| Naples firefighters, 87-year-old neighbor, form unique family-like ...
Alone on the floor with a broken arm and a cracked pelvis, Edith Tietz crawled to her rotary telephone inside her Naples home last October. Though she had fallen and was in pain, the 87-year-old knew just who to call for help. She didn't call 911. She didn't call her next-door neighbor. When Edie Tietz fell, she called her pals at Naples Fire Station 2. They, in turn, rushed to her home on 22nd Avenue North, blocks away from their station on 26th Avenue, and took her to the hospital. That, as they say, is what friends are for. “I called them when I fell," Edie said on a recent January afternoon. “I didn't pass out, but I didn't get up right away." After Edie's fall, Lt. Mike Nichols - a Naples firefighter for about 15 years - was surprised to find a handwritten note in her home with a list of firefighters' phone numbers on it.
Human-trafficking ring hit, agents say
Six people were arrested this week in a human-smuggling operation based in Los Angeles that involved thousands of illegal immigrants held in horrid conditions. Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement culminated a three-year investigation that began when police found about 140 illegal immigrants locked inside two "drop houses" in South Los Angeles. "We believe this ring was probably bringing 100 aliens a week into the L.A. area," ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice said. "You're looking at a lot of people - and a lot of money." Agents said the three ringleaders are all named Francisco and worked only in the U.S., picking up immigrants they called "pollos" - Spanish for chickens - who had crossed the border into Arizona. The "pollo books" were seized in raids on Wednesday and show the ring charged clients $1,200 to $3,700 each for transportation to cities across the U.S., according to an affidavit filed in federal court.
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Microsoft-Yahoo deal could reshape Internet
Microsoft Corp. is making an unsolicited $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo Inc. in a move to boost its competitive edge against Google. Consumers who access the Web on cell phones and handheld computers might be the first to find something new as a result of a Microsoft-Yahoo combination. .
Kaylors’ 2007 renovation rearranges rooms but keeps home’s cozy ...
Although plans had been made in 2005 to sell the East Brainerd home that had been in her family nearly 60 years, Beth Kaylor felt she couldn't let it go. Four generations of her family had lived in the cozy rock and Masonite home, so she and her husband, Kendall, decided to buy it from her aunt, renovate it and move there from Ashwood, Mrs. Kaylor said of the home at the corner of East Brainerd and Fuller roads. Structurally, the now 2,200-square-foot house is much the same as when her grandparents lived there, but every room without plumbing has a different function. The Kaylors turned the 1970s living room added by her grandparents, Eugene and Argie Wilson, into their master bedroom. The room their grandparents used as a den became their living room.
Vandals trash Island Recreation Center, leave satanic graffiti behind
The Beaufort County Sheriff's Office has stepped up patrols around the recreation center in recent months in response to the surge in vandalism, but stopping graffiti is an ongoing battle, said Capt. Toby McSwain, head of the southern enforcement division. "The thing is, the graffiti has been all over the island," he said. "It's been something we've been constantly chasing." Deputies have arrested some juveniles for graffiti in the past, but the problem persists, McSwain said. Graffiti was also reported this week on the Cross Island Parkway overpass. The Sheriff's Office suspects most of the perpetrators are young people, and that the spray-painted gang symbols likely were from imitators instead of signs of actual gang activity, he said. "It's always an area we try to be proactive in," McSwain said.
Homelife Security Protection Helping North Bay Area Residents Combat ...
This is Part Three of a three part series educating what every homeowner can do to better protect their home and their family against burglary, break and enter, and home invasion.HomeLife Security Protection is a sub dealer for ADT Security and is owned and operated by Paul M. Grant a Callander resident. After watching the increase in home crimes in the North Bay area I decided to help area residents combat home crimes.Together we can make a difference!HomeLife Security Protection has it's own professional security sales consultants which, are trained in offering professional security inspections and in suggesting the proper security devices, required to cover our clients needs, and make their homes a safer place to enjoy for themselves and their families.Great news to many “new home" owners and those that live in a home with a completely finished basement or with rooms that that make “fishing" wires through ceilings or through walls inaccessible, they offer complete “wireless" systems and individual wireless devices, that simply work on radio frequencies.
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