contract that supports the needs of our employees and business,” Ross said. “The discussions have been sincere, with both teams actively engaged in sharing thoughts and ideas and a united interest in delivering quality fig...
“We remain committed to negotiating in good faith to achieve an agreement by contract expiration date of July 10,” he said.
In 2012 the union walked out for about 10 weeks, refusing to return to the long assembly line where the F-16, and now the futuristic F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter, is built. In the last contract the union won pay increases totaling 11 percent and a lump-sum bonus of $2,000.
The union was, however, unable to stop Lockheed from ending a traditional defined-benefit pension for new hires and shifting instead to a 401(k) plan.
The dogfight over the new contract comes at a critical time for Lockheed, which is spending $1.2 billion to upgrade the Fort Worth complex to handle full-rate production of the F-35. After years of delays caused by technical issues, the next-generation fighter is moving into final testing and emerging as a major growth...
The plant is scheduled to build about 50 airplanes this year, with production expected to almost double by 2018. By the end of the decade, it hopes to produce up to 17 stealth fighters a month. Lockheed plans to hire up to 1,000 additional assembly line workers.
Lockheed and union officials began meeting in March. The contract also covers 300 employees at Edwards Air Force Base in California and at Patuxent River in Maryland.
Maintaining healthcare coverage actually ranked a little higher in member’s concerns than wages, Black said. In the last contract, the membership lost some of its options; in this one they want to maintain, and hopefully improve, what they have left, Black said.
In the economic proposal made to Lockheed last week and posted on the union’s website, the union wants to halve some of the co-pays on prescription drugs under the Aetna HMO policy, for example. It also wants the company to pay slightly more for the point-of-service care, if that is the healthcare plan the employee sel...
“The membership said they want to maintain healthcare choices, maintain the costs ... improve coverage, that is what the committee was trying to do when it inserted some caps,” Black said.
Under pension benefits, the union wants Lockheed to increase the amount it matches on the hourly employee basic savings plan and it wants 80 percent of each dollar of the matched contribution to be made in cash, according to the proposal posted on the website.
While Lockheed has yet to make any firm proposals on work hours, there have been discussions about having machinists, who primarily work eight-hour Monday-through-Friday, to possibly move to a work schedule where they get every other Friday off.
Known as a 9/80 schedule, employees work nine days and earn 80 hours over two weeks by working nine-hour days the first four days of the first week and eight hours on Friday. The second week, they work four-nine hour days and get Friday off.
About 11,000 of the plant’s 14,000 employees already work the 9/80 schedule, Ross said.
There also has been some discussion of mandatory overtime. Working extra is currently optional.
“They’ve got an ambitious, noneconomic proposal out there,” Black said.
Mark Rodela, who has worked at the plant for 28 years, was not happy about the idea of possibly changing work shifts and being forced to work overtime.
In an earlier interview, Dale Kelly, director of labor relations for aeronautics and chief spokeswoman for Lockheed’s negotiating team, said that the two side, not surprisingly, are far apart. But she was hopeful that they could reach a positive conclusion.
After the meeting, Black, the union president, admitted that going out on strike is tough.
“Nobody benefits from a strike. Everyone loses in a strike,” he said.
Thirteen AISD seniors presented their final reports on their yearlong internship to Lockheed Martin, Arlington school district and Project Lead The Way leaders.
The defense contractor, which has offices in Fort Worth, on Wednesday unveiled a prototype for a long-haul cargo airship at its Skunk Works plant in Palmdale, Calif.
Pictures of Kangana Ranaut you shouldn't miss!
Bollywood superstar Kangana Ranaut is currently on a promotional spree for her upcoming film 'Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi'. The film has been making headlines since the day it was announced. Kangana Ranaut plays the lead as Rani Laxmi Bai and also made her directorial debut with this film.Recently, a picture of Ka...
While ke Dezemba looms large above us as the festive season gets nearer and nearer, some social entrepreneurs have marked the perfect opportunity to mix the good times with creating employment.
