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WICHITA — Police are praising a mother who called police Tuesday night after her 9-year-old son told her about plans to swap an Microsoft X-Box video game console for a handgun. Police said she thwarted a potential tragedy.
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Police spokeswoman Janet Johnson said after the woman called about 10:30 p.m., officers went to the home of the second 9-year-old boy and found a loaded handgun in his backpack. The boys apparently planned to make the trade at school on yesterday.
"This was a case of good communication between a child and his parents," Johnson said. "The mother cared enough to call, and what could have been a tragic situation was avoided."
The grandfather of the boy with the gun was cited for improper storage of a handgun, Johnson said. He was the boy's legal guardian, she said.
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WASHINGTON —The Supreme Court expanded job protections for roughly half the nation's work force yesterday, ruling that federal law allows people 40 and over to file age bias claims over salary and hiring even if employers never intended any harm.
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The decision eased the legal threshold for about 75 million middle-aged and older people to contend in court that a policy had a disproportionately hurtful effect on them.
On the other hand, the ruling makes clear employers still will prevail if they can cite a reasonable explanation for their policies, such as cost-cutting.
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Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever said he feared immigrant smugglers might open fire on the volunteers.
The project's organizers gave assurances the volunteers would be closely monitored. "If it gets to a situation where someone's life is in danger," said David Helppler, Minuteman security coordinator, "I will end the project."
Critics contend the project may attract anti-immigrant racists and vigilantes looking to confront illegal immigrants. At least one white supremacist group has mentioned the project on its Web site.
anybody, citizen or law enforcement alike, if they were confronted and felt like their cargo was in jeopardy," he said.
"They are domestic terrorists that represent a danger to the country and could promote a major border conflict that will
Jim Gilchrist, a retired volunteer from Aliso Viejo. Calif., who organized the project, said that some volunteers would carry handguns, which are allowed under Arizona law, but are being instructed to avoid confrontation, even if shot at.
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Citizens pack border to catch illegal aliens
Still, law enforcement officials and human rights advocates are worried about the potential for bloodshed.
Organizers of the Minuteman Project said the civilian volunteers, many of whom were recruited over the Internet, would meet first for a rally in this one-time silver mining town, then fan out across 23 miles of the San Pedro Valley to watch the border for a month and report sightings of illegal activity to Border Patrol agents.
Project organizers said they expected 800 to 1,000 volunteers. How many might actually show is unclear; similar efforts in the past few years flopped. One of them drew only about a half-dozen people.
Minuteman field operations director Chris Simcox described the project as "the nation's largest neighborhood watch group" and said one of the goals was to make the public aware of how porous the border was.
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TOMBSTONE, Ariz. — The Mexican border will be lined tomorrow with volunteers, some of them armed, who will be patrolling for illegal immigrants — an exercise some fear could attract racist crackpots and lead to vigilante violence.
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"I wouldn't anticipate that people of that persuasion would act or react any differently to
Civilians to take action at border
Michael Nicley, chief of the U.S. Border Patrol's Tucson sector, said the volunteers were not the kind of help the Border Patrol was asking for.
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Hundreds of volunteers, some armed and many recruited over the Internet, will begin patrolling for illegal immigrants Friday along the Arizona-Mexico border.
On patrol in Arizona Percentage of the U.S.-Mexico border that is along Arizona
Percentage of illegal immigrants caught by U.S. Border Patrol in 2004 who crossed into Arizona
have serious ramifications and consequences," said Armando Navarro, a University of California-Riverside political science professor and coordinator of the National Alliance for Human Rights, which is made up mostly of Hispanic activists.
Percentage of federal border agents who work in Arizona 24%
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Television Credits: Dead Like Me (2003-04) - Rube
Chicago Hope (1984) - Dr. Jeffrey Geiger, Emmy Award, 1998
Film Credits: Dick Tracy (1990) - 88 Kays
The Princess Bride (1987) - Inigo Montoya
Yentl (1983) - Aigdor
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The Secret Garden (1981) - Archibald Graven
Sunday in the Park with George (1984) - George
Evita (1979) - Che Guevara, Tony Award, 1979
Other film credits: Piñero (2001), Allen Nation (1988),
Dan'i (1983), Ragtime (1981)