Dead suspect tied to '64 Boston Strangler case

BOSTON (AP) ? The man who once claimed to be the Boston Strangler has been linked to one of the 11 victims by DNA evidence for the first time, leading authorities to plan to exhume his remains for further testing and perhaps putting to rest speculation that Albert De Salvo may not have been the notorious killer after all.

DeSalvo's remains will be exhumed after authorities concluded that DNA from the scene of Mary Sullivan's rape and murder produced a "familial match" with him, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley said Thursday. Conley said he expected investigators to find an exact match when the evidence is compared with his DNA.

Sullivan, 19, was found strangled in her Boston apartment in January 1964. Sullivan, who had moved from her Cape Cod home to Boston just days before her death, had long been considered the strangler's last victim.

The announcement represented the most definitive evidence yet linking DeSalvo to the case. Eleven Boston-area women between the ages of 19 and 85 were sexually assaulted and killed between 1962 and 1964, crimes that terrorized the region and grabbed national headlines.

DeSalvo, a blue-collar worker and Army veteran who was married with children, confessed to the 11 Boston Strangler murders, as well as two others. But he was never convicted of the Boston Strangler killings.

He had been sentenced to life in prison for a series of armed robberies and sexual assaults and was stabbed to death in the state's maximum security prison in Walpole in 1973 ? but not before he recanted his confession.

An attorney for DeSalvo's family said Thursday they believe there's still reasonable doubt he killed the Strangler's last supposed victim, even if additional DNA tests show a 100 percent match.

DeSalvo family lawyer Elaine Sharp said previous private forensic testing of Sullivan's remains showed other male DNA was present that didn't match DeSalvo.

Authorities countered by saying their evidence was preserved in a lab, while the evidence used in private testing was very questionable.

Sharp said the family is also outraged that police secretly followed one of DeSalvo's relatives to collect DNA evidence from a discarded water bottle to use in their testing.

A nephew of Sullivan's who for years maintained that DeSalvo did not kill his aunt and even wrote a book on the case pointing to other possible suspects acknowledged the new findings point to the man he'd defended.

Casey Sherman said he accepted the new findings after concluding that the DNA evidence against DeSalvo appeared to be overwhelming.

"I only go where the evidence leads," he said, thanking police and praising them "for their incredible persistence."

Casey Sherman also expressed sympathy for the DeSalvo family, whom he had aligned with in the past in a shared belief that DeSalvo didn't kill his aunt.

That belief was based on DeSalvo's taped confession to Sullivan's killing, which Sherman said in 2000 was inconsistent with other evidence in the case.

The families of DeSalvo and Sullivan jointly sued the state for release of evidence while pursuing their own investigation. Sullivan's body was exhumed in 1999 for private DNA testing as part of the effort.

Attorney F. Lee Bailey, who helped to obtain the confession from DeSalvo, said Thursday's announcement will probably help put to rest speculation over the Boston Strangler's identity.

Bailey had been representing another inmate who informed the attorney that DeSalvo knew details of the crimes. Bailey went to police with the information, and he said DeSalvo, who was already in prison for other crimes, demonstrated he knew details only the killer would know.

Bailey would later represent DeSalvo.

"It was a very challenging case," said Bailey, who lives in Yarmouth, Maine. "My thought was if we can get through the legal thicket and get this guy examined by a team of the best specialists in the country, we might learn something about serial killers so we could spot them before others get killed."

Officials stressed that the DNA evidence links DeSalvo only to Sullivan's killing and that no DNA evidence is believed to exist for the other Boston Strangler slayings.

State Attorney General Martha Coakley, however, said investigators hoped that solving Sullivan's case might put to rest doubts about DeSalvo's guilt.

Conley said the "familial match" excludes 99.99 percent of suspects but isn't enough to close the case.

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Associated Press writers David Sharp in Portland, Maine, and Mark Pratt in Boston contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/da-dead-suspect-tied-64-boston-strangler-case-192302617.html

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Patriots' Dennard accused of DUI in Nebraska

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) ? Patriots cornerback Alfonzo Dennard was arrested and accused of drunk driving Thursday in Nebraska while on probation for assaulting a police officer, the second New England player to get in serious legal trouble this summer.

