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Brookfield police issue warning about theft ring targeting elderly women
The City of Brookfield Police Department is asking for the public's help in finding suspects in a possible theft ring in the area.
In a crime alert issued by the department last week, police officials said elderly women are being targeted by multiple white men, ranging in age from about 40 to about 65, with heavy Eastern European accents. »Read Full Article
Winter weather advisory for Sunday afternoon until Monday morning
The snow you've been hearing about the past several days?
Yeah, it's still coming. »Read Full Article
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, combined choruses usher in holiday season
The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra presented festive holiday greetings Friday evening, filling the Uihlein Hall stage to the brim with instrumentalists and vocalists.
Stuart Chafetz, former resident conductor of the MSO, led the combined forces of the MSO, the MSO Chorus, Milwaukee Children's Choir, Milwaukee Youth Chorale and Milwaukee Handbell Ensemble through a program of Christmas and Hanukkah tunes. »Read Full Article
Some Wisconsin Supreme Court justices urging senators to support amendment
Madison — State Supreme Court Justice Patience Roggensack contacted Republican state senators urging support of an amendment to the state constitution that could put her in charge of Wisconsin's high court.
Justice Michael Gableman also called at least one senator's office in support of changing the 124-year-old provision of the constitution that awards the job of chief justice to the most senior member of the court. »Read Full Article
New program to award scholarships to children of inmates
A new program is funding scholarships for the children of adults who are incarcerated.
The Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service has a story.
For Scott Walker, immediate goal is winning re-election in 2014
For Gov. Scott Walker, this has turned out to be a pivotal political year.
With a book to pitch and a story to tell, he raised his national profile and joined the ranks of potential Republican Party presidential contenders for 2016. »Read Full Article
Wisconsin steps up efforts to court businesses in northern Illinois
Wisconsin economic development officials are rolling out new campaigns to lure northern Illinois businesses across the state line.
The Milwaukee 7 economic development organization recently organized a plan to recruit manufacturers near O'Hare International Airport, and a Beloit economic development group is making pitches to Illinois food processors and manufacturers to move to the Gateway Business Park, just north of the state line. »Read Full Article
Kenosha alderman denies placing glue in colleague's vehicle door lock
Kenosha Ald. G. John Ruffolo has denied allegations that he placed glue in a colleague's vehicle door lock in the Municipal Building parking lot last year, according to the Kenosha News.
Ruffolo said Friday he is looking forward to his day in court against Ald. Patrick Juliana.
Ruffolo's comments came as Juliana filed his first response to a defamation suit Ruffolo filed against Juliana in October, the newspaper said.
Assault trial for billionaire Curt Johnson on hold
A Jan. 6 trial date for billionaire Curt Johnson has been canceled as a result of pending legal issues, the Racine Journal Times reports.
The heir to the Johnson family household products fortune was charged in March 2011 with repeated sexual assault of the same child for allegedly molesting a teenage girl.
The Racine County case has been on hold for two years while both sides have appealed a series of court rulings.
Prices still dropping for Sunday's Packers game at Lambeau Field
Ticket-search engine SeatGeek reported Saturday that tickets for Sunday's Atlanta Falcons vs. Green Bay Packers game at Lambeau Field are now selling for an average of just $49 apiece on the secondary market.
That's down 23% from the $64 average SeatGeek was seeing on the market earlier in the week. Obviously, the fact that quarterback Aaron Rodgers is officially out for the game depressed ticket prices further.
SeatGeek officials say tickets can be had for as little as $30 apiece. And on this offer on eBay, you can score some very nice seats at the 50-yard line for $70 apiece.
UW workmanlike in outlasting Marquette
Madison — The outcome of the 120th meeting between Wisconsin and rival Marquette wasn't decided by an explosive scoring run.
No individual dominated play Saturday afternoon at the Kohl Center. »Read Full Article
Scott Walker honors Pearl Harbor survivors
During a memorial ceremony Saturday to commemorate the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Gov. Scott Walker met with four Wisconsinites who survived the attack 72 years ago.
The ceremony took place at the Wisconsin Veterans Home in King, according to a news release from Walker's office. »Read Full Article
Groups plan protest at MMAC for education 'Day of Action'
Public school advocates and teachers union members are planning an unusual event Monday afternoon that will entail singing holiday "education carols" at the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce and delivering an anti-holiday card to President Tim Sheehy, according to several notices.
The event is scheduled to coincide with a national education "Day of Action" on Dec. 9. The effort has been organized by a coalition of education, labor, civic and civil rights groups and spearheaded by the American Federation of Teachers to fight what participants see as corporation-influenced school reform. »Read Full Blog Post
Quasimondo takes darkly humorous look at American life in 'Americlown'
In the first of 14 skits composing "Americlown" — a provocative and original production from Quasimondo Milwaukee Physical Theatre's Brian Rott and Jessi Miller — we watch the cast impersonate young schoolchildren, awakening to the magic of language as they painstakingly spell out a word, with awe and mystery in their eyes.
That word is pledge, and within seconds this slightly discombobulated troupe of innocents has been whipped into shape, becoming a regimented cadre. Eyes blazing with hate, they defiantly shout allegiance to the flag while marching off to war. »Read Full Article
Madison business selling snuggles closes after just 3 weeks
A Madison company that overcome a number of hurdles to open a business selling $60-an-hour cuddles has closed, according to an online post from The Snuggle House.
"The Snuggle House is Officially Closed — for good," said a post on the company's Facebook page. "For those people who supported us, thank you. Snuggle on!" »Read Full Article
Kacey Musgraves shows she's got down-home standards at Rave
Friday night at the Rave, Kacey Musgraves was a woman on the verge of...many things.
She was on the verge of multiple Grammy nominations: As the nominations were being announced in L.A., Musgraves updated the Milwaukee crowd on how she was up for best new artist, best country album and best country song (twice in the latter category). »Read Full Article
Cranberry supplies trounce demand, sending price down
Trouble has arrived by the bog-full in Wisconsin's cranberry country.
Supplies of the bright red fruit have trounced demand, sending prices paid to independent growers falling to levels not seen in more than a decade, industry watchers say. »Read Full Article
Grants aim to boost companies' computing opportunities
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. and Mason Wells, a Milwaukee-based private equity firm, will put $500,000 into a year-long pilot project that gives grants to at least five small- and medium-sized companies to take advantage of high-performance computing opportunities.
Companies chosen to receive Computational Science Challenge Grants will receive as much as $50,000 to pay for computing and related services from the Milwaukee Institute. The grants will be funded by $250,000 from WEDC. »Read Full Article
Blue Mound, Mayfair retail areas receiving a burst in investment
For those who shop till they drop, the retail areas centered on Blue Mound and Mayfair roads in Milwaukee's western suburbs are shaping up as the promised land.
By the holiday shopping season of 2015 — if all plans are realized — those areas will include The Corners, a retail center anchored by a Von Maur department store; an expanded Brookfield Square mall; a Nordstrom department store at Mayfair, and Nordstrom Rack and other stores at The Mayfair Collection shopping center. »Read Full Article
New American CEO seeks to top $1 billion goal
Dallas — Doug Parker, poised to lead the new American Airlines Group, wants to beat a $1 billion goal for added revenue and savings in the AMR Corp.-US Airways Group merger and is about to start meshing frequent-flier plans.
"I'm hoping it's a number we can exceed," Parker, who is now chief executive officer at US Airways, said in an interview at American's headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas. "It's not easy. It's not a given by any means." »Read Full Article
Money managers plan to place their bets in U.S., Europe
New York — Following the Standard & Poor's 500 index's record high in November, will stocks continue their ascent amid what's likely to be lackluster global expansion in 2014? In September, the Federal Reserve's unexpected delay in tapering its stimulus program whipsawed debt markets. Where should bond investors go for returns?
We asked money managers where they're placing their bets in the United States, Europe and emerging markets for 2014. Overall, they see more chances to make money in the U.S. and Europe, if you avoid the land mines, than in emerging markets. »Read Full Article
Wayward donkey returned to West Bend nativity scene
A donkey figurine that disappeared from the front of Westbury Bank in West Bend is back in place this weekend, holding up its role in the Christmas nativity scene.
