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The man behind WikiLeaks says his website's revelations are just the tip of the iceberg. In an exclusive interview with RT, Julian Assange said it is only a matter of time before more damaging information becomes known.

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 The publication of confidential cables proved deeply embarrassing for the US and other countries.

 “If we look at our work over the last 12 moths, think about that. All these stories that have come out actually happened in the world, before 2010, but people didn’t know about it. So what is it that we don’t know about now? There’s an enormous hidden world out there that we don’t know about. It exists there right now.”

 Assange claims the data released by WikiLeaks is not even the most important and calls on people not to believe that the information they receive from the media is all that is happening.

 “We only released secret, classified, confidential material. We didn’t have any top secret cables. The really embarrassing stuff, the really serious stuff wasn’t in our collection to release. But it is still out there.”

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 "Every war in past 50 years a result of media lies"

 RT: Julian, thank you for talking to RT. Now, through the course of your work, you have some insight into the way that political decisions are made throughout the world. What do you make of the recent developments in the Middle East and North Africa at the moment? Do you think that we are seeing genuine social unrest or are we seeing some kind of orchestrated revolt and if so, who do you think is behind all this?

 JA: There is genuine change in some parts of the Middle East. I mean Egypt is a clear case. I was concerned at the beginning over the Egyptian revolution: whether we just saw a changing of the chairs and the maintenance of the same existing power structure, or whether something was really happening.

 But after Mubarak fled Cairo, you saw mini-revolutions occurring in every institution within Egypt, from Alexandria to Cairo. So, that’s the sort of change that’s hard to undo.

 What’s happening in some other countries is a bit different. The situation in Libya clearly has an involvement of state actors in it from many different areas. That’s something that has been driven by state actors. Now, it is normal for neighboring countries to have interconnections with each other: the activists in different countries, families in different countries, businesses in different countries, and the states from neighboring countries. That’s normal.

 When outside forces from very, very far-flung countries start to take an aggressive role in a regional affair, then we have to look a bit more and say that what is going on is not normal. So, what’s happening in Libya, for example, is not normal.

 RT: And social networking, what role, do you think, sites like Facebook and Twitter, have played in the revolutions in the Middle East? How easy, would you say, is it to manipulate media like that?

 JA: Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. Here we have the world’s most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations and the communications with each other, their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to US intelligence. Facebook, Google, Yahoo – all these major US organizations have built-in interfaces for US intelligence. It’s not a matter of serving a subpoena. They have an interface that they have developed for US intelligence to use.

 Now, is it the case that Facebook is actually run by US intelligence? No, it’s not like that. It’s simply that US intelligence is able to bring to bear legal and political pressure on them. And it’s costly for them to hand out records one by one, so they have automated the process. Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook, they are doing free work for United States intelligence agencies in building this database for them.

 RT: OK, let’s talk about other latest WikiLeaks cables that have been released. They show the UK as a haven for extremism, with at least 35 Guantanamo detainees having at least passed through the UK. Is the UK still a haven for terrorists?

 JA: You know it has been a haven for terrorists, and it is certainly a haven for oligarchs and former regime dictators that have come here. I mean, remember the famous Pinochet trial for the extradition of Pinochet from the UK, which Thatcher resisted – incredibly, using a lawyer that is involved in trying to extradite me from the United Kingdom. Now, part of that is, perhaps, good. It’s an example of true liberalism in the United Kingdom: everyone come here, and we’ll protect you. On the other hand, there does seem to be a disconnect. Is it really supporting free-speech activists like me who come to the UK? But, on the other hand, it is supporting people like sons of Gaddafi.

 RT: The Guantanamo information… why has WikiLeaks released it now? I mean it seems sort of to be after the fact. Is it because Obama has recently announced his re-election campaign and obviously closing Guantanamo was one of his main election promises?

 JA: There is a number of reasons why we released it now. The primary one is that we are a small organization, although a very committed one. Last year we came under extraordinary attack. All these things continue to go on. And so they’ve really dampened down our ability to move quickly and publish quickly.

 The timing is good. Obama has given up on closing Guantanamo and has decided to re-open the trial process. And we now have a situation where even the Obama administration says that 48 of those people still in Guantanamo are completely innocent and they should be sent somewhere, and they are not being sent anywhere. So, completely innocent people are incarcerated for years and years and years with no trial and no hope of relief. No country would agree to house them, including the United States. But the United States has made them its problem.

 The United States was involved in rounding up these innocent people, setting up a process that was from the very beginning corrupt. There is a reason why they are in Guantanamo and not on the US mainland and not in an allied country. And that reason was to hide them and to keep them outside of the law. Just like you have Caribbean islands engaged in money laundering, the United States is engaged in people laundering.

 RT:Let me talk about your media partners, one of which is The Guardian, with whom you're now involved in a dispute. But you chose them as your primary English-language partner for distributing the WikiLeaks cables. And now Guardian journalists have published this book on WikiLeaks, which you say is an attack on you. How would you describe, following that, The Guardian’s stance on whistleblowing and media freedom in general?

 JA: They are a publishing organization, and so, of course, they want as much rights over publishing them as possible, that's a natural self-interest. What they have done with this cable-cooking in this incredible over-redaction of cables is they have pushed the right of the people to know to the very, very edge. And what they are concerned about is any possible attack on them.

 But we have seen this sort of abuse of the material that we have provided several times. The Guardian is the worst offender, but we saw it also by The New York Times. The New York Times redacted a 62-page cable down to two paragraphs. And this is completely against the agreement that we originally set up with them on November 1, 2010. That agreement was that the only redactions that should take place are to protect people's lives. There should be no other redaction, not to protect reputation, not to protect The Guardian's profits, but only to protect lives.

 What happens in the West is that there is no border between state interest and commercial interest. The edges of the state, as a result of privatization, are fuzzed and blurred out into the edges of companies. So, when you look at how The Guardian behaves, or how The New York Times behaves, it is part of that mesh of corporate and state interests seamlessly blurring into each other. The Guardian is concerned predominantly about being criticized by these powerful interests, about lawsuits against it driven by oligarchs, driven by people powerful enough to push a court case forward.

 RT: Let’s talk a little bit about you and what you are going through at the moment. You are currently fighting extradition to Sweden. What are your fears should you be extradited there?

 JA.: The problem is in two parts. The United States is trying to get up an extradition case for me to the United States. Just today we saw a new subpoena coming out of the secret grand jury that is operating in Alexandria, Virginia, and it’s trying to get up that espionage case against us. It is building that case, and whatever country I am in, once it decides to indict, they will try to extradite me from that country, and possibly not just me, possibly our other staff.

 The other problem with the Swedish extradition is that the process itself has been corrupted. It was corrupted from the very beginning. We’ve seen corruption in Swedish media, we’ve seen all sorts of strange actions in relation to how this case is progressed.

 RT: What message do you think you would send to the world, if the UK did turn around, almost unexpectedly at this point, it seems, and refuse to extradite you?

 JA.: It depends on to which country. Here is the sort of calculation that’s going on in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom wants to keep its good relationships with the United States. So, if the UK was to reject the US extradition order, that would pose terrible problems for it. Similarly, if it was to reject the Swedish extradition order, that would pose problems for it, because it would look like it was seeking to harbor me. And this is the sort of difficult situation that Afghanistan faced when it appeared as if it was harboring bin Laden, and as a result there was an aggressive response. Any country which appears to be harboring us, as the United States is trying to conduct its aggressive response, faces political pressures. If the United Kingdom does attempt to extradite me to the United States, then it faces a difficult position politically. The bulk of the people in the United Kingdom support us.

 RT: And finally, Julian, who do you consider to be your No. 1 enemy?

 JA: Our No. 1 enemy is ignorance. And I believe that is the No. 1 enemy for everyone – it’s not understanding what actually is going on in the world. It's only when you start to understand that you can make effective decisions and effective plans. Now, the question is, who is promoting ignorance? Well, those organizations that try to keep things secret, and those organizations which distort true information to make it false or misrepresentative. In this latter category, it is bad media.

 It really is my opinion that media in general are so bad that we have to question whether the world wouldn't be better off without them altogether. They are so distortive to how the world actually is that the result is… we see wars, and we see corrupt governments continue on.

 One of the hopeful things that I’ve discovered is that nearly every war that has started in the past 50 years has been a result of media lies. The media could've stopped it if they had searched deep enough; if they hadn't reprinted government propaganda they could've stopped it. But what does that mean? Well, that means that basically populations don't like wars, and populations have to be fooled into wars. Populations don't willingly, with open eyes, go into a war. So if we have a good media environment, then we also have a peaceful environment.

 RT: Thank you very much. ||||| WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange rails against Facebook, says it's a spy tool for US government

 Dunham/AP The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange said that Facebook is the most 'appaling spying machine ever invented'.

 Maybe he's a MySpace guy.

 WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called Facebook "the most appalling spying machine ever invented" in an interview with Russia Today, pointing to the popular social networking site as one of the top tools for the U.S. to spy on its citizens.

 "Here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations, their communications with each other and their relatives, all sitting within the United States, all accessible to US Intelligence," he said. "Facebook, Google, Yahoo, all these major U.S. organizations have built-in infaces for US intelligence.

 "Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook they are doing free work for the United States intelligence agencies," he added.

 The comments were a bit strange, coming from the founder of a website best known for pushing spilling secret information.

