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Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Texas prosecutor and wife shot multiple times: investigation
By Chris Francescani
KAUFMAN, Texas (Reuters) - The Texas prosecutor and his wife who were shot at their home on Saturday each suffered multiple gunshot wounds, and sheriff's deputies found cartridge casings next to their bodies, according to an affidavit reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday.
District Attorney Mike McLelland, and his wife, Cynthia McLelland, were shot dead in their home two months after McLelland publicly vowed to track down the killer of Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, shot dead in public on January 31.
The twin killings have rocked mostly rural Kaufman County on the eastern outskirts of Dallas, and several law enforcement officials have called them a direct attack on the criminal justice system.
Sheriff's deputies at the McLelland home "observed cartridge casings inside the residence near the two bodies during a protective sweep of the residence. Kaufman County Sheriff's Office personnel also observed multiple gunshot wounds on both victims," said the sworn statement by an investigator.
Investigators attempting to find a link between the two crimes were unable to recover any shell casings when Hasse was killed in the middle of the day near the Kaufman town square.
The Dallas Morning News, citing a law enforcement official, had previously reported shell casings were scattered about the crime scene at the McLelland home. The Forth Worth Star-Telegram first reported on the affidavit in Tuesday's editions.
Authorities have kept quiet about potential suspects, while people in town speculated it was the work of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, a white supremacist jail gang. Dozens of its members were charged with crimes in an multi-agency investigation that included McLelland's office.
First Assistant District Attorney Brandi Fernandez was named interim district attorney on Monday and will hold the position for 21 days, or until Governor Rick Perry appoints a successor.
She takes over an office with three unsolved, high-profile homicides in which two of the victims held positions similar to her own.
"She's a very capable, well-known assistant D.A. in our office. A very bright person, she's very knowledgeable and will do a great job as interim. I have full faith in her abilities to do that," County Judge Bruce Wood, who leads the county's five-member political board, told reporters on Tuesday.
"I am optimistic," Wood said regarding the criminal investigation. "There are literally hundreds of people that are working this case. I am confident they will find whoever committed this crime."
Kaufman County, population 110,000, is generally split between rural towns in the eastern part of the county and more affluent Dallas commuter suburbs in the west, where the McLellands lived. The town of Kaufman, population 11,000, lies in the middle of the county, about 30 miles east of Dallas.
(Editing by Daniel Trotta and Nick Zieminski)
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Charles Bradley will never forget the ride
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R&B singer Charles Bradley?s second album, Victim of Love, is being released on April 2.
R&B singer Charles Bradley said he?ll never forget the ride as long as he lives on the planet.
Bradley, 64, has begun creating a buzz only in recent years, with his 2011 classic-soul debut, No Time For Dreaming, and its more upbeat followup, Victim of Love, out Tuesday. But years of life-changing experiences are what make for great soul albums.
And unforgettable stories. Like the one about the ride.
It happened while Bradley, tired of working as a chef in a hospital for the mentally ill in New York, was hitchhiking west, hoping to make it in the music business. He was walking the highway in Seattle, Wash., exhausted from 24 sleepless hours of thumbing rides.
A motorist stopped. ?It was one of those old Volkswagens, like a ?64, something like that,? the singer said during a recent telephone interview. ?The driver kept lookin? at me, lookin? at me, and I?m trying to keep awake. He said: ?I think you?re wondering who I am, right?? and I said: ?Am I supposed to know who you are?? He said: ?The reason I picked you is because I want to tell my side of the story to you.? And I said: ?What are you talkin? about?? He said: ?I know you wonder why I killed my wife and went into my job ... this gun shootin? on the job.? ?
Bradley found himself in the role of frightened, captive audience. He listened helplessly to the driver?s long story about how his wife had been having an affair with the boss and how he ? the driver ? had snapped. He calmly asked Bradley?s opinion. Bradley told him it would have been better to simply leave his wife.
Unable to fight sleep and reassured by the driver that he would not be harmed, Bradley dozed. The driver later woke him as he approached an exit. ?He said: ?Stay on the main highway and you?ll get a ride. I wish you all the luck,? ? Bradley remembered.
?You know, I really don?t think they ever caught him.?
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Bradley calls his late-blooming success (how many singers release their first album at 62?) bittersweet. After decades of odd jobs, travelling and dead ends, he was finally given an opportunity to record his horn-driven, soaked-shirt homages to golden-era soul music ? even as he neared pensionable age. His benefactors are thanked in Through the Storm, the reflective, life-affirming closer on Victim of Love.
