| Motorcyclist gets away after chase, aerial search
TRACY A high-speed chase that began outside of Modesto ended in Tracy and resulted in Poet-Christian Elementary School being locked down for an hour as police searched for a suspect who eventually eluded them, authorities said. The chase started around 1:50 p.m. when a man on a motorcycle traveling over 90 mph apparently failed to yield near the Westley rest stop on Interstate 5, California Highway Patrol officials said. The motorcyclist led police on a chase, which reached speeds of about 130 mph, into Tracy before ditching the motorcycle near Deerwood Lane and Central Avenue. CHP officers, with help from Tracy police, established a perimeter to capture the suspect, who had apparently hopped fences into nearby backyards. The CHP brought in an airplane to assist with the search, causing concern among nearby residents.
Reviving the J-School
In a pair of breakout sessions, Lemann and other deans and journalism professors discussed how the Carnegie-Knight initiative’s goals worked in practice. At Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, for example, a $250,000 grant funds an undergraduate minor in religion and media as well as the Carnegie Legal Reporting Program. Such collaborations, they suggested, could improve relations between journalism professors and their peers in other departments — but recruiting journalism students to fill the classes remains a problem. Lemann, summing up many of the participants’ concerns, said: "The question I keep asking myself as a dean is, What can we do for you that isn't irrelevant ... but that you can more easily acquire in a university" than in the work place? — Andy Guess Comments .
Fear and a sense of justice for her murdered sister are driving one ...
Fear and a sense of justice for her murdered sister are driving one woman's crusade to keep the killer in jail. Victim's sister, killer battle again over parole By Dennis J. Willard Beacon Journal Columbus Bureau Published on Sunday, Nov 25, 2007 On a late March evening 25 years ago, with winter reluctantly ceding to the initial strains of spring, Sandy Burger fled in fear from the three-story home on Harvard Avenue in Barberton that she shared with Mark Headley, before he caught and dragged her back into the house. Headley was a weightlifter with an intimidating presence. Burger was a 22-year-old wisp of a woman who weighed 90 pounds and stood 5 feet, 21/2 inches tall. In the unknown length of time left in her life, Headley beat Burger to death.
August 2007 Archive
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Transgender candidate runs for Republican endorsement in Brainerd
You could call Chrissy Nakonsky a candidate of change. Until about five years ago, Nakonsky, who recently announced she's running for the Minnesota Legislature and will seek the Republican endorsement in her Brainerd-area district, was known as Jeff Nakonsky. Nakonsky said the 2006 reelection of the state's only openly gay Republican legislator, Sen. Paul Koering of nearby Fort Ripley, gives her hope that Brainerd-area voters won't deny her a legislative seat because of her gender change. "If people vote for or against me, it should be because of my values," Nakonsky said. While there are about 400 openly gay or lesbian elected officials in the United States, none is a transgender person, according to the Washington-based Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund.
Salem swimmer is fraction of second from Olympic Trials
Tori Simenec has a goal of being an Olympian. She is one now. Sort of. "Not really," she said. "Working for it." A 15-year-old freshman at Sprague High School, home of the Olympians, Simenec may be the best high school swimmer in town, but she doesn't compete for Sprague. Instead, she is training constantly and is within fractions of a second from qualifying for the U.S. Olympic Trials in multiple events. "She works really hard a lot, and she stays very focused, and she's very positive with all of her teammates, so she gets a lot of support," said Bearcat teammate Brooke Mischkot, who will join Simenec at Sprague next year. "Everybody likes her because she encourages everybody so much." Simenec spent almost two weeks in Australia competing for the U.S.
THE WEEK IN PICTURES
Steve Hoey, slain Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor's high school football coach at Gulliver Prep in Miami, kneels before the casket at Taylor's funeral service at PharmEd Arena on the Florida International University campus in Miami. Dec. 3: Republican presidential hopeful and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaks during a 'North Carolina Women for Rudy' event at North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro, N.C. Dec. 3: Pakistan former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, left, receives her political rival former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, right, at her residence in Islamabad, Pakistan. Dec. 3: A released Palestinian prisoner, left, is hugged by a relative as he arrives in the West Bank town of Hebron. Dec. 3: Hundreds of Christmas lights and festive characters decorate the house and garden of Bernhard Nermerich in Kelkheim, near Frankfurt, central Germany.
Coastal Post Online
Today, Bolinas is home to remarkable commercial farmers and ranchers who have gained local admiration and international recognition for their commitment to the health of their land and the high quality food that they produce. All of them work land that has a long history of agriculture. An 1867 map shows virtually every acre of land around the Bolinas Lagoon was part of a ranch, even the treeless, windswept Big Mesa. Each field and pasture has history in its soil.
On October 27th you are invited to celebrate our local farmers and ranchers at the Bolinas Museum's Bolinas Farm Day and the opening of a history room exhibit on the continuity of food production in Bolinas. Sandy Dierks, who is working with history curator Elia Haworth to create the exhibition, lives on land that is layered with human history.
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