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Megan's Law

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Megan's Law Sex Offender Reports
Detailed Sex Offender Reports based on the Sex Offender Registration Act of 1996
Does a sexual offender live in your neighborhood?
Protect your children...know which sex predators live near you!

Megan's Law is an informal name for laws in the United States requiring law enforcement authorities to make information available to the public regarding registered sex offenders.

Individual states decide what information will be made available and how it be disseminated. Commonly included information includes the offender's name, picture, address, incarceration date, and nature of crime. The information is often displayed on free public websites, but can be published in newspapers, distributed in pamphlets, or through various other means.

At the federal level, Megan's Law is known as the Sexual Offender (Jacob Wetterling) Act of 1994 and requires persons convicted of sex crimes against children to notify local law enforcement of any change of address or employment after release from custody (prison, psychiatric facility). The notification requirement may be imposed for a fixed period of time - usually at least ten years - or permanently.

Some states may legislate registration for all sex crimes, even if no minors were involved. It is a felony in most jurisdictions to fail to register or fail to update information.


Dateline NBC:To Catch a Predator - Megan's Law Offender

Dru Hill fight: 92Q Morning Show


B'more's own Dru Hill gets back together live on 92Q...

Dru Hill is an American singing group, most popular during the late 1990s, whose repertoire included R&B, soul, and gospel music. Founded in Baltimore, Maryland and active since 1992, Dru Hill recorded seven Top 40 hits, and is best known for the R&B #1 hits "In My Bed", "Never Make a Promise", and "How Deep is Your Love".
Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin was the group's founder and leader; his bandmates included main lead singer Mark "Sisqó" Andrews, Larry "Jazz" Anthony, and James "Woody Rock" Green. Signing to Island Records through Haqq Islam's University Records imprint, Dru Hill released two successful LPs before separating for a period from late 1999 to 2002, during which time Sisqó and Woody released solo albums. While Woody's Soul Music LP was a moderate success in the gospel music industry, Sisqó's Unleash the Dragon LP and its hit single "Thong Song" were major successes, and established Sisqó as a household name outside of Dru Hill.

Elizabeth Shoaf

Vinson Filyaw is a 37-year-old, former construction worker convicted of kidnapping and raping a 14-year-old Lugoff, South Carolina girl, holding her captive in an underground bunker. This bunker had been constructed in order to elude police who were seeking to arrest Filyaw on an unrelated rape charge. Filyaw's girlfriend was also arrested on charges of aiding and abetting the abduction.

The victim, whose name is Elizabeth Shoaf, was kidnapped after she alighted her school bus on September 6, 2006. Filyaw gained her trust by posing as a police officer. He walked his victim around in the woods until she became disoriented and then marched her to a hand-dug 15-foot bunker near his trailer home, located within a mile of her own home. After more than a week, the victim convinced Filyaw to let her borrow his cellular phone to play games, but she had an entirely different use in mind. Her text message to her mother led police to the bunker where she had been held for ten days. Police used cell towers to locate the bunker.

Filyaw had equipped the entrance of the bunker with a booby-trap, according to police.

Emperor's Club VIP

US authorities have smashed an online escort service that gave its prostitutes a one to seven diamond-ranking, with a "seven diamond" woman costing $US5500 ($5921) an hour.

Four organisers and managers of the international ring were arrested by US authorities and charged with conspiracy to violate federal prostitution laws, Newsday.com reported.

Another two of the men were also accused of attempting to launder more than $1.08 million in illicit proceeds from business.

The ring was known as the Emperor's Club VIP and offered 50 prostitutes in New York, Paris, Washington, Miami and London, The New York Times reported.

Term auction facility

The Term Auction Facility is an instrument of monetary policy, introduced by the Federal Reserve to increase liquidity in United States financial markets. Although first instated as a temporary policy, as of 21 December 2007, the Fed will continue to hold bi-weekly auctions through the TAF.