Yet as grateful as he admits to being, a disillusionment with both America and the many setbacks on his own journey still speak loud and clear in his songs. The anguished The World (Is Going Up in Flames) and the autobiographical Why Is It So Hard, which is as emotionally torn up as any Percy Sledge song, are the cries of a man at a low ebb.
Heartaches and Pain specifically addresses the shooting death of his brother Joseph, who, Bradley said, brought him 85 per cent of the way to where is now.
When other family members were telling him to give up and sell his equipment, Bradley hit an emotional low point, he said. ?But Joseph said: ?No. That music is in your heart, so keep going,? ? Bradley said. Joseph offered a room and non-stop encouragement. ?He gave me a helping hand when I had nowhere to go,? Bradley said.
Is it a relief to confront these painful subjects through music? ?Yeah. But it?s a relief with a hurt in it,? he said.
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Then there was the time in 1976 when Bradley was driving down south in a Ford van, somewhere around Alabama. It was about 3 or 4 a.m., as he recalled. A tractor-trailer got in front of him and slowed down, blocking off all his attempts to get around. Two other truckers flanked him and another got behind, boxing him in and eventually slowing to 10 m.p.h. or so. Their own radio communication came through on his radio, he said. ?Slow the?(racial slur)?down and stop him. We can grab him out of the car,? he heard.
Somehow, he managed to cut across the grass median and get into the traffic going in the other direction, ending up in a service station where the attendant, holding a rope and pulling it repeatedly, glared at him. Another hasty exit.
?I don?t know what?s kept me alive through all the trials and tribulations I?ve been through,? he said.
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Bradley said he was forever changed by seeing James Brown at the Apollo Theatre in 1962 (Brown recorded Live at the Apollo, one of the greatest live albums in history, that year at the famed venue). Bradley was 14, accompanied by his sister.
?It was magnetic to me. I said: ?Wow! I want to be like that!? I went home, grabbed me a broom or a mop, tied a piece of string to it, threw it, pulled it back and started doing James Brown dances,? he said.
Bradley became a James Brown impersonator ? and to this day, the raspy, raw delivery of the Godfather of Soul is an unmistakable influence on his singing.
Bradley was still imitating Brown when he ended up doing some handyman work for Gabriel Roth, founder of the New York soul label Daptone, home of hot revivalists Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. Bradley told Roth about his dreams and soon found himself opening for Jones.
Faced with the opportunity, Bradley jumped on it. But he knew where he wanted to go.
?Gabe gave me some lyrics to do a song on the Sharon Jones show,? Bradley said. ?One thing about my spirit: if my spirit don?t like it, it?s not going to accept it. I tried to accept these lyrics, but I couldn?t get it. They were negative lyrics that didn?t fit me. So I got on stage. They were playing this music, and the music sounded kind of funky. I let my spirit run free and let the words come out the way I see it.?
Victim of Love is the latest state of the union address from the indomitable Bradley. The new disc is filled with brassy, upbeat reminders of what R&B used to mean before it became pop music dominated by divas and producers. Infectious testifying, sexy ballads and even psychedelic soul, ? la Norman Whitfield-era Temptations, point back to the ?60s and ?70s but sound oddly timeless.
Bradley described the album as ?coming out of the dark into the light.?
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And let?s not forget the biker who walked into a bar, where Bradley, hitchhiking again, had stopped for refreshment. Before he could figure out what was happening, Bradley had had his chair knocked out from under him and had hit his head on the floor.
Moving over to the bar, he was followed by the biker. The bar owner warned Bradley to be careful, because the biker was in a bad mood and looking for someone to pick on. The owner, sympathetic to Bradley?s plight, placed his gun on the bar and urged the biker to back off.
?Let me talk to this guy and find out why this guy is this way,? Bradley said to the owner. ?Man, what is wrong with you?,? he said to the biker. ?I never did you any harm. Don?t take it out on me. Get to know me.?
Against all odds, a conversation followed, instead of a beating. ?He kept saying the harsh words, but he saw the bar man was watching, so he calmed down. I got in that guy?s mind,? Bradley said. ?Everybody used to pick on him and he wanted to get into a big group so he could feel superior. When I got into his head, man, he calmed down."
In the end, the biker offered Bradley a lift to the next town. When Bradley declined, his new friend offered to buy him a drink. ?I said: ?Nah ... I have to wait here. You go ahead,? ? Bradley remembered.
