Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Friday August 30 2002 — AS In brief to lb® tom diowira nIoDTOir Dumas® Muslim woman arrested 9-- 11 PORTLAND Ore (AP) — The owna of the property where Ward Weava lived and where the remains of two missing found guilty of menacing deputies ST CLAIRSVILLE Ohio — A Muslim woman has (AP) girls were found says he’ll demolish the home “When (police) gave the place back to me yesterday I decided this place is going away in a hurry” Steve Hopkins said Wednesday “I'm going to demolish the building and clear the land and let it breathe and heal so people can get back ' to normal” He said an Oregon City demolition company has offered to do the job at no charge Searchers found the bodies of Miranda Gaddis 13 and Ashley Pond 12 on the property ova the weekend The girls who lived in an apartment complex nearby had been missing since last winter Miranda's body wasin a cardboard box in a shed on the property Ashley was discovered in a barrel unda a concrete slab behind the house Weaver rented from Hopkins Authorities say they believe Miranda's remains were moved from somewhere else recently and were hot there when dogs searched the property eariia Weava 39 is in the Clackamas County Jail on an unrelated charge that he raped his son’s girlfriend He has not been charged in the death of been convicted of threatening sheriff's deputies during a clash on an eastern Ohio highway just hours after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks A judge Wednesday sentenced Jamilah Ali 38 of Baltimore Md to the eight days she served in jail last September and sus- y sentence after finding her guilty of pended the rest of a 180-da- aggravated menacing During her trial Ali called the officers “bullish and aggressive” and said she feared for ha life The deputies testified they felt threatened too especially when Ali screamed she was a ' “warrior for Allah and at war with the US” The national office of the Council on American-Islami- c Rela- tions said it would announce plans Thursday to assist Ali in appealing the conviction Ali ha uncle Yusuf Alim and ha son were returning to Baltimore from visits in Detroit and Chicago the night of Sept 1 1 All three were dressed in traditional Middle Eastern clothing that attracted attention at a crowded service station Several patrons became concerned and called the sheriffs office Ali and Alim became disorderly when they woe stopped for questioning according to the deputies’ report Ali’s son was placed in juvenile detention while she and her uncle wefe held in jail for fight days In October Judge Harry White of the Western Division of the Belmont County Court ruled the deputies had no probable cause to stop the vehicle in response to frantic 911 calls that persons wearing Arabian garb had been spotted at a nearby gas station In December White had dismissed a misdemeanor charge of falsification against Alim He had previously dismissed a charge eitha girl of resisting arrest against Ali Death penalty ruled out in shooting MINEOLA NY (AP) — Prosecutors will not seek the death penalty against the man charged with gunning down a Long Island priest and a parishioner during church services last spring murder charges in the Peter Troy was indicted on Rev the and Eileen Tosner 30 Lawrence Penzes of shootings 73 in Our Lady of Peace church in Lynbrook on March 12 Nassau County District Attorney Denis Dillon said Thursday that deciding against capital punishment “is consistent with my position that the death penalty should be sought only when it is determined to be the only effective means of protecting the pub-li- e from a particular defendant” Dillon the county’s top law enforcement official has never sought the death penalty Troy 34 now faces life in prison withmurder out parole if convicted of first-degr- first-degr- ee fa ee Road crew apologizes for traffic jam KINGSPORT Tenn (AP) — Big-cit- y commuters might never see something like this: a posted apology from a road crew fa a half-hotraffic jam Sidewalk work in a rural east Tennessee town during the Wednesday morning rush hour forced closure of one lane on a a mile and generating sevmain roadway backing up traffic eral calls and to City Kail “They feel genuinely bad” public works directa Dave Ruller said of the crew which was given the option of posting the apology ' “SWty fa Wed traffic delay declared a big red sign greeting rtntbrirfts Thursday The tfgti rigned by the Kingsport Public Works department will remain posted the rest of the week ur fa 2000 w & Does Yoqr Heart Good AmaricanUaartAiioclattonfl endless v m Timbuk2) $4999 Reguhr Prtct $7999 2003 Giant ATBIp are Instock only Sony no special order sale : August 29 - September 7 Kevlai Regular Price summer iunRi Continental Dee Dog oulder $17999 Messenger Bag! 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