D.C. won’t cooperate with federal immigration enforcement
By Tim Craig, Published: October 19
D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray reaffirmed Wednesday that District police and other public agencies will not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, leaving it up to federal immigration officials to determine on their own whether a resident is in the country illegally.
The decision reinforces executive orders by past District mayors, but Gray (D) and council members say it goes further by explicitly setting standards for how the city’s criminal justice system will deal with immigrants.
“In the spirit of ‘One City,’ and assuring the equal treatment of citizens and noncitizens alike, I am delighted to sign to this,” Gray said.
Under the new guidelines, which Gray signed while surrounded by Hispanic and African immigrants, D.C. police and corrections officials will not ask those they come in contact with about their immigration status. District police also will not enforce an ICE detainer or warrant issued against someone who has not committed another crime.
Police and jail officials are forbidden from contacting ICE to have the agency investigate the legal status of someone who has been arrested.
Instead, Gray and Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier said, police will process all offenders in the same manner and leave it up to the FBI and ICE to decide whether to check on their legal status.
For less-serious crimes, such as violating the city’s open-container law, the District no longer collects fingerprints. So the FBI and ICE can’t determine immigration status, officials said.
“Law enforcement agencies that honor ICE detainers help protect public safety,” ICE spokeswoman Cori W. Bassett said.
For major crimes, such as robbery or drug possession, police will continue to collect the offender’s fingerprints and forward them to the FBI. It will be up to the FBI to share information with ICE.
If ICE determines that it wants to detain offenders upon their release from jail, the agency will have only 48 hours, excluding weekends and holidays, to pick up a suspected illegal immigrant from custody. The city will not hold inmates that ICE wants detained past 48 hours, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Paul Quander said.
“What this does is makes clear immigration status is not relevant in a criminal matter and makes clear the District will not take any affirmative step to enforce immigration civil matters,” Quander said.
Kristopher Baumann, chairman of the D.C. Fraternal Order of Police labor committee, blasted the decision, saying that until now local criminal justice officials were willing to give ICE more than 48 hours to pick up someone it wanted detained.
“Vince Gray right now is under such duress, he is willing to pander and fold to any group in order to take the scrutiny off himself,” Baumann said. “He has now decided to go out and jeopardize public safety. This is not about regular immigrants. This is about hard-core criminals and bad, bad guys.”
In Prince William County, where law enforcement officials check the immigration status of those arrested, Board of County Supervisors Chairman Corey A. Stewart (R-At Large) called Gray’s move “disturbing and reprehensible.”
“I find it incredibly ironic that the immigration laws of the United States are not even enforced within the boundaries of our nation’s capital,” Stewart said in a statement.
Gray countered that the policy will make the District safer by making someone in the country illegally less afraid to interact with police or report alleged crimes.
Some immigrants and activists played down Gray’s order, noting that District mayors have been distancing the city from immigration enforcement for decades.
“Mayor Gray has implemented and confirmed a policy that was initiated by the Marion Barry administration in 1984,” activist Jose Sueiro said.
But others called it a major morale boost for local immigrants concerned about tough new immigration laws in several states, including Arizona and Alabama.
“It reinforces things for people who are scared,” said Maria Gomez, president of Mary’s Center, an Adams Morgan health center. “And people have been running scared.”
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D.C. won’t cooperate with federal immigration enforcement (Washington Post)
Austin Police: [Immigrants] Held Hostage (AP via WTAW)
Austin Police: [Immigrants] Held Hostage
Posted by Chace Murphy
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Austin police have arrested a man after finding at least eight men they believe were immigrant hostages at a house on the city’s east side.
Fernando Sandoval Salazar was booked into the Travis County Jail charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Bond was set at $100,000. Online jail records listed no attorney for the Mexican national.
Police Cmdr. Donald Baker says one of the suspected captives was able to call his wife in New York and tell her he was being held against his will for a $1,800 ransom. Officers arrived at the house Sunday evening and found Salazar, whom Baker said appeared to be in charge of the operation. Other suspects are being sought.
Protesters call for immigrant's release (The Detroit News)
Protesters call for immigrant's release
Last Updated: October 20. 2011 1:00AM
Josh Katzenstein/ The Detroit News
Detroit— More than a dozen people braved the rain Wednesday afternoon to rally in front of the Detroit office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on behalf of Cesar Hernandez Montoya, a man they hope won't be deported to Mexico.
The 24-year-old, who lives with his family in Sturgis, has been detained at the Calhoun County Correctional Center in Battle Creek since August, when police found him driving without a license and later discovered he didn't have proper immigration documents.
Montoya, a Sturgis High School graduate, worked as a disc jockey and was hoping to go to college next year, family members said. He was active in church and the community and never had a problem with the law before the traffic violation.
In a statement Wednesday, immigration officials said Montoya will remain in custody until his removal proceedings; no date was available Wednesday.
"(He) was allowed to voluntarily depart to his home country on two separate occasions and returned without permission prior to his most recent arrest," the statement read. "Following a hearing, he was denied bond by an immigration judge and ordered detained. He remains in custody pending the outcome of removal proceedings."
More than 2,000 people sent petitions to ICE asking for Montoya to be freed, and Wednesday's rally was an additional show of support, backers said.
Escondido woman turned over to immigration after domestic violence incident (North County Times)
Escondido woman turned over to immigration after domestic violence incident
By EDWARD SIFUENTES | Posted: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 8:00 pm
A woman who called the Escondido Police Department to report that she was beaten by her boyfriend was herself arrested and later turned over to immigration authorities after she was booked at the Vista jail, a case that critics say illustrates the problems inherent in local police getting involved in immigration enforcement.
Elena Cabrera, 36, said she came home tired from work on the morning of Aug. 20 and wanted to sleep a little. But her then live-in boyfriend, Jorge Melgar, 50, wanted her to do house chores and began beating her when she refused. When police arrived, he told the officers that she had also hit him, Cabrera said.
