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Bomb warning prompts emergency landing
Essam Al Ghalib
Last Updated: September 11. 2008 11:21PM UAE / September 11. 2008 7:21PM GMT
A bomb hoax on an Air Arabia flight from Sharjah caused a red alert at Chittagong airport in Bangladesh on Wednesday.Bomb disposal experts, army personnel and fire officers met the plane carrying 81 passengers after a flight attendant found a handwritten note warning of a bomb on board. “There is a bomb set,” said the note written in Bengali left on a service tray, according to Air Arabia’s communications manager Housam Raydan.
A member of the flight crew who found the note asked a passenger to translate it for her. When its contents were revealed, she notified the captain who immediately alerted air traffic control of a possible emergency.The plane was given priority landing status at Chittagong and was towed to an unused part of the airport where it was searched, but no bomb was found. Upon landing all 81 passengers were asked to provide a handwriting sample and security personnel arrested a Bangladeshi man.
Full article: http://www.thenational.ae/article/20080911/NATIONAL/169508699/-1/NEWS
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Caseworkers' documents altered in Tatar case, report says
Caseworkers' documents altered in Tatar case, report says
By Renatta Signorini
TRIBUNE-REVIEW NEWS SERVICE
Saturday, September 13, 2008
A sworn statement from a caseworker and an expert's report that caseworkers' documents were altered were accepted into evidence Friday during an appeal hearing for an Armstrong County man serving a life sentence for the starvation death of his daughter.
Jeffrey Miller, the attorney for James Tatar, 46, of Parks Township, had asked that Judge Kenneth Valasek provide him with resources to bring the forensic document examiner, Albert H. Lyter, from North Carolina to testify. Miller also asked for a detective's help to find Pamela Walmsley, a caseworker who worked with 4-year-old Kristen Tatar and her parents before the girl's death in 2003.
Valasek instead permitted the statement and report be part of the record of an appeal hearing in which Tatar is seeking a new trial.
see full story: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleyindependent/teenscene/s_588017.html
By Renatta Signorini
TRIBUNE-REVIEW NEWS SERVICE
Saturday, September 13, 2008
A sworn statement from a caseworker and an expert's report that caseworkers' documents were altered were accepted into evidence Friday during an appeal hearing for an Armstrong County man serving a life sentence for the starvation death of his daughter.
Jeffrey Miller, the attorney for James Tatar, 46, of Parks Township, had asked that Judge Kenneth Valasek provide him with resources to bring the forensic document examiner, Albert H. Lyter, from North Carolina to testify. Miller also asked for a detective's help to find Pamela Walmsley, a caseworker who worked with 4-year-old Kristen Tatar and her parents before the girl's death in 2003.
Valasek instead permitted the statement and report be part of the record of an appeal hearing in which Tatar is seeking a new trial.
see full story: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/valleyindependent/teenscene/s_588017.html
Friday, September 12, 2008
Two politicos charged in passport case
Daily Mirror Front Page
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Two politicos charged in passport case
By T. Farook Thajudeen.
The CID filed charges before the Colombo Magistrate’s Court against two Western Provincial Councillors for allegedly aiding and abetting a person to obtain a passport on forged documents.
The CID filed charges against the two Provincial Councillors Andarage Don Gamini Thilakasiri of Katuwawala, Boralesgomuwa and Hector Bethmage of Talangama South, Battaramulla for aiding and abetting Karunapalage Nandana Jagath Kumara to prepare forged documents to obtain passport bearing no. N 165324.
Whole story:
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=25971
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Two politicos charged in passport case
By T. Farook Thajudeen.
The CID filed charges before the Colombo Magistrate’s Court against two Western Provincial Councillors for allegedly aiding and abetting a person to obtain a passport on forged documents.
The CID filed charges against the two Provincial Councillors Andarage Don Gamini Thilakasiri of Katuwawala, Boralesgomuwa and Hector Bethmage of Talangama South, Battaramulla for aiding and abetting Karunapalage Nandana Jagath Kumara to prepare forged documents to obtain passport bearing no. N 165324.
Whole story:
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections/frmNewsDetailView.aspx?ARTID=25971
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Irish police demand handwriting samples after plane bomb hoax
Irish police demand handwriting samples after plane bomb hoax
Monday, 8 September 2008
Gardai demanded handwriting samples from 223 passengers and nine crew members during a major security operation at Dublin Airport after a note was found on an Aer Lingus plane warning of a bomb on board.
