Ex-sheriff's deputy charged with assault

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Ex-sheriff's deputy charged with assault, threats

Stewartstown Police say Benjamin Jesse Grove of Felton pulled his gun after seeing a vehicle doing doughnuts in a park.

By RICK LEE Daily Record/Sunday News

York, PA - A now-former York County Sheriff's deputy is charged with simple assault, terroristic threats and harassment for allegedly pointing a gun at a man and two boys after he saw them spinning doughnuts in Spring Valley Park. Benjamin Jesse Grove, 27, of Felton, reportedly caught up to a Jeep on Apple Street and Mount Olivet Road in Winterstown on March 10 after chasing the vehicle at speeds of up to 70 mph for more than two miles in his pickup, according to Stewartstown Police reports. Investigators reported a 17-year-old passenger of the Jeep got out and approached the off-duty deputy's truck at a stop sign. According to reports, Grove pulled his personal sidearm, showed the teen his badge, pointed his weapon at him and shoved him hard enough to leave a mark on the boy's chest while ordering him back to the Jeep. Grove then allegedly approached the driver of the Jeep, pointed his gun at him and demanded the Jeep's keys, his driver's license and registration. Grove contacted a North Hopewell Township Police officer who arrived at the scene. That officer, after taking control of the matter, later told Grove "to discontinue making unjustified traffic stops with his personal vehicle," according to reports. After some thought, the driver and step-father of the two teens in the Jeep, Jeremy Smith, decided to press charges against Grove. During an interview with police, Grove confirmed he had chased the Jeep and when it stopped, identified himself and "did what he was trained to do," reports said. Sheriff Rich Keuerleber limited his comments to: "He was not working in an official capacity for the sheriff's department nor was he authorized to do what he did." Keuerleber said Friday that Grove no longer works for the sheriff's department. Grove is scheduled for a preliminary hearing before District Justice John Olwert on May 25. Read more at www.ydr.com

 

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Big Chicken Egg

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Have you ever seen a chicken egg this big?

By Marci Watterson Lancaster Intelligence Journal/New Era

Lucy's big egg compared to a normal egg. (LANCASTER INTELLIGENCER JOURNAL/NEW ERA--Marci Watterson)

A southern Lancaster County family might be in possession of a pretty special egg. Keith and Maryann Frist of New Providence own a hen named Lucy that laid a rather remarkable egg. The brown egg, measuring 3.25 inches in length, weighed in at 140 grams, or nearly 5 ounces, easily topping the U.S. record of 107 grams, set in 2010 in California. While the egg laid by Lucy, a Rhode Island Red breed, is enormous, it isn't the largest ever. A check of egg-laying statistics shows the world record for a chicken egg was set in China; that egg weighed in at 201 grams. Last week, Maryann Frist said Guinness World Records had accepted her application for further review of the egg; she said she was told it would take four weeks for Guinness to review her case. In the meantime, she said, the egg is in a sealed bag in her refrigerator. Read more at www.ydr.com

 

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Prostitute doesn't finish, man calls 911

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Man claims prostitute took money and left

Reports incident to police, but decides not to have it investigated when told he could be prosecuted

By RYAN ROBINSON, Staff Writer

Who do you call when a prostitute doesn't provide the service she promised? One john called Lancaster city police shortly after 7 p.m. on Thursday, police said. He complained that he gave $25 to a female for sex in the 100 block of South Queen Street, and she took his money and left without completing the "transaction," police said. Police advised the cell phone caller that his actions were illegal and he could be prosecuted, police said. The man then decided he did not wish police to investigate the incident any further. Police responded to South Queen Street, but the woman was no longer there, they said. City police Lt. Todd Umstead said the call was certainly unusual, but not a first. "I recall handling a similar call years ago," he said. "The guy was very upset." That john did not speak much English so he used hand signals to describe what happened, Umstead said. Umstead also explained why police can't charge the johns in such cases. "Without being able to locate the other half or an independent witness, it would be impossible to prosecute someone for claiming they solicited a prostitute," he said. "Even if you did locate the prostitute, it would be a difficult case to prosecute because your witness would probably be a co-defendant." A confession alone is not enough to charge someone with a crime, Umstead said. "You could walk in the lobby and confess to kidnapping the Lindbergh baby," he said. "Without any other proof, we wouldn't be able to charge you." rrobinson@lnpnews.com Read more at articles.lancasteronline.com

 

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Security breach widens at retailers

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Security breach widens at retailers, others

