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A1-A2 Page Editor: Bob Steenson GLOBE GAZETTE AZ SAI UK DAY, NUV. 1U, Jl)12 NORTH IOWA TODAY Winters again seeks new trial on kidnapping plea MASON CITY A Mason City man is asking the Iowa Court of Appeals to overturn a district court decision not to grant him a new trial on a kidnapping conviction. Michael Jon Winters, 58, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on a second-degree kidnapping charge in March 2011. He was accused of taking a woman from her home without her consent in June 2010 and holding her for a time. He also displayed a weapon during the incident.

Winters tried to withdraw his guilty plea but was refused since it was part of his plea agreement. Winters argued in Cerro Gordo County District Court that his attorney was ineffective because she should not have permitted him to plead guilty, and that the plea was not voluntary, according to court documents. Judge Rustin Davenport ruled against Winters petition for post -conviction relief in August, saying there was no evidence his attorney had been ineffective. ByMaryPieper Harrington appeals murder conviction MASON CITY Bennie Mae Harrington, convicted of the first -degree murder of a Mason City man, is taking her case to the Iowa Court of Appeals after a district court judge denied her a new trial last month. Harrington, 53, Mason City, filed her appeal this week.

She was found guilty in a bench trial in 2003 by Judge Jon Stuart Scoles of the murder of 8l-year-old Robert Crawford. Judge DeDra Schroeder denied her request for post-conviction relief in October. Harrington has been denied four previous requests for new trials: by Cerro Gordo County District Court in 2004 and 2008, and by the Iowa Court of Appeals in 2004 and 2007. Harrington is serving a mandatory sentence of life without the possibility of parole. She is being held at the womens penitentiary at Mitchellville.

ByMaryPieper For other fun events, go to www.globegazette.com and click on the Entertainment link. To suggest events to be listed here, please email specifics to judy.delperdangglobegazette.com. You can also post them in the online Events Calendar by following the posting prompts. BELMOND The Belmond-Klemme High School Drama Department will present its fall one-act plays at 7:30 p.m. at Luick Memorial Auditorium.

Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students. CHARLES CITY Stebens Childrens Theatres patriotic musical tour, "The Liberty Belles, will be presented at 2 p.m. at the Charles City Public Library. It is free and open to the public. CHARLES CITY The Charles City Craft Show will be 9 a.m.

to 3 p.m. in the Charles City High School Cafeteria. CLEAR LAKE "Hotel Gates," the fall Cup 0 Joe Show, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. in the Sukup Performing Arts Room at the Clear Lake Arts Center, 17 S. Fourth St.

Doors open at 6:30 with music by Nonsemble band. Tickets are $12 at the door. GARNER St. Paul Lutheran Church, 810 State St will hold an ethnic bake sale from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

HAMPTON An adult prom will be at the Franklin County Convention Center with big band music 7-8 p.m., and music for all ages 8 p.m.-midnight. Tickets are $15 for singles, $25 per couple. MASON CITY Mason City High School will present "To Kill a Mockingbird" at 7:30 p.m. at Stebens Children's Theatre, 616 N. Delaware Ave.

Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students, available at the door, or by calling 641-529-1344. MASON CITY A chili supper will be served from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Moose Lodge, 22 Fourth St. N.W. The cost is $6.

MASON CITY The Youth For Christ Night of Worship (NOW) will be 7 p.m. at the North Iowa Community Auditorium. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free. MASON CITY Dean Steffen, of Osage, will present A Prehistoric Journey in Stone for the North Central Iowa Genealogical Society at 1:30 p.m.

in the Mason City Room of the Mason City Public Library. Call 641-494-7614 for reservations. MASON CITY Dead Larry will play at Lorados on the Plaza, 18 S. Federal Ave. NORTHWOOD Last Minute Jazz Combo will play from 7 to 9 p.m.

at Worth Brewing Company. NORTHWOOD The Worth County Fence Stretchers snowmobile club will have its official "Kick Off to Winter at 6 p.m. at the Kuennen's Quarry shelterhouse, approximately two miles south of Northwood. Open to the public. Activities include a freewill donation soup supper, silent auction, door prizes, meeting and displays.

ROWAN Iowa River Players will present "James and the Giant Peach at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students. ST. ANSGAR Habitat for Humanity of Mitchell County will hold an open house from 10 a.m. to noon at 405 S.

Center St. Keys to the house will be presented to Leilani Baker, the new owner, at 10:30 a.m. of church that had previously settled suit against police, city Ohl neglected her duty by not documenting possible evidence and, in doing so, interfered with an investigation, and that she failed to properly secure police records and misused mobile audio and video recording equipment. Ohl appealed the commissions ruling in Cerro Gordo County District Court. Earlier this week that suit was dismissed at her request.

Ohl did not call back after the Globe Gazette contacted her for comment. SETTLEMENT: Member From A pulling the trigger, and several instances of lewd language and gestures. Regarding the religious discrimination, Ohl said in her deposition that her church affiliation may have played a part in her being denied promotional opportunities. Ohl is a member of Christian Fellowship Church where her brother-in-law, the Rev. Shane Philpott, is pastor.

In March 2011 the church was awarded nearly $85,000 in a settlement of TUMILSON: Grateful to From A they were aboard was shot down in Afghanistan. Upon his death, an outpouring of support and love came forward, Kathy said, not just from Rockford but from the world over. Ironically, Jons life -always in the shadow of military intelligence came into the spotlight upon his death. Kathy and George Tumilson and Jons two sisters were grateful to hear the stories, Kathy said, and to be witness to Jons impact on people during his lifetime. We lost a son, but gained so much more, she said.