 In an email to the Daily News, a Facebook spokesman denied the company was doing anything that they weren't legally obligated to do, saying that "the legal standards for compelling a company to turn over data are determined by the laws of the country, and we respect that standard."

 "We don't respond to pressure, we respond to compulsory legal process," the spokesperson wrote. "There has never been a time we have been pressured to turn over data -- we fight every time we believe the legal process is insufficient."

 In any event, many Facebook users have been increasingly concerned about the sharing of their information.

 In 2010, three Democratic senators asked the FTC to look at the social networking site's information-sharing policies.

 The Wall Street Journal has reported that popular Facebook apps like Farmville and Causes also shared users' information with advertising and tracking companies.

 Concerns about information-sharing has seemingly done little to dissuade the more than 250 million people who use Facebook - including someone who created an official WikiLeaks page on the site.

 More than 1.72 million people clicked that they like it.

 Assange is currently in England, awaiting extradition to Sweden to face sexual assault charges.

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– Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has singled out Facebook as an "appalling spying machine" in an interview with Russia Today. Assange warned in an earlier speech at Cambridge University that information gathered on the Web could be used by governments to spy on its citizens. But this time he called "Facebook in particular the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. Here we have the world’s most comprehensive database about people, their relationships, their names, their addresses, their locations and their communications, all accessible to US intelligence. Facebook, Google, Yahoo—all these major US organizations have built-in interfaces for US intelligence," he added. "Everyone should understand that when they add their friends to Facebook they are doing free work for the US intelligence agencies," he warned. He conceded that Facebook isn't working for or following orders from US intelligence, but said that the government is "able to bring to bear legal and political pressure" on the company. In response to Assange's interview, a Facebook spokesman told the New York Daily News that the company only turns over information when "legally required to do so." The "legal standards for compelling a company to turn over data are determined by the laws of the country, and we respect that standard," the spokesman noted.


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 A US Secret Service agent who suffered a stroke during President Trump's visit to Scotland has died.

 The man was part of the presidential protection team when he fell ill during Mr Trump's stay at the Turnberry golf resort in Ayrshire on Sunday.

 US officials said he died in hospital surrounded by his family on Tuesday.

 The Secret Service thanked medical personnel and police in Scotland as well as White House medics for the "exceptional care" he received.

 In a statement, it described the agent as a "dedicated professional of the highest order" who had served in the US Secret Service for 19 years. ||||| Add this Tweet to your website by copying the code below. Tuilleadh eolais

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 The 42-year-old agent, who is now being identified as Special Agent Noel E. Remagen, was working on protection for national security adviser John Bolton on the midnight shift when he was found to be unresponsive by colleagues at Trump's Turnberry resort Saturday night.

 Remagen was quickly attended to by a White House doctor and Secret Service colleagues before being rushed to Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, where he passed away on Sunday, a law enforcement source told CNN.

 Remagen is survived by a wife and two small children, and was the son of a retired Secret Service employee.

 The President and first lady Melania Trump departed for Joint Base Andrews Wednesday afternoon to see Remagen's family, the White House said.

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– A 19-year veteran of the Secret Service has died after suffering a stroke during President Trump's visit to the UK. The 42-year-old agent, identified as Nole E. Remagen, was on protection duty for national security adviser John Bolton during a Saturday midnight shift at the Turnberry golf resort in Ayrshire, Scotland, when he was found unresponsive. CNN reports he died at a Glasgow hospital on Sunday, though the BBC gives the date as Tuesday. His body is to be flown to the US on Wednesday. A GoFundMe page set up to cover funeral expenses has raised more than $49,000.


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HUNTINGTON BEACH – When Diana Carrillo, her sister and two friends decided to try the Saint Marc Pub-Cafe in Pacific City last week, they were hoping for a nice shared experience.

 They got a shared experience, but not one they would have expected.

 When they were seated, 24-year-old Carrillo of Irvine, said the waiter asked her, “Can I see your proof of residency?”

 Carrillo said she was shocked.

 “I already had my ID out. I couldn’t say anything,” she said.

 She turned to her sister, Brenda Carrillo, and friends and said, “Did he just ask me that?”

 Carrillo said the waiter asked the other three women the same thing, saying “I need to make sure you’re residents before I serve you.”

 After talking with the manager, who apologized, the four left the restaurant. Carrillo related her experience, on Saturday, March 11, on social media, which has since taken on a life of its own.

 The restaurant posted an apology three days later that said in part, “This type of behavior is not representative of the St. Marc brand and will not be tolerated.”

 Kent Berden, the senior director of operations at the restaurant, said Wednesday that he fired the waiter, whose name was not disclosed. He said the waiter’s actions were unacceptable and not reflective of the restaurant.

 “The individual didn’t follow corporate policy by any stretch of the imagination,” Berden said.

 He said this was the first such complaint the restaurant has had since it opened in 2015.

 Carrillo, whose parents are immigrants, said the interaction was part of what she fears is going to be a growing trend.

 “I feel that’s the direction we’re headed in, given who’s the president,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons I posted it on social media rather than just dealing with the restaurant.”

 Berden said the waiter told him he thought the question was asked “in a joking fashion.”

 Carrillo isn’t buying it. She said the waiter showed no hint of humor, just a “bad vibe.”

 The restaurant contacted Carrillo and offered to donate 10 percent of this weekend’s sales to a charity of her choice and invited the four women to be VIP guests.

 Carrillo said she declined the invitation but did accept the restaurant’s donation offer, asking that it go to Orange County Immigrant Youth United. The restaurant said it would comply.

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– You can expect your waiter to ask all kinds of questions when he approaches the table, but, "Can I see your proof of residency?" is not among them. Nevertheless, that's what four female diners experienced at the upscale Saint Marc restaurant in Huntington Beach, Calif., earlier this month, reports the Orange County Register. One of them, 23-year-old Brenda Carrillo, recalls to the Los Angeles Times that she was dumbfounded as the waiter elaborated, "I need to make sure you're from here before I can serve you." The four women complained to a manager and left the restaurant, and Carrillo's sister, Diana, then posted about their treatment online. After the post began drawing reactions, the restaurant apologized online and said the waiter had been fired. "In no way are the actions of this former employee representative of the Saint Marc brand nor are they reflective of the opinions of anyone else on our team, including executive management," said a restaurant statement. A Saint Marc exec says the waiter explained that he meant the question as a joke, but the women say he clearly did not. Saint Marc offered to bring the women back for VIP treatment and donate 10% of the night's proceeds to a charity of their choice. They declined the first but asked that the money go to a group that helps undocumented immigrants. The Carrillo sisters, described by Brenda as "light-skinned Latinas," do not fall into that category, for the record. They were born and raised in California. "It sends a chill through your entire body," says Diana of the incident. (Read another story of dining-gone-wrong in California.)


Here is a news article: Scott Weiland Will Filed ... Ex-Wife Wants to Call the Shots

 Scott Weiland Will Filed ... Ex-Wife Wants to Call the Shots

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 The woman Scott Weiland divorced nearly 9 years ago, and often battled over his drug use, is asking the courts to name her the executor of his will ... TMZ has learned.

 Mary Forsberg filed docs in L.A. saying Scott himself named her as executor, and she's filed a will with his signature as proof. Here's the catch ... the will was written in April 2007. That's right around the time Scott and Mary's marriage was falling apart, and when he was in the throes of addiction.

 Mary wrote a memoir called 'Fall to Pieces' about life with Scott and his battles with drugs.

 The docs say Scott had about $2 million in assets as part of his estate. He also created a trust during his lifetime that has undisclosed assets.

 Scott's widow Jamie Wachtel was with him for 2 years before his death, and could still contest Forsberg's filing. ||||| Scott Weiland's Second Wife Mary Forsberg Takes Legal Action to be Named Executor of Late Rocker's Will

 The battle over Scott Weiland 's assets has just intensified.The former Stone Temple Pilots singer's ex-wife Mary Forsberg filed court documents on Dec. 30 asking to be named the executor of Weiland's will (Weiland was married to his third wife Jamie Wachtel at the time of his death). Forsberg also filed a copy of the will, written in April 2007, with his signature as proof, according to papers obtained by PEOPLE.Weiland had about $2 million to his estate, and also created a trust that has undisclosed assets.Forsberg, who was his second wife, is the mother of Weiland's two children Noah, 15, and Lucy, 13. The mother of two penned her memories of Weiland and their marriage as well as his drug abuse in her memoir called Fall to Pieces. She also wrote an emotional letter in Rolling Stone days following Weiland's death. "The truth is, like so many other kids, they lost their father years ago. What they truly lost on December 3rd was hope," she wrote with contributions from her kids.The former Velvet Revolver band member married his third wife Jamie Wachtel in 2013. Weiland's first wife is Janina Castenada, whom he was married to from 1994 - 2000.Weiland died at the age of 48 on Dec. 3 while on tour with his band The Wildabouts in Bloomington, Minnesota. The Hennepin County Medical Examiner's Office in Minnesota said a mix of cocaine, ethanol (alcohol), and MDA (a relative of ecstasy) led to the rock star's death. The press release, obtained by PEOPLE , also mentioned Weiland's history of cardiovascular disease, asthma, and multi-substance dependence as "significant conditions".A hearing date has been set for Feb. 5. |||||
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– Scott Weiland's death could end up just as fraught as his life. The late Stone Temple Pilots frontman's ex-wife, Mary Forsberg, has filed court documents in an attempt to be named executor of Weiland's will, People reports. Forsberg is the mother of Weiland's two kids, but Weiland had been married to his third wife, Jamie Wachtel, since 2013 at the time of his death. Forsberg says Weiland himself named her executor, and she filed a signed copy of his 2007 will as proof, TMZ reports. But, as the gossip site notes, their marriage was falling apart right around that time, and Weiland was "in the throes of addiction." Wachtel could contest the filing. Weiland's estate is reportedly worth around $2 million, and there's also a trust with undisclosed assets that the singer created while he was alive. A hearing will be held on Feb. 5. (Click for Forsberg's wrenching essay on Weiland's death.)