Cabrera said she did not hit him, but was arrested anyway. She had a bloody lip and bruises on her face, she said.
Escondido police Lt. Craig Carter said both people were arrested on suspicion of domestic violence and there were injuries on both of them. Carter said the department did not turn Cabrera over to immigration authorities.
After the couple was arrested, the couple's four minor children were left home alone, Cabrera said. Police are investigating the family's complaint that the kids were left without supervision, Carter said.
Bill Flores, a retired assistant sheriff and a member of the human rights group El Grupo, said Escondido's close working relationship with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement hurts its ability to protect the community. He said police officers knew that Cabrera would be screened for immigration violations at the Vista jail and chose to take her into custody.
Incidents like Cabrera's hurt the department's relationship with the community, Flores said, making immigrants less likely to report crimes in the future.
"Everybody in that neighborhood found out what happened," Flores said. "She was a victim of domestic violence, she was taken to jail and she ended up getting turned over to ICE. All because she sought help from the Escondido Police Department."
After being arrested, Cabrera was taken to the Escondido Police Department and later to the Vista jail, where ICE placed an immigration hold on her, apparently as part of its Secure Communities program. Secure Communities links local jails to federal databases to identify illegal immigrants who are booked into the facilities.
"I never thought that this would happen to me," Cabrera said during an interview last week. "To me, it was a complete surprise."
A spokeswoman for ICE in San Diego declined to comment on the case.
Cabrera spent several days at the Vista jail before she was turned over to immigration authorities. Cabrera had an immigration petition pending as a victim of domestic violence related to a prior relationship. Under a law called the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, battered women who are married to U.S. citizens can apply for an immigrant visa.
Melgar, a legal resident, was not turned over to immigration authorities. He spent four days in jail before he was released.
Lilia Velasquez, a San Diego immigration attorney representing Cabrera, said having the visa petition does not necessarily mean that a victim is safe from deportation. However, under a new policy by the Obama administration, immigration authorities have discretion on when to pursue deportation procedures.
The Obama administration has said it wants to focus its resources on deporting violent illegal immigrant criminals, immigrants who have been ordered deported by an immigration judge and people who repeatedly have been caught in the country illegally.
"Given the new policy of prosecutorial discretion, ICE should have removed the hold (on Cabrera) once they ascertained she was a (Violence Against Women Act) beneficiary," Velasquez said.
The San Diego County District Attorney's office declined to file charges against either Cabrera or her boyfriend. She was released from immigration custody on Aug. 28 due to her Violence Against Women Act visa petition.
Critics say that the Obama administration's immigration policies, including Secure Communities, have created a dragnet that catches not only violent criminals but also people whose only violation is being in the country illegally. Those policies break families apart, tearing parents away from their U.S.-born children, critics say.
While she was detained, Cabrera's four children, ages 3 to 17 years old, were left in her Escondido home without supervision, she said. Her oldest daughter, Tayana Zarate, 17, said she had to care for her siblings while trying to figure out where her mother was being held and how to have her released.
Tayana said a neighbor helped her buy food and drove her around to find her mother.
"They never asked who I was, my name, how old I was, is there a grown-up in the house?" Tayana said last week. "They don't care."
The family filed a complaint with the police department for leaving the children without supervision. Tayana and her mother spoke with police detectives last Thursday night about the complaint.
Carter said the officers noted in their report that they left the children in the care of an "18-year-old female."
The department also came under fire last year when it announced that it had forged a new alliance with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement allowing several immigration officers to work out of its headquarters. Operation Joint Effort, as the program is called, is the only one of its kind in the county. It has been credited by the department with the arrest of over 400 criminal illegal immigrants since it started in May 2010.
Under the program, immigration officers are available to help police officers identify people who have been previously deported or who have been ordered deported, according to Escondido police officials. They are also available to join the police on special operations, such as anti-gang raids.
However, Carter said that Cabrera's arrest had nothing to do with Operation Joint Effort.
"This has nothing to do with immigration," Carter said. "This is a domestic violence issue."
Immigrant detainee's request to stay in U.S. to marry denied (The Star-Ledger)
Immigrant detainee's request to stay in U.S. to marry denied
Published: Thursday, October 20, 2011, 7:35 PM
By Julia Terruso/The Star-Ledger
NEWARK — For Ruben Quinteros the news keeps getting worse. Quinteros, an immigrant detainee sitting in Delaney Hall in Newark, was picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers seven days before he was due to get married last month.
He had overstayed his visa. Today, his lawyer received a fax from ICE rejecting his request for a Stay of Removal.
Quinteros and his fiance, Neida Lavayen have been together for two years and had planned to marry Sept. 23. Since her fiance was detained, Lavayen has been on a mission to marry Quinteros. But she’s hit roadblocks every step of the way.
She cannot find a clerk willing to travel into the detention center to issue a marriage license, which can only be obtained in person. And Quinteros is not permitted to leave the detention center, though ICE officials would permit a clerk to issue a license on site.
If he is married, Quinteros has a good chance of getting a green card and staying in the country, attorneys specializing in immigration law have said. ICE already has the travel papers to send Quinteros back to Uruguay, an ICE official said.
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Rowling's first novel for adults goes on sale
An employee adjusts copies of "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
An employee adjusts copies of "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Copies of the "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling stand on a trolley ready to go on the shelves at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Copies of the "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling rest on a chair behind the sales counter to go on the shelves at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Copies of the "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling are displayed on shelves at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
A light from a video camera shines on copies of the "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling displayed on shelves at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
LONDON (AP) ? British bookshops opened their doors early Thursday and some grown-up Harry Potter fans lined up overnight as J.K. Rowling launched her long-anticipated first book for adults, "The Casual Vacancy."
