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		<title>aSDiana Jenkins : The Outrageous Case of Jovan Divjaka</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:14:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>John Edwards asks to delay testimony in sex tape case (The Ticket)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 11:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ John Edwards is asking to postpone his testimony in a lawsuit over an alleged sex tape he made with his mistress. Per the Associated Press's Martha Waggoner , Edwards has asked to delay a scheduled June 20 deposition in the case until after his upcoming criminal trial on charges he broke the law to hide an affair with a former aide to his 2008 presidential campaign. Rielle Hunter, a former campaign videographer who later gave birth to Edwards' child, has sued Andrew Young , a former Edwards aide who initially pretended to be the father of her baby, over his possession of a sex tape that allegedly features Edwards and Hunter. Edwards says in court papers filed Thursday that he want a stay in the case to protect his right to a fair trial and against self-incrimination. (Photo of Edwards: Gerry Broome/AP) ]]></description>
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		<title>Huffington Post&#8217;s Unpaid Bloggers Are Suing Arianna (The Atlantic Wire)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Arianna Huffington vehemently defended her right not to pay bloggers from day one, but it may now up to a judge to decide. According to Forbes , a group of bloggers will file a class action lawsuit today against Huffington, The Huffington Post and AOL over their right to be paid for volunteer work. We know. If the bloggers "volunteered," they don't need to be paid, right? Maybe not, as this case is not without precedent. In 1999, a group of volunteer chatroom moderators at--get this--AOL sued the company over an alleged violation in the Fair Labor Standards Act. AOL settled out of court for $15 million after delaying the case for a decade. The organizer behind this case, journalist and former National Writers Union president Jonathan Tasini (pictured above, at right), also sued The New York Times  over freelance writer's maintaining their copyrights in the paper's electronic database. The case made it to the Supreme Court which decided in favor of the writers who won $18 million in compensation. This is only the latest episode in a long saga of The Huffington Post's unpaid bloggers versus The Huffington Post's paid staff. (Full disclosure: I worked as an editor at The Huffington Post from 2009 to the end of 2010.)   In February, Huffington Post bloggers sparked a firestorm of trash-talking after not being offered a cent of the site&#8217;s recent $315 million purchase by AOL. Days after the announcement, many of the site&#8217;s bloggers organized a  protest  against their exclusion and vowed never to blog on the site again. Pundits and journalist unions alike agreed. Citizen media guru Dan Gillmor  called  Arianna Huffington&#8217;s announcement &#8220;dismissive&#8221; of the free bloggers and her use of their content &#8220;exploitative.&#8221; The Newspaper Guild, a union whose mission is to ensure fair compensation for newspaper writers, sent a letter to their members instructing them to stop blogging until the Huffington Post agreed to pay for the content. Last week, a large group of current and former Huffington Post bloggers even launched their  own site , independent of the Huffington Post, where the group could stand the chance of earning money from their posts through advertising revenue. The names of those behind the group, the Huffington Post Bloggers Union, remain anonymous, though they do claim affiliation with the New York Chapter of the National Writers' Union (UAW 1981), likely the same union helping to organize the class action lawsuit. It seems unlikely that the Huffington Post would bend to pressure, though. When star citizen journalist Mayhill Fowler  resigned from the site  over six months ago for lack of pay and editorial support, the Huffington Post's response was: "How can you resign from a job you never had?" (Fowler&#8217;s the one who produced arguably the Huffington Post's biggest story of its history: the audio of Barack Obama describing Pennsylvania voters as "bitter" people who "cling to guns and religion.") Meanwhile, Huffington's message in the face of the protests is consistent and clear: "We pay for reporting, not opinions." And the site seems as serious as ever about keeping journalists who want to be paid out of the pool. The company  recently fired  an editor who invited the soon-to-be-laid-off freelancers at MovieFone, now a part of the Huffington Post Media Group, to blog for free. Lauren Kirchner of the C olumbia Journalism Review hypothesized back in February that the bloggers' case would not stand up in court due to the role of "regimentation" in the definition of employment. According to law professors interviewed by Kirchner, the case would depend on the writers' duties, whether they're assigned articles and to what extent they maintain a continuing relationship with HuffPost. Wrote Kirchner: The thousands of unpaid bloggers in question, of course, have signed no agreement with the site, and are under no obligation to submit their stories with any regularity. They do not receive assignments. If they have an idea for a post but then decide not to write it, they are not penalized by the site&#8217;s editors in any way. This lack of regimentation in that editor/writer relationship would weaken the bloggers&#8217; (hypothetical) case against The Huffington Post. If the 1999 AOL case could provide any insight, this case may never reach court. As the Huffington Post ballooned in resources following the AOL purchase, legal resources may be a little imbalanced between the unpaid writers and the new AOL incarnation, the Huffington Post Media Group. Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter , become a fan on Facebook ]]></description>
