Leinster baby on way for Blues wedding pair

18.05.12

LEINSTER fanatics who had a rugby themed wedding are expecting a baby just after the Heineken Cup final.

Jacqui Jago and David Stafford tied the knot in true Blue style in September 2011.

After the team achieved victory in last year's final, the couple decided to theme their wedding after Leinster.

The dedicated followers had blue bridesmaid dresses, yellow flowers, named the tables after the players on the Heineken Cup-winning team and the bride even wore blue shoes.

And now the rugby-mad couple from Swords have a baby on the way.

Jacqui (32) said: "I'm due at the end of the July.

"Thankfully it is just the right time. You are allowed fly up to 32 weeks and I am 30 weeks."

The couple held off on making arrangements for the final in Twickenham at the beginning, but when Leinster made it into the semi-final, David couldn't hold back.

"Obviously we knew I was pregnant so we hummed and hawed about it for ages," she said. "Then on the day of the semi final Dave said 'I've booked the tickets.'

Source: Herald.ie

Ala. boy charged in killing of girl found on rope

18.05.12

RAGLAND, Ala. (AP) - When 9-year-old Katelynn Arnold didn't appear right away after one of her frequent bicycle rides along her rural Alabama road, her concerned aunt went to look for the girl.

The woman, who is the girl's foster mother, checked with a neighbor whose daughter often played with Katelynn, but he hadn't seen her. When she returned home Thursday evening, she found the girl hanged from a tree with an old tire swing rope, deliberately, authorities say, by her 14-year-old half-brother who was charged Friday with murder.

The cotton rope was tied in a simple knot around the girl's neck, but was not a hangman's noose, said St. Clair County Sheriff Terry Surles. County Coroner Dennis Russell said an autopsy found the cause of death was homicide due to ligature strangulation.

The neighbor, Ricky Campbell, could only shake his head when thinking about what happened.

"She never got a chance to grow up. Her life was taken away," he said.

Source: WIS

Suspects in Marine wife's case linked through home

18.05.12

SAN DIEGO (AP) - A woman arrested in the killing of a Marine's wife is in foreclosure proceedings on a home listed as a residence by another Marine and woman who have been charged with murder in the case, property records show.

Dorothy Grace Marie Maraglino bought the yellow stucco home in Fallbrook in December 2009, records show. Bank of America filed a default notice two weeks ago, saying she owed $12,862.

Maraglino, 36, was arrested at a hotel in downtown San Diego late Thursday and booked on suspicion of murder in the death of 22-year-old Brittany Killgore, San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore said.

She was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Vista. Sheriff's records do not indicate whether a suspect has an attorney.

Tanya Sierra, a spokeswoman for the San Diego County district attorney's office, said Friday that no decision had been made on whether to file charges against Maraglino.

Louis Ray Perez, 45, a Marine staff sergeant, and Jessica Lynn Lopez, 27, have pleaded not guilty to the murder. Prosecutors have said the two lived together at one time but have not said when or where. Records show both have listed the Fallbrook home as their residence.

Source: WIS