The lines were shorter and the wizard costumes missing, but the book was published to some of the same fanfare that greeted each Potter tome, with stores wheeling out crates of the books precisely at 8 a.m. as part of a finely honed marketing strategy.
Published five years after the release of the last book in the boy wizard saga, "The Casual Vacancy" is already at No. 1 on Amazon's U.S. chart, and bookmaker William Hill put 2-1 odds on it outselling "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," which shifted 2.6 million copies in Britain on its first day.
Many of the early buyers were Harry Potter fans who, like the author, have moved on to more adult fare.
"I just like how much excitement there is about a book," said 23-year-old Grace Proctor, a "massive" Potter fan who was first to buy the book at one London store.
"I think there are going to be people who will hate it just because they can hate it," she said. "But she's such an amazing writer, I don't think she can go wrong."
A story of ambition, envy and rivalry set in the fictional English village of Pagford, the novel recounts the civic warfare sparked when the unexpected death of a town official leaves a vacancy on the governing body. Characters set on a collision course range from the affluent lawyer Miles Mollison to the Weedons, a ramshackle clan living in The Fields, the run-down housing project on the edge of town.
Rowling has said she was aiming for Dickensian sweep in the multi-character saga, whose doses of sex, satire and swearing mark a distinct departure from wholesome Harry.
Reviews have been mixed. The Associated Press judged it a challenging but rewarding read full of emotion and heart. AP's Deepti Hajela said that while its troubled characters mean "this isn't a book that's easy to fall in love with ... But what could have been an unreadable story becomes something else in Rowling's hands, thanks to her gift of being able to make her characters complex and really, just human."
The New York Times' influential critic, Michiko Kakutani, was damning.
"The real-life world she has limned in these pages is so willfully banal, so depressingly cliched that 'The Casual Vacancy' is not only disappointing ? it's dull," she said.
The Guardian newspaper's reviewer, Theo Tait, said it was "no masterpiece, but it's not bad at all: intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny."
The Independent's Boyd Tonkin found the sometimes "long-winded and laborious" writing soared when Rowling focused on her teenage characters.
Others, though, felt the lack of likable characters might alienate readers, and Daily Mail reviewer Jan Moir slammed Rowling's stark focus on Pagford's haves and have-nots as the work of a "left-leaning demagogue" painting "a bleak and rather one-sided vision of life in modern England."
It's likely nothing Rowling publishes will ever match the success of the Potter books, which have sold more than 450 million copies around the world.
But booksellers are confident "The Casual Vacancy" will be one of the year's best-sellers, whatever reviewers say.
"A lot of children have grown up with Harry Potter. They're now adults who love books," Susan Sinclair, divisional manager for the Foyles bookstore chain, said.
"I think it's going to be a really big seller at Christmas. It'll be an easy gift ? but also a good one."
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Don't recycle _ these gadgets dissolve inside you
This undated image made available by Science magazine shows a water droplet dissolving a resorbable electronics circuit. As consumers we want our electronic gadgets durable. But as patients, we might want them to dissolve - inside our bodies. They could give treatments for a specific amount of time, and then just disappear without need for surgical removal or risk of long-term side effects. Scientists reported an early step toward that goal Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012: Small electronic devices, sealed in silk from cocoons, worked as designed after being implanted in mice. Three weeks later, they were basically gone. (AP Photo/Science, Fiorenzo Omenetto)
This undated image made available by Science magazine shows a water droplet dissolving a resorbable electronics circuit. As consumers we want our electronic gadgets durable. But as patients, we might want them to dissolve - inside our bodies. They could give treatments for a specific amount of time, and then just disappear without need for surgical removal or risk of long-term side effects. Scientists reported an early step toward that goal Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012: Small electronic devices, sealed in silk from cocoons, worked as designed after being implanted in mice. Three weeks later, they were basically gone. (AP Photo/Science, Fiorenzo Omenetto)
This undated image made available by the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois via Science magazine shows a water droplet dissolving a resorbable electronics circuit. As consumers we want our electronic gadgets durable. But as patients, we might want them to dissolve - inside our bodies. They could give treatments for a specific amount of time, and then just disappear without need for surgical removal or risk of long-term side effects. Scientists reported an early step toward that goal Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012: Small electronic devices, sealed in silk from cocoons, worked as designed after being implanted in mice. Three weeks later, they were basically gone. (AP Photo/Science, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois)
NEW YORK (AP) ? As consumers we want our electronic gadgets to be durable. But as patients, we might want them to dissolve ? inside our bodies.
Scientists reported Thursday that they succeeded in creating tiny medical devices sealed in silk cocoons that did the work they were designed for, then dissolved in the bodies of lab mice. It's an early step in a technology that may hold promise, not only for medicine, but also for disposal of electronic waste.
The new work is "a remarkable achievement" in combining materials to produce a working device, said Christopher Bettinger of Carnegie Mellon University. He works on biodegradable electronics but was not involved in the study.
Doctors already use implants that dispense drugs or provide electrical stimulation, but they don't dissolve. The new work is aimed at making devices that do their jobs as long as needed and then just dissolved, without need for surgical removal or risk of long-term side effects.
In the experiment, the devices ? which look like tiny computer chips ? were designed to generate heat, a potential strategy for fighting infection after surgery by killing germs, said John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, an author of the study.
The devices worked in the mice for more than a week, until their silk coatings dissolved enough for bodily fluids to erode key parts of the devices, he said. After three weeks, the tiny gadgets had basically disappeared.
Someday for people, similar devices might be programmed to monitor the body and release drugs accordingly, or produce electric current to accelerate bone healing, Rogers said.
The researchers used the protective cocoon envelope because silk can be processed to stay intact for varying periods of time ? from seconds to weeks and potentially for years, he said. The device's circuitry itself was built from other materials that degrade in the body, such as magnesium and silicon.
The federally funded research was reported online in the journal Science.