Dennard's early-morning arrest in Lincoln, Neb., where he was a college star for the Cornhuskers, came 15 days after Aaron Hernandez was charged with murder and three days after Patriots owner Robert Kraft said the club will "be looking at our procedures and auditing how we do things" with regard to character reviews.

"The New England Patriots are extremely disappointed to learn of Alfonzo Dennard's arrest. We take this matter very seriously and are working to get more information on the incident," the team said in a statement.

Dennard's arrest is his second in 15 months. He hasn't served a 30-day jail sentence for the assault outside a Lincoln bar on Apr. 21, 2012. That is scheduled to begin next March. He also was sentenced to two years of probation.

Hernandez, a star tight end, was arrested on June 26 and charged with murder in the killing of Boston semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty. The Patriots cut Hernandez after he was arrested and before the charges were announced.

Dennard and Hernandez both were highly-touted college prospects whose draft stock dropped because of character concerns.

Seven days after being charged with assault, Dennard was drafted in the seventh round last year out of Nebraska by the Patriots. They drafted Hernandez in the fourth round in 2010 after he violated the substance abuse policy at Florida.

"If this stuff is true, then I've been duped and our whole organization has been duped," Kraft said Monday of the case involving Hernandez.

The team did not respond to a request Thursday for Kraft's reaction to Dennard's arrest.

The legal issues are bound to hover over the opening of training camp on July 25. Coach Bill Belichick rarely comments on such matters and instructs his players to do the same.

Belichick has sometimes signed players who had troubles elsewhere if he felt they could help the team win, hoping his disciplined approach and leaders such as Tom Brady and Vince Wilfork and now-retired Patriots including Tedy Bruschi and Mike Vrabel could keep them in line.

Results have been mixed. Running back Corey Dillon and wide receiver Randy Moss, disgruntled on their previous teams, avoided off-field problems with the Patriots and were productive for several seasons. Chad Johnson, then known as Chad Ochocinco, caught just 15 passes in his only season with the Patriots in 2011 but caused no off-field distractions.

Dennard became a starter at cornerback in the seventh game of his rookie season. The other starter, Aqib Talib, was obtained from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last Nov. 1 then signed a one-year contract on March 16. He missed his first game with the Patriots while completing a four-game suspension imposed by the NFL for violating its policy on performance-enhancing substances.

Talib had been suspended without pay for the 2010 opener and fined one additional game check for violating the NFL's personal-conduct policy. That followed an altercation with a St. Petersburg cab driver during training camp in 2009. He also had charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon in Texas dropped a week before he was due to be tried for allegedly firing a gun at his sister's boyfriend.

On Thursday, Dennard was pulled over while driving just before 2 a.m. and failed a field sobriety test, police said. A phone listing for Dennard couldn't be found.

Police spokeswoman Katie Flood said he was taken to a detoxification center but not jailed. He also was accused of refusing a chemical test and a driving infraction.

She said a final decision on the charges likely will be made by the Lincoln City Attorney's Office before the Aug. 12 court date assigned to Dennard. Assistant city prosecutor John McQuinn said his office had not yet received the citation against Dennard from police.

The Patriots' first preseason game is scheduled for Aug. 9 at the Philadelphia Eagles.

Terry Dougherty, Dennard's attorney in the assault case, said in April that he would ask Lancaster County District Judge Stephanie Stacy to suspend the 30-day sentence if Dennard complied with the terms of his probation over the subsequent 11 months. Stacy said then that she would consider such a motion.

It's unclear whether prosecutors will move to have Dennard's probation revoked. Lancaster County Attorney Joe Kelly didn't immediately return a message.

Dennard's arrest is the latest off-field incident involving a Patriots player while he was with them or before they obtained him. Among the others:

? Brandon Meriweather, a safety drafted in the first round in 2007 from Miami, fired a gun at an assailant who had shot Dolphins backup safety Willie Cooper outside the house the two players shared with another teammate, police said. Meriweather wasn't charged and police said he used the gun legally.