Here is a news article: CBS News' Lara Logan Assaulted During Egypt Protests CBS News Chief Foreign Correspondent Separated From Her Crew And Brutally Assaulted on Day Mubarak Stepped Down

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 On Friday, Feb. 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a "60 Minutes" story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into frenzy.

 In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning. She is currently home recovering.

 There will be no further comment from CBS News and correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time. ||||| Sponsored Links

 NEW YORK -- CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was recovering in a U.S. hospital Tuesday from a sexual attack and beating she suffered while reporting on the tumultuous events in Cairo.Logan was in the city's Tahrir Square on Friday after Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak stepped down when she, her team and their security "were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration," CBS said in a statement Tuesday.The network described a mob of more than 200 people "whipped into a frenzy."Separated from her crew in the crush of the violent pack, she suffered what CBS called "a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating." She was saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers, the network said. The Associated Press does not name victims of a sexual assault unless the victim agrees to it.She reconnected with the CBS team and returned to the U.S. on Saturday.The scene last Friday in Tahrir Square - ground zero of 18 days of protests that brought down Mubarak - was primarily one of celebration - people wept, jumped for joy, cheered and hugged one another. Some soldiers stationed at the square ran into the crowd, and the protesters lifted them onto their shoulders. Other troops stayed at their posts, watching in awe. There were fireworks, the sound of car horns and even some shots fired in the air.Sexual harassment of women is an all-too-common occurrence on the streets of Cairo. But many women noted a complete absence of it in the early days of protests in Tahrir Square, where demonstrators made a point of trying to create a microcosm of the society without many of Egypt's social ills.However, in the final days, and especially after the battles with pro-Mubarak gangs who attacked the protesters in Tahrir, women noticed sexual assault had returned to the square. On the day Mubarak fell, women reported being groped by the rowdy crowds. One witness saw a woman slap a man after he touched her. The man was then passed down a line of people who all slapped him and reprimanded him.The attack on Logan, CBS News' chief foreign affairs correspondent, was one of at least 140 others suffered by reporters covering the unrest in Egypt since Jan. 30, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. An Egyptian reporter died from gunshot wounds he received during the protests.A week before Friday's attack, Logan was detained by the Egyptian military for a day, along with a CBS producer and cameraman. They returned to the U.S. after their release, and Logan went back to Cairo shortly before Mubarak left.Logan joined CBS News in 2002. She regularly reports for the "CBS Evening News" as well as "60 Minutes," where she has been a correspondent since 2006. She has reported widely from Iraq and Afghanistan, and other global trouble spots.CBS said it had no further comment on Logan's assault. |||||
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– CBS journalist Lara Logan was beaten and sexually assaulted while covering the aftermath of Hosni Mubarak's resignation speech, the network says. She is back in the US and recuperating in a hospital. Logan and her crew were covering the jubilation when they were "surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration," says the network. "In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew," reads the CBS statement. "She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning." Days earlier, Logan had been detained by Egyptian police, notes the Huffington Post. For more, click here.


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Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| An elderly Massachusetts man is facing a charge of soliciting a prostitute after reporting that the woman stole jewelry from him.

 Nicholas Salerno told police he paid a woman half his age $100 to perform a sex act on him earlier this summer in his home.

 After 48-year-old Karen Proia left his home, Salerno told police he noticed a necklace was missing. The necklace was recovered by police at a South Yarmouth pawn shop.

 When Salerno reported the theft to Orleans police an officer told him he would be charged with soliciting a prostitute. His response, the Cape Cod Times reports, was "I don't give a (expletive). I'm 90 years old ..."

 Both Proia and Salerno pleaded not guilty during arraignments Tuesday. |||||
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– When you're 90 years old, most people give you a pass to do certain things without question—eat what you want, nap all day, watch Columbo marathons, solicit prostitutes … well, maybe not that last one. At least not in Dennis Port, Mass., where a nonagenarian was arraigned Tuesday for allegedly doing just that, the Cape Code Times reports. Nicholas Salerno is accused of procuring the services of Karen Proia, nearly half his age at 48, allegedly paying her $100 to perform a sex act on June 22, Orleans District Court records note. And that alleged interlude may have gone unnoticed by law enforcement, except that Salerno filed a police report a little over a week later claiming Proia had stolen a necklace from him (the jewelry was later recovered at a local pawnshop, MassLive.com reports). When a cop informed Salerno he'd be charged with a crime, too—solicitation in his case—Salerno reminded that whippersnapper what's what. "I don't give a [expletive]. I'm 90 years old," he reportedly exclaimed. Salerno and Proia, who was charged with larceny and prostitution, pleaded not guilty at their Tuesday arraignments. (A drone caught an elderly man on camera engaging in some questionable behavior.)


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Calling her mother a "monster," Jennifer Hoffman said the 75-year-old deserves to be in prison for fatally shooting her teen son and strongly refuted the image painted of the boy during the Detroit-area grandmother's trial.

 Defendant Sandra Layne is shackled after being convicted of second-degree murder as she turns around and looks at her husband, Fred Layne, not pictured, and other family members in the courtroom in Pontiac,... (Associated Press)

 In this March 13, 2013 file photo, Sandra Layne testifies in the Oakland County Circuit Court in Pontiac, Mich. The 75-year-old Detroit-area woman was convicted of second-degree murder on Tuesday, March... (Associated Press)

 Sandra Layne, of West Bloomfield Township, was found guilty Tuesday of second-degree murder in death of her 17-year-old grandson Jonathan Hoffman last May 18.

 Jennifer Hoffman and her ex-husband, Michael Hoffman, said the verdict is "vindication" for their son, whose actions and lifestyle were called into question through Layne's testimony. She said she bought a gun because she feared the teen and his friends after Jonathan Hoffman came to live with her during his senior year in high school.

 Layne fired 10 shots, striking Hoffman six times. She claimed she acted in self-defense during a violent argument, but the jury rejected that argument and found her guilty Tuesday. She also was convicted of using a gun during a felony and likely faces at least 14 years in prison.

 "It's a final vindication for my son, to restore his good name and reputation, because over the course of the last nine months, it's been tarnished in a very cruel manner," Michael Hoffman said.

 Jennifer Hoffman acknowledged that the teen had used drugs but said she wasn't aware of any deeper conflict between him and her mother. The Hoffmans, who are divorced, moved to Arizona from Michigan and had their hands full caring for a daughter with a brain tumor. They said Layne had offered to take in Jonathan Hoffman for his final year of school in 2011.

 Jennifer Hoffman called her mother a "monster."

 "It's really hard to comprehend that your own mother could do something like this to your own child," she told reporters. "I just know that my son is in heaven, and that's a place that she'll never see."

 Layne wept quietly as the verdict was read at the end of the first full day of jury deliberations. As she was being led out of court, her wrists handcuffed to a chain around her midsection, some family members sitting with her 87-year-old husband, Fred, waved in a show of support. But she couldn't make eye contact because there was a sheriff's deputy in between.

 Defense attorney Jerome Sabbota said Layne was "devastated" by the verdict and is sorrowful over her grandson's death.

 "She punishes herself every day," he said. "The legal system does what the legal system does. The jury felt that it wasn't appropriate self-defense."

 Layne testified last week for about five hours, portraying herself as a big-hearted grandma who felt overwhelmed when Jonathan Hoffman was briefly hospitalized for drug use a year ago. She said he was loud, coarse and argumentative in subsequent weeks and, on the day of the shooting, had tested positive for so-called synthetic marijuana, which could have triggered a probation violation.

 Layne said Hoffman demanded $2,000 and a car to flee Michigan. She claimed he kicked her and struck her in the face before she shot him.

 But prosecutor Paul Walton noted that she never told police she had been attacked when she immediately confessed to the killing. A hospital nurse who examined her after her arrest said Layne had no injuries and had spoken lovingly about Hoffman.

 And there was also an extraordinary piece of evidence: Hoffman's own plea for help recorded during a desperate call to 911.

 "My grandma shot me. I'm going to die. Help. I got shot again," he told the dispatcher as he gasped for air.

 Jurors declined to comment following the verdict. But they told attorneys during a private meeting that the call was crucial to their decision. It revealed that Layne had left Hoffman bleeding but then returned with more gunfire.

 "They said they played it over and over and over again" in the jury room, prosecutor Paul Walton said.

 Sabbota agreed that jurors found the "911 call was critical."

 Michael Hoffman said his son, clad only in socks and athletic shorts when he was shot, showed "amazing courage" in his final moments of life.

 Without the 911 call, the father said, "we could have had a very different result" at trial.

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 AP reporter Mike Householder contributed to this report.