Apart from medicine, the technology offers a way to cut down on electronic waste, or E-waste, if portable consumer devices could be made with decomposing components, the researchers wrote.
And there are other potential uses, too Rogers suggested. For example, such devices could be scattered near a chemical spill to monitor things like chemical concentrations without any need to retrieve them later.
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New Zealand spy agency rapped over Megaupload blunder
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's spy agency illegally carried out surveillance on Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom, an official report showed on Thursday, prompting an apology from the prime minister and dealing a possible blow to a U.S. bid to extradite him.
Washington wants the 38-year-old German national, also known as Kim Schmitz, to be sent to the United States to face charges of internet piracy and breaking copyright laws.
Thursday's report by the Inspector-General of Intelligence, the official watchdog for New Zealand spy agencies, found the Government Communications and Security Bureau (GCSB) had spied on Dotcom, despite a law prohibiting it from spying on New Zealand citizens and residents.
The flamboyant Dotcom attained New Zealand permanent residency status in 2010.
"It is the GCSB's responsibility to act within the law, and it is hugely disappointing that in this case its actions fell outside the law," Prime Minister John Key said in a statement, adding the blunder was the result of "basic errors".
Key apologized to Dotcom and all New Zealanders, saying they were entitled to be protected by the law and that it had failed them.
New Zealand police asked the GCSB to keep track of Dotcom and his colleagues before a raid in late January on his rented country estate near Auckland, which saw computers and hard drives, works of art, and cars confiscated.
The illegal surveillance may deal another blow to the U.S. extradition case after a New Zealand court ruled in June that search warrants used in the raid on Dotcom's home were illegal.
The raid followed a request by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for the arrest of Dotcom for leading a group that netted $175 million since 2005 by allegedly copying and distributing music, films and other copyrighted content without authorization.
Dotcom maintains that the Megaupload site was no more than an online storage facility, and has accused Hollywood of lobbying the U.S. government to prosecute him.
U.S. authorities are currently appealing a New Zealand court decision that Dotcom should be allowed to see the evidence on which the extradition hearing will be based.
The extradition hearing has been delayed until March 2013.
(Reporting by Mantik Kusjanto; Editing by Jeremy Laurence)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/zealand-spy-agency-rapped-over-megaupload-blunder-054324879.html
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Gay marriage NY arguments put US lawyer on defense
NEW YORK (AP) ? A federal appeals court panel forced a Justice Department lawyer into an awkward position Thursday, making him explain the government's decision to abandon defending the Defense of Marriage Act as judges decide the fate of a law destined for the U.S. Supreme Court.
"In my day, when you won, you didn't appeal," a smiling Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals told Acting Assistant Attorney General Stuart Delery after Delery rose from his seat near lawyers defending the law even as he seemed to speak out against it.
Later, Judge Chester Straub demanded to know why the government quit defending the constitutionality of a 1996 law that defines marriage as involving a man and a woman after having spoken in favor of it for nearly 15 years.
Delery said the switch came in early 2011 at the direction of President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder after the administration reviewed the law and concluded that it deserved a stricter view of what constituted discrimination than the legal reasoning that had previously been applied.
Months from now, the 2nd Circuit is expected to rule whether Manhattan Judge Barbara Jones was right when she found the law unconstitutional in June, just like several other federal judges and a federal appeals court in Boston have done.
Repeatedly, Delery spoke about discrimination in America against people over their sexual choices.
"Gay and lesbian people have been subjected to a long history of discrimination that continues to this day," he said.
He called the expression of sexual orientation "an integral part of human freedom."
Yet, he added: "It's still the case that the rights of gays and lesbians usually lose when put up for a vote."
He said it was "crystal clear" that passage of the law was "motivated in significant part by disapproval of gay and lesbian people."
Straub responded with a snap: "Did you tell that to Congress in 1996, what you just now told us?"
Delery said some letters may have been sent to some representatives at the time.
"What is it that changed your view?" Straub demanded before Delery explained the February 2011 switch by Obama and Holder.
Jones ruled that the law intrudes upon the states' regulation of domestic relations. Her decision came after Edith Windsor sued the government in November 2010 because she was told to pay $363,053 in federal estate tax after her partner of 44 years, Thea Spyer, died in 2009. They had married in Canada in 2007.
The law, which denies federal recognition of same-sex marriages and affirms the right of states to refuse to recognize such marriages, was passed by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton after it appeared in 1993 that Hawaii might legalize gay marriage. Since then, many states have banned gay marriage but several have approved it, including Massachusetts and New York. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said last week she believes the Defense of Marriage Act will reach the Supreme Court within the next year.
Lawyer Paul Clement, speaking on behalf of the Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group of the House of Representatives, which is defending the law, told the appeals court that the Defense of Marriage Act was consistent with the intention of Congress to continue "preserving programs the way they've always been ? not opening these programs to others."
He said the desire to save the government money was a rational basis for the law as well, though "you can't go about that rational basis in an irrational way."
As an example, he said the government cannot deny benefits to blue-eyed people.
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Rowling's first novel for adults goes on sale
An employee adjusts copies of "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
An employee adjusts copies of "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Copies of the "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling stand on a trolley ready to go on the shelves at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Copies of the "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling rest on a chair behind the sales counter to go on the shelves at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Copies of the "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling are displayed on shelves at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
A light from a video camera shines on copies of the "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling displayed on shelves at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
LONDON (AP) ? British bookshops opened their doors early Thursday and some grown-up Harry Potter fans lined up overnight as J.K. Rowling launched her long-anticipated first book for adults, "The Casual Vacancy."
The lines were shorter and the wizard costumes missing, but the book was published to some of the same fanfare that greeted each Potter tome, with stores wheeling out crates of the books precisely at 8 a.m. as part of a finely honed marketing strategy.