Sometime overnight on Monday, the donkey figurine, which is about the size of a medium-sized dog, went missing from the scene in front of the bank at 200 S. Main St., West Bend Police reported. »Read Full Article
Fire displaces 6 Milwaukee residents
The Milwaukee Fire Department responded to a house fire near the intersection of W. Capitol Drive and W. Fond du Lac Avenue early Saturday morning, officials said.
A Fire Department official confirmed the fire at 4731 W. Leon Terrace was not major, but its inhabitants — four children and two adults — were unable to return to the building.
The Red Cross is providing services to the family, the official said.
Marquette launches national search for its next president
For the first time, Marquette University is using a national executive search firm as it sizes up candidates to become the school's 24th president.
Witt/Kieffer of Oak Brook, Ill., will help screen applicants and recruit candidates from across the country, said John Ferraro, chair of the presidential search committee. The committee held its first meeting with the firm in early November. »Read Full Article
Scott Walker approves $4 million for training of disabled workers
Madison — The state will provide $4 million over two years for vocational rehabilitation services for disabled workers, under legislation Gov. Scott Walker signed Friday.
The measure is part of a broader legislative packaged passed by Walker and lawmakers that aims to train the state's workers to fill in-demand jobs. »Read Full Article
Police: Madison man arrested after driving drunk on blown-out tire
A Madison man was arrested for a fifth operating while intoxicated offense, a felony, in the Town of Springdale Friday night, according to a news release form the Dane County Sheriff's Office.
Ernest J. Newel, 39, was stopped by a Dane County Sheriff's Office deputy after a citizen report of a potentially impaired motorist driving on the rim of a blown-out tire, the release said.
Newel is being held at the Dane County Jail.
George Marshall leaving UW, officials confirm
Madison – Redshirt sophomore George Marshall, who has played in only two of Wisconsin's nine games this season, has decided to leave the program.
Traffic restrictions planned on E. Wisconsin Ave.
Beginning Monday, traffic will be restricted to one lane in each direction on E. Wisconsin Ave., between Mason St./Prospect Ave., and N. Van Buren St.
The restrictions will be put in place because utilities along that stretch have to be relocated in preparation for the new Northwestern Mutual building construction in 2014.
The traffic changes will be in effect until May 30, 2014.
Another cold day Saturday before snow rolls in Sunday afternoon
Expect a cold Saturday with temperatures reaching the teens and a wind chill factor that will make it feel like zero, according to forecasts.
Sunday should start out dry until a weather system bringing snow reaches the area by mid-afternoon and continuing with 1 to 3 inches overnight.
Packers' Aaron Rodgers won't return against Falcons
Green Bay — Quarterback Aaron Rodgers will miss a fifth straight game Sunday when the Green Bay Packers meet the Atlanta Falcons at Lambeau Field.
Coach Mike McCarthy ruled out Rodgers on Friday after his third day in a row of limited practice. »Read Full Article
Brandon Knight's play helps Bucks grab overtime victory
Washington — Brandon Knight sank a pair of clutch shots to help the Milwaukee Bucks escape with a 109-105 overtime victory over Washington on Friday night at the Verizon Center.
One was a smooth three-pointer on a clean look with 15.1 seconds left in regulation, tying the score at 102-102. »Read Full Article
Daft Punk, Kendrick Lamar, Kacey Musgraves and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis get Grammy nods
Surprises and snubs were in abundance when nominations for the 56th annual Grammy Awards were revealed Friday night. And one of the night's big nominees, fast-rising country star Kacey Musgraves, got the news in Milwaukee.
Musgraves was on stage for a show at the Rave on Friday when she learned her acclaimed album "Same Trailer Different Park" picked up a nomination for best country album. »Read Full Article
Friday's winning lottery numbers
Here are Friday's winning lottery numbers for Wisconsin and Illinois:
Wisconsin »Read Full Article
Woman hurt when vehicle crashes into Waukesha Memorial Hospital entrance
A woman was injured Friday when her vehicle jumped a curb and struck an entrance at Waukesha Memorial Hospital, according to a report from WISN-TV (Channel 12) in Milwaukee.
The crash was reported about 4:30 p.m. when the woman crashed into the east entrance while attempting to pull through the valet area, the station reported.
The woman was taken to the hospital's emergency room for injuries, and authorities were investigating to determine if she had a medical emergency, according to the station.
Waukesha County leaders plan resolution opposing sports arena tax
Waukesha County's Executive Committee will consider a resolution Monday that puts the county on record in opposition to a regional tax for a Milwaukee sports and entertainment arena.
County Board Chairman Paul Decker said Friday that the committee is expected to pass the resolution and send it along to the County Board, which meets Dec. 17. »Read Full Article
UW System announces expanded flexible degree options
The University of Wisconsin System has yet to teach the first student in its new Flexible Option degree program, but it's ambitiously developing the next batch of online offerings for working adults.
UW-Madison, UW-Parkside, UW-Stevens Point and UW-Stout are in various stages of developing five online certificate programs, working closely with industry leaders to identify skills most in demand, UW System officials said Friday. The newly announced programs will focus on sales, global skills, geographic information systems, project management, and alcohol and other drug abuse counseling. »Read Full Article
Snow expected to hit Wisconsin on Monday
Southern Wisconsin motorists will face slippery snow-covered roads and reduced visibility Monday morning, posing a hazardous morning commute after a weekend of chilly temperatures, according to the National Weather Service in Sullivan.
Most areas will see between 2 and 4 inches of snow, with 6 inches or more of lake effect snow possible north of Milwaukee and in the Sheboygan area, according to the weather service. »Read Full Article
Scott Walker orders flags lowered to half-staff to honor Nelson Mandela
Madison — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has ordered flags lowered to half-staff in memory of Nelson Mandela.
In a statement, Walker says Mandela was "an inspiring man, who stood as a distinct symbol of hope in the anti-apartheid movement." »Read Full Article
Jane Sijan drew attention to POWs after son was lost in Vietnam
A quiet beauty who was named Milwaukee's "Clean City Queen" in 1949, Jane Sijan helped run Mary's Log Cabin, a tavern and eatery across from the old Allen-Bradley building where workers could get a check cashed and, sometimes, a loan if they needed it. They had a Friday night perch fry and a Saturday night chicken dinner.
"She was the beauty behind the bar," her daughter Janine Sijan-Rozina said. "She commanded respect with a very gentle, soft air about her." »Read Full Article
Pressure mounts for local GED students as deadline approaches
Adult education centers across Milwaukee are making a final push to help students obtain their GEDs now, rather than start over next year, the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service is reporting.
"Students are nervous, frightened and on edge about finishing," says Patricia Adams, workforce training and education director at the YWCA, 1915 N. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
"There simply will not be enough time for many of them to successfully finish during the window of time remaining," Adams tells the news service.
Waukesha sheriff's lieutenant under investigation, placed on leave
A Waukesha County sheriff's lieutenant is under investigation by Waukesha police and has been placed on administrative leave, the sheriff's office said Friday.
The investigation involves a complaint filed against the lieutenant, and Waukesha police have asked for assistance from the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Division of Criminal Investigation, according to a sheriff's office news release.
The sheriff's office is conducting an internal review of the complaint, according to the release, which provides no information on the complaint.
E. Wisconsin Ave. lane restrictions begin Monday
Traffic on E. Wisconsin Ave. between N. Van Buren St. and the corner of E. Mason St. and N. Prospect Ave. will be restricted to one lane in each direction beginning Monday, according to the City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works.
The restrictions will allow for utilities along Wisconsin Ave. to be relocated in preparation for the construction of the new Northwestern Mutual building, scheduled to begin in 2014, according to a DPW news release. »Read Full Article
FDA inspection report: Chobani yogurt had problems before, after recall
Chobani and Idaho state officials knew at least two months before Chobani voluntarily recalled 35 varieties of Greek yogurt because of mold that there was a problem with a yeast-like growth in the company's yogurt, according to an inspection report released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week. Officials in Idaho, where the yogurt is produced, dispute that.