The Associated Press

NEW YORK—Best Buy Co., TiVo Inc. and Walgreen Co. are the latest in a string of companies to warn over the weekend that hackers gained access to customers' files, including email addresses. The companies all use the same marketing and communications vendor called Epsilon, a leading marketing services firm. Epsilon, based in Dallas, issued a brief statement Friday saying "a full investigation was under way" following the discovery of the breach of some customer client data. Many of the companies affected say Epsilon informed them of the breach and said the compromised files do not include any personally identifiable information stored with the marketer. JPMorgan Chase & Co. and grocery operator Kroger Co, which also use Epsilon to send emails, announced a breach of information Friday. Read more at www.ydr.com

 

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Feds to make forms of bartering illegal

Federal government seeking to make forms of bartering illegal after court ruling

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COMMENT: As the AP reports, the Southern Poverty Law Center had been tracking and trying to demonize Bernard Von NotHaus, now convicted for his “Liberty Dollar” gold & silver ounces, even before the Feds had brought a case against him. U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins labeled Von NotHaus’s case as “a unique form of domestic terrorism.” Is it a coincidence that this language was used when Mark Potok of the SPLC has busily been trying to smear supposedly “rightwing” and “anti-government” political entities as ‘domestic terrorists’?

Kenneth Schortgen Jr Finance Examiner April 4, 2011

The Federal government is trying to establish bartering private currency of any type as an illegal enterprise in a false interpretation of the court’s recent conviction of Liberty Dollar’s owner Bernard Von NotHaus.

In a case where the government used conspiracy and counterfeit charges against NotHaus to establish that he intended to mint and illegally replace US currency with a private one using silver coins, the US Attorney is now parlaying the conviction to say that this ruling sets a precident against any private barter transactions which use any form of currency besides established Federal Reserve Notes.

The Federal government also is seeking on April 4th to take receipt of the $7 Million dollars in silver ‘Liberty Dollars’ that were minted and sold by Von NotHaus.

The idea for using private currency for barter transactions is not new, and in fact is currently being done in a few cities around the country. In Detroit for example, a group of businesses created their own barter currency known as ‘Detroit Cheers’, and several businesses agreed to the use of local currencies in leiu of federal reserve notes.

This attempt by the Federal government to use a single court case to establish a new precedent of law in regards to barter and currency gives warning to the states and the public that any course of action towards removing themselves from federal control over economic and monetary policies will be met with force and or prosecution.

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High radiation outside indoor adv. zone

High radiation outside indoor advisory zone

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High radiation outside indoor advisory zone

Radiation measurements have exceeded levels at which people are advised to stay indoors in a town outside the 30-kilometer radius of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The science ministry continues to monitor radiation levels in areas where residents have not been advised by the government to evacuate or stay indoors. The monitoring detected 10.3 millisieverts of radiation at one location in Namie Town, some 30 kilometers northwest of the plant. The amount is calculated on the assumption that a person has remained outdoors for 11 consecutive days through Sunday. The finding is higher than the 10 millisieverts the government views as the criteria for remaining indoors. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency says that as the radiation level was only detected in a limited area, it has no intention of expanding the indoor advisory zone at present. A nuclear expert has pointed out that the government should explain the details of the finding to the residents. Read more at www3.nhk.or.jp

 

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Radiation measurement at schoolyards

Fukushima Pref. starts radiation measurement at schoolyards

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Fukushima Pref. starts radiation measurement at schoolyards

FUKUSHIMA, Japan, April 5, Kyodo

The Fukushima prefectural government on Tuesday started radiation measurements at schoolyards in the prefecture in the wake of the nuclear emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant.

The emergency measurement through Thursday will be conducted at some 1,400 kindergartens as well as elementary and junior high schools, except those within the 20-kilometer evacuation zone around the troubled nuclear power plant, prefectural officials said.

The move came as many parents have asked the authorities since the April 1 start of the new academic year if they can allow their children to walk to school or to play in the schoolyards.

The officials responded that there is no problem as long as children stay outside a 30-km zone around the power plant, which also includes an outer zone from 20-30 km from the plant where people are advised to stay indoors. However, some parents still showed concerns, according to the officials.

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Weather agency ordered to reveal data

Weather agency ordered to reveal data on projected radiation spread

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Weather agency ordered to reveal data on projected radiation spread

TOKYO, April 4, Kyodo

The government has ordered the Japan Meteorological Agency to promptly disclose its data on the projected spread of radioactive materials from the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, the government's top spokesman said Monday.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said in a news conference that he had told the agency that it ''should have made the data public'' along with an adequate explanation.

According to Edano, the agency did not disclose the information because it was part of reference materials compiled in response to a request from the International Atomic Energy Agency, and it feared that releasing the data could cause misunderstanding about the spread of radiation.

The agency conducted a simulation assuming the release of a certain level of radioactive materials from the Fukushima plant to gauge how the materials would spread based on weather conditions in the vicinity of the plant, Edano said.

The projection showed the potential spread of radioactive materials per 100 square kilometers, the chief Cabinet secretary said, adding that the IAEA had asked the agency for the projection so that the U.N. nuclear watchdog could gauge the possible global impact.

