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An Erie woman faces up to 20 years in prison after admitting Thursday that she stabbed to death her boyfriend in December.

Nicole Arbaugh, 33,tiffany key rings, pleaded guilty to one count of voluntary manslaughter in a plea deal that dropped charges of aggravated assault, reckless endangering another person, and possessing the instruments of a crime.

Judge Shad Connelly set sentencing for Sept. 15.

Arbaugh wept during her plea but said little. She said she believed she was acting reasonably when she stabbed Christopher Wickham.

She said she now realizes her belief was not justified.

Arbaugh had been scheduled to face trial in August.

Her lawyer, Gene Placidi, said Arbaugh pleaded guilty to spare the families of Wickham and Arbaugh the trauma of going through trial. Wickham is survived by a sister and a young daughter, he said.

"She is trying to give them closure," he said.

"Obviously, this was a tragic situation," he said. "Under the circumstances, Miss Arbaugh thought it was in everybody’s best interest to enter a plea."

Assistant District Attorney Brian Krowicki declined to comment.

Police were summoned to Arbaugh’s apartment on Dec. 15 at about 4 a.m., where they found Wickham, 40, lying dead of one stab wound to the chest.

Arbaugh met with police at about 1 p.m. the same day and told them she had stabbed Wickham with a steak knife. She said she had thrown the knife away in a kitchen garbage can, police said.

Wickham, who was right-handed,tiffany, was found holding a steak knife in his left hand,tiffany necklaces, police have said.

Arbaugh told police she had purchased crack cocaine after the incident.

In court filings, Placidi has said that Arbaugh was treated twice in California and twice in Erie for mental-health problems, including bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

He had planned to argue at trial that Arbaugh acted in self-defense. She had been the victim of abuse in previous relationships,Charm pendant, he said.

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Spartanburg County deputies were searching Monday night for a woman accused of stabbing her live-in boyfriend.

Laurie Faye Pylman is charged with criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature, according to a written statement from the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office.

Pylman’s live-in boyfriend told deputies Pylman cut him after she returned to their home on Goldmine Road from a bar at about 1 a.m. Monday. The man is expected to recover from his injuries, according to the statement.

Deputies are asking anyone with information about Pylman’s whereabouts to call CrimeStoppers at 888-CRIME-SC.

Assault and battery by mob

Robert Joseph Hamlin, 45, and Timothy Wayne Hall, 21, of 2710 Old Spartanburg Highway, Woodruff, on Sunday night were each charged with third-degree assault and battery by mob — a charge formerly known as lynching.

A warrant also was signed for Kevin Lee Sams on the same charge.

Hamlin,tiffany money clips, Hall and Sams are accused of showing up at a residence on Old Spartanburg Highway and attacking an 18-year-old Greer man around 8:40 p.m. Saturday.

An incident report states the suspects kept asking the victim about a girl they know who they said had been raped, and wanted to know who did it. The victim told the suspects he didn’t know what they were talking about.

According to the report, Sams grabbed the victim by the throat and pushed him into the floorboard of a truck. After neighbors pulled Sams off the victim, the report states,tiffany pendants, Hamlin grabbed the victim by throat and began hitting him in the jaw.

Items stolen from vehicles

Two victims told authorities they believe a couple who had a small child with them stole items from their vehicles while they were swimming in Rainbow Lake in Boiling Springs on Sunday.

Both victims stated in an incident report that a man, a woman and a little girl were swimming with them in the lake late Sunday afternoon. The couple and child later left in a burgundy Nissan truck with Pathfinder rims on it and a gold stripe down the side, according to the report.

One victim stated the suspects stole his wallet and two cell phones from his truck, which was unlocked while he was swimming. The other victim reported the speakers in his Chevrolet Camaro were stolen after someone gained entry to the car through the roof, since the sunroof was left open.

A witness described the female suspect as 5-foot-5, 180 pounds, with dark hair and a tattoo of a mushroom on her shoulder. She described the male suspect as 5-foot-10, 180 pounds, with strawberry blond hair.

Violating noise ordinance

A 40-year-old Boiling Springs man was arrested Sunday for violating a Spartanburg County noise ordinance after a neighbor reported ongoing loud music coming from the suspect’s apartment.

Traffic violations

Alex Alfonso Quiles of 2000-4 Maidstone Drive was also cited on two outstanding bench warrants for traffic violations.

A sheriff’s deputy reported that when he responded to the incident location around 9 p.m. Sunday, he could hear music coming from Quiles’ apartment that was loud enough to cause a disturbance and lasted at least 20 minutes.

