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Mom Indicted in Stoning Death of 2 Young Sons

TYLER -- A Smith County grand jury Monday indicted an East Texas mother on two counts of capital murder in the deaths of two of her sons. The grand jury in Tyler also indicted Deanna Laney on one count of injury to a child over the attack that left her toddler son with a fractured skull. The indictment says the Mother's Day weekend attacks were carried out with rocks. Laney is jailed in Tyler on $3 million bond. Authorities have said the woman told officers that she killed her sons because God told her to do it.

Kopp Wants Battle Kept Off Federal Prosecution

James C. Kopp wants U.S. Attorney Michael A. Battle to be disqualified from taking part in the federal prosecution against him and barred from the courtroom during pretrial proceedings. The convicted assassin recently filed federal court papers claiming Battle made a secret deal with Kopp's former defense lawyer, Bruce A. Barket, prior to Kopp's public confession to shooting Dr. Barnett Slepian, an Amherst obstetrician who performed abortions. The "deal" called for Battle to release Kopp's pro-life associates, Dennis Malvasi and Loretta Marra, "immediately" from jail if Kopp agreed to make a public confession to the Slepian slaying, Kopp said in court papers. Kopp wound up confessing in a jailhouse interview, which was published in The Buffalo News last Nov. 20. There were talks about such a deal, but no deal was ever finalized, according to both Barket and Battle's top assistant, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathleen M. Mehltretter.

Rudolph Lawyers Plan To Contest
Documents Linking Him To Bombing

ASHEVILLE, N.C. -- Attorneys for suspected serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph say court documents linking their client to a deadly bombing amount to hearsay. Attorney Hube Dodd says they could be enough to keep Rudolph from getting a fair trial. He says defense lawyers will contest their admissibility. Documents released last week in Alabama allege that Rudolph's mobile home and pickup truck in Murphy contained traces of the same type of explosive used in a Birmingham abortion clinic bombing. An off-duty police officer died in the blast.

Temporary Injunction Granted To Planned Parenthood

AUSTIN- Six Planned Parenthood affiliates can continue to perform abortions with privately raised funds in Texas without jeopardizing $13 million in annual state funds, under a temporary injunction granted by a federal judge Monday. The six affiliates sued the state in June over a provision in the 2004-05 state budget that would deny state funds to health care providers that perform abortions. The group called the measures an "unconstitutional penalty" aimed at denying women access to family planning services. The provision would have gone into effect Sept. 1.

The Murder of God’s Prophet

On 19 February, 2003, a classified F.B.I. intelligence bulletin was issued to state and local law enforcement agencies throughout the country warning authorities to be on the alert for "lone terrorists." Among those listed as examples was Paul J. Hill. The U.S. government, reacting to the rise of Islamic jihadism and inspired by the regular denunciation of baby defenders by "pro-life" organizations, has ratcheted up the rhetoric against those who confront national idolatry and defend the innocent. Those who step beyond merely objecting to the murder of womb children and actually defend the innocent are not just "extremists"; they are "terrorists" – right there with the Palestinian intifada, Al Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah. And so, in 2003, the terrorist Paul Hill can be quietly executed without a whisper of opposition from "pro-life organizations."

Three Dead In Shooting

Residents of a Sheboygan south-side neighborhood were stunned by what Sheboygan Police believe is a murder-suicide. Following a 911 call at 7:21 a.m. Monday, police found the bodies of Shannon G. Thiel, 28, and Tanya A. Meyer-Garcia, 24, at the Mead Avenue Apartments building in the 2400 block of South 18th Street. According to police, both Thiel and Meyer-Garcia died from gunshot wounds. Meyer-Garcia was pregnant, and her fetus did not survive, police said.

Villanova Prof Accused of Killing Her Baby

Police have arrested a 38-year-old university history professor and accused her of fatally slitting her infant daughter's throat. The child, Raya Donagi, was found bleeding and unconscious Monday after her grandmother called 911 about 9 a.m. She was pronounced dead at the grandmother's St. Paul home.

Florida Woman To Be Put To Death Despite Family's Wishes

Attorneys for the parents of a 39-year-old Florida woman - who suffered brain damage under uncertain circumstances in 1990 - asked the Florida Supreme Court Monday to stop her husband from allowing her to die by starvation and dehydration. The woman's family has also launched an online petition asking Florida Gov. Jeb Bush to intervene in the case. Terri Schindler Schiavo is scheduled to begin dying Monday, August 25. On that date, her nutrition and hydration will be stopped unless the Florida Supreme Court or Gov. Bush intervene.

Gov. Bush Fires Law Firm
Fighting Rape Victim's Suit

"There is absolutely no excuse for the legal position taken in Dorothy's case," Bush said in a statement sent to the Sentinel on Monday. "This is a tragic story, one in which the blame rests solely on the individuals responsible: the group home operators and the man currently in prison for this crime."

Foster Mom Indicted on Lesser Charge in Girl's Death

A Queens foster mother accused of dumping the body of a severely handicapped 8-year-old girl in the trash last month was indicted yesterday on misdemeanor charges related to the girl's death. Renee Johnson, 50, of Rosedale was indicted in Manhattan on charges of improperly disposing of human remains for putting Stephanie Ramos in the garbage at East 91st Street and Second Avenue on July 8. She also was charged with falsely reporting an incident for telling police that she left Stephanie on a couch at the Variety/Cody Gifford House for Children with Special Needs that day. Johnson still has not been charged in Stephanie's death. Patrick Clark, a spokesman for the Queens district attorney's office, said prosecutors are still investigating.

Memorial Held For Infant Slain In 1986

BRISTOL -- Daniel Lee Poulin never had a funeral or a memorial ceremony when he died 17 years ago. But on Monday, the 7-week-old infant was honored at a small ceremony at West Cemetery. Only a few raindrops fell lightly on the crowd that gathered by his gravestone to hold a moment of silence and say a few prayers in remembrance of the boy whose life was cut short by suffocation at the hands of his mother. For Belinda Taylor-Doak, the moment was bittersweet. She would at last be able to visit her grandson’s grave. After his death in 1986, Taylor-Doak said no one had called her to tell her about the funeral arrangements and she never knew where Daniel was buried.

Anarchist Web Site Lands Man in Jail

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge sentenced a man to a year in prison Monday for creating an anarchist Web site with links to sites on how to build bombs. U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson sentenced Sherman Austin to more than the prosecutor had recommended under a plea bargain. Austin, 20, pleaded guilty in February to distributing information related to explosives. Austin must also pay a $2,000 fine and is barred for three years from using a computer without approval. Wilson said he also may not associate with anyone from a group that "espouses physical force as a means of change."

Some Evidence Off-Limits Against Nichols

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Evidence concerning the deaths of eight federal law enforcement officers in the Oklahoma City bombing cannot be used by state prosecutors to help secure a death penalty against bombing conspirator Terry Nichols, a judge ruled Monday. Nichols, 48, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison following a federal trial for the deaths of the eight officers in the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The blast killed 168 people. In Oklahoma, Nichols is charged with 161 state counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of the other victims and a fetus.

Woman Hit By Train, Delivers Baby Before Dying

EDDYVILLE, Ore. -- An unborn baby was saved after its mother was fatally injured in a collision with a train. On Friday, a Willamette and Pacific Railroad train struck a car at the crossing on Nashville Road in Eddyville. Dawn King, 31, was airlifted to Oregon Health and Science University and died hours after her baby was successfully delivered by emergency Caesarean. The baby, which was two months premature, was listed in serious condition.