06:41 PM CST on Friday, November 30, 2007
Associated Press HOUSTON—DNA testing and the dogged efforts of a retired officer have helped solve the 1984 rape and murder of a teen, police said Friday.
HPD, Crime Stoppers
Frederick Johnson, 47
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Fourteen-year-old Sharon Darnell’s body was found in an abandoned Houston apartment building on the afternoon of Feb. 7, 1984.
She [...]
10:35 AM CST on Thursday, November 29, 2007
By Dave Fehling /11 NEWS
The Pasadena case where a homeowner gunned down two burglars who were ripping off his neighbor, has put a spotlight on Texas’ Castle Law.
You may have one at home right now: a gun.
Would you use it to stop someone who’s stealing from you or [...]
FAMILY SAYS SHOOTER SHOULD HAVE BACKED DOWN
08:36 PM CST on Friday, November 30, 2007
By Chau Nguyen / 11 News
A make-shift memorial marks the area near where Clark Dennis was shot.
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On a quiet road, sit displays of grief. Flowers for a man whose family says he didn’t deserve to die.
“He was really kind hearted,” said [...]
UPDATE
09:18 PM CST on Friday, November 30, 2007
KHOU.com staff report HOUSTON – A murdered 2-year-old girl, called “Baby Grace” by the police officials investigating her brutal death, has been officially identified as a missing Ohio girl.On Friday, DNA tests confirmed the little girl’s identity as that of Riley Ann Sawyers, who disappeared in June after [...]
Yep. It has been two-and-a-half decades, but, today is the 25TH Anniversary of Micheal Jackson’s video/choreo-dance “Thriller”.
Yes, those dance steps we all could not wait to try out on our captive parents, friends, siblings, neighbors, co-workers, bosses…………..
Those snazzy zombie movements that were the bomb—or should I say, were the graveyard beat of the last century.
It was [...]
For the past few days, NBC Nightly news has been doing a series of reports on the staus of Black American women. These nightly reports range in topics on career/employment, education, life in the home and many other topics of importance.
Monday’s report centered on the following:
Monday: Booming in business
The business of black women
Women’s edge in [...]
HUNTER SENTENCED 69 YEARS IN RACE-TINGED KILLING:
Case rekindled tensions after Hmong man fatally shot white hunters -
Wed., Nov. 28, 2007
MARINETTE, Wis. – A white hunter convicted of killing a Hmong man as they both stalked squirrels in the woods was sentenced Wednesday to 69 years in prison.
James Nichols, 28, of Peshtigo, was convicted last month [...]
“The lost 40 acres”
I was in the process of working on a post on a news article on the black middle class (“Forty Acres and a Gap”, Henry Louis Gates), but a hat-tip to Bryan Wilhite, who beat me to it, for this post on his blogsite rasx() http://www.kintespace.com/rasxlog/?p=793
“In “The lost 40 acres” at popandpolitics.com the [...]
Ted Oberg and The Associated Press
(11/26/07) – Two people are behind bars in the ‘Baby Grace’ case — the young girl’s mother and stepfather. And now we’re learning exactly what happened to little Riley Ann Sawyers the day she died back in July.
While the world watched and wondered who ‘Baby Grace’ was, court documents show [...]