The company also vouched on its Facebook page for the safety of products with expiration dates after Oct. 8 — the last recall date. Some of those later developed bulging lids, the report said. »Read Full Article
Boy Scout council to honor Journal Sentinel's Elizabeth Brenner
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel president and publisher Elizabeth Brenner will be honored by the Three Harbors Council of the Boy Scouts of America at its 2013 Distinguished Citizen's Award Dinner.
The event will be held Tuesday at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center, 509 W. Wisconsin Ave. »Read Full Article
Ron Johnson makes case for fiscal conservatism in road show at City Hall
With a blizzard of statistics about debt and deficits, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson on Friday took his brand of fiscal conservatism to Milwaukee's City Hall, a building once frequented for decades by Socialists.
Shortly before he began his town hall meeting, Johnson, dressed in suit and tie, greeted arrivals gathering in a third floor hearing room. »Read Full Article
Milwaukee's low-income drivers hit hard for minor infractions
Rising driver's license suspensions for unpaid traffic tickets may be putting mobility—and employment—out of reach for many of Milwaukee's lowest-income drivers, according to a special report by the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.
The suspensions can stem from tickets as relatively minor as broken headlights or seatbelt violations. »Read Full Article
AP NewsBreak: Yemen says Saudis behind attack
ADEN, Yemen (AP) Saudi militants were behind the massive car bombing and assault on Yemen's military headquarters that killed more than 50 people, including foreigners, investigators said in a preliminary report released Friday. Al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was retaliation for U.S. drone strikes that have killed dozens of the terror network's leaders.
The attack the deadliest in Sanaa since May 2012 marked an escalation in the terror network's battle to undermine the U.S.-allied government and destabilize the impoverished Arab nation despite the drone strikes and a series of U.S.-backed military offensive against it. U.S. forces also have been training and arming Yemeni special forces, and exchanging intelligence with the central government. »Read Full Article
Report of gun at James Madison high school believed to be a hoax
Milwaukee police did not find anything suspicious when they investigated areport of a person with a gun Friday at James Madison Academic Campus, a department spokesman said.
Police were called to the high school, 8135 W. Florist Ave., about 11:30 a.m. Friday for an unsubstantiated report of a person in the school with a gun, Lt. Mark Stanmeyer said. »Read Full Article
Wisconsin, like most states, rates F on judicial financial disclosure
A national watchdog group recently graded states' judiciaries on their financial disclosure, and Wisconsin earned an F.
But it still ranked tied for 14th among all states, only eight of which got anything other than an F -- six Ds and a pair of Cs. »Read Full Blog Post
Dane County deputy breaks shoulder while moving inmate
A Dane County deputy fractured his shoulder while trying to move an inmate to another cell, according to the Dane County Sheriff's Office.
The deputy was moving the 34-year-old male inmate about 3:20 p.m. Thursday after the inmate appeared to be trying to harm himself, according to a news release. »Read Full Article


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"They need to know that President Morsy's call for dialogue is not out of weakness, but it is out of his responsibility as president. ... Some forces are still putting conditions and obstacles before this national dialogue in order to make it fail. These people do not put forward the national interest. They are looking for personal gains."
The latest strife comes as Egyptians mark the second anniversary of one of the most violent and significant days in the Egyptian revolution.
January 28, 2011, was dubbed the "Friday of Rage" because thousands of peaceful protesters seeking an end to President Hosni Mubarak's three-decade rule in Cairo were met with excessive force.
It was also the day that Mubarak cut off Internet and cell phone service as many Egyptians decided to join the revolution seeking his ouster.
Some liberal factions are calling Monday the "Monday of Rage," and groups such as the National Salvation Front plan to demonstrate near Cairo's Tahrir Square in memory of those killed two years ago.

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text: Home Politics Closing the Racial Voting Gap Turnout among blacks and Latinos is low compared with white turnout. It's time for a change. By: Edward Wyckoff Williams Posted: Sept. 27 2012 2:47 PM 0 Joe Raedle/Getty Images (The Root) -- Recent polls showing President Barack Obama leading Republican challenger Mitt Romney in key swing states like Ohio, Virginia and North Carolina have the potential to lull Democrats -- and African Americans in particular -- into a false sense of security. Restrictive voter-ID laws passed by Republican legislatures in 23 states in the past few years are not the only factor creating imbalance in America's electoral politics. In fact, these efforts serve only to highlight the deeper, more systemic problems of decreased voter turnout within minority communities. According to a much-talked-about NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll from last month, Obama leads Romney among key constituencies, including African Americans -- 94 percent to 0 percent; Latinos by a margin of 2-to-1; voters under the age of 35, 52 percent to 41 percent; and women, 51 percent to 41 percent. Obama also leads in key battleground states, according to recent polls: Florida (51 percent to 47 percent), Ohio (52 percent to 44 percent) and Virginia, where Obama leads 52 percent to 44 percent among likely voters and 50 percent to 43 percent among registered voters. On its face, these are all positive indicators for Obama: Historically, incumbent presidents who are leading in September before the election are almost assured to win. But this is no ordinary election. Normal rules don't apply. Despite Obama's lead among registered and likely voters, it is impossible to gauge how many of them will succeed in becoming actual voters. The suggestion that Romney isn't getting any portion of the black vote may serve as an interesting talking point for liberal commentators and Obama's campaign staff, but it overlooks a critical issue: the vast number of eligible African-American voters who never cast a ballot. Historically low participation is now aided by disenfranchisement through criminal justice and exacerbated by well-oiled voter-suppression efforts. Those who don't vote at all are the true face of the zero percent, and every nonvoter in November amounts to a de facto ballot for Romney. This is exactly what the GOP is banking on: that too many blacks can't get registered, won't get registered or will fail to make it to the polls. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter. As has been widely reported, the purpose of voter-ID laws has been to restrict the turnout of Obama's Democratic base. Though African Americans and Latinos helped Obama win key states like North Carolina, Virginia, Florida and Ohio in the 2008 contest, his margins remained relatively small. As a recent report from the National Urban League explains, even a slight drop in voter participation among blacks and Latinos will spell victory for the GOP. The historic significance of Obama's potential victory motivated hundreds of thousands to register and vote in 2008. According to a Pew Research report, the overall participation of African Americans was 60 percent in 2004, when Sen. John Kerry ran unsuccessfully against then-President George W. Bush. Page 1 of 3 NEXT PAGE > Powered by Livefyre


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After Isabel Marant unveiled her H&M collection last week, we were pretty certain the impossibly chic designer needed a nap. But, no — Marant did not slow down at all. In fact, she's dropped another little present for us in the form of a lookbook from her diffusion line, Isabel Marant Étoile.
The spring '14 delivery offers a daring mix of prints and patterns that come off effortlessly when paired together. Taken out of a grunge context, the plaid that shows up in multiple looks feels fresh and polished. Zigzag and floral designs are also present in the casual collection, topped off with denim overcoats, graphic sweatshirts, and tailored blazers, while shades of blue compose much of the line's color palette, with subtle hints of red and yellow peeking in seamlessly. Overall, the loose silhouettes bring a light and airy vibe to the lookbook, which feels spot-on for spring. Before the styles become available (and subsequently sell out!), preview them, straight ahead.
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universal life insurance
A form of life insurance that offers flexible premiums, adjustable death benefits, and the ability of the insured to make partial withdrawals from the cash value. Universal life insurance policies generate cash value as the insured's premium payments are invested into the insurer's investment fund. The insurer pays the interest at a rate that is competitive with other investments, such as treasury bills, and the insured may use that interest to pay for his or her life insurance premiums.
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"The universal life insurance policy provided the insured a death benefit and accumulated cash value on a tax-deferred basis. The insurer paid interest at a rate competitive with other investments. Such a policy provided flexibility to the insured because the insured was able to vary the death benefit, premium, and timing of premium payments." Sullivan v. Southland Life Insurance Co., 67 Mass.App.Ct. 439, 440 (Sept. 25, 2006) (Beck, J.).


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The Liberty Flames upset regular season men's basketball champion Charleston Southern 87-76 to win the Big South Conference Tournament, before a crowd of 2,532 at The HTC Center in Conway, South Carolina on Saturday.
Liberty was led by John Caleb Sanders with 27 points. The Flames red hot shooting from three-point range was the difference. Liberty hit 9-of-18 from beyond the arc, and pulled away in the second half.
