| Ex-girlfriend testifies about assault
When Demetrius Lamont Reynolds went on a violent rampage a few days before Christmas 2005, prosecutors argued Wednesday in Mobile County Circuit Court, he tried to kill his ex-girlfriend and then later one of his friends. And although originally charged with reckless endangerment and menacing, Reynolds went on trial before Judge John Lockett facing two counts of attempted murder, along with a third count of second-degree domestic violence. But did Reynolds, 25, intend to kill his ex-girlfriend Trena Moffett and, later on the morning of Dec. 21, his friend Michael Francis? Witnesses said Wednesday that on each occasion that day, Reynolds pulled a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol from his clothes during a struggle with the victims, pointed the barrel at them and pulled the trigger.
Bulletin Board Feb. 10, 2007
Volunteers needed by Food Bank of Siouxland to sort and process food in the warehouse. Will help repack and get food ready to distribute to non-profit agencies. Volunteer anytime between the hours of 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday - Friday. For more information, call 255-9741.Morningside Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is accepting resident advocate volunteers. Contact Lorena Peterson at 276-4311 if interested.Volunteers needed to help the Sunrise Retirement Community enhance the lives of their residents. For more information, call Lorrie Stedman at (712) 276-3821.Girls Scout volunteers needed to help in various ways. To find out, contact the Sioux Trails Girl Scout Council at (712) 255-0187 or 1-800-746-8947. Volunteers needed...Sioux City Community School District is looking for adult volunteers of all ages to read with elementary students to help improve reading skills.
Residential care findings draw mixed reactions
ELDERLY people living in residential care think they have poor health compared to those in private homes. The admission is a key finding released by the Ministry of Health last week in a health chart book of the nation’s elderly. Information in the book published by Public Health Intelligence (PHI) will be used by government agencies and district health boards to support the Health of Older People Strategy released by the government in2002. Other key findings include higher mortality and hospitalisation rates for chronic disease; higher infectious disease related to mortality; and higher rates of unintentional injury mortality and hospitalisation rates in people aged 65 and older compared to those aged 50 to 64 years. Local rest homes and retirement villages contacted by the Times have mixed opinions on the health rating by residents.
Empire marches on
Over two million dead and over three million rendered homeless thus constitute roughly 20 per cent of the population - and the process continues. The bulk of the country's intelligentsia has fled, and documented evidence exists to show that close to a thousand academic professionals, journalists, judges and doctors have been murdered. Tens of billions of dollars have disappeared into the coffers of the new, U.S.-made ruling elite, but the vast majority of the surviving population has been pauperised in a country that was once the Arab world's most advanced welfare state. Before the U.S. invasion, Iraq was also a highly secular polity; it is now a murderous cesspool of sectarian militias and communal strife in which a hundred corpses may be picked up from the streets of Baghdad on any given day, the daily toll of death across the country runs at roughly 1,000, and members of the Shia-administered Ministries may abduct members of the Sunni-administered Ministries.
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