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		<title>$430k Love settlement shows tweets can be costly (AP)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ LOS ANGELES &#8211; Courtney Love's settlement of a case sparked by online attacks on a fashion designer show that while Twitter posts may be short, they can also be costly. The singer has agreed to pay Dawn Simorangkir $430,000, plus interest, to settle a lawsuit the designer filed in March 2009 over comments Love made on Twitter and her MySpace blog. While the case didn't go to a jury, First Amendment experts say it highlights the need for celebrities and average people to watch what they say online. "People are getting in trouble for Twitter postings on an almost daily basis," said First Amendment Attorney Doug Mirell, a partner at Loeb and Loeb who did not handle the case. "The laws controlling what is and isn't libelous are the same regardless of the medium in which the statements appear," he said. Nancy Derwin-Weiss, an attorney who specializes in digital entertainment and advertising law, said the amount was sure to get the attention of stars and their handlers. "I think it's just a wake up call," she said. "It's something that their advisers should talk to them about." Simorangkir's attorney, Bryan J. Freedman, predicted the case would spark conversations between celebrities and their advisers. "The fact is that this case shows that the forum upon which you communicate makes no difference in terms of potential legal exposure," Freedman said. "Disparaging someone on Twitter does not excuse one from liability." Love's attorney, Jim Janowitz, said the settlement actually saved the rocker money. "This is a case where the economics of the case didn't make a lot of sense for either side," he said, noting that the costs of going to trial would have been large. Janowitz said he would have argued that Love's statements were opinion and hyperbole, but not libelous, and that Simorangkir's sales rose after Love's tirades. Derwin-Weiss, a partner at Wildman, Harrold, Allen &#038; Dixon, said the settlement amount was significant. "It's a number that's not trivial," she said. "It has some heft to it." Twitter's popularity has skyrocketed in the past year, in part because celebrities interact with fans on a daily basis by posting candid photos, thoughts and even product endorsements. The widow of grunge rocker Kurt Cobain, Love has gained a reputation on the microblogging service Twitter with her posts, which are occasionally profane and sometimes nonsensical messages on a variety of topics. Several posts have lashed out at attorneys and other individuals who have drawn the musician's ire, with her tweets coming in rapid succession and using every bit of the site's 140 character maximum per post. Simorangkir sued over several postings written under Love's former Twitter account, courtneylover79, that accused the designer, who is known as Boudoir Queen, of theft and of having a criminal background. Simorangkir's lawsuit claimed Love became angry with her after she completed five outfits for the singer and sent her a bill. "Love mounted a malicious campaign to not only terrorize Simorangkir, but to ruin and destroy her reputation and livelihood," Freedman wrote in a May 2009 filing. The case had been scheduled to go to trial in February, and was expected to be the first in which a jury decides whether a celebrity's Twitter posts could be considered libel. Freedman confirmed that a settlement had been reached, and said Love's attorneys had hoped to keep it confidential. Love also settled another lawsuit filed by Simorangkir's husband over photos for a nominal amount, Janowitz said. "In order to show the world the comments were derogatory and completely illegal, it was imperative to my client to have the settlement be public," Freedman said. The attorney said a public statement will be issued next week, but the monetary settlement that Love is required to pay, reflects the seriousness of the case. "Personally, I think $430,000 is an appropriate way to say she's sorry," Freedman said. Mirell said stars need to be cautious about how and what they post online, especially when they're talking about others. "When you start talking about someone other than yourself, you are beginning to get into dangerous territory," Mirell said. Janowitz predicted other celebrities are likely to get into trouble over their social media musings. "Undoubtedly there will be people who do it until it is better understood that this publication, just like anything else, is publication," he said. Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter , become a fan on Facebook ]]></description>
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		<title>Sheriff: Miss. teen beaten, branded at party (AP)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ JACKSON, Miss. &#8211; A 15-year-old boy was beaten and branded with hot metal after a confrontation with a 12-year-old girl at a party in Mississippi where teens had been drinking, authorities said Friday. Five people are charged in the case, including the 12-year-old girl. Lauderdale County Sheriff Billy Sollie said Denise Randall, 46, was hosting the party in the east-central Mississippi community of Meridian last weekend when the victim bumped into the girl. Someone then called the girl's 15-year-old boyfriend. Sollie said the boyfriend arrived and held the victim, who was not identified, at gunpoint while he was beaten and branded with hot metal. The sheriff said the teen was branded in more than one place on his body with a piece of hot metal shaped like a letter of the alphabet. He would not say what letter it was or release any other details about the branding because of the ongoing investigation. The sheriff said the teen's injuries were not life-threatening. One of the girl's close relatives