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2 held for selling unauthorized drug

2 held for selling unauthorized drug over radioactive contamination

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2 held for selling unauthorized drug over radioactive contamination

TOKYO, April 5, Kyodo

Tokyo police arrested two people Tuesday for allegedly selling an unauthorized drug by telling customers that it is effective for detoxification, including dealing with internal contamination with radioactive substances.

One of the two is Fumitaka Umewaka, 50, a Kobe-based health food dealer, who is suspected of violating the pharmaceutical affairs law. Umewaka said on a promotional website that the drug absorbs radioactive substances and removes them from the human body, the police said.

He allegedly posted the advertisement after the current nuclear crisis broke out at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in northeastern Japan which was hard hit by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Umewaka, who has no license to sell medicine, sold 10 bottles of the unauthorized liquid drug, called premium zeolite, to three people between Feb. 17 and March 29 for a total of 47,500 yen, the police said.

The police said they believe the suspects sold the drug to more than 1,000 people mainly in northeastern and eastern Japan following the disaster, with sales totaling about 24 million yen.

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Old Newspapers and Radiation Leaks

Fukushima Workers Try to Plug Radiation Leaks With Old Newspapers

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Fukushima Workers Try to Plug Radiation Leaks With Old Newspapers

Steve Watson Infowars.com April 4, 2011

The impact of the radioactive material on sea life could be catastrophic as over 11, 500 tons of contaminated water is now being intentionally released into the Pacific ocean by workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in a last ditch desperate effort to clean out the area.

Meanwhile, local officials have roundly condemned the Japanese government’s response to the crisis as workers have been scrambling to plug cracks in a reactor pit using anything they can find, including bits of shredded newspaper, sawdust and super glue.

Highly radioactive water is flowing from the pit into the ocean, with the latest figures confirming radiation levels of contaminated seawater at 4,000 times above the safety limit.

Yesterday, TEPCO, the company running the plant released the above image of the toxic water pouring into the ocean.

After efforts to fill the crack with concrete failed, workers resorted to more desperate measures, as reported in the London Telegraph:

“From the afternoon, the workers began pouring polymeric powder, sawdust, newspaper – things we could think of to clog up the holes,” said Hidehiko Nishiyama, a spokesman for the nuclear safety agency.

“So far, there has not been any clear indication that the volume of leaking water has been reduced.” he added.

AP reports that workers “went farther up the system and injected sawdust, three garbage bags of shredded newspaper and a polymer — similar to one used to absorb liquid in diapers”

You could not make this stuff up.

The company says it needs to release the toxic water already leaking into the sea to create room to store even more highly contaminated water building up under complex.

If the crack in the pit is not fixed, this material will presumably also leak outside the plant.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s top spokesman, Yukio Edano, said in a televised press conference: “We have no choice but to release water tainted with radioactive materials into the ocean as a safety measure.”

As a result of the massive water dumping operations, “highly radioactive waste water has accumulated at turbine buildings at Fukushima Daiichi, especially at the reactor unit two,” said another TEPCO official.

“There is a need to release already stored water in order to accept the additional waste water” totaling 10,000 tons, as well as 1,500 tons of water from pits under reactor units five and six, he said.

TEPCO also announced early yesterday that the level of radiation in the air in the pit at reactor two was 1000 mSv/hour. This is an astonishing amount given that, according to the IAEA, the limit for public radiation exposure is just 1 mSv per year:

The dose limits for practices are intended to ensure that no individual is committed to unacceptable risk due to radiation exposure. For the public the limit is 1 mSv in a year, or in special circumstances up to 5 mSv in a single year provided that the average does over five consecutive years does not exceed 1 mSv per year.

Essentially, the level in the pit where the water is running into the sea is one thousand times higher per hour than an entire year of safe exposure.

While workers on a suicide mission armed only with trash and super glue scramble to do what they can, still the Japanese government maintains there is no risk to public health because the material will “dissipate”.

The governor of Fukushima has slammed Japan’s nuclear agency for failing to provide accurate and timely radiation data.

Japan Today reports:

Fukushima Gov Yuhei Sato expressed anger at the central government’s nuclear safety agency on Sunday for its late release of radioactivity data related to local farm produce, shipments of which have been partly restricted amid the ongoing nuclear crisis.

It takes a few days for the results of each test to be released, according to Sato.

‘‘Can’t you increase the number of examiners? The lives of farmers are at stake. It’s a matter of whether they can live tomorrow,’’ the governor said during a meeting of the prefectural disaster relief task force attended by an official of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.

Sato said the results should be released in about a day and criticized the central government for being late in lifting restrictions, saying, ‘‘I wonder if our sense of urgency is being conveyed to the government…It is irritating.’‘ Read more at www.infowars.com

 

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