| Keeping Winter Germs at Bay
'Tis the season of colds and flu -- if you aren't sniffling or coughing, you probably are working near someone who is. But what's the reason for the season? Cold weather and stale air, said one Southern Maryland public health official. During the winter, said Ashley Conway, director of disease surveillance for the Calvert County Health Department, "people are inside and their windows are closed. They're closer together and [viruses and germs are] so easily transmitted. That's when people get it." .
Bill Would Alter N.H. Wiretap Statute
CONCORD, N.H. -- A man who was arrested after he used his home security system to videotape police at his door last year has inspired a bill to let property owners record audio and video at their homes without notice. Michael Gannon, 40, of Nashua, N.H., was arrested after his home security camera made video and audio recordings of the detectives, who had come looking for his teenage son. The felony wiretapping charges were later dropped. Gannon was arrested after he brought the recordings to the police station to complain that a detective was rude to him. Police later returned Gannon's cameras and recording equipment, but did not give back the tapes, saying they were illegal recordings. Last week, Rep. Dudley Dumaine, R-Auburn, and five other sponsors introduced House Bill 97, which would add an exception to the state's wiretap law, letting property owners record their own premises, with or without warning.
A day about diversity
Freezing temperatures didn't keep Mary Kay Kawulok and hundreds of Phoenix folks from attending Saturday's neighborhood fair outside City Hall.
"It is important to support your neighborhoods," said Kawulok, from the Lindon Park Neighborhood Association, who brought her granddaughters and friend to the first "Taking It to the Streets" Fair.
Kawulok and many others enjoyed food, entertainment and panel discussions, and learned more about neighborhood associations in the area. .
Mother charged with child endangerment PUBLIC SAFETY
Jackson County prosecutors have charged a woman with two counts of endangering the welfare of a child after she allegedly left her two toddlers alone in an apartment that later caught fire. A neighbor heard crying from the apartment in the 700 block of Indiana Avenue about noon Friday and rescued the girls, ages 2 and 3. Prosecutors allege the girls' mother, Casey Flowers, showed up as firefighters extinguished the fire, asked whether her girls were OK and then fled, despite an order from a police officer to remain at the scene. Officers later arrested Flowers. The charges allege that Flowers created a substantial risk by leaving the children alone with an electric stove turned on and a nearby fan acting as a makeshift heater. The stove ignited the fan's cord and started the kitchen cabinets on fire.
Third control order terror suspect absconds
The Home Office stumbled into another crisis last night when it emerged that a radical Muslim terror suspect placed under one of the Government's control orders has absconded, the third to disappear from supposed house arrest under the controversial security measure. Police across Britain are hunting the unnamed man, who allegedly "wanted to travel abroad for terrorism-related purposes," the minister for policing, security and community safety, Tony McNulty, told MPs. The man fled from a mosque in which he had taken sanctuary, after police called to check why he had failed to hand in his passport, according to reports. He is thought to have escaped abroad. .
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