disputed the sheriff's account. The Associated Press is not identifying the close family member to protect the girl's identity. The AP generally does not identify minors accused of crimes. The girl was charged as a juvenile. The relative said the 15-year-old boy, who was not invited to the home, knocked the girl down and hit her in the face. The relative said Randall took the girl to the hospital. While Randall and the girl were at the hospital, the three other teens used a heated metal coat hanger to brand the boy by putting the girl's initials on one hand and the date on the other, the relative said. "Everything (authorities) are saying is a lie, except the branding part. There was no drinking," the relative said. "The branding was true, and that was retribution because he climbed on top of her and beat her up." The sheriff sees it differently. "We're not going to try this case in the media, but what they're saying doesn't match up with the evidence," the sheriff said. Randall was charged with directing a minor to commit a crime and accessory after the fact. She has been released on $50,000 bond, officials said. Another adult, 18-year-old Dustin Shane Armstrong, was charged with aggravated assault and kidnapping. He was jailed Friday on a $50,000 bond. It wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney. Two minors, including the girl's 15-year-old boyfriend suspected of taking a lead role in the abuse, were charged as adults with kidnapping and aggravated assault. The AP is not identifying them because they are juveniles. A message left with Randall's attorney was not immediately returned. (This version CORRECTS the spelling of the sheriff's name to Billy, not Billie.) Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter , become a fan on Facebook ]]></description>
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		<title>Former football star Schlichter charged with theft (Reuters)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 14:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) &#8211; Former Ohio State University star quarterback Art Schlichter was charged on Monday with stealing $1 million from the widow of a former Wendy's chairman and chief executive. Schlichter, 50, who has had a long history of career and legal troubles related to his gambling habits, voluntarily surrendered to the Franklin County prosecutor. He has offered to cooperate with a continuing investigation of investments, loans, or sale of 2011 Super Bowl tickets and Ohio State football tickets, prosecutors said. Franklin County prosecutors charged Schlichter with stealing $1 million from Anita L. Barney, 68, in a fraud scheme. Barney is the widow of Robert Barney, who helped lead the Wendy's hamburger chain in its early decades. Because of Anita Barney's age, the potential penalties are increased under Ohio law, prosecutors said. Schlichter, who has already served prison time for fraud and forgery convictions, could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted. After his surrender, Schlichter met with state and federal law enforcement officers for several hours in the office of Franklin County prosecuting attorney Ron O'Brien before being taken to Franklin County jail, the prosecutor's statement said. Schlichter's attorney, Sam Shamansky, described the meeting as "routine." "I meet in the hope of starting to fashion a resolution of the case," Shamansky said. "After the meeting today, I expect to have an ongoing negotiation. Reaching a resolution in the case involving Schlichter will also, by definition, help Anita Barney." Shamansky would not provide details of the negotiation. O'Brien called upon any members of the public who believe they were a victim of a scheme involving Schlichter to contact O'Brien's office. Schlichter was drafted by the Baltimore Colts (later the Indianapolis Colts) in 1982, where he was frequently in trouble due to gambling. He was picked up by the Buffalo Bills in 1986, but was cut before the season began. (Reporting by Jim Leckrone; Writing by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Jerry Norton) Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter , become a fan on Facebook ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 23:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Stocks     Related Video Judge strikes down healthcare law 3:53pm EST President Barack Obama speaks before signing the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 at Harriet Tubman Elementary School in Washington December 13, 2010. Credit: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque By Lisa Lambert and Jeremy Pelofsky WASHINGTON &#124; Mon Dec 13, 2010 5:24pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A judge in Virginia on Monday declared a key part of President Barack Obama's landmark healthcare law unconstitutional in the first major setback on an issue that will likely end up at the Supreme Court. U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson, appointed to the bench by President George W. Bush in 2002, backed arguments by the state of Virginia that Congress exceeded its authority by requiring Americans to start buying health insurance in 2014 or face a fine. "This dispute is not simply about regulating the business of insurance -- or crafting a scheme of universal health insurance coverage -- it's about an individual's right to choose to participate," Hudson wrote, adding the provision invites an "unbridled exercise of federal police powers." But he declined to invalidate the entire healthcare law, a small victory for Obama, whose administration will appeal the decision. The law is a cornerstone of Obama's presidency, aiming to expand health insurance to cover millions of uninsured Americans while trying to curb costs. Healthcare insurers, which include companies such as Aetna Inc and WellPoint Inc, largely opposed Obama's reforms but say the individual mandate is critical so additional customers can offset