Then there was a rare pause in our interview. ?I could tell you a lot of stories,? he said.
Victim of Love will be available April 2. Charles Bradley and his Extraordinaires perform May 13 at 8 p.m. at the Virgin Mobile Corona Theatre. Tickets cost $27. Go to evenko.ca or phone 514-790-2525.
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Teen driver arrested after Nevada crash kills five family members
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Jean Soriano, 18, has been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence in a southern Nevada crash that killed five members of a California family and injured the suspect and three other people.
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By Martin Griffith, The Associated Press
Five members of a Southern California family were killed in southern Nevada when their van was rear-ended by an 18-year-old driver who was later arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, authorities said.
The five dead were among seven family members who were in the van, authorities said. The other two ? the 40-year-old female driver and a 15-year-old boy ? were hospitalized in critical condition.
The van was carrying a couple, their children and some aunts and uncles, he said. Killed were three men in their 40s, a teenage female and an adult female.???
Jean Soriano of California was booked into the Clark County Detention Center after he was treated and released at University Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Loy Hixson said.
The crash happened at about 3 a.m. Saturday on Interstate 15 near the Utah line. Soriano's sport utility vehicle struck the van from behind, causing both vehicles to spin out of control and roll near Mesquite, some 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas, investigators said.
A 23-year-old passenger in Soriano's SUV was treated at the hospital and released.
Authorities believe Soriano was returning from a visit with family in Utah to his home in California at the time of the wreck, Hixson said. They didn't immediately release his hometown or the names or hometowns of the victims.
Beer bottles were found in the SUV, Hixson said, and troopers performed a blood-alcohol test on Soriano at the hospital. The results won't be known for a couple of weeks, he said.
Hixson said only two of the seven people in the van were wearing seat belts. The five who were not buckled in were ejected, but one survived.
"Unfortunately, so many in the van weren't wearing seat belts, and some might have survived had they been wearing them," Hixson said. "We see it so many times where people can survive simply by having a seat belt on."
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Bomb-laden truck kills 7 at Iraqi police station
BAGHDAD (AP) ? A suicide bomber drove a fuel-laden truck into a police station in central Iraq on Monday, killing seven policemen, officials said.
The morning attack in Tikrit, north of Baghdad, also wounded more than 30, said Iraqi health official Raed Ibrahim.
Qutayba al-Jabouri, a lawmaker from the Salahuddin province to which Tikrit belongs, also confirmed the incident.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the attack was typical of al-Qaida's Iraq branch, the Islamic State of Iraq.
The militant Sunni group frequently uses car bombs, suicide bombers and coordinated blasts to target Shiites and those working with the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Iraqi intelligence officials say that the country's al-Qaida branch is strengthening as it takes advantage of chaos in neighboring Syria to smuggle in arms, weapons and fighters.
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Monday, April 1, 2013
Pope makes Easter pleas for Mideast peace
Pope Francis holds a San Lorenzo's soccer team jersey after celebrating his first Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2013. Pope Francis celebrated his first Easter Sunday Mass as pontiff in St. Peter's Square, packed by joyous pilgrims, tourists and Romans and bedecked by spring flowers.Wearing cream-colored vestments, Francis strode onto the esplanade in front of St. Peter's Basilica and took his place at an altar set up under a white canopy. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Pope Francis holds a San Lorenzo's soccer team jersey after celebrating his first Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2013. Pope Francis celebrated his first Easter Sunday Mass as pontiff in St. Peter's Square, packed by joyous pilgrims, tourists and Romans and bedecked by spring flowers.Wearing cream-colored vestments, Francis strode onto the esplanade in front of St. Peter's Basilica and took his place at an altar set up under a white canopy. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Pope Francis hugs a child after celebrating his first Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2013. Pope Francis celebrated his first Easter Sunday Mass as pontiff in St. Peter's Square, packed by joyous pilgrims, tourists and Romans and bedecked by spring flowers.Wearing cream-colored vestments, Francis strode onto the esplanade in front of St. Peter's Basilica and took his place at an altar set up under a white canopy. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope Francis, holding the pastoral staff, celebrates the Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2013. "Our daily problems and worries can wrap us up in ourselves, in sadness and bitterness, and that is where death is," he said. "Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life!" said Pope Francis during the Easter vigil. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope Francis, holding the pastoral staff, walks past the closed icon of Jesus as he celebrates the Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2013. "Our daily problems and worries can wrap us up in ourselves, in sadness and bitterness, and that is where death is," he said. "Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life!" said Pope Francis during the Easter vigil. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Pope Francis, holding the pastoral staff, celebrates the Easter mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Sunday, March 31, 2013. "Our daily problems and worries can wrap us up in ourselves, in sadness and bitterness, and that is where death is," he said. "Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life!" said Pope Francis during the Easter vigil.(AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
VATICAN CITY (AP) ? Pope Francis delivered a plea for peace in his first Easter Sunday message to the world, decrying the seemingly endless conflicts in the Middle East and on the Korean peninsula after celebrating Mass at an outdoor altar before more than 250,000 people in flower-bedecked St. Peter's Square.