Titled the Carletonville Spring Picnic Affair, the concert will be headlined by Cassper Nyovest alongside DJ Tira, Black Motion and Euphonik. The picnic is set to take place on October 27, at the Khutsong Stadium in Carletonville.
Ivy.P & Conglomerates, the company responsible for putting together the festival, said the festival also aimed to create jobs for the youth and small businesses of the area. “Carletonville Spring Picnic Affair (CSPA), is an annual picnic event where guest artists entertain attendees for the day. CSPA is also an opportu...
To show their willingness to grow the local economy, the company will be giving ten young people between the ages of 18 and 30, with at least a matric certificate, from the areas Carletonville, Potchefstroom, Fochville, Randfontein, Krugersdorp and Westonaria, the opportunity to shadow experts working at the concert.
The respective career fields are as follows: security; stage and sound management; production management; photography and waste management. They will also be given a stipend, to cover their transportation and food costs for the day. Possibilities of an internship will then be explored on the candidate's own account.
To enter, candidates can email their matric certificate or relevant qualification and a 300-word motivation, explaining why they deserve this opportunity to [email protected] by 16:00, Thursday 18 October 2018.
Other entertainers on the line-up include Nadia Nakai, DJ Shimza, Bobsta (Metro FM), Mac G and more. Khanyi Mbau, will play host of the picnic.
Tickets for the Carletonville Spring Picnic Affair are now on sale.
Geneseo High School is getting a new look home. The football stadium is being renovated with field turf and new stands. The project is expected to be finished by football season.
Sheng shot this portrait of Josh, a Stanford University gymnast, in 2014. Photo by Jeff Sheng.
Growing up in a conservative, religious Southern California suburb in the 1990s, Jeff Sheng didn't feel he could be openly gay.
In particular, he grappled with his identity as an athlete. Sheng played tennis from an early age. In high school, the tennis court became both a site for release and a source of conflict.
"I believed that being openly gay and being a competitive athlete were incompatible with each other," he writes in "Fearless: Portraits of LGBT Student Athletes," his combination memoir-photography series of openly gay high school and college athletes.
Now a well-known photographer working toward his doctorate in sociology at Stanford University, Sheng has shot over the last 13 years what he describes as a "visual ethnography." "Fearless" features more than 200 portraits of student-athletes from around the country who did what Sheng was not able to do as a high schoo...
Despite being nearly 300 pages long and representing athletes from a wide range of schools, sports and regions of the country, "Fearless" is a deeply personal book. It begins with the story of Sheng's own past -- being raised by immigrant parents from Taiwan, being closeted in high school, struggling with depression an...
"When I was growing up in high school in the 1990s, it was definitely super taboo to be openly gay or lesbian," Sheng told the Weekly during a recent interview. "There were two people in my whole high school of 2,400 who were out. ... There was a lot of homophobia, especially in sports."
One of those two people was a senior on the tennis team when Sheng was a freshman. Before the season started that year, the senior was nominated to be the team's co-captain. But for some reason, he decided not to play that year. Sheng writes that he remembers some of the younger team members "saying that they were glad...
"One of them even joked how 'he probably had AIDS anyway,' and it was a relief he wasn't with us."
Sheng was also voted co-captain before his senior year, but quit the team as he started to confront his sexual orientation for the first time.
"One of the hardest parts about discovering a gay sexual orientation as a young person is realizing that you can't say anything about it," he writes in the book. "It creates this incredible disconnect with reality and emotion, and you quickly learn to hide any discernible give-away to whom you find attractive. Unfortun...
After quitting tennis, Sheng picked up photography, immersing himself in his new passion. "Fearless" includes prints of his early photographs -- pedestrians waiting in front of palm trees and cars at Los Angeles International Airport in 1999, pages of black-and-white negatives, early self-portraits he took as an underg...
Sheng thought that college, 3,000 miles away from home, would be the place where he would finally feel comfortable coming out and being himself. Yet it took him until the end of his freshman year to do so. First, he had to work through deeply "internalized homophobia," he said. Photography helped him through it, giving...
