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The secretary of state's office also is responsible, pending appeal, for paying $26,000 in ACLU legal fees after Kobach was found in contempt of court for failing to comply with Robinson's orders. |
In early June, Dateline began following the story of Brittany-Jane Royal, 25. |
Brittany’s body was found in the waters off Hawaii’s Big Island on May 28. Local fishermen and the captain of a tourist boat had to fend off sharks until the police could retrieve her. A tourist photographed one of the sharks. |
It turns out Brittany didn't get there by accident. She’d been strangled first and then dumped in the water. Her mother says it is a miracle that her body was found at all. Now, the question is: who killed Brittany-Jane Royal? |
Brittany grew up in Southern California. Her mother says as a teenager Brittany got the urge to travel. She got her first taste of it in high school and then decided she needed to see more of the world. Her mother worried about her only daughter, who thought nothing of spending a month in Thailand, by herself. But her ... |
In January of this year, Brittany’s wanderlust took her to Hawaii – where she met a man, Boaz Johnson, 22. Bo and Brittany quickly became a couple. In the spring, the two of them traveled first to visit Bo’s family in Alaska and then Brittany’s family in Southern California to tell them they had big news: they were buy... |
But before any of that could happen, Brittany turned up dead. As for Bo, he has disappeared. Julie Royal believes finding Bo is the key to figuring out what happened. |
Bo’s sister Sarah says her family wants to find him too. They do not believe he is a killer. They say he was happy about the baby and he never would have harmed Brittany. They believe Bo might also be a victim of whoever killed Brittany. |
The local police, Hawaii PD, also want to find Bo. They are calling him a suspect in the murder of Brittany-Jane Royal. Police ask that anyone with information on Bo Johnson’s whereabouts contact Detective Robert Almeida at 808-961-2386 or ralmeida@co.hawaii.hi.us, Detective Fetuutuunai Amuimuia at 808-961-2278 or famu... |
Brittany’s mother is also hoping someone will call the police with information about what happened to her daughter. |
Julie Royal, Brittany's mother, pleads for people who may know what happened to her daughter to come forward. |
Bradley Manning is a 23-year-old U.S. Army private who was working in Iraq as an army intelligence analyst when he was arrested in May this year. He was enlisted in the US Army in 2007. Half-British and half-American, he was born in a small town in Oklahoma. His parents divorced in 2001 and he went back to the UK with ... |
He posted on his Facebook page jokes about 'military intelligence' being an oxymoron. He also wrote: Bradley Manning is not a piece of equipment. Manning is openly gay and has been active in gay rights movements. |
Manning has been described variously by fellow students as a computer geek, hot-headed, and an introvert. He has been under a suicide watch since his arrest. |
Before his arrest he had posted on his page disillusioned comment like he didn’t have anything left and was beyond frustrated. A Telegraph report pointed out that he appeared to sink into depression after a relationship break-up. |
Manning has been charged with transferring classified data and delivering national defense information to an unauthorized source. He is now awaiting court martial and could be awarded a maximum sentence of 52 years in jail if he is convicted of the charges. He is suspected of leaking more than 90,000 secret military do... |
He was arrested in May on suspicion of leaking footages of a US helicopter attack which killed two Reuters cameramen among others. Spotlight turned on him after WikiLeaks released the Afghan war documents in July. The Pentagon has also declared him as a person of interest in its hunt for the sources of the leaks. |
As army intelligence analyst he was flitting through classified military documents at the U.S. Forward Operating Base Hammer, near Baghdad. Reports say Manning was glued to his system 14 hours of the day, reading up secret military and diplomatic documents that made him disillusioned by his country's foreign policy. |
He had access to the Secret internet Protocol Router Network used by US military personnel, civilian employees and private contractors. Investigators are unsure if he had help from inside or outside the military. |
Manning had said he used blank CDs to download classified information while pretending to be listening to Lady Gaga. |
He got in touch with well-known U.S. computer hacker Adrian Lamo, hoping the latter would assist him in publishing the secret files that he saw. He told Lomo that had found incredible, awful things that belonged in the public domain and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington, DC. However, Lomo tipped hi... |