Charleston Southern's top scorer was Saah Nimley with 18 points. The Buccaneers (19-12) have earned a berth in the NIT.
Liberty (15-20) started the season with an 0-8 record. The Flames lost 20 games during the regular season, but peaked at the right time, winning their final five games, including four in the Big South Tournament, to earn a spot in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2004.
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The 25 year-old (yes, she's lying), started her radio career as an intern at a Long Island radio station and worked her way through the ranks. After two hops across The Long Island Sound, full-time radio experience and various voice-over projects, she landed her dream job working in Market 1 radio and expanding her brand across the country. In addition, Wendy can also be heard on The Weekend Throwdown with Jagger in her "What's Up with Wendy" segment, and as a voice on The Weekend Top 30 Countdown, two nationally syndicated programs.
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April 11, 2013
By JAY REEVES
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The lone survivor of a 1963 Alabama church bombing that killed four black girls said Wednesday she wants millions in compensation for her injuries and won't accept a top congressional award proposed to honor the victims.
Sarah Collins Rudolph, in an interview with The Associated Press, said she feels forgotten 50 years after the blast shocked the nation. Rudolph lost an eye in the Sept. 16, 1963 bombing at Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and says she never got restitution.
"We haven't received anything, and I lost an eye," said Rudolph, who lives north of Birmingham. "They just want to throw a medal at us."
Congress is considering whether to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the four girls who died: 14-year-olds Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, and 11-year-old Denise McNair. Addie Mae was the sister of Rudolph, who was 12 at the time and was in a downstairs washroom with the four girls when the blast occurred. At least two dozen others were injured.
The brother of Cynthia Wesley said he isn't interested in the award either and wants compensation, partly because history didn't even record his sister's name correctly.
U.S. Reps. Terri Sewell, a Democrat, and Spencer Bachus, a Republican, announced a bipartisan effort in January to award the medal to the church bombing victims. The medal represents the highest civilian honor that Congress can bestow. Recipients have ranged from George Washington to civil rights figure Rosa Parks, Pope John Paul II and "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz.
The church bombing shocked the nation and was a galvanizing moment in the civil rights movement.
The five girls were preparing for Sunday services in the washroom near the wall where the bomb was planted outside.
It was more than a decade before any successful prosecutions were brought in the case.
Juries convicted three Ku Klux Klansmen in the bombing years later, and one suspected accomplice died without ever having been charged; one of the four is still in prison and the others are dead.
But Rudolph said she still hasn't gotten justice like other crime victims who receive restitution payments.
"My sister was killed and I lost my eye. Why should I be any different?" said Rudolph, who says she still suffers from painful memories, physical scars and posttraumatic stress syndrome.
Rudolph said she wants compensation "in the millions" for her injuries and the death of Addie Mae, but she hasn't settled on an exact amount.
Fate Morris said he also will refuse the medal and wants compensation like Rudolph for the death of his sister, typically referred to as Cynthia Wesley. Morris said her real name was Cynthia Morris, and no medal will replace the mistake.
"It's a smoke screen to shut us up and make us go away so we'll never be heard from again," Morris told AP.
Morris said his sister was staying with a family named "Wesley" at the time of the bombing to get into a good school, but she still came back to the Morris household on weekends. Authorities mistakenly recorded her last name as "Wesley" and never fixed the error, he said, until the family sought an amended death certificate decades later.
Morris said he vividly recalls hearing the blast that morning and running to the church with friends to help dig through the rubble. He remembers people calling out about finding bodies amid broken bricks but said he left in fear before his sister's remains were found.
Morris, sobbing during an interview, said a friend told him moments later that Cynthia's decapitated remains had been found. He said he's never shaken the pain.
"I left her buried in a pile of bricks. That's all I could think of," he said through tears.
Stephanie Engle, an activist who is publicizing the families' push for compensation, said victims of the bombing deserve reparation just like Japanese Americans who received payments through a $1.6 billion program decades after being held in internment camps during World War II.
Birmingham's entire Jim Crow structure of racial segregation created a climate of fear and hate that resulted in the girls' deaths, she said. Engle said "medals, statues, and 'pomp-and-circumstance ceremonies' are not a substitution for justice, moral, and historical accountability."
Press aides to Sewell and Bachus did not return messages seeking comment on the status of the legislation for the medals.
The Alabama Crime Victims' Compensation Commission helps crime victims and families with expenses stemming from a crime, but Executive Director Cassie Jones said state law does not allow it to address crimes that occurred before the agency was created in 1984. She said it doesn't matter if the conviction occurred after 1984, as happened in this case. "We are not able to compensate anyone where there was a crime before it became an agency," she said.
She said the Justice Department has a program to assist crime victims, but she doesn't know how far back it can go.
Robert Sedler, a law professor at Wayne State University in Detroit who has litigated major civil rights cases, said Congress has the power to approve compensation to victims such as Rudolph.
"These people are victims of a long and tragic history of racial discrimination in the southern states and Congress on behalf of the people can provide compensation for the victims," he said.
As for the church bombing victims and families, Sedler said their argument is strengthened by the fact that Alabama authorities were nor protecting the rights of blacks at the time. He noted that Birmingham's public safety commissioner then was the notoriously racist Bull Connor.
"Violence was encouraged," he said. "Local law enforcement officials did not enforce the law to protect minority rights... The people who blew up the church, they believed that they could do it with impunity."
The viciousness of the bombing drew national attention to Birmingham, where authorities used fire hoses and police dogs to turn back black marchers months earlier the same year. Congress passed the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act within a year of the bombing, which came to symbolize the depth of racial hatred in the South.
Rudolph's comments come a week after Alabama lawmakers address another major episode in civil rights history. Legislators voted to allow posthumous pardons for the "Scottsboro Boys," nine black teens who were wrongly convicted of raping two white women more than 80 years ago.
April 04, 2013
By JEAN H. LEE
Associated Press
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Ratcheting up the rhetoric, North Korea warned early Thursday that its military has been cleared to wage an attack on the U.S. using "smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear" weapons.
The Pentagon, meanwhile, said in Washington that it will deploy a missile defense system to the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam to strengthen regional protection against a possible attack from North Korea. The defense secretary said the U.S. was seeking to defuse the situation.
Despite the rhetoric, analysts say they do not expect a nuclear attack by North Korea, which knows the move could trigger a destructive, suicidal war that no one in the region wants.
The strident warning from Pyongyang is latest in a series of escalating threats from North Korea, which has railed for weeks against joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises taking place in South Korea and has expressed anger over tightened sanctions for a February nuclear test.
Following through on one threat Wednesday, North Korean border authorities refused to allow entry to South Koreans who manage jointly run factories in the North Korean city of Kaesong.
Washington calls the military drills, which this time have incorporated fighter jets and nuclear-capable stealth bombers, routine annual exercises between the allies. Pyongyang calls them rehearsals for a northward invasion.
The foes fought on opposite sides of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953. The divided Korean Peninsula remains in a technical state of war six decades later, and Washington keeps 28,500 troops in South Korea to protect its ally.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Washington was doing all it can to defuse the situation, echoing comments a day earlier by Secretary of State John Kerry.
"Some of the actions they've taken over the last few weeks present a real and clear danger and threat to the interests, certainly of our allies, starting with South Korea and Japan and also the threats that the North Koreans have leveled directly at the United States regarding our base in Guam, threatened Hawaii, threatened the West Coast of the United States," Hagel said Wednesday.
In Pyongyang, the military statement said North Korean troops had been authorized to counter U.S. "aggression" with "powerful practical military counteractions," including nuclear weapons.
"We formally inform the White House and Pentagon that the ever-escalating U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK and its reckless nuclear threat will be smashed by the strong will of all the united service personnel and people and cutting-edge smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear strike means," an unnamed spokesman from the General Bureau of the Korean People's Army said in a statement carried by state media, referring to North Korea by its formal name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. "The U.S. had better ponder over the prevailing grave situation."
However, North Korea's nuclear strike capabilities remain unclear.