Published five years after the release of the last book in the boy wizard saga, "The Casual Vacancy" is already at No. 1 on Amazon's U.S. chart, and bookmaker William Hill put 2-1 odds on it outselling "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," which shifted 2.6 million copies in Britain on its first day.
Many of the early buyers were Harry Potter fans who, like the author, have moved on to more adult fare.
"I just like how much excitement there is about a book," said 23-year-old Grace Proctor, a "massive" Potter fan who was first to buy the book at one London store.
"I think there are going to be people who will hate it just because they can hate it," she said. "But she's such an amazing writer, I don't think she can go wrong."
A story of ambition, envy and rivalry set in the fictional English village of Pagford, the novel recounts the civic warfare sparked when the unexpected death of a town official leaves a vacancy on the governing body. Characters set on a collision course range from the affluent lawyer Miles Mollison to the Weedons, a ramshackle clan living in The Fields, the run-down housing project on the edge of town.
Rowling has said she was aiming for Dickensian sweep in the multi-character saga, whose doses of sex, satire and swearing mark a distinct departure from wholesome Harry.
Reviews have been mixed. The Associated Press judged it a challenging but rewarding read full of emotion and heart. AP's Deepti Hajela said that while its troubled characters mean "this isn't a book that's easy to fall in love with ... But what could have been an unreadable story becomes something else in Rowling's hands, thanks to her gift of being able to make her characters complex and really, just human."
The New York Times' influential critic, Michiko Kakutani, was damning.
"The real-life world she has limned in these pages is so willfully banal, so depressingly cliched that 'The Casual Vacancy' is not only disappointing ? it's dull," she said.
The Guardian newspaper's reviewer, Theo Tait, said it was "no masterpiece, but it's not bad at all: intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny."
The Independent's Boyd Tonkin found the sometimes "long-winded and laborious" writing soared when Rowling focused on her teenage characters.
Others, though, felt the lack of likable characters might alienate readers, and Daily Mail reviewer Jan Moir slammed Rowling's stark focus on Pagford's haves and have-nots as the work of a "left-leaning demagogue" painting "a bleak and rather one-sided vision of life in modern England."
It's likely nothing Rowling publishes will ever match the success of the Potter books, which have sold more than 450 million copies around the world.
But booksellers are confident "The Casual Vacancy" will be one of the year's best-sellers, whatever reviewers say.
"A lot of children have grown up with Harry Potter. They're now adults who love books," Susan Sinclair, divisional manager for the Foyles bookstore chain, said.
"I think it's going to be a really big seller at Christmas. It'll be an easy gift ? but also a good one."
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Weekly roundup for the week of Dec. 15
Gadsden troopers respond to two wreck fatalities
Tuesday, Dec. 16
2 die, another hurt in wreck near Piedmont
17-year-old dies after being struck by car Monday night in Oxford
Anniston police search for person who stole TV while owners slept
Man arrested, charged with 2 counts of first-degree robbery
Jury calls for death penalty in quadruple murder case
Wednesday, Dec. 17
Piedmont High students dealing with death of sisters
Jacksonville police charge 3 with burglary
Anniston police search for 2 robbery suspects
34-year-old Anniston man charged with burglary
Medical condition may have played role in teen's death
Remains identified as Sylacauga man
Thursday, Dec. 18
Stunned? Local law enforcement say stun guns are essential tools
Georgia judge jails Muslim woman over not removing head scarf
Friday, Dec. 19
Area pools getting ready to meet new federal regulations
Anniston police searching for 2 men in Samco robbery
Police: Suspicious package at Quintard Mall a 'hoax'
Judge declines separate trial for state Sen. E.B. McClain
Officers take 50 dogs from 'puppy mill' outside of Pell City
Rwandan military official found guilty of genocide
Saturday, Dec. 20
Anniston police search for robbery suspect
Music industry drops effort to sue song swappers
Sunday, Dec. 21
Investigators shift focus to home of slain toddler's grandparents
Weekly roundup for the week of Dec. 22
Fruithurst muscadine winery gets alcohol license
Tuesday, Dec. 23
Anniston police seek 2 robbery suspects
Calhoun County Jail corrections officer now provides service to the inmates as a nurse
Jury convicts 5 men in Fort Dix terror plot
Alabama bill aims to limit spending in judicial races
Wednesday, Dec. 24
1 alleged robber killed, another injured by gunshots from local store owner
Jacksonville man allegedly stabs woman he met on Internet
Man out on bond after allegedly shooting neighbor with BB gun
Wal-Mart settles labor lawsuits
Veteran UAB cop charged with rape
Man charged in killing of Daphne woman
Jackson County deputies collect loans for payday lenders
State to get $35 million from drug suit
Thursday, Dec. 25
Coming together: Piedmont, surrounding communities support student injured in deadly wreck
Alleged robber charged in crime that left 1 dead
2 injured in wreck near Jacksonville
N.C. store emptied after bullet fired by escalator
Friday, Dec. 26
Oxford full-time fire department providing better response times
Police: At least 6 were killed in 'Santa' shooting
Now hiring: Mobile federal court seeks magistrate
1 dead when car drives into home on Christmas Eve
Saturday, Dec. 27
No crime or courts stories for the day.
Sunday, Dec. 28
South Alabama man jailed for setting fire to home
Weekly roundup for the week of Dec. 29
No stories for crime and courts were published today.