Francis shared in his flock's exuberance as they celebrated Christianity's core belief that Jesus Christ rose from the dead following crucifixion. After Mass, he stepped aboard an open-topped white popemobile for a cheerful spin through the joyous crowd, kissing babies and patting children on the head.
One admirer of both the pope and of the pope's favorite soccer team, Argentina's Saints of San Lorenzo, insisted that Francis take a team jersey he was waving at the pontiff. A delighted Francis obliged, briefly holding up the shirt, and the crowd roared in approval.
Francis has repeatedly put concern for the poor and suffering at the center of his messages, and he pursued his promotion of the causes of peace and social justice in the Easter speech he delivered from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, the same vantage point above the square where he was introduced to the world as the first Latin American pope on March 13.
The Roman Catholic leader aimed his Easter greetings at "every house and every family, especially where the suffering is greatest, in hospitals, in prisons." Francis prayed that Jesus would inspire people to "change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace."
As popes before him have, he urged Israelis and Palestinians to resume peace talks and end a conflict that "has lasted all too long." And, in reflecting on the two-year-old Syrian crisis, Francis asked, "How much suffering must there still be before a political solution" can be found?
The pope also expressed desire for a "spirit of reconciliation" on the Korean peninsula, where North Korea says it has entered "a state of war" with South Korea. He also decried warfare and terrorism in Africa, as well as what he called the 21st century's most extensive form of slavery: human trafficking.
The first pontiff to come from the Jesuits, an order with special concern for the poor, and the first pope to name himself after St. Francis, a medieval figure who renounced wealth to preach to the down-and-out, Francis lamented that the world is "still divided by greed looking for easy gain."
Earlier, wearing cream-colored vestments, Francis celebrated Mass on the esplanade in front of the basilica at an altar set up under a white canopy. He frequently bowed his head as if in silent reflection.
The sun competed with clouds in the sky Sunday, but the square was a riot of floral color in Rome, where chilly winter has postponed the blossoming of many flowers. Yellow forsythia and white lilies shone, along with bursts of lavender and pink, from potted azalea, rhododendron, wisteria and other plants.
Francis thanked florists from the Netherlands for donating the flowers. He also advised people to let love transform their lives, or as he put it, "let those desert places in our hearts bloom."
The Vatican had prepared a list of brief Easter greetings in 65 languages, but Francis didn't read them. The Vatican didn't say why not, but has said that the new pope, at least for now, feels at ease using Italian, the everyday language of the Holy See. Francis also has stressed his role as a pastor to his flock, and, as Bishop of Rome, Italian would be his language.
The pontiff improvised his parting words to the crowd. He repeated his Easter greeting to those "who have come from all over the world to this square at the heart of Christianity" as well as to those "linked by modern technology," a reference to TV and radio coverage as well as social media.
Francis added that he was especially remembering "the weakest and the neediest" and praying that all of humanity be guided along "the paths of justice, love and peace."
In another departure from Easter tradition, Francis won't be heading for some post-holiday relaxation at the Vatican's summer palace in Castel Gandolfo, in the hills southeast of Rome. That retreat is already occupied by his predecessor, Benedict XVI, who went there in the last hours of his papacy on Feb. 28. Benedict became the first pope in 600 years to resign from the position, and eventually is to move back to the Vatican, after a convent there is readied for him.
Francis so far has declined to move into Benedict's former apartment in the Apostolic Palace, into the rooms whose studio overlooks St. Peter's Square. He is still in the Vatican hotel where earlier this month he was staying along with other cardinals participating in the secret conclave to choose Benedict's successor.
While Francis has just begun to make his mark on the church, it is plain he has little desire to embrace much of the pomp customarily associated with the office.
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