Friday, February 08, 2013
Arkansas recruit's mother hires Johnnie Cochran's law firm - USATODAY - Paul Myerberg - Shortly before Collins' announcement Thursday, a law firm announced that his mother, Andrea McDonald, had retained its services "to represent the family's interests" as she contemplated her son's athletic future. - McDonald's representation, The Cochran Firm, was founded by attorney Johnnie Cochran, who famously represented O.J. Simpson in his 1995 murder trial. Theoretically, the firm could attempt to invalidate the letter of intent Collins and his father submitted to Arkansas.
Felix Hernandez's deal paves path for pitchers - Bob Nightengale - USATODAY - Felix Hernandez and the Seattle Mariners agreed on a seven-year, $175 million contract, the richest deal for a pitcher, according to a person familiar with the contract but unauthorized to speak publicly until the deal was finalized.
Small Town Wins Its Standoff With a Kidnapper - NYTimes.com - Campbell Robertson and Robbie Brown - Early ideas were proposed and dropped. Filming the scene from across the highway was a man named Rickey Stokes, a local bail bondsman who runs a blog on happenings in the area, RickeyStokesNews.com. Officials invited Mr. Stokes over, and discussed having him either go into the bunker with a camera, or teach a female F.B.I. agent to use his camera and go in. - Both of those notions were scrapped quickly. In any case, Mr. Dykes, wary of being tricked, insisted that his speech be live-streamed, not prerecorded. - Kirke Adams, the district attorney for Dale County who had been called to the scene from coaching high school girls’ soccer practice, said Mr. Dykes never gave an inch. - “The demand he made was impossible to accomplish in the way he wanted it done,” Mr. Adams said. “And he would accept no alternative.”
Dothan bondsman-newsman almost enlisted to help meet Midland City hostage-taker's demands | al.com - Erin Edgemon - Just minutes after Jimmy Lee Dykes got on the Dale County School bus and shot its driver on Jan. 29, Dothan native Rickey Stokes was en route to the scene on a dirt road in rural Midland City. - For the past 10 years or so, the bail bondsman has written a blog, rickeystokesnews.com, largely focused on crime in the Dothan area. He was preparing for a live feed of a county school board meeting that night when one of his bail bondsmen called from the jail saying he heard a 911 call of a gunman on a school bus.
Thursday, February 07, 2013
'Killer' ex-cop who left 3 dead in LA shooting spree sends bullet-riddled coin to CNN's Anderson Cooper... as manifesto reveals he seeking revenge against police department that fired him | Mail Online
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