An incident report states another deputy had been to Quiles’ apartment earlier to speak to him about the loud music, and the neighbor who reported the incident stated it was about the fifth time the sheriff’s office had responded to Quiles’ loud music.

Woman reports break-in

A Spartanburg woman reported that three men broke into her home early Monday, threatened her and her son and then stole a 50-inch plasma screen television and a PlayStation 3 console.

According to an incident report, three black males entered the home on Highway 56 through a sliding glass door around 2:40 a.m. Monday. The victim stated that one of the suspects told her and her son, "Don’t say a word, or else," before taking the items and leaving.

Trafficking cocaine base and possession of drug paraphernalia

Juan Carlos Rodriquez-Medina, 24, of 109 Crainwood Lane, Spartanburg, on Sunday was charged with trafficking cocaine base, greater than 10 grams, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving without a license.

Deputies pulled Rodriquez-Medina over on a traffic stop around 6:40 p.m. Sunday and reported that Rodriquez-Medina was "extremely nervous" and "sweating profusely."

An incident report states a search of Rodriquez-Medina’s vehicle revealed a crack pipe,tiffany necklaces, a pink tin box with 11 grams of a yellow cocaine base and $5,tiffany cuff Links,300 in cash, which was also seized by authorities.

Assault

A 43-year-old Chesnee man is accused of assaulting his girlfriend and knocking her teeth out.

Alvin James Kerns of 1031 Fosters Grove Road was charged Monday with criminal domestic violence, first offense.

According to an incident report, Kerns reached inside the victim’s car and tried to grab the keys while the victim was inside the vehicle. The victim told police Kerns punched her in the eye, then had his arm over the victim’s mouth, so she bit him so she could breathe.

The report states Kerns, who is listed in online jail records as 6-feet tall and 250 pounds, pulled his arm away and then hit the victim in the mouth, knocking her teeth out.

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A woman is dead and her boyfriend jailed after a weekend shooting on Erie’s west side.

The victim’s name wasn’t released Sunday.

The man, Mark A. Warner, 35, was being held in Erie County Prison on charges including homicide.

The shooting happened Sunday a little after 3:30 a.m. at 523 W. 17th St.

A call about a female who wasn’t breathing came in to the Erie County 911 Center at 3:34 a.m.,tiffany bangles, a dispatcher said.

Erie police said the shooting appears to have occurred during a domestic dispute between a boyfriend and girlfriend. Police believe the woman was killed in the driveway of the house,discount tiffany, where they said Warner lived upstairs.

He was located later Sunday in a car in Cambridge Springs, Erie police said.

Warner was taken into custody by state police from Meadville and brought to Erie, where he was charged and then arraigned by Erie 4th Ward District Judge Tom Robie, authorities said.

Details about Warner’s arrest weren’t available from state police.

Besides homicide, Warner was charged with assault, recklessly endangering another person and possessing an instrument of crime, police said.

An autopsy was performed on the woman Sunday, Erie County Coroner Lyell Cook said.

He said she suffered a single gunshot wound. Cook wouldn’t say where on her body the woman was shot.

The coroner also wouldn’t release her name,Charm bracelet, pending notification of family, or other details about the shooting.

"Police are still working on it," Cook said Sunday.

Erie police were releasing little information, although they had remained at the house throughout the day and had obtained a search warrant for it Sunday afternoon.

Two police cruisers were parked in front while investigators searched inside and out.

Yellow crime tape stretched across the front and back of a driveway to a residence on the west side. Police were examining several areas,tiffany rings, including around a tow truck parked near the rear of the house.

Neighbors outside across the street said they hadn’t seen or heard anything when the shooting happened.

Cook said the victim died at the scene of the shooting and was pronounced dead Sunday at 4:40 a.m. by Erie County Deputy Coroner Dennis Suscheck.

Cook said he will be meeting today with police and Erie County District Attorney Jack Daneri and that more information will likely be available after that.

DANA MASSING can be reached at 870-1729 or by e-mail.

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A Caroline County man accused of shooting his former girlfriend Saturday night in Fredericksburg was arrested yesterday in Mary- land, police said.

Ross Edward Jackson Jr., 40, of Woodford is charged with attempted mur- der and using a firearm in the commission of a felony.

He is being held in Upper Marlboro pending extradition to Virginia, Fredericksburg police spokeswoman Natatia Bledsoe said.

According to Bledsoe,tiffany rings, the 47-year-old victim was shot in the chin at her home in the 2400 block of Lafayette Boulevard about 9:30 p.m. Saturday. The home is near a magistrate’s office, and the magistrate on duty heard parts of the altercation.

