 Portland's mayor demoted the city police chief to captain on Friday following an investigation into a scandal that included sexually explicit e-mails and allegations of abuse of power. Mayor Tom Potter said the investigation found that most allegations of misconduct by Derrick Foxworth were unsubstantiated. But he said that Foxworth had used poor judgment in sharing department information with Angela Oswalt, a desk clerk with whom Foxworth acknowledged having a "brief but intense" affair while they worked together, but before he was promoted to chief in 2003. "Men and women of the Portland Police Bureau and members of the public look to their chief to set the tone for acceptable conduct," said Potter, a former Portland police chief. ...
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 Catholic Group Pelts Protestant Paraders With Rocks in Belfast |
Catholic militants hurled rocks and golf balls Friday night at paraders from the Orange Order, Northern Ireland's major Protestant brotherhood, authorities said. A Catholic woman was injured when she was struck by a thrown object as about 100 Orange Order supporters passed near a hard-line Catholic district in north Belfast. The Orange Order stages more than 2,000 parades across Northern Ireland each summer. The group's biggest demonstration comes on July 12. The yearly parading, through some of the most bitterly divided parts of Belfast, previously has triggered violence but Catholic leaders this year pledged to keep stone-throwing youths away and instead mount a sidewalk protest. ...
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| Art teacher in hot water over topless photos School where teacher worked was attended by Bush daughters |
Until they found the topless photos, Austin High School officials considered Tamara Hoover an excellent art teacher with a knack for helping students find their creativity.Now, she's fighting for her job.The photos, which were posted on Flickr.com by her partner, depict Hoover in the shower, lifting weights, getting dressed, in bed and doing other routine activities.Hoover said Friday the photos are art and makes no apologies."I'm an artist and I'm going to participate in the arts," Hoover said. "If that's not something they want me to do then I want to be told that. I don't feel as if I was doing anything that was beyond expectations."The school district said the photos were inappropriate and violate the "higher moral standard" expected of public school teachers. As she was escorted out of class last month she was told that she's become an ineffective teacher....
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| Bomber kills 13; Coalition soldier killed |
A suspected shoe bomber targeting a Shiite imam who criticized Abu Musab al-Zarqawi blew himself up inside one of Baghdad's most prominent mosques during Friday prayers, killing 13 people and shattering a fragile calm imposed by a security crackdown in the capital.Elsewhere, a soldier in the U.S.-led coalition was killed and two others were missing after an attack on a checkpoint, the U.S. military said. The incident took place about 8 p.m. Friday near the town of Yusufiyah, some 12 miles southwest of Baghdad.The bombing of the Buratha mosque, one of several attacks nationwide, was carried out despite a four-hour driving ban intended to prevent suicide car bombs during Friday prayers, the main religious service of the week.Buratha's imam, a leading Shiite politician, blamed al-Qaeda in Iraq for the attack. He said the terror group was trying to reassert itself after the death of its leader in a U.S. airstrike last week....
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| Two US soldiers missing, one killed, in Iraq |
Two U.S. soldiers were missing and one was killed after their team was attacked at a traffic-control point southwest of Baghdad, the Pentagon said on Friday.After hearing small arms fire and explosions in the vicinity of the checkpoint southwest of Yusufiya, a quick reaction force responded to the scene, a Pentagon statement said out of Baghdad. "Coalition forces have initiated a search operation to locate and determine the status of the soldiers," the statement added, saying the incident occurred about 7:55 p.m. local time. The attack came on the same day a suicide bomber killed 10 people in a Shi'ite mosque, a day after Iraq's national security adviser said al Qaeda's days in the country were numbered. ...
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| Bush snubs border sheriffs President refuses to meet coalition as lawmakers prepare hearings |
President Bush has refused to meet with border law enforcement officials from Texas for a second time. His response to their request came in the form of a letter Monday, angering both lawmakers and sheriffs. In fact, some Republican members of Congress, upset by what they call the administration's seeming lack of concern for border security, are preparing to hold investigative hearings in San Diego and Laredo, Texas, early next month. Members of the House subcommittee on international terrorism and nonproliferation hope to expose serious security flaws that could potentially lead to terrorist attacks in the country, said Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, who is a member of the panel and has pushed for the hearings. "The next terrorist is not going to come in through (Transportation Security Administration) screening at Kennedy airport," Poe said. ...
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