This is so sad, but I’m really happy for Anthony Capozzi and his family…sometimes its hard to believe these kinds of things really happen.
Buffalo, NY (AP) - Authorities say DNA evidence links the Buffalo area’s so-called “bike path killer” to at least two rapes that another man was convicted of committing more than 20 years ago.Erie County District Attorney Frank Clark announced at a news conference this morning that evidence slides found at Erie County Medical Center contain D-N-A matching that of Altemio Sanchez, who’s charged with killing three women — two in the early 1990s and one last year.
Clark says the slides contained evidence from rapes committed in Buffalo’s Delaware Park in the mid-1980s. Anthony Capozzi was convicted of those crimes and has spent the past two decades in prison.
Capozzi’s attorney says he’ll present the evidence in motions to vacate the 49-year-old Capozzi’s conviction for those two rapes.
Clark says the old evidence slides were finally found recently after investigators had made several requests for them and had been told they didn’t exist.
Also see the Buffalo News Story here.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - City leaders approved a ban on plastic grocery bags after weeks of lobbying on both sides from environmentalists and a supermarket trade group. If Mayor Gavin Newsom signs the ban as expected, San Francisco would be the first U.S. city to adopt such a rule.
The law, passed by a 10-1 vote, requires large markets and drug stores to give customers only a choice among bags made of paper that can be recycled, plastic that breaks down easily enough to be made into compost, or reusable cloth.
There are so many problems with this, I don’t know where to begin. It’s a local law at least, so that makes me happy–but do even local governments have the right to interfere this much into commerce? And is it wise to do so?
I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt–say this really helps the environment. At what cost? According to area grocers,
The 50 grocery stores that would be most affected by the law argued that the ban was not reasonable because plastic bags made of corn byproducts are a relatively new, expensive and untested product. Some said they might offer only paper bags at checkout.
But even offering paper-only isn’t good enough for some environmentalists…
Craig Noble, a spokesman for the Natural Resources Defense Council, said it would be disappointing if grocers rejected the biodegradable plastic bag option, since more trees would have to be cut down if paper bag use increases.
The new breed of bags “offers consumers a way out of a false choice, a way out of the paper or plastic dilemma,” Noble said
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Crazy.