"We know that Mr. Bush has committed himself to the mafia ... to assassinate me," the Cuban president said.
"I can die a natural death or I can die a planned death," Castro said. "It really doesn't matter to me how I die, but I will surely die fighting."
Friday, January 30, 2004
TOPEKA — The Kansas Court of Appeals today again upheld the 17-year prison sentence of Matthew Limon, who was sentenced for engaging in homosexual sex with a minor.
Under state law, if Limon had engaged in sex with an underage girl, he would have faced a maximum sentence of one year and three months in prison.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A San Diego policeman who sold videos of himself masturbating after removing a police uniform was wrongly dismissed from the force, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday.
The San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals agreed that his dismissal was unjust because his off-duty actions were protected by First Amendment rights to free speech.
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of the earth, for the labours men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead.
-George Eliot
Prison cell doors left unlocked... twice
Little Rock, Arkansas - For the second time since December, cell doors at the Arkansas prison housing the state's death row inmates were accidentally unlocked.
In December, an electrical fault opened all doors in a cellblock housing violent prisoners such as murderers and rapists. Dozens of inmates ventured into a corridor and one of them was killed.
| Television thief still in jail after 33 years |
A US man who was jailed in 1970 for his first and only criminal conviction - stealing a television - says he hopes to be released in December.
Junior Allen, 63, says he has applied again to the North Carolina Parole Commission for release following 25 straight rejections.
Meanwhile, the same commission has released Howard Washington on parole in January after 10 years in prison for murder.
| Instructor develops air guitar aerobics work-out |
A fitness instructor has devised a work-out to help air guitar fans get into shape in their living rooms.
US dance tutor Laila Hardman says by mimicking the likes of Slash and Eddie Van Halen people can develop all the major muscle groups.
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