Sheng went on to major in film-making and photography, and he had his first relationship with a man: Mike Crosby, at the time a closeted member of the Harvard water polo team.
"Fearless" documents their relationship the summer between freshman and sophomore years in 1999, with Sheng's words accompanied by his photos of Crosby -- at a beach in Malibu, on a road trip to Las Vegas, kissing on a hike in San Francisco, sitting in a hotel room with two beds because the young men were nervous about...
Years later, after the two broke up, Crosby came out as gay on the cover of "Genre," a magazine for gay men. The captain of the varsity water polo team at the time, Crosby was photographed at the pool in his Speedo, leaning on a water polo ball, gazing straight into the lens.
Something about this image and what it stood for struck Sheng. He had always had an inclination toward social activism, he said, but this shot solidified his desire to use photography to document openly gay athletes as a means of effecting social change.
In 2003, Sheng set out to photograph any "out" student-athletes he could find. He found subjects through mutual friends and by sending out email blasts. If he had to travel, he would take a Greyhound bus and stay the weekend wherever the student lived, sleeping on their couch or floor.
Then as now, Sheng asked his subjects to wear comfortable clothing that represented their sport, and he always shot them at their school or in their community. Soon after beginning the project, unsatisfied with how the portraits were turning out, he began asking his subjects to work out -- run a lap or take a few shots...
Among the photographs taken shortly after Sheng made this shift is one of Aaron, a Brown University squash player. Wearing a white polo shirt with beads of sweat dripping down his face, nose and chin, Aaron takes up a two-page spread in "Fearless."
The book's pages are filled with portraits of soccer players, basketball players, swimmers, tennis players, cross-country runners, cyclists, gymnasts, divers, lacrosse players and water polo players (including Crosby). Some are standing or sitting; others, Sheng captured in movement. Many are holding something represen...
"I try to take a photograph where you look into them in some way, where there's an authentic part about them showing through the image," Sheng said.
Sheng worked to make "Fearless" inclusive in terms of the broader LGBT community by including transgender athletes, and also racially, by including students of color. In the early years of the project, almost no athletes of color volunteered to participate.
"Class and privilege also intersect with sports and visibility in different ways," Sheng writes in the book.
So he sought out more and more athletes. University LGBT centers started asking him to exhibit the photos and invited him to visit their campuses. The project snowballed. In the first three years of working on "Fearless," Sheng shot only 17 athletes. Between 2006 and 2007, he photographed almost twice as many, he write...
Sheng's photos have now been been seen at more than 70 different venues, including the headquarters of Nike and ESPN, as well as select locations at the 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics. The visibility also led to his next project, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," for which he photographed closeted military se...
In "Fearless," several athletes' portraits are paired with their own personal essays about struggling with their sexual orientation and how they came out to their team members and families. The book's epilogue is written by Jason Collins, the first openly gay NBA player.
Interwoven throughout "Fearless" is a timeline of significant moments in history for the LGBT sports community. The timeline offers readers context and perspective on how far things have come in the past century, but also serves as a reminder that most changes have occurred only in recent history.
The first date is in the 1920s, when Bill Tilden gained fame as a U.S. tennis champion only to be shunned years later when it was revealed that he was gay. The 1990s, when Sheng was growing up, include NBA star "Magic" Johnson's public announcement that he had HIV; the death by suicide of openly gay former professional...
As Sheng began his "Fearless" project in 2003, the NCAA began "sexual orientation issues in sports" training, available to member schools at no cost. Four years later, in 2007, the nation saw the first ex-NBA player come out as gay.
The timeline runs through 2015, with the penultimate event being Caitlyn Jenner, formerly gold medal Olympian decathlete Bruce Jenner, coming out publicly as a transgender woman. The last event on the timeline? The publishing of "Fearless."
What: Jeff Sheng discusses his new book, "Fearless: Portraits of LGBT Student Athletes"
When: Tuesday, Nov. 17, 7 p.m.
Info: Go to goo.gl/952Tyq or jeffsheng.com.

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