| VA Police Officer Facing Charges
Richard Allan Martin, 45, of West Fargo was arrested early yesterday morning.
He originally was charged with drunken driving and terrorizing. Authorities accuse Martin of engaging in sexual conduct with a 28-year-old woman inside his car, which was parked behind a bar in north Fargo.
Police say a woman later told people in a convenience store that Martin threatened to kill her.
Martin is still in the Cass County Jail pending $500 bail for a municipal drunken driving charge, but has posted bail set for the district charges.
East Central Judicial District Judge Wade Webb set bail on those charges at $3,000 bond or $300 cash.
VA spokeswoman Peggy Wheelden says Martin is a federal police officer employed by the VA, whose jurisdiction covers the VA campus.
Public servants’ housing scheme mooted
Mr Asukusa said a submission was now before the Central Agencies Coordinating Committee and the National Executive Council to consider.
"We have a paper before the appropriate agencies for a housing loan scheme. We are looking at K37 million to be set aside for the public servants loan scheme."
The NHC head said this when welcoming comments made by the PNG Trade Union Congress leaders Michael Malabag and John Paska.
Mr Asukusa said the NHC was also working on a policy paper for "simple people to source funding to buy cement, timber, corrugated roofing iron and timber.
He said the NHC would provide land under the theme "half-way" housing concept.
He said the NHC had not failed the Government and money was the only problem over a number of years.
He said another problem was that the National Government placed a moratorium on house rentals with the highest rental being K23 a fortnight for a high covenant house.
Ex-Atlantic City mayor pleads guilty
Levy said little during yesterday's hearing before U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Simandle in Camden. He acknowledged under questioning by the judge that he had committed the offense outlined in a one-count federal information that grew out of a plea bargain negotiated by his attorney, Edwin Jacobs Jr. "Bob Levy did an awful lot of right things in his life," Jacobs said on the steps of the federal courthouse after the hearing. "Today he admitted to some things he did wrong." Levy's fall from grace continues a local political trend. He is the fifth of the city's last nine mayors to leave office under a cloud. Levy, 60, stepped down Oct. 10 amid reports that federal authorities were investigating falsehoods in his veterans' benefit claims. He disappeared for about a week prior to his resignation, sparking more rumors and gossip in political and governmental circles.
Sydney police free sex captives
Police said the women were lured to Australia and forced to work up to 20 hours a day in legal Sydney brothels. They had agreed to work in the sex industry, but were deceived about conditions, police said. "My understanding is that they came to Australia to work in the sex industry, but under more reasonable conditions," Australian Federal Police Assistant Commissioner Tim Morris said. 'Vanloads of men' Once the women were in Australia, the syndicate took their passports, officials said. "This is probably the largest alleged syndicate that we have smashed," Immigration Department Assistant Secretary Lyn O'Connell said. The five people arrested include a South Korean woman and a Korean-Australian woman, who police allege is the head of a syndicate that was making $2.8m (1.4m) annually.
Say Hello to Stanley
While Thrun was settling in at CMU, the hot topic in robotics was self-driving cars. The field was led by Ernst Dickmanns, a professor of aerospace technology at the University of the Bundeswehr. He liked to point out that planes had been flying themselves since the 1970s. The public was clearly willing to accept being flown by autopilot, but nobody had tried the same on the ground. Dickmanns decided to do something about that. With help from the German military and Daimler-Benz, he spent seven years retrofitting a boxy Mercedes van, equipping it with video cameras and a bunch of early Intel processors. On a Daimler-Benz test track in December 1986, the driverless van accelerated to 20 miles per hour and, using data supplied by the videocams, successfully stayed on a curving road.
Campus in Liberty fills niche of community college
When she learned that National College was opening a campus in the Mahoning Valley, she decided to see what it had to offer and enrolled with the first class in September. Her plan is to get her program diploma, get a job in a medical office and then, down the road, go back to school to continue her education in a medical field. Wiesensee said she chose National because it is close to home, brand new and about the only college she found to offer a one-year program "to get you going in that field." Wiesensee may be typical of the target market National saw when it chose to open a campus at 3487 Belmont Avenue. .
Philly CarShare becomes well-traveled
You've seen them everywhere. In prime parking territory on Center City streets, in Ikea parking lots, at the Wegman's in Cherry Hill. Hybrids, Mini Coopers, trucks emblazoned Philly CarShare. "Our wheels. Your freedom." Where do they come from? Go back to March 2002. Five people meet in the lobby of the Doubletree Hotel in Philadelphia. Tanya Seaman, 35 and Clayton Lane, 26, both city planners; Larry Shaeffer, a community activist; Eli Massar, who works for the Mural Arts Project; and Nate Robinson, an investment banker. They are planning a kind of communal rental system for Philadelphia that will allow a single car to be used by multiple drivers every day. People who need the keys for just a couple of hours to get to a child's baseball game or meet a client for lunch or haul home a new microwave.
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