In July, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said his organization has committed funds to legally defend Manning, though he refused to say whether Manning was the source of the leaked documents. Assange said WikiLeaks would offer his military-appointed legal team money if it wanted to go for civilian counsel. His family i... |
Will WikiLeaks unravel the American 'secret government'? |
Milldam Nursery School’s rubber ducks are gearing up for the 12th annual Ducky Race and Fair from 10 a.m. to noon June 3 at Emerson Playground, 90 Stow St. in Concord. |
Admission is free and the event is open to the public. Sponsored by McWalter-Volunteer Insurance Agency, the 12th annual Ducky Race and Fair will feature its Lucky Duck Raffle (raffle tickets cost $10 each), a petting zoo of baby animals, balloon-twisting, train rides, face-painting, a dunk tank, old-fashioned carnival... |
As Milldam Nursery School’s largest fundraising event, proceeds support the school’s need-based scholarship program and enrichment programs. Raffle tickets are on sale at the event or online for $10 at milldamnurseryschool.org. |
IIFA Awards 2018: The 21st edition of the event will take place in Thailand 's Siam Niramit which is adorned by Thailand's heritage, art and culture and hosts the country's most-popular theatre production. Check IIFA Awards date, time, live telecast and performers. |
IIFA Awards 2018: The International Indian Film Academy Awards will bring together the biggest names from the entertainment industry to celebrate Hindi cinema and honour those who stood out from the rest at a gala event between June 22 and June 24. Over the years, stars like Priyanka Chopra, Salman Khan, Shahid Kapoor,... |
Just like the previous years, the musical event IIFA Rocks will be held on June 22 and will set the stage for the main event which is scheduled for June 24. The ceremony will be hosted by Ayushmann Khurrana and Kartik Aaryan. |
The IIFA Rocks performers include singer-composer Pritam who has created a few new melodies with Thai musicians and their instruments for the musical event, Shalmali Kholgade, Amit Mishra, Antara Mitra and Sree Ram. Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety actor Nushrat Bharucha will add to the glamour quotient of the event with her spe... |
IIFA Awards date: The International Indian Film Academy Awards will be held between June 22 and June 24. The three-day event will witness a number of actors from Bollywood gracing the red carpet. |
IIFA 2018 time: There is no official confirmation on IIFA Awards time yet. |
IIFA Awards 2018 venue: The 21st edition of the event will take place in Thailand ‘s Siam Niramit which is adorned by Thailand’s heritage, art and culture and hosts the country’s most-popular theatre production. In the past, the award night has taken place at various locations like Johannesburg, Amsterdam, Dubai, Colom... |
IIFA Awards live telecast: The IIFA Awards will be broadcast on COLORS TV for the fourth consecutive year and digital viewers can access the event on India’s video-on-demand platform, Viacom 18’s VOOT. |
The star-studded event will be hosted by Karan Johar and Riteish Deshmukh. Ranbir Kapoor will be performing this year to promote his upcoming movie Sanju. The actor had won the Best Debutant Award at the 2008 Bangkok edition of the gala. The other performers include Arjun Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Kriti Sanon, Shahid Kapoo... |
Race 3 actor Bobby Deol will take to the IIFA stage for the first time in seven years. At the IIFA press conference on 12 June in Mumbai, he said, “My IIFA experience has always been very special … I am super excited, a bit nervous to be back at the IIFA stage and to be performing.” Deol’s act will be a throwback to so... |
The top job at the island’s gambling regulator is still vacant more than a year after the last executive director quit. |
Richard Schuetz resigned from his post at the Bermuda Casino Gaming Commission in July last year and warned the island would “prove incapable” of keeping crooks out of the industry. |
It is understood the job has been advertised at least three times since then, most recently last week. |
But applications are again being sought for someone to take the job on a permanent basis and be “responsible for the daily operations of the commission”. |
The job advertisement said that duties included making sure gambling on the island was run “with the highest standards of honesty and integrity”. |
The advertisement added the successful applicant would be expected to work in a “co-operative and collaborative manner with all applicable agencies both within and outside of Bermuda”. |
Candidates must have seven years’ experience in casino gambling or regulation and anyone shortlisted would have to undergo “robust” background checks. |
The advertisement added that whoever got the three-year contract “may not hold any other office or employment”. |
Mr Schuetz, a casino industry veteran, was appointed in 2015 and worked a notice period before he left the island last December to return to the United States. |
He suggested in his resignation letter that Bermuda should “seriously consider” ditching gaming altogether or risk its reputation as a clean financial jurisdiction. |
