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LONDON -
A British man was convicted Wednesday of murdering a prostitute after he dumped her torso into a canal in a suitcase but forgot to take off a label bearing his brother’s name and address.
Daniel Archer, a 55-year-old crack addict, killed Nasra Ismail, 27, in his brother’s North London apartment after paying her 20 pounds ($34.40) for sex, prosecutors told London’s Old Bailey Central Criminal Court.
He fled to the north of England but returned three weeks later to cut up her body. He put her torso into a suitcase and threw it into Regent’s Canal, where it failed to sink.
Police quickly traced Archer through his brother’s name and the crime-scene address written on the suitcase.
Archer denied murdering Ismail, saying she had died in a fight with him after she attacked him with a knife.
Archer, who faces life in jail, will be sentenced Friday.
Teens use video to nab church-donations thief
MALVERNE, N.Y. -
Two 14-year-olds filming a student documentary helped catch a man stealing money from a church's donation boxes, police said.John Scimeca, 45, was charged with two counts of larceny and one count of possession of burglar's tools in the thefts from Our Lady of Lourdes Church, authorities said.The students were working on their documentary at the church Nov. 13 when they recorded a man allegedly tampering with a donation box. They turned the tape over to police
A week later, the father of one of the students saw what appeared to be the same man enter the church, police said. He grabbed a camcorder from his car, returned to the church and saw the man take bills from two donation boxes, they said.The man, realizing he was being filmed, threatened to beat up the father, authorities said. The father turned the tape over to police, who identified the suspect as Scimeca.It was not known how much money was taken.Scimeca previously spent a month in jail after a similar robbery at another church, they said.
Sons Pay $119,400 for Ginseng to Help Mom
SEOUL, South Korea Nov 27, 2005 — A family hoping to cure their mother's weak knees bid nearly $120,000 at an auction for a set of wild ginseng roots that included specimens 110 years old.
The package of six roots sold for 125 million won ($119,400), Yonhap news agency reported Sunday, citing the Korea Wild Ginseng Appraisal Association. An entrepreneur and his brothers placed the winning bid to help cure their mother's ailing knees.
Ginseng is highly valued in Korea for its potent healing benefits.
Ads on blogs anger longtime AOL users
WASHINGTON -
As America Online turns more toward advertising dollars to offset the shrinking number of subscribers who pay a monthly fee, the company may be upsetting the longtime customers who have remained faithful over the years.
Virginia Heatwole of Rockville, Md., for example, has been a paying customer since 1993 and turned to AOL when she decided to start her own Web log. One of things she liked about AOL Journals was the absence of advertisements on her blog page.
Now, her personalized Web page that includes her thoughts about nature and spirituality has become a platform for Netflix DVD rental ads.
"They're flashing and screaming at the top of my blog," she said.
The change came last week when Dulles, Va.-based AOL started posting ads on the pages created by AOL Journals, which had been ad-free for two years. Back in May, the company opened the free service to nonsubscribers, noting that those blogs would contain ads but that blogs by paying customers would be ad-free.
The company, which is quickly losing subscribers to broadband service providers, began offering free music, video, blogs and other services and features with hopes of increasing its audience and grabbing more online ad dollars.
"The decision to implement banner advertising on AOL Journals is consistent with our business and advertising practices," AOL spokeswoman Kathie Brockman said in an e-mail.
The company, which hosts about 600,000 blogs, received several dozen complaints about the advertisements and is taking those suggestions into consideration, she said.
"We have advertising on the AOL.com portal, in e-mail, instant messaging, and across our network," Brockman wrote.
"It is also consistent with the practices of other major blog providers on the Internet."
Some users of AOL's AIM instant-message service are also dealing with the automatic arrival of new "buddies" on their buddy lists: AOL services called Moviefone and ShoppingBuddy.
The links allow users to search for movies and products by typing instant messages.
Users were notified of the change through a posting on AIM.com and were given an option to remove the new listings by going to the set-up menu to delete them, the company said.
However, the new ads cannot be deleted from the blogs, and that has other bloggers steamed.