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– A 75-year-old Michigan woman has been found guilty of the second-degree murder of her teenage grandson last year. The jury rejected Sandra Layne's claim that she shot Jonathan Hoffman, 17, in self-defense. The teen was shot multiple times and jurors were played a harrowing 911 call in which he pleaded for help, the Detroit Free Press reports. "My grandma shot me. I'm going to die," he said, before being shot again in the stomach. Layne, who appeared shocked by the guilty verdict, claimed she had been afraid of the grandson sent to live with her to finish his last year in high school and she shot him after he hit her during an argument over money, the AP reports. Layne's daughter says her mother is a "monster" who fully deserves to be in prison for the boy's death. She described the guilty verdict as "a final vindication for my son, to restore his good name and reputation."


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 CARSON CITY, Nev. — The Carson Nugget casino takes up the better part of a downtown block in this state capital, and a sign on the side beckons bettors with a promise of “Extremely Loose Slots.”

 You won’t find the state’s chief investment officer, Steve Edmundson, anywhere near there. Instead, he manages its pension funds on the outskirts of town, in a sparsely furnished office next to a bank branch. Less than half a shelf of books sit on display, including “The Hedge Fund Mirage.” One binder is labeled “Terminated Managers.”

 Those items offer hints of the surprising professional journey that Mr. Edmundson and his predecessor, Ken Lambert, who still serves as a consultant to the state, have recently completed. Since the beginning of 2014, they have moved the last of the state pension funds’ stock and bond investments entirely into securities that track market indexes exactly. So here, in the state that brought us gambling as an everyday activity, the two professionals who gauge investment odds have taken their money off one particularly large table, deciding that it no longer makes sense to bet on Wall Street wizards to beat the market. Few if any managers of large pension funds have ever done such a thing.

 The knock on index funds and similar strategies has always been that the smart money knew better. Endowments, foundation money, pension funds — their managers had the wisdom and connections to find investments that outperform the market, or investors with the magic touch. The fact that they could supposedly do it (though they often couldn’t) seemed to serve as a sort of challenge to individual investors, who took up trading as a hobby and bought and sold their way to unfortunate losses.

 Mr. Lambert grew up thinking he might be savvy enough to beat the market for a living. As a boy, he used the proceeds from the sale of a calf to buy shares in Macy’s, where his father worked as a manager at various stores in the West. The stock ended up increasing more than twentyfold before he sold, and he was hooked on the markets. He was chief investment officer of Nevada’s pension funds for seven years before turning the job over to Mr. Edmundson.

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 Mr. Edmundson worked at Oracle earlier in his career, in the group handling the employee stock option and purchase plans. He had a front-row seat for the tech bubble in 2000 — and the popping, too. By the time he went to work for the state, the pension funds were already moving bit by bit away from trying to beat the market and more toward indexing, where the funds would own every security in a particular market segment.

 According to Mr. Lambert, the more voluble of the pair, a pension fund manager (and an individual investor) has to begin any strategic analysis with the acknowledgment that most investors who try to pick stocks or bonds that will outperform their market segment will fail to do so over long periods. “So you have to trade active managers,” he said. “Not only do you have to believe that they can beat the market, but you must spend time hiring and firing them.”

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 By ceasing to place outsize bets on companies, industries or countries, the men also eliminate the temptation to focus too much on the short term. This is especially crucial for government pension fund managers, because new people in their 20s are constantly entering the plan and may be drawing on it 75 years later. “If we are freaking out about what is happening tomorrow or what happened last quarter, then we’re not doing our jobs,” Mr. Edmundson said.

 Then there are the fees that outside money managers charge pension funds. While pension fund managers pay much less than the 1 percent or so of assets that an individual might pay for an actively managed mutual fund, every basis point (which is the term Wall Streeters use for one one-hundredth of a percent) matters.

 Mr. Edmundson and Mr. Lambert, who are both 43 and consider themselves equal partners, manage about $35 billion. One basis point for them is $3.5 million, which covers a lot of monthly pension checks. Their most recent investment moves, they said, will save $4 million in fees each year, which compounds over time. No one at the three firms they cut loose would talk to me about whether they thought the pair had made a mistake.

 The men say they believe that their overall annual costs to run the funds (which also include a smattering of more expensive real estate and private equity investments) are about half a percentage point less than their peers, on average. Over the last decade, as the funds have made the transition toward indexed investments in stocks and bonds, the total return for the biggest fund has bested 73 percent of its peers, according to data from their consultants at Callan Associates.

 A word about those peers. Earlier this year, the New York City comptroller issued a report concluding that nearly all of the outperformance it achieved in investments like the ones that Nevada now indexes went into the pockets of the outside managers who achieved them, in the form of fees. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (known as Calpers) is strikingly paring its own use of expensive gurus for hire.

 Calpers’s public statement on “active” stock and bond picking versus index investing, however, is decidedly muddled. “Calpers will use index tracking strategies where we lack conviction or demonstrable evidence that we can add value through active management,” it states in the“Beliefs” document it adopted in 2014. Whose conviction? How much table-pounding is required? And how can you acquire demonstrable evidence of how a particular investing strategy will perform going forward?

 The fact is that most professionals with outsize conviction — and most of us — won’t get it right often enough to beat the index funds over the half-century or more that we might be investors. So Mr. Edmundson and Mr. Lambert, whose moves were first reported in the trade publication Pensions & Investments, have put 42 percent of public employee money to work tracking the S&P; 500 index of large United States companies, another 18 percent toward a basket of international stocks and 30 percent toward United States Treasury bonds. And that’s it (save for its bit of private equity and real estate), though they will sometimes adjust the percentages.

 Your appetite for risk and need for higher or lower returns may dictate a different allocation, but it need not be much more complicated. Then, you must have the conviction to stick with the plan, avoiding the tendency that too many of us have to buy more when our investments have already increased plenty and lock in losses by selling when markets are low.

 On days like Thursday and Friday, when the stock market is declining, it’s hard to sit calmly and do nothing, especially when commentators are yelling on television. So when the two men are feeling itchy, they make for the hills, literally, running on trails near Reno for 10 or 15 miles at a time.

 They can’t trade while they are in motion, but that’s probably a good thing. “We spend a lot of time up there talking each other out of stuff,” Mr. Lambert said. “In investing, the answer 90 percent of the time is to do nothing.” ||||| Steve Edmundson has no co-workers, rarely takes meetings and often eats leftovers at his desk. With that dynamic workday, the investment chief for the Nevada Public Employees’ Retirement System is out-earning pension funds that have hundreds on staff.

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– If your visions of high-profile hedge fund managers include frenetic scrambling through paperwork, fielding endless phone calls, and scouring the Internet during never-ending workdays, those don't apply to Steve Edmundson, the investment head of Nevada's $35 billion Public Employees' Retirement System, the Wall Street Journal notes. Where other states' retirement systems try to come up with the most complex investments possible to beat the markets, the 44-year-old Edmundson has a different philosophy when it comes to day-to-day trading: "Do as little as possible, usually nothing," as the Journal puts it. And by "nothing," that means not obsessing over the daily fluctuations in oil prices, the elections, or even what Janet Yellen is up to—an approach that's rare among managers of large pension funds, the New York Times noted last year in an article about Edmundson. This laissez-faire tactic has served Edmundson well: His system's returns over anywhere from one to 10 years are competitive, if not better, than the pension systems of other states, including the largest public one—California's. Even Edmundson's desk looks like it's his first day on the job, with just basic office supplies, a few family pics, and a printer—no fancy Bloomberg Terminal to monitor real-time market info. Edmundson is able to kick back by keeping the system's stocks and bonds in low-cost index funds, though one investment strategy expert (who held the job before Edmundson) concedes "doing nothing is harder than it looks" when it comes to showing such restraint. Edmundson's minimalist philosophy even carries over to lunch: He brings leftovers or a sandwich from home so he doesn't have to spend $10 each day. (A typical Steve Edmundson day, in the Wall Street Journal.)


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– IMF chief/would-be French presidential contender Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested and charged with criminal sexual act, attempted rape, and unlawful imprisonment today following yesterday's alleged attack on a maid in the $3,000-a-night NYC hotel suite Strauss-Kahn had been staying in. An NYPD rep says the 32-year-old maid "told detectives he came out of the bathroom naked, ran down a hallway to the foyer where she was, pulled her into a bedroom, and began to sexually assault her." "She pulled away from him and he dragged her down a hallway into the bathroom where he engaged in a criminal sexual act, according to her account to detectives. He tried to lock her into the hotel room," said the rep. Strauss-Kahn "will plead not guilty," one of his lawyers told Reuters. Strauss-Kahn—who has polled ahead of Nicolas Sarkozy—is finished, says presidential rival Marine Le Pen: "The case and the charges ... mark the end of his campaign and pre-campaign for the presidency and will most likely prompt the IMF to ask him to leave his post." Click to read more about Strauss-Kahn.

NAME: Dominique Strauss-Kahn AGE: 62. Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France on April 25, 1949.

 EDUCATION: Degrees in law, business administration, political studies and statistics. PhD in economics from the University of Paris.

 FAMILY: Wife, Anne Sinclair, and four children by a previous marriage.

 CAREER: Managing director of the International Monetary Fund since 2007, where he won praise for his handling of the global financial crisis. Strauss-Kahn was an economics professor, corporate lawyer and legislator in France's National Assembly. He served as finance minister from 1997-1999 and helped France prepare to abandon the franc for the euro. He sought the Socialist Party's nomination for the 2007 presidential elections and is a possible candidate in next year's presidential vote. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University.