Credit Crunch
Early in August, 2007, subprime crisis began to show in international finance. Two banks in Europe were the first to go into crisis and many more both in the US and abroad were presenting subprime lending on their balance sheets. The ECB began distributing funds through a fine-tuning operation. By August 9th, the ECB lent €95 billion ($112 billion in the days conversion) to EU banks, and the Fed distributed $12 billion through repo operations.

Several school districts delay openings

Several school districts delay openings

Because of weather conditions, several local school districts will open later than usual on Friday.

McKinney, Carroll, Carrollton-Farmers, Frisco, Prosper, Little Elm, Anna and Melissa ISD schools will open two hours later than normal start times. Celina, Blue Ridge and Farmersville will open at 10 a.m.

Some private schools, including McKinney Christian Academy, are closed. Prestonwood Christian Academy in Plano and Prince of Peace Christian School in Carrollton will open at 10 a,m,

Paula Abdul Comeback

Paula Abdul Plotting Comeback Album


Paula Abdul - Dance Like There's No Tomorrow [Live]

After re-launching her music career with an appearance on fellow "American Idol" judge Randy Jackson's new album, Paula Abdul is getting busy on her first new album since 1995's "Head Over Heels."

The as-yet-untitled project will include remixes of Abdul's best-known hits, plus a host of new songs. In addition, Abdul tells Billboard that Paul Oakenfold and Akon are preparing remixes of "Dance Like There's No Tomorrow," her contribution to Jackson's album. The artist has already chosen three new tracks to accompany the remixes.

"I will always be grateful for Randy getting me back into even the idea of helping me do this," says Abdul. "I didn't realize how much I missed it."

3/06/2008

WFAA.com is the official website for WFAA-TV

WFAA-TV ("WFAA 8") is the ABC television affiliate serving the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas DMA (5th largest nationwide). The station is licensed to Dallas and its main business offices and studios are located next to the Dallas Morning News office in Downtown Dallas.


Troy Dungan's last forecast on WFAA: July 18, 2007

WFAA.com is the official website for WFAA-TV, Channel 8, your trusted source for breaking news, weather and sports in Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas.

WINTER WEATHER WARNING
As the rain and snow begins to move out of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, a winter storm warning issued by the National Weather Service remains until 6 a.m.

"The area of rain and snow is picking up speed, which means it will be coming to an end faster than earlier expected," said WFAA-TV Meteorologist Steve McCauley.

Tripp Isenhour

Isenhour allegedly kills bird; charged with cruelty
PGA Tour golfer Tripp Isenhour is charged with killing a bird on purpose with a golf shot.

John Henry "Tripp" Isenhour III (born April 6, 1968) is an American professional golfer.

Isenhour is currently a member of the PGA Tour. He was a member of the PGA Tour in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2005. He was a member of the Nationwide Tour in 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005 and 2006. Isenhour currently faces charges for killing a red-shouldered hawk by hitting multiple golf balls in the hawk's direction while shooting a segment for a television show.

Rare Photo Of Helen Keller Found

Rare Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Picture Found



A rare picture of Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan has been found by researchers. The photo dates back to 1888 when Keller was only 8-years-old. The photo shows Sullivan holding Keller’s hand while the girl is cradling her baby doll.


The Miracle Worker final scene

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to graduate from college.

The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become known worldwide through the dramatic depictions of The Miracle Worker.

What is less well known is how Keller's life developed after she completed her education. A prolific author, she was well traveled, and was outspoken in her opposition to war. She campaigned for women's suffrage, workers' rights and socialism, as well as many other progressive causes.

3/05/2008

Pancreatic cancer


Patrick Swayze battling pancreatic cancer
Dirty Dancing and Ghost star Patrick Swayze, 55, is receiving treatment for pancreatic cancer, his publicist, Annett Wolf, confirms in a statement.

