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...local prosecutor in Virginia Beach, Va., announced a similar plan: no new prosecutions of misdemeanor domestic-violence cases. "I deeply regret that the victims of domestic violence will not have a prosecutor on their side, while the defendants will be able to retain their own attorneys or have attorneys appointed for them if they are considered indigent," said commonwealth attorney Harvey Bryant, a Republican. "I can't afford to do everything." A spokesman for Governor Warner called the move by Bryant, an elected official, unfortunate, adding that "to throw out the whole category of domestic-violence cases is irresponsible...
...about 75% are mounted on towers in the traditional (read: ugly, obtrusive) sense. The rest have been tucked inside steeples and flagpoles, on rooftops and water towers and in giant fake trees adorning rarefied real estate from Virginia's Mount Vernon to California's Hearst Castle. Even Pebble Beach's hallowed golf course is reportedly considering installing high-tech replicas of gnarled cypress trees...
Israeli pilot Rafi Marek was 90 seconds into his flight from Mombasa, Kenya, at about 3,000 ft., when he felt an unexpected thump. He thought it was the impact of a bird hitting the fuselage of his Arkia charter Boeing 757 carrying 261 Israelis home from a beach vacation. But he wondered if something far more frightening might have been after his plane when crew members spotted two white stripes of smoke streaming past the jet's tail, only 100 yards away. Two shoulder-fired heat-seeking missiles had just missed blowing up Marek's plane: the launcher...
...DIED. EDWARD LATIMER "NED" BEACH, 84, U.S. Navy captain and author who wrote the best-selling submarine thriller Run Silent, Run Deep, which was made into a 1958 movie starring Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster; in Washington D.C. Beach was awarded 10 decorations for bravery during World War II, including the Navy Cross for his role in sinking Japanese ships close to enemy shores. In 1960 he commanded a submarine that circled the world in 84 days without surfacing?a record that still stands...
...Donnas’ fifth full-length effort, Spend the Night, raises a question: just how much more of the band’s jailbait, piss-and-estrogen rock can one palate? The algorithm for their records has always been fairly obvious, drawing its vivacity from the Beach Boys, melody from the Ramones and potency from Bikini Kill. But even the most rawking of formulas will eventually become tiresome as they keep cranking out the same three-minute, guitar-reliant anthems. The Donnas may need to do some tweaking, and God forbid, some maturing, as the years...