? Willie Andrews, a defensive back drafted in the seventh round in 2006 from Baylor, was cut by the Patriots after being arrested twice following the 2007 season. The first arrest was for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute two days after the Patriots lost the Super Bowl to the New York Giants.

? Nick Kaczur, an offensive tackle drafted in the third round in 2005 from Toledo, pleaded guilty in July 2008 to speeding in a deal with prosecutors and was ordered to pay $355 in fines and fees. He originally was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in jail, after being pulled over by state troopers near Utica, N.Y.

? Albert Haynesworth, a defensive tackle obtained in a trade on July 29, 2011, pleaded no contest the following month to a charge of simple assault in a case in which he was accused of touching a waitress' breast at a Washington, D.C., hotel.

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Associated Press writer Nelson Lampe in Omaha, Neb., contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/patriots-dennard-accused-dui-nebraska-153509453.html

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Dialogue is only way out of crisis: Egypt presidency | Morocco World ...

CAIRO, June 30, 2013 (AFP)

The office of President Mohamed Morsi said on Sunday dialogue is the only way out of Egypt?s political crisis, as tens of thousands took to the streets to demand the Islamist leader?s ouster.

?Dialogue is the only way through which we can reach an understanding? The presidency is open to a real and serious national dialogue,? presidential spokesman Ehab Fahmy told reporters. He urged protesters to maintain ?the peaceful nature? of their protest, pointing to the anti-Morsi rallies as proof of freedom of expression in Egypt.

Tens of thousands took to the streets across the country to demand early presidential elections in a massive expression of opposition to Mr Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood movement. The President?s supporters have vowed to defend his legitimacy to the end.

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A calculator to estimate the likelihood of antidepressant response

July 1, 2013 ? As in any other field of medicine, when a depressed person visits a psychiatrist for treatment of depression, they like to be informed of the odds that they will respond to the medication they are prescribed. Unfortunately, there has been no precise way to predict antidepressant response in individual patients.

It would be very nice to have an equation that would enable doctors to predict the likelihood that individual patients would respond to specific treatments. Accurate predictions are likely to be challenging. The ability to accurately predict the likelihood of antidepressant response for individual patients could be an important step in developing individualized treatment plans.

The effectiveness of antidepressant medications varies tremendously across patients and the overall effectiveness of current medications is lower than previously expected. For example, the largest antidepressant trial ever conducted -- the NIMH STAR*D study -- provided somewhat discouraging news about the effectiveness of antidepressants. Only 30% of patients responded to their initial antidepressant and after one year and up to four different treatments, 30% of patients did not achieve remission.

In this issue of Biological Psychiatry, Dr. Roy Perlis at Massachusetts General Hospital has taken an important step toward this objective.

He gathered data collected from the STAR*D study and used multiple prediction models to identify statistical patterns. Using the best-performing model, he then generated an online risk calculator and visualization tool that provides a graphical estimate of an individuals' risk for treatment resistance.

"To address the needs of individual depressed patients, we will need to find ways to design psychiatric treatments to respond to the differences among patients with depression. The 'depression calculator' that emerges from the STAR*D trial is one step forward in this effort," said Dr. John Krystal, Editor of Biological Psychiatry. "To do better than this, we will need to include biomarkers that may serve the function that blood tests and blood pressure measurements serve in other areas of medicine."

Perlis agrees, commenting that "There has been great emphasis on the discovery of biomarkers to help predict clinical outcomes. No doubt this effort will succeed eventually. On the other hand, it's entirely possible that clinical features can help get us part of the way there -- that clinical features can help make useful predictions."

"The analogy I would draw is the Framingham score for predicting cardiovascular risk. It's far from perfect, and there's plenty to criticize -- but it has at least spurred efforts to use prediction in a clinical setting. It has also provided a platform to which biomarkers can be added, as they are identified," he added.

In the meantime, the whole point of providing a clinical calculator online is to allow clinicians to try it out -- to see what could be done, if the will and the resources were there.

Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/mind_brain/depression/~3/yLJZ2fBsA5I/130701100716.htm

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Political Insider: What we learned from Saturday's GOP Senate forum

LAKE BURTON, Ga. _ The Republican candidates for the US Senate participated in the first candidate forum up at Lake Burton on Saturday. Well, most of them, anyways. Reps. Jack Kingston and Paul Broun and former Secretary of State Karen Handel trucked up to northeast Georgia for the event, speaking to about 250 GOP activists. Rep. Phil Gingrey and businessman David Perdue were no-shows.

Here?s a few things we learned about each candidate from the debate, hosted by a group called Citizens Helping America Restore Government Ethics.

Paul Broun: In a crowded race, Broun is establishing himself as the bruiser. He strode the stage with no small amount of confidence ? by the time he finishes his next book, he said, he?ll be a U.S. senator ? as he sought to immediately distinguish himself.

?You?ll hear candidates say they?re conservatives, they want to stop spending. But folks, look at their records. I?m the only candidate who believes in the Constitution ? I?m the only candidate in this race who?s been in the trenches trying to stop this out-of-control spending. And I?m the only candidate who?s willing to say no to leadership.?

He?s also trying to be the happy standard-bearer of Georgia's libertarian movement. He?s occasionally been one of only a few ?no? votes in the House, he said. And frequently he's shared that stance with Ron Paul, the libertarian champion.

"The government is too big. It?s too intrusive. It?s taxing too much. And it?s sticking its nasty nose in your nose too much."

Karen Handel is an outsider, and she wants to make sure you know it. The former Georgia Secretary of State, who was a few thousand votes from becoming governor, declared ?Washington is a mess? time and again during the hour long event.

?My opponents have served their districts and states well. But if you believe things are broken, you need to send different people to Washington. I am that individual. We must be bold and the time to act is now.?

Later on, she sought to hit that point home again by saying that Congress members have enjoyed too many trips overseas, too many visits to hair salons and too many shoe shines underwritten by taxpayers.

?My opponents in this race have served Congress a long time. Almost 40 years all together. Why should we expect anything different if we promote them??

Jack Kingston doesn?t want to be hemmed in by geography. Kingston, who represents a coastal district centered on Savannah, knows his biggest challenge is tapping the vote-rich metro Atlanta market where Broun, Handel and Gingrey enjoy high name recognition.

At Saturday?s forum, he tried to show he's no parochial candidate. He reminded voters of his Athens roots, summers spent in the north Georgia mountains, his work on agricultural and military issues, and his support for the expansion of the Port of Savannah, one of metro Atlanta?s top wishes.

Kingston was also the only candidate at the forum to position himself as a Republican who can appeal to minorities and help the GOP ride the coming wave of demographic changes that could bring Democrats new voting strength.

?I?m down in the part of Georgia where there are real live Democrats,? he said of his district, where about a third of voters are minority.

?I?m getting very worried our party is getting smaller and smaller. What was our problem with McCain? He didn?t identify with the average person. What was our problem with Romney? He didn?t identify with the average person. We have to have people who?ve been in the real world.?

At the end of the forum, the three candidates gathered together and posed for an awkward hug as Republicans vowed to stand behind whoever the nominee is. But don?t let that fool you. This is going to be a rough race, and Saturday?s event was no exception.

Source: http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/political-insider/2013/jun/29/what-we-learned-saturdays-gop-senate-forum/

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Obama meets privately with Mandela family

JOHANNESBURG (AP) ? President Barack Obama met privately Saturday with the family of Nelson Mandela.

The meeting was held in Johannesburg at the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory, part of the former South African president's foundation.

It lasted for about a half hour, enough time for a small crowd to gather outside for Obama's departure.

The White House says Obama met with two of Mandela's daughters and several grandchildren.

He will not meet with the ailing 94-year-old Mandela, who is hospitalized with a lung infection. The White House says the decision was made in accordance with the wishes of Mandela's family.

The White House initially said first lady Michelle Obama would attend, but later said she did not accompany the president. Mrs. Obama met Mandela during her trip to Africa in 2011.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-meets-privately-mandela-family-124749374.html

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