Pyongyang is believed to be working toward building an atomic bomb small enough to mount on a long-range missile. Long-range rocket launches designed to send satellites into space in 2009 and 2012 were widely considered covert tests of missile technology, and North Korea has conducted three underground nuclear tests, most recently in February.
"I don't believe North Korea has to capacity to attack the United States with nuclear weapons mounted on missiles, and won't for many years. Its ability to target and strike South Korea is also very limited," nuclear scientist Siegfried Hecker, a senior fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, said this week.
"And even if Pyongyang had the technical means, why would the regime want to launch a nuclear attack when it fully knows that any use of nuclear weapons would result in a devastating military response and would spell the end of the regime?" he said in answers posted to CISAC's website.
In Seoul, a senior government official said Tuesday that it wasn't clear how advanced North Korea's nuclear weapons capabilities are. But he also noted fallout from any nuclear strike on Seoul or beyond would threaten Pyongyang as well, making a strike unlikely. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly to the media.
North Korea maintains that it needs to build nuclear weapons to defend itself against the United States. On Monday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un led a high-level meeting of party officials who declared building the economy and "nuclear armed forces" as the nation's two top priorities.
April 04, 2013
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Wednesday it was deploying a missile defense shield to Guam to protect the U.S. and its allies in the region in response to increasingly hostile rhetoric from North Korea. The North renewed its threat to launch a nuclear attack on the United States.
The threat issued by the General Staff of the Korean People's Army capped a week of psychological warfare and military muscle moves by both sides that have rattled the region.
On Wednesday, the Pentagon announced it will deploy a land-based, high-altitude missile defense system to Guam to strengthen the Asia-Pacific region's protections against a possible attack.
Pyongyang, for its part, said that America's ever-escalating hostile policy toward North Korea "will be smashed" by the North's nuclear strike and the "merciless operation" of its armed forces.
"The U.S. had better ponder over the prevailing grave situation," said the translated statement, which was issued before the Pentagon announced plans to send a missile defense shield to Guam.
The Pentagon had no immediate reaction to the latest statement, but earlier Wednesday Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel labeled North Korea's rhetoric as a real, clear danger and threat to the U.S. and its Asia-Pacific allies. And he said the U.S. is doing all it can to defuse the situation, echoing comments a day earlier by Secretary of State John Kerry.
"Some of the actions they've taken over the last few weeks present a real and clear danger and threat to the interests, certainly of our allies, starting with South Korea and Japan and also the threats that the North Koreans have leveled directly at the United States regarding our base in Guam, threatened Hawaii, threatened the West Coast of the United States," Hagel said.
He said he believes that the U.S. has had a "measured, responsible, serious responses to those threats."
Deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System is the latest step the U.S. has taken to bolster forces in the region in a far-reaching show of force aimed at countering the North Korean threat.
In recent months, North Korea has taken a series of actions Washington deemed provocative, including an underground nuclear test in February and a rocket launch in December that put a satellite into space and demonstrated mastery of some of the technologies needed to produce a long-range nuclear missile. Then, several weeks ago, the North threatened to pre-emptively attack the U.S.
In response, the Pentagon announced it would enhance missile defenses based on the U.S. West Coast, and it highlighted the deployment of B-52 and B-2 bombers, as well as two F-22 stealth fighters, to South Korea as part of an annual military exercise.
As the exchange of rhetoric grew, U.S. officials this week said the Navy would keep the USS Decatur, a destroyer armed with missile defense systems, near the Korean peninsula for an unspecified period of time. Another destroyer, the USS John S. McCain, was shifted to the waters off the southwest coast of the Korean peninsula.
Tensions have flared many times in the six decades since a truce halted the 1950-53 Korean War, but the stakes are higher now that a defiant North Korea appears to have moved closer to building a nuclear bomb that could not only threaten the South and other U.S. allies in Asia but possibly, one day, even reach U.S. territory.
Even without nuclear arms, the communist North poses enough artillery within range of Seoul to devastate large parts of the capital before U.S. and South Korea could fully respond. The U.S. has about 28,500 troops in the South, and it could call on an array of air, ground and naval forces to reinforce the peninsula from elsewhere in Asia and the Pacific.
U.S. officials have said that the Pentagon's military response to Pyongyang's threats has so far been aimed more at assuring South Korea and other allies in the region that America is committed to their security. U.S. military leaders also have said that despite the escalating rhetoric, they have seen nothing to suggest that North Korea is making any military moves to back up its threats.
Hagel told an audience at the National Defense University that there is a path to peace on the troubled Korean peninsula, but it doesn't include making nuclear threats or taking provocative actions.
The land-based THAAD missile defense system includes a truck-mounted launcher, tracking radar, interceptor missiles, and an integrated fire control system. The Pentagon said the system will boost defenses for American citizens in Guam, a U.S. territory, and U.S. forces stationed there.
April 04, 2013
By JOHN HEILPRIN and
Associated Press
GENEVA (AP) — It is one of the cosmos' most mysterious unsolved cases: dark matter. It is supposedly what holds the universe together. We can't see it, but scientists are pretty sure it's out there.
Led by a dogged, Nobel Prize-winning gumshoe who has spent 18 years on the case, scientists put a $2 billion detector aboard the International Space Station to try to track down the stuff. And after two years, the first evidence came in Wednesday: tantalizing cosmic footprints that seem to have been left by dark matter.
But the evidence isn't enough to declare the case closed. The footprints could have come from another, more conventional suspect: a pulsar, or a rotating, radiation-emitting star.
The Sam Spade in the investigation, physicist and Nobel laureate Sam Ting of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said he expects a more definitive answer in a matter of months. He confidently promised: "There is no question we're going to solve this problem."
"It's a tantalizing hint," said California Institute of Technology physicist Sean Carroll, who was not part of the team. "It's a sign of something." But he can't quite say what that something is. It doesn't eliminate the other suspect, pulsars, he added.
The results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, or AMS, are significant because dark matter is thought to make up about a quarter of all the matter in the universe.
"We live in a sea of dark matter," said Michael Salamon, who runs the AMS program for the U.S. Energy Department. Unraveling the mystery of dark matter could help scientists better understand the composition of our universe and, more particularly, what holds galaxies together.
Ting announced the findings in Geneva at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, the particle physics laboratory known as CERN.
The 7-ton detector with a 3-foot magnet ring at its core was sent into space in 2011 in a shuttle mission commanded by astronaut Mark Kelly while his wife, then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. The device is transmitting its data to CERN, where it is being analyzed.
For 80 years scientists have theorized the existence of dark matter but have never actually observed it directly. They have looked for it in accelerators that smash particles together at high speed. No luck. They've looked deep underground with special detectors. Again no luck.
Then there's a third way: looking in space for the results of rare dark matter collisions. If particles of dark matter crash and annihilate each other, they should leave a footprint of positrons — the anti-matter version of electrons — at high energy levels. That's what Ting and AMS are looking for.
They found some. But they could also be signs of pulsars, Ting and others concede. What's key is the curve of the plot of those positrons. If the curve is one shape, it points to dark matter. If it's another, it points to pulsars. Ting said they should know the curve — and the suspect — soon.
The instrument will be measuring cosmic rays, where the footprints are found, until 2020 or so.
Other scientists praised the results and looked forward to more.
"This is an 80-year-old detective story and we are getting close to the end," said University of Chicago physicist Michael Turner, one of the giants in the field of dark matter. "This is a tantalizing clue and further results from AMS could finish the story."
March 28, 2013
By Edith Billups
Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper
Audri Scott Williams walked thousands of miles to promote peace, now she's on the move again, this time to bring attention to the environment.
Williams, 57, is a little more than two weeks into a six-week walk from Washington D.C. to Tuskegee, Ala., her home. She struck out with a group of supporters March 1 from the Martin Luther King. Jr. Memorial in Northwest Washington. She expects to conclude the walk on April 13. She is collaborating with the Heal the Atmosphere Association, a Tuskegee-based organization, to raise environmental awareness.
"We want to raise awareness of the damage being done to the planet through pollution. We also want to shift the consciousness about Mother Earth so that all realize that we are in relationship with her and all things," Williams said.
