Mel Martinez , Republican of Florida, will resign from his office by the end of August for personal reasons, aides say. Martinez had already decided not to run for re-election in 2010, but had previously insisted that he would not resign.
Senator Martinez has told supporters in a statement that he will resign his Senate seat as soon as a replacement can be found.
Senator Martinez was quoted as saying:
“My priorities have always been my faith, my family and my country and at this stage in my life, and after nearly twelve years of public service in Florida and Washington, it’s time I return to Florida and my family.
So today I am announcing my decision to step down from public office, effective on a successor taking office to fill out the remainder of my term.”
Former boxing champ Arturo Gatti Murdered by wife Amanda Rodrigues?
Authorities investigating the death of Arturo Gatti have revealed Arturo Gatti’s wife Amanda is one of their main suspects.
According the statement from the Pernambuco state civil police spokeswoman, Arturo Gatti seemed to have been strangled with a purse while Amanda Rodrigues Gatti said her husband had suffered head injuries.
Inconsistent statements, changing stories, blood on her purse strap and a head injury have police pointing the suspect finger at Arturo Gatti’s wife, Amanda Rodrigues.
Police arrested 23-year-old Amanda Rodrigues because of contradictions in her story when she was interrogated, police said, explaining that she was “inconsistent and incoherent.”
Rodrigues, a Brazilian, could not explain how she spent nearly 10 hours in the room without noticing that Gatti was already dead, authorities said.
She has been detained.
Montgomery County politician Ruthann Aron was ordered yesterday to serve three years in the county jail for trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband and a lawyer under a sentence that a judge said will punish her but also allow her to get psychiatric help.
The sentence was substantially more than the one year in a private New York psychiatric hospital at her own expense that Aron’s attorneys had sought. But it also was a marked departure from the eight to 18 years in a state prison that sentencing guidelines recommend. With standard good behavior credit, she could be released after serving about two years.
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Artist’s rendering of the Jersey Devil Reporter Peter Mucha revisits the legend of the Jersey Devil in today’s Philadelphia Inquirer, recalling an outbreak of hysteria that took place following alleged sightings of a bizarre, …
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Popular image hosting service ImageShack was hacked Friday evening (July 10) by a group calling itself Anti-Sec. The Imageshack hack saw all images hosted on the service replaced by an image that detailed Anti-Sec’s manifesto.
Quite a bold move meaning millions of linked images will show the Anti-Sec manifesto all around the internet.
Anti sec seem to be some Anti Security blackhat hackers with malicious intent.
More on anti sec can be found here http://blog.ncircle.com/archives/2006/04/the_antisec_movement_why.html
and here http://antisec.wordpress.com/
Patrick Tracy Burris was identified by police as the South Carolina Serial Killer who has recently terrorized Gaffney South Carolina. Burris was shot by Police in North Carolina today after they responded to a burglary complaint. …
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Panic at the Disco Breaking Up ? The well known emo group Panic at the Disco have published news on their site about 2 members who are leaving to embark on a musical excursion of their own.
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A high-speed chase , involving a white van and local police, just took place across the freeways and byways of Houston , Texas. The pursuit, which took place….
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Houston Car Chase: Ends in Parking Garage | Manolith
Don’t expect series star Neve Campbell to return as Sidney Prescott in Scream 4 . Series screenwriter Kevin Williamson, who is developing the script for the first part of a new trilogy, has revealed on twitter that Campbell has turned …
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Actor Frankie Muniz turning full attention to racing career Vineland Daily Journal, NJ Muniz had previously planned on moving eventually to the Champ Car Series, an elite open-wheel series opposite the Indy Racing League. …
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