| Murdered woman 'in suspect's car'
The footage shows a woman getting into a dark-coloured Ford Mondeo late on 30 October 2006, which was the night Miss Nicol vanished. Pc Craig Adamberry, who examined CCTV as part of the police investigation, said he believed the woman was Miss Nicol. Banging noises He said the car matched one owned by Mr Wright at the time. In the footage, the car is seen being driven along, stopping, then reversing to allow the woman to walk around and climb in. A vehicle identification specialist, Andrew Wooler, told the court he had studied CCTV images of a car driving around the red light district of Ipswich on three separate dates. They coincided with the disappearances of three of the women. .
Ruined by fire, they still have their love
POWAY, CALIF. - The 88-year-old man sat on a bench and lit a cracked briar pipe. He looked out at the black void and sighed. The firestorm three months ago killed most of the sound here. No birds warble, no leaves flutter, no coyotes yelp in the night. Jerome (Joe) Wier comes up here most days in his little Chevy pickup and secondhand clothes. He sits for hours under a scraggly tree, staring up at the place where his house once stood. A neighbor across the gully has seen him crying. He denies it. He built the house with his own hands. When the fire took it, Wier and his wife, Marion, lost every possession they had collected over 58 years of marriage. Every photo of their family, the letters Joe sent Marion while he was in the Navy, the leather-bound journal Marion had kept for the last quarter century.
Crisis: America's missing cukes!
They aren't campaign expenditures. They're simply telling potential customers about an article, which just happens to be an article spreading scandal about the Clintons. In the same way, ads for some Michael Moore films just happen to undermine George Bush. But, unlike Michael Moore films, the enterprise these Google ads are promoting is itself typically exempted from the campaign finance regime under the so-called "media exemption." So why doesn't some unabashedly non-neutral rich person buy up a lot of media properties--and then start spending tens of millions on ads promoting "scoops" that just happen to damage candidates the rich person opposes? Ron Burkle may be on to something. (Murdoch too, of course.) ... The upshot (I think): Attempts to control so-called 'independent' expenditures are doomed.
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