The woman, who had recently broken up with the Jackson, was home with her three children when an argument erupted. She and Jackson had dated for about seven years, witnesses said, until the woman ended the relationship last week. It was not clear why Jackson was at the home Saturday.

Bledsoe said the three children — a girl, 9, a boy,tiffany necklaces, 11,discount tiffany, and a 21-year-old man — heard loud arguing outside the house. The younger children told police they saw their mother come back into the house and struggle to shut the door.

Bledsoe said the suspect came in behind her and shot her in the face at close range with a small-caliber handgun. The shooting occurred near the doorway, but the woman struggled to the living room before collapsing.

The older son, who had just gotten home on military leave a few days earlier, rushed into the room and saw his bloodied mother. Bledsoe said he exchanged words with the suspect, who pointed the gun at the son and at the fallen woman before leaving the area in a green BMW.

The 11-year-old son called 911 on a cell phone and was connected to the Spotsylvania County dispatch center. When it was determined that the incident occurred in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania dispatchers contacted their city counterparts while remaining on the phone with the child to provide instruction prior to the rescue squad’s arrival.

The woman never lost consciousness but was unable to speak, Bledsoe said. She was rushed to Mary Washington Hospital before being flown to VCU Medical Center in Richmond. She is expected to survive, Bledsoe said,tiffany cuff Links, but will need extensive reconstructive surgery.

City police looked for Jackson all night before learning that he had gone to Prince George’s County, Md. He was taken to a hospital there after threatening to harm himself, Bledsoe said. Officials learned that he was wanted in Fredericksburg and notified police.

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This, Martin McDonagh’s first play, announced him in 1996 as a theatrical equivalent to The Pogues: English-raised but of Irish heritage, and remaking traditional material into a new creation that blended a strong lineage with contemporary vibrancy and a horse-doctor’s dose of irreverence. A decade and more of familiarity with the strategy has not lessened the effect of The Beauty Queen Of Leenane. The story of selfish, manipulative 70-year-old Mag Folan and Maureen, the 40-year-old daughter she has in effect chained to their rural Galway cottage for 20 years as her carer and who is far from on an even psychological keel herself, is presented with a keen ear for southern Connacht locutions and an imagination that revels infectiously in bad taste. It is as if John Millington Synge had written Psycho.

Director Joe Hill-Gibbins gets maximum mileage out of the sense of claustrophobia of the single cottage-kitchen location, with designer Ultz providing a set that, characteristically, is clever but goes a bit too far. We enter the reconfigured auditorium through veils of rain spattering against sheets of polythene, which flank the ceilinged playing area itself; there is even a grassy area that can hardly be seen as folk enter and exit by the cottage’s main door,tiffany earrings, but which we get to pass on our own entrances.

The central performances come from a pair of masterly Irish actresses. As Mag, Rosaleen Linehan has a set of features and an expressive skill that allow her to look innocent, pathetic,tiffany bangles, vindictive and furtive all at once. Susan Lynch has moved on from her sinister-siren early days: she can still evoke the dark heart that underlies so many of her roles, yet can now combine it with a genuine pathos and a sense that Maureen could well merit the title "the beauty queen of Leenane", as she is dubbed by neighbour Pato,tiffany necklaces, whose affection seems to offer her an escape.

McDonagh’s writing and Hill-Gibbins’ staging alike know the value both of charm and shock, of suddenness and exquisite inevitability, whether the last concerns Maureen’s dashed hopes or Mag’s chamber pot emptied into the sink. As well as being delicious in its own right, it makes one impatient for a British premiere of McDonagh’s latest (and first American-set) play, A Behanding In Spokane. () www.youngvic.org

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Name: Sharon Baker, housewife, living in South Toledo.

Garden specs: I live in an apartment and plant around my small patio as well as in more than 10 pots and around my door. I have another bed for orange and yellow mums in the back. I also plant around the building’s entry way and in front of a neighbor’s door.

When did you start gardening?: Thirty years ago. My mother had a huge garden, and as I child I gardened with her.

What do you grow?: Tomatoes, chives,tiffany rings, green peppers, zinnias, mums, and a variety of annuals and perennials.

What do you get out of it?: Pride, peace of mind, showing the world what I see as beauty. When you’re done, you have created a little world of nothing but beautiful flowers, and people drive by and they compliment you.

Hours spent gardening: About six to seven hours a day.

Annual expense: About $200.

