Anthony Smith, Former Oakland Raiders Defensive End, Faces 4 Counts Of Murder

LOS ANGELES, July 5 (Reuters) - Former Oakland Raiders defensive end Anthony Wayne Smith, whose murder trial stemming from a 2008 shooting death ended in a hung jury, was charged this week with three more Los Angeles County slayings from several years earlier.
The new criminal complaint, filed on Monday, charges Smith, 43, with a total of four counts of first-degree murder, incorporating the original case against him and the kidnap-killings of three other men - one in 1999 and two in 2001.
Special allegations listed in the complaint say the three earlier victims were tortured before being killed.
An arraignment has been set for July 17 on the new charges, and Smith remains held without bond, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, Sandi Gibbons, said on Thursday.
Smith's lawyer, Michael Evans, said his client would plead not guilty to all the charges and that the new criminal complaint came as a "surprise to all of us."
Smith, a first-round 1990 draft pick of the Raiders, then based in Los Angeles, and an 11th pick overall for the National Football League that year, played all seven seasons of his NFL career for the Raiders, first in Los Angeles and then in Oakland.
Evans said he was informed of the new charges just 45 minutes before jury selection was set to begin on Monday in the retrial of the original case charging Smith with murder in the October 2008 slaying of an associate named Maurilio Ponce.
The first jury deadlocked 8-to-4 in favor of a guilty verdict, leading to a mistrial.
The latest felony complaint charges Smith with three additional counts of first-degree murder in connection with the November 1999 slayings of brothers Kevin and Ricky Nettles, and the June 2001 killing of Dennis Henderson.
According to Gibbons, the Nettles brothers were abducted from a car wash in Los Angeles by two individuals posing as police officers and were found shot to death the next day.
About 19 months later, Henderson and another man, Terry Ware, were kidnapped in Los Angeles by several armed suspects, placed in separate cars and driven away. Ware was freed but Henderson's body was found in the back of a rental car the next day. He had been beaten and stabbed to death, Gibbons said.
Gibbons said she had no further information about a possible motive or circumstances behind the killings. She said prosecutors would decide later whether to seek the death penalty against Smith. Homicide detectives assigned to the case were not immediately available for comment.
Smith was charged in February 2011 along with two other men in connection with the slaying of Ponce, who was found shot to death on a remote roadside in Lancaster, California, north of Los Angeles, on Oct. 7, 2008.
The defense has acknowledged that Smith and Ponce were once involved together in a cargo theft, and that Smith was seen driving Ponce's car a month after he was slain.
But Evans has insisted that his client had nothing to do with Ponce's murder and argued during the trial that police lacked any physical evidence, such as DNA, fingerprints or gunpowder residue, linking him to the crime.
He said Ponce had given Smith his car when Ponce stopped being able to make payments on it.
Evans said he could not comment in detail about the three additional slayings because he had not yet seen evidence that prosecutors will be required to share with him. (Editing by Peter Cooney)

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Samsung finds exploding Galaxy S III was due to 'external source', owner says it was a 'mistake'

Remember the melted Samsung Galaxy S III that surfaced in an Irish forum a few weeks ago? Samsung said they were looking into it and, along with a third party investigation, have decided it occurred as a result of "external energy" being applied to the device, not anything from within the phone itself. The damage is apparently consistent with the phone going in the microwave. The original poster dillo2k10 has posted an update on Boards.ie, indicating it was a mistake by someone else in an attempt to recover the phone after it got wet. The Samsung Tomorrow post linked cites a report from Fire Investigations UK finding that the phone itself was not responsible for generating the heat that caused the damage, so GSIII owners (and the pockets of their skinny jeans) should be able to breathe easier.

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GOP teachers balk at Obama-centric NEA convention

WASHINGTON (AP) ? It had all the trappings of a re-election rally: thousands packing a convention center, Barack Obama T-shirts, videos celebrating the health care law, and a wall-size banner with encouraging messages to the incumbent president.

"You are our knight in shining armor ? Sarah C., Norman, Okla.," read one inscription.

But this Obama love fest in Washington was not a campaign event. The nearly 9,000 gathered were teachers in town for the National Education Association's weeklong annual convention.

For the Republican teachers in attendance, the digs at their political views were impossible to overlook.

"What I don't like is the harassment going on for people to be an 'EFO' ? an educator for Obama," said Maureen van Wagner, a special education teacher from Anchorage, Alaska.

In interviews with The Associated Press, roughly a dozen teachers who identified themselves as Republicans said they felt pressure from union leaders and the rank-and-file to support Obama's re-election ? and felt marginalized when they wouldn't. Some interviewed said they were so worried about retribution from their colleagues that they wouldn't provide their names for publication.

National unions such as the NEA ? it's the largest teachers union in the U.S. ? have long been stalwart supporters of Democratic candidates, and to be effective, they must speak with a unified voice. But teachers, like other professional groups, are not monolithic in their political views, prompting inevitable tensions when the union mobilizes its political machine.

NEA leaders have been urging members to hold house parties to educate their friends about why Obama, who addressed the convention Thursday by telephone to thank teachers for their support, deserves a second term. So it wasn't really a surprise that the union showed its support for Obama so overtly at the convention. After all, 72 percent of delegates at last year's NEA convention voted to endorse Obama for re-election ? the earliest the group has ever endorsed in a presidential election cycle.

But what did take Republican teachers off guard was the criticism they received for expressing support for Mitt Romney.

