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His online dating profile says Chris Forcand is a gainfully employed Christian and separated father of two looking for dates with women 18 to 50, but police are alleging he was more interested in much younger females.
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Wind blowing money farmers' way
Coupled with a worldwide shortage of turbines and a falling dollar, the resulting scarcity is driving up the cost of wind power — a burden that electricity ratepayers ultimately will shoulder. Oregon's largest utility, Portland General Electric (PGE), recently persuaded regulators to let it charge ratepayers for deposits it needs to place on scarce turbines and wind sites, arguing in part that in a few years, there might not be any good sites left "at any price." The center of Oregon's wind rush is Sherman County. "This is the biggest thing that's happened in Sherman County since they switched from horses to tractors," said Kevin McCullough, a fourth-generation wheat farmer whose 4,000 acres are crawling with contractors, crew-cab pickups and semi rigs hauling in turbine parts from the Port of Vancouver.
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Police: woman reports being drugged, sexually assualted
A 21-year-old woman with no university affiliation told police she believes an acquaintance drugged her at a Lansing bar, took her to an unknown MSU residence hall and sexually assaulted her sometime between 4:15 and 8 a.m. Sunday, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said. "We really haven't established a location of where it occurred, but she did indicate she thought it was a residence hall," McGlothian-Taylor said. The woman met the suspect early last week and agreed to meet him for drinks Saturday, McGlothian-Taylor said. "They initially met at an East Lansing bar, but the last bar they were at was at a Lansing location," McGlothian-Taylor said. The victim said her drink was drugged while at the Lansing bar. When the woman awoke Sunday morning, the suspect told her to get dressed and drove her back to her vehicle in an East Lansing parking ramp, McGlothian-Taylor said.
Archive preserves visual past
Experts and amateurs who manage the University of Vermont's online archive of historical photographs are still looking for a new crop of curators, ages 6 to 96.
They also want your photo albums.
Geology professor Paul Bierman, one of the founders of the Landscape Change Project, said the collection was designed from the ground up in 1999 to sow interest among authorities and novices, teachers and students, historians and curiosity-seekers.
On Tuesday, Bierman and his UVM faculty colleague, Christine Massey, will lead a workshop for home-schooling parents in a hands-on scavenger hunt through their Web site.
"A big part of our mission is to disseminate successful educational models," Bierman said. "Kids see old pictures of their town, of places they know -- and they start asking questions.
Qantas takeover failure worth $1.5bn
THE fund manager credited with sparking a shareholder revolt against the Qantas private equity bid says his resistance helped deliver a collective gain to shareholders of $1.5 billion. At the time of the $11.1 billion takeover, Paul Fiani was a fund manager with the investment bank UBS, with authority for about 6 per cent of Qantas (qan.ASX:Quote,News) stock. While he was not permitted to comment on the bid while it was active, Mr Fiani's passive resistance along with opposition from Balance Equity Management's Andrew Sissons, helped torpedo the bid. "I was certainly very pleased the deal failed," Mr Fiani told ABC radio. "My former clients are $100 million better off. We held $700-million of the stock at the time, and collectively Qantas shareholders are $1.5-billion better off." During the bid, UBS' corporate finance arm was advising Qantas on the board-endorsed deal, while Mr Fiani's was simultaneously resisting it.
Lindsay Lohan really wants to get laid
Lindsay Lohan, or as I affectionately call her "Cinnamon Chesterton," knocked back vodka and champagne at a West Hollywood club the other night. Heeding the drunken call of her fiery master, Lindsay went on a manhunt and set her eyes on Adrian Grenier. But things didn't go as planned, according to NY Daily News: LiLo at first gravitated to Grenier, pulling off her red leather jacket and pulling him onto the dance floor. But when the girl he came with reclaimed the “Entourage" star, Lohan made her way over to the table where Leo was partying with Kevin Connolly and Lukas Haas. “She was very flirty with Leo," says our spy. “But he wasn't saying much to her." DiCaprio and Grenier and their posses exited around 2 a.m., leaving Lohan with some girlfriends. Kevin Connolly, foolishly thinking he'd touch his first boob, tried to make a pass at the desperate Lindsay.
Quickies: Suri Spice, Hayden, Paris, Lilo & More
If Suri Cruise could tell parents Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes what she wants, what she really really wants, she'd probably demand earplugs. The mop-topped tot, 19 months, and her equally shaggy-haired parents recently paid a surprise visit to pal Victoria Beckham and the rest of the Spice Girls as they rehearsed for their about-to-launch world tour in Los Angeles. According to a posting on the group's Web site, Suri got her toddler groove on and "danced along to the music." Chimed in Mrs. Beckham, "Katie has told me before that she used to be a big Spice fan so it was great for her to meet the other girls." "You can't schedule rehab for me. And I don't think you can schedule any DUIs." That's Hayden Panettiere, 18, tempting fate in the new issue of GQ, which names her its "Obsession of the Year" and disturbingly features her posing in a ruffled bikini while holding a hula hoop and in a frilly nightie while clutching a teddy bear.
The Philharmonic's Quiet Contessa
Renowned Russian violinist Maxim Vengerov took ill on New Year's Eve 1996, so his music patron flew to Switzerland to bring him medicine and a warm coat. Two years later, when he found his dream instrument, a 1727 Stradivarius, he turned to the same friend: Japanese-born countess, Lady Yoko Nagae Ceschina. She won the instrument at auction with a record $1.5 million bid. .
The Year-End Legal Landscape: Leaders, Losers, and Loopholes
Wow. What a year we've had. We saw the beginning of round two of the O.J. media circus, Anna Nicole's death turned into a kangaroo court, Britney and Paris slammed, Michael Vick went in the slammer, another Peterson missing wife mystery, the Duke lacrosse players were vindicated, their prosecutor went to jail and the Natalee Holloway story was deemed a cold case. I needed the holidays just to catch my breath, and gear up for the brewing legal stories of 2008. But before I sign off on 2007, I hope you'll indulge my musings. For example, what should I have told my 10-year-old daughter when she asked, "Mom, why is Anna Nicole Smith so famous … what did she do?" Ana's case regarding her husband's estate made it all the way to the Supreme Court, but that's not how she'll be remembered.
SPORTS WIRE
Qatar, which is vying for the 2016 Olympics, is home to Israel's only diplomatic mission in the Gulf, a trade mission. • Giorgio Galimberti of Italy was found guilty of betting on tennis and suspended for 100 days and fined $35,000. The ATP said Galimberti bet on tennis from June 2003 to January 2006, but did not specify if he bet on his own matches. College football LSU quarterback indefinitely suspended from team LSU quarterback Ryan Perrilloux was suspended indefinitely for an unspecified violation of team rules, leaving his status unclear for the start of spring practice Feb. 29. Coach Les Miles did not elaborate on the violation in his statement or how the suspension would affect Perrilloux's future with the national champions.
Aussies vote for Vanessa in Google's top searches list
IT may have been an election year, but more Australians used Google to search for Disney star Vanessa Hudgens than for former PM John Howard in 2007. Hudgens – who was involved in a nude photo scandal in September – came third on the list of celebrity search terms most-used by Australians on Google, after Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. The search company today released it's end-of-year Zeitgeist report for Australian users, listing the most-popular terms searched for on google.com.au in the past year. The report included a list of search terms by state and territory, revealing that South Australians were the most likely to search for "beer", "wine", "shiraz" and "chocolate", while the highest number of searches for "internet dating" came from Queensland. The terms "pulp mill" and "journalism" were both most-popular in Tasmania, while searches for "drought" and "election" most often came from the ACT.
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