 QUOTE: "While this incident constituted an error in judgment on my part, for which I take full responsibility, I firmly believe that I have not abused my position," Strauss-Kahn wrote in an email to IMF staff after an affair with a subordinate became public in 2008. ||||| NEW YORK/PARIS (Reuters) - IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged on Sunday with trying to rape a New York hotel maid in a scandal that appeared to wreck his hopes of becoming France's next president.

 The sexual assault charges throw the IMF into a leadership crisis just as it is trying to help ease an escalating euro zone debt crisis, and they turn France's presidential election campaign upside down when polls had made Strauss-Kahn a clear front runner.

 The charismatic 62-year-old, who led the International Monetary Fund through the 2007-09 global financial meltdown and has been central in galvanizing Europe to tackle its debt woes, for long had the reputation of a womanizer. But the charges he faces are in another realm.

 A maid, 32, said he emerged naked from the bathroom and sexually assaulted her inside his $3,000-a-night suite at the Sofitel hotel in New York's Times Square on Saturday afternoon. He was there on private business, the IMF said.

 Strauss-Kahn was expected to go before a state court later on Sunday. His lawyer said he will plead not guilty.

 Police say he fled the hotel after the alleged assault and a few hours later they pulled him out of his first-class seat on an Air France plane 10 minutes before it was to take off for Paris.

 He was charged with a criminal sexual act, unlawful imprisonment and attempted rape, moving him from luxurious hotel suite and a glittering public career to scandal and a bare holding cell in New York's tough Harlem neighborhood in the space of a few hours.

 The contrast could barely have been more dramatic. At the Sofitel, Strauss-Kahn's suite had a conference room, living room, foyer, spacious marble bathroom and a bedroom with a sumptuous king-sized bed and feather and down duvet.

 Police say Strauss-Kahn does not have diplomatic immunity from the charges, which if proven could carry a prison sentence of 15-20 years. They have collected DNA evidence from the hotel suite, The New York Times reported.

 Strauss-Kahn has hired New York lawyer Benjamin Brafman, a seasoned defense attorney famed for striking deals or winning not-guilty verdicts for pop stars and a football player.

 The IMF chief's wife, well-known French television personality Anne Sinclair, jumped to her husband's defense.

 "I do not believe for a single second the accusations leveled against my husband," she said in a statement..

 IMF CRISIS, ELECTION 'THUNDERBOLT'

 The IMF tried to fill its leadership vacuum by naming its No. 2 official, John Lipsky, as acting managing director. But the charges against Strauss-Kahn are a huge embarrassment for an institution that oversees the global economic system and has authorized hundreds of billions of dollars of lending to troubled countries as well as playing a major role in the euro-zone debt crisis.

 The allegations immediately threw France's presidential race wide open.

 He had not yet declared his candidacy but Strauss-Kahn was widely expected to run for the Socialist Party and early opinion polls showed him with a big lead over the conservative incumbent, Nicolas Sarkozy, who is seeking a second term at the election next April.

 "The news we received from New York last night struck like a thunderbolt," said Socialist leader Martine Aubry, appealing for party unity.

 France's government as well as Strauss-Kahn's political allies and rivals called for caution and respect for the presumption of innocence, but his presidential ambitions appeared to be dead in the water unless the case against him quickly unravels and he is shown to be innocent.

 "All this is completely astounding, immensely troubling and distressing. If the facts prove true ... it's something degrading for all women. It's terrible for the image of France," said Francois Bayrou, a centrist opponent.

 Far-right leader Marine Le Pen said her rival's presidential hopes had been crushed.

 Christine Boutin, president of the Christian Democrat Party, suggested Strauss-Kahn may have been set up.

 "I think it's very likely a trap was set for Dominique Strauss-Kahn and he fell into it," she told France's BFM television. "It's a political bomb for domestic politics."

 French voters are famously tolerant of political leaders' extra-marital affairs but the allegations against Strauss-Kahn are entirely different, and much more serious.

 If they are proven, Strauss-Kahn's fall from power in a scandal would be one of the most dramatic of any high-profile international figure in decades.

 Many politicians have fallen after being caught in extra-marital affairs and others have survived them, including former presidents John F. Kennedy and Bill Clinton as well as former French President Francois Mitterrand.

 But rarely have senior figures faced brutal assault charges like those filed against Strauss-Kahn.

 With Strauss-Kahn in the dock, the IMF also now faces many questions of its own, because his character had been questioned before.

 In 2008, Strauss-Kahn apologized for "an error of judgment" after an affair with a female IMF economist who was his subordinate.

 The Fund's board of member countries warned him against further improper conduct, but cleared him of harassment and abuse of power and kept him in his job. It will now face new scrutiny over whether that response was too weak, especially as there have been persistent rumors about Strauss-Kahn making sexual advances to women.

 PIVOTAL IN EUROPE'S DEBT WOES

 An economics professor and former French finance minister, Strauss-Kahn took over the IMF in November 2007 for a five-year term, and won praise for helping galvanize leaders to inject billions of dollars into the world economy during the global financial crisis.

 He introduced sweeping changes to ensure vulnerable countries swamped by the crisis had access to emergency loans, and others to give major emerging market countries such as China, India and Brazil greater voting powers in the IMF.

 Witty, multi-lingual, a skilled public speaker and sharp back-room negotiator, Strauss-Kahn also weighed into thornier issues by urging China to let its currency rise in a dispute with the United States.

 A crisis of leadership at the Fund now will especially worry European nations given Strauss-Kahn's pivotal role in brokering bailouts for Iceland, Hungary, Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

 "The chances are the successor won't be a European, and will want to rebalance the IMF's priorities away from its massive commitment in Europe," said Jean Pisani-Ferry, director of the Bruegel economic think-tank.

 Strauss-Kahn had been due to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday and join euro zone finance ministers on Monday to discuss the bloc's debt crisis and how to handle Greece, which is struggling to meet the terms of a 110 billion euro European Union/IMF bailout last year.

 "This might definitely cause some delays in the short term," a Greek official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

 Strauss-Kahn's lawyers moved quickly to cast doubts on the allegations against him.

 "We must wait until things settle and see if it's true or a provocation," said one of his France-based lawyers, Leon Lef Forster. "We must be especially careful not to get into a media circus and we must wait until things are clear."

 Brafman, his U.S. lawyer, previously defended pop star Michael Jackson against child molestation charges as well as other celebrities in trouble.

 The maid who accused Strauss-Kahn told police he attacked her when she went in to clean his suite.

 "She told detectives he came out of the bathroom naked, ran down a hallway to the foyer where she was, pulled her into a bedroom and began to sexually assault her, according to her account," New York police spokesman Paul Browne said.

 "She pulled away from him and he dragged her down a hallway into the bathroom where he engaged in a criminal sexual act, according to her account to detectives. He tried to lock her into the hotel room."

 The woman, who has not been named, was treated in hospital for minor injuries, Browne said. She has worked at the hotel for three years and the property's manager said on Sunday she has been a "completely satisfactory" employee in her work and her behavior.

 Under New York state law, attempted rape and criminal sexual act both carry a potential sentence of 15-20 years. Unlawful imprisonment carries a potential sentence of three to five years. |||||


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An attorney for the Texas teen who cited "affluenza" as a defense in a deadly drunken-driving wreck told FoxNews.com Friday he needed to ensure his client was not "mistreated according to the Mexican constitution."

 Fernando Benitez, who has represented 18-year-old Ethan Couch in Mexico, spoke to FoxNews.com over the phone, and called the teen's current legal fight "an international law case only." He said that as a judge is currently considering Couch's detention and possible deportation, "we are not here to delve into the past."

 Benitez denied reports that Couch had a gun at the time of his detention.

 Couch won a delay in his deportation based on a constitutional appeal in Mexico that could lead to a trial process lasting weeks or even months. Any flaw in the process of his detention by Mexican immigration authorities can be considered a violation of due process and of his human rights, legal analysts say.

 Benitez said Mexican authorities pushed for a "fast-track" deportation, which he argued would expose Couch to "a criminal procedure in the United States which may not be up to Mexican constitutional standards." He said Couch's Texas-based defense team asked him to intervene after the teen was caught in Mexico.

 Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson has said he believes Couch and his mother, Tonya, fled to Mexico in late November after a video surfaced that appears to show Couch at a party where people were drinking, which would be a violation of his probation. The mother and son were arrested Monday after using a phone to order pizza delivery that was traced to a condominium complex in the Mexican resort city of Puerto Vallarta.

 Couch, who was 16 at the time of the crash and was tried in juvenile court, received 10 years' probation for driving drunk and crashing into a disabled SUV parked on the side of the road in 2013. The collision killed four people and injured several others, including passengers in his truck. He pleaded guilty to four counts of intoxication manslaughter and two counts of intoxication assault causing serious bodily injury.

 During the sentencing phase of his trial, a defense expert argued that Couch's wealthy parents had coddled him into a sense of irresponsibility -- a condition the expert termed "affluenza." The condition is not recognized as a medical diagnosis by the American Psychiatric Association, and its invocation drew ridicule.

 Judge Jean Boyd sentenced Couch to probation over the objections of prosecutors who asked for 20 years' detention. Couch's attorneys argued probation would be more effective than detention because Couch could have been eligible for release in as few as two years.

 Unless he files for asylum, he will not be able to stay in Mexico indefinitely, said Aldo Salazar, a Texas attorney also licensed to practice in Mexico.

 "Asylum is granted to those who can prove a well-founded fear of persecution. I'm not sure `affluenza' would qualify," said immigration attorney Nicolas Chavez.

