The assault took place about 2:50 a.m. Wednesday in the 600 block of Monterey Road. Cpl. Matthew Ronnie said the suspect entered through an open window.

The victim was awakened and assaulted by a man who was armed with a knife, police said.

Ronnie said the victim’s father came home, heard the commotion in the bedroom and held the suspect at bay.

“The guy tried to escape through the living room, was unsuccessful and retreated to the bedroom,” Ronnie said.

He said the suspect got out using a window.

The assault was reported to South Pasadena police on Thursday night.

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Nasser, who left the San Jose Police Department last year amid layoff concerns and is in the process of being reinstated, knew instantly what was happening.

“We’ve got an armed robbery going down,” Nasser recalls thinking.

Nasser followed the men as they left the bank and provided investigators with information that led to the arrest of three men from Monterey County who are suspected of committing two robberies this week in San Jose.

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His killing leaves his family to mourn and seek justice against the men charged with his murder.

It was Super Bowl Sunday on Feb. 6, 2011, when YSU students and a considerable number of nonstudents attended a party at a house on Indiana Avenue near campus.

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We think about protecting our children in terms of safety and health, but we also should protect them emotionally and psychologically, and I think if you know your child is in a way suffering or feeling trapped, being forced by society to wear a certain clothing type based on gender, then as a parent, and having not going through this myself, I would imagine that you would want to make the best decision for your child to keep them safe there, too 1 not just externally, in terms of safety et cetera, but also just in their hearts and minds, so they feel confident in who they really do think they are,1 said Hasselbeck

Hasselbeck has also voiced, repeatedly, strong support for same-sex marriage, and last year, in a rebuke to the religious and radical right, went so far as to state, the only thing killing heterosexual marriage is heterosexual marriage”

Mark Daniel Snyder offers a wonderful personal story, noting that he was incredibly fortunate to have parents and familial caregivers who sought to protect both my physical safety and my emotional health by allowing me to be my authentic self I am without a doubt alive, and a more confident adult today, because of the people I had in my life as a child1

An investigation into complaints of illegal drug activity revealed that Jeffrey Guy Jr., 23 of the 200 block of Geneva Road in Dayton, sold heroin in the area of the Franklin Commons Apartment Complex and then fled in his vehicle when officers approached, according to police.

Police said Guy reportedly bailed out of his car and fled on foot while still in the complex. Two passengers also fled on foot. One male was apprehended later and released without being charged, according to police.

Guy was released from the Noble Correctional Institute in November 2011, according to Franklin police chief Russ Whitman, after serving four years for involuntary manslaughter. F

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Police spokesman Cpl. Jason Price said a man was seen acting suspiciously by a detective at 10:38 p.m. on Tuesday near the E-Z Pick Convenience Store, a business at 3022 W. Mercury Blvd.

“The detective also observed that the suspect had his face concealed, was possibly carrying a firearm and was approaching the E-Z Pick Convenience Store,” Price said.

As the detective approached the man fled on foot.

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The military policies of detention and interrogation worked out by the Bush Administration and continued at least in part by the Obama Administration cannot be challenged in damage lawsuits in federal courts, the Fourth Circuit Court in Richmond, Va., ruled on Monday.  The Constitution assigns the making of such policy to Congress and the President, and the courts may not trespass, the Circuit Court decided in throwing out a lawsuit by one of the best-known post 9/11 detainees: American citizen Jose Padilla.  The decision can be read here.

The 39-page ruling was a sweeping victory for the government as it fended off claims that top Pentagon officials and military prison supervisors violated a string of constitutional provisions, including the Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment, while Padilla was detained.  Suing along with his mother, Estela Lebron, their case sought a court-approved remedy fashioned directly under the Constitution.  The Circuit Court said it had no authority to do so.

Padilla was captured nearly ten years ago  at OHare Airport in Chicago on his return from Afghanistan, after allegedly being trained by the al Qaeda terrorist network for violent action in the U.S.   But, rather than prosecute him for terrorist crimes, he was named an enemy combatant by direct order of President George W. Bush, and

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A lawsuit filed by Mary and Edward Pritchard several years ago accuses Braley, former Police Chief Frank Richardson, Lt. Phil Johnson, and former Officer Roger Gilbert and his wife, Gail, of staging an improper raid on their home in 2007.

The trial starts Monday in Cincinnati.

Braley was also the lead detective in the case against Widmer, who is serving 15 years to life in prison for drowning his wife, Sarah, in the bathtub of their home in August 2008. Widmer’s attorneys tried twice to get Braley’s falsified employment records before jurors to discredit him. The judge

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The proposal is being considered as part of a cash-saving drive, building on lessons learned from processing offenders following last summer’s riots.

Cases known as “either way offences”, where the accused can opt for trial in a magistrates court or in front of a jury at crown court, are most likely to be affected.

Such cases usually involve relatively low-value thefts, such as shoplifting, or minor cases of criminal damage.

Ministers have been impressed with the speed with which justice was dispensed after August’s riots.

The attorney general, Dominic Grieve, has suggested that magistrates might be given greater sentencing powers, increasing the maximum term they might be able to impose from six to 12 months for a single offence.

But the Ministry of Justice played down reports of a review of trial procedures, insisting that: “We have no plans to remove trial by jury.”

Trials at crown court cost more than three times as much as in the lower courts.

Criminal barristers and human rights groups are likely to be extremely worried by an erosion of what is seen as a fundamental liberty.

A spokesperson for the Magistrates’ Association confirmed that discussions were taking place with ministers and that the organisation backed the move.

“It’s being considered, apparently in the light of the riots,” the spokesperson said.

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According to city police, Conaway “brandished” a firearm during an altercation with blogger Adam Meister outside his Northwest Baltimore home. Conaway said he had a permit for the weapon, but state police spokeswoman Elena Russo said records show it expired in March.

A major sticking point: Even if Conaway’s permit lapsed, he would be allowed to possess the gun on his own property, Russo said. But it is not clear whether Conaway left his property.

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HOUSTON—A woman who was shot while driving crashed into a townhome near the Galleria early Monday. She died shortly after.

Police said the woman was heading to her parents’ home near the intersection of Augusta and Sugar Hill around 12 a.m. when the shooting occurred. The victim then crashed into the garage of a nearby townhome.

Authorities said the woman was on the phone with her ex-boyfriend when it happened. He

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Bowen Du, 20, of Arcadia pleaded guilty in November to a misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter charge involving the death of Alice Zhang, 16, and to reckless driving involving the injury of her friend.

As a part of the plea deal, the Pasadena City College student will serve 180 consecutive days in Montebello City Jail, which prosecutors agreed would be equivalent to a one-year jail sentence, Du’s attorney Evan P. Freed said. Du was also sentenced to five years of unsupervised probation, and will later be ordered to attend a driver safety course and complete 40 days of community labor, he said.

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Two convenience stores on opposite sides of town reported robberies Friday.

Employees at the newly built Dollar General store on McCartney Road on the East Side called police about 7 p.m. Friday after a young man wearing a hooded sweat shirt robbed the store at gunpoint.

The store manager told police he watched the man on surveillance camera enter the store with his face covered and left the office to tell the man to uncover his face while in the store. When he reached the man, however, the man pulled out a gun and demanded money.

Reports say the man took a plastic shopping bag from the store and demanded it be filled with cash. H

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