Wolf's statement counters, "Patrick's physician Dr. George Fisher states, 'Patrick has a very limited amount of disease and he appears to be responding well to treatment thus far. All of the reports stating the timeframe of his prognosis and his physical side effects are absolutely untrue. We are considerably more optimistic.' "

Pancreatic cancer?
Pancreatic cancer is a malignant tumor within the pancreatic gland. Each year about 33,000 individuals in the United States are diagnosed with this condition, and more than 60,000 in Europe. Depending on the extent of the tumor at the time of diagnosis, the prognosis is generally regarded as poor, with few victims still alive five years after diagnosis, and complete remission still extremely rare.

About 95 percent of pancreatic tumors are adenocarcinomas (M8140/3). The remaining 5 percent include other tumors of the exocrine pancreas (e.g., serous cystadenomas), acinar cell cancers, and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (such as insulinomas, M8150/1, M8150/3). These tumors have a completely different diagnostic and therapeutic profile, and generally a more favorable prognosis.

Gnarls Barkley Run video

Gnarls Barkley is a musical collaboration between multi-instrumentalist and producer Danger Mouse (Brian Burton) from New York, and rapper/vocalist Cee-Lo Green (Thomas Callaway), from Atlanta. Their first album, St. Elsewhere, was released in 2006; it and their first hit, "Crazy", were major commercial successes, and were noted for their large sales by download.


Gnarls Barkley - Run (Official Video) (May cause seizures)

Costumes
Gnarls Barkley has a propensity to appear in costume. For each live performance, as well as each photo shoot and interviews, the duo and their backing band dress in a different set of themed costumes. When performing live, the group will often open with a cover suited to their particular costume. For example, when they appeared as chefs in San Francisco, they opened with a cover of Duran Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf."

Obama to sharpen criticism of Clinton

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday blamed his primary defeats in Ohio and Texas on rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's criticism and news coverage that he argued benefited her at his expense.


Yes We Can - Barack Obama Music Video

"What exactly is this foreign policy experience?" Obama asked mockingly. "Was she negotiating treaties? Was she handling crises? The answer is no."

Clinton, who was asked in TV interviews Wednesday about her national security qualifications, ticked off a series events in which she played a role, including peace talks in Northern Ireland, the Kosovo refugee crisis and standing up for women's rights in China. She also cited her work on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

PLUM, Pa. Child, Elderly Man Hurt

PLUM, Pa. — Police say a child and an elderly man have been hurt in a suburban Pittsburgh house explosion.

A house exploded in suburban Pittsburgh on Wednesday, injuring a child and an elderly man, police said.

TV images show one destroyed house and a car with a flattened roof and blown-out windows.

One person was taken to UPMC Mercy Hospital, but a spokeswoman declined to elaborate. A child was taken to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, but a spokesman said he did not have further details.

Plum is about 15 miles east of Pittsburgh.

Patrick Swayze only has five weeks to live

Hollywood star Patrick Swayze is dying from cancer and has just weeks to live, according to reports. The Dirty Dancing star is suffering from pancreatic cancer.


Patrick Swayze - She's Like The Wind

According to a report first published by the National Enquirer, Dirty Dancing star Patrick Swayze has only 5 weeks to live, after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer back in January and the cancer had spread to other organs of his body. According to an insider, there is little hope left for Patrick Swayze, after the cancer failed to respond to the treatments.


Dirty Dancing 2 Patrick Swayze

Pancreatic cancer is a malignant tumor within the pancreatic gland and each year over 30,000 individuals in the United States are diagnosed with this condition. The prognosis is generally regarded as poor, with only few still alive five years after diagnosis, while complete remission still extremely rare.

3/04/2008

US soldier throws puppy off cliff



The United States Armed Forces are the overall unified military forces of the United States. The United Stated military is considered the most powerful and influential military in history.
Its component branches are:
United States Army
United States Marine Corps
United States Navy
United States Air Force
United States Coast Guard
All are part of the United States Uniformed Services and are under civilian control with the President serving as Commander-in-chief. All branches except the Coast Guard are part of the Department of Defense, which is under the authority of the Secretary of Defense, who is also a civilian. The Coast Guard falls under the authority of the Department of Homeland Security. During wartime, the Coast Guard may be placed under the Department of Defense through the Department of the Navy.

