Worldwide Hippies News Briefs Sunday
Ariz. sheriff quits Romney campaign, says: ‘I’m gay’
A sheriff has stepped down as Arizona co-chairman of Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign amid allegations of misconduct made by a man with whom he previously had a relationship.
At a press conference Saturday outside his office in Florence, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu called the man’s allegations, published Thursday in a Phoenix New Times story, “completely false.”
He said the only information mentioned in the article that’s true is “I’m gay,” The Arizona Republic reported. More…
Family, friends, stars celebrate, say goodbye to Whitney Houston
Many of the biggest names in entertainment gathered Saturday to say goodbye to singer Whitney Houston in the church in Newark, N.J., where the late singer, who died on Feb. 11, started her singing career in the choir.
Pastor Joe A. Carter of the New Hope Baptist Church opened Saturday’s service by telling the congregation that “we gonna have church today.
“We are here today, hearts broken but yet with God’s strength we celebrate the life of Whitney Houston,” Carter said. “Whitney, you are the only woman that could bring all of us together. Whitney, today is your day.” More…
NYPD monitored Muslim students all over Northeast
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the elite Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned.
Police talked with local authorities about professors 300 miles (480 kilometers) away in Buffalo and even sent an undercover agent on a whitewater rafting trip, where he recorded students’ names and noted in police intelligence files how many times they prayed.
Detectives trawled Muslim student websites every day and, although professors and students had not been accused of any wrongdoing, their names were recorded in reports prepared for Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.
Asked about the monitoring, police spokesman Paul Browne provided a list of 12 people arrested or convicted on terrorism charges in the United States and abroad who had once been members of Muslim student associations, which the NYPD referred to as MSAs. Jesse Morton, who this month pleaded guilty to posting online threats against the creators of the animated TV show “South Park,” had once tried to recruit followers at Stony Brook University on Long Island, Browne said. More…