Challenges: When the lawn crew cuts the grass, I have to clean the clippings out of the edges and the beds.

I’m proud of: How I coordinate my colors. This year, my colors are all pink (three shades) and white. I like Halloween and have a lot of orange and yellow mums. And I plant for continuous bloom. I believe in planting in odd-numbered groupings of threes,discount tiffany, fives, and sevens, so it has a natural look. Most used tool: They’re all precious to me — my hoe,tiffany earrings, my rake, my shovel, my shears, my five pairs of gloves.

Words to the wise: Never throw away your leaves. Mulch them, spread them all around the lawn and on the beds. Last year I added coffee grounds. I love to fish,tiffany cuff Links, and I bury the leftover fish. You’re giving back to mother nature.

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Miami University issued the following news release:,tiffany key rings

Macy’s announced that the Miami University Marching Band has been selected to be one of 10 bands to perform in the 2011 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade(R).

According to the selection committee, Miami’s superior musical ability, marching and performance skills won them a slot in the legendary parade scheduled for Thursday,tiffany bangles, Nov. 24, 2011. They competed against 150 applicants nationwide.

"We are extremely proud to be selected to perform in the 2011 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade," said Stephen Lytle, director of athletic bands at Miami. "The Miami University Marching Band is entering its 75th season and the current band remains true to the legacy of its alumni."

The Macy’s Parade takes more than a year to plan with bands chosen over 18 months before their parade step-off. Miami’s band performed in the 2003 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

"We are thrilled that the Miami University Marching Band will be returning to perform in the Macy’s Parade in 2011. They continue to demonstrate exemplary musical and marching abilities, in addition to incredible entertainment value. We look forward to their New York City performance in front of millions of spectators next year,tiffany cuff Links," said Wesley Whatley, associate creative director of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Lytle added,tiffany necklaces, "This honor simply reflects the work and dedication of thousands of former band members as well as the leadership of A.

D. Lekvold, Nicholas Poccia, Jack Liles and David Shaffer. We are eager to represent Miami University in front of millions of local spectators as well as the millions who will watch on live television."For more information please contact: Sarabjit Jagirdar, Email:- htsyndication@hindustantimes.com.

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James Gray doesn’t remember the city shutting down when the big snowstorm of 1950 hit Pittsburgh, but then again, most people he knew didn’t have to rely on a car.

"My father worked at the mill on Second Avenue," said Gray, 73, on Saturday from his home in Point Breeze. "We lived Uptown on Webster Avenue; all he had to do was go down the hill to work."

Gray said the walk wasn’t far,tiffany pendants, but it was steep. "But nobody missed work back then."

Gray was 12 at the time of the great Thanksgiving snowfall — the worst in the city’s history at 27.4 inches.

"The snow did not hit all at once like today’s storm, it accumulated over a couple days’ time, which meant the best thing of all was no school for days,tiffany earrings," Gray said.

Gray and his two younger sisters attended Robert L. Vann School on Chauncey Drive around the corner from his home.

"We spent most of our time involved in all kinds of snowball battles. They were very sophisticated, involving all the kids that lived within a three-block radius," he chuckled.

No one had to rush to Giant Eagle to stock up on groceries, as many people canned their food. There were small grocery stores on most corners, and the owners typically lived on the second floor.

"At 12, it was fun time, a magical time. Today, I had a double car driveway to shovel, that’s not that much fun," Gray said.

Ray Shinhofen said he remembers skiing off the slope that led from Colby Street in Summer Hill down to East Street in the valley.

"We had a ball for days, there wasn’t a thing you could do outside that we didn’t try,discount tiffany," he said.

Shinhofen, 76, an architect in Squirrel Hill, remembers building intricate igloos and snowmen to pass the time.

"We were located at the upper most regions of the North Side; the only way for my dad to make it to work was to climb down a narrow path to East Street to catch the old West View Trolley."

Shinhofen, 16 at the time and a junior at Perry High School, said he and his friends would walk his father down the hill and then spend the rest of the time enjoying the time off from school.

"At the tail end of the storm, I decided to take the girl I was dating in high school to my Aunt Kay’s in Mt. Troy for a family dinner. Years later she told me that it was that adventure that clinched it for her," he said, explaining that the girl, Mary, later became his wife,tiffany bangles, to whom he has been married for 56 years.

"That snowstorm turned out to be a pretty good thing for me," Shinhofen said.

Worst of the Worst

This weekend’s storm ranks fourth on the list of all-time big snow events in Pittsburgh.