Mr Schuetz wrote: “My primary reason for resigning is that I have lost confidence that the Government of Bermuda and its legal system can provide the necessary protections to offer well-regulated casino gaming on the island. |
Alan Dunch, commission chairman at the time, quit his post last November after the Government tabled legislation to allow the tourism minister to fire members of the BCGC and issue policy directions to the regulatory body. |
Roger Gros, the publisher of Global Gaming Business Magazine, said the recent job advertisement was “sensible”. |
But he added: “The reputation of the Bermuda gaming industry now is not high. |
“It’s going to be tough for them to get somebody who can really do the job and have that integrity that they need. |
Mr Gros, who is based in Nevada, said “a lot of people” fitted the description advertised but most were already employed or working on a consultancy basis. |
Mr Gros said that “regulatory uncertainty” had affected the confidence of potential financiers of casino developments on the island. Ms Blakeney said last Friday that inquiries about the executive director position should be directed to Cheryl-Ann Mapp, the BCGC chairwoman, who was not in the office. |
The Royal Gazette was told its request would be forwarded by e-mail, but received no response. |
Mr Simmons said in July that the Government was looking for a replacement. He later added a “full and formal update on gaming” would be “provided at the appropriate time”. |
A series of questions, including when the public would get an update and what progress had been made to bring casinos to Bermuda, was submitted to the Government last Friday. |
No response to those was received by press time, although a spokeswoman said yesterday any inquiries about the job vacancy should be submitted to the “independent BCGC”. |
MILWAUKEE -- With the terrible scenes on televisions, Ben Spillman spent much of Tuesday, March 22nd talking about the terror attacks in Brussels, Belgium. |
"Breaking news of the day. Just been, you know, kind of thinking about what's going on. And the fact that my family's flying today just kinda wondering what else could happen?" pondered Spillman. |
What happened at Zaventum International Airport in Brussels on Tuesday involved reports of two explosions -- causing the deaths of at least 30 people. More than 200 others were hurt. |
"I always think in Wisconsin we're safer than anyplace else -- but you never know," said Diane Jaeger, who was at Mitchell International Airport to pick up her cousin. |
The fact that this attack involved the check-in areas of an airport made the crime feel closer to home for some. |
"It is a little unnerving, just knowing that," said Scott LeMonds, an air traveler. |
While LeMonds said the attack will not keep him from flying, he said it will keep him on his toes. |
"You look a little bit harder at people around you and things like that," LeMonds said. |
Rorie Hammel, a flight attendant, provided some perspective for passengers. |
"Because of what's happened, thoughts go through your mind. Just -- getting on a plane, right now? You can't always think that something horrible's going to happen," Hammel said. |
Jeffrey Swanson, a Duke University professor in psychiatry and behavioral sciences whose research on guns and anger was released last week, says the Hicks case is a prime example for why the gun-policy debate should be refocused beyond the traditional arguments. Instead of just trying to limit gun access for the seriou... |
Swanson is a lead author of a recently published study from researchers at Duke, Harvard and Columbia universities that concludes: Roughly 22 million Americans, or nearly 9 percent of the adult population, have impulsive anger issues and easy access to guns. Of that angry group, nearly 3.7 million are gun owners who ro... |
Until his Feb. 10 arrest on three first-degree murder charges, Hicks was a gun owner with a valid conceal-carry permit and a cache of about a dozen firearms and ammunition that he kept in his second-story condominium in eastern Chapel Hill. |
Family and friends of the three victims, Deah Barakat, 23, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19, have said Hicks routinely confronted his neighbors over parking and noise issues. |
Neighbors have said Hicks became so obsessed with parking patterns and having cars towed from the Finley Forest condominium complex several miles east of the UNC-Chapel Hill campus that the housing association asked him to stop. |
Family and friends of the victims say Hicks, on more than one occasion, revealed the gun holstered to his hip during a confrontation. |
The findings from Swanson and his colleagues were built from data collected in the early 2000s from almost 6,000 people. They combed the information to explore the intersection of anger issues, mental health and the ownership and possession of guns. |
Gun owners point out, and Swanson’s study reiterates, that gun owners as a whole aren’t any more likely to suffer anger issues than non-owners of guns. The vast majority of them never have and never will commit a gun crime. |
