PITTSBURGH -- A boy who was 11 when he was accused of killing his father's pregnant fiancée and her unborn son was found guilty Friday of their 2009 shotgun slayings. Lawrence County Judge John Hodge found the now-14-year-old Jordan Brown delinquent, the juvenile court equivalent of a guilty verdict, in the deaths of 26-year-old Kenzie Houk and her unborn child. The judge closed the trial, held about 45 miles northwest of Pittsburgh, to the media and all but close family members because of the boy's age during the killings. The boy's lawyer, Stephen Colafella, said it was too early to say if he'd...


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TEAM Official Statement www.humanrightsteam.org The Tolerance, Equality, and Awareness Movement (TEAM) hosted a Candlelight Vigil in Grand Rapids, MI on Friday, July 8, 2011 to remember the murder victims, support the families of the victims, and support the family of Rodrick Shonte Dantzler.  Dantzler's actions have shaken a whole community that TEAM is a part of.  TEAM decided that it needed to act and host a candlelight vigil.  TEAM found out about a candlelight vigil being planned by Shannon and Rick Feutz, TEAM decided to join in on their efforts.  The Feutz family and TEAM co-organized...


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(Sept. 1) -- Police snipers this afternoon shot dead a gunman who had canisters strapped to his body and freed the three people he had been holding hostage inside the headquarters of the Discovery Channel in suburban Washington, authorities said. All three hostages were safe, Montgomery County, Md., Police Chief Tom Manger said. He said police, who were watching the suspect on building security cameras, had been negotiating with the gunman for hours but decided to take him out when they saw him point a handgun at one of the hostages. The suspect, identified by local media outlets as 43-year-old...


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Sri Lankan woman says her Saudi employers drove hot metal into her body COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Doctors removed 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan maid who says the couple she worked for in Saudi Arabia hammered them into her body. L.G. Ariyawathi, who was hospitalized with severe pain after returning Saturday from Saudi Arabia, has said the family she worked for punished her by heating the nails and needles before sticking them into her. X-rays showed that she had 24 nails and needles in her body, said Dr. Keerthi Satharasinghe of Kamburupitiya hospital, about 100 miles...


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WASHINGTON — Killings of homeless people have risen to their highest level in a decade, with 43 people killed last year and many more injured in often brutal attacks that are raising concerns among law enforcement officials, rights advocates and politicians, according to new data due to be released this week. The rise in killings, from 27 in 2008, comes as many state and local governments are wrestling with the problem of what to do with the growing number of people forced onto the streets by economic woes. Some states and cities are moving to prosecute violence against the homeless as a hate...


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http://teamthemovement.com LIMA, Peru (Aug. 18) -- Lori Berenson, a native New Yorker arrested in 1995 and later convicted of aiding a leftist insurgency, turned herself in to Peruvian authorities today after being ordered to return to jail. Local television station Canal N reported that she handed herself over at the U.S. Embassy in Lima. "She's calm. She is a very strong woman," her husband and lawyer, Anibal Apari, said, according to The Associated Press. "She is going to return to jail with her baby." Berenson's son, Salvador, was born in prison 15 months ago. Berenson was released on parole...


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http://teamthemovement.com It's not a crime to make friends on Facebook, but one Florida man found that the rules are a bit different when the person you're trying to "friend" has a protective order against you. The man, 54-year-old Harry Bruder, was arrested for allegedly sending his soon to be ex-wife requests to "friend" him on Facebook, which police said violated the protective order, MyFoxOrlando.com reported. A police report posted on thesmokinggun.com shows Bruder admitting he contacted his wife twice last month on the popular social networking site -- and admitting that he changed the password...


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The Southern Poverty Law Center estimates 300,000 people are part of the sovereign-citizen movement here in the United States. In a nutshell, sovereigns don't recognize the authority of the U.S. government -- whether that means paying taxes or providing a driver's license when a police officer stops you. Occasionally, you'll see a stray sovereign pop up in the news when they get accused of tax fraud or some other violation. Or sometimes, you have cases like the one in West Memphis, Ark., where a father and son, armed with an AK-47, killed two police officers during a traffic stop. Jerry and Joe Kane...


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http://www.teamthemovement.com Breaking News!!! NEWARK — The American Civil Liberties Union joined gay rights groups and civic and religious leaders today in calling for a thorough — and independent — investigation into the shooting death of Atlanta CEO DeFarra Gaymon by an Essex County sheriff’s officer. "What we have here is a situation where an unarmed citizen ends up dead as a result of what would have been a minor crime," said Deborah Jacobs, executive director for the ACLU-NJ. "Considering the seriousness of the incident and many unanswered questions, this investigation demands...


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http://teamthemovement.com/ MORENO VALLEY, CALIF. Parents have been warned to keep an eye on their children and take extra safety precautions after a 17-year-old Southern California girl was apparently abducted about a block from her school and killed. An autopsy confirmed the identity of Norma Lopez Wednesday, six days after she disappeared and a day after her decomposed body, shirtless and clad in jeans, was found face-down in a grove of trees in the agricultural area on the eastern edge of Moreno Valley. Investigators would not release the cause of death. Police and the FBI have not identified...


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