James Dillon, 26, pleaded not guilty in Edgartown District Court Thursday at an arraignment on charges of threat to commit a crime and witness intimidation, two counts each. The charges stem from allegations he told an Oak Bluffs Police officer he would shoot him in the face and that he made threatening 911 calls. Cape […]
The Vineyard Cribbage Club met on Wednesday to play the fifth week of our summer league. There were 22 players, and the results were: First place, Bo Picard with a 11/5 +89 card Second place, Roger McGary with a 11/5 +22 card Third place, Ron Ferreira with a 10/5 +62 card Fourth place, Mary Alice […]
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Some 30 years ago, the world appeared to be entering a better place. From the end of World War II until the fall of the Berlin Wall, Cold War tensions had reached at times a breaking point. But with good leaders focused on the good of their people, and good people yearning for freedom, the doomsday clock paused. It seemed like we could all exhale.
Unfortunately, the world is not entirely full of good leaders and good people. So, the unthinkable happened in the summer of 1990. Saddam Hussein, the “Butcher of Baghdad,” chose to invade Kuwait. The man who began and fought a bloody war of attrition with Iran for eight years was emboldened to test the United Nations, the diplomatic and political stability of his neighbors, and the military power of a U.S.-led coalition that would ultimately liberate Kuwait.
word is back from a wichita jury. it decided, parentally, in just minutes whether scott roeder will be acquitted or found guilty of killing dr. george tiller. he confessed in open court that he put a handgun to the doctor s head and pulled the trigger because he performed late-term abortions. he insists he had to do this to save unborn babies. both sides agree, the facts of the case aren t in dispute here. looking up again was shocked, horrified, and could not believe what he was seeing. what he was seeing was that man that offended taking a .22 caliber semiautomatic handgun and placing it to the forehead of dr. tiller and at point blank range with the steel barrel pressed into his flesh fired a shot resulting in dr. tiller s death. in addition to the charges brought by the state of murder, it brought two additional counts of aggravated assault. relative to those counts, the evidence is also clear. from all witnesses that scott roeder walked into that church to stop georg