Tuesday, Dec. 30
Riley forms task force to probe gambling
Wednesday, Dec. 31
Stretched thin: Piedmont police struggle with staffing shortage
Martial arts expert teaches women to fight off attackers
Suspect in 2 convenience store robberies arrested
Police seek pair of alleged Christmas Eve robbers
Man who allegedly tried to hit woman with car sought
3 charged in death of woman found in well
Alabama's jail backlog creeps up again
2 charged in chase through Etowah, DeKalb counties
Thursday, Jan. 1
Men robbed after surprising burglar
Men send woman to hospital after throwing bottles at her
Police arrest third suspect in attempted robbery case
Alabama troopers to expand patrols
AG threatens to seize electronic bingo in Etowah
Friday, Jan. 2
Anniston police take back jurisdictions
Holiday gunfire in Mobile injures 7-year-old girl
Man convicted of UAB slaying linked to another months earlier
Alabama Supreme Court declines death penalty case
Etowah County man dies after jumping from car
Saturday, Jan. 3
3 hospitalized after 2-car accident in Anniston Friday
Firefighters respond to truck fire
Anniston police hunt man who allegedly enticed child
Heflin man killed Thursday in accident involving 2 cars
Piedmont police officer arrested: Harris-Brown charged with sexual misconduct
1st day back patrolling jurisdiction no problem for Anniston police
Sunday, Jan. 4
Baldwin cyclist struck by car, killed
Weekly roundup for the week of Jan. 5
County officials to pick up medical bill for robbery suspect
Vault at Calhoun County Sheriff's Office packed with remains of cases
Tuesday, Jan. 6
Piedmont fires police officer
Alleged cockfighting ring busted in Clay Co.
U.S. government: Jail Madoff without bail
Wednesday, Jan. 7
Coleman sues over Minnesota Senate recount results
Aruba prosecutor says end is near in Holloway case
Thursday, Jan. 8
Anniston man killed in hit-and-run on Alabama 202
Deaths on state's rural roads drop 17 percent
Federal judge arrests state sheriff over jail food
Decatur officer accused of taking $70,000 in scam
Friday, Jan. 9
Cadillac whacks Jack's: Anniston store damaged, no injuries
Man allegedly fires gun at girlfriend after argument
Oxford police officer blacks out while on patrol
Not as bad as it looks
Investigators ask for public's help in fatal hit-and-run
Controversy settles over Heflin fire chief
Saturday, Jan. 10
Oxford police officer stable after crash; Dentists begin cleaning up
Police arrest woman in hit-and-run
Illinois House impeaches governor
5 people shot at South Side Chicago school
Sunday, Jan. 11
Budget woes prompt states to rethink prison policy
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Roundup for the week of Jan. 12
Seeing through the smoke: Oxford Fire Department receives money for thermal-imaging cameras
Attorneys seek to block Callahan execution
Tuesday, Jan. 13
Oxford police officer recovering at home
Police searching for break-in suspect
Mayfield found dead in office
State opposes delay of Callahan execution set for Thursday
Supreme Court declines Georgia motion in water wars case
Wednesday, Jan. 14
Weaver student admits accessing school computer to change grades
State High Court won't stop Callahan execution
Thursday, Jan. 15
Callahan's execution set for tonight; attorneys ask for stay
Supreme Court says evidence is valid despite police error
Sheriffs look to change state's jail food law
Friday, Jan. 16
Callahan executed for 1982 murder of JSU student
Crimson Tiger employees investigated
Weaver student who changed grades plans to enroll at Anniston
Authorities investigating alleged embezzlement at Pleasant Valley High School
Alabama budget cuts could risk releasing prison inmates
Saturday, Jan. 17
Police investigate shots fired near AHS
Sunday, Jan. 18
Man found dead in Prichard had signs of hypothermia
U.S. moves 6 Gitmo detainees
My apologies
Some notes:
We've taken some heat for the Thursday, Jan. 15 issue, where we printed James Harvey Callahan and Rebbecca Suzanne Howell's photos together on the front page. The decision was made by our designers. The reasoning is that the story of those two people are intertwined. For good or ill, you cannot talk about either person's life without mentioning the other.
I also ran into flak for the Crimson Tiger story. At the risk of reiterating myself, I will simply link to the story.
Also, be sure to check out Mike Faulk's coverage of the inauguration. That lucky dog got to go to the actual inauguration with a press pass and all.
His first story is here, and more is upcoming.
Weekly roundup for the week of Jan. 26
Issue of terrorists' rights to test Obama's pledge to close Guantanamo Bay
Texas' Baby Grace case sees first trial this week
Tuesday, Jan. 27
Anniston man in jail for allegedly robbing five
Hobson City threatened with legal action over unpaid bill
Man arrested in Nov. 17 attempted robbery
Wednesday, Jan. 28
Staph infections a common issue at jails
Federal judge won't overturn jail food ruling
Thursday, Jan. 29
No crime or courts stories for the day.
Friday, Jan. 30
Man convicted in slaying of Etowah teen
2 women robbed at Anniston home
Saturday, Jan. 31
5 people sent to hospital after car accident on Alabama 21
Anniston man charged with attacking girlfriend, police
Head investigator retires from Anniston
Sunday, Feb. 1
State AG seeks sex offenders' computer names
Alabama Senate approves "monstrosity" that would tie legislators' pay to median income
The Alabama Senate this afternoon approved a junked-up "monstrosity" of a bill to tie legislators' pay to the median household income in Alabama.
Senators voted 28-6 for the proposed constitutional amendment after tacking on multiple add-ons including that a 2007 pay raise would be repealed immediately, lawmakers would forfeit pay in times of high unemployment, and legislators would have to reimburse the state if they accepted a controversial 2007 pay raise.
Senators in favor of the bill said they weren't even sure if all the changes were constitutional.
"What came out today was a monstrosity that we want to correct in conference committee," Senate President Pro Tempore Del Marsh, R-Anniston, said.
"The House is not going to concur with this. I'm going to beg them not to concur with this. We are going to send it to conference and fix it in conference," Marsh said.
The original proposal would change the way lawmakers are paid, giving them a base salary equal to the state's median household income. Additionally, they would be paid a daily expense allowance and mileage, identical to what state employees get, to cover travel expenses to Montgomery.
Lawmakers currently earn a minimum of $53,388 each year. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the state's 2010 median household income at $40,474.
Under the new proposal, a lawmaker who lived 128 miles from Montgomery, for instance, would make about $45,980, according to an estimate from the Legislative Fiscal Office.