From 2005-2009, Williams, a former Maryland resident, led seven others in a walk around the world in the Trail of Dreams World Peace Walk. They traveled to 17 countries. The current walk, dubbed the Out of Washington Comes RESPECT (Real Environmentally Safe Practices—Embracing Change Together) Walk. Two members of The Trail of Dreams World Peace team, Karen Watson, 62, and Tony Shina, 51, are joining Williams. Other walkers include Charles and Harriet Davis, founders of The Heal the Atmosphere Association; students from Tuskegee University. The youngest walker is 6-year-old Elijah Sims.
A grandmother of 12 who holds a bachelor's degree in criminology and a master's in indigenous science, Williams resigned as dean of continuing education and community services from Charles County Community College in 1993 to fulfill a greater calling—walk for peace, healing and reconciliation.
"In 1993, I had a heart attack," she said. "The cardiologist said I was lucky. He said I was here to do something and I needed to figure what that was if I wanted to be here. I knew what he meant. After the heart attack, I made a commitment to follow the path of my dreams. My dreams led me to walk to affect peace and healing in our relationships because how we are in relationship to ourselves, our families, our communities and mother earth will determine the fate of humankind," she added.
Williams noted that in 12 years, she estimates that she has walked more than 50,000 miles. Because of the young walkers accompanying the group, the walkers are covering eight to 10 miles a day, "but our goal is 40 miles a day," she said.
Along the way, the group will stop to give talks on peace and the need to protect the environment.
"We are walking in solidarity and bringing attention to environmental issues that impact poor and indigenous people around the world,' she said.
Her experiences have taken her on four life-changing journeys, including The Trail of Dreams World Peace Walk for Peace on six continents where she visited sacred sites, engaged in sacred ceremonies, and connected with communities, Williams said. She noted that leaders throughout history, including Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandi and Harriet Tubman, have used walking to inspire change. The walk route includes Richmond, Va., Greenville, N.C., Atlanta and Montgomery, Ala. Organizers invite community groups to provide food and sleeping accommodations.
"Walking is powerful and transformational," she said. "I walk because the power of love is present and it sweeps away the lies that keep us blind and brings us face-to-face with our deepest truths—about ourselves and the world around us. I choose to engage and change the world, one step at a time. If one person's life is healed or transformed because they walked with us then my prayers are answered because they very well may be (the) leader the world is waiting for."
For more than a decade, The Heal the Atmosphere Association has offered "green education," officials said. In Tuskegee, it created Shanti Villa, a model green community that attracts young environmentalist and artists who are committed to healing the planet. The organization also has been leading small walks in the community for years to raise environmental awareness, authorities said.
"From my standpoint, our survival as a human species depends on us recognizing and honoring Mother Earth," she said.
Williams said the Davises, who founded Shanti Villa with their three sons, inspired this latest journey. "We all were talking about environmental issues and decided to start our walk in D.C. because it symbolically represents the political powers of our country and we wanted to connect with that to make a statement," she said.


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Heh, to be accused of being "nonsense" and "total gibberish," it might have been the worst piece of writing to ever be recorded in the history of SPCNET, at least in Mr. Moderator's mind.
Dugu Qiubai's life was epitomized by regret and loneliness because he couldn't find a worthy adversary. I just always imagined when the guy finally lights up, is when someone will have done something astonishing to his mighty record. If all it took was.... lasting a couple more stances than the next best guy, then it falls way short of my hope of the moment that Demonic Swordsman has been waiting for all his life.
But I do admit: it was a leap of faith to suggest that Ren Woxing would have made Dugu Qiubai block a stance. Yeah, Ren Woxing would have made Dugu Qiubai extremely happy, but who knows what else might have made him happy. All we can say is that Ren Woxing was near the very best calibre of fighters that Dugu Qiubai ever encountered.


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Lexie confronted Stefano at the mansion for his instrumental role in the hospital lockdown and how it caused problems for her in her job. She told her father that she resigned, and that Abe quit his job, too, because people like Stefano are never prosecuted for their crimes. The Phoenix insisted he was innocent. Lexie warned Stefano that Abe still planned to come after him. He pointed out that Abe had come after him many times before and failed.
Lexie insisted her husband wouldn't fail this time. She also suggested that her father leave town. He yelled that his children all turned on him. She pointed out that he had done it to them first. She told him she never wanted to see him again and warned him to stay away from Theo. He asked how Theo was doing and offered to get the best treatment money could buy for his grandson. "You disgust me," Lexie said, then left.
At the Brady Pub, Bo asked Max what he was thinking threatening to kill Trent in front of a restaurant full of people. Bo advised him to cool down and apologize to Trent. Max refused, though Kayla agreed with Bo. Melanie stormed over to her father and told him that she hated him and would kill him with her bare hands if she could. She told him that Max saved her from being raped by Claude. Max joined the family discussion, where Trent accused his son of turning Melanie against him. Steve and Bo intervened. Caroline angrily ordered Trent to leave, calling him a disgrace. Melanie ran out. Max wanted to follow her, but Steve held him back. Trent told the group that Melanie was a pathological liar and always had been, which got Max all worked up again. Trent left. Nicole and Victor walked in to catch the tail end of the drama. Nick went outside to comfort Melanie. Chelsea came upon them in an embrace and went inside. Trent strolled over next and asked to talk to Melanie. She said okay. Nick went back into the Pub. Trent
apologized for what happened in France, then asked Melanie where he stood with Claude and did she know whether or not Trent still owed him money. An incredulous Melanie told her father that Claude was in jail and probably blamed him for everything. They exchanged more angry words. Max broke up their conversation.
Bo and Hope calmed down Caroline and asked her to stay away from Trent. They spied Victor and pushed Nicole to tell Victor the truth. She agreed to, but asked for privacy. Bo excused himself and returned to the table to tell Hope. Nicole took Victor outside and told him the whole truth, that she was once and still married to Trent. She insisted she didn't know their divorce hadn't gone through, but Vic doubted her. Nicole told the story of how she came to be with Trent, which included his abuse. Vic laughed, then explained that her sob story wasn't going to move him to the point where he would let her keep his money. "Prepare yourself, my dear. You are about to become dirt poor again," he smiled. Nicole hurried off, explaining she was going to be sick. Vic went back inside. When Nicole returned, Victor told her he planned to get every penny back from her. "Trent, you are so going to pay for this," she said to herself after.
Stephanie sat down with her parents and discussed Trent and Max and what happened in France. Steve worried that he wasn't there to protect Steph and said he would be next time. She assured him that there wouldn't be a next time. She also told her parents that Mel was trouble. Chelsea caught up with Steph after. Steph told her about the Trent/Max standoff she missed. Chelsea made a crack about Melanie. Steph told her it was okay to admit she was jealous. Chelsea said she wasn't, she just didn't think Melanie was good for Nick. After, Chelsea walked over to Nick, who told her he was determined to get Trent away from Melanie.
Caroline sat with Bo and Max, still reeling from how despicable Trent is. She told her sons that she would do anything to protect them. After, Max made formal introductions between Caroline and Melanie and they discussed living arrangements.
Victor informed Bo and Hope that Nicole told him the truth, but he was still worried about Kate. An alarmed Chelsea overheard and asked what was going on with her grandmother. Vic explained that Kate was getting tests for her cough. Chelsea decided she would call Kate in the morning. Chelsea then went to chat with Nick and asked if he wanted some company, but he said no. He walked out of the Pub and spied Trent on the phone. Back inside, Bo asked if Victor would file fraud charges against Nicole, but he said no, because he did believe that Nicole was Trent's unwitting victim. Victor left. Bo asked Chelsea to tell him and Hope what exactly went down in France. When Chelsea got to the part about Nick getting shot, Hope asked Chelsea if she still loved her ex.
Trent came to Brady Pub to see Melanie; they chatted outside. He claimed he wanted to clear the air, but it quickly turned into an argument over Claude. Trent pointed out that since Melanie acted like a whore, he decided to treat her like one. She tried to slap him, but he caught her arm. She took off. Nick confronted Trent after, threatening to go to the board of regions at Salem U and tell them everything about their sleazy dean of physics. Trent countered by reminding Nick that Max did most of the work on his research
project and he would tell the board that, too. They had a stand off; Nick warned Trent to stay away from Melanie. "You mess with her again, you're a dead man," Nick warned. Melanie overheard and noted to herself that things might be better if Trent was dead.