The operation began at about 9.30am on Saturday when the transatlantic flight travelling from New York to Dublin landed at Dublin Airport.
One of the crew members on the flight had reported finding a paper towel in the toilet of the plane with a written warning that there was a bomb on board.
The plane landed and taxied to a secure location some distance away from the airport terminal and was secured by armed gardai.
Passengers disembarked and interviews were conducted in the terminal building. Passengers were asked to supply samples of handwriting.
Full article: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/irish-police-demand-handwriting-samples-after-plane-bomb-hoax-13963266.html
Monday, 8 September 2008
Gardai demanded handwriting samples from 223 passengers and nine crew members during a major security operation at Dublin Airport after a note was found on an Aer Lingus plane warning of a bomb on board.
The operation began at about 9.30am on Saturday when the transatlantic flight travelling from New York to Dublin landed at Dublin Airport.
One of the crew members on the flight had reported finding a paper towel in the toilet of the plane with a written warning that there was a bomb on board.
The plane landed and taxied to a secure location some distance away from the airport terminal and was secured by armed gardai.
Passengers disembarked and interviews were conducted in the terminal building. Passengers were asked to supply samples of handwriting.
Full article: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/irish-police-demand-handwriting-samples-after-plane-bomb-hoax-13963266.html
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Who Owns Early Film Star's Oscar
September 8, 2008 5:27 PM
Quinn Emanuel on Case of Who Owns Early Film Star's Oscar
Posted by Zach Lowe
How much is an Oscar worth on the private market? Experts have suggested the trophies can fetch anywhere between $500,000 and $1.5 million. And that's the kind of cash the descendants of Charles "Buddy" Rogers, the former husband of silent film star Mary Pickford, hope to fetch by selling the 1929 Best Actress statuette Pickford won for her role in Coquette, to raise proceeds for charity.
One catch: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences claims it has the right to buy the statue first--for $10.
A Los Angeles trial court judge gave the Academy its first victory in the case yesterday, ruling against the Rogers-Pickford team's motion for summary judgment and ordering the case to a jury trial.
Christopher Tayback of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges is representing the Academy. The firm is the Academy's regular outside counsel.
Mark Passin of Dreier Stein Kahan Browne Woods George, an entertainment litigation boutique, is representing the Rogers heirs.
The Academy established the $10 first-refusal rule in 1950, well after Pickford won her Best Actress award--the first ever given for a performance in a so-called talkie. Regardless of when she first received that Oscar, the Academy contends Pickford signed away her rights to sell it when she won an honorary Oscar in 1975. Passin says Pickford never signed any such agreement and has hired a handwriting expert who has filed a declaration with the court backing the heirs' claim. Quinn Emanuel disagrees, though Academy lawyers concede that an assistant may have signed on behalf of Pickford, who was in her mid-80s at the time. Either way, the agreement should hold up, Tayback argues.
Read teh rest of the story:
http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2008/09/quinn-emanuel-o.html
Quinn Emanuel on Case of Who Owns Early Film Star's Oscar
Posted by Zach Lowe
How much is an Oscar worth on the private market? Experts have suggested the trophies can fetch anywhere between $500,000 and $1.5 million. And that's the kind of cash the descendants of Charles "Buddy" Rogers, the former husband of silent film star Mary Pickford, hope to fetch by selling the 1929 Best Actress statuette Pickford won for her role in Coquette, to raise proceeds for charity.
One catch: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences claims it has the right to buy the statue first--for $10.
A Los Angeles trial court judge gave the Academy its first victory in the case yesterday, ruling against the Rogers-Pickford team's motion for summary judgment and ordering the case to a jury trial.
Christopher Tayback of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges is representing the Academy. The firm is the Academy's regular outside counsel.
Mark Passin of Dreier Stein Kahan Browne Woods George, an entertainment litigation boutique, is representing the Rogers heirs.
The Academy established the $10 first-refusal rule in 1950, well after Pickford won her Best Actress award--the first ever given for a performance in a so-called talkie. Regardless of when she first received that Oscar, the Academy contends Pickford signed away her rights to sell it when she won an honorary Oscar in 1975. Passin says Pickford never signed any such agreement and has hired a handwriting expert who has filed a declaration with the court backing the heirs' claim. Quinn Emanuel disagrees, though Academy lawyers concede that an assistant may have signed on behalf of Pickford, who was in her mid-80s at the time. Either way, the agreement should hold up, Tayback argues.
Read teh rest of the story:
http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2008/09/quinn-emanuel-o.html
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