 Tonya Couch, 48, was returned to the United States early Thursday after her deportation from Mexico. She has been charged in Tarrant County with hindering an apprehension, a felony charge that carries a two- to 10-year prison sentence, and is being held on a $1 million bond.

 Ethan Couch was transferred Thursday to a Mexico City immigration detention center in one of the capital's poorest areas. A Mexican immigration official said the affluent young man will have no special privileges at the Agujas immigration detention center, where detainees sleep in common areas and use concrete basins to hand-wash clothes.

 "Is there a chance that Ethan Couch could be successful in staying in Mexico? Yes, but I think it is delaying the inevitable," said Dallas attorney Peter Schulte, who specializes in juvenile law.

 Tarrant County District Attorney Sharen Wilson has said she plans to ask a judge to transfer Couch's case to adult court, where he could get up to 120 days in an adult jail, followed by 10 years of probation. If he violates probation again, he could face up to 10 years in prison per death, Wilson said.

 A probation violation hearing is set for Jan. 19.

 Fox News' Will Carr, Dan Gallo and The Associated Press contributed to this report. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| Ethan Couch after his arrest in Mexico (Photo: Jalisco state prosecutor's office)

 DALLAS -- The Mexican attorney representing "affluenza" teen Ethan Couch in his unfolding immigration fight says a decision on the 18-year-old's deportation could be "months away," with even further appeals after that.

 Fernando Benitez, a high-profile attorney based primarily out of Tijuana, confirmed on Friday that he's handling Couch's detention by Mexican immigration authorities.

 "He hasn't committed a crime in Mexico," Benitez said in a phone interview. "Why would Mexico go along with this idea of locating someone and summarily kicking them out of the country so the marshals can grab him across the border? I don't think that's okay."

 MORE: Reports on Ethan Couch

 Benitez says he's filing a petition essentially saying that Couch's constitutional and civil rights may have been violated.

 He says the teen's crimes here in the United States should have no bearing on Mexican officials, or Mexican courts.

 "There is no formal extradition request by the U.S. State Department filed," he said. "They want to get him for not having the proper migratory papers, and have this executive decision."

 Ethan Couch's attorney in Mexico speaks

 Couch and his mother Tonya were detained by Mexican officials on Monday night in Puerto Vallarta at a run-down apartment building.

 They had been on the run from U.S. officials after Couch missed a probation meeting in early December. He's serving 10 years probation for killing four people in a drunk driving accident in 2013.

 Although his mother, Tonya, was deported Wednesday evening, her son was granted a temporary injunction by a Mexican judge, thanks to Benitez's last-minute legal maneuvers.

 The attorney says an evidence hearing in the case likely won't happen until the end of the month, while both sides file additional court documents during the interim.

 "From the hearing, a judge has up to 90 days to issue a ruling," he said. "After that, we could appeal a decision. We're going to take this to the full extent of our capacity and have whoever needs to review it."

 Before being detained, Couch and his mother were believed to have stayed at a different Mexican resort, where workers told ABC News that Couch had a handgun.

 Benitez says the hotel employee's story is suspect, and insists his client didn't have a gun when he was detained.

 "The likelihood of that story being true, for me, is zero percent," he said.

 He hopes to meet with Couch on Tuesday of next week in Mexico City, where the teen is being held at an immigration facility. It is not a prison, and is mostly filled with people who have run adrift of Mexico's immigration policies.

 Representatives from Benitez's office already met with the teen and said he hadn't experienced any harm or mistreatment while in custody.

 Tonya Couch is in a Los Angeles jail cell pending a hearing and eventual transfer back to Texas. She's facing a charge of Hindering Apprehension of a Felon, and has a bail at $1 million.

 Benitez's previous big cases include a successful bid to free Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi from a Mexican jail. He was imprisoned in 2014 for more than 200 days after he said he accidentally drove into the country with three guns.

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– The US teen diagnosed with "affluenza" will now be represented by a lawyer described as a "rock star." CBS DFW reports Mexican attorney Fernando Benitez will be representing Ethan Couch as he attempts to avoid deportation back to the US. Benitez is looking into whether Couch's human rights or due process were violated when he was detained in Mexico last week, according to Fox News. He says it could be months before Couch's return to the US is even a possibility. "He hasn't committed a crime in Mexico," Benitez tells WFAA. "Why would Mexico go along with this idea of locating someone and summarily kicking them out of the country so the marshals can grab him across the border? I don't think that's okay." Benitez says Couch's past—in which his family's wealth allowed him to avoid jail after killing four people while driving drunk—is irrelevant, and that this is "an international law case only," Fox reports. The lawyer says the legal treatment Couch gets in the US "may not be up to Mexican constitutional standards." According to CBS, Benitez denies earlier reports Couch was in possession of a gun while in Mexico. Couch is currently being held in an immigration facility in Mexico City, WFAA reports. His mother was deported last Thursday. Benitez is well known for a previous case in which he got a former US Marine out of jail after the Marine "accidentally" entered Mexico with three guns.


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Add seven swans, six geese and five golden rings to the list of Christmas gifts that cost more than they did a year ago.

 And if you get all 364 items repeated throughout "The Twelve Days of Christmas" carol, you'll pay 6.1 percent more this year, according to the so-called Christmas Price Index that PNC Wealth Management updates annually.

 That comes to $107,300.

 "The rise is larger than expected considering the modest economic growth we've had," said Jim Dunigan, managing executive of investments for PNC. He noted the government's Consumer Price Index has risen just 2 percent in the 12 months before September.

 Thrifty shoppers may find some reasons for cheer. Six items mentioned in the song haven't gone up in price: maids-a-milking, ladies dancing, lords-a-leaping, calling birds, turtle doves and the partridge. The eight maids-a-milking still cost just $58 because the minimum wage hasn't risen.

 Twelve drummers drumming ($2,775.50) and eleven pipers piping ($2,562) might also be considered relative bargains compared to seven swans, which will set you back $7,000. Nine ladies dancing will cost you $6,294.03.

 Dunigan said the 2011 drought caused the prices of some birds to soar, partly because of corn and other feed costs.

 "The geese were up 29.6 percent, and swans were up 11 percent," Dunigan said, adding that none of the gifts in the song went down in price this year.

 The price of a pear tree is $189.99, an 11.8 percent jump from last year's $169.99. Five gold rings jumped 16.3 percent this year, to $750, and three French hens are now $165, instead of $150.

 The $15 partridge is the cheapest item, and swans the most expensive, at $1,000 each.

 Last-minute shoppers who turn to the Internet will pay a bit more for the gifts. Buying one set of the core items in each verse costs $24,431 in traditional stores this year, but $40,440 online. Part of that difference is the extra expense of shipping live birds, Dunigan said, adding that Internet costs rose 1.5 percent compared to last year.

 PNC Financial Services Group Inc. checks jewelry stores, dance companies, pet stores and other sources to compile the list. Some of its sources this year include the National Aviary in Pittsburgh and the Philadelphia-based Pennsylvania Ballet Company.

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 _ Partridge, $15; last year: same _ Pear tree, $189.99; last year: 169.99 _ Two turtle doves, $125; last year: same _ Three French hens, $165; last year: $150 _ Four calling birds (canaries), $519.96; last year: same _ Five gold rings, $750; last year: $645 _ Six geese a-laying, $210; last year: $162 _ Seven swans a-swimming, $7,000; last year: $6,300 _ Eight maids a-milking, $58; last year: same _ Nine ladies dancing (per performance), $6,294; last year: same _ 10 lords a-leaping (per performance), $4,767; last year: same _ 11 pipers piping (per performance), $2,562; last year: $2,428 _ 12 drummers drumming (per performance), $2,776; last year: $2,630

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– The perfect gift for that person who seems to have everything? How about 12 drummers drumming, 11 pipers piping, 10 lords a-leaping, and, well, you get the idea. This year, if you tried to buy all 364 items from the "12 Days of Christmas" song, including that partridge in a pear tree, it would set you back $107,300, according to PNC Wealth Management's annual Christmas Price Index. That's a 6.1% increase over last year, which was the first year the gifts topped $100,000. "The rise is larger than expected considering the modest economic growth we've had," says a PNC exec. That's partially because last year's drought caused some bird prices to rise: geese are now 29.6% more expensive, and swans are 11% more, though a partridge—the cheapest item on the list—is still just $15. And, despite the fact that it is Cyber Monday, we don't recommend buying these gifts online. You'll pay quite a bit more, thanks to the cost of shipping live birds, the AP reports. Click to see a breakdown of the costs from each verse.


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 “You have blood on your hands,” Kasem’s wife of 34-years Jean Kasem said as she stormed out of the Los Angeles courtroom following the decision.

 “You just imposed a death sentence,” her lawyer Steve Haney added as he followed her out.

 Judge Daniel S. Murphy said he changed his mind after receiving medical records from St. Anthony’s Hospital near Seattle saying the ailing “American Top 40” host was not responding to artificial nutrition and fluids, leading to painful complications.

 “It would be acutely harmful for Mr. Kasem to have nutrition and hydration restored at this time,” the judge said. “This was at the advisement of doctors at St. Anthony’s.”

 Jean Kasem told the judge her husband expressed his wish to live using eye and eyebrow movements during a five-minute meeting at the hospital last week. (Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)

 The judge upheld an earlier conservatorship granted to eldest daughter Kerri Kasem and said she can continue calling the shots during her dying dad’s final days.