The proposed change is a constitutional amendment that would take effect immediately after the 2014 general election if voters approved it.
The bill comes after a much-criticized pay raise that lawmakers approved in 2007 without a recorded vote. The 61-percent pay raise included automatic cost-of-living adjustments.
But senators engaged in a type of political race of who could be more in favor of slashing legislative pay.
Sen. Roger Bedford, D-Russellville, accused Republicans of presenting a "Trojan Horse," noting the bill would not repeal the 2007 raise immediately and it would stay in place if voters voted down the proposed constitutional amendment
Bedford put on an amendment that lawmakers would forfeit their pay any time the state's unemployment rate crept above 5.2 percent, saying lawmakers should follow the governor's example.
Marsh said some of the opposition was a "show" and countered with an amendment of his own that lawmakers would have to give back any pay raise they took if they were in office when the 2007 raise was approved. Marsh said he didn't take the pay raise.
"I've withstood as much hypocrisy as I can for one day," Marsh said.
Agnes Simpson, longtime owner of Dothan's WOOF radio station, dead at 87
Agnes Simpson, longtime owner of Alabama's WOOF radio stations in Dothan and the first woman to be named Alabama Broadcaster of the Year, has died. She was 87.
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"In the radio business, she and I are old school," said longtime General Sales Manager Hal Edwards. "Not just because we were old but because we still cling to the ideal of serving our listeners. We always agreed that at WOOF Radio, our job was 'To serve the public interest and our business is the promotion of legal commercial enterprise' and we did that."
Simpson was born in Prescott, Ariz. and attended the University of Alabama, where she met her future husband, R.A. Dowling. She served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and moved to Dothan after the war.
She and her husband got a license to operate an AM radio station in 1947 and launched WOOF. After her husband died, Simpson obtained a license for one of Alabama's first FM stations, which launched in 1964.
Simpson sold commercials and also did news broadcasts on both stations. She won awards for her broadcasting, including the Silver Medal Award from the Dothan Advertising Federation and Alabama Broadcaster of the Year.
Simpson served as the president of WOOF until recently when she took ill.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the Episcopal Church of the Nativity.
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The Willows Home & Garden: making plans
This year I finally got my wish after years of talking about it... ?A family talent show! ?It was so much fun. ?People were clever, funny, entertaining and we even saw some real, true talent. ?We marked a night on the calendar and told everyone a month or so in advance, so they could get planning. ?Each family had to come up with something to do together as a family and then any other little thing people wanted to do could be added in also. ?Some of the little girls even spent the days leading up to the talent show planning their own little dances with their cousins. ?For a good laugh and a good time, I highly recommend planning a family talent show. ?Start now, as it may take a few years to convince your family of this wild idea. ?This, along with our family olympics, family pictures and any other activity that gets put on the calendar in advance, seems to help the whole week run so smoothly as everyone knows what to expect. ?And, every year we have to include a little girls morning, where we go get toes painted and go out to lunch. ?And, then the guys find somewhere in the week to squeeze in a little golf. It's a wonderful time and I miss it already. ?Time to start planning for next year!
Source: http://thewillowshomeandgarden.blogspot.com/2012/09/making-plans.html
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Health and fitness agenda: World Heart Day | US Asian Post
(Relaxnews) ? Coming up, World Heart Day promotes keeping your ticker healthy, while Hard Rock Cafe unrolls Pinktober, fronted by pop-duo Bananarama.
World Heart Day
September 29
Worldwide
Celebrate your heart?s health with local and workplace events (health checks, organized walks, runs and fitness sessions, public talks, stage shows, scientific forums, exhibitions, concerts, carnivals and sports tournaments) taking place in 100 countries.
http://www.world-heart-federation.org/what-we-do/awareness/world-heart-day
Pinktober
October 1-31
Hard Rock Cafes and Hotels worldwide
Pinktober 2012 is the 13th annual Hard Rock campaign for breast cancer awareness. Musicians worldwide will host events to support breast cancer charities that include concerts, showcases and fashion shows. Throughout the month Bananarama and Hard Rock will tour US cities, including the kickoff in New York?s Times Square on October 2, followed by stops in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, among others. There are also pink products (key chains, T-shirts, pins) for sale online and the hotels will turn down pink sheets with 25% of the room rate going to charity.
http://www.hardrock.com/philanthropy/pinktober/pinktober-2011.aspx
International Walk to School Month
October 1-31
Worldwide
In a mission to combat childhood obesity, reduce carbon emissions, and raise awareness of the importance of creating cities that are friendly to walkers, International Walk to School Month suggests kids lace up their trainers and head to school on foot. To find out about how to get involved or to start or join a walking school bus ? an organized group of kids walking together with an adult supervisor ? visit?http://www.iwalktoschool.org.
Health 2.0 San Francisco
October 7-10
San Francisco, CA, US
This event is devoted to cutting-edge innovation in health technology, drawing in around 1,500 visitors. For the third year Health 2.0 is also setting up in Europe in Berlin (November 6-7) to showcase European web and mobile-based technologies. Similar events around the globe include Med-e-Tel, TechCrunch Disrupt and eTELEMED.
http://www.health2con.com
World Sight Day
October 11
Worldwide
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 286 million people are visually impaired, yet 80 percent of the causes of blindness are preventable. The annual day devoted to sight awareness is focused on ?Vision 2020: The Right to Sight,? a global effort to prevent blindness created by the WHO and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness.
http://www.vision2020.org/main.cfm?type=WSD11
Inner IDEA
October 25-28
Palm Springs, California
Inner IDEA celebrates its seventh annual event centered on mind, body and spirit wellness. The international professional event is designed for health and fitness professionals with sessions based on integrative health and wellness, including 100+ interactive sessions. Yoga teacher Max Strom is this year?s keynote speaker.
http://www.ideafit.com/inneridea
Ojai Yoga Crib
Ojai Valley, California, USA
October 25-28
This major event in Southern California draws thousands of yogis and elite teachers such as Erich Schiffman, Patricia Sullivan and Jason Crandell. Expect morning meditations, daytime workshops and evening kirtan sessions.
http://www.lulubandhas.com/yoga/crib
Source: http://www.usasianpost.com/health-and-fitness-agenda-world-heart-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=health-and-fitness-agenda-world-heart-day
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Home prices rise ? so does faith in housing turnaround
Home prices in top 20 markets rose 1.2 percent in the past year. A growing minority of Americans now believe their homes will be worth more a year from now.