She recalled standing at Dover Air Force Base, when her sons and his fellow SEALS remains arrived. Officers, standing next to a line of flag-draped caskets, tears streaming down their faces, apologized to us for not bringing our sons novel Catch-22" by Joseph Heller was first published by Simon Schuster. In 1969, the childrens educational program "Sesame Street" made its debut on National Educational Television (later PBS). In 1975, the ore-hauling ship SS Edmund Fitzgerald and its crew of 29 mysteriously sank during a storm in Lake Superior with the loss of all on board. In 1982, the newly finished Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened to its first visitors in Washington, D.C., three days before its dedication.

Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev died at age 75. LOOKING BACK On this date: In 1871, journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livingstone, who had not been heard from for years, near Lake Tanganyika in central Africa. In 1928, Japanese Emperor Hirohito was formally enthroned, almost two years after his ascension.

In 1938, Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's God Bless America" on her CBS radio program. Turkish statesman Mustafa Kemal Ataturk died in Istanbul at age 57. in 1942, Winston Churchill delivered a speech in London in which he said, "I have not become the Kings First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." In 1951, customer-dialed long-distance telephone service began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, N.J., called Alameda, Mayor Frank Osborne without operator assistance. In 1954, the U.S.

Marine Corps Memorial, depicting the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima in 1945, was dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Arlington, Va. In 1961, the satirical war MAKING IT RIGHT August 2011 for reportedly not following department rules and procedures regarding possible evidence in a criminal case. OHLAPPEALED HER FIRING to the Civil Service Commission. The commission held hearings in September 2011 and agreed with Chief Lashbrook that Ohl mishandled information she allegedly received regarding the 1995 disappearance of KIMT-TV morning anchor Jodi Huisentruit.

The commission ruled witness to son's impact set his sights on being a SEAL at age 12 and never suspended his dream. He set his goals high; he persevered, she said. Of the group of 152 potential SEALS who entered training with Tumilson, only 22 completed the rigorous weeks. They say they look for the fire in the gut, Kathy said. When he wanted to enter a higher level of SEAL training, he was told statistically, he had a better chance of winning the lottery than landing a spot, she said.

But once again, he prevailed. He was at the tip of the spear of his career when Kathy last spoke with her son, who expressed nothing but happiness with his latest deployment. He died a few days later, she said, loving what he did and making a difference. I hope you appreciate PETRAEUS: Extremely FromAl Petraeus, who turned 60 on Wednesday, told CIA employees in a statement that he had met with President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday and asked to be allowed to resign. On Friday, the president accepted.

Petraeus told his staffers he was guilty of extremely poor judgment in the affair. Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours. He has been married for 38 years to Holly Petraeus, whom he met when he was a cadet at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. She was the daughter of the academy superintendent.

They have two children, and their son led an infantry platoon in Afghanistan. Obama said in a statement that the retired general had provided extraor OUR a federal lawsuit Philpott filed in 2009 against the city, Police Chief Mike Lashbrook and Lt. Logan Wernet. Philpotts suit claimed both Lashbrook and Wernet made damaging remarks about the church. The comments allegedly led to an Internal Revenue Service investigation of the churchs financial records.

The IRS cleared Philpott and the church of any wrongdoing. Ohl was fired from the Police Department in hear the stories, and to be home alive, she said. The next days were marked by tender mercies, she said. She recalled seeing a lone truck driver, stopped on the interstate, standing by his truck and holding his hat over his heart, as the motorcade carrying Jons remains sped by. VAN LOADS OF FELLOW SEALS from both coasts traveled to Rockford to pay their respects.

About 2,000 people attended the funeral. Jons friends looked through the town to find every chair to accommodate the crowd. Friend after friend -many of whom the family had never met told Tumilson of her sons friendliness, his willingness to forget slights, and his love of his family. Living his dream came from hard work begun in his teen years, she said. Jon Bond, court date set in alleged strangling.

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If a medical emergency is taking place you dont have to wait for anybodys permission to call 911. Severtson said they are not planning on restricting access to the building in light of the incident. The nature of that building and the numbers of people that are there and so on and the multiple entrances, that would dramatically change how that facility works. It is probably not in keeping with the type of environment that we have, Severtson said. A 911 call was received from the village at 3:45 p.m.

Thursday reporting that an intoxicated male was at the facility. When officers arrived they found Arispe and took him into custody. STAFF RESPONSE: Seamless functioning on people our veterans, she told the crowd. Not because they expect it, but because they deserve it. She repeated a quote often heard about veterans: Remember that the American flag does not fly because the wind moves past it.

The American flag waves from the last breath of each military member who has died protecting it. The bonds between veterans are tight for a reason: Those who protect and serve share a love of country and comrades. That love was illuminated, symbolically, at Jons funeral, she said. One by one, fellow SEALS approached his coffin, saluted, and then slapped a gold trident a special warfare insignia worn on their SEALS uniforms onto his casket, embedding them there. By funerals end, there were 75 there, she said.

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He said the staff trains on how to handle various scenarios including potential violence. Over the years we have developed some very important safety nets. The most important probably is what we call the on-call system, Severtson said. That means that there are people on call 24 hours a day who are trained to handle any situation. That on-call system gives very quick access to people who are either on the grounds or carrying phones.

They have a nurse, on-call supervisor who is very well-versed in dealing with situations. Youve got a maintenance person. All these people are available very quickly. Severtson said the staff is empowered to make decisions depending on s0UdH, Color 3DLIVE4D Gender Determination 422 S. Pierce Ave.

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