A British man was convicted Wednesday of murdering a prostitute after he dumped her torso into a canal in a suitcase but forgot to take off a label bearing his brother’s name and address.
Daniel Archer, a 55-year-old crack addict, killed Nasra Ismail, 27, in his brother’s North London apartment after paying her 20 pounds ($34.40) for sex, prosecutors told London’s Old Bailey Central Criminal Court.
He fled to the north of England but returned three weeks later to cut up her body. He put her torso into a suitcase and threw it into Regent’s Canal, where it failed to sink.
Police quickly traced Archer through his brother’s name and the crime-scene address written on the suitcase.
Archer denied murdering Ismail, saying she had died in a fight with him after she attacked him with a knife.
Archer, who faces life in jail, will be sentenced Friday.
Teens use video to nab church-donations thief
MALVERNE, N.Y. -
Two 14-year-olds filming a student documentary helped catch a man stealing money from a church's donation boxes, police said.John Scimeca, 45, was charged with two counts of larceny and one count of possession of burglar's tools in the thefts from Our Lady of Lourdes Church, authorities said.The students were working on their documentary at the church Nov. 13 when they recorded a man allegedly tampering with a donation box. They turned the tape over to police
A week later, the father of one of the students saw what appeared to be the same man enter the church, police said. He grabbed a camcorder from his car, returned to the church and saw the man take bills from two donation boxes, they said.The man, realizing he was being filmed, threatened to beat up the father, authorities said. The father turned the tape over to police, who identified the suspect as Scimeca.It was not known how much money was taken.Scimeca previously spent a month in jail after a similar robbery at another church, they said.
Sons Pay $119,400 for Ginseng to Help Mom
SEOUL, South Korea Nov 27, 2005 — A family hoping to cure their mother's weak knees bid nearly $120,000 at an auction for a set of wild ginseng roots that included specimens 110 years old.
The package of six roots sold for 125 million won ($119,400), Yonhap news agency reported Sunday, citing the Korea Wild Ginseng Appraisal Association. An entrepreneur and his brothers placed the winning bid to help cure their mother's ailing knees.
Ginseng is highly valued in Korea for its potent healing benefits.
Ads on blogs anger longtime AOL users
WASHINGTON -
As America Online turns more toward advertising dollars to offset the shrinking number of subscribers who pay a monthly fee, the company may be upsetting the longtime customers who have remained faithful over the years.
Virginia Heatwole of Rockville, Md., for example, has been a paying customer since 1993 and turned to AOL when she decided to start her own Web log. One of things she liked about AOL Journals was the absence of advertisements on her blog page.
Now, her personalized Web page that includes her thoughts about nature and spirituality has become a platform for Netflix DVD rental ads.
"They're flashing and screaming at the top of my blog," she said.
The change came last week when Dulles, Va.-based AOL started posting ads on the pages created by AOL Journals, which had been ad-free for two years. Back in May, the company opened the free service to nonsubscribers, noting that those blogs would contain ads but that blogs by paying customers would be ad-free.
The company, which is quickly losing subscribers to broadband service providers, began offering free music, video, blogs and other services and features with hopes of increasing its audience and grabbing more online ad dollars.
"The decision to implement banner advertising on AOL Journals is consistent with our business and advertising practices," AOL spokeswoman Kathie Brockman said in an e-mail.
The company, which hosts about 600,000 blogs, received several dozen complaints about the advertisements and is taking those suggestions into consideration, she said.
"We have advertising on the AOL.com portal, in e-mail, instant messaging, and across our network," Brockman wrote.
"It is also consistent with the practices of other major blog providers on the Internet."
Some users of AOL's AIM instant-message service are also dealing with the automatic arrival of new "buddies" on their buddy lists: AOL services called Moviefone and ShoppingBuddy.
The links allow users to search for movies and products by typing instant messages.
Users were notified of the change through a posting on AIM.com and were given an option to remove the new listings by going to the set-up menu to delete them, the company said.
However, the new ads cannot be deleted from the blogs, and that has other bloggers steamed.
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