PUBLIC MARKS from jasontromm with tag police

A Georgetown County man interrupted two burglars at his daughter's Andrews home, shot one of the men inside the home and held the other at gunpoint until police arrived, the Georgetown County Sheriff's Office said. The men, Ronald Chandler, 34, and Mark Kelvin Jayroe, 45, both of Andrews, are being held at the Georgetown County Detention Center on charges of first-degree burglary, according to a news release. Chandler was shot in the chest and was treated and released from Georgetown Memorial Hospital.

A knife-wielding grocery store employee attacked eight co-workers Friday, seriously injuring four before a witness pulled a gun and stopped him, police said. Elartrice Ingram, 21, was charged with nine counts of attempted first-degree murder, police said. The attack apparently stemmed from a work dispute, investigators said. ()() One more example of why we need to keep the 2nd Amendment and Castle Doctrine laws.

In the wake of her scuffle with U.S. Capitol Police, Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is now embroiled in a dispute with a Georgia television station which aired a foul-mouthed comment from the Georgia Democrat.

A university professor who was forced to resign after leading a group of pro-abortion students in vandalizing a pro-life display has attacked pro-life advocates in a private email to the students involved. The email also encourages the students to "make it hard" for police investigating the vandalism to find them

A professor at Northern Kentucky University said she invited students in one of her classes to destroy an anti-abortion display on campus Wednesday evening. NKU police are investigating the incident, in which 400 crosses were removed from the ground near University Center and thrown in trash cans. The crosses, meant to represent a cemetery for aborted fetuses, had been temporarily erected last weekend by a student Right to Life group with permission from NKU officials.

A young man has confessed to the gruesome bludgeoning and strangling murders of his grandmother and five other relatives in a tiny town in Pennsylvania's Amish country, police said Thursday.

A new congressional effort to police advertising by crisis pregnancy centers is unnecessary, pro-life advocates said, and unconstitutional, free-speech defenders charged. The American Civil Liberties Union, which has long promoted itself as the leading defender of freedom of speech and civil rights, is right in the middle of the controversy, promoting the new legislation to the surprise of some.

Presidential spokesman Scott McClellan declined to comment today about Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney's scuffle with U.S. Capitol Police, for which she could face criminal charges.

Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer has been stopped at least twice in the past four months for speeding -- once for going 101 mph in a 70 mph zone on a wet highway -- but was let off without a ticket. Video taken by a camera mounted in the patrol car shows that when the trooper asked the driver for his name, Bauer identified himself as "SC Two" -- code for lieutenant governor. The trooper then says, "You have a good night, sir," and the video ends.

The controversial police tactic of arresting drunks at bars and restaurants has gone to a new level, to include intoxicated people at hotels, even those who are registered guests with no plans on driving. ()() This seems to be a shocking violation of peoples' civil liberties. Don't these cops know the 21st Amendment repealed the 18th Amendment?