| Man pleads not guilty to charge of assaulting Bennington police ...
BENNINGTON A $10,000 bail was set on a man arraigned in Bennington District Court on Wednesday for assaulting a law enforcement officer. Christopher Russell, 17, pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest, petit larceny and violating his conditions of release. The bail was imposed on him by Judge Katherine Hayes. "The allegations strongly suggest that Mr. Russell has a pattern of violating court orders," said Hayes of the reason she set the high bail. Russell also withdrew a guilty plea for burglary. According to an affidavit by Bennington Police Officer Anthony Silvestro, police responded to South Street on Feb. 17 at around 6:30 p.m. for a report of someone who might be wanted by police. Confrontation at door Silvestro said the complainant called and told police that Russell was at his residence, and asked if there was a warrant out for Russell's arrest.
Langston Hughes Lecture to focus on civil rights predecessor
When Randal Jelks was seven years old, the city of New Orleans closed the community swimming pool near his boyhood home. The pool's dry, cracked concrete was Jelks' daily reminder of the divided world he lived in. Jelks' skin was too dark to swim in that pool. “Six years," Jelks said. “They didn't want black kids swimming in the pool." .
Clinton may unite Republicans
She's a Democrat. Both Missourians want anyone but Democrat Hillary Clinton for U.S. president. "We're tired of the Hillary thing," Effertz said. "We'd had enough of Bill and Hillary." "I do not like the way they've been kind of nasty," said Erganian, of Rocheport, Missouri. "I don't want anybody in office like that." .
Seattle's soothing baseball voice headed to Cooperstown
I'm delighted that Dave Niehaus was named this year's recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award, because this is as close as I'll come to having a close relative enter the Hall of Fame. Like everyone in the Northwest, I consider Niehaus a member of the family. He's been in my parents' home so many nights, he should pay rent, and he rides with me in my car so often, I should be able to use the carpool lane. .
Mickey Kaus
Had she entered in August or September, the surge would have run its course successfully or not. The Iran issue would be that much further along. Pandemic flu would have hit or not hit. Etc. By announcing early, she brought into play a hundred unnecessary variables. In a nutshell, her challenge is (a) herself, (b) her vote on the War (and her bizarre accounting for same), (c) her husband (never very popular with the party's left wing and a wild card every day), (d) the whole Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton can-we-ever-get-out-of-this-movie thing, (e) Hillaryland (consultants turning everything to hectoring mush), (f) deep-seated fear among Democrats that she is, in truth, the least electable candidate they have. Geffen, a long-time ally, addressed a, b, c, d, e and f. The Clinton campaign, by responding the way it did, amplified his remarks at least twofold.
the has-been
But every now and then, cutaway shots from the campaign trail show a side view that makes a voter worry that a little of the Old Huck might be primed for a comeback. ... 6:14 P.M. (link) Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007 Outta There: As any conservative will tell you, people vote with their feet. Just ask Larry Craig. But that's bad news for a Republican Party whose leaders are looking at the GOP's future and deciding to walk away. The sudden, simultaneous departure of both former Speaker Dennis Hastert and Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott has been treated as a coincidence, not a trend. But congressional resignations tend to be an even more accurate forecast than Intrade. If you're checking the parties' vital signs, consider this: The GOP lost the two longest-serving congressional leaders in Republican history—in the same week.
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