This August file photo shows an exterior view of a home sold in Palo Alto, Calif. Not only are home prices rising, but a growing minority of Americans now believe that the value of their homes will increase in the next 12 months.
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After falling to depths not seen since the Great Depression, the U.S. housing market may finally be rising from the ashes.?
It may not seem like a lot, but 27 percent of Americans believe the value of their homes will increase in the next year, according the CNBC All America Economic Survey.
?That is the highest percentage since 2007 and the third straight quarter that such optimism has gained. (Read More:?CNBC Poll: Economy's Worse, but Obama Favored to Fix It.)
??Overall the housing industry has come back,? said Standard and Poors? David Blitzer, commenting on Tuesday?s release of the latest S&P/Case-Shiller home price indices. ?We might finally get a little boost to the economy from the housing sector.?
?Home prices in the nation?s top twenty markets rose 1.2 percent in July from a year ago, according to S&P/Case-Shiller. (Read More:?US Home Prices Rose for Sixth Month in a Row: Case-Shiller.)
All of those markets saw month-to-month price gains, while just four saw annual declines.? Atlanta continues to see the largest drop, down just under 10 percent year-over-year, but even its declines are easing.
?In Phoenix, where distressed properties have made up the bulk of home sales, prices are up 16.6 percent from a year ago, due to big supply shortages of low-end homes.
?Home prices are still down 30 percent from their peak in 2006, but just the prospect of a real bottom has some buyers finally getting off the fence. In addition, rising prices helped 1.3 million home owners to rise out of a negative equity position on their mortgages in the first half of this year, according to CoreLogic.
Nearly 11 million, or 22 percent of all borrowers, are still stuck in place, owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth, and an additional 2.3 million have less than 5 percent equity in their homes, making a move up unlikely. (Read More:More Homes Are Above Water, But Some Sellers Still Suffer.)
?The latest numbers, from existing home sales to earnings from the big publichome builders, are fueling much-needed confidence in housing, but it would be na?ve to declare that this industry is completely out of the woods.
?Positives, like record-low mortgage rates and much-improved affordability are offset by still high negative equity, tight credit conditions and continued uncertainty about the overall state of the economy.
Just 10 percent of those polled in the?CNBC survey?say the economy is good or excellent, with 91 percent saying it is only fair or poor. Fifty-three percent say it is poor, with 25 percent saying it will get worse. These sentiments are little changed from the survey results in?June.
Housing still faces some huge unknowns, including tough regulation on mortgage lending, the looming ?fiscal cliff,? and more than 5 million loans that are either delinquent or in the foreclosure process.
Supplies of distressed homes are low, but much of that is due to delays in the foreclosure process which are just now beginning to lift. New mortgage delinquencies are falling slightly, but they are still far higher than historical norms. (Read More:?'Underwater Mortgage' Refis Get Fresh Push in Congress.)
There is also a possible new headwind that few have mentioned. That is the potential loss of the Bush 2007 Mortgage Relief Act benefit.
This act negates any tax liabilities against borrowers who do so-called ?short sales.? This is when the bank allows the home to be sold for less than the value of the mortgage. The debt that is forgiven (that is the amount of the mortgage not covered by the sale price) would usually be taxed, but this act put a temporary stop to that in order to give borrowers relief and stimulate the short sale market.
This act expires at the end of this year, and Congress has yet to extend it.
?Private investors, Realtors and banks have begun to drive short sales hard, as foreclosures take too long and are too politically sensitive,? said housing analyst Mark Hanson. ?The loss of the Bush 2007 Mortgage Relief Act benefit, which has been driving incremental short sale volume all summer ? and is responsible for a large part of the year-over-year increase in sales volume ? will drive sales volume into a "triple dip" in the winter/spring...Prices will get hit as well.?
It is of course possible that Congress will extend the act at the last minute, but this is just one example of many ?ifs? still present in the market.?
Mortgage rates may be low now, but some say they could move up next year, influenced by factors outside the?Federal Reserve?s?recent attempt to lower them (QE3). (Read More:?How Does the Fed Help My House My Mortgage?)
Home prices appear to be improving, but a new flow of distressed properties could lessen those gains this fall. And again, so much still depends on jobs. S&P?s David Blitzer may believe housing is back, but his colleague Robert Shiller said last week that he wasn?t convinced.? Suffice it to say, the housing market has come a long way, but it still has a long way to go.
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[RI] Officer Andreozzi charged with disorderly conduct for suspected threats toward his own family
COP ARRESTED FOR THREATENING EX-WIFE: Charged with domestic disorderly conductWPRI
By Shaun Towne
Thursday, 30 Aug 2012
[Excerpts] State police have arrested a Barrington police officer for engaging in threats to family members. Sgt. Joseph Andreozzi, 45, pleaded not guilty in court Thursday to a charge of domestic disorderly conduct.... She alerted Barrington police and left her home, where Andreozzi showed up a short time later, presumably to confront her... State troopers arrested Andreozzi at midnight when he arrived for his shift at the Barrington Police Department... One trooper added that the threats were extended to his two children, aged 13 and 14. Sgt. Andreozzi was released following his arraignment, and he was ordered not to have contact with his ex-wife or children. [LINK]
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