Hope met with Lexie for coffee at the Pub and they talked about her resigning as chief of staff and talked about Theo. The conversation turned to Abe's resignation. Hope noted that Abe quitting the force was noble. Lexie said she supported him, but worried about what he would do next. Hope said he'd be perfect at a private security firm and in the meantime, he could enjoy some time off.
Roman and Bo went to the Carver house and gave Abe a rundown of the robberies that had taking place around Salem. They were trying to get him to come back, implying that crime was already going up as a result of him quitting. Abe thought Roman should take the commish job, but Ro pointed out that he was part of the "problem" during the hospital lockdown, so he wasn't a candidate. Abe said he had friends on the city council and could call in a few favors to get Roman an endorsement. Roman still said no. Abe suggested Bo take the position. Bo said he was more of a detective and less suit and tie guy. Roman was called to the station and left. Abe "ordered" Bo to take the job, but Bo smiled that Abe wasn't his boss anymore and couldn't order him around. He suggested Abe come up with a new candidate. Bo then got a call from Roman, summoning him to the station because the Mayor had chosen Abe's successor and was about to announce it. Bo took off, just as Lexie came home. She told Bo that Hope was headed to the station, too.
At the station, the Mayor held a press conference and announced that he had chosen Hope as Abe's successor. Hope was stunned, as was Bo. Back at the Carver house, Lexie noted to Abe that Hope didn't mention anything when she saw her earlier at the Brady Pub. Abe admitted he called in favors to get Hope the gig.
Anna and Marlena chatted about John at the Pub. Marlena admitted that John's erratic behavior and headaches worried her. Anna cautioned Marlena against breaking things off with John. She admitted that it may be an old-fashioned notion, but that Marlena should "stand by her man." Marlena confessed that she was lonely for John and for the life they shared, but that she couldn't risk investing in a man who was so emotionally unavailable. "You were the perfect couple once," Anna said wistfully, hoping there was still a chance. Doc Evans said he was too back and forth for her.
John walked into the living room at the manse to find his brother reading to Sami and EJ's children. John had the tots taken to a "less-threatening environment." John had a headache; Stefano offered to get him some ibuprofen, but John wouldn't take pills from him. The brothers faced off over who is rightfully entitled to the DiMera empire. Stefano said it should be him, since he turned the shipping business into a money-maker and made the company thrive. "The empire is mine; no point in fighting it," John declared. Stefano vowed to protect his empire, so he could protect his
family. Stefano then asked why John needed his money when he had the Alamain fortune. John said he liked fighting for what is rightfully his. He asked Stefano to sign over the house to him, but the Phoenix just laughed. "I'll do no such thing," Stefano announced, explaining he was leaving the house to his grandchildren. He suggested John get his own house, but John said he wasn't going anywhere. John walked out of the room. Dr. Rolf came in and reported to Stefano that John's headaches were a sign that the end was near for John and that his infrastructure would overload irrevocably.... Anna called John and asked her to meet him to chat.
At the station, Hope was still reeling from Mayor Marino's announcement that she would be named Salem's new police commissioner and told him she needed to think about it. He replied that he would need an answer by the end of the day. Bo and Roman congratulated Hope and Bo said she was exactly what Salem needed. Hope looked unsure. Roman cautioned that if Hope turned down the job, Marino would appoint one of his lackeys, which would make it harder to nail the DiMeras. Alone with Bo, Hope said that she agreed she would be a great commish, but simply didn't want to do it. "Even if it means stopping DiMera?" Bo asked. Hope chided him for trying to guilt her into taking the position. She explained that she would miss being away from Ciara and it would be awkward to be Bo's boss. "The thought actually kind of turns me on," he smirked. After, Hope called the Mayor and turned down the job offer. Bo told her he loves her and respects her decision.
Stefano noted to Dr. Rolf that John was drunk with power. Rolf said not for long, as John's brain was like a time bomb. Stefano noted that John was merely a pawn in his plan; his main target was Marlena, whom he planned to destroy once and for all.
John met Anna at the Pub, where she tried to shake some sense into him
regarding Marlena. "Marlena is going to divorce you," she exclaimed. During their chat, John had an episode and Anna's face became blurry. He appeared to pass out standing up, then came to. An alarmed Anna asked if he was okay. He insisted he was, then told her he would urge Marlena to reconsider the divorce. After, his condition deteriorated and he fell to the ground. Anna called for someone to call 911 while John convulsed on the floor.
Nicole ran into Trent outside of the Brady Pub. He was looking for Melanie. She told him that the truth about their marriage came out and that he owes her the money she lost from Victor. Trent laughed at her, noting she had had plenty of time to divorce him. Nicole hurried off and got sick. When she returned, she heard sirens and Trent explained that John had been taken to the hospital. They began to bicker and Nicole called him a pig. "I may be a pig, but I bet I could still make you squeal," Trent sneered and grabbed her. Max came upon them and ordered Trent to let go of Nicole. Nicole told Max she was okay and hurried inside, where she again got sick to her stomach. Max advised his father to leave Salem — or else he'd kill him. "Ooh, Maxie, I'm shaking in my boots," teased the dean. Max warned Trent not to push him.
At the hospital, Marlena talked to Kayla about John's condition and his
headaches. She also confessed that she thinks about John obsessively "every minute of the day," but she vowed to quit him. After, Kayla came upon Daniel berating a nurse. The nurse apologized and scurried away. Kayla told him not to yell, but Daniel didn't respond well to her advisement. He walked off and ran right into Chelsea, who was there to get some information about Kate. Daniel told her he couldn't say anything about a patient of his. He then apologized for what happened between them, but she didn't want to hear it. Later, Daniel apologized to the nurse he excoriated earlier. She gave him Kate's X-ray. He then called Kate and asked her to come in to the hospital.
Kayla entered John's hospital cubicle to find an irate patient. While she ordered tests, Anna called Marlena and summoned her to the trauma center. Marlena rushed in and Anna reported that John was in radiology getting a brain scan. Doc Evans ran there. Kayla was studying an X-ray of John's brain on a light board. "Oh, my God," she whispered to herself. Marlena checked on John, who pointed out that it showed she didn't despise him. "I could never despise you," Marlena said, then left. Kayla showed her the X-ray, which Marlena was unable to interpret. "I've never seen anything like this," Marlena said. John decided to check himself out of the hospital. Kayla told him she had more tests to run; John asked if he was dying. She admitted she didn't know what was wrong with him. He decided to check out anyway.
Marlena confronted Stefano at the DiMera mansion and demanded the disk containing John's memories. "Memories on a disk. That sounds like science fiction to me," pooh-poohed the Phoenix. Doc Evans implored him to help, even pulling the brother card. "Half-brother," Stefano corrected. He then told Marlena that John's fate was sealed years ago and there was nothing either or them could do about it. Marlena left. Rolf came in and told his boss that John's brain was about to explode and it is at that time that he can be reprogrammed as Stefano's pawn. "I don't think we need him for that anymore," he said, noting that they'd find someone new to play with. Back at the hospital, Marlena vowed to save John.
At his hotel, Trent got busy with a hooker. After she left, he got a call from Claude. A surprised Trent apologized for Melanie's behavior in Marseille. Claude told Trent that he owed him money — or another visit from Melanie.
Melanie and Max talked about Trent outside of the Brady Pub. She told him that she wanted to leave Salem, but he said he'd make their father leave. Mel's cell phone rang; it was a text-message from Trent, asking her to come to his hotel because it was urgent. Max said he'd go with her and they'd confront him together. They headed to the Salem Inn, where Trent admitted he was in trouble and needed her help with Claude; otherwise, he'd be killed. "Oh, wow. That just breaks my heart," Max snarked. Trent begged for help and made an impassioned speech about how he was going to change for Melanie. She got teary and asked if it was true. Seeing her soften made Max mad. He ordered Trent to stay away from Mel.
