| Snow Moves Through Parts Of North Texas
The heaviest snow moved through the metro area between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. and then headed east. "It's like a mixture of snow and hail at the same time," said North Texas resident Wes Brown."Someone was saying earlier, they had a sunburn on Saturday and now this," said Weatherford resident Kim Cherryhomes. "It's typical crazy Texas weather." Early Monday morning, high winds managed to topple trees and power lines in Mineral Wells, Canton and Athens. "The wind feels like a knife," said North Texas resident Todd Howard. DFW Airport officials canceled 111 flights for Monday evening in anticipation of the weather. "It's strange," said Weatherford resident Penny Means. "We were under a tornado watch just last night, and now it's going to snow today." (© MMVIII, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.) .
Transcripts tell of communication breakdown in standoff
They also try to build up trust with the subject to try and talk them down without the need for force. In this case, Smith was told through phone conversations that Moore would come down if he brought her cigarettes. Smith delivered cigarettes to Officer William Cox and told him what he knew, who then passed them on to the commanders. But moments later, SWAT entered the room. “She doesn't want to die," Smith told Cox, “she just wants a cigarette and I can bring her down." But even at that point, there was no intention to give Moore the cigarettes because the negotiation team didn't connect with her. Things like cigarettes need to be earned and require exchanges during negotiations, Soderberg said. “We don't just give something right away whether they ask for," she said, “and expect that they're going to come out." Eureka Police Officer Mary Kirby, who negotiated with Moore that day, said in the transcripts she was only able to reach her once, and in that brief conversation, Moore seemed enraged and then hung up the phone.
FBI: Folsom Man Admitted Investment Fund Fraud
The FBI says a Folsom man arrested Wednesday night has admitted defrauding investors and using their money for his own expenses. There are allegedly 69 victims of the Christians In Crisis, or CIC Investment Fund.
FBI agents arrested Stephen K. Wilson, also known as Stefan Wilson, at his million-dollar Folsom home on Glen Mady Way. He's charged in federal court with wire fraud and mail fraud.
Investigating agents from the IRS and FBI claim Wilson committed fraud by promising investors returns as high as 24 percent while he lost much of their money in day trading, according to a federal search warrant first obtained by News10. Wilson later paid early investors their promised returns from new investor funds, what IRS agent Don Daley described in a search warrant affidavit as, "the hallmark of a Ponzi scheme."
The search of Wilson's house and office was conducted February 15.
PBS series features local business whiz kids
They could pay the private-school tuition for 11-year-old daughter Zoe. But if she wanted to join classmates on a school-sponsored study trip to Arizona, she'd have to come up with the $1,400 herself. "She said, 'OK. Maybe I could earn the money,' " her mother, Julie Adberg, of Vashon Island, recalls. "And I thought, there's no way a kid could make that much, even if she asked all her relatives and her friends for help." Oh, but Zoe did. Showing the sort of initiative Heidi Klum would admire, she proved Mom wrong. The light bulb went off when she borrowed a friend's blue fleece cape for Halloween: Bet I could make this! And so, after a trip to the library for some pattern books and a trip to a fabric store (with Mom's pocketbook), Zoe Adberg launched her "Fleece on Earth" clothing line.
McCain and Obama turn fire on each other
If anyone bothers to learn about the rise and fall of the political honeymoon of the just retired ex-President of South Korea, you will be astounded. President Roh was elected in 2002 by astonishing landslide. A relative new comer and novice administrator, Roh was supported mainly by enthusiastic young voters who were dying for "change" of all the old systems and old politics. Roh promised hope for change. They young supporters used all kinds of digital methods to urge each other to vote and spreading the message to all others to go out to vote. He won. The "conservatives" were shocked. He employed lots of so nicknamed "boy scouts" for his inner circle, all wide-eyed idealists who vowed to turn Korea upside down, inside out by trying to make changes. The result was miserable. Roh was even abandoned by his own ruling party which itself split into two different parties.
Arizona Honda reaches settlement with Attorney General
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard has reached a $19,500 settlement between his office and D.W. Phillips LLC, doing business as Arizona Honda for what he said were deceptive practices to help some customers get financing when they didn't qualify. .
Romney suspends campaign
Mitt Romney announced he is suspending his presidential bid, all but annointing John McCain as the Republican nominee. In a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, Romney said he didn't want a Democrat to win the White House. "If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and frankly I would be making it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. Frankly, in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror," he said. "This is not an easy decision for me. I hate to lose. My family, my friends and our supporters... many of you right here in this room have given a great deal to get me where I have a shot at becoming President.
Cable TV, satellite to gain in switch
What's happening a year from Sunday is they'll switch off the analog signals. No one with cable or satellite service will be affected, nor will anyone who gets stations over the air with a newer TV with a digital tuner. Those who will be affected are the 13 million or so households that get TV broadcasts exclusively over the air and have a TV more than a few years old -- or even a newer TV that's relatively small. Also affected are TVs not connected to cable, even if a home has cable. A Nielsen Co. study released Friday found that 16.8 percent of all U.S. households have at least one analog television set that would not work following the switch. And Hispanics are nearly twice as likely as whites to be without TV reception. Affected households can get a digital converter box, buy a new television or sign up for cable or satellite service or one of the newer cable-like services being offered by phone companies.
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