Daily Archives: June 12, 2012

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BAKER, LA (WAFB) -

Two more animals were picked up Tuesday from a home in Baker.  A total of 45 animals have been found inside the home and there could be more.

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When coroner Elizabeth Morris ruled that a dingo had taken baby Azaria Chamberlain from her cot in the Australian outback 32 years ago, there were smiles, tears of relief and loud applause from the packed gallery at Darwin magistrates court. But there were no surprises.

There had always been a sense of unreality in the conviction of Lindy Chamberlain, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor’s wife and respected member of the community, for cutting the throat of her nine-week-old baby. To this day, nobody has ever advanced a plausible motive.

After Chamberlain’s conviction, there were other instances of dingo attacks on children including the fatal mauling of nine-year-old Clinton Gage on Queensland’s Bribie Island in 2001 and they provided the critical circumstantial evidence needed to end the Azaria mystery.

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How different it was in November 1982, when a supreme court jury in Darwin found that Chamberlain was guilty of murder and her husband was guilty of being an accessory after the fact. For the six weeks of the trial, the atmosphere had been at fever pitch. Young people were parading in front of the court with T-shirts reading: “The dingo is innocent!”

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When the verdicts were handed down, there was seemingly universal approval. Lindy got mandatory life imprisonment, consigned for what was to be three years in Berrimah prison. Michael feared he would be jailed too, but Justice James Muirhead, who clearly disagreed with the verdict, gave him a suspended sentence and put him on a bond. Michael, for the first time in the trial, cried.

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The Chamberlains were tried and convicted. But afterwards it emerged there was no blood in their car or on their possessions. Ms Kuhl had done a presumptive test and been misled by a positive reaction to the presence of copper oxide, a material prevalent where the Chamberlains lived in Mt Isa, Queensland.

Cameron conceded in the royal commission that was eventually ordered that he had only assumed the handprint was blood he had not tested it.

The Chamberlains, exonerated by the royal commission in 1987, were pardoned and compensated. They then fought long and hard against an intransigent Northern Territory administration, which only quashed their convictions several years after the coroner’s verdict changed. A third inquest seven years ago succeeded only in returning an open verdict. On Tuesday, the tortuous saga ended, with Michael Chamberlain, standing on the courtroom steps in Darwin, declaring: “I am here to tell you that you can get justice even when you think that all is lost!”

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ALEXANDRIA, La.  (KALB) – It will be a 15-year sentence for two people charged with attempted murder in Rapides Parish.

Tabitha McGlothlin and Quinn Sonnier pleaded guilty to attempted second degree murder and armed robbery.

In 2011, Sonnier asked the victim to give him a ride into Alexandria from Pineville.  When they got to Overton Street, Sonnier pulled out a gun and shot the victim and robbed him.

After Sonnier’s arrest, he implicated McGlothlin as an accomplice in the crime.

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ALEXANDRIA, La. (AP) – A 39-year-old Deville man accused of killing a companion in 2007 and stuffing his body in a box has pleaded guilty to manslaughter. But a prosecutor and the defendant’s attorney must agree to a sentence or the case will go to trial in September.

The Town Talk reports Bobby Christopher Lucas is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 10 by state District Judge Thomas Yeager. A manslaughter conviction carries a sentence of up to 40 years in prison.

Lucas originally was charged with second-degree murder of Kerry Anthony Lane, according to a 2011 grand jury indictment.

Rapides Parish Assistant District Attorney Thomas “Rocky” Willson said the September sentencing date could turn into a trial date on the murder charge if he and Lucas’ attorney, George Higgins, don’t reach a sentencing compromise.

“Right now we’re worlds apart,” Willson said.

Higgins said he’s confident both sides will reach an agreement.

“We have always thought this case was fairly defendable,” Higgins said. “We have tried to resolve the matter. … If we have to we will try this case.”

Lucas remains free on bond for now. A jury trial was to start this week, but Lucas pleaded guilty Thursday to a reduced charge of manslaughter.

Lucas was arrested in late October 2008 after a member of his family made the grisly discovery of Lane’s boxed body behind the house where Lucas and Lane lived. At the time his badly decomposed body was found, Lane had not been seen for more than a year.

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ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) – Alexandria police arrested a man after they say he pointed a gun at an officer.

Police responded to a disturbance call in the 3000 block of Lee Street. Officers say that 20-year-old Akeem Cannon of Alexandria pointed a gun at them.

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A trio of recent grants totaling hundreds of thousands from ArtPlace, a national funding organization that supports neighborhood revitalization based on arts and culture, may foster a boom in affordable artist housing in New Orleans as well as other benefits. ArtPlace, which began making grants in 2011, is a collaborative organization that consolidates donations from several philanthropies and public funders such as the Ford Foundation, Knight Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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The St. Claude Main Street and Civic Center, a neighborhood economic development organization, has received a $275,000…

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Two other New Orleans projects have received “placemaking” grants from ArtPlace. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation received $250,000 to “renovate a 19th-century building…

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Artspace, a non-profit real estate developer, received a grant of $1 million to convert the unused Bell School Campus, at 1010 North Galvez…

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NEW ORLEANS – Oscar-nominated production designer J. Michael Riva, whose film credits include “The Amazing Spider-Man,” ”A Few Good Men” and “The Color Purple,” has died after suffering a stroke in New Orleans. He was 63.

In a statement to The Associated Press on Tuesday, Sony Pictures spokesman Steve Elzer said Riva, who lived in Los Angeles, was in New Orleans working on the Quentin Tarantino film “Django Unchained” and was preparing to head to the set when he suffered a stroke June 1.

According to the statement, Riva died June 7 “surrounded by his family.”

Tarantino, who has been in New Orleans for months directing “Django Unchained,” said in a statement released through Elzer that the film crew is “devastated by this tragic loss as we persevere on his wonderful sets.”

Riva earned an Academy Award nomination for his work on 1985′s “The Color Purple.” His other production design work include three of the “Lethal Weapon” films, “Scrooged,” ”The Goonies,” ”Dave” and “Ordinary People.”

Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, said Riva was “a tremendous talent, able to tailor the look and mood of a story to the emotion in the script. We are stunned and saddened by his passing.”

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Two hacking groups post private information on Pastebin, including the passports of terrorism suspects and the e-mails and passwords for Louisiana state employees.

Two hacking groups have taken aim at two very distinct targets in a data dump on Pastebin.

First up, the hacking organization known as SpexSec today posted the passports and visa information of more than 200 suspected terrorists. In a posting on Pastebin, the organization said that it hopes the data will help the U.S. “close down on some investigations.”

“Like we promised, our primary suspects include the U.S Government for torturous and deceptive acts on our own soil, the Educational system for exuberantly being blown-over and belligerently not patching the holes in their system, and anybody else who partook a role in the Murder of America,” SpexSec wrote today on Pastebin. “200+ Suspected Terrorists are our next reign of havoc.”

SpexSec came on the scene in a big way earlier this week when it posted several thousand names, Social Security numbers, and birthdates from a Tennessee city online. SpexSec claims to have many more records it has yet to publish to the Web.

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