Who do you think is winning the war against drug trafficking?
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| Aug. 2009 | Aug. 2008 |
| Organized crime | 41% | 61% |
| The government | 37% | 22% |
| Neither / Not sure | 22% | 17% |
Source: Reforma
Methodology: Face-to-face interviews with 1,515 Mexican registered voters, conducted from Aug. 14 to Aug. 16, 2009. Margin of error is 2.8 per cent.
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Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband — an influential member of the local Muslim community — reported her death to police Thursday.
Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree murder.
Buffalo News
Mayor Eddie A. Perez sat in his office at city hall on a late June day in 2007 and assured a pair of state criminal investigators that the rumors weren't true, that he had long ago paid in full for the $20,000 renovation at his home by city contractor Carlos Costa.
He could even get them the canceled check to prove it.
But barely an hour and a half after Perez said goodbye to the investigators, the mayor was in the offices of the Hartford Federal Credit Union filling out an application for a $25,000 home equity loan. It fell to Perez's lawyer nine days later to tell investigators that the mayor, in fact, had never paid Costa for the work that had begun more than two years earlier.
Hartford Courant
*It was 32 degrees inside Schur's house when neighbors found his body.
*An autopsy determined Schur, 93, died from hypothermia in the home he lived in for years.
*A medical examiner who conducted the autopsy on Schur told TV5 and WNEM.com that Schur died a painful death due to the hypothermia.
*Dr. Kanu Varani has done hundreds of autopsies, and he said he’d never seen a person die of hypothermia indoors.
WNEM
A broken O.J. Simpson has been sentenced to at least 15 years in prison for a Las Vegas hotel armed robbery by a judge who rejected his apology and said, "It was much more than stupidity."
Simpson stood stone-faced Friday when Judge Jackie Glass quickly rattled off his punishment after he pleaded with her that he didn't mean to steal from anybody when he tried to retrieve memorabilia.
He appeared ready to break down in tears as he told that he was "sorry and confused" before going into a rambling and emotional 5-minute declaration.
"I didn't want to steal anything from anyone ... I'm sorry, sorry," he said.
Glass ruled before sentencing that Simpson cannot be freed on bail pending possible appeal.
Are you in favour of the death penalty for a person convicted of murder?
| Oct. 2008 | Oct. 2007 | May 2006 | |
| In favour | 64% | 69% | 65% |
| Opposed | 30% | 27% | 28% |
| Not sure | 6% | 4% | 7% |
Source: Gallup / USA Today
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 1,011 American adults, conducted from Oct. 3 to Oct. 5, 2008. Margin of error is 3 per cent.
Campaign staffers also note each incident, including today's early morning incident, has followed closely on the heels of a confrontation with Cindy Sheehan's opponent Nancy Pelosi. This morning's incident occurred after an on-air confrontation between the two candidates on KQED's public affairs program Forum with Michael Krasny on Wednesday morning.
"Each time we confront her, each time we ask her for a debate, each time we gain ground in the polls, something horrible happens," said Burns. "Once or twice might be a coincidence, but such a consistent correlation is hard to ignore."
Breitbart
Democratic state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson faces 40 years in prison after federal prosecutors outlined accusations that she accepted the bribes over an 18-month period in a money-for-legislative influence sting operation, prosecutors said. She had $6,000 in cash in her purse when she was arrested at her Roxbury home by nearly two dozen law enforcement officials, prosecutors said.
ABC News
State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about "Joe the Plumber."Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher became part of the national political lexicon Oct. 15 when Republican presidential candidate John McCain mentioned him frequently during his final debate with Democrat Barack Obama.
The 34-year-old from the Toledo suburb of Holland is held out by McCain as an example of an American who would be harmed by Obama's tax proposals.
A North Kansas City couple has been left scratching their heads after they became the victims of a political scam.
Steve and Rachel Larman say a strange credit card charge appeared on their statement this month -- a $2300 donation to Barack Obama's presidential campaign. The Larman's say they don't want this to be about their political affiliation, but they say they're not about to give the Obama campaign any help from their pocketbook.
Fox 4 Kansas City
A handgun was found beneath Hutchins' body early Tuesday, but law enforcement officials said they still weren't able to conclude whether the incident was a suicide or the result of foul play. Hutchins' body was discovered by a sheriff's deputy just after 7 a.m. Tuesday on the shoulder of the southbound lane of U.S. 220. Hutchins' vehicle was pointed south. Authorities have confirmed that he had a gunshot wound to the head.
—Roanoke.com
A man charged with murder was on the loose Saturday after he broke out of jail by climbing through an air conditioner vent, authorities said.The vent was less than a foot wide, and authorities said Darryl Layne Norris had been losing weight since being taken to Waller County Jail in April.
