SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - A jury has convicted a 45-year-old Nambe woman of second-degree murder for the stabbing death of her mother in May 2008.
Arin Jennifer Dilallo was found guilty after a Santa Fe County jury deliberated for just over an hour on Friday. Dilallo faces up to 15 years in prison when she's sentenced next month. Betty Rutigliano, 68, was stabbed 20 times in the head, neck and upper body as she slept in the home she shared with her daughter and Dilallo's children.
COVENTRY, Vt. (AP) - Vermont dairy farmers Tim Maikshilo and Kristen Dellert, mindful of shrinking their carbon footprint, have changed their cows' diet to reduce the amount of gas the animals burp - dairy cows' contribution to global warming.
Coventry Valley Farm is one of 15 Vermont farms working with Stonyfield Farm Inc., whose yogurt is made with their organic milk, to reduce the cows' intestinal methane by feeding them flaxseed, alfalfa and grasses high in Omega 3 fatty acids. The gas cows belch is the dairy industry's biggest greenhouse gas contributor, research shows, most of it emitted from the front and not the back end of the cow.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitians fed up with chronic poverty and unresponsive leaders stayed away from Senate run-off elections Sunday, ignoring government efforts to improve on the paltry voter turnout that undercut the first round of voting in April. Results are not expected for at least a week in contests for 11 vacant seats in the 30-member Senate. Voting was extremely light in the capital of Port-au-Prince, though it was too soon to gauge the turnout in the rest of the country.
Another round of mostly empty ballot boxes could embarrass the government and fuel opponents' claims that it has stumbled in developing Haiti as a democracy. The first round of voting April 19, held after more than a year and half of delays, saw only 11 percent of registered voters participate.
Electoral council president Frantz Gerard Verret took to the radio waves Sunday afternoon to plead with voters: "If you don't come out and vote, other people will vote for you."