greater industry costs. Health insurers' stock prices initially rose on the ruling before later tapering off as investors saw more uncertainty as the case proceeds. The ruling signaled that changes to the bill rather than a full overhaul are more realistic. "Investors are taking this in stride knowing this is probably going to come down to the Supreme Court sooner or later," said Morningstar analyst Matthew Coffina. "This really only adds to that uncertainty in terms of not really being sure if and when and how the legislation can be implemented." Virginia's lawyers argued that the federal government could not regulate someone for not buying a good or service under the U.S. Constitution's Commerce Clause and could not penalize them for failing to buy health insurance. SLIM CHANCE OF FULL REPEAL "This lawsuit is not about healthcare. It's about liberty," said Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli. He said he had discussed with the Justice Department ways to accelerate the appeals process to try to minimize uncertainty in the states and in the industry. Representative Eric Cantor, set to become majority leader in the House of Representatives, called for sending the case immediately to the Supreme Court. He said he would push the House to pass a repeal of the law next year. However, chances of a repeal are slim because Democrats will still control the Senate. The White House said the law will ultimately be upheld by the legal system. It could take more than a year for the case to get to the Supreme Court. Officials said the administration will keep implementing the rest of the law while it works through the legal questions of the individual mandate. Virginia had requested an injunction to block implementation of the entire law, but the judge did not grant it. 1 2 Next ]]></description>
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		<title>American Lori Berenson freed from Peru prison (AP)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ LIMA, Peru &#8211; Her parole restored, political activist Lori Berenson slipped out a prison's side door and back to freedom after serving three-quarters of a 20-year sentence for collaborating with leftist rebels in Peru. The 40 year-old New York woman's legal troubles are not over, however, as Peru's top anti-terrorism prosecutor is trying to revoke her parole. Berenson and her lawyer and husband, Anibal Apari, arrived by taxi at her apartment just after dark Monday. "I will not be making any statements at this time," the bespectacled Berenson told reporters as she carried in a black backpack and a green shopping bag. The couple's 18-month-old son, Salvador, awaited them at the apartment along with Berenson's mother, Rhoda, who had spirited the child out of the prison several hours earlier. Apari told The Associated Press that Berenson planned to speak to news media but wanted to rest first. Berenson was initially paroled in May. But an appeals panel returned her to prison in August on a technicality. The judge who first freed Berenson reinstated her parole on Friday. The former Massachusetts Institute of Technology student must remain in Peru until her full sentence is served &#8212; unless President Alan Garcia decides to commute it. Garcia has indicated he will not consider a decision until all of the legal issues in the case have been resolved. The prosecutor, Julio Galindo, claims Berenson has not fully qualified for parole. He says her case could establish a precedent for others convicted of terrorism-related crimes and that they, too, could go free. "Our goal is to achieve the revocation" of Berenson's parole, Galindo said Monday. "This is a very sensitive matter for the country." He said an appeals court could decide in less than a month. Many of Berenson's new neighbors protested vehemently the first time she was released but the neighborhood was peaceful Monday evening. Six riot police officers with shields took up positions at the entrance to her apartment building. Berenson was arrested in 1995 and accused of helping the leftist Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement plan an armed takeover of Congress. The takeover never happened, but prosecutors said that among other things, Berenson had helped the group to rent a safe house. A military court convicted her the following year and sentenced her to life in prison for sedition, but after intense U.S. government pressure for a civilian trial she was retried in 2001 and sentenced to 20 years for terrorist collaboration. Berenson was completely unrepentant at the time of her arrest but softened during years of sometimes harsh prison conditions, eventually being praised as a model prisoner. In May, she apologized to Peruvians in a letter for any hurt she may have caused. Yet she is viewed by many Peruvians as a symbol of the rebel violence that afflicted the nation two decades ago. Many people remain traumatized by the 1980-2000 conflict that claimed 80,000 lives. In that conflict, the fanatical Maoist Shining Path movement did most of the killing, while Tupac Amaru was a lesser player. Berenson denies ever belonging to Tupac Amaru or engaging in violent acts. In August, when she was returned to prison, Berenson said in an interview with three Lima-based journalists that her case had become a political football with presidential elections due in April. ___ Associated Press writer Franklin Briceno contributed to this report. Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter , become a fan on Facebook ]]></description>