 He said Jean did not act “in the best interests” of her sick, 82-year-old husband when she removed him from a “skilled” California nursing home at 2:30 in the morning May 7 against doctors orders and took him to a private residence in Washington State.

 Jean, 59, gave an impassioned speech to the judge before his Wednesday order claiming she and her daughter Liberty Kasem have been terrorized by Kerri since last year.

 “We have lived in sheer horror of this girl,” she said, pounding her fist on a courtroom table over and over.

 The judge said Kerri Kasem can continue calling the shots during her dying dad’s final days. (Ted S. Warren/AP)

 She claimed her husband expressed his wish to live using eye and eyebrow movements during a five-minute meeting at the hospital last week.

 “They had to pry his hands off me,” she told the judge under penalty of perjury.

 “(Kerri) has had in her possession her father less than a week and decided to stop all medication and kill him,” she testified.

 Kerri’s lawyer Troy Martin vehemently disputed that claim.

 Casey Kasem was wheeled out of a Washington home on June 1.

 “Nobody wants Mr. Kasem to die. This is without question the most difficult thing I have ever had to do and Kerri has had to do,” Martin told the judge Wednesday.

 He said doctors at St. Anthony’s did try artificial hydration, and “it resulted in Mr. Kasem almost drowning.”

 “This is very, very heart-wrenching,” Martin said. “(Mr. Kasem) is receiving morphine drips. Dehydration might be a terrible way to die, but he’s receiving medication to keep him comfortable.”

 Casey Kasem, the voice of Shaggy on the TV cartoon “Scooby Doo,” is in the late stages of Lewy Body Disease, a progressive form of dementia that robs many patients of the ability to walk and talk.

 Jean Kasem (c.) waits with her attorney Joel Paget (r.) and her daughter, Liberty Kasem (l.), before appearing in court on May 30. (Ted S. Warren/AP)

 He was admitted into intensive care June 1 in critical condition with an infection related to a “serious” bed sore, the hospital said in a statement last week.

 “We have tried everything to keep him alive. We did put him back on fluids, but we had to take him off again because his lungs were filling up. It sounded like he was drowning. It was excruciating to watch,” Kerri, 41, told the Daily News Monday.

 “The feeding was backing up because he can’t digest,” she said, her voice choking with emotion. “This is breaking my heart. We’re been trying for nine days to keep him alive. There’s nothing we want more than for our dad to be here with us.”

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– Casey Kasem's children have decided to remove life support for their father, allowing him to die at a hospice facility in Washington state with them by his side. They tell TMZ Kasem's health directive document says that he does not want "life-sustaining procedures, including nutrition and hydration," if "the extension of my life would result in mere biological existence, devoid of cognitive function, with no reasonable hope for normal functioning." And a judge in the contentious conservatorship case surrounding Kasem yesterday reversed a ruling requiring doctors to keep the 82-year-old alive, so Kasem's kids have decided to withhold food, fluids, and medications. The judge said he received medical records showing that Kasem was not responding to the nutrition and fluids he's been receiving, that painful complications have resulted, and that doctors recommend the nutrition and fluids be withheld, the New York Daily News reports. He upheld daughter Kerri Kasem's conservatorship over her father, despite the fact that Kasem's wife, Jean, with whom the children have been feuding over his care, insisted Kasem told her last week, via eye and eyebrow movements, he wants to live. She said as she left the court hearing that Kasem's kids will have their father's blood on their hands, but Kerri Kasem insists to the Daily News they've done all they can: "We had to take him off [fluids] because his lungs were filling up. It sounded like he was drowning," she says, and "the feeding was backing up because he can’t digest."


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SOHR could document death of 1878 executed by Islamic State since the declaration of “Caliphate” in Syria in 6/28/2014 until yesterday 12/27/2014.

 The death toll is as follows:

 1175 civilians, including 4 children and 8 women. They were executed by beheading, shooting or stoning in the provinces of Deir Ezzor, al- Raqqa, al- Hasakah, Aleppo, Homs and Hama. 930 out of 1175 are from al- Shaitaat tribe in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.

 81 fighters of the Nusra Front, rebel and Islamic battalions. IS executed them after arresting them either in clashes between the mentioned battalions and IS or on IS- checkpoint.

 Islamic State also executed 120 of its own members for “exceeding the limits in religion”; most of them executed after arresting them during their attempt to come back home.

 502 officers and soldiers of the regime forces. They were arrested during clashes between IS and the regime forces.

 We in SOHR believe that the real number of people that had been killed by IS is higher than the number documented by SOHR because there are hundreds of missing and detainees inside the IS jails, loss of communication with about a thousand men of al- Shaitaat tribe as well as because there are dozens of Kurds who have still been missing since the beginning of IS attack on the countryside of Ayn al- Arab “Kobani” in September 16. ||||| Islamic State fighters take part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa province, June 30, 2014.

 BEIRUT The Islamic State militant group has killed 1,878 people in Syria during the past six months, the majority of them civilians, a British-based Syrian monitoring organization said on Sunday.

 Islamic State also killed 120 of its own members, most of them foreign fighters trying to return home, in the last two months, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

 The militant group has taken vast parts of Iraq and Syria and declared a caliphate in territory under its control in June. Since then it has fought the Syrian and Iraqi governments, other insurgents and Kurdish forces.

 Rami Abdulrahman, the head of the Syrian monitoring group, told Reuters that Islamic State killed 1,175 civilians, including eight women and four children.

 He said 930 of the civilians were members of the Sheitaat, a Sunni Muslim tribe from eastern Syria which fought Islamic State for control of two oilfields in August.

 Reuters cannot independently verify the figures but Islamic State has publicized beheadings and stoning of many people in areas it controls in Syria and Iraq. These are for actions it sees as violating its reading of Islamic law, such as adultery, homosexuality, stealing and blasphemy.

 The group, an offshoot of al Qaeda, has also released videos of executions of captured enemy fighters, activists and journalists.

 It beheaded two U.S. journalists, and one American and two British aid workers this year in attempts to put pressure on a U.S.-led international coalition, which has been bombing its fighters in Syria since September.

 Abdulrahman, who gathers information from all sides of the Syrian conflict, said that Islamic State had also executed 502 soldiers fighting for President Bashar al-Assad and 81 anti-Assad insurgents.

 He said that 116 foreign fighters who had joined Islamic State but later wanted to return home, were executed in the Syrian provinces of Deir Al-Zor, Raqqa and Hassakeh since November. Four other Islamic State fighters were killed on other charges, Abdulrahman said.

 The overwhelming number of the group's victims have been from the Syrian population.cracked down on peaceful pro-democracy protests in 2011.

 (Reporting by Oliver Holmes; Editing by Clelia Oziel) ||||| ISIS has executed nearly 2,000 people in Syria - half of them from an important Sunni tribe - since announcing their “caliphate” in June, a monitoring group said Sunday.

 “The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has documented the execution by the Islamic State of 1,878 people in Syria between June 28 when it announced its ‘caliphate” and December 27,” the group said in a statement.

 The dead included 930 members of the Shaitat tribe which rose up against ISIS in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor in the summer, the UK-based Observatory said.

 On Dec. 17, the Observatory said a mass grave containing the bodies of 230 Shaitat had been found in the province.

 The monitoring group, which relies on a network of activist and medical sources on the ground in Syria, said the victims were shot dead, beheaded or stoned to death in the provinces of Aleppo, Deir Ezzor, Hama, Homs, Hasakeh and Raqqa.

 Women, children included

 Of those killed, 1,175 were civilians who included four children and eight women.

 The militants also “executed” 502 soldiers and pro-regime militiamen, the monitoring group said.

 It said ISIS also killed around 120 of its own members, mostly for trying to flee to their home countries, and 80 members of the rival Al-Nusra Front, the Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria.

 Despite giving a breakdown, the Observatory believes the number killed by ISIS to be far higher, given that many have disappeared and remain unaccounted for.

 ISIS often records such killings on video and posts footage on the Internet, which experts say is meant to sow fear among civilians and rival groups, as well as to attract new recruits.

 U.S.-led forces launch 13 strikes

 To quash ISIS, U.S.-led forces on Sunday conducted eight air strikes against the militant group in Syria and five strikes on ISIS targets in Iraq, the U.S. military said in a statement.

 In Syria, air strikes centered on the town of Kobani near the Turkish border, the Combined Joint Task Force said.

 The strikes in Iraq included ISIS positions near Sinjar and near Mosul, the task force said.

 (With AFP and Reuters)

 Last Update: Sunday, 28 December 2014 KSA 20:28 - GMT 17:28 |||||
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– ISIS has killed 1,878 people in Syria—most of them civilians—over the six-month period since it proclaimed a caliphate in parts of Iraq and Syria in late June, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Among the victims: four children, eight women, members of an opposing Sunni Muslim tribe, soldiers of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, insurgents fighting against Assad, foreign activists and journalists, and even about 120 of its own fighters. Although Reuters says it hasn't been able to independently confirm the British organization's numbers, it notes the publicized stonings and beheadings that ISIS has conducted for what it sees as offenses against Islam, ranging from adultery and homosexuality to blasphemy and stealing. By the monitor's count, 1,175 civilians have been beheaded, stoned, or shot; about 930 of those civilians were part of the Shaitat, a Sunni Muslim tribe that fought ISIS in eastern Syria. A mass grave containing 230 Shaitat bodies was said to have been discovered in mid-December, Al Arabiya reports. But the tally may even be on the low side, Al Arabiya notes: The observatory references "hundreds of missing and detainees inside the IS jails, loss of communication with about a thousand men of al-Shaitaat tribe, [and] ... dozens of Kurds who have still been missing since ... September 16." (A recent ISIS execution video is said to have major differences from past videos.)