And when talking about anger, Swanson said, he’s not referring to the “garden-variety” type where people shout in rage. |
Instead, “these are people who break things, smash things, get into fights, are impulsive, out of control, destructive,” Swanson said. |
The angry adults with easy access to guns typically were young to middle-age men, likely to be married and living in suburbia, the study found. |
In 2012, 11,622 people in the United States were killed by a firearm discharged during an intentional act of violence, according to the study, and an additional 57,077 were injured. |
The high-profile mass shootings that grab media headlines and stir an emotional push to do something about gun violence often set the focus of lawmakers’ toward the need to keep firearms out of the hands of those with a serious mental illness. |
The new study, though, suggests that such a narrow focus would make only a tiny dent in the death numbers. |
The researchers from Duke, Harvard and Columbia universities analyzed data gleaned from 5,563 face-to-face interviews conducted as part of a nationwide survey of mental disorders back in the early 2000s. |
Fewer than one in 10 of those angry people with access to guns had ever been admitted to a hospital for a psychiatric or substance abuse problem, according to the study. |
Though their behavioral history might suggest a propensity for violence, nothing in their medical histories would bar them from legally purchasing guns under existing mental health related restrictions. |
Gun violence and serious mental illness are two very important but distinct public health issues, Swanson said. While there is intersection between the two, Swanson pointed out that much of that is at the edges. |
And acknowledged anger issues alone are not a reason to take someone’s gun away. But there are other things policymakers could do to limit gun access among the most high-risk members of the population. Swanson suggested that “evidence-based indicators of risk” such as misdemeanor assault convictions, multiple DWIs or d... |
Federal law already limits gun access for convicted felons and for people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence crimes. Many states’ laws let domestic abusers keep their guns until temporary restraining orders become permanent, even though evidence suggests that this period presents particularly high risk to a pot... |
Swanson and his colleagues suggest adding other misdemeanors to the federal law limiting gun access, such as assault, brandishing a weapon and making open threats. They also say repeat DWI offenders should be kept away from guns, given the many incidents of alcohol-fueled gun violence. |
Connecticut and Indiana, two very different states politically and demographically, have “dangerous persons” gun removal laws – subject to due process, Swanson said. |
California recently enacted a gun-violence restraining order that builds on the existing system. |
The laws provide family members and law enforcement officers avenues for quick removal of weapons within close reach of people engaged in high-risk behavior. |
The Chapel Hill shooting, like Columbine and Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn., haunt with “many ‘what-ifs,’” Swanson and co-author Paul Appelbaum, a Columbia University professor of psychiatry, medicine and law, stated in an opinion piece released with the study. |
North Carolina legislators introduced a flurry of new gun bills in late March that, if adopted, would limit the kind of information that sheriffs in this state could seek from people applying for gun permits and expand who can get permits. |
Gun-control advocates describe the proposed legislation as big steps down the wrong path. The lawmakers describe them as attempts to clarify and bring uniformity to a permitting process that varies among county sheriffs’ offices. |
Sen. Jeff Tarte, a Republican from Mecklenburg County, introduced the Concealed Handgun Standardization Act, Senate Bill 641, on March 26, the deadline for filing new bills in the N.C. Senate this session. It was one of 195 bills filed that day and part of a trio introduced by Tarte. It would shorten wait times for per... |
The “homeland security unrestricted concealed handgun permit” that Tarte proposes comes with a special badge. |
Those holders of such a permit would be required to go through a multi-step training program. Upon completion they would have “unlimited access” to most anywhere in the state – including property where concealed handguns are prohibited. Courthouses would be off limits, Tarte said. |
Rather, Tarte said, it would be for people who find themselves in emergencies that law enforcement officers have yet to respond to. |
Tarte said he wanted to get police and sheriffs on board with the bill he co-sponsored with Sen. Ronald Rabin, a Republican from Harnett County. |
Another Senate bill that is not part of Tarte’s trio would allow “certain types” of employees and volunteers to carry concealed firearms, tear gas or stun guns on private school property. |
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