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		<title>Rap for US troop leadership in Afghan killings case (AFP)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 01:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (AFP) &#8211; As the US military moved to court martial the first of five soldiers accused of murdering Afghan civilians for sport, questions arose Saturday about the leadership of men's rogue unit. The New York Times, citing unpublished documents in the case and interviews, reported that the unit was plagued by rampant drug use and was under limited supervision from commanders as it operated in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. "I just don't understand how this went so far," the Times quoted the father of one of the platoon members charged with murder, Specialist Adam Winfield, as saying. "I?ve been in management for 20 years; you know what your people are doing." Private First Class Justin Stoner said marijuana use was commonplace in the platoon even before it deployed to Afghanistan from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, according to the Times. In sworn testimony, Stoner said the soldiers smoked hashish so much that his housing unit reeked of it, the report said. While drug use has not been linked to the murders of three Afghan civilians between January and May this year, lawyers told the Times it was symptomatic of larger problems in the 30-man unit. The platoon was separated from its company and attached to a cavalry unit that ignored it, weakening oversight. "They were kind of the red-headed stepchild of the cavalry because they weren't their guys and they were kind of left by themselves," Christopher Winfield, the father of Adam Winfield, was quoted as saying. So far, no leaders of the platoon or of its parent organization, the Fifth Stryker Combat Brigade, have been charged or disciplined in the case. On Friday, the military said Specialist Jeremy Morlock, one of the accused soldiers, would face a full court martial following preliminary hearings last month. "The case will now come under the control of a military judge who will arraign the accused," said a statement issued by the Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Seattle. No date has yet been set for the court martial trial, it said, adding that Morlock faces possible life in jail without the option of parole if convicted on all charges. He faces three charges of pre-meditated murder and one of assault, as well as one each of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to assault. He is also accused of trying to block an investigation, and using a controlled drug. Morlock is one of five soldiers charged with murder in the case; seven others are accused of trying to block the investigation. They also face charges of using hashish and severely beating a comrade who blew the whistle. The charge sheets include macabre allegations of dismembering corpses, though authorities have not specified if the bones they say some men took were from the bodies of slain civilians. The soldiers were deployed with Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, from the 2nd Infantry Division's Stryker brigade, at Forward Operating Base Ramrod. US officials acknowledge they are concerned about the fallout from the case, which threatens to undermine efforts by the American military to secure the confidence of wary Afghans. Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said that the charges represented "an aberration" for an American force of nearly 100,000 in Afghanistan. Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter , become a fan on Facebook ]]></description>
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		<title>Mom arrested for abducting daughter 25 years ago (AP)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ RENO, Nev. &#8211; A 32-year-old Nevada woman who was unaware that her mother abducted her as a child from New Jersey inadvertently alerted authorities when the daughter tried to change her name to get married, police said Wednesday. Nancy Dunsavage Fiedler, 57, of Incline Village, was arrested Tuesday at her home near Lake Tahoe after she admitted to being the woman named on a fugitive warrant issued in New Jersey 25 years ago, the Washoe County sheriff's office said. Fiedler, who was using the alias Debbie Reed in Nevada, did not have custody of 6-year-old Eva Marie Fiedler when the two disappeared during a break in a custody hearing in August 1984 in Somerville, N.J., New Jersey prosecutors said. Eva Fiedler has been living with her mother at Incline Village, about 30 miles southwest of Reno, and apparently didn't know her mother was wanted or anything else about the case, said Sgt. Frank Roman, commander of major crimes for the Somerset County Prosecutor's office in New Jersey. "It is still a very active investigation, but we believe she was not aware of this, no," Roman told The Associated Press. Roman said that Eva Fiedler should be treated as a victim in the case, but "it's not like she was ever in any danger or anything like that." The bizarre chain of events began to unfold Tuesday in Nevada when Eva Fiedler went to the Washoe County clerk's office to get her name changed to Melissa Reed to obtain a marriage license, said A. Peter DeMarco Jr., the acting prosecutor in Somerset County, N.J. It was not immediately known why Fiedler did not want to use her real name. The fugitive warrant for Nancy Fiedler was issued on June 28, 1985, after she failed to appear for an arraignment charging her with interference with custody, DeMarco said. The girl's father had full custody at the time of the original hearing in New Jersey in Aug. 23, 1984, he said. "Detectives have stated that throughout the years, Fiedler was able to remain undetected by obtaining a number of identities for her and her daughter," DeMarco said. Roman said Eva Fielder's father is living in New Hampshire. He said they have contacted him but are withholding his name and address. "We're trying to straighten it all out and get some facts together," Roman said. "Everything happened really quickly from last night to today." Nancy Fiedler was being held in the Washoe County jail on a no-bail warrant pending extradition to New Jersey, DeMarco said. Follow Yahoo! News on Twitter , become a fan on Facebook ]]></description>
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