The baby had pronounced bite marks over much of his body (Photo: KENS 5)

 SAN ANTONIO -- State investigators have shut down a far northwest-side home day care operation after they said an infant there was bitten 27 times by another child.

 Child Care Licensing ordered the homeowner to cease operations Monday after an investigation revealed she had been operating out of a home on Bentwood View without a license. Investigators found eight children in the home and determined it had been in operation for eight years.

 The infant, who was rushed to a hospital Friday, had pronounced bite marks all over his body, including his eyes, cheeks, legs, stomach and back. The parents of the baby, who asked not to be identified, said the day care operator waited four hours to call them and did so only after the baby's injuries did not fade away.

 The parents rushed the infant to a hospital Friday (Photo: KENS 5)

 KENS 5 is not naming the operator because she has not been criminally charged.

 A San Antonio Police Department spokesman confirmed Tuesday the case is under investigation by its sex crimes unit. The spokesman said it does not appear a sex crime took place; instead, the unit has taken on the case because it involves the possibility that a crime was committed against a child.

 The home day care operator spoke with the I-Team Tuesday morning (Photo: Jason Eggleston)

 The operator could face charges of child neglect or injury to a child by omission if SAPD determines something could have been done to prevent the baby's injuries.

 "At that moment, no. Yesterday, I found out," the operator told the I-Team on Tuesday morning when asked if she knew she had to have a license to operate. She claims she called the baby's parents within a few minutes of finding the bite marks.

 A neighbor living a few doors down told the I-Team he took his daughter to the home for a year and never had any issues. A second parent called the KENS 5 newsroom Tuesday afternoon and said she had taken her child to the home for several years and the incident was "being blown out of proportion."

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 A Child Protective Services spokeswoman told the I-Team on Tuesday that the operator has expressed an interest in getting a license and reopening the operation. She would be required to complete several steps, including background checks and CPR training for all employees.

 Investigators shut down the day care operation Monday (Photo: Jason Eggleston)

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 Image 1 of 23 John and Jeanette Betancourt's 4-month-old son was allegedly bitten 27 times by another child at an unlicensed day care in San Antonio. John and Jeanette Betancourt's 4-month-old son was allegedly bitten 27 times by another child at an unlicensed day care in San Antonio. Photo: Courtesy, John And Jeanette Betancourt

 Image 2 of 23 We talked with Rhian Allvin, executive director of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, about how to identify a good child care center. Allvin also provides red flags to look for when choosing a day care. less We talked with Rhian Allvin, executive director of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, about how to identify a good child care center. Allvin also provides red flags to look for when ... more Photo: Jo Unruh, Getty Images

 Image 3 of 23 Ask the center about its rate of turnover, Allvin recommends. As with any low-paying job, turnover will be fairly common, but if caregivers are constantly leaving the center, it's a sign you might want to go somewhere else. less Ask the center about its rate of turnover, Allvin recommends. As with any low-paying job, turnover will be fairly common, but if caregivers are constantly leaving the center, it's a sign you might want to go ... more Photo: Ariel Skelley, Getty Images/Blend Images

 Image 4 of 23 In infant classrooms, look for caregivers who exhibit a lot of eye contact with the babies. They should also act warm and friendly toward the children, Allvin said. In infant classrooms, look for caregivers who exhibit a lot of eye contact with the babies. They should also act warm and friendly toward the children, Allvin said. Photo: Factoria Singular, Getty Images

 Image 5 of 23 Children should be engaged in age-appropriate educational activities. Children should be engaged in age-appropriate educational activities. Photo: Christopher Futcher, Getty Images

 Image 6 of 23 Evaluate whether caregivers are interested in the children or whether they appear bored or frustrated by their duties. Evaluate whether caregivers are interested in the children or whether they appear bored or frustrated by their duties. Photo: Zero Creatives, Getty Images/Cultura RF

 Image 7 of 23 Children should participate in group activities, especially problem solving, Allvin said. If you visit a center during the day and the kids are watching television, that's not a good sign. Children should participate in group activities, especially problem solving, Allvin said. If you visit a center during the day and the kids are watching television, that's not a good sign. Photo: Westend61, Getty Images/Westend61

 Image 8 of 23 Pay attention to how many children are in the room compared to the number of caregivers. The state assigns limits for each age group. For instance, there must be one caregiver in the room for every four infants aged 0 to 11 months. less Pay attention to how many children are in the room compared to the number of caregivers. The state assigns limits for each age group. For instance, there must be one caregiver in the room for every four infants ... more Photo: Westend61, Getty Images/Westend61

 Image 9 of 23 The biggest red flag is a center that is not licensed or regulated, Allvin said. She recommends avoiding these types of centers. The biggest red flag is a center that is not licensed or regulated, Allvin said. She recommends avoiding these types of centers. Photo: Westend61, Getty Images/Westend61

 Image 10 of 23 Allvin encourages parents to spend as much time as they want observing day care classrooms. "Many parents feel it is not their place," she said. "But it absolutely is their place." Allvin encourages parents to spend as much time as they want observing day care classrooms. "Many parents feel it is not their place," she said. "But it absolutely is their place." Photo: Westend61, Getty Images/Westend61

 Image 12 of 23 Play equipment in disrepair, which could cause injury to a child. Standing water in playgrounds is another violation that is frequently cited by DFPS inspectors. Play equipment in disrepair, which could cause injury to a child. Standing water in playgrounds is another violation that is frequently cited by DFPS inspectors. Photo: Noah Clayton, Getty Images/Tetra Images RF

 Image 13 of 23 Children left unsupervised in a classroom. Children left unsupervised in a classroom. Photo: Maskot, Getty Images/Maskot

 Image 14 of 23 Several reports showed children escaping from the center when caregivers left them unsupervised. Several reports showed children escaping from the center when caregivers left them unsupervised. Photo: Maskot, Getty Images/Maskot

 Image 15 of 23 The state does not allow child care centers to use candy or food as part of a reward/punishment system. The state does not allow child care centers to use candy or food as part of a reward/punishment system. Photo: Kim Gunkel, Getty Images

 Image 16 of 23 Occasionally, a day care center will fail to report an injury or other incident to the parent in the state's allotted time frame. Occasionally, a day care center will fail to report an injury or other incident to the parent in the state's allotted time frame. Photo: Rich Legg, Getty Images

 Image 17 of 23 Licensed centers are cited when inspectors find cleaning materials and other hazardous substances, such as medications, within reach of the children. Licensed centers are cited when inspectors find cleaning materials and other hazardous substances, such as medications, within reach of the children. Photo: Pauline Cutler, Getty Images

 Image 18 of 23 Each infant should be assigned to his or her own crib and use that crib every day. Each infant should be assigned to his or her own crib and use that crib every day. Photo: RuslanDashinsky, Getty Images

 Image 19 of 23 Older children might be transported by the center for field trips or other activities. State inspectors often cite centers that fail to use the proper child safety restraints. Older children might be transported by the center for field trips or other activities. State inspectors often cite centers that fail to use the proper child safety restraints. Photo: REB Images, Getty Images/Blend Images

 Image 20 of 23 Look for toys in a classroom that could be a choking hazard or otherwise endanger a child. Look for toys in a classroom that could be a choking hazard or otherwise endanger a child. Photo: ÃÂ© Hans Barten, Getty Images/Flickr Open

 Image 21 of 23 State inspectors prohibit caregivers from talking on the phone, texting or any other personal activity that takes their attention away from the children. Even a conversation between two adults can result in a citation if it distracts them from a playground or classroom. less State inspectors prohibit caregivers from talking on the phone, texting or any other personal activity that takes their attention away from the children. Even a conversation between two adults can result in a ... more Photo: Photosindia, Getty Images/photosindia

 Image 22 of 23 Corporal punishment is not allowed in child care centers in the State of Texas. Corporal punishment is not allowed in child care centers in the State of Texas. |||||
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– When John and Jeanette Betancourt were alerted Friday that their 4-month-old son had been bitten at his San Antonio day care, Jeanette went to pick him up and noticed the day care operator was holding the infant close to her body. "She finally turns my son around and the first thing my wife notices is his legs," John Betancourt tells the Houston Chronicle, describing a horrific scene that involved not only bites on the baby's legs, but also on his eye area, cheeks, stomach, and back—27 bites in all by another child at the day care, KENS 5 reports. Now the state of Texas has shut down the in-home operation, which investigators say is unlicensed and has been in business for eight years, and the incident is being probed by the San Antonio PD to see if the operator could face charges. The woman, who was found with eight children in her charge Monday when investigators showed up, told Jeanette Betancourt that although she heard the baby crying, she didn't think anything was wrong, per the paper. On Tuesday, the day care operator told KENS 5 that she called the parents minutes after realizing the baby had been bitten and that she wasn't aware she needed a license, saying, "Yesterday I found out." But the Betancourts tell KENS 5 that the woman waited four hours to call them (and only after the baby's wounds didn't fade), and John Betancourt tells the Chronicle, "When we went to her house to do the initial interview ... she showed us that she had a license"; he adds he wishes they'd confirmed that. Other parents who've sent their children to the day care tell KENS 5 they never had any issues. The baby, meanwhile, is healing and "doing fine now," the dad tells the Chronicle.