At Chez Rouge, Lucas and Philip toasted to family and Lucas being back at Titan. Chloe joined them, which surprised Lucas because she was supposed to be babysitting. She said she got a sitter, which upset him. "I thought you'd be happy to see me," she explained. Nicole sauntered up next and asked to sit. Lucas got up and gave her his seat, since he had to go check on his daughter. Nicole told Philip she needed his help. She opted not to have
wine, which prompted Philip to note that "temperatures in hell must have hit an all-time low." Lucas returned to the table and reported that Gabrielle the babysitter said that Allie was fine and watching a movie. Chloe bristled at Lucas's implication that she was being reckless with the tot and stormed off. Nicole followed. Philip told Lucas he was being a little hard on Chloe. Alone with Nicole, Chloe confessed that she wasn't sure she was ready for the family situation. "I'm starting to feel trapped," she confided. "I'm beginning to think I want out." Chloe said she wasn't ready to be a mother yet, then realized that she was being insensitive since Nicole couldn't have kids. Nicole said it was okay. They shared a warm moment. Nic urged her to be honest with Lucas. At that moment, Lucas came over and apologized for snapping earlier and being a neurotic dad. He asked Chloe to dance. On the dance floor, Lucas went on about how he loved having Chloe in his and Allie's life so she couldn't tell him that she wasn't ready to really be in it.
Nicole returned to the table to talk to Philip. She asked him to intervene with Victor, but he said he couldn't. He added that she probably shouldn't have married Trent in the first place. Nicole vowed Dean Robbins would pay, but blamed Bo for forcing her hand with Victor. She then wished a horrible death on Trent and said if she had the means, she would do it herself. Lucas left to relieve the babysitter. Nicole exited, too, leaving Chloe and Philip
alone together.
Nick approached Chelsea at the Brady Pub. She opened up to him about Daniel — and Kate. He tried to give her advice on how to handle the situation. "I'm lucky I have you... Although I don't really have you anymore, do I?" she said wistfully. Nick noted that she was being a little possessive and had a tone in her voice where it came to Melanie. She explained that Melanie was trouble. "People who date cheating doctors shouldn't throw stones," Nick noted, then chided her for trying to make him her consolation prize. She said she cared about him and wanted to warn him about Melanie. Nick insisted Melanie was an okay girl.
At the Salem Inn, Max grabbed his father and wouldn't let go. He assured Trent that he was going to die, then began beating him up. A panicked Melanie called Nick and arrived (with Chelsea) and pulled Max off of Trent. Max yelled that Trent was trying to use Melanie to pay off his debts again. Trent denied it, saying he only needed cash. Nick said he had cash, the grant money. Nick figured Trent would take the money and leave them alone. "Leave?" replied Trent. "Oh, no. I'm not going anywhere." A weepy Melanie excoriated her father for being a monster. Trent told both of his children that they were worthless losers and he was better off without them. Max ushered Melanie out and promised her that Trent would leave Salem that night.
At the station, Roman worked on a cold case of an 8-year-old's kidnapping. Bo told his brother that Hope thought Roman was mad at her for not taking the commissioner's job. Bo tried to explain that Ciara was Hope's priority. Roman noted that he turned down the job too, but was concerned about who the mayor was going to put in the job. Roman pointed out that Bo would be an ideal candidate and urged him to put his hat in the ring. He then picked up the phone to call the mayor's office and recommend his brother, which annoyed Bo. Roman assured him that it was the right thing to do and he would know it when and if he got the job. Caroline arrived and told her sons she was worried about Max. Bo and Roman said they would talk to him. She said that they'd have to do more than talk — she wanted them to urge Trent to leave Salem. They said their hands were tied. "Well, mine aren't," she declared.
Kate went to the hospital to see Daniel and rambled about how well Hearth and Home is doing. He finally interrupted her to point out that he called her down there because she has an illness. Kate was in denial that anything was wrong with her. Daniel said he didn't have a diagnosis yet, but that it was serious. Kate told him that maybe it wasn't and maybe she had allergies. Chelsea arrived in time to hear Kate say she had allergies and accused her grandmother of making herself seem sicker to be close to Daniel. Daniel told her she was out of line. Kate added that she and Daniel had been honest with Chelsea and what happened between them was over. Chelsea asked about the conversation she walked in on, thinking it had to do with their sexual relationship, not Kate's illness. Daniel tried to set her straight, but Kate asked to speak to her granddaughter alone. Kate began coughing and Chelsea softened, admitting she doesn't want her to be sick. Kate cried and asked Chelsea to cut her some slack. Chelsea teared up, too. Kate insisted that she never wanted to hurt Chelsea and that what happened with Daniel was a fluke and a bad decision. She apologized for hurting Chelsea. Chelsea still wasn't ready to forgive her, but when Kate began coughing, Chelsea urged her to see the doctor. Kate told Chelsea to forgive Daniel and said she would stop seeing him altogether if it would help. Chelsea said nothing would help and left, passing Daniel on the way. He tried to stop her to talk, but Kate told him to let her go. Kate told Daniel that all was not forgiven with Chelsea. He had Kate's report and broke the news to her that he conferred with another doctor and they both concluded she has lung cancer.
Nicole rushed into the Brady Pub to see EJ and fill him in on what happened with Victor and the divorce settlement. She blamed Bo for being a blabbermouth. She said she hated him and her "dearly departed husband." EJ asked her what she meant by the latter comment. She played it off, saying that Trent was clearly on the way out now that everyone knew that he tried to pimp out Melanie. They discussed Victor's money; Nicole insisted she earned every penny. He said he knew, but the law wasn't on her side. Nevertheless, he felt they could still pursue a case. Suddenly, she got sick and rushed off.
Bo and Hope dined at Chez Rouge with Steve and Kayla. Maggie congratulated Hope on being named commissioner, but Hope revealed she turned the job down. Steve asked if Bo would throw his hat in the ring. He surprised them by revealing that he already did. Everyone was thrilled and ready to celebrate. Bo explained that everyone browbeat him into taking the position — and the pay hike was a plus. Mayor Marino was there and overheard Bo talking. He reminded Bo that he didn't have the job yet and the celebrating was premature. Bo clarified that he didn't think he had the job, and he was happy to be considered. Marino said that Bo would be considered with the other candidates and walked off. Bo worried that he wasn't going to get the job, especially with his recent investigation by Internal Affairs. The foursome enjoyed their meal. After, Kayla and Steve headed home to Joe while Bo suggested to Hope that they visit Shawn's grave because he wanted his father's blessing about the new position.
Maggie was excited by the "green" changes she had made at the restaurant and how she hoped to be certified officially by the Green Restaurant Association. She showed Mickey the Web site dinegreen.com, the happily gave him a smooch.
Melanie tried to order a drink at Chez Rouge, but the bartender wouldn't serve her. She pulled Trent's wallet out of her bag, but nearly dropped it when Nick rushed in, apologizing for being late. She said she had just arrived, too, because she was taking care of something. He vaguely said that he was, too. Nick asked Mel if she had heard from Trent. She said no. They spied Maggie and Mickey kissing. "Old people sucking face. Gross," she said. He introduced his aunt and uncle to Mel and asked what they were celebrating. Maggie told them about the green certification. They noticed Nick's hand was bruised. He claimed he hurt it in France, but Melanie said she didn't remember that happening. Mickey pointed out that the injury looked fresh.
Max returned to his room, sporting a bloody shirt that he quickly took off. Stephanie came by so he hid the shirt and put a new one on to answer the door. She told him she was worried with him after what happened with Trent. They made love. After, he went to take a shower and she noticed scratches and bruises on his back. She gasped aloud, asking if she did that to him. "You're a real tiger," he joked and went to the bathroom. She went to grab her cell phone and spied his bloody shirt.
Caroline visited Shawn's grave and talked to him about how much she missed him, especially now with everything that was happening with Max. "He needs his real father. That's you, Shawn," she cried. Caroline revealed to Shawn that she "took care" of Trent and that he wouldn't be bothering Max anymore. After she confessed what she did to Trent, she got up to leave, but heard a noise and called out to ask who was there. Bo and Hope arrived at the cemetery and ran into two cops on duty. They asked if Bo was going after the commish job. Hope joked that cops were the biggest gossips. Inside the cemetery, Trent walked toward Caroline, then fell on top of her with a knife sticking out of her back. She screamed and pulled the knife out, just as Bo and Hope and the cops approached her.
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