A Republican teacher speaking at the convention was booed for doing just that. The incident prompted NEA President Dennis Van Roekel to intervene, saying that everyone had the right to speak. And when the union invited delegates to the Democratic National Convention in September to a special meeting, no such invitations went out to delegates to the GOP convention until a Republican teacher complained to Van Roekel ? an error the union said resulted from a missed newsletter deadline.

Then there were the T-shirts. Some Republicans said they were presented with NEA T-shirts featuring Obama's name ? and that it felt like being forced to choose between their profession and their politics.

"I'm not here representing myself, I'm here representing other teachers," said Chris Cvijetic, a first-grade teacher and Republican from Palm Springs, Calif. "That's the only way I can get through the day."

NEA officials said the union, which has never endorsed a Republican for president, makes every effort to ensure all its members feel welcome. The union holds a Republican Leadership Conference the same week as the annual convention. Union dues are kept separate from the NEA's political action committee, which spends donated funds to promote candidates such as Obama. And the NEA has endorsed GOP candidates who are pro-public education.

Despite the complaints, the NEA has no plans to shy away from a full embrace of what Mary Kusler, the union's director of government relations, called "the incredible legacy and vision of this current administration."

That's not stopping NEA members who disagree with Obama from making their voices heard.

In the convention center's basement-level expo center, squeezed in between the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teacher's caucus and a stall selling designer handbags of questionable authenticity, sat a small, two-person table for the NEA's Republican Educators Caucus. The group has about 160 members, although it has seen its ranks grow in recent years, said Davina Keiser, the caucus chairwoman.

"For Republican teachers, it's almost like we're stepchildren in NEA, and then in the Republican Party we're also stepchildren, because we're public schoolteachers, and that's not part of their focus," said Keiser, who teaches high school math in Long Beach, Calif.

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California A?s stay perfect at Canadian Open

The California A?s, with their perfect defensive record, have established themselves as the team to beat at Softball City.

The A?s ran their record to 6-0 (won-lost) at the Scotiabank Canadian Open Fastpitch International Championship with a 4-0 win over Great Britain Monday, and two more victories ? over Indonesia-Jakarta and the St. Louis Extreme Elite ? on Tuesday.

California has yet to concede a run and is the lone unbeaten team left in the nine-team Women?s elite tournament.

On Monday at Softball City, A?s pitcher Blaire Luna struck out 10 batters to hand the British team its first loss of the competition.

China-Liaoning remained in second place with a 5-1 record, its only loss a 1-0 setback to the A?s on Sunday.

The White Rock Renegades, meanwhile, have won four consecutive games since they dropped an 8-0 decision to China-Liaoning on opening day, and are in third place in the elite division.

Prior to losing to China-Liaoning, the Renegades opened the tournament Saturday with a 6-1 win over Indonesia ? in a contest that was delayed until 10:30 p.m. due to rain during the day.

On Sunday, White Rock won its second game, 7-0 over Team Peru, led by pitcher Sara Hopwood. Hopwood earned her first win of the tourney, striking out seven in five innings, while also going 2-for-3 at the plate, with a double and three runs-batted-in.

Marina Groenewegen, with a triple, and Courtney O?Connor, who was 2-for-2 with a double, also had strong days at the plate.

Monday, the Renegades got a two-run home run from Cloverdale?s Leah Riske to edge Mexico 4-3 in eight innings.

Renegades starting pitcher Kyla Myre scattered three hits over seven and one-third innings, while Cassidy Lee earned the win after retiring the final two Mexican batters.

After reeling off three straight wins, the Renegades were finally tagged with a loss Tuesday, dropping a 7-0 decision to Great Britain, who sat with a 4-1 record heading into Wednesday?s action. White Rock rebounded from the loss later in the day to knock of Team BC ? which features a handful of former Renegades ? by a 13-7 score.

Play in the Women?s International tournament began Wednesday atat Softball City, with Japan playing New Zealand opening the tournament with an afternoon game.

Canada hit the field for its first game at 7:30 p.m. against New Zealand.

None of the Day 1 games were completed by Peace Arch News press deadlines.

Australia, the United States and Venezuela are the other national teams in the International group. The tournament plays through the weekend, with the championship game slated for Monday night.

- with files from Nick Greenizan

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Video: Kids cross border alone, fleeing drugs and gangs

>>> it's not surprising, every year several hundred thousand immigrants cross into the u.s. illegally. what is surprising is the growing number of kids crossing the border alone. most fleeing troubled lives, putting new stresses on government and social service agencies here trying to help them. nbc's mark potter reports.

>> reporter: in texas, two months ago police found hundreds of immigrants stashed in houses.

>> they were being treated like animals, they were locked in.

>> reporter: immigrants lost, exhausted and thirsty, including two girls, ages 10 and 13.

>> they probably didn't really understand how close they were to being statistics and being dead .

>> reporter: federal authorities say the number of children detained after illegally entering the u.s. without their parents is skyrocketing. more than 8,000 migrant children have been taken into custody this year compared to 4,000 last year. most are teenaged buys from central america , where they are fleeing drug and gang violence .

>> it can turn into a very abusive situation.

>> reporter: the dramatic rise of unaccompanied minors crossing the border into the u.s. is putting a lot of stress on the federal agencies once they're detained. they are required to house the children until guardians are found. legal aide groups are trying to find enough lawyers to help.

>> we need to remember to treat these children as kids first and immigrants second.

>> reporter: she endured a grueling six-week trek to the u.s., where she was held in a government shelter until relatives were found in boston. can you tell me about the trip you made to come to this country? is there anything you want to tell me about it.

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