The Top 10 snowstorms, according to the National Weather Service:

–Nov. 24-26, 1950: 27.4 inches

–Dec. 16-18, 1890: 25.9 inches

–March 12-14, 1993: 25.3 inches

–Feb. 5-6, 2010: 21.1 inches

–Jan. 8-9, 1886: 18.5 inches

–Jan. 8-9, 1884: 18 inches

–Feb. 18-21, 1927: 17.8 inches

–March 3, 1942: 16.3 inches

–Feb. 13-14, 1940: 16.3 inches

–Jan. 12-13, 1964: 15.6 inches

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State Rep. Deb Mell said she wants nothing more than to marry her partner of nearly six years in her home state of Illinois.

Mell — who six years ago turned to her father, Ald. Richard Mell, 33rd,tiffany, to help her put a public face on families where a member is gay — plans to announce her engagement to Christin Baker on the House floor Wednesday.

"I want to spend the rest of my life with her,tiffany bangles, and I want to get married in Illinois," Mell, D-Chicago, said Tuesday during an interview on WTTW’s " Chicago Tonight" news program. "I mean, we could go to Iowa, and Iowa’s great … I went to school in Iowa. But you know what? It’s not the state where I represent, and it’s not the state where I grew up in."

Mell, 41,tiffany money clips, said she hopes her announcement will spark public discussion about gay marriage in Illinois. Mell is Patti Blagojevich’s sister.

Mell and Baker said that despite their desire to marry in Illinois, they plan to wed in Iowa, one of a handful of states where gay marriage is legal.

Mell’s proposal to Baker on April 10 was met with applause from diners at neighboring tables in The Signature Room in the John Hancock Center, where Mell had a diamond engagement ring delicately placed atop Baker’s creme brulee during a dinner with Baker’s family.

State Rep. Deb Mell said she wants nothing more than to marry her partner of nearly six years in her home state of Illinois.

Mell — who six years ago turned to her father, Ald. Richard Mell, 33rd, to help her put a public face on families where a member is gay — plans to announce her engagement to Christin Baker on the House floor Wednesday.

"I want to spend the rest of my life with her, and I want to get married in Illinois," Mell, D-Chicago, said Tuesday during an interview on WTTW’s "Chicago Tonight" news program. "I mean, we could go to Iowa, and Iowa’s great … I went to school in Iowa. But you know what? It’s not the state where I represent, and it’s not the state where I grew up in."

Mell, 41, said she hopes her announcement will spark public discussion about gay marriage in Illinois. Mell is Patti Blagojevich’s sister.

Mell and Baker said that despite their desire to marry in Illinois, they plan to wed in Iowa,tiffany necklaces, one of a handful of states where gay marriage is legal.

Mell’s proposal to Baker on April 10 was met with applause from diners at neighboring tables in The Signature Room in the John Hancock Center, where Mell had a diamond engagement ring delicately placed atop Baker’s creme brulee during a dinner with Baker’s family.

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A onetime church volunteer in Minnetonka has been sentenced to a year in jail and put on probation for having sex for two months with a 14-year-old girl whom he counseled, then pledged to marry and have children with.

Nicholas S. Foley, of Chanhassen, was sentenced Friday by Carver County District Judge Janet Cain to three years in prison, which was stayed.

With the year in jail,tiffany money clips, Foley must serve five years’ probation,tiffany bangles, complete sex-offender treatment and register with the state as a predatory offender.

Foley, who was 27 when the sex began, pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual conduct.

According to the County Sheriff’s Office:

The girl’s parents became suspicious in December 2007 that she was not spending overnights with friends as she had said, noting that Foley dropped her off at home one night. The girl’s father told Foley the next day that he shouldn’t be around his daughter, who was 14.

As the parents grew increasingly suspicious, they contacted authorities. Foley told a sheriff’s deputy that he was acting as a "counselor" to the girl and other members of the church, Old Apostolic Lutheran Church on Rowland Road.

A friend of the girl told the parents that the relationship involved sex,tiffany cuff Links, and the friend described to an investigator that the two made a "cute couple."

The friend added that the girl said she "never felt this kind of love before," that they intended to marry and had even chosen names for their children.

When a detective and a county social services official questioned the girl in February 2008, she told them that she met Foley at church,tiffany, where he volunteered, and the sex occurred at his home. She said he gave her a ring but did not consider it a sign of engagement. She also said that Foley had a 7-year-old son.

Upon his arrest, Foley said he met the girl after her parents called and asked him to give her a ride.

He added that her parents were not helpful with her problems. "I was there for her when no one else was," he said

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