Mae Young

Johnnie Mae Young (born March 12, 1923[1]), is a former professional wrestler who is a native of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, U.S.. She was one of the most recognizable female wrestlers during the 1940s. Beginning in 1999, Young had a high-profile "second career" in the World Wrestling Federation, now WWE.


Lipstick & Dynamite - Original film trailer


Mae Young's Puppies

SMALL TURNOUT AT USO MAT PROGRAM (Charleston WV Daily Mail, Tuesday, July 22, 1941)
"Mae Young, 18-year-old wrestler, headed for Atlantic City Tuesday to fill a mat engagement with boos still ringing in her ears following her Armory match with Ann LaVerne Monday night in the semifinal of the America Legion bill. After Miss LaVerne, 20-year-old Croatian girl with a cauliflower ear, had annexed the opening fall in 7:24, her 180-pound opponent ran amuck. Miss Young choked Miss LaVerne to win the second fall in 6:03 and go so unmanageable in the third, she was disqualified by referee Laverne Stokes in 2:46."

3/03/2008

Mothman spreads wings tonight

Mothman is the name given to a being or creature reported in the Charleston and Point Pleasant areas of West Virginia between November 12, 1966, near Clendenin, and December 1967. Most observers describe the Mothman as a winged man-sized creature with large reflective red eyes and large moth-like wings. The creature often appeared to have no head, with its eyes set into its chest. A number of hypotheses have been presented to explain eyewitness accounts, ranging from misidentification and coincidence, to paranormal phenomena and conspiracy theories.


The Mothman Car Chase

Last spring a TV crew from A&E’s “Paranormal State” TV show was over in Point Pleasant shooting up the place for an upcoming episode that shines a light on the bizarre Mothman stories.
That up-coming episode is hitting the air at 10 p.m. today and at 2 a.m., Tuesday, March 4.

Bridget Powers

Bridget Powers (born October 11, 1980 in Boise, Idaho) is the pseudonym of an American erotic film actress with dwarfism. She is often credited as "Bridget the Midget" or with the alternate spelling "Bridget Powerz".


Bridget Powers and Creamy featured with Dave Norwoods live

Her parents divorced when she was one year old. She had a number of operations between the ages of three and fourteen to correct bowed legs; the results left her with one straight leg and one that points to the left. As a result Powers has to wear a knee brace.

Powers was discovered at a Goth nightclub by a man who was working as a make-up artist for a gothic vampire adult movie.
She was a co-host on Ed Powers' radio show Bedtime Stories. She is also in a band named Blakkout.

BRANDON "THE THRILL" HILL - Boxing Match

During Big Show's ring introduction, they showed Floyd Mayweather live via satellite watching. Brandon "The Thrill" Hill was anounced at 5-7 and 150 pounds. Ross said Mayweather is 5-8 and 147. He added that he's also 39-0 in boxing with 25 knockouts. Lawler said Floyd is the "exact same size" as Brandon Hill. If exact means an inch taller and 3 pounds less, then yes. During pre-match instructions, Show towered over the skinny Hill. Show absorbed Hill's body punches no sweat, then shoved him into the corner and gave him a big boot to the face. Ross asked if this would be Mayweather's fate at WrestleMania. Show then lifted and powerslammed Hill, stood on his chest, and got a three count victory. Ross said the size differential is "absolutely incredulous." Officials peeled Hill off the mat after the match.

3/02/2008

Sasquatch Mountain

Sasquatch Mountain (also called Devil in the Mountain) is a 2006 science fiction film produced by Grizzly Peak Productions for the Science Fiction Channel, and directed by Steven R. Monroe. The movie is about a lonely tow-truck driver (Lance Henriksen) who gets caught in a deadly struggle between a pair of bank robbers with a beautiful hostage (Cerina Vincent), local cops, and a monster that has come down from the Arizona mountains to eat human flesh.



The movie was filmed in Flagstaff and Williams, Arizona.
It's world premiere was the fifth most watched show of the week on the Sci-Fi Channel.
It's plot is strikingly similar to The Beast from Haunted Cave.

Richard "Iceman" Kuklinski

Richard "Iceman" Kuklinski (April 11, 1935 – March 5, 2006) was a convicted murderer and notorious contract killer. He worked for several Italian-American crime families, and claimed to have murdered between 33 and 200 people over a career that lasted thirty years. He was the older brother of the convicted rapist and murderer Joseph Kuklinski.



Involvement with Jimmy Hoffa disappearance
In April 2006, news reports surfaced that Kuklinski had confessed to author Philip Carlo that he was part of a group who kidnapped and murdered famed union boss Jimmy Hoffa. However, during the earlier HBO interview he denied any knowledge of Hoffa's fate. Kuklinski claimed that he had only heard rumors, specifically, that Hoffa had been killed, put in a barrel, placed into a Japanese car which was compacted with other cars, and shipped overseas.

Tatiana Aryasova won the LA Marathon

Russian Tatiana Aryasova won the LA Marathon, and the $100,000 "Banco Popular Challenge" with an unofficial time of 2:09:32, beating out the top "elite" male runner, Laban Moiben of Kenya, who clocked in with an unofficial time of 2:13:50. The petite Aryasova is in peak shape; she recently gave birth and resumed her training rapidly.


2008 LA Marathon Tatiana Aryasova Mile 21

She made a smashing marathon debut Sunday, taking advantage of a head start on the male runners to capture the Los Angeles Marathon.

She held off a group of Kenyan men and finished in 2 hours, 29 minutes and 9 seconds. She gave little thought to the men in pursuit.

"It didn't matter to me," she said through a translator. "If I see the men behind me, it's not going to make me run faster."

Jules Undersea Lodge

The Jules Undersea Lodge is an underwater hotel in Key Largo, Florida and is the only such hotel in the United States.


Jules Undersea Lodge 1988, Key Largo Florida

It is 30 feet (9 m) deep on the ocean floor and guests have to scuba dive to get to their rooms. The hotel is located at the bottom of the Emerald Lagoon and was opened in 1986. The lodge features a 2 bedroom 1 bath retreat that can be rented for a night. Scuba certification is required for entrance as the front door is located 21 feet under water.

Mexico vs. Australia in Oakland

Mexico vs. Australia in Oakland

Tickets are now sold out for the upcoming match between the Mexican Olympic team and the Australian Olympic team on Sunday, March 2, at 2:00 p.m. PT at McAfee Coliseum in Oakland. Over 46,000 tickets have been sold.

This game comes just days before Mexico's participation in the CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualification from March 11-23. The match will be the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol's return to McAfee Coliseum after playing roughly a year ago when the full Mexican national team defeated Ecuador 4-2 on March 28, 2007 in front of a sold out crowd of 47, 416.

UFC 82 Video/ Anderson Silva Beats Dan Henderson

Anderson Silva confirmed his status as the best pound-for-pound fighter in MMA by submitting former Olympic wrestler Dan Henderson in the second round of their highly-anticipated UFC 82 battle Saturday night.



Silva, the UFC middleweight champ, used a rear-naked choke on Henderson, forcing the challenger to tap with eight seconds left in the round.



The underdog Henderson proved himself a worthy opponent. He actually won the first round after bringing Silva to the canvas with a wrestling move, but Silva got to Henderson in the second with a knee to the chin followed by powerpunches. Silva then tried for submission, and was successful.

Root beer

Root beer is a beverage also sometimes known as Sarsaparilla. Root beer, popularized in North America, comes in two forms: alcoholic and soft drink.



What does A&W stand for?
After setting up the first A&W Root Beer stand in California in 1919, Roy Allen partnered with Frank Wright to name their beverage A&W. The two partners then set out to open more root beer stands all across the United States.

Is A&W part of a larger company?
Yes. Along with a number of other great brands, A&W is owned by Dr Pepper/Seven Up, Inc. Dr Pepper/Seven Up is a